‘Welcome to the Future’
by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine) Construction on Abengoa’s self-powered cellulosic ethanol facility is complete. But that doesn’t mean efforts to innovate are over.
Javier Garoz Neira, CEO of Abengoa Bioenergy, told attendees at the company’s grand opening celebration they were witnessing the first step into the start of a new era. “It is, without question, a major achievement and we believe that it will revolutionize the biofuel industry and our future,” he said. “Welcome to the future of biotechnology and the bioindustry.”
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The facility can convert a variety of feedstocks into biofuel, including corn stover, wheat straw, prairie grasses and more utilizing enzymes developed by the company. Those enzymes work equally well on municipal solid waste, which the company has been converting to ethanol at its Spain demo plant since July 2013, Garoz Neira said. Abengoa is also working on new uses for the sugars extracted from cellulosic materials so that it can produce new products, such as replacement materials for the petroleum in plastics. READ MORE
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