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HCL Clean Tech Finds Sugar for Ethanol in Mississippi Woods | Green Prophet - 0 views

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hcl CleanTech Correnti miss sugar woods

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  • Interesting article but, let me shed some light with a few points of fact that nobody in the company will offer. One, at the time this article was posted, Eran was no longer CEO. Eran was deposed and a new CEO was hired in June of 2011. Two, the pilot in Durham was no longer operational (they’re trying to move it elsewhere) and proved nothing along the lines of this process being commercially viable. In actuality, far more was proven to the contrary. Three, the company is woefully behind on researching and proving their proprietary solvent extraction process which is the lynchpin to their success. The reality is they haven’t proven they can reliably make ANY sugar from wood on a pilot level, much less extract the acid THEN recover the acid and solvent. Bottom line, if you’re expecting sugars to be made from wood in Grenada in 2012, and most likely ever, don’t hold your breath. Unfortunately for Khosla, the DOE and the state of Mississippi, they will be forced to realize this in due time.
  • No problem, Karin. Happy to bring a touch of veritas to the table. Additionally, you could check the HCL CleanTech company website to verify the legitimate CEO is Philippe Lavielle and contact him for comment. You could also reach out to Steve Piccot, Director at Southern Research Institute in Durham, NC, and ask him who authored a certain $9 million DOE grant proposal.
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New plant to impact timber industry most | The Natchez Democrat - 0 views

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CleanTech Correnti sugar woods

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  • plants to turn wood chips into cellulosic sugars that can be used in fuel, pet foods, cosmetics, lubricants and other products.
  • When the Natchez HCL Cleantech plant opens, Russ said, it will use 1 million tons of pine or softwoo
  • To put the figure into perspective, Russ said International Paper’s Natchez plant was using 1.2 million tons of wood a year at its peak before it closed.
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  • “That’s very substantial — 1 million tons of wood (a year),” Ulmer said.
  • And since timber industries usually work 200 days a year, Ulmer said, hauling HCL Cleantech’s projected demand would mean 185 truckloads would be hauled a day.
  • “We have a vast resources of timber,” Ulmer said.
  • He said the supply of timber was constantly replenishing itself when IP was in town.“We have never cut our growth,” Ulmer said.
  • Sen. Kelvin Butler, D-Magnolia, said the area’s abundance of timber helped land the new company.“We’re just excited that they picked our area because they’ll be using pine, and that’s one of the resources we have right here in southwest Mississippi,” Butler said.
  • Johnson said the company has received more than $10 million in federal grants, some coming from the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Bond authorization clears way to bring HCL ClearTech to Olive Branch » The Co... - 0 views

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  • uthorizing the bonds clears the way for HCL ClearTech, an Israeli company, to establish its U.S. headquarters in Olive Branch.
  • HCL ClearTech expects to invest $1 billion to create 800 jobs at an average salary of $67,000 a year.
  • HCL ClearTech's manufacturing process converts biomass to sugars that are used in industry. The company uses pine trees, among other things, to obtain cellulosic sugars which can be used in producing animal nutrition, cosmetics, lubricants and fuel, among other things. "We were drawn to Mississippi because the wood stocks are substantial," Cuneo said.
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  • Calisolar's project would create 951 jobs with an average salary of $45,000 a year.
  • After an afternoon of committee meetings, House members finally approved the Senate version of the bonds bill on a vote of 109-4.
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