As of April 1, 2005, ICM Inc. had designed 18 of the 34 new ethanol plants built in the United States since 2000. ICM provided the design for another 12 of 18 plants under construction as of April 1, 2005. These 30 ICM designed plants represent 63% of the new industry capacity since 2000 or 1.4 billion annual gallons of ethanol production capacity. ICM’s next closest competitor in the U.S. for ethanol plant design services is Broin and Associates with 25% market share since 2000 (13 new plants) representing 540 million gallons of annual production capacity.

ICM engineering personnel have ethanol process experience dating back to the late 1970’s in addition to recent engineers joining ICM from Cargill and Williams Bio-Energy. The ICM dry mill ethanol plant design has successfully reduced the energy needs of the modern ethanol plant by several thousand BTUs per gallon of ethanol produced, reduced downtime and eliminated thousands of feet of plant piping which helps contain the cost of construction.

ICM is the industry’s leading manufacturer of rotary drum dryers which are utilized in most ethanol plants to dry the distillers grain. ICM-sister-company, Phoenix Biosystems is the industry leading manufacturer of anaerobic digester water treatment systems used in nearly all ethanol plants. These digesters eliminate the need to discharge process water as occurred in the older plants. Including plants under construction, ICM has 38 dryers in service in the industry and anaerobic digesters in 24 ethanol plants.

ICM Inc. places a strong emphasis on plant employee training, start-up services and ongoing plant support services, all centered on aiding in the profitability of the ethanol plant. These include ongoing training and testing of current operators and superintendents in addition to new hires well after startup. Benchmarking services are also offered whereby each plant operation is ranked with other ICM plants relative to fuel and power use, ethanol yield, personnel turnover, up time, etc. and to focus efforts on optimizing the operation.