Biomass Products & Technology

Peterson Pacific, a Eugene, Ore., based manufacturer of horizontal grinders, drum and disc chippers, blower trucks and screens announced that Barry Equipment Co. Inc. is its 2012 Dealer of the Year.

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Virent announced the delivery of 100 gallons of its biobased jet fuel to the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for testing purposes. Product testing will begin at Wright Patterson Air Force Base to validate ...

Old Dominion Freight Line Inc. opened a new service center in Salinas, Calif., to accommodate increased demand in California’s Central Coast region.

Strategically located along Interstate ...

Stellar Energy will provide design and fabrication of a modular chiller plant for Novozymes (embed link: www.novozymes.com). The modular chilled water system is designed to expand Novozymes’ existing ...

Element Material Technology acquired Sherry Laboratories, one of the largest independent materials testing businesses in the U.S. This transaction will add nearly 300 specialized staff and 10 facilities to Element’s ...

EcoSys, manufacturer of project controls software, announced its headquarters will be located in Denver, Colo., positioning the company within one of the Western U.S.’s core energy centers and enabling it ...

Ag Growth International Inc. and Bayer CropScience Inc. entered into an agreement for the development and distribution of a state of the art on-farm seed treater for ...

Two small Iowa businesses and a University of Northern Iowa research center believe they can reduce U.S. energy consumption by 8.5 percent by bringing microwave technology to the processing industries, which consume a third of the country’s ...

Fecon^® (embed link:  announced that Komatsu Equipment Company will be a stocking dealer and service, parts provider in Utah, Wyoming and much of Nevada. ...

DYNATEK™ Articulated Loading Systems introduced W.D. Patterson Company as a new member of its growing network of independent sales representatives.

Operating ...

TerraSource™ Global appointed Mark Markwardt as advertising coordinator.

Working out of the corporation’s Duncan, S.C., office, Markwardt will manage global print and online advertising ...

Matt Davidson was appointed as the newest project manager in Vecoplan LLC’s Waste Systems Center of Competency. Located in High Point, N.C., Vecoplan LLC is a worldwide leader in the design, engineering, ...

Cleaver-Brooks announced that it was acquired by Harbour Group, a privately ...

Nol-Tec Systems welcomes Keith Day, business development manager, to its staff. Day will be responsible for developing additional business for Nol-Tec’s Sorb-N-Ject ...

Ag Growth International Inc. entered into an agreement to acquire a manufacturing facility in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, from UFR Urban Forest Recyclers Inc. as the future ...

Syngenta in North America announced it signed a commercial agreement with a Kansas ethanol plant to use grain featuring Enogen^® trait technology in 2013. ...

Lance Cooper comes to SOR most recently from Emerson Electrical Reliability Services, where he was a senior sales engineer. Prior to that, he was the senior sales engineer – Product Specialist/Regional Consulting ...

Platts, a leading global provider of energy, petrochemical and metals information and a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc., completed its acquisition of Kingsman ...

Syngenta and Novozymes announced an exclusive global marketing and distribution agreement to commercialize Taegro, a fermented biological fungicide based on a naturally occurring ...

Jeffrey Rader Corp. was awarded a contract to supply a complete biomass fuel material handling system to GEMMA Power Systems, LLC for the ETEC Woodville Renewable Power project in Woodville, Texas.

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The RSB Services Foundation, the implementing entity of the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels which developed a Global Sustainability Standard and Certification System for biofuel production, announced that ...

Syngenta announced the appointment of Michel Demaré as the new chairman of the Board with effect from the next Annual General Meeting on April 23, 2013. Demaré will succeed Martin Taylor who, as ...

Stephen D. Rice joined M-E-C Company, a supplier for industrial dryer systems, as vice president of Sales. Rice has spent the last 30 years of his career in various senior management positions, including an extensive ...

Heyl & Patterson Inc. announced the signing of an exclusive alliance agreement with Torrefy Corp., a marketing and business development company based in ...

Syngenta announced it has acquired Pasteuria Bioscience Inc., a U.S.-based biotechnology company.

Since 2011, Syngenta and Pasteuria have had an exclusive global ...

Superior Industries announced the appointments of two new national sales managers to its conveying equipment and conveyor components divisions. Company veterans Jeff Steiner and Mike Domnick will still maintain ...

Pump Solutions Group, a business unit within Dover Corp. and the global leader of positive displacement pumps and related technologies, announced its new Almatec and Mouvex Euro- Center facility is open for business. ...

Feed Energy announced the recipients of its 2012 “Excellence in Ag” Scholarship Program. Bethany Olson and Colin Hurd will each receive a $2,500 scholarship from Feed Energy for the 2012-2013 school ...

Xylem announced the appointment of Grant Salstrom to the role of managing director, Godwin.

In his new role, Salstrom is responsible for the growth and development ...

OriginOil Inc. announced it received purchase orders for two test scale units from the United States Department of Energy’s Idaho National Labs (INL) under its research agreement. One unit is designed to ...

Fecon Inc. announced entrance into the seismic and geothermal drilling markets through the acquisition of Dyno-Drill, LLC in March. As part of the agreement, Mark Bowling, inventor of the Dyno-Drill, will actively ...

Kevin Rauber, CEO of JBI Inc. announced the appointment of Tony Bogolin to the position of Chief Operating Officer of the company.

Following his transition from Rock-Tenn Company, Rauber began his new ...

LobePro Rotary Pumps, a U.S. manufacturing company headquartered in Brunswick, Ga., welcomed two new managers, Sanjeev Sonkar and Marcus Day, to the team.

Sanjeev Sonkar joined LobePro as the India ...

We often use associations to simplify abstract ideas through objects. Using objects like snow for purity or babies for innocence allows us to visualize these abstracts and personalize their meanings.

Association is a great way to learn and ...

Syngenta and Novozymes announced a global agreement under which Syngenta will work with Novozymes to commercialize the Novozymes technology JumpStart, a seed-applied biological ...

Save Our Steam was presented with two separate prestigious safety awards, the Minnesota Governor’s Safety Award “for outstanding achievement in workplace safety and health” by the Minnesota ...

Xylem, a global water technology company focused on addressing the world’s most challenging water issues, named Mike Delzingaro as vice president and director of Sales for dewatering solutions.

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Virent announced that John D. Rice has joined its Board of Directors.

Rice has had a successful career with increasing leadership at the Archer Daniels Midland Company during the past 36 years, serving as ...

TMK IPSCO announced the appointment of Dave Mitch to the position of senior vice president and chief operating officer, based at the company’s headquarters in Downers Grove, Ill. In this newly-created role, ...

Dust Control Technology introduced Aaron Valencic as the company’s new vice president of Sales. The company made the announcement after a lengthy search and interview process. Valencic will be responsible ...

Amyris, Inc., a renewable chemicals and fuels company,  announced the realignment of its senior leadership team.

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Fecon introduced Brian Tinker as the new regional manager for the Northwest. His territory includes Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Northern California, Alaska, Hawaii and a portion of Nevada.

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Morbark Inc. announced the territory expansion for Papé Machinery into northern Idaho. A respected Morbark forestry and recycling dealer for almost 20 years, Papé ...

Vecoplan Integrated Controls, a manufacturer of industrial control panels and plant-wide integrated control systems, promoted Ron Carter to electrical engineering manager. In addition to managing the engineering ...

Vecoplan Midwest, a subsidiary of Vecoplan LLC in High Point, N.C., recently relocated to an 18,180 sq. ft. facility located in New Albany, Ind. According to Bill Miller, COO of Vecoplan Midwest, the move ...

4B Components, the USA division of the 4B Group, re-located to a new state of the art facility in Morton, Ill. The new building, at 625 Erie Ave., Morton, IL 61550, is only a 5 minute drive from the previous East ...

Capital Safety, a manufacturer of fall protection equipment under the DBI-SALA, Uniline and Protecta brands, announced that Stephen Oswald will join the company as its new chief executive officer.

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The Pellet Fuels Institute (PFI) and the American Lumber Standard Committee (ALSC) marked the first critical step in the roll out of the new densified biomass fuel standard for North America through the accreditation ...

Fecon announced that Power Equipment Company is a new dealer and service provider for Tennessee, Northwest Georgia, Northeast Arkansas, Northern Mississippi and Western Virginia. Power Equipment will offer Fecon’s proven line of Bull Hog mulchers, ...

Algae producer Aquaviridis and OriginOil Inc., announced that Aquaviridis has signed a commercial agreement with OriginOil to help develop the multi-phase algae production rollout at its Mexicali, Mexico, site. ...