KUALA LUMPUR (Yosefardi) – NextFuels, a pioneer in transforming agricultural residue into biofuels, is actively narrowing the search for a site for its initial pilot plant to Southeast Asia.
The pilot plant will demonstrate how NextFuels can economically produce transportation and industrial fuels from wet, unprocessed agricultural waste from palm oil plantations.
NextFuels is currently examining sites in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. The company has begun development of the pilot plant in the Netherlands and will ship it to the site in Southeast Asia in 2014.
NextFuels will operate the pilot plant in conjunction with strategic partners in the coming year. After the demonstration run of the pilot plant, NextFuels will begin commercial development and deployment in the Southeast Asia region. NextFuels anticipates it will break ground on commercial-scale modules within two to three years.
To manage operations in Southeast Asia, NextFuels has opened an office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.