Cereal Process Technologies is a Limited Liability Company managed by seasoned professionals in the agricultural processing and corn milling industries. CPT holds the license to the patented technology used in those processes.
Mr. R. James Giguere invented the corn dry-fractionation technology CPT employs in its milling process. He continues to hold the original patents for his innovation. A chemical engineer, Mr. Giguere’s career spans more than fifty years in wet and dry corn milling for food and industrial markets and in ethanol processing. His process and design innovations continue to advance corn dry-milling technologies.
CPT's dry corn fractionation technology has been used for more than 3 decades to produce ingredients for the beverage, alcohol and snack foods industries and petroleum drilling fluids, making it the most proven fractionation technology in the industry.
The CPT process is simple, yet elegant. Infinite turn-down capability and process flexibility make it the perfect technology for an industry looking for new ways to reduce carbon emissions and diversify.
Five corn milling and processing plants currently use the CPT technology for food, industrial and ethanol purposes. They include the world’s largest corn dry mill, recently purchased from Valero by Aztalan Bio, is located in Jefferson, Wisconsin. Constructed in 2007, this plant has the capability to produce higher value products and will become a true biorefinery under the new owner. The plant is set to re-start in the Fall of 2023, ushering in a new era of cutting edge technologies that will make the facility a showcase. The Pilot Plant located at the National Corn to Ethanol Research Center in Edwardsville, Illinois, is a much smaller-scale version of the commercial plant and is used for specialty corn products that seek to isolate the most valuable portions of the corn. Because of Dry Fractionation, there are many opportunities to create new products and reduce carbon intensity in the ethanol industry.
All of these facilities chose CPT technology because of its proven ability to effectively separate each of the corn kernel’s key constituents: endosperm, germ (oil) and bran. CPT’s fractionation system delivers a much purer starch stream called "Degermed Debranned Corn" (DDC), which significantly improves the efficiency at the ethanol plant. At the same time, dry fractionation enables the ethanol plant to capture significantly higher value from the corn by entering newer, and growing, markets. The technology unleashes the capability to extract 1.2 to 1.4 pounds of pure corn oil per bushel for use in edible or biodiesel markets. Bran, or fiber, can be used for feed, thermal energy, cellulosic ethanol and other new and innovative uses.
High protein DDG replaces DDGS with much higher value and the ability to increase the usage in monogastric animal diets such as swine, poultry and fish. If you remove the non-fermentable components on the front-end, your ethanol process becomes much more efficient and your capacity will increase.
PETE MOSS
President
Pete’s knowledge and experience elevates CPT to a new level as the firm expands its role as the leader in corn dry fractionation technology.
Pete began his career as the marketing manager for a large-scale soybean processing facility, responsible for procurement of various commodities including 20 million bushels of soybeans per year, and marketing of oilseed products. He served as vice-president of a regional bank and currently owns and manages Frazier, Barnes & Associates, a leading consulting firm in the renewable energy and agricultural processing space.
Pete has been actively involved with CPT since its inception as a part owner and investor in the company. His background in marketing, commercialization and finance allow him to focus on the most important aspect of the business – the customer’s needs. “We have developed the premier corn fractionation technology that helps ethanol plants diversify. Diversification and carbon reduction are the two key issues that the ethanol industry mentions as their top priority. Our goal is to help them with both.”
Pete has a B.S. degree in management and an M.B.A. He served on the Board of the Tennessee Biotechnology Association and has been involved with the following organizations:
Growth Energy
Biomass Power Association
West Tennessee Clean Cities Organization
MICHAEL REIGER
Vice President
Michael Regier joined Cereal Process Technologies as the Technical Director in January 2007. Michael is responsible for process design, system engineering, procurement, construction management, and commissioning of CPT fractionation facilities. He also oversees the post-commissioning services.
Previously Technical Manager for Iowa Corn Processors in Glidden, Iowa, who also employs the Giguere patented corn milling process, Michael was chief engineer for new processing and handling systems, production improvement, R&D functions, and value-added services for the company’s products and co-products.
He brings extensive grain processing experience from work with Miller Milling Company, Wilkins-Rogers, Inc., ConAgra Flour Milling Company and Rocky Mountain Flour Milling, LLC. A native of Kansas, Michael earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Milling Science and Management, Operations, from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas.