Biotech Updates

Ukraine Needs Additional Sources of Bioethanol

October 30, 2013

News article: http://www.ukrainianjournal.com/index.php?w=article&id=17395

News article: http://www.biofuels-news.com/industry_news.php?item_id=6935


In Ukraine, the expected volume of molasses feedstock production this year is reportedly short to meet the country's ethanol demand for next year.

Molasses is a by-product of the refining of sugarcane or sugarbeet into table sugar. The 400,000 to 500,000 metric tons of molasses expected to be produced this season would equate to roughly 100,000 tons of ethanol, which meets only a third of the country's demand for 2014.

In order to achieve the country's ethanol demand, corn-based ethanol is expected to be a good option but there are currently no corn ethanol plants in the country.