Xethanol, Forest Products Laboratory to Develop Xylitol Process

Xethanol Corporation (OTCBB:XTHN – News) goal is to be the leader in the emerging biomass-to-ethanol industry by optimizing the use of biomass in the renewable energy field and convert biomass that is currently being abandoned or land filled into ethanol and other valuable co-products, especially xylitol. Xethanol’s strategy is to deploy proprietary biotechnologies that will extract and ferment the sugars trapped in these biomass waste concentrations. Today they announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Xylose Technologies, Inc. (XTI), has finalized a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin.
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