Coconut trees produce a diverse range of products, with oil being the most commonly produced. Though it accounts for 80 percent of coconut products, producers also tap coconuts for water, milk ...

Virgin Atlantic has become the world's first airline to fly one of its commercial planes on biofuel by using a mix of standard jet fuel, coconut and babassu oils on a Boeing 747 flight from London ...

Coconut oil could thus be a very good candidate from this viewpoint, and could become a major player in biodiesel supply in developing tropical countries like the Philippines.

Exhibiting a severe case of Brazil-envy, Philippines President Gloria Arroyo signed the Biofuel Act of 2006 into law last week, mandating that all diesel fuel and gasoline used in the country ...

Second, the plane was the first commercial jet ever to fly on biofuel, ... If a 747 could run on coconut oil alone, it would still take more than a dozen acres of crop to fill one plane.

MANILA, Philippines — The United Coconut Associations of the Philippines (UCAP) said the time is ripe for government to raise coco methyl ester (CME) content of biodiesel from two percent (B2 ...

COCONUT product exports and domestic demand must take precedence before the government raises the coco-methyl ester (CME) content of biodiesel by 1 percentage point, Axelum Resources Corp. said. “The ...

Virgin Atlantic has become the first airline to fly with biofuel, something airline boss Richard Branson calls "a vital breakthrough" but environmentalists deride as a "nonsensical" publicity stunt.

Using an unmodified Boeing 747, pilots for Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic have successfully flown from London's Heathrow airport to Amsterdam using a biofuel made of a mix of coconut and ...

If someone had told Bob and Kelly in 1995, when they founded Pacific Biodiesel, ... Kuleana makes products like cleansers, sunscreen, and oils from macadamia nuts, kukui, avocado, coconut, ...

Coconut prices have jumped six-fold since 2022 to VND190,000 (US$7.26) a dozen now amid heightened global demand.