Never a waste: Asia Biogas moves into ethanol to spur regional growth

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Oct. 4--With volatile energy prices and high industrial demand for alternative energy, Thailand-based Asia Biogas is looking at several opportunities in the Asean market. "There are various sectors that we are looking into and ethanol production is one such segment," said chief technical officer Stephen Etheridge, adding that the company was now expanding from Thailand and the Philippines. "We have already set up affiliated offices in Vietnam and Indonesia and are now looking at Malaysia, where we would look at our core business of biogas and at ethanol production." Asia Biogas is one of the region's largest biogas systems design, engineering, construction and operating companies. The research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan recently gave the company an Asia Pacific Renewable Energy Company of... [read full story]