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Visionary Fiber Technologies (VFT) will present eight technical sessions at the AOCS Annual Meeting & Expo 2026 in New Orleans, Louisiana, May 3–6, 2026.At this year’s meeting, VFT will showcase how fiber reactor-based microfluidic systems support scalable processing across edible oil refining, cocoa butter improvement, enzymatic processing, carbon capture, and byproduct valorization. Across these presentations, a…

Lockhart, Texas — Visionary Fiber Technologies (VFT) recently welcomed U.S. Congressman Michael Cloud (TX-27) and members of his district team to the company’s Lockhart headquarters for a technical briefing and demonstration of VFT’s rare earth mineral processing innovations. The visit highlighted Texas-led advances that are poised to strengthen America’s supply chains for critical minerals used…

By Diana Gitig

LOCKHART, Tex., June 24, 2024 – Visionary Fiber Technologies, Inc. (VFT) announced today that Mike Healy has joined the team as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). With more than three decades of financial and operational experience, Mike brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to VFT’s leadership team. "Mike's extensive experience and proven leadership in financial management…

By Scott Kohl, PhD - Chief Technology Officer at VFTVisionary Fiber Technologies, Inc. (VFT) has developed a propriety Distillers Corn Oil (DCO) purification process, utilizing its Fiber Reactor (FR) technology.  The output DCO (clean DCO) is a new-to-market purity, absent of contaminants that cause catalyst fouling.  Technical performance of the technology is guaranteed.  There are…

Historically, purification processes used in the degumming and pretreatment of food oils and fuel production feedstocks required substantial factory footprint and a high degree of complexity. These antiquated processes suffer yield losses that accumulate with each consecutive unit operation with oil lost to neutralization soap stock, clays, activated silica, and DE. Furthermore, the cost of…

Join Visionary Fiber Technologies (VFT) at the 2024 AOCS Annual Meeting & Expo in Montreal (April 28 to May 1, 2024) to learn about our revolutionary massive microfluidic systems, poised to transform conventional cleanup, separation, extraction and biocatalytic methods. Also, three of VFT's senior staff members will be presenting on a range of innovative topics…

VFT has been awarded a CMI grant for a project that aims to enhance critical mineral separation for sustainable extraction.

Biofuels offer a sustainable alternative to fossil fuel analogues and a path to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants in the transportation sector. Unlike Petroleum-derived fuels, biofuels can be synthesized to have a narrow distribution of molecular weights in the mixture which impacts important properties, such as boiling point, viscosity, cetane number, density,…