LQM Innovation
A Biofuel Market Strategy
A Biofuel Market Strategy
Click on the thumb below to see a side-by-side comparison of LQM's more efficient Short-haul process and the typical midwest ethanol plant.
Since the future of biofuels will depend deeply on profitability, LQM has a strategy in place to manage all the interrelated factors. Learn More...
The centerpiece of LQM’s philosophy is the belief that bioenergy can revive depressed rural economies. Learn More
Fueling the Future
LQM approaches the challenge of bringing better biofuels to market by asking the customer first. The Short-haul ethanol™ business model is a biofuels market innovation. It is the industry’s first attempt to actually meet the customer’s needs.
LQM’s innovation lies in its ability to solve a marketplace problem - in this case, produce a sustainable renewable fuel that can easily be used as a gasoline blendstock meeting fuel specification requirements, and still provides a hi-protein feed co-product for our feed customers.
The LQM competitive advantage lies in maximizing the utilization of existing infrastructure at every level, from production (LQM ethanol facility, to existing efficient feedstocks), to distribution (trucks, pipelines and troughs), to consumption (blending terminals and feed rations).
In the near future, LQM is adding Short-haul butanol™ to its product mix. Bio-butanol, with its clear advantages over ethanol with respect to fuel specifications, precisely fits this vision for a sustainable future to prosper beyond ethanol.
To maintain its competitiveness, LQM has enacted an advanced biofuel commercialization strategy to accomodate the development of cellulosic-based biofuels in its production profile. Measuring success against sustainability, as well as profitability, the LQM advanced biofuel commercialization strategy aims to improve the biofuel gallons per acre yield, another measure of competitiveness and environmental sustainability.
