Company Plans to Build First Cellulosic Plant
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Posted by Cindy Zimmerman – August 13th, 2006
Alternative Energy Sources, Inc. (see previous post) has announced plans to build the first cellulosic ethanol facility in the U.S. with the acquisiting of Flex Fuels USA Inc. of Huntsville, Alabama.
According to a news release, Flex Fuels USA has developed proprietary ethanol production technology methods of producing cellulosic ethanol made from biomass and other types of waste.
Kansas City, Mo.-based Alternative Energy Sources has signed a letter of intent to acquire all the company’s outstanding capital stock and expects to sign a merger agreement by Sept. 15.
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William
Too late. Sunopta and Celunol are building the first US facility in Jennings, LA.
Gary Dikkers
Cindy’s an agricultural journalist, she must be right.
Cindy
William,
SunOpta says it will build the first cellulosic ethanol demonstration plant in the United States by early spring. Basically, the race is on and we’ll see who wins.
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[...] As an alert reader pointed out to me (see previous post) SunOpta is “working with Celunol on the first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant in the United States,” as announced in a press release August 3. [...]
Wild
SunOpta is already building what will be the first cellulosic ethanol plant in the in Salamanca, Spain, so it seems likely it will also build the first in the U.S.
A pilot plant SunOpta is providing for China Resources Alcohol corporation will likely be producing cellulosic ethanol in 3-6 months.
With 30 years of experience building biomass conversion facilities all over the world, SunOpta is clearly the strongest horse in this race. All of these late arrivals hoping to cash in by jumping on the cellulosic biofuels bandwagon are announcing all kinds of ambitious PLANS but only SunOpta is actually building cellulosic ethanol plants NOW.
William
Xethanol is not even close to building any type of cellulosic plant nor are they even close to producing cellulosic ethanol.
Alternative Energy Sources does not have any technology that would allow for commerical-scale production. If they did, we would see a competent pre-treatment platform in place and enzyme partnerships in place.
The GATO Group currently holds the 6th largest position in Sunopta. We are very well researched.
Wild
In my previous comment, my HTML tags must have gotten screwed up. It should read (hope it works this time – how about a “preview” function?):
SunOpta is already building what will be the first cellulosic ethanol plant in the WORLD in Salamanca, Spain, so it seems likely it will also build the first in the U.S.
A pilot plant SunOpta is providing for China Resources Alcohol corporation will likely be producing cellulosic ethanol in 3-6 months.
With 30 years of experience building biomass conversion facilities all over the world, SunOpta is clearly the strongest horse in this race. All of these late arrivals hoping to cash in by jumping on the cellulosic biofuels bandwagon are announcing all kinds of ambitious PLANS but only SunOpta is actually building cellulosic ethanol plants NOW.
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[...] Alternative Energy Source, Inc. of Kansas City, which just announced last week that it is in the process of building the “first cellulosic plant” in the country, (a claim disputed by SunOpta) today announced plans to build a 110-million-gallon ethanol plant 65 miles south of Chicago in Kankakee, Ill. [...]
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