ICM debuts process to extract more human food from ethanol production; to retrofit its 73 plants

In Missouri, ICM has debuted a new process to extract more food for human consumption from the ethanol conversion process that uses field corn used for livestock. The process, called Total Kernel Optimization, provids a higher yield in separating oil and protein during conversion, which is used for human consumption in corn syrup and corn oil, while the starch is used for ethanol and the remaining fiber is burned for power generation. ICM said that it will retrofit nine ethanol plants per year commencing in 2009, out of its portfolio of 73 plants in operation and 26 in construction.

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