POET started out in Scotland, South Dakota in 1987 with a single processing facility. 36 years later, it's the world's largest producer of biofuel and of the leaders in bioproducts. It's now located in Sioux Falls with 34 bioprocessing facilities across the Midwest.
It's been quite the year for the biofuel industry. Recently, Doug Berven, Vice President of Corporate Affairs at POET spoke to me at length about what things were like at POET in 2020.
POET CEO Jeff Broin was presented with the George Washington Carver Award at a ceremony at the Bio World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology in Montreal.