FAQs

What is so unique about Nasamax’s technologies in relation to its competitors?

Nasamax is the very first international vertically integrated producer of ethanol. Because Nasamax grows and controls its own feedstock it has a guaranteed supply of raw material. Nasamax employs proprietary agronomy techniques which result in 2.5 to 3 crops per year. The resulting yields are far in excess of our competitors who typically obtain but one crop annually.

Both the Nasamax growing process and its process for converting biomass to ethanol are protected by patents. The conversion process is unique, highly efficient, and cost effective. Unlike competitive processes, it does not consume massive quantities of expensive fossil energy, nor does it make any noticeable contribution to air and water pollution. The Nasamax process produces very low emissions and pollution. Therefore, costs for emission control and water purification are negligible compared to normal ethanol production methods.

A significant environmental benefit of the Nasamax process is the dramatic reduction in carbon dioxide released. This makes Nasamax ethanol the best ethanol choice for environmental protection.

Is Nasamax Limited related to Team Nasamax Racing?

Yes. In 2004 Team Nasamax was created to demonstrate the huge potential for bio-fuels in the automotive industry. Using 100% bio-ethanol fuel, Nasamax led the way for renewable fuel use in international motorsport.

The Nasamax ethanol prototype was not only the world’s first car to enter and complete the 24 hours of Le Mans using a renewable fuel but also was the fastest car of all on the famous Mulsanne straight every lap, and had the most powerful engine in the 50 strong field, proving that you do not have to be slow to be 'green'.

For more information on Team Nasamax, click here.

What is Biomass?

Biomass is organic matter that can be processed into energy for heat, liquid fuels or power generation. Sources of biomass include wood, plants, agricultural residues, animal waste, and the organic components of municipal and industrial wastes.

Where are the strategic plantation opportunities and what size are they?

Nasamax has already identified in excess of 262,000 hectares (650,000 acres) of land which is available for our purpose. All these sites meet Nasamax’s exacting standards (temperature, sunlight percentage and intensity, water quality and availability, etc.) to assure maximum plant growth. They also meet Nasamax’s requirements for political and economic stability, manpower availability, suitable infrastructure, transportation access, etc.

For competitive reasons exact locations cannot be revealed. However, areas already examined are in ten (10) countries on four (4) different continents. Negotiations for acquisition of several of these sites are currently in advanced stages.

Nasamax intends to maintain a broad geographical diversification for its own plantation locations and those of licensees. This is intentional “risk avoidance” to guarantee adequate quantities of feedstock in event of curtailment of supply, for any reason, from a single plantation or country. Further, such geographical dispersion also provides the option of having ethanol production closer to specific areas of global demand, thus reducing transportation expense, and further enhancing profits.

What evidence is there to indicate a continuing market for ethanol in the USA?

Here are just a few of many indications:

• The JOBS Act of 2005 extended federal tax incentives of $0.51 per gallon of ethanol to the end of 2010. There is now every indication that Congress will not only extend this credit, but add an additional tax credit of $0.50 per gallon, or more, for ethanol not produced from food crops.
  
  
• In his State of the Union address in February, 2005 and 2007, President Bush called for increased use of ethanol and passage of the energy bill which will mandate the use of renewable materials, such as ethanol, in fuels sold throughout the US with a goal of increasing annual ethanol usage seven-fold between 2007 and 2022.
  
  
• The fact that nearly one-half of the individual states - not waiting for Congress to act - passed legislation requiring ethanol to be used in blended gasoline to replace MTBE (finally federally banned in May, 2006). In California, the first state to implement this legislation, annual ethanol use jumped from 100 million gallons to one billion gallons in just two years!
  
  
• There is constant pressure in Congress to encourage and expand the national availability and consumption of ethanol. Some pending bills in both houses of Congress would require all new gasoline-powered vehicles sold in the U.S. to be compatible with E-85 (85% ethanol) fuel.

What about the European Union? Will the demand for ethanol increase there also?

Yes, indeed. A very significant increase is already mandated by virtue of EU 2003/30 - the Bio-fuel Directive - which requires that bio-fuels constitute 5.75% of the total petrol and diesel consumption in all member states by 2010. Converted into ethanol terms this equates to a requirement in 2010 of 10.25 billion litres (2.7 billion US gallons) versus only about 2.32 billion litres (613 million US Gallons) consumed in 2005. This is a 441% increase in only five years!

What about the rest of the world? Will the demand for ethanol increase there also?

Yes. A very significant increase is already happening throughout the world and similar rates of growth are expected globally as those projected for the USA and the EU.

What makes Nasamax think it can become one of the world’s foremost producers of Bio-Ethanol, as its goal sets forth in its Mission Statement?

Because of 1) its unique patents which enable immense production increases and cost savings in the manufacture of Bio-Ethanol, and 2) its long term leases of large strategically located plantations on which to grow high yield crops without competing for expensive farm land used for food crops - Nasamax sees a massive window of opportunity to achieve its goal.

As Nasamax and its licensees have full control of a continuous feed stock supply they will be a reliable supplier to large importers of ethanol. Most producers purchase their feed stock from farmers who harvest only one crop per year. They are exposed to variations in feed stock availability, quality, and price. These can be serious disadvantages.

Also, a number of new and future producers - Pacific Ethanol for example - are now locating refineries at considerable distances (even thousands of miles) from the source of their feed stock. This adds considerable transportation expense.

What makes Nasamax believe it can produce extensive profits for its shareholders, as its goal sets forth in its Mission Statement?

Nasamax controls a fully integrated business - all aspects of which have been carefully designed to be highly efficient and cost effective.

We have a reliable and sustainable supply of low cost raw materials. Nasamax patented processing and conversion technologies result in unprecedented yields and economies of operation. And they produce the cleanest, ‘greenest’ ethanol - a factor that becomes ever more important as concern grows about the global dangers of greenhouse gases.

The competitive advantages of Nasamax methods and processes, together with import duty, tax credit and income tax benefits, will assure Nasamax maintains the premier position in the marketplace - with considerable and sustainable profits for its shareholders.