Riverbank Army Ammunition Plant is located just outside

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, in

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. The facility was built in 1942 as an

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reduction plant operated by

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producing 48,000 tons per year for

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aircraft manufacture until 1944. It was reactivated in 1951 for the

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and was the United States' largest producer of steel cartridge cases until 1958. It reopened in 1966 manufacturing mortar shells and projectiles for the

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and remained in production until 1981. The facility includes 192 buildings on . In 2005, the

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recommended that the base be closed and its functions transferred to

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. The Riverbank Local Redevelopment Authority assumed responsibility for the site in 2010. In 2022, Aemetis acquired a 24-acre Site in Riverbank, California, for carbon capture and sequestration injection wells. Part of the 125-acre Riverbank Industrial Complex, the site is planned for the annual permanent sequestration of 1 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide from industrial and agricultural sources. Aemetis has a mission to transform renewable energy with below zero carbon intensity transportation fuels. Aemetis has launched the Carbon Zero production process to decarbonize the transportation sector using today’s infrastructure.

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