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News julho  3, 2009
   
Quotes
02/28/2008
"As you know, I favor open trade and I think allowing Brazilian ethanol, for example, would reduce costs in the United States”
Ben Bernanke, Chairman of The Federal Reserve Board (FED)
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From the President’s desk
Marcos Sawaya Jank
Sugarcane: Historic Advances in Labor Relations
Change and diversity are two key words when it comes to labor relations in the sugar-energy industry. Change has been brought by the fast paced mechanization process in the South-Central region of Brazil, which will lead to the virtual vanishing of manual operations in planting and harvesting in sugarcane fields within a decade. In the current crop, the area harvested in Sao Paulo state without the use of sugarcane straw burning, used to facilitate manual cutting, will surpass half the total area of sugarcane production. The mechanization process was accelerated because of two main reasons: environmental (reduction of emissions and elimination of soot) and economic (using sugarcane straw as biomass to generate bioelectricity). However, the unavoidable job losses in the sector are a negative consequence of mechanization.
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Interview
Anders Fredrikson
Sustainability-Verified Brazilian Ethanol reaches Swedish pumps in August
Swedish drivers will benefit from an innovative agreement between Sekab, Sweden’s top ethanol importer, and four Brazilian sugarcane ethanol producers.
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Sector
U.S. company seeks Brazilian partners to produce gasoline from sugarcane.
Ethanol
Brazil´s top automakers to distribute 2 million copies of Ethanol Handbook
Ethanol
Lula: biofuels remain key part of Brazil´s energy mix in spite of huge new oil finds
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 In the media
Columns
Géraldine Kutas* and Mariana Regina Zechin**
Challenges for the globalization of ethanol
The world interest for biofuels is growing rapidly with more and more countries starting to produce and to use ethanol.Despite that, the international ethanol market remains small and volatile.
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Guests Columnists
Amaryllis Romano*
Ethanol: recognition by US will boost shipments in medium term
The recognition by the US of ethanol produced from sugarcane as an advanced bio-fuel should open up the way to an increase of Brazilian ethanol exports to that country and even to other nations which questioned the qualification of the national product.
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