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New Sales & Marketing Leadership At B&P Process Equipment

Saginaw, MI, 1 September, 2009 -- Todd Caccamo has been named Director of Sales & Marketing for B&P Process Equipment, reporting to Larry Slovin, President and CEO. Previously, Caccamo served as Platform and Market Manager for General Electric Advanced Materials. Caccamo began his career as an entrepreneur and later joined Ford Motor Company where he served as an engineer and global program manager in the US, Europe, and Japan. He then became the program manager for Gates Rubber and later, at Tenneco, he was an OEM and Major Tier Account Manager. Caccamo is also a combat veteran of the US Marine Corps and has served in various capacities from intelligence to infantry leadership positions. Mr. Caccamo is a graduate of the University of Michigan where he earned a BS in mechanical engineering. He has also earned an MBA from Wayne State University. “In today's competitive marketplace, Todd's experience with developing and implementing marketing and sales strategies with a broad spectrum of leading industrial companies will be invaluable,” said Larry Slovin, B&P President and CEO. B&P Process Equipment is an industry-leading producer of high-precision, high-reliability mixing and separation systems for a wide range of processing applications. The hallmark of the B & P brand is a core expertise in the design, manufacture, and delivery of large-scale mixing and separation systems that meet the industry's most rigorous demands. Their full-circle customer support adds a new dimension in responsiveness. The company also maintains a fully equipped technology center for the testing and verification of customer applications to ensure proper performance from the completed processing solution. Key industries served include fine and bulk chemicals, pharmaceuticals, thermoplastics, coatings, adhesives, energetic materials, and liquid processing.

B&P Process Equipment present at National Algae Association Commercialization Forum

Saginaw, MI, 22 April, 2009 -- B&P Process Equipment announces today that Don Konuszewski, Marketing Manager, and Eric Black, Process Engineer, will present at the upcoming Algae Commercialization, Research, and Business Forum in Houston on May 1st. The forum is an annual event organized by the National Algae Association. The NAA is a non-profit organization comprised of algae researchers, algae production companies and the investment community who share the goal of commercializing algae oil as an alternative feedstock for the biofuels markets. The NAA is part of an industry which harnesses Algae’s natural ability to produce oil through the plants digestive cycle. This oil can be collected and processed to produce vegetable oils, hydraulic fluids and biofuels.
Don and Eric will be discussing Algae processing developments using POD Contactors and Dewatering Centrifuges. B&P has several active projects focused on the Algae and biofuels markets.
“The ability to efficiently separate and process Algae from feed water remains a critical piece of this complex puzzle. There is an obvious push to diversify the roster of alternative fuels and energy sources and I feel Algae has a very realistic potential in playing a large role to meet this need,” says Don.
Algae separation poses a unique problem due to the physical nature of Algae bodies. “You can think of an individual Alga as a tiny plant, or a solid particle, but collectively Algae move more like a fluid than a suspended solid,” says Eric. “For this reason, typical filtration and separation technologies that focus on removing solids from liquids are not practical.”
“Of the existing alternative fuels candidates, I believe Algae to show the greatest economic potential,” says Larry Slovin, President & CEO of B&P. “While these new industries need subsidies and venture capital to initiate, any alternative will need to be price-competitive with traditional sources in order to remain viable over the long term. The processing and recovery rates that we are currently seeing are very impressive, and I imagine the rates will only improve as the industry matures.”

B&P Process Equipment Announces Delivery of Two Additional CK-700-CP, the Largest Ko-Kneaders in the World for the Production of Carbon Paste

Saginaw, MI, 6 March, 2009 -- Larry Slovin new President and CEO of B&P Process Equipment announced at TMS 2009 in San Francisco, CA, the delivery of two additional CK-700-CP Ko-Kneaders for the production of carbon paste used to produce anodes for the Aluminum Industry.

The CK-700-CP Ko-Kneaders, with the largest capacity in the world, complement the needs of the Aluminum Industry to produce more carbon paste with less equipment. These new Ko-Kneaders are capable of producing over 70 metric tons per hour carbon paste. B&P has worked closely with the experts in the production of carbon paste to produce these World Class mixers. With easily replaceable wear parts and options in element metallurgy, these mixers are now the standard the world looks to for reliability and performance.

These mixers live up to the highest standards for anode quality the world has come to expect from its partners. The Aluminum Industry continues to require higher input mixer energy and B&P continues to meet this challenge with its innovative designs. Anodes produced with B&P's mixers continue to have the highest green and baked anodedensities. The automatic controls allow for varying feed stocks to be processed with a dialed in amount of energy per metric ton where by the mixer continually process thefeed to the requirements of the plant without compromise to the quality of the Green Anode.

B&P's proven technology enables the highest quality Green Anodes for the lowest capital equipment investment and operating cost - at the smallest plant size.

B&P Process Equipment and Systems Announces Development of Continuous Biodiesel Process

Saginaw, MI, September 2, 2008 - B&P Process Equipment and Systems has recently developed a continuous process that utilizes B&P's Podbielniak centrifuge to produce biodiesel for use as an alternate fuel. This new cutting edge process seeks to produce renewable Biofuels through modularity of components that improves the overall flexibility of the process. The process will maximize conversion rates, lower overall operating cost while maintaining the industries smallest foot print per MGY of biodiesel produced. Extremely high G forces are used to push this process to its physical limits, separating liquid products with ease. The high speed of separation leaves traditional settling tanks in the dust. Not only does the Pod produce raw biodiesel, it also acts a refining process, yielding usable biodiesel, all in one process. Depending on the size of the machine, 10-100 million gallons of biodiesel could be produced annually using this process. B&P’s processes continually remove conversion components allowing for the fastest reaction times of any continuous process to date. Removing these from the biodiesel helps to push the reaction forward, reducing the reaction time and the size of the overall plant and capital equipment cost. The Pod process is not limited to any one type of oil feedstock, thus allowing for process diversification in feed stocks. In addition, since identical Pods are used, spare parts for one type of machine are needed to maintain them. This reduces spare parts costs. We remain confident that our proven technology will enable you to achieve the highest quality biodiesel for the lowest capital equipment and operating cost while presenting the smallest plant size. This process has been fully designed, and is currently available. For additional information on B&P’s biodiesel process, please contact Eric Black. About B&P Process Equipment: B&P Process Equipment is located in Saginaw; MI. B&P provides process equipment to various markets around the world. Some of the equipment B&P provides include: twin screw continuous mixers, Ko-Kneader continuous mixers, pusher centrifuges, Podbielniak centrifuges, decanters, vertical mixers, and batch mixers. Each machine is custom-designed to exacting customer specifications and engineered to solve specific customer problems. B&P is also available for product testing both on and offsite. The Tech Center in Saginaw is equipped with lab scale equipment to run customer product testing.

NEW PRESIDENT TAKES THE HELM AT B&P PROCESS EQUIPMENT

7 July, 2008 - B&P Process Equipment and Systems LLC announced today that Laurence Slovin has been appointed President and CEO of the Saginaw, Michigan-based company, effective immediately. He will lead the company's aggressive international growth strategy, and oversee all of its functions. Slovin comes to B & P from Vertellus Performance Materials Inc. where he served as president. He brings over thirty years of leadership and management experience with small to mid-sized companies in the chemical and equipment industries. He received a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an M.B.A. from Western New England College.

B&P Process Equipment is an industry - leading producer of high-precision, high-reliability mixing and separation systems for a wide range of processing applications. The hallmark of the B&P brand is a core expertise in the design, manufacture, and delivery of large-scale mixing and separation systems that meet the industry's most rigorous demands. Their full-circle customer support adds a new dimension in responsiveness. The company also maintains a fully equipped technology center for the testing and verification of customer applications to ensure proper performance from the completed processing solution.

Key industries served include fine and bulk chemicals, pharmaceuticals, thermoplastics, coatings, adhesives, energetic materials, and liquid processing.

BlueFire and B&P Process Equipment Complete Decrystalyzer Testing With Better than Expected Results

BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. (OTC: BFRE.OB) this week completed a crucial step in the construction of its first cellulosic ethanol plant in the U.S. by completing vendor testing of the key pieces of equipment to convert a variety of biomass materials -- from wood chips to municipal waste -- into the simple sugars used in BlueFire Ethanol's production process.

The vendor testing of the decrystalyzer, hydrolyzer and filtration operations was completed at the headquarters and R&D center of B&P Process Equipment in Saginaw, Michigan and provided superior results than were achieved at the Izumi plant. This effort is part of an integrated investigation being done for the final engineering of BlueFire Ethanol's full scale waste-to-ethanol plants.

"These key components break down the cellulosic material and reduce it to simple sugars for ethanol production as well as provide lignin to supply the plant's energy needs on a continuous basis," stated John E. Cuzens, BlueFire's Chief Technology Officer and co-author of the various technology patents used by BlueFire. Mr. Cuzens further stated, "The testing campaign provides key equipment vendors with first-hand experience on BlueFire's process, process conditions and process fluids. It allowed for input from industry experts, yielding results that are better than expected based on the previous Izumi, Japan experience."

B&P Process is a world class company focused on engineering high-precision, high-reliability machines with cradle-to-grave customer support while adding a new dimension in responsiveness. Abbey Martin, Process Engineer for B&P Process Equipment stated, "We were pleased with the ability of our equipment to perform the decrystalyzation more effectively than the data from different equipment operated in the Japanese pilot plant would have predicted. We believe that we can now design a commercial unit that will perform better and cost less than a design based solely on the pilot data. Testing actual process conditions in our scalable test equipment almost always improves the design and cost of commercial units. Furthermore, this type of testing is applicable not just to their first plant but also to future plants using similar feedstock and the same process." B&P was also able to produce enough filtered hydrolysate to allow successive testing of additional process equipment such as the chromatographic separator.

"We are thrilled at the results of this testing and look forward to incorporating the decrystalyzer and hydrolyzer from B&P Process Equipment in our ethanol production facilities in California and elsewhere," said Arnold Klann, President and Chief Executive Officer of BlueFire Ethanol. "With this final piece of the puzzle in place, BlueFire Ethanol's planned California facilities are poised to serve as a catalyst for cellulosic fuel production throughout our nation."

BlueFire Ethanol is one of six ethanol companies awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for its planned ethanol production facility using cellulosic wastes diverted from landfills in Southern California. The facility will produce approximately 17 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year from green waste, wood waste and other cellulosic urban wastes.

In addition, BlueFire is currently in the process of obtaining all necessary permits to commence construction of a smaller facility near Lancaster, California. The Lancaster plant will produce 3.1 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year from the cellulosic fraction of post-sorted municipal solid waste. By locating biorefineries directly in the markets with the highest demand for ethanol, BlueFire Ethanol can utilize its technology to help cities manage landfill waste while increasing biofuels supplies.

If you would like to receive regular updates on BlueFire Ethanol, please click on the following link:
http://www.b2i.us/irpass.asp?BzID=1437&to=ea&s=0.

About BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc.:

BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. is established to deploy the commercially ready, patented, and proven Concentrated Acid Hydrolysis Process for the profitable conversion of cellulosic ("Green Waste") waste materials to ethanol, a viable alternative to gasoline. BlueFire's use of the Process Technology positions it as the only cellulose-to-ethanol company worldwide with demonstrated production of ethanol from urban trash (post-sorted MSW), rice and wheat straws, wood waste and other agricultural residues. BlueFire's goal is to develop and operate high-value carbohydrate-based transportation fuel production facilities worldwide. These "biorefineries" will convert widely available, inexpensive, organic materials such as agricultural residues, high-content biomass crops, wood residues, and cellulose from MSW into ethanol. BlueFire intends to build a multinational company that leads the world in producing biobased transportation fuels. Its business will encompass development activities leading to the construction and long-term operation of production facilities while maintaining technological advantage and ownership of the process technology and all its improvements. Ethanol will be produced from biorefinery facilities opportunistically constructed on or near landfills, waste collection and waste separation sites. Each facility will deploy BlueFire's proprietary technology, which uses all cellulosic waste materials traditionally disposed of in landfills as feedstock.

http://www.BlueFireEthanol.com.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Statements about BlueFire Ethanol, Inc.'s expectations, including future revenues and earnings, and all other statements in this press release other than historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and as the term is defined in the Private Litigation Reform Act of 1995. BlueFire's actual results could differ materially from expected results. BlueFire undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequently occurring events or circumstances. Should events occur which materially affect any comments made within this press release; BlueFire will appropriately inform the public.

PARTS - HUGE PARTS SAVINGS - LIMITED TIME OFFER!

**B&P is rotating it's inventory to make room for new product lines and updated technologies.
This initiative has resulted in the need for B&P to quickly clear stock of aged inventory.
For most of these parts, no reasonable offer will be refused.**

Call B&P Customer Service today and ask about the AGED INVENTORY OFFER.
But hurry, the offer ends when these parts are gone!

Contacts:
Mary Ann Cooper: Centriugal Separators, Batch & Vertical Mixers 989-757-1326

Douglas Gunlock: Continuous Mixers (MP{BP}, CT, CK) 989-757-1347

REMOVAL OF LIQUIDS FROM SOLID WASTES - BEST IN BREED SYSTEMS

A world leader in liquids processing and mixing with roots tracing to 1889, B&P Process Equipment introduces a new line of horizontal
centrifuge dewatering systems. These systems are designed for maximum efficiency and uptime in wastewater treatment, ethanol processing
and other applications that benefit from an extremely dry waste cake. B&P's line of dewatering centrifuges produce a waste cake that's 5% - 10% higher than competitive systems including belt filter presses.

*The benefit to you? A dryer cake requires less subsequent processing, reduces disposal costs and streamlines your operation.*

Key features that make the difference:

-Innovative Cartridge Feed Zone
-Advanced Control Technologies
-Unique Three-Piece Cover Design
-Rugged Wear Coating
-Hydraulic Backdrive (enables 20 - 30% higher solids loading capacities)
-Very High G-Force Potential

In 2000 our Houston Service Center began performing service and rebuilds on virtually every competitive system, and we've put that knowledge to use in the design of our own systems. Call B&P for new equipment, service or rebuild on any of your liquid-solid centrifuge systems.

LOWERING THERMOSET COATINGS AND THERMOPLASTICS PRODUCTION COSTS

B&P is offering a low-cost line of equipment that serves as an alternative to traditional European and American manufactured machinery.
Serving the powder coating and plastics vertical markets, we offer twin-screw extruders, ko-kneaders and a host of supporting equipment at a fraction of previously seen costs.

**New 50 kg/hr line (from pre-mix to finished product) available for immediate delivery!**

PVC / WIRE & CABLE - UNIVERSAL LABORATORY KNEADER

B&P's newly designed 40mm Universal Ko-Kneader, aptly dubbed the "UNIKON" rolled off the assembly floor ready for production this October. The Unikon lab machine is the latest entry in B&P's CK-series continuous kneaders specially developed for processing of PVC, Wire and Cable compounds. With little to no configuration changes, the Unikon is capable of processing multiple formulations. It can go from a cascade arrangement to a direct-flanged arrangement in a matter of minutes.Once you've perfected your formulation, use the Unikon to run small production batches or perform linear scale-up to any one of the B&P CK-Series production-sized Ko-Kneaders.

**The B&P CK-40 Unikon also boasts a very affordable price tag starting under USD $100,000.00**

WOOD-PLASTIC COMPOSITE PROCESSING TAKES A LEAP FORWARD

B&P has taken our traditional strengths in engineering and process technology and combined them with the market savvy and industry leadership of Cincinnati Milacron to create a partnership that are sure to reward wood-plastic composite manufacturers. The B&P/Milacron TE-Series extruders offer greater output, efficiency and economy to help WPC producers capitalize on rapidly expanding market opportunities.

For more information visit: http://plastics.milacron.com/Extrusion/corotatingplasticcomposite.htm

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES MENTIONED HERE CONTACT:

B&P Process Equipment
Sales Engineering Department
989-757-1300 phone
989-757-1301 fax
sales@bpprocess.com