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Indianapolis-based engineering and consulting giant RW Armstrong has become lead investor in an upstart ethanol firm that would apply novel technology to make the automotive fuel without using corn as the key ingredient.

It would be the first big commercial plant in Indiana to make the alcohol fuel with so-called cellulosic material—the holy grail, of sorts, in the ethanol industry.

Not only that, but unlike plants using corn, it wouldn’t have to buy its main ingredient. Instead, the plant would get paid to accept it.

“We’re talking trash. We’re talking about a resource that’s been significantly underutilized,” said Zbigniew “Zig” Resiak, business development and preconstruction manager at Armstrong.

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