BDC Symposium Held in Ottawa With Ensyn Facility Tour

OTTAWA, ONTARIO -- (Marketwired) -- 10/06/15 -- The Biorenewable Deployment Consortium (BDC) Fall Symposium was held in Ottawa, Ontario on September 29-30 and was combined with a site visit to Ensyn's production facility in Renfrew, just outside of Ottawa. The Symposium had record attendance, including a diverse group of international members and guests. Discussions included updates from leading cellulosic bioproducts companies as well as presentations from relevant Canadian and US Government agencies. Highlights included:

--  Keynote by Jonathan Male, Director of Bioenergy Technologies for US DOE
    regarding opportunities in a changing energy landscape.

--  Presentation by Otavio Pontes, Vice President, Latin America Division of
    Stora Enso Biomaterials on extracting additional value from Biomass.

--  Panel on Regulatory Pathways, which included Paul Argyropoulos, Senior
    Policy Adviser, EPA, Todd Campbell, Energy & Bioeconomy Policy Advisor,
    USDA, Elliot Levine, Technology Manager, US DOE, Jean-Francois
    Levasseur, IFIT Program Leader, Natural Resources Canada, and private
    industry representatives.

--  Commercial Progress updates provided by Licella (Commercial Project to
    convert biomass and lignite to bio-crude oil and chemicals in Australia
    and working toward a North American commercial project),
    Borregaard/LignoTech (Lignin Joint Venture planned for North America),
    West Fraser (Start-up of LignoForce lignin extraction plant in Hinton,
    AB), Green Biologics (Repurposing Minnesota ethanol plant to n-butanol),
    TRI/Fulcrum (MSW to jet fuel project in Nevada), and Ensyn (Commercial
    plant in Renfrew, Ontario and new projects in Brazil, Canada and the
    US).

--  Success Story by Dr. Robert Graham, CEO and founder of Ensyn, who had
    the vision in 1984 to establish Ensyn with a specific focus on the
    production of high value products through fast thermal conversion of
    carbon-based feedstocks. Dr. Graham presented the history of Ensyn,
    starting from the theoretical foundation of Ensyn's Rapid Thermal
    Processing (RTP�) technology, through the early commercialization of
    the technology in food chemicals and heating fuels and to the current
    build out of production capacity for a broader commercialization of
    heating fuels and for the introduction of refinery coprocessing. With
    over 40 million gallons of historical production, Ensyn is now embarking
    on an ambitious buildout of capacity for the fuels business, starting
    with its existing 3 million gallon/year facility in Renfrew, Ontario,
    with new commercial projects under development in Brazil and North
    America. Ensyn has approved existing pathways under the RFS program for
    heating and refinery coprocessing applications for its key product known
    as RFO. Ensyn is currently generating RINs from commercial RFO heating
    contracts in Northeastern US. Ensyn is executing its business plan by
    working closely with several industry leaders including Honeywell UOP,
    Fibria Celulose and Chevron Technology Ventures.

--  Tour of the 3 million gallon/year Ensyn facility in Renfrew. This
    commercial facility was commissioned in 2006 as a merchant plant for the
    chemicals and heating fuels business and was enhanced in 2014 as a
    dedicated fuels production facility to meet market demand for heating
    oil in Northeast United States and Canada and for commercialization of
    refinery applications.

BDC's mission is to help deploy economic bioprocesses; operations that will be economic without government subsidy long-term. In addition to its efforts to broker partnerships for deployment projects, BDC holds two symposiums each year to provide education in areas that its membership has interest and includes a related tour of a leading edge bio-facility. BDC's membership is made up of Forestry companies, Pulp and Paper Companies, and Bioprocess Companies, and is well attended by government agencies (see members). The diverse make-up of the membership and environment of the meetings lead to good and honest discussion that is helpful in accelerating the bio-industry progress.

BDC is thankful to Ensyn, who hosted the tour for the BDC membership. The success of the meeting is due to a combination of the mission of the organization, the make-up and participation of the membership and guests, and the ingenuity and progress of the entrepreneurial management teams in the up and coming bio-industry.

Contacts:
BDC Contacts:
(804) 743-3105
[email protected]

(870) 501-1836
[email protected]

Ensyn Contact:
Ian Barnett
EVP
(647) 203-6588
[email protected]

Source: Ensyn Corporation and Biorenewable Deployment Consortium

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