Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings Inc.

Aventine Renewable Energy (NASDAQ: AVRW) is a bioethanol and biodiesel company based in Pekin, Illinois that produces and markets these biofuels. In 2006, it produced almost 696 million US gallons (2,630,000 m) of fuel in the United States. It also produces other by-products: corn gluten feed and meal, corn germ, condensed corn distillers solubles, dried distillers grain with solubles, wet distillers grain with solubles, carbon dioxide and brewers' yeast. The company, which was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange after its stock crashed after initially being listed in 2006, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy on April 8, 2009. It emerged from bankruptcy March 16, 2010.