Private company | |
Traded as | OTC Pink: |
Industry | Biofuels |
Founded | 1981 |
Headquarters | Pekin, Illinois, United States |
Key people
|
Mark Beemer (CEO) |
Products |
Corn ethanol Corn gluten Corn germ |
Website | www.aventinerei.com |
Aventine Renewable Energy is a bioethanol and biodiesel company based in Pekin, Illinois that produces and markets these biofuels.
In 2006, it produced almost 696 million US gallons (2,630,000 m3) of fuel in the United States. It also produces other by-products: corn gluten feed and meal, corn germ, condensed corn distillers solubles, dried distillers grain with solubles, wet distillers grain with solubles, carbon dioxide and brewers' yeast.
The company, which was delisted from the after its stock crashed after initially being listed in 2006, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy on April 8, 2009. It emerged from bankruptcy March 16, 2010.