Company Overview

Our vision here at Rentech^®, which stands for Renewable Energy Technologies, is to be a global provider of clean energy solutions. We strive to deliver solutions to our customers and licensees that will help enable countries to effectively address national energy security issues, rising long-term demand for fuels and electric power and limited domestic petroleum refining capacity while lowering their emissions profiles.

We are developing and licensing our clean energy technologies for ultra-clean synthetic fuels, chemicals and power production. We are pursuing the worldwide deployment of our patented and proprietary Rentech-SilvaGas biomass gasification technology as well as our patented Rentech Process. Together with gasification and upgrading technologies, the Rentech Process can economically produce ultra-clean synthetic fuels such as military and commercial jet fuels and ultra low sulfur diesel as well as specialty waxes and chemicals from a wide variety of waste, biomass and fossil resources.

We also own one of the few remaining U.S. ammonia fertilizer production facilities, Rentech Energy Midwest Corporation (REMC). REMC is a major supplier of nitrogen products to the agricultural and industrial markets in the upper Midwest.

Our process produces biodegradable RenJet^® and RenDiesel^® transportation fuels that are cleaner burning than petroleum-derived fuels and either meet or exceed all applicable fuels and environmental standards. In addition, with carbon capture and sequestration, the carbon dioxide emissions from the production of synthetic fuels from the Rentech Process are substantially lower than those generated in the production of petroleum-derived fuels. Therefore, fuels produced from our process are among the most greenhouse gas friendly transportation fuels available.

Unlike some other alternative fuels, fuels produced from our process can be used and distributed without modifications to existing diesel or jet engines or pipelines. In addition, fuels produced from the Fischer-Tropsch process, on which our technology is based, are currently the only synthetic fuel type certified for use by the United States Air Force and in commercial aircraft.

The renewable power produced using the Rentech-SilvaGas biomass gasification process is expected to qualify under the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) program, which requires utilities to increase the amount of electric power they sell from qualified renewable-energy resources. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), as of November 2008, twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia had legislatively mandated RPS programs. The EIA estimates that electricity generation from biomass will comprise nearly 30 percent or 243 billion Kilowatt-hours of renewable electricity in 2030.

During our nearly 30-year history, Rentech and our licensees have successfully applied the Rentech Process in facilities ranging in size from pilot scale to approximately 250 barrels per day of synthetic fuels and chemicals production. Our first renewable facility was built in 1992 and used landfill gas to produce alternative fuels. The Rentech-SilvaGas biomass gasifier is one of only a handful of biomass gasifiers that have operated on a commercial scale. Today we are working on waste-to-energy projects, including a facility in Rialto, California that would produce approximately 640 daily barrels of renewable synthetic fuels and 35 megawatts of renewable power. We are also working on commercial-scale fossil projects, including a facility contemplating total production of 30,000 barrels per day of synthetic fuels and chemicals in Adams County, Mississippi.

We believe our Product Demonstration Unit (PDU) located in Commerce City, Colorado is the only operating synthetic transportation fuels facility in the United States. At the PDU, we have produced thousands of gallons of ultra-clean synthetic fuels including military jet fuel, commercial Jet A and Jet A-1 and ultra low sulfur diesel, and have shipped samples of our products for testing to potential customers, including the United States Air Force.

We continue to advance our technology, with a goal of reducing operating and capital costs. We are also working on next generation technologies with significant possibilities to reduce cost and increase efficiency of the Rentech Process.

REMC, our wholly-owned subsidiary, supplies domestically produced fertilizer to the farming industry, which not only helps farmers and the food industry, but also aids the biofuels industry that uses plants and crops as feedstocks.