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Pacific Biodiesel + Hawaiʻi’s Restaurants Together Fuel Local Clean Energy
Biodiesel Pioneer Marks 30 Years of Recycling Hawaiʻi's Used Cooking Oil As we say in Hawaiʻi, it’s a kākou thing. Pacific Biodiesel produces its 100% renewable fuel by recycling used cooking oil (UCO) from [...]
Biobased Diesel Magazine Cover Story Recounts Pacific Biodiesel’s 30 Year Journey
The Winter 2025 edition of Biobased Diesel Magazine features a thought provoking piece from Pacific Biodiesel co-founder Kelly King, as she takes a look back at the past three decades, from the inception of the [...]
Pacific Biodieselʻs Kauaʻi Blooms Featured in The Sunflower magazine
Pacific Biodieselʻs Kauaʻi agricultural operation is featured in an article by Don Lilleboe in the January 2025 edition of The Sunflower, the magazine of The National Sunflower Association. In the article, Pacific Biodiesel Director of [...]
Pacific Biodiesel Named Business Climate Champion at Climate Leadership Awards
Pictured L to R are: Shelee Kimura, President and CEO of Hawaiian Electric; Chris Benjamin, Chair of Climate Hawaiʻi; Bob & Kelly King, Co founders of Pacific Biodiesel; Jeff Mikulina, Executive Director of Climate Hawaiʻi; [...]
First Sunflower Harvest on Kauaʻi
Pacific Biodiesel President Bob King inspects the combine prior to the start of the harvest. Kaumakani, Kauaʻi Nearly 100 acres of sunflowers were harvested by Pacific Biodiesel in early September. Beginning with the [...]
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Pacific Biodiesel’s founding family, celebrating the company’s first sunflower crop, was featured on the cover of Green Magazine.

Bob King is interviewed by Maui Now during the blessing of Maui’s first state-licensed industrial hemp farm.

Marketing Director Joy Galatro addresses attendees at Maui Nui Marine Resource Council.

Bob King, second from left, participates in a panel at the 2019 Hawaii Energy Conference.