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DynaMotive Announces Location, Completes Engineering and Procurement and Commences Construction of Its New BioOil Pilot Plant

11 October 2000

DynaMotive Announces Location, Completes Engineering and Procurement and Commences Construction of Its New BioOil Pilot Plant

    VANCOUVER, Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ - DynaMotive Technologies Corporation
(OTCBB: DYMTF) today announced that it has completed engineering and
procurement for its new, 10 tonne per day (tpd) BioOil pilot plant and that
construction is underway and expected to be completed by the end of the year.
This will be followed by a commissioning period of 3-6 months. The Company
also confirmed that the new plant, announced in March 2000, will be located at
B.C. Research Inc. (BCR) in Vancouver. In addition, BCR has taken an equity
position in DynaMotive which plans to further expand its operations and R&D
program at the technology development complex.
    "Over the past six months, we have completed all detailed design
engineering and procurement for the new plant," said Director of Engineering
Warren Johnson. "We are now fully engaged in the next phase of the project,
construction and assembly, which we expect to complete by the end of this
year. When fully commissioned, the larger plant will enable us to validate the
process technology at the next level of scale-up and to test the new
equipment. The plant has been built to industrial specifications complete with
state of the art control systems used worldwide in commercial facilities. With
a production capacity of 6,000 litres of BioOil per day, it will provide us
with much larger quantities of BioOil for engine and combustion test
programs."
    Dr. James Hill, President & Chief Operating Officer with BCR, said,
"DynaMotive has made substantial progress over the past two years in
optimizing its BioOil technology and testing BioOil in gas turbine and other
engines. BCR is pleased to become a partner with DynaMotive in the next phase
of commercialization of their technology and we look forward to expanding our
collaboration with DynaMotive."
    BC Research Inc. (BCR) is a bio-chemical sciences company. In addition to
providing specialized bio-chemical services, BCR operates a unique "Technology
Integrator" concept in which they partner with universities, entrepreneurs and
industry to rapidly and fully develop new ideas related to bio-chemical
products and processes.
    DynaMotive is a world leader in the development of technology to produce
BioOil clean fuels for power generation in gas turbines, diesel engines and
boilers. BioOil is produced using a patented technology that converts forest
and agricultural wastes into a liquid fuel. Unlike fossil fuels, BioOil is
clean burning, low in emissions, greenhouse gas neutral and can be produced
economically from renewable biomass waste materials, including forest residues
like bark and sawdust and agricultural wastes like sugar cane bagasse.
    DynaMotive has been testing its BioOil with a number of engine
manufacturers including Orenda Aerospace and Solar Turbines. DynaMotive
currently produces BioOil at its pilot plant in Vancouver BC. Once the new 10
tpd BioOil plant is fully commissioned, the Company plans to build a 25 tpd
commercial demonstration plant in 2001 which will serve as a springboard for
design and construction of full scale, 100 to 400 tpd commercial plants to be
built in Canada, Europe, Brazil, Asia and other international markets.

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are not limited to, changes and delays in product development plans and
schedules, customer acceptance of new products, changes in pricing or other
actions by competitors, patents owned by the Company and its competitors, and
general economic conditions, as well as other risks detailed in the Company's
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.