Brazilian largest producer of sugar and ethanol is ready to export technology

Rene Barreto
Published 2020년 8월 15일
A strategic move to encourage Indian government not to interfere in sugar prices with their subsidies and secondly eliminate an important barrier for the export of Brazilian ethanol, has motivated Brazil's largest sugar and ethanol producer and exporter to shift their efforts to exporting technology instead.
Since many countries are reluctant in switching petrol by ethanol from sugarcane to avoid dependence on Brazil, the Brazilian giant Raizen wants to
sell its second generation technology and create steady revenue from royalties.
The second generation ethanol (E2G) can be obtained nont only by refining sugarcane, but from all organic matter used in the production of energy, such as sugarcane bagasse, agricultural residues, leftovers from eucalyptus, among many others.
The efforts to recover the global economy from the pandemic must include the transition to a low carbon economy, which makes it perfectably suitable exchanging a fossil fuel by a renewable one such as the ethanol.
Europe alone will allocate around 40% of the 750 billion euro economic development package to so-called “green technologies”. And this path is likely to be followed by many nations.
For an emerging country that exports agricultural and mineral commodities, like Brazil, selling technology sounds rather utopian. But after having worked for seven years on this new technology, this sounds more realistic than ever.
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