A new plant, a new vision
On November 6, 2007 Range Fuels broke ground on our first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant near Soperton, Georgia. This plant will be the first in the United States to produce commercial quantities of ethanol from biomass, which includes all plant and plant-derived material, such as wood, grasses, and corn stover.

The Soperton Plant will initially use wood from nearby timber operations and leftover wood residue over time. Construction on the first phase of the plant is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2009, with the production of ethanol and methanol at a run rate of less than 10 million gallons per year to follow in 2010. At full-scale, the Soperton Plant is permitted to produce over 100 million gallons of ethanol and methanol each year.

The plant will employ Range Fuels’ innovative and proprietary two-step thermo-chemical process, K2, which uses heat, pressure, and steam to convert biomass into synthesis gas or syngas. The syngas is then passed over our proprietary catalyst and transformed into ethanol that’s suitable for blending with gasoline to fuel vehicles.

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