CONTENTS 2018 FALL ISSUE VOLUME 15 ISSUE 4
FEATURES
16 Consultative Expansion SPOTLIGHT
Biodiesel Magazine spotlights a producer turned feedstock provider, a consulting firm that assists manufacturers, and one of today’s fastest-growing biodiesel refiners
BY RON KOTRBA
20 The Complex Dynamics of Coprocessing MARKET
A direct partnership between Big Oil and agriculture to coprocess renewable diesel could have detrimental effects on biodiesel, the green economy and the RFS
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BY RON KOTRBA
DEPARTMENTS 5 Editor’s Note
Issues of the Day BY RON KOTRBA
6 Talking Point
9 Events Calendar 10 Business Briefs 12 Inside NBB
The Road to Feedstock Flexibility BY CHRIS ABRAMS
8 Legal Perspectives
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Driving Decarbonization BY GRAHAM NOYES
Advertiser Index 3 18 24 17 19 23 7 9, 28 25 22 2
2019 International Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo Clean Energy Consultants Dallas Group of America, Inc. Green Energy Biofuel, LLC HERO BX HTH Companies IMERYS National Biodiesel Board Oil-Dri Corporation of America RINAlliance United Color Tech
ON THE COVER:
Hero BX celebrated 10 years of successful operation at its Erie, Pennsylvania, biodiesel plant late last year. Since then, the company has acquired two additional plants, penned a tolling agreement with another, and opened an R&D lab. PHOTO: HERO BX
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