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Biofuel plant lacks spark from investors

Published: April 20, 2010
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By Sean Ryan
A risk-averse lending market is stalling one of the few new projects to produce biofuel in Wisconsin.
Ed Waters, founder of Waters New Biotech Inc., for more than a year has tried to line up private financing for construction of an up to $30 million plant in the Port of Milwaukee. The plant would [...]

Biotech firm tries to dock at Milwaukee port

Published: April 21, 2009
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Sean Ryan
sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com
The success of a 64,000-square-foot project at the Port of Milwaukee hinges on how well one CEO can keep a secret.
Ed Waters wants to build a manufacturing plant to convert wood into pellets to be burned as power plant fuel. But, he said, he needs to keep the details of the process, which he [...]

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