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Article: Red Shield makes biorefinery plans
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
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- August 21, 2007
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OLD TOWN - The biorefinery at Red Shield Environmental LLC,
formerly the Georgia-Pacific Corp. mill, could be up and running in
2009 if everything goes as planned.
"We've done the preliminary engineering, process design, equipment
layouts and staffing needs to implement a biorefinery here at Old
Town," Jennifer Johnston, Red Shield project engineer, said Monday.
The partnership between Red Shield and the University of Maine
would produce ethanol, a gasoline additive, and other chemicals as
part of the pulp production process.
"We will be diversifying from being just a pulp facility to a
biorefinery and special-chemicals producer," Johnston said.
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