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Take the solution to the waste not the waste to the solution
Xethanol
Corporation is committed to the production of ethanol and related
products in manufacturing facilities close to the major urban markets
for those products, using locally available raw materials.
Better than corn
Corn
is currently the dominant raw material for ethanol production. As
a result this production is now concentrated in the Corn Belt -
thousands of miles from the areas of highest ethanol demand on the
Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts.
Use of local waste
Xethanol's
Business Approach calls for the use of locally available biomass rather
than corn as the primary raw material for ethanol production.
Biomass is organic waste material and includes everything from wood
chips and yard waste, to corn stover and municipal solid waste.
Cheaper feedstock
Biomass
of various kinds is abundant in the high-demand coastal areas.
Its generation is widely dispersed, and its value is too low to make
transportation viable to a large footprint central processing
facility. Because most biomass streams are now either abandoned
or land-filled at the producer's expense, biomass is potentially a
significantly cheaper feedstock for ethanol production than corn.
Smaller and Closer
The
economics of biomass-to-ethanol production mandate small footprint
plants, typically producing between 5 and 25 million gallons a year and
located close to the biomass source.
Lower freight expense, higher margins
Xethanol
plans to locate biorefineries for ethanol fuel production close to
high-density urbanized ethanol markets and to reliable biomass sources
- so reducing freight and raw material costs, capturing higher ethanol
prices and gaining the benefit of improved margins.
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