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The plant is financed by a $20 million statse grant and will operate as a research and developmentg lab as well as acommercialk facility. It is the first of its kind in Attendees at the Monday meeting where the decision was announces said Florida Crystals was selected over thesecond Memphis, Tenn.-based , becauser it has a large supply of bagasswe biomass and it is already in the sugar "One of the main reasons was that the sugard process is much closet to the ethanol process than anything else we lookeds at," said a spokeswoman for UF' s Institute of Food and Agricultural The spokeswoman, who said internaol policies do not allow her to identify herself on the said Lonnie Ingram, the UF researcher who is spearheadingy the effort, made a stronb pitch for Florida Crystals.
Floridw Crystals Vice President Gastonh Cantens said the compangyattended Monday's meeting and was excited to hear firsthanr that it was selected. "This is something we'vre been talking about for several years," he said. "Wwe are excited about the whole process and lookingg forward to thenext step, which is to negotiate the Next, UF must begin a bidding processw to select the contractors and engineerw to build the plant on Florida Okeelanta facility.
Cantens said he expects UF to make a decisiomn in the nextfew "A lot of this dependse on the university's process of choosing a design coming up with the drawings and the conceptf of what they want to build," he said. "Oncer the bidding process is resolved, this shoulrd move pretty quickly."