GTL Resources, QTI, ink pact for hybrid fractionation technology for corn

In Illinois, GTL Resources (owner of Illinois River Energy) has signed a partnership with Quality Technology International to collaborate on a new hybrid fractionation technology for corn, dubbed “NextGen Frac.”

The technology stands to save large amounts of money as it solves the serious starch loss and co-product purity problems of current standalone dry fractionation technologies without using whole kernel wet milling. The partnership will developing an automated, three thousand bushels-per-day demonstration facility.

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