Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Ethanol, GM

The two ethanol companies that GM has invested in, Coskata and Mascoma, must be making the automaker proud and frustrated this week, as they have very different news to report. Coskata’s got some potentially good news: U.S. Sugar might be the next to try and commercialize the plasma/gassification ethanol production process with a plant in Florida. The Florida plant makes sense for U.S. Sugar because the company can use leftover sugar cane material to make the biofuel and because Florida has set its own ethanol mandate. Coskata already has a pilot plant agreement with the Westinghouse Plasma Center and another commercial partner in ICM.

Meanwhile, over at Mascoma, the news is a bit less positive: CNET is reporting that the company is “shedding staff,” which in a small company like Mascoma means between 5 and 10 positions are now history.

[Source: Coskata, CNET]

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