Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

It Takes Two to Tango

Biofuels Digest
Jim Lane June 28, 2011

How and why could three announcements from Gevo, Toray, Redfield and the EPA point the way forward for US ethanol, advanced biofuels, and renewable chemicals?

In recent weeks, Gevo, Toray, Redfield Energy and the EPA made three seemingly unrelated announcements regarding biofuels mandates, isobutanol, and a product you probably never heard of called paraxylene, or PX.

But put the three together, and you may have a roadmap for extracting the US ethanol industry, and the biofuels movement, from its present uncertainties and difficulties.

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