The sugar cane industry, while producing a $4.2 billion annual economic impact in Louisiana, creates tons of waste product every year. What to do with that waste has long been a problem for sugar ...

JEANERETTE, La. — A first of a kind fuel facility broke ground in the "Sugar City." Converting sugar cane bagasse into fuel pellets. This will be the first facility in North America to use bagasse, a ...

Construction is set to begin before the end of the year on a $70 million renewable fuel plant in Jeanerette that will turn sugar cane bagasse into fuel pellets. Delta Biofuel will build the plant off ...

A few years ago, Mary Guarisco started noticing mountains of bagasse, the crop residue left after sugar cane is crushed, piling up at Alma Plantation down the road from her house. “They’ve almost ...

Bagasse comes from sugarcane stalks. After sugarcane is harvested, the stalks are taken to a refinery to extract the sugar inside. The stalks are washed, crushed, and the sugary juice is separated ...

The principal raw material used for manufacturing paper pulp is wood. However, growing demand in the paper industry, at a time of dwindling forest resources, have compelled the sector to turn to other ...

BATON ROUGE -- Praj Industries, a publicly traded bioenergy engineering business with headquarters in India, is laying the foundation for a $100 million plant in Louisiana that would use sugar cane ...

The Sugar Cane Paper Company is debuting its bagasse-made napkins, toilet paper, tissue, and paper towels. Bagasse is the fibrous residue left over in the sugar-making process after the sugar cane has ...

This chic modern WallArt tiles add an extra dimension to boring plain walls. Made from recycled bagasse (a fibrous residue leftover from the process of extracting the sweet juice from sugarcane stalks ...