Comet Biorefining awarded C$10.9M SDTC grant for bio-based chemicals plant
07 March 2016
Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) has awarded Comet Biorefining, Inc. a grant of C$10.9 million (US$8.2 million) for the construction of its advanced bio-based chemicals plant. Located in Sarnia, Ontario, the plant will use proprietary conversion technology to transform corn stover, an agricultural residue, into high-purity dextrose sugar. (Earlier post.)
Comet’s technology enables sugars to be produced cost-competitively with corn or sugarcane-derived dextrose, the conventional raw materials for today’s biochemical production. Comet’s facilities may be built on a small scale that enables flexibility to locate production close to biomass supplies, reducing transportation costs.
As a building block for bio-based solutions replacing petroleum-based products, Comet’s dextrose sugar will help reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions.
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