1 July 2013
Details
announced today that its
commercial scale cellulosic gasoline and diesel production facility
in Columbus, Mississippi, USA.
has achieved several milestones.
First, the Columbus facility's
Biomass Fluid Catalytic Cracking, or BFCC,
has completed its uninterrupted 30-day run.
Second, the facility made
the first shipment of cellulosic gasoline
representing the first shipment since March, 2013.
Lastly, the facility commenced regular shipments of
both gasoline and diesel that same day.
Fred Cannon, President and CEO
- With the facility operating stably and
producing cellulosic gasoline and disel at commercial scale,
We believe we are on track to achieve steady-state operations
before the end of the calender year and
to demonstrate improving performance metrics
over that timeframe.
- The largest commercially producing
cellulosic production facility in the World,
we expect Columbus
- Enhanced with recent optimizations-
to be the basis of our second facility's design at Natchez.
- KiOR has developed a proprietary technology to convert
abundant non-food biomass to
cellulosic gasoline and diesel.
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