September 10, 2009
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The Iowa Power Fund board of directors has approved a two-point-five million dollar loan to Syngest Incorporated for construction of a bioammonia plant near Menlo, Iowa. Once operational, the Syngest plant would be the nation's first facility to make ammonia from corncobs. Groundbreaking is expected in the spring of 2010.
June 15, 2009
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Syngest, the San-Francisco-based firm that proposes to make anhydrous ammonia fuel and fertilizer from corn cobs, will hold two public informational meetings in Guthrie County, Iowa this week.
March 27, 2009
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Syngest Incorporated has selected Menlo, Iowa as the location for the world’s first biomass-to-ammonia plant. Syngest will use a proprietary process to produce anhydrous ammonia fuel and fertilizer from corn cobs. Plans call for production to begin in 2012—and Syngest CEO Jack Oswald says it could be the first of many such plants in the […]
