Stock Report: Rentech Inc. (RTK) Report Updated: May 20, 2013 | Print This Page

Rentech, Inc., through its subsidiaries, owns and develops technologies that enable the production of synthetic fuels and renewable power when integrated with third-party technologies in the United States. Its clean energy technology portfolio includes the Rentech-SilvaGas and the Rentech-ClearFuels biomass gasification technologies, which produce synthesis gas from biomass and waste materials for the production of renewable power and fuels. The company also owns the patented Rentech Process based on Fischer-Tropsch chemistry that converts synthesis gas from gasification technologies into complex hydrocarbons, which is upgraded into fuels or chemicals. In addition, it manufactures and sells natural gas based nitrogen fertilizer and industrial products, including ammonia, urea ammonium nitrate, urea granule, urea solution, nitric acid, and liquid carbon dioxide for agricultural and industrial uses. Rentech, Inc. was founded in 1980 and is based in Los Angeles, California.