Mississippi Business Journal » Sumesh Arora http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 ANALYSIS — Mississippi has big money invested in KiOR’s financially challenged project http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/02/03/analysis-%e2%80%94-mississippi-has-big-money-invested-in-kiors-financially-challenged-project/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=analysis-%25e2%2580%2594-mississippi-has-big-money-invested-in-kiors-financially-challenged-project http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/02/03/analysis-%e2%80%94-mississippi-has-big-money-invested-in-kiors-financially-challenged-project/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:01:02 +0000 Amy McCullough http://msbusiness.com/?p=51689 The eyes of the international renewable-fuels community are fixed on KiOR (NASDAQ:KIOR), a Texas-based company in which Mississippi has a large stake — specifically a $75 million interest-free loan administered by the Mississippi Development Authority. KiOR plans to build five plants in Mississippi that should convert wood chips to renewable crude through a process called [...]

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