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### Plant Project Delivery Options: A Different Perspective

There are a couple methods to reducing production costs via personnel changes. Here are the 3 main options and how they typically work.

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### Meet the Recipient of the 2014 AMG Engineering Scholarship

Meet the 2014 AMG Engineering Scholarship Recipient, Ryan Whelchel! Ryan was selected out of a sea of over 100 applicants. Read more about him here.

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### Experience Energy Efficient Lighting Design with LEDs

With so much talk about LED lighting for consumers - it's also important in the industrial field and can have even greater impact on energy efficiency.

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### The Skim Pit Project: A Soybean Facility Case Study

A soybean plant case study was conducted by the folks over at AMG Engineering. Find out what they discovered about soybean plants by reading this blog post!

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### NextGen Frac™ - A New, Transformative Hybrid Fractionation Technology for Corn

AMG, in partnership with GTL Resources and as a subsidiary of QTI, announces NextGen Frac - a new corn fractionation process for better ethanol production.

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### Corn Milling: Wet vs. Dry Milling

Corn wet milling and dry milling are the predominant methods of processing corn and each method produces distinct co-products. Read more here.

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