French biofuel sector in race for new output target

By Muriel Boselli

PARIS, Oct 12 (Reuters) - France's biodiesel industry is under pressure to build new factories, sign supply deals with farmers and secure contracts with crushers as it races to meet new government output targets, industry players say.

The sector has welcomed the government's stated aim to be Europe's leading biofuel maker by 2010, when all fuels should contain seven percent of the cleaner-burning alternatives, but says much still needs to be done to ...