Posted on 05/11/2008 6:21:38 AM PDT by Kevin J waldroup
Isanti has gained state-wide attention for its Ever Cat Fuels biodiesel facility project.
Mayor George Wimmer announced Isanti won the Economic Development Association of Minnesota Business Recruitment award during the May 6 Isanti City Council meeting.
Community Development Director Carla Vita said the business recruitment award is presented annually by EDAM, who received two to three times the amount of normal submissions.
The city was notified it had won the award May 1 and will be presented the honor during a ceremony June 18, held during EDAM’s summer conference at Ruttger’s Bay Lodge in Deerwood, Minn.
“This is a great opportunity for the city ... and a great testimony to what we do well in the city,” Wimmer said. “I would like to thank Ms. Vita, city staff and Landmark Community Bank for all their hard work on this project.”
Ever Cat Fuels, who has a facility in Anoka, is building a production facility in Isanti that will be located on the northwest corner of the intersection of Isanti Parkway East and East Dual Blvd.
The Isanti facility will be the first of its kind using the revolutionary “Mcgyan Process,” named after inventors Dr. McNeff, Dr. Arlin Gyberg of Augsburg College and Dr. Bingwen Yan.
The Mcgyan Process is a new way to produce biodiesel in a fixed bed flow-through reactor that could change how the industry produces this renewable fuel. This technology was initially developed at the University of Minnesota by Dr. Peter Carr for separation science and then conceived of for biodiesel catalysis by Dr. Gyberg and Dr. McNeff.
The key to this new technology is a highly efficient, heterogeneous metal oxide-based catalyst reactor that efficiently and economically coverts feedstock plant oils and animal fats to biodiesel.
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