Firm to unveil process to allow ethanol plants to add food

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Associated Press - June 15, 2008 1:35 PM ET

COLWICH, Kan. (AP) - The nation's leading designer of ethanol plants plans to unveil a new technology that would allow processors of corn-based ethanol to produce food for human consumption as well as fuel.

Tomorrow, ICM Incorporated will introduce its advanced food and fuel technology -- a "dry corn fractionation" process that allows the use of the entire corn kernel. The plan calls for the construction of separate facilities at ethanol plants where the dry corn kernel can be separated into its components before it is contaminated in the later ethanol distillation process.

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