Association’s Mission

In Brazil, one of the options that seem to be feasible, considering the end of the present energy sources, is the Biodiesel. The fuel obtained from vegetal oils, reduces the gas emissions, besides taking advantage of the big oleaginous seeds plantations that already exist in Brazil.

The text approved by National Congress on September 14, 2004 opened the possibility of the Biodiesel use out of the research area, which means, the use for effective purposes in large-scale. On January 13, 2005, the law number 11,097 regulated the Biodiesel introduction in Brazilian territory. It stipulated a deadline of 8 years to accomplish 5% product addition to the petroleum diesel. In the law, the term biodiesel is specified as: “Biodiesel derived from renewable biomass for the use in internal combustion engines with compression ignition or, according to the regulation, to generate other kind of energy, which can substitute partially or totally the fossil fuels.”

The dimension that the issue has reached brought concerns to different sectors. Therefore it involved oleaginous producers; biodiesel processing industries; fuels distributors; automotive industry representatives; equipment and machines industries; research institutes; professionals of development, environment control and chemical engineering.

All these stakeholders converged to the foundation of ABIOdiesel (Brazilian Association of Biodiesel Industries). There are representatives from all areas above, focusing specially on industries that had their official commencement of activities in March.

The Soyminas plant, located in the city of Cássia, Minas Gerais State in Brazil, produces biodiesel from the sunflower seed and from the turnip.

ABIOdiesel’s mission is primarily to promote and encourage the entrepreneurs to invest in this highly promising market. Likewise, the use of alcohol fuel was encouraged when the “Pró-Álcool” was introduced, the Association intends to do the same with the biodiesel. Since the project is under implementation and needs huge investments, the entity primarily invokes those with high economic power. Obviously it does not exclude medium and small investors, whose represent a fundamental role to reach our objectives. Hence, the Association intends to enlarge the integration among those involved with biodiesel, independently on the category in which the person belongs to. A national range instrument of great value, it facilitates the dialogue with governmental agencies and with international partners in the subject.