BIOFUEL ADVANCED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, LLC. (BARD) is a limited liability company incorporated in the state of Pennsylvania, USA. The company currently has its administrative office at 1167 Bridge Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The biodiesel production plant and solvent extraction plant will be located on a 37 acres site at the Keystone Industrial Port Complex (KIPC), a 2,200 acre industrial/manufacturing zone, which was the former site for US Steel. The site has direct access to a deep water port managed by Kinder Morgan, over 75 miles of rail with two Class 1 Railroads (NS and CSX), and access to three independent power generating stations. The site has been designated as a KOIZ (Keystone Opportunity Improvement Zone) which provides 14 years of tax exemptions from state, local, and other taxes. The site is also home to three other alternative energy companies covering wind, solar and ethanol. BARD has received its Air Quality Permit from the Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The air quality permit is the most important and time consuming permit for this type of facility. BARD has entered in to an agreement with Tech-Start India and CCIL of India, the authorized technology collaborator a German engineering and equipment firm that is providing leading edge technology in the field of biodiesel production. Tech-Start/CCIL will provide an end-to-end solution that will give BARD a strong technical position versus competitors. BARD has hired Langan Engineering and Environmental Services Inc. of Philadelphia for all required environmental site engineering and permits. Langan is a premier provider of integrate land development engineering and environment consulting services. BARD has signed contracts with local engineering consulting firms for all plant engineering, storage, transportation design and construction. The BARD facility will be fully automated and will operate on an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform supplied by SAP. This will allow BARD to fully track and evaluate all aspects of the supply chain and production processes. BARD’s management has strong backgrounds in chemical and biodiesel engineering, finance, commodity trading, systems management, and quality control. BARD has entered into a five year contract with Eco-Energy to handle the sale and delivery of all of the biodiesel manufactured at this facility. Eco-Energy, Inc. of Franklin, TN is the largest alternative fuel trader in the United States. BARD has also entered into and five year contract with FC Stone to provide all necessary soybeans for the solvent extraction process. FC Stone is the largest commodity trader in the United States. FC Stone will market for sale the excess soy oil produced by the extraction plant. BARD has negotiated a contract with Commodity Specialists Company (CSC) to market the residual products created by the solvent extraction plant. The products CSC will market are soy meal and soy hull pellets. CSC has a healthy mix of domestic and international operation giving them stability in the market.