Allegro Biodiesel Corporation (OTC:ABDS)

Allegro Biodiesel Corporation owns a 12-million gallons per year biodiesel fuel production facility located in Pollock, Louisiana. In addition to the production of biodiesel fuel, ABDS is actively pursuing a strategy of vertical integration--to expand into the marketing and distribution of diesel fuels, as well as the production of feedstock inputs to the biodiesel process. The current facility is situated on a 320-acre site, with access to transportation infrastructure, including a nearby navigable tributary river to the Mississippi River and major highways and rail service.

ABDS hired Axios to integrate the separate systems used by its operations and accounting divisions, and to assess and implement technological options to enable its facility to process low grade fats and oils into biodiesel.

Kilimanjaro Biofuels Corporation

Based in Tanzania, the Kilimanjaro Biofuels Corporation (KBC) delivers solutions and products designed to support all segments of a global biodiesel supply chain based on Jatropha Curcas Linn (“jatropha”), a fast-growing shrub. KBC operates a 160-hectare nursery farm that supports its own and its partners’ regional planting efforts that will cover 500,000 hectares by 2013, as per the Presidential Mandate. Jatropha materials production is projected at 94 million seedlings. KBC also operates a small-scale biodiesel and bio-fertilizer manufacturing facility aimed at both domestic and for-export markets at the Kilimanjaro International Airport. 

KBC tasked Axios with providing it with a US foothold and presence and with raising funds for the venture.

Pacific Ethanol (NASDAQ:PEIX)

Pacific Ethanol is a leader in producing and marketing low-carbon ethanol. PEIX's destination model and state-of-the-art production practices allow the company to produce ethanol that reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 40 percent compared to conventional gasoline. In addition, this client is working to identify and develop other renewable fuel technologies, such as cellulose-based ethanol production technologies. In order to meet demand for low-carbon ethanol, PEIX is constructing over 420 million gallons of capacity by 2010 in strategic locations across the West. 

PEIX tasked Axios with giving the company an overview of investment possibilities, first in Brazil, and subsequently in all of Latin America.