Alternative Aviation Fuels will Feature at Paris Air Show 2011

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1 MEDIA ADVISORY Alternative Aviation Fuels will Feature at Paris Air Show 2011 National Press Club, Washington, DC 22 March 2011 For ImmediateRelease Contact: Kallman Worldwide / tel: ex 124 / cell: A diverse group of organizations from throughout the world are assembling at the Paris Air Show 2011 to showcase achievements in the emerging field of alternative aviation fuels. Fourteen separate organizations will be mounting displays within the new Alternative Aviation Fuels Display showcase feature area in Hall 3 at this June s sold out event. In addition to individual company exhibits, the alternative aviation fuels showcase will include a presentation theater where stakeholders will conduct a series of product and capabilities presentations throughout the week. Presentations will be facilitated by representatives of the Air Transport Association of America (ATA), the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI), Air France, British Airways, and Lufthansa. Another important aspect of the program is the outreach effort underway to attract aerospace and fuel sector investors to meet the participants and get first hand information about opportunities opening up in the alternative aviation fuels industry. A number of investor focused events are planned. Among the companies and organizations taking part in the Alternative Aviation Fuels Display are: CAAFI The Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) seeks enhanced sustainability, and supply security through development and deployment of alternative jet fuels. CAAFI coalition sponsors include the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airports Council International North America (ACI NA) the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) and the Air Transport Association (ATA). Stakeholders include all elements of the international commercial aviation industry, fuel suppliers, universities and government agencies. Media Contact Richard Altman CAAFI Executive Director rcbaltman@gmail.com altrich@cox.net

2 Alternative Aviation Fuels Display at the Paris Air Show 2011 Page 2 ATA Founded in 1936, the Air Transport Association of America, Inc. (ATA) is the nation's oldest and largest airline trade association. The association's fundamental purpose is to foster a business and regulatory environment that ensures safe and secure air transportation and enables U.S. airlines to flourish, stimulating economic growth locally, nationally and internationally. By working with its members in the technical, legal and political arenas, ATA leads industry efforts to fashion crucial aviation policy and supports measures that enhance aviation safety, security and well being. ATA has seen the airline industry grow from the small, pioneering companies of the 1930s into indispensable facilitators of the global economy. ATA and its members continue to play a vital role in shaping the future of air transportation. Victoria Day Phone: vday@airlines.org ALTAIR FUELS AltAir Fuels is developing a refinery in the US to increase its production to 100 million gallons annually of advanced "drop in" renewable fuels including jet, diesel, gasoline components and propane. The fuel is derived from sustainably grown camelina, providing over 70% carbon emissions reduction. John Williams Phone: x1 Mobile: jwilliams@scovillepr.com AMYRIS Amyris is a renewable products company providing sustainable alternatives to a broad range of petroleum sourced products. Preliminary fuel evaluation based on the Amyris AMJ 700 candidate fuel has been performed by leading jet fuel stakeholders including GE Aviation and the US Air Force Research Laboratory. Fernando Garcia Senior Director Fuels Certification Phone: Garcia@amyris.com

3 Alternative Aviation Fuels Display at the Paris Air Show 2011 Page 3 GEVO Gevo & Biojet: Renewable kerosene from isobutanol. Gevo has a route to produce renewable kerosene for biojet fuel. We are a leading renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company. We plan to produce isobutanol commercially in 2012 at low costs making it an attractive gateway building block for many fuels and chemicals. Gevo has converted isobutanol to biojet fuel and is in certification at ASTM. We look forward to educating the aviation industry on Gevo, our biojet fuel, and discussing potential production projects. For more information, contact Chris Ryan at cryan@gevo.com. Jack Huttner Phone: Mobile: LANZATECH LanzaTech, a company that was founded in 2005, presents a fully sustainable integrative gas to fuels and chemicals platform. LanzaTech s commercial plants will effectively convert a variety of nonfood, low value gas feed stocks into clean bioethanol and platform chemicals, providing a strategically important route to renewable fuels and chemicals that is economically, socially and environmentally sound. LanzaTech, through it's partners, has successfully demonstrated the conversion of chemical intermediates, produced through the LanzaTech process, to drop in jet fuel. LanzaTech's process is able to make over 30 billion gallons of fuel ethanol using waste gas streams from steel mill's alone, which will have a significant impact impact on the fuel pool. Shane Fleming LanzaTech NZ Ltd, External Relations Phone: Mobile: shane@lanzatech.com

4 Alternative Aviation Fuels Display at the Paris Air Show 2011 Page 4 METRON AVIATION Metron Aviation is committed to helping the aviation industry address vital environmental and energyrelated challenges and has unique and comprehensive capabilities to support policy making in numerous environmental areas such as noise, emissions and alternative fuels. Metron Aviation is currently supporting NASA, the FAA s Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), Single European Sky ATM Research program (SESAR) and the U.S. Transportation Research Board s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) in the analysis, policy and implementation of alternative fuels. Metron Aviation's services and products consistently optimize efficiency, lower operating costs, and reduce emissions for the global aviation community. For more information, please visit Jessie Hillenbrand Phone: Mobile: jessie.hillenbrand@metronaviation NESTE OIL Neste Oil Corporation is a refining and marketing company concentrating on low emission, high quality traffic fuels. The company produces a comprehensive range of major petroleum products and is the world's leading supplier of renewable diesel. Neste Oil is also a global pioneer in renewable aviation fuel which is based on Neste Oil s proprietary NExBTL technology and can be produced from a flexible mix of raw materials. The company's aim is to increase the NExBTL jet fuel volumes to a large scale. Kaisa Lipponen Neste Oil, Finland Mobile

5 Alternative Aviation Fuels Display at the Paris Air Show 2011 Page 5 SAPPHIRE ENERGY Sapphire Energy is leading the convergence of agriculture, energy, and biotechnology to create drop in jetfuel, diesel, and gasoline. Using only sunlight, CO 2, non potable water, on non arable land, Sapphire s Green Crude from algae is renewable, scalable, and 70% less carbon intense. Backed by a respected international investment syndicate and recipient of $105m from the US DOE and USDA, Sapphire produced the algae oil for the first renewable jet flight of a Continental Airlines Boeing Media Contact Beth Llewelyn Phone: 206) beth@zebrapartners.net SOLAZYME Solazyme, Inc. is a renewable oil company and a leader in industrial biotechnology. In 2008, we produced the world s first 100% algal based jet fuel, Solajet. Solajet meets the ASTM D1655 standard for Aviation Turbine Fuel and has been delivered to the U.S. Navy s testing and certification program. Media Contacts: Genet Garamendi, VP of Communications Ggaramendi@solazyme.com press@solazyme.com stabor@solazyme.com SOLENA Solena is a full service energy producing company, which uses its own patented plasma technology to convert all forms of biomass into clean renewable energy. Solena s systems convert virtually any type of organic material, including waste, agricultural and forestry residues, into energy. Solena uses its patented plasma technology to license efficient biomass to energy plants around the world, which produces low to zero greenhouse gas emissions no toxic ash and no pollution. Solena s fuel flexible technology is a thermal conversion platform for converting low value hydro carbon bearing biomass into a renewal biosynthetic gas (or BioSynGas) which can be employed to produce clean renewable power or second generation bio fuel and biojet fuel.using proprietary technology, Solena Fuels has developed a synthetic fuels solution and business model that addresses the historical challenges faced by the biofuels market. Solena Fuels synthetic fuel is a drop in fuel that allows airlines and shipping companies to utilize a sustainable energy source without any changes to their engines or infrastructure. Solena's proprietary technology allows the use of a wide variety of heterogeneous waste feedstocks that do not compete with crops or use water. Solena partners with the end users of their fuel to develop a facility that allows them to sustainably operate their business. Solena Fuels is committed to helping its partners operate in sustainable manner by producing a synthetic, dropin, carbon neutral, low sulphur fuel from waste biomass. Rocio Velez Phone: rvelez@solena.com

6 Alternative Aviation Fuels Display at the Paris Air Show 2011 Page 6 UOP HONEYWELL Honeywell s UOP offers technology to convert natural oils to high quality aviation biofuels that meet or exceed engine specifications while offering up to 85% lower emissions. More than 600,000 gallons of Honeywell Green Jet Fuel has been produced to date, and the fuel has successfully powered both commercial and military aircraft. Susan Gross Phone: susan.gross@honeywell.com VERNO SYSTEMS Verno Systems provides research, due diligence, advisory and project management services to large end users and investors in the advanced biofuel industry. The Verno team offers advanced biofuels domain and technical expertise and are knowledge leaders in aviation biofuels. Verno helps clients research, evaluate, negotiate and manage aviation biofuel initiatives and projects. Phil Hopton Partner, Verno Systems Phone: phil@vernosystems.com KALLMAN WORLDWIDE The Alternative Aviation Fuels Display program is being managed by Kallman Worldwide in cooperation with SIAE (a division of GIFAS, and organizer of the Paris Air Show) and CAAFI (the Commercial Alternative Avaition Fuels Initiative). Kallman Worldwide, founded in 1963, has organized its own trade shows as well as managed national pavilions and feature display areas within hundreds of international trade shows througout the world. Kallman Worldwide is also organizing the official U.S. international Pavilion at the Paris Air Show Peter McKenna US Phone: US Mobile: UK Phone: peterm@kallman.com