by Ron Kotrba (Biobased Diesel Daily) Global Clean Energy Holdings Inc. announced Jan. 3 that it has acquired Camelina Company España S.L., Europe’s largest camelina crop innovator and seed producer headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
According to GCEH, CCE has developed world-class intellectual property (IP) in camelina to support a sustainable biofuels value chain. CCE’s IP includes “superior genetics, breeding capabilities, high-quality planting seed, advanced agronomic research, and knowledge to support the cultivation of camelina by contract farmers,” GCEH stated. “CCE and GCEH subsidiary Sustainable Oils Inc. have been collaborating to expand and harmonize their collective research and development activities. The combined capabilities will accelerate the development of proprietary germplasm and varieties of camelina that will provide third-party contract camelina growers in North America, Western Europe and South America with additional revenue opportunities by sustainably increasing their fallow crop rotation options.”
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CCE was established in 2010 and in 2013 became the first global company to receive a sustainability certification from the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials, according to GCEH. CCE has supplied sustainable and certified camelina oil for SAF production and the company maintains an ongoing plant breeding program with more than 600 camelina germplasm lines and owns nine proprietary camelina varieties.
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According to GCEH, camelina is an essential part of the feedstock plan for its “integrated farm-to-fuels strategy.” Early this year the company plans to open its newly renovated renewable diesel facility in Bakersfield, California, and supply ExxonMobil up to 220 million gallons of renewable diesel a year under long-term purchase agreements. READ MORE