The Corn Ethanol Industry contributed over $65 billion to the GDP by offsetting 7% of America's fossil fuel needs in 2008. Corn has much more to add with technological advancement.
We believe that the path to cellulosic ethanol is through the corn ethanol industry; and that the established first generation corn ethanol infrastructure is the only practical pathway in North America to cost-effectively increase the production and use of carbon-neutral biofuels on globally-meaningful scales.
To accomplish this in a competitive and environmentally superior way, the installed base of first generation corn ethanol facilities will need to evolve to achieve significantly improved production efficiencies.
We intend to do just that, and to become a leading low cost and low carbon producer of renewable fuels by leveraging our technology portfolio to acquire and upgrade corn ethanol facilities into increased financial and environmental sustainability while facilitating the convergence of cellulosic and corn ethanol.
Our portfolio of patented and patent-pending Cellulosic Corn™ technologies include a number of (a) feedstock conditioning, (b) oil production, extraction and refining, and (c) energy and carbon mitigation technologies, all designed to achieve the following key goals:
- Increase the net energy balance of biofuel derived from corn;
- Increase profitability of corn ethanol;
- Decrease amount of petroleum burned to make corn derived biofuel;
- Increase nutritional content of corn ethanol co-products;
- Decarbonize corn ethanol production;
- Diversify the biomass mix accepted and produced by corn ethanol facilities;
- Decrease the commodity and financial risk profile of corn ethanol;
- Standardize corn-friendly cellulosic technology by building on the existing corn ethanol complex; and,
- Enhance the competitive positioning of corn ethanol in the domestic and global markets.
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