Green Biologics Signs Deal for Demonstration Plant
ABINGDON, UK – Green Biologics Limited, a UK-based industrial biotechnology company with pilot-scale facilities and offices in Columbus, OH, has announced a collaboration and planned investment in facilities with Easy Energy Systems Inc. (Easy Energy), Welcome, MN. The collaboration will result in the modification of Easy Energy’s ethanol demonstration plant in Emmetsburg, IA, to produce renewable n-butanol and acetone.
In mid-2012, GBL successfully produced butanol and acetone from corn mash at the Emmetsburg facility in Iowa at a 40,000-liter fermentation scale.