Andrew Hill

Biography

Andrew is Managing Director of Biodiesel Industries Australia (BIA), which owns and operates Australia’s first commercial biodiesel plant, located in Maitland, NSW. Andrew grew up in the petroleum industry. His family’s business – Maitland Oil Distributors – was the regional distributor for Esso for many years. Recalling the fuel shortages of the 1970s, and encouraged by the Australian Government’s 2001 program, Biofuels for Cleaner Transport, Andrew built the Maitland plant in 2003. In 2003, Newcastle City Council launched Australia’s first biodiesel fleet running on fuel supplied by BIA, and in 2006, BIA was the first biodiesel producer to contract with a major oil company (Caltex) to supply more than 600 million litres of biodiesel blended fuel in the NSW market.

Research Interest

 Biodiesel,Biomass