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Bangchak to double biodiesel output
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 10/02/2012
» The majority state-owned oil refinery and retailer Bangchak Petroleum Plc (BCP) plans to double its biodiesel production to 600,000-700,000 litres per day from 300,000 litres to meet surging demand growth expected this year.
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Sugar group sets B300m R&D budget
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 24/03/2012
» Sugar players are flexing their muscles to improve product quality, with 300 million baht earmarked for research and development (R&D) industry-wide this year.
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Implanting ecological concerns
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 26/03/2012
» Klaeng municipality in Rayong rarely makes the headlines, but a decade of determined effort to go green has given it a certain status. It has quietly attracted more than 7,000 visitors from 100 municipalities in Thailand and abroad to study its waste-management successes.
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Sweeter times ahead
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 10/04/2012
» The tamarind candies known as luk yi have long been a favourite treat in Pattani province and a source of extra income for people who rely chiefly on rubber plantation salaries. But the southern insurgency of the past decade, and almost daily attacks in recent times, have brought tourism to a halt and reduced luk yi sales by up to 70% from earlier times.
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Bangchak greening stations
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 26/04/2012
» Bangchak Petroleum Plc is spending 2 billion baht over the next two years on marketing and retailing, mainly for its biofuels gasohol, E20 and E85.
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Loxley to build B60m algae biofuel plant
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 15/05/2012
» BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA : Loxley Plc is spending 60 million baht to build a pilot plant for algae-based biofuel, possibly in Ratchaburi province.
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Palm oil makers push for wider RSPO certification
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 01/08/2012
» Thailand is being urged to adopt the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) standard for the palm oil and biofuel industries, an initiative aimed at promoting the growth and use of sustainable oil palm products through credible global standards and engagement of stakeholders.
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PTT pins hopes on algae-based biofuel
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 04/09/2012
» National oil conglomerate PTT Plc expects algae-based biofuel will be commercially viable by 2017 at the price of US$150 per barrel, says chief executive Pailin Chuchottaworn.
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In raising cane, He proved able
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 10/09/2012
» For Samart Leethirananon, 52, who grew up on his parents' sugar-cane plantation, more than a decade of perseverance has paid off.
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Palm oil boom destined in acidic Rangsit field
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 28/09/2012
» Palm oil plantation in Pathum Thani's Rangsit is expected to boom in a few years as a pilot demonstration project has shown good results after years of development, says Capt Samai Jai-In from the House of Representatives.
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