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Enerkem Starts Plant, Raises More Funds

by Melody M. Bomgardner
September 14, 2015 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 93, Issue 36

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Enerkem has opened this waste-based methanol plant in Edmonton.
A photo of a chemical plant.
Credit: Enerkem
Enerkem has opened this waste-based methanol plant in Edmonton.

Enerkem, a waste-to-chemicals firm based in Montreal, has started up its first commercial-scale biofuel facility. The plant, in Edmonton, Alberta, takes in nonrecyclable household waste from the city of Edmonton and uses gasification and catalytic synthesis to convert it to methanol. In the future, the company says, it will install equipment to make ethanol and biobased chemicals. To finance those projects, the company has raised $116 million from private lenders.

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