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News releases issued by UNICA:

	02/01/2012 Sugarcane crushing in South-Central Brazil reaches 492.70 million tons with demand for ethanol stable in early January Mills in the South-Central Region of Brazil processed 492.70 million tons of sugarcane between the beginning of the 2011/2012 harvest in April of 2011 and January 16, 2012. The figure is 11.53% lower when compared to the 556.95 million tons of cane crushed during the same period in the 2010/2011 harvest.With only 10 mills still operating during the first half of January, the volume crushed totalled only 465.37 million tons. Four of the still active mills are in the state of Mato Grosso, three in the state of Espírito Santo, two in Minas Gerais and one in Paraná. According to the Technical Dire ...

	01/16/2012 With harvesting nearly over for the season, cane crushing in South-Central Brazil reaches 492.23 million tons With only isolated mills still processing sugarcane in Brazil's South-Central region, the volume of processed cane since the beginning of the harvest in April of 2011 reached 492.23 million tons on January 1st. The total is lower than in the same period during the previous harvest, when 555.39 million tons were processed. Cane crushing in December added only 3.65 million tons to the year's total, 67.61% below the amount processed in December of 2010. According to the Technical Director at the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA), Antonio de Padua Rodrigues, “the volume obse ...

	12/23/2011 Congressional recess means the end of three decades of US tariffs on imported ethanol Time for the world’s top two ethanol producers, the United States and Brazil, to lead a global effort for increased production and free, unobstructed trade for biofuels, says Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association For the first time in more than three decades of generous US government subsidies for the domestic ethanol industry, coupled with a steep tariff on imports, the United States market will be open to imported ethanol as of January 1st, 2012, without protectionist measures. Today’s adjournment of the 112th Congress means both the US$0,54 per gallon tax on imported ethanol and a cor ...

	11/29/2011 Sugarcane crushing in South-Central Brazil reaches 479.35 million tons in mid-November The amount of sugarcane processed by mills in the South-Central region of Brazil from the beginning of the 2011/2012 harvest to November 15 reached 479.35 million tons. The figure represents an 8.80% reduction compared to the volume processed in the same period in the previous harvest, which reached 525.62 million tons. In the first half of November, the volume crushed by mills totaled 18.62 million tons, down 19.59% from the previous two-week period when 23.15 million tons were processed, and down 23.65% compared to the first half of November 2010. At that time, 24.38 million tons of cane w ...

	11/17/2011 Upcoming ‘virtual roundtable’ on the future of energy is key opportunity A live online discussion on how to achieve long-term global energy goals, organized by The Economist Conferences and scheduled for Friday, November 18th, is the type of gathering that needs to happen more frequently so that key, sustainable energy strategies already available, can be widely discussed and better understood. The “Global Energy Conversation – Part II” will bring together simultaneously leading energy experts in London, Washington and Săo Paulo, with a worldwide online audience of academics, the corporate world and the media able to participate with questions and comments. “Energ ...