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Article: Gevo Launches Development Company to Retrofit Ethanol Plants to Make Biobutanol
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- September 30, 2009
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Jack Huttner, Gevo, Inc., +1-303-858-8358,
jhuttner@Gevo.com
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gevo today
announced the formation of Gevo Development, LLC to develop a fleet
of biorefineries based on retrofitting existing ethanol plants with
Gevo's proprietary technology to produce biobutanol. Biobutanol is
an advanced biofuel that can be blended directly into gasoline and
be used to make renewable hydrocarbons ("green gasoline"), jet and
diesel fuel, chemical intermediates and biobased plastics.
"Gevo took a very big step today toward commercial deployment of
advanced biofuels," said Patrick Gruber, CEO of Gevo. "The
development company ...