MIAMI, FL (Mar 11, 2014) – Biofuels Digest, the most circulated trade publication covering the global bioeconomy, today reported on Applied Biorefinery Sciences in their 5-Minute Guide segment.  The publisher’s 5-Minute Guides are intended to provide their readership with information about leading companies in a condensed format.  Described as “news you can use,” each 5-Minute Guide provides an overview of the profiled company, recent milestones, and description of their business model and their competitive edge.

Applied Biorefinery Sciences is a developer of biorefinery technologies headquartered in Syracuse, NY.  Unique to the company’s process design is co-production of intermediary chemicals and 5- and 6-carbon sugars with chemically-modified wood fibers that have enhanced properties for use in combustion, paper making, and the manufacture of fiberboard.  Generating revenue from the sale of goods to different industries lowers the company’s financial risk from unstable market price of any individual product, and substantially increases the overall value proposition.

Having also named Applied Biorefinery Science CTO Dr. Thomas Amidon to their list of the Top 300 Most Influential People in the Bioeconomy earlier this year, Biofuels Digest editors view the company’s innovative biorefinery process technology to have considerable merit.  Each commercial biorefinery is expected to generate hundreds of millions of dollars of economic activity over its lifetime and increase environmental sustainability by producing a range of goods that derive from renewable sources of biomass in place of current production from fossil fuels.

Major milestones achieved by Applied Biorefinery Sciences since 2010 include patent issuances, state economic development grants to construct a demonstration biorefinery in the Adirondacks capable of processing 3 dry tons per day of forest residuals, and state R&D grants to study the use of biorefinery technology to reduce electrical energy consumption in the production of wood fuel pellets.

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SYRACUSE, NY (Feb 4, 2014) – Dr. Thomas E. Amidon has been designated one of the top 300 most influential people in the bioeconomy, as selected by editors of the field’s most widely distributed trade publication, Biofuels Digest.  The bioeconomy is a reference to the use of biological material, such as trees, plants, algae, and municipal solid waste, as the basis for creating energy and other commercial goods.

In being honored with this distinction, Dr. Amidon joins the ranks shared by Tom Vilsack, the US Secretary of Agriculture; Ernest Moniz, the US Secretary of Energy; and a group of CEOs from around the world whose companies are leading the next-generation development of renewable energy and sustainable products.  Dr. Amidon was also recently presented with the SUNY College of Environmental Sciences & Forestry’s “Exemplary Researcher Award” for his work at the university where he is a professor and former department chair.

Dr. Amidon will address leading members of the paper and pulp industry at a conference later this year in Helsinki, Finland.  In his keynote address, Dr. Amidon will discuss the prospect of using wood and other non-food plants as a raw material to produce a range of everyday products, such as gasoline and plastic bottles, which are currently made from crude oil.  Known as biorefining, this process creates sustainable products to serve the world’s growing population without putting additional strain on natural resources, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the lifecycle of consumer goods.  Dr. Amidon co-founded Applied Biorefinery Sciences which seeks to commercialize this technology in Upstate New York and other forested regions, creating dozens of permanent, non-exportable jobs in rural communities across America.

Applied Biorefinery Sciences is a developer of biorefinery process technologies headquartered in Syracuse, NY.  Empire State Development recently awarded the company $881,960 toward the construction of a facility to commercially demonstrate their biorefining innovations in Lewis County, NY.

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Dr. Thomas Amidon, CTO and co-founder of Applied Biorefinery Sciences, has been award the Exemplary Researcher Award by the State University of New York College of Environmental Sciences & Forestry, where he is a professor in the Faculty of Paper & Bioprocess Engineering.

The category for which Dr. Amidon was nominated, Outstanding Career Achievement, recognizes outstanding career achievements in research activity, who have had a professional career of more than 16 years, and who have been employed by ESF for a minimum of 5 years.  Selection criteria include documented evidence of outstanding research accomplishments and impact of their work on their discipline; outstanding national and international recognition in the academic community; evidence of a substantial positive impact of research mentorship through undergraduate students, graduate students, and/or postdoctoral associates.

Dr. Amidon’s career at ESF since 2000 has been truly exceptional.  There, he has led efforts in biorefinery research, and is recognized globally for his development of the hot water pre-extraction process for lignocellulosic biomass.  A few key indicators of his prominence in this field are the steady stream of invitations to give keynote or plenary lectures, chair important conferences, and invitations to collaborate with renowned leaders from national laboratories and leading academic institutions around the world.  He has been the principal investigator for a number of large research grants from the US Department of Energy, and most recently, from the highly competitive National Science Foundation.  Dr. Amidon has authored or co-authored over 60 publications.

Receiving the award, Prof. Amidon spoke to an engaged audience of university academics about the issues involved in biorefineries and factors affecting its applicability and economic impact.  The current applications for biorefinery systems in the world are heavily oriented towards agricultural products and residual biomass.  Dr Amidon suggests that the next major step, forest-based biorefineries, will be of high interest based on the amount of publications and relatively high profile corporate efforts -- yet few purpose-built applications exist.  A significant amount of customization will be necessary for each forested region in the US and the world if forest biorefinery applications are to be as productive and profitable as is necessary for rapid growth.  The gap between research results and commercial applications is not easily crossed and will lead to somewhat erratic results over the next 5+ years as the most economic approaches and most practical commercial procedures clarify.

The range of commercial applications that will be developed from forest and agricultural biomass residue is significantly larger than is commonly understood.  This will lead to a significant number of applications from a fairly modest scale (400 dry tons per day) to large scale (over 4,000 dry tons per day).  New York State and the Northeast US are well positioned to participate in the evolution of forest biorefineries because of its unique species composition, product markets, skilled labor pool, cultural background of sustainable forestry and a leadership position in biomass willow planting.

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