Japan imports Brazil ETBE for gasoline blending

Once the quality and economic-efficiency of the Brazilian-made ETBE is proven, Marubeni would start importing more ETBE from the country for JBSL after fiscal-year 2009, ending March 2010, the spokesman said.

According to Marubeni, Brazil has the lowest production cost base in the world, and the country had been hoping to export bioethanol or ETBE to Japan.

However, Japan would continue to import ETBE from Europe, he noted.

According to Marubeni, the Japanese refiners planned to use 840,000 kilolitres/year of ETBE to make ETBE-mixed gasoline that contains 7% ETBE, starting in 2010.

Meanwhile, Marubeni was building 400,000 tonnes/year biodiesel plants in Brazil as a joint venture with Agrenco Group, it said.

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