Van Der Horst Biodiesel is a Joint Venture company between Van Der Horst Engineering and the Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering (IESE), a technological arm of the Nanyang Technological Institute (NTU) of Singapore. Van Der Horst Biodiesel is vertically integrated in the production of Biodiesel from “seed to tank”. Van Der Horst Biodiesel will have its own Agronomy on Jatropha Curcas a non-food crop, employing the best strain most suitable for planting at each location and mass propagation by tissue culture for the best yield. The refineries utilize an advance process technology which operates at low temperature and pressure, thus achieving low production cost.

Speaker’s Profile
Peter Cheng has achieved an unbroken career span of 38 years. The first 10 years was with various Shipyards in Singapore; 6 years of which as a Project Manager for the construction of Supply Vessels, Tugs and Barges.

Peter Cheng has been working as a Chief Executive Officer with the Van Der Horst Group of Companies for 6 years now and is fully in charge of Van Der Horst Biodiesel’s operation. He is responsible for establishing and incorporating various Jatropha Curcas Plantations within the Asian Countries.

Peter spent the next 20 years with a large engineering company dealing with the product sale and installation for the Water, Sewage, Petroleum, Gas and Electricity Industries, the last 4 years of which as its Chief Executive Officer. He had also successfully executed the installation of projects such as Sewage Pumping Stations, Tidal Gates for Waterworks, Gas Regulating Stations, Compressed-Gas Boosting System and Reverse Osmosis System.

Another 2 years was spent with a Public-Listed Company in Singapore, as the Managing Director of seven of its subsidiary companies, among which with 2 manufacturing plants factories in China and 5 Engineering Trading outfits in Singapore and Malaysia.

JatrophaWorld 2008 Jakarta Speaker
Day 1 - Wednesday, 23rd January, 2008
15:45 INTEGRATING PLANTATION & REFINERY
• Strategies in expanding the scale of jatropha plantation
• Plantation site location (from Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, to China, India)
• Plantation ownership models
• Ensuring supply of plantation materials
• Storage and logistics of seeds/crude jatropha oil
• Refinery location selection criteria
• Costs and economics

The above mentioned expert shared his insights at JatrophaWorld Jakarta 2008, which was held on 23-24 January 2008 & welcomed over 350 Jatropha experts, industry players and entrepreneurs from 40 countries, making it the single largest Jatropha business forum in the world. JatrophaWorld Miami 2008, the second conference in the series will be held on 9-11 June 2008 in beautiful downtown Miami. Visit www.futureenergyevents.com/jatropha/attend to REGISTER TODAY for this exciting second conference in the series.