• "...the bulk of new biofuel production needs to come from advanced biofuels (algae, cellulosic)."

    The International Energy Association
    April 2011
  • "The Saudi assistant petroleum minister had expressed concern that Saudis could be "greened out" of the U.S. fuel market by biofuels like ethanol."

    James Smith
    U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 2010.
  • "...this legislation would also ensure progress made to commercialize advanced ethanol technologies utilizing new feedstocks... is accelerated."

    The American Coalition for Ethanol, Growth Energy, the National Corn Growers Association, and the Renewable Fuels Association
    May 2011
  • "...what would happen to US gasoline prices if ethanol production came to an immediate halt. Under a very wide range of parameters, the estimated gasoline price increase would be of historic proportions, ranging from 41% to 92%."

    Center for Agricultural and Rural Development Iowa State University
    April 2011
  • "Another substitute for oil that holds tremendous promise is renewable biofuels...made from things like switchgrass, wood chips, and biomass."

    President Obama
    March 2011
  • "I'm a big supporter of biofuels. But one of the things that's become clear is, is that we need to accelerate our basic research in ethanol and other biofuels that are made from things like woodchips..."

    President Obama
    July 2011

Demonstration Plant

Woodland's demonstration plant will be an integrated end-to-end biomass-to-ethanol operation. The plant will be located in Sarnia, Ontario at the Bio Industrial Innovation Centre, with construction to be completed in the 3rd quarter of 2012.  The demonstration plant will be operated in order to achieve a number of objectives:

  • Collect data confirming the targeted operating metrics;
  • Test various forms of feedstock; and
  • Optimize the plant configuration for the purposes of commerical plant operations.



Woodland is working alongside Zeton Inc., as our engineering and construction partner for the plant. Zeton is widely regarded as the world's leading pilot/demonstration plant engineering firm.  Fabrication of the plant will be undertaken in modular form, and was designed in a manner that will provide logical scaling, from both an engineering and economic perspective, to our commercial plants.