Brazil to open first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant by 2011

In Brazil, Sugar Cane Technology Center research leaders said that Brazil would enter the cellulosic ethanol industry at the commercial-scale with a first plant opened as soon as 2011. The proposed plant would use sugar cane bagasse as feedstock. Two cellulosic projects are already at the pilot stage, one owned by CTC and the other by Petrobras.

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