Cellulosic bio-ethanol is poised to see large scale production for the first time next year. Poet-DSM Advanced Biofuels, LLC, is ready to start construction of a plant in early 2014 that will ...

Reuters reported POET is in talks with Flint Hills Resources to buy all its ethanol assets. The possible deal would increase POET’s production capacity to up to 3 billion gallons a year.

Seifried says corn basis is dropping dramatically and ethanol plants are shutting down. POET, one of the nation’s largest ethanol producers, says it will stop buying corn at some of its facilities.

The ethanol company POET (formerly Broin) is not going to let Mascoma get there without a challenge, and announced this week an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy for the first phase of ...