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The next phase, adding refinery equipment to produce cellulosic ethanol, a biofuel, should be complete this summer. The company expects the demonstration plant to produce 250000 gallons of biofuels per year by 2013. Its construction is funded in part ...

Both of these loan guarantees are via the Biorefinery Assistance Program, the same Farm Bill-funded program that backed failed cellulosic ethanol company Range Fuels. Despite failures like Range Fuels, the federal government hasn't backed away from the ...

BOARDMAN, ORE. -- A Colorado biofuel company received a federal loan guarantee to finance a commercial refinery in Boardman.

BOARDMAN, Ore. -- The federal government said Thursday it would guarantee a large share of the financing for an eastern Oregon plant that would turn poplar trees and agricultural waste into ethanol.

BIO also applauds the USDA's continued commitment to helping advanced biofuel companies raise the capital necessary to build biorefineries, create jobs, and contribute to America's energy security. BIO President & CEO Jim Greenwood stated, ...

The “bookends” project enabling the production of cellulosic ethanol will be complete in 2012. The company is now actively developing commercial-scale biorefineries for the production of advanced biofuels and bio-based chemicals.

"This project, and others like it, will help establish a domestic advanced biofuel industry that will create jobs here at home and open new markets in the Pacific Northwest and across America," he said. ZeaChem president and chief executive Jim Imbler ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday announced conditional approval for a $232.5 million loan guarantee to Zeachem Boardman Biorefinery to help finance a 25 million gallon-a-year plant in Oregon to turn that turns cellulose into ethanol fuel and chemicals.

Leading biofuel company ZeaChem Inc. today announced a conditional commitment for a $232.5 million loan guarantee from the US Department of Agriculture to support the construction of a major facility in Oregon. The Colorado-based company's first ...

Financed in part with a $235 million loan guarantee from the US Department of Agriculture announced today, ZeaChem plans a $390 million biofuel refinery in Boardman capable of producing up to 25 million gallons of ethanol per year.

The federal government said Thursday it would guarantee a large share of the financing for an eastern Oregon plant that would turn poplar trees and agricultural waste into ethanol.

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- ZeaChem Inc., a privately-held biofuel company that has drawn an investment from Valero Energy Corp. , said Thursday it won a conditional commitment for a $232 million loan to build its first commercial-scale biofinery to turn wood and biomass into fuel. The Lakewood, Colo., company said it was selected for a potential loan guarantee under the U

(AP) — A Colorado company is getting a $235 million federal loan guarantee for a northeast Oregon plant that would turn poplar trees and agricultural waste into ethanol. The financing announced Thursday is for ZeaChem Inc., which plans to produce 25 ...

Poet and DSM this week announced they would invest $250 million, split equally, in constructing 'Project Liberty' – a facility in Emmetsburg, Iowa that is set to produce 20 million gallons a year of ethanol from corn waste, starting in the second half ...