HLK Biotech Holding Group, Inc. (AMHD)

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Not much. They look to be a vendor of supercritical gas separation systems. That technology would provide the highest yields I would think on Jatropha oil extraction. If you squeeze a bean you get the oil as well as pesticides, water, etc. Seems cheap till you then need to bring it up to a boiling point to vacuum separate(boil) the water out which is expensive. Meanwhile you have oil left in the meal. In soybean land that's ok as it provides nutrition and value. Jatropha meal is poisonous. You will soon have a large pile of poison that looks like food to the animals. Large soy crushing plants use solvent extraction which adds solvent, heat, vacuum and pulls very high yields of oil. Oil is now worth more than the meal as it follows diesel and maximizing yields is cost efficient. Gasifying the jatropha bean sounds like a good approach to maximizing yields and possibly detoxifying the byproduct (many in the industry call the meal anti-nutritional, ha). Harvesting, handling, breaking it down for gasification, determining separation points, techniques, analyzing byproduct values, finding markets, waste stream handling, etc. It's really a lot to tackle. The field seems to be wide open for new good approaches. Harvesting the beans is another field that needs some magivers to tackle well. You can buy technology the cheapest when it is unproven. Being a guinea pig so to speak. I'm speculating, but I'd say they are anxious to get in to jatropha bean processing. Will they do it better than the 1000 guys in the world that have been squeezing beans all their life? They must think so. Will they like Aziz as they try to work out the bugs, highly unlikely IMO.