The Future

Rentech Energy Midwest Corporation ("REMC") is an ammonia nitrogen fertilizer facility located in East Dubuque, Illinois. The facility produces approximately 830 tons per day of natural gas-fed ammonia nitrogen fertilizer products that are sold to the surrounding agricultural community. Rentech will evaluate economic and public policy factors to determine the feasibility of converting REMC's feedstock from natural gas to coal using gasification technology and then using the excess capacity in those gasifiers to run a commercial scale Rentech reactor.

Rentech plans to build a biomass energy technology center at REMC. The proposed center would focus on the development and production of advanced bio-fuels and bio-fertilizer and is expected to include the installation of biomass gasification technologies at the REMC site.