Central Iowa is home to the first industrial scale renewable natural gas facility in the U.S. to use agricultural residues as feedstock.
CEO Claus Sauter calls the Verbio Nevada Biorefinery a game changer.
“Our upstream is the global agriculture market. We are able to transform everything that global agriculture is able to supply into biomass molecules.”
During a grand opening celebration Friday that featured Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds and several members of Congress, the head of the German-based company said the Verbio plant will process 100,000 tons of corn stover annually procured from farmers within a 50 to 75-mile radius.
