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Fertiliser from Biowaste Gasification Firm Focuses on Florida
Aug. 14, 2012
The company said that the biomass consists of tree trimmings, agricultural waste and woodchips suitable for use as feedstock in the production of urea fertiliser.
Earlier this year, BioNitrogen announced that it had signed a Letter of Intent to construct a fertiliser plant in West Texas.
However, due to a reassessment of both the availability of appropriate biomass and the potential market for urea in the region, the company said that it has decided to postpone any expansion in West Texas and focus its resources and capital in Hardee County, Florida.
According to BioNitrogen Florida is one of the largest producers of tree trimmings and other sustainable biomass that is a year-round feedstock and not subject to severe declines in production due to the changes in weather.
In addition, the rapid and sustained development in Florida has positively impacted the process of producing sustainable sources of biomass, the company said.
One such example cited by BioNitrogen is the growth in the number of golf courses as well as both residential and commercial developments, which have increased the amount of land producing biomass.
The company claimed that the amount of waste biomass being produced in Florida has grown to the point where companies disposing of it are paying large tipping fees to collection centres.
BioNitrogen said that it intends benefit from this by collecting tipping fees for the disposal of the waste.
The land is part of a larger parcel on which BioNitrogen said that it plans to construct a biomass-to-urea production facility.
The land is currently owned by Larry Davis, a partner in Florida Fertilizer Company, and is being leased to BioNitrogen for a period of two years with an automatic two-year renewal provision.
"The biomass, or plant feedstock, is a material cost in our plant business model. In the planned operation being set up in Hardee County we can source the biomass and generate revenues at the same time, on a year-round basis," explained Carlos A. Contreras, president & CEO of BioNitrogen
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