Arbitrators award POET $7.5 million in dispute against Andritz over pre-treatment design

In South Dakota, the Argus Leader newspaper reports that an arbitration panel has unanimously agreed that Andritz should pay POET $7.5 million for failing to design a pre-treatment system for its Project Liberty facility in Emmetsburg, Iowa that would economically prepare feedstock such as corn cobs for feedstock in cellulosic ethanol production at scale. POET filed suit against Andritz in 2017 after the $275 million plant opened in 2014. POET hired Andritz to design the system in 2010.