Cobalt, American Process to launch first cellulosic biobutanol plant
Biofules Digest
Cobalt, American Process to launch first cellulosic biobutanol plant
By Jim Lane
Published: April 19, 2011
470,000 gallon facility to switch to biobutanol in April 2012
Rick Wilson, CEO of Cobalt, and Theodora Retsina, CEO of American Process, will join 120 other C-level advanced biorefining executives and a total of 450 delegates at the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference, which kicks off this morning in Washington, DC with a half-day workshop on government and policy.
Under the Cobalt-API agreement, the companies will integrate Cobalt’s patent pending continuous fermentation and distillation technology into American Process’s Alpena Biorefinery, currently under construction in Alpena, Michigan. Slated to begin ethanol production in early 2012 with a switch to biobutanol in April 2012, the API Alpena Biorefinery will produce 470,000 gallons of biobutanol annually, which will be pre-sold to chemical industry partners.