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At the German biodiesel top quality management team’s (AGQM) overall convocation in Berlin in Nov, members voted their new panel the directors.

Complying with the meekness of AGQM Chairman Juergen Fischer (at that point with ADM Investigation GmbH) final April, Replacement Leader Georg Pollert was chosen acting Chairman. In November, the general installation formally elected him following leader of the panel.

Rolf Sieber (SBE BioEnergie Handelsgesellschaft mbH) was verified as deputy chairman and Ruediger Brautzsch (Cargill GmbH) was chosen second deputy leader.

AGQM participants likewise verified Frank Kohl (NEW Effort West GmbH), Elmar Baumann (VDB, Verband der Deutschen Biokraftstoffindustrie e.V.) as well as Henning Bohne (Louis Dreyfus Commodities Wittenberg GmbH) as members of the board. Jeremie Groos (ADM Research GmbH) was elected on the board as entrant.

AGQM was established in 1999 by leading biodiesel producers and also traders to assure the premium the their products. Currently 14 biodiesel developers are actually AGQM participants along with a manufacturing storage capacity the 2.9 thousand tons each year (much more than 870 MMgy). AGQM conducts unannounced member samples and also audits, and organizes a rounded robin test for biodiesel as well as vegetable oil together with FAM (Fachausschuss für Mineraloel- und Brennstoff-Normung). AGQM additionally manages the testing and also viabilitythe ingredients for biodiesel. On top of that, AGQM is actually intensely associated with the national and international regulation the gases, and carries out joint tasks on biodiesel with the petrol as well as auto markets alongside research principle.