CPT Announces Flexible Milling System to Enable Ethanol to Sustain Profit Margins (NA)

The Open Press
Published on: March 29th, 2009 12:00am by: Reg Ankrom

Cereal Process Technologies has achieved a breakthrough in its corn dry fractionation technology that now allows ethanol producers to take advantage of the most profitable markets available at any given time for ethanol product and co-product streams.

Overland Park, KS (OPENPRESS) March 29, 2009 -- Calling its new flexible milling system "MarketFlex™," CPT says its innovation gives ethanol management more control over its products and profits. MarketFlex™ uses the company's unique corn dry milling technology to permit ethanol managers to precisely "dial in" the corn kernel's fractions that the market is valuing most at any given time. The change in fractioned streams can be made within minutes and without a shutdown or slowdown of either the ethanol or fractionation plant.

CPT's patented process for separating the corn kernel's starch-laden endosperm from the kernel's non-fermentable corn germ and bran has been proven to boost ethanol production by 17 percent in more than a year of continuous operation at a 130-million gallon ethanol plant.

The ability to significantly reduce the non-fermentables introduced with the starch stream into the ethanol plant means a higher quality byproduct from ethanol's production, which CPT calls high protein meal. Those higher levels of protein open the door to new markets in swine, poultry, pet and aquaculture feeds. Conventional ethanol plants typically produce a byproduct called Distillers Dry Grains and Solubles, or DDGS, containing more fat and fiber, resulting in lower protein content. The market for DDGS generally has been limited as a feed for cattle.

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