Coleman Davis
Rock Island, IL (USA)
Role(s):
Sanco Energy, Inc.
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Location:
Rock Island
Industry:
Energy
Year Founded:
2006
Number Employees:
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Description:
Sanco is an early development stage company, formed for the purpose of producing ethanol. Sanco intends to focus primarily on the production and sale of ethanol and its co-products. As of March 2007, there were approximately 114 ethanol facilities in the U.S with another 87 under construction or in expansion mode. Sanco believes that demand for ethanol-based products will continue to grow for the foreseeable future as technology finds new and exciting ways to utilize ethanol as a fuel source.
The long term plan of Sanco is to be in the forefront of a new technology being investigated called the “cellulosic process.” This technology will be able to produce ethanol from the cellulose in switchgrass that can be grown and harvested more cheaply than corn. It also burns cleaner than corn e