SYNTEC
ANNOUNCES HAVING RAISED THE FIRST US$1 MILLION UNDER A PRIVATE
PLACEMENT OFFERING WHICH FINALIZES THE ACQUISITION OF THE
ETHANOL CATALYST TECHNOLOGY
Vancouver
Canada. October 24th 2007 - Syntec Biofuel Inc. (Symbol - SYBF)
today announced that it has received subscription agreements for
$1,025,000 from Wood Energy Resources LLC. As the September 28th
2007 Acquisition Agreement was conditional upon the Company
raising a minimum of $500,000 by December 31st 2007, the
subjects have now been removed and the Acquisition has been
finalized. The Assets acquired include the Intellectual Property
and Ethanol Catalyst Technology which has been developed to
convert biogas and syngas (from Biomass) into ethanol, butanol,
methanol and propanol.
Syntec has established that as their current yield of alcohol
per ton of biomass (wood waste, organic waste, corn stover,
sugar bagasse, switch grass, poplar etc) is economically viable
to certain producers, they are now ready to start testing their
catalysts in an industrial environment in order to quantify the
life of the catalysts prior to commercialization. Syntec's
development team under the direction of Dr. Caili Su will be
working in parallel on improving yield to achieve their target
of 113 gpt. The variable cost per gallon alcohol on current
yield is $0.48c per gallon which is expected to shrink to $0.37c
per gallon on reaching the targeted yield.
The US currently uses 140 Billion gallons of fuel a year. Ethanol
mandated at 10% will increase ethanol demand to 14 billion gpy
from current 5 billion gpy. This presents a huge opportunity for
the Ethanol industry and for Syntec in particular. Syntec's
revenue model will be based on Joint Venture projects, licensing
fee for use of the Syntec technology and a royalty of
approximately 7.5 cents per gallon of alcohol produced plus a
commission on the sale of catalysts to licensees.
There are a number of companies working on 2nd generation
cellulosic ethanol production from wood and agricultural waste.
However most of these companies are still using a fermentation
process to convert the wood sugars to ethanol. Syntec's
technology is based on thermo-chemical conversion of syngas,
produced by gasifying biomass, and passing the gas over the
catalysts in a fixed bed reactor. This process is similar to
producing methanol which is an established and well known
technology.
Michael Jackson,
President of Syntec Biofuel Inc, says, “ The industry recognizes
that production of corn to ethanol has a negative impact on
consumer food prices and farm land while cellulosic conversion
of waste products are going to spawn the next generation of
growth in the Ethanol industry. With oil prices now exceeding
$80 a barrel the use of ethanol as a fuel additive is currently
one of the few options available to reduce our reliance on
imported oil."
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