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LAIC Venture Capital announces a Joint Venture for a Bioenergy venture in the Phillipines

January 25, 2011

Steve Muehler, President of LAIC Venture Capital, announced today a new investment for a new "Jatropha"Biofuels venture in the Phillipines.

The project will be engaged in jatropha production and biodiesel processing venture in the Sierra Madre Mountain Range of the Philippines. The target aggregate plantation area is 110,000 hectares divided into clusters of 10,000 hectares per clsuter. The total biodiesel annual production at peak capacity is 18 million liters per cluster or 198 million liters for the aggregate area. Through contract production arrangement with farmers who are farming lands in marginally productive areas in the Sierra Madre Mountain part of the provinces of Cagayan, Isabela, Nueva Vizcaya, Qurino, Nueva Ecija, and Quezon on Luzon Island in in the Philippines, jatropha plantation will be organized and placed under the integrated production and processing arrangement. The biodiesel processing facilities will be centralized for every 10,000 hectares. The jatropha seeds harvested by farmers will be collected from the farmer cooperators and will be processed. The biodiesel will make use of the most modern processing technology that is very cost efficient. The biodiesel then will be sold to gas distributors. The residue in oil extraction will be also converted into synthetic gas will then be converted into alcohol fuel blen and LPG like materials with known commercial application in the Philippines. On this basis, more than 50 percent of the jatropha seed by weight will be converted into biofuels. Decentralized plant is preferred over a large single plant for a number of reasons and among these is the immediate establishment of a plant to attract farmers to cooperate, the present available technology on biodiesel processing that ensures distinct economical advantages of a decentralized plant, and for a more sustained operations in the event of major plant breakdown.

Steve Muehler, President of LAIC Venture Capital said, "Positive net income will start to be realized by the third year of the project. By the 7th year of the project, net income after tax should be in the 131 million dollar range, which will increase to 154 million dollar range starting the 10th year.

For More Information:

LAIC Venture Capital
Steven J. Muehler, President
9107 Wilshire Blvd., Unit 450
Beverly Hills, California 90210
Steve@LAICVenCap.com
http://www.LAICVenCap.com

Source: http://www.1888pressrelease.com/laic-venture-capital-announces-a-joint-venture-for-a-bioener-pr-273616.html
 
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