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Executive to Oversee Ethanol Venture
EMMETSBURG, Iowa (AP) - An executive with a Netherlands-based biotechnology company has been asked to lead a joint venture that is building a new type of ethanol plant in northern Iowa.
Royal DSM, based in Delft, the Netherlands, has teamed with Sioux Falls, S.D.,-based Poet to create Poet-DSM Advanced Biofuels. The joint venture is building a plant in Emmetsburg that will make ethanol from corncobs, leaves and husks. It's expected to initially make 20 million gallons of ethanol a year. The technology created to make the so-called "cellulosic" ethanol will be licensed to others in the industry. Steve Hartig, a vice president with DSM, has been named general manager of the joint venture. He will be responsible for the licensing. |
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