HCL CLEANTECH - PRESS RELEASES

These are the recent press releases from HCL Cleantech. Click the links below to read the full release.

Burrill & Company and Khosla Ventures Invest in HCL CleanTech’s Technology for Converting Cellulosic Materials into Low Cost Fermentable Sugars - Enabling Biofuels and other Bioproducts

San Francisco/Tel-Aviv May 27th, 2009,  - US Venture Capital funds Burrill & Company and Khosla Ventures have invested in HCL CleanTech (www.hclcleantech.com),  a US company and its Israeli subsidiary founded by Prof. Avram Baniel, Prof. Ari Eyal and Eran Baniel. HCL CleanTech has developed a proprietary technology to make an old, industrially proven German process converting lignocellulosic biomass to fermentable sugars economically very attractive. It is these fermentable sugars which are considered the gateway to advanced biofuels (biobutanols, biodiesel, jet fuel etc) and biochemicals (bioplastics etc). Modern chemical technology makes the implementation straightforward and immediate.

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Innovative HCL Recovery Process Revolutionizes the 1930 Bergius Technology for Converting Cellulosic Materials into Fermentable Sugars - Enabling Ethanol for Less Than US$1/Gallon

TEL-AVIV, Israel, June 11, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- HCL CleanTech (http://www.hclcleantech.com), an Israeli company co founded by Prof. Avram Baniel and Prof. Ari Eyal has developed a proprietary full HCL recovery process, which makes an old, industrially-proven German Cellulosic to fermentable sugars and Ethanol process economically very attractive. The new technology can also "clean" and improve other HCL dependant industries. Modern Chemical technology makes the implementation straightforward and immediate.

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