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4 minutes with…Basil Karampelas, President, American Process

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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  We’ve developed 2 proprietary biorefinery technologies producing low-cost cellulosic sugars from non-food based biomass. Our Green Power+ technology produces low-cost cellulosic sugars from the hemicelluloses. AVAP technology produces cellulosic sugars from cellulose and hemicelluloses. Our GP+ demo is in Alpena, MI; our AVAP demo is in Georgia. … European offices in Athens, Greece and Cluj, Romania.

I believe that in order for the industry to be viable, there must be multiple successful companies collaborating with end-users to produce biofuels, biomaterials and bio-based chemicals at or near the capacity for their facilities. If we have only one or two successful companies in our space, we’€™ll just have another business school case study!

As a second wish, I would love to see more educated investors in the space who understand the 1) timeline and 2) the capital requirements for these types of projects.

Theodora (Retsina) has a “never give up and don’€™t take no for an answer”€ attitude that permeates our organization.  READ MORE


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