In 2008, Enerkem announced its plan to launch a next-generation biofuels project in Pontotoc, Mississippi.
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Dr. Esteban Chornet (Ph.D. from Lehigh University; Professor Emeritus from Sherbrooke University) conceived the idea for a waste-conversion technology after being inspired by his father, who used wood waste from his sawmill to make electricity in the late 1930s in Mallorca, Spain.