POET, LLC. Overview
Company Headquarters: South Dakota, United States
Founded: 1986
Workforce: ~ 2200
Company Working: The company POET, LLC produces ethanol and other biorefined goods. The company sells plastic items, ethanol, food, feed, oils, lubricants, and films. Customers of POET are located throughout the US. The company was established in 1987 and has expanded from a single, small bioprocessing facility in Scotland, South Dakota to become one of the world's largest producers of biofuel and a specialist in sustainable bioproducts. The company's current headquarters are in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and it currently employs more than 2,200 people throughout 33 bioprocessing plants in eight states. Research and development are combined with knowledge in design and construction, technology, operations, public affairs, and marketing in the company's integrated business model. The company's integrated business model combines research and development with competence in design and construction, technology, operations, public affairs, and marketing. By developing plant-based substitutes for petrochemicals, such as the company's Dakota Gold and NexPro distillers grains, Voilá corn oil, sustainable biofuel, biogenic CO2 and dry ice, purified alcohol, and JIVE asphalt rejuvenator, the company aims to unlock the regenerative power of agriculture.
Strategy
The goal of POET is to live in a balanced natural environment. where people make advantage of the Earth's great capacity for regeneration rather than stealing from it. where people no longer rely on fossil fuels and instead depend on the might of nature and the brilliance of the human spirit. Farmers are the creators and inventors are the heroes in this world. The goal of the company is to effectively use human resources to transform renewable resources into electricity and other useful things.
