In May 2004, SDTC, an arm’s-length foundation created by the Government of Canada, committed up to $6M to support the project led by Whitefox. This commitment is based on the successful completion of milestones as determined in the funding agreement between Whitefox and SDTC.

This latest payment will allow the company to optimize the system further and demonstrate the application of membrane dehydration to various production streams. The new system will be used at the industrial ethanol production facility of Pound-Maker Agventures Ltd in Lanigan, Saskatchewan which received $8.4 million in 2009 from the Government of Canada’s ecoENERGY for Biofuels program.

Whitefox Technologies’ modular technology can be scaled from small integrated systems of around 1 million liters (264,000 gallons US) per year to large ethanol facilities with 100s of millions of liters of output per year. The container-based approach provides the industry with efficient and standardized systems for small- to medium-scale operations, for existing producers as well as new build plants.

In April, Sermatec Indústria e Montagens Ltda (Sermatec), Proeng Enghenaria (Proeng) and Whitefox signed a Memorandum of Understanding, with the intention to form a consortium in Brazil for the introduction of Whitefox’s membrane-based ethanol production process to the market.