Aemetis partners with Edeniq to implement advanced biofuel technology

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Aemetis partners with Edeniq to implement advanced biofuel technology

Greentech Lead America: Edeniq, a biomaterials and
sustainable fuels company, announced partnership with Aemetis, an advanced
fuels and renewable chemicals company, to install Edeniq technology at the
Aemetis Advanced Fuels Keyes plant in California.

Aemetis will install Edeniq’s proprietary Cellunators to
boost ethanol yields and will conduct large-scale commercial testing of Edeniq’s
cellulosic ethanol Pathway platform.

Edeniq’s Cellunator technology produces sugars by milling
corn and other plant materials into “right-sized” particles of feedstock that
can be more easily converted.

Edeniq is installing Cellunators at Aemetis’ Keyes,
California facility, which currently produces 60 million gallons of ethanol
annually. Aemetis is also one of three ethanol producers working with Edeniq on
the company’s Pathway platform, a patented process that integrates enzymes with
the Cellunator technology to produce cellulosic ethanol using the existing
plant infrastructure. Aemetis is testing the commercial feasibility of the
Pathway platform on site at their plant.

Eric McAfee, chairman and CEO of Cupertino, California
based Aemetis, said, “The addition of Edeniq’s technology is expected to
immediately improve our ethanol yield, and allow us to produce cellulosic
ethanol at commercial scale by upgrading the existing corn ethanol production
facility.”

“Edeniq’s technology will help us lead the transition to
next generation, lower carbon, lower cost biofuels derived from a variety of
renewable feedstocks such as grasses, agricultural residues, and purpose-grown
energy crops,” McAfee added.

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