Bunge recebe autorização para construir instalações no Brasil para produzir biodiesel

(Notícia em Inglês)
Bunge Alimentos SA, the Brazilian unit of U.S. agricultural company Bunge Ltd. (BG), received a permit to build a biodiesel manufacturing facility as the nation increases its supply of the renewable fuel.

The plant in Mato Grosso state will be able to produce 414,800 liters (109,400 gallons) of biodiesel a day when complete, fuel regulator Agencia Nacional do Petroleo, Gas Natural e Biocombustiveis said today in Brazil’s official Gazette.

There are 60 biodiesel refineries with permits to sell fuel in Brazil with total production capacity of 16.3 million liters a year, according to the fuel regulator, known as ANP. That’s up from 47 at the start of 2010 when Brazil started enforcing a law requiring diesel distributors to mix in 5 percent biodiesel with their fuel, ANP said.

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