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Up Close - Green, Sustainable NW - September 13, 2012
New biorefineries envisioned to take soybeans to next level
Scientists hope technology will greatly boost products made from the food crop

Newswise

The corn industry produces almost 4,000 products from every bushel. Oil refineries produce fuels and ingredients for an estimated 6,000 products with a thoroughness that actually squeezes 44 gallons of products from every 42-gallon barrel of crude.

Scientists last month unveiled new technology intended to move soybeans, second only to corn as the top food crop in the U.S., along that same use-to-all path as a raw material for a wider portfolio of products. They described it-a new i...


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