Read the full Article here: A Watsonville company best known for converting crop by-products into clean-burning fuel has gone global.
Since its return to its Watsonville headquarters, Blume has been hosting client delegations meetings from around the world including the current visit with the Antonio Rapiman Cooperativa located in Perquenco, Araucania, Chile.
The Rapiman Cooperativa is an apple growing operation in southern Chile that produces apple’s and juice products as well as refined peppermint oil it sells to a Seattle Washington Pharmaceutical company.
Blume and Rapiman signed an LOI for a plant sale and operational partnership for an initial 4 million liter a year (1.2 million gallons) Biorefinery and the companies are in process of finalizing the next step Process Flow Site Feasibility (PFSF) deposit agreement that will provide final data for the plant business case required to complete project financing requirements and to get the plant manufacturing under way. see the article below for more details.
Blume is also in process of closing a plant project sale in Watsonville for a Biorefinery operation to provide area greenhouse growers with essential inputs for improved growing and lowered operational overheads. These products include pharmaceutical alcohol (used for plant extractions and the processing of tinctures and tonics) as well as the State of California required food grade CO2 that ensures a safe and clean crop growing environment in greenhouse cultivation.
Blume is working to complete sales domestically, in China as well as in South and Central America. The Company will be heading back to Chile once it receives the PFSF engineering deposit. Blume expects that engineering trip will be followed by a next PFSF study in South Africa. That work will commence once the deposit payment is made initiating the work in the Kwa-Zulu Natal province of South Africa with its client eThala.
More exciting development are under way. and Following is detail on the Blume/Rapiman meetings.
Read the full Article here: A Watsonville company best known for converting crop by-products into clean-burning fuel has gone global.
