NASDAQ: ALTO

● Marketing and
distribution, which includes marketing and merchant trading for company-produced
alcohols and essential ingredients on an aggregated basis, and sales of fuel-grade ethanol
sourced from third parties; and

● Western production, which includes the production and sale of renewable fuels and
essential ingredients produced at our Western production facilities, including our liquid CO2 plant, on an aggregated
basis, none of which are individually so significant as to be considered a separately reportable segment.

Our mission is to produce the highest quality,
sustainable ingredients that make everyday products better. We intend to accomplish this goal in part by investing in our specialized
and higher value specialty alcohol production and distribution infrastructure, expanding production in high-demand essential ingredients,
expanding and extending the sale of our products into new regional and international markets, building efficiencies and economies of
scale and by capturing a greater portion of the value stream.

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Production Segments

We produce specialty
alcohols, renewable fuels and essential ingredients, focusing on five key markets: Health, Home & Beauty; Food &
Beverage; Industry & Agriculture; Essential Ingredients; and Renewable Fuels. Products for Health,
Home & Beauty markets include specialty alcohols used in mouthwash, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, hand sanitizers,
disinfectants and cleaners. Products for Food & Beverage markets include grain neutral spirits used in alcoholic
beverages and vinegar, as well as corn germ used for corn oils. Products for Industry & Agriculture markets include
alcohols and other products for paint applications, inks, vehicle fluids and fertilizers. Products for Essential Ingredients
markets include dried yeast, corn protein meal, corn protein feed, corn germ, distillers grains, gas and liquid CO2 and
liquid feed used in commercial animal feed and pet foods. We also sell yeast and gas and liquid CO2 for human
consumption. Our products for the Renewable Fuels markets include fuel-grade ethanol and distillers corn oil used as a
feedstock for renewable diesel and biodiesel fuels. Our specialty alcohols for the Industry & Agriculture, Food &
Beverage and Health, Home & Beauty markets represented approximately 11%, 6% and 2%, respectively, of our sales in
2025 to customers in these three markets.

We produce our alcohols and essential ingredients
at our facilities described below. Our production facilities located in Illinois are in the heart of the Corn Belt, benefit from relatively
low-cost and abundant feedstock and enjoy logistical advantages that enable us to provide our products to both domestic and international
markets via truck, rail or barge. Our production facilities located in Oregon and Idaho are near their respective fuel and feed customers,
offering significant timing, product transportation cost and logistical advantages.

All of our production facilities, other than our
Magic Valley plant, were operating for all of 2025, other than for scheduled and unscheduled downtimes to address facility repair and
maintenance.

In January 2024, we
temporarily hot-idled our Magic Valley facility to minimize losses from negative regional crush margins and to expedite the
installation of additional equipment to achieve the intended production rate, quality and consistency from our corn oil and high
protein system at the facility. We restarted our Magic Valley facility in July 2024 and by October 2024, the facility consistently
achieved average ethanol production rates at full capacity, the protein content yield from the plant reached 50% or greater, and we
were able to expand our corn oil yields. Increases in regional corn basis and declining market prices for protein and corn oil
resulted in overall margin compression, outweighing the economic benefits of our plant improvements. As a consequence, we cold-idled
our Magic Valley facility for all of 2025 and through the filing of this report to minimize financial losses. We continue to provide
ethanol terminaling services at the plant and may resume operations at the facility if the economic environment in the region
sustainably improves.

As market conditions change, we may increase,
decrease or idle production at one or more operating facilities or resume operations at any idled facility.

Marketing and Distribution Segment

We market and distribute all the alcohols and
essential ingredients we produce at our facilities. We also market and distribute alcohols produced by third parties.

We have extensive and long-standing customer relationships,
both domestic and international, for our specialty alcohols, renewable fuels and essential ingredients. These customers include producers and distributors
of ingredients for cosmetics, sanitizers and related products, distilled spirits producers, food products manufacturers, producers of
personal health/consumer health and personal care hygiene products, and global trading firms.

Our renewable fuel customers are located throughout
the Western and Midwestern United States and consist of integrated oil companies and gasoline marketers who blend fuel-grade ethanol
into gasoline. Our customers depend on us to provide a reliable supply of fuel-grade ethanol and manage the logistics and timing of delivery.
Our customers collectively require fuel-grade ethanol volumes in excess of the supplies we produce at our facilities. We secure additional
fuel-grade ethanol supplies from third-party ethanol producers. We arrange for transportation, storage and delivery of fuel-grade ethanol
purchased by our customers through our agreements with third-party service providers in the Western United States as well as in the Midwest
from a variety of sources.

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We market food-grade essential ingredients to
human and pet food markets, our feed products (such as distillers grains) primarily to export markets from our Pekin Campus, and other
feed products to dairies and feedlots, in many cases located near our production facilities. These customers use our feed products for
livestock as a substitute for corn and other sources of starch and protein. We sell our corn oil to poultry, renewable diesel and biodiesel
customers.

See “Note 5 – Segments” to our
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this report for financial information about our business segments.

Company History

We are a Delaware corporation
formed in 2005. Our common stock trades on The Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “ALTO.” Our Internet website address
is http://www.altoingredients.com. Information contained on our website is not part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Our Annual
Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and any amendments to such reports filed with or furnished
to the Securities and Exchange Commission and other Securities and Exchange Commission filings are available free of charge through our
website as soon as reasonably practicable after the reports are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the Securities and Exchange
Commission.

Business Strategy

The key elements of our business and growth strategy
include:

● Pursue further carbon strategies. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, taken together
with more recent changes made under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act increased the carbon capture
tax credit to $85 per metric ton, providing enhanced section 45Q incentives for carbon capture,
utilization, and storage projects, or CCUS. Additionally, section 45Z low carbon fuel tax
credits offer significant advantages for facilities like ours by directly incentivizing the
production of fuels with reduced lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions. The section 45Z tax credit rewards
producers for each gallon of qualifying low carbon fuel sold, making projects that lower
the carbon intensity of their products more financially attractive.

● At
our Columbia facility, we produce over 120,000 metric tons of CO2 gas per year.
Currently, we sell approximately 57,000 tons per year to our customers and we are exploring
ways to enhance CO2 capture during truck loading and expand production through
increased storage capacity at our liquid CO2 plant.

● At
our Pekin Campus, we produce over 600,000 metric tons of CO2 gas per year. Currently,
we sell approximately 190,000 tons of CO2 annually with capacity for further
growth, positioning us to optimize tax advantages and improve project economics. We are assessing
large scale CO2 utilization and sequestration opportunities and developing plans
to capture more value for our CO2.

We
believe leveraging these incentives not only enhances project returns but also helps secure long-term market competitiveness as
clean fuel standards become more prevalent. By prioritizing CCUS initiatives, we can further reduce our carbon footprint, strengthen
our leadership in sustainable fuel production, and generate new revenue streams that support ongoing innovation and growth. We
believe the financial benefits under the Inflation Reduction Act and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the substantial additional
economic benefits of the environmental attributes associated with low carbon ethanol will result in excellent returns on
investment.

● Focus on our customer
relationships. Our primary business focus is to expand the production and sale of specialty
alcohols and essential ingredients. We are service-oriented and focus our efforts on specialty
products that yield premium prices compared to commodity products that yield predominantly
passive, market-driven prices. We strive to make our business ever more customer-centric
to enable our premium services to support premium prices and new differentiated and higher-margin
products.

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● Expand product offerings.
We are pursuing initiatives to broaden our product offerings to appeal to a wider range
of customers and uses in our key markets. For example, in 2025, we acquired a
liquid CO2 production facility located adjacent to our Oregon plant and now offer
liquid CO2 for sale. Our liquid CO2 facility and our food-grade yeast
plant are both FSSC 22000 certified, meeting the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) benchmarking
requirements. In addition, we maintain ISO 9001, ICH Q7 and EXCiPACT certifications for the
facilities and quality systems used to produce all United States Pharmacopeia, or USP, grade
alcohol products. These certifications appeal to customers with stringent quality demands
and enable us to offer alcohol certified for use as an active pharmaceutical ingredient,
or API, and as an excipient—an inactive component of a drug or medication, such as
solvents, carriers or tinctures—in the pharmaceutical industry. All ingredients we
produce for use in beverages, human and pet foods are third-party certified for ISO 9001
and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP). In addition, all of our animal feed
production, including at our Oregon and Idaho facilities, has undergone third-party Food
Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) auditing. We are reviewing additional certifications and
product positioning within our key markets to expand the range of customers we serve and
the uses our products support.

● Implement new equipment
and technologies. We are evaluating and plan to implement new equipment and technologies
to increase our production yields, improve our operating efficiencies and reliability, reduce
our overall carbon footprint, diversify our products and revenues, and increase our profitability
as financial resources and market conditions justify these investments.

Competitive Strengths

We believe that our competitive strengths include:

● Strong customer
and supplier relationships. We have strong, extensive and long-standing close customer
and supplier relationships, both domestic and international, for our specialty alcohols,
renewable fuels and essential ingredients. We have an excellent reputation for developing
specialty alcohols under stringent quality control standards. Our quality management systems
are supported by ISO 9001, FSSC 22000, ICH Q7 and EXCiPACT certifications, which are viewed
by our customers as important attestations of our quality control.

● Diverse product
mix. We offer a wide range of specialty alcohols, essential ingredients and other products
to meet customer demand. We offer multiple alcohol quality grades ranging from industrial-grade
alcohol to the highest beverage grade low moisture 200 proof alcohol available. In addition,
we offer renewable fuel, including International Sustainability and Carbon Certification,
or ISCC, fuel-grade ethanol for export to Europe. We also offer a wide variety of essential
ingredients and other products for food, feed and other markets.

● Barriers to entry.
Our production facilities use specialized equipment, technologies and processes to achieve
stringent quality controls, higher yields and efficient production of alcohols and essential
ingredients. Our specialized equipment, technologies and processes, together with our quality
management certifications, strict regulatory requirements, and close customer and supplier
relationships create significant barriers to entry to new market participants.

● Our experienced
management. Our senior management team has a proven track record with significant operational
and financial expertise and many years of experience in the alcohol production industry.
Our senior executives have successfully navigated a wide variety of business and industry-specific
challenges and deeply understand the business of successfully producing and marketing specialty
alcohols, renewable fuels and essential ingredients.

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● The strategic location
of our Midwest production facilities. We operate three distinct but integrated production
facilities at our Pekin Campus in the Midwest. We are able to participate from that location
in the largest regional specialty alcohol market in the United States as well as international
markets.

● We
believe that our Midwest location enhances our overall hedging opportunities with a greater
correlation to the highly liquid physical and paper markets in Chicago.

● Our
Midwest location provides excellent logistical access via rail, truck and barge. In particular,
barge access via the Illinois River to the Mississippi River enables us to efficiently bring
our products to international markets.

● The
relatively unique wet milling process at one of our production facilities at our Pekin Campus
allows us to extract the highest use and value from each component of the corn kernel. As
a result, the wet milling process generates a higher level of cost recovery from corn than
that produced at a dry mill.

● Our
Midwest location allows us deep market insight and engagement in major specialty alcohol,
fuel-grade ethanol, pet food and feed markets, thereby improving pricing opportunities.

Overview of Our Key Markets and Market Opportunity

We produce specialty alcohols, renewable fuels
and essential ingredients, focusing on five key markets: Health, Home & Beauty; Food & Beverage; Industry &
Agriculture; Essential Ingredients; and Renewable Fuels.

Health, Home & Beauty

Our products for the health, home and beauty markets
include specialty alcohols used in mouthwash, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, hand sanitizers, disinfectants and cleaners. We offer a variety
of specialty alcohols for the health, home and beauty markets, depending on usage and regulatory requirements, including API-grade or
USP-grade ethyl alcohols, and industrial-grade ethyl alcohol.

We have ISO 9001, FSSC 22000, ICH Q7 and EXCiPACT
certifications, all of which are viewed as important attestations of quality control standards. In particular, our ICH Q7 certification
qualifies our specialty alcohols for use as an API, and our EXCiPACT certification qualifies our specialty alcohols for use as an excipient
in the pharmaceutical industry. These certifications enable us to offer products to a wider group of customers and generally at more
profitable margins.

Food & Beverage

Our products for the
food and beverage market include specialty alcohols used in alcoholic beverages, flavor extracts and vinegar as well as corn germ
used for corn oil and CO2 gas used for beverage carbonation and dry ice. We offer grain neutral spirits, or GNS, as our
primary specialty alcohol for beverage-grade products. In addition, we sell FCC 190 and USP 190 Ultra into vinegar markets. We also
sell high-quality 192 proof and low-moisture 200 proof GNS products to customers in the beverage, food, flavor and personal care
industries.

We believe the key drivers in the food and beverage
market include consumer preferences for the social currency of brand authenticity and heritage; consumers seeking unique and personalized
experiences; improved consumer access to spirits products; and the ability to meet wide-ranging consumer preferences through a broad
diversity of spirits categories and cocktails.

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Industry & Agriculture

Our products for the industry and agriculture
market include alcohols and other products for paint applications, inks, vehicle fluids and fertilizers.

Essential Ingredients

Our essential ingredients include dried yeast,
corn protein meal, corn protein feed, and distillers grains and liquid feed used in commercial animal feed and pet foods. In addition,
we sell yeast for human consumption. We also produce and sell gas and liquid CO2. The raw materials for our essential ingredients
are generated as co-products from our production of alcohols. These co-products are further manufactured, altered and refined into our
essential ingredients, including for special customer applications.

Many of our essential ingredients are used in
a variety of food products to affect their nutrition, including protein and fat content, as well as other product attributes such as
taste, texture, palatability and stability. Our high quality and high purity manufacturing enables our customers to use some of our essential
ingredients in human foods while others are used solely in pet foods and animal feed.

We expect the essential ingredients market to
grow significantly due to global demand for higher-grade protein feed, such as feed used in fisheries and other applications for plant-based
proteins.

Renewable Fuels

Our renewable fuels products include fuel-grade
ethanol primarily used as a transportation fuel additive and distillers corn oil used as a renewable diesel and biodiesel feedstock.
Our renewable fuels business is supported by our own production of fuel-grade ethanol as well as fuel-grade ethanol produced by third
parties. Our renewable fuel products also include ISCC fuel-grade ethanol for export to Europe.

Renewable fuels, primarily fuel-grade ethanol,
are used for a variety of purposes, including as octane enhancers for premium gasoline and to enable refiners to produce greater quantities
of lower octane blend stock; for fuel blending to extend fuel supplies and reduce reliance on crude oil and refined products; and to
comply with a variety of governmental programs, in particular, the national Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS, enacted to promote alternatives
to fossil fuels. Under the RFS, the mandated use of all renewable fuels rose incrementally and peaked at 36.0 billion gallons in 2022,
of which production of 15.0 billion gallons was required from conventional, or corn-based, ethanol. The RFS allows the Environmental
Protection Agency, or EPA, to adjust the annual requirement based on certain facts and circumstances. The EPA set its annual requirement
for conventional ethanol to 15.0 billion gallons for 2025. The EPA has proposed annual requirements for conventional ethanol of 15.0
billion gallons for each of 2026 and 2027. See “—Governmental Regulation.”

According to the Renewable Fuels Association,
the domestic fuel-grade ethanol industry produced approximately 16.4 billion gallons of ethanol in 2025, up from approximately 16.1 billion
gallons of ethanol in 2024. According to the United States Department of Energy, total annual gasoline consumption in the United States
is approximately 137 billion gallons and total annual fuel-grade ethanol blended with gasoline represented approximately 10.5% of this
amount in 2025. We anticipate that continued limited opportunities for gasoline refinery expansions and the growing importance of reducing
CO2 emissions using renewable fuels will generate additional growth in the demand for fuel-grade ethanol.

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Overview of Alcohol Production Process

Alcohol production from starch- or sugar-based
feedstock is a highly efficient process. Modern alcohol production requires large amounts of corn, or other high-starch grains, and water
as well as chemicals, enzymes and yeast, in addition to natural gas and electricity.

Dry Milling Process

In the dry milling process, corn or other high-starch
grain is first ground into flour, then slurried with water to form a mash. Enzymes are added to the mash to convert the starch into dextrose,
a simple sugar. The mash is processed through a high temperature cooking procedure, which reduces bacteria levels prior to fermentation.
The mash is then cooled and transferred to fermenters, where yeast is added and the conversion of sugar to alcohol and CO2 begins.

After fermentation, the resulting “beer”
is transferred to distillation where the alcohol is separated from the residual “stillage.” The resulting alcohol is concentrated
to 190 proof using conventional distillation methods. It can then be dehydrated to approximately 200 proof, representing 100% alcohol
levels, in either a molecular sieve system or a grits system. For fuel-grade ethanol, the resulting anhydrous alcohol is then blended
with up to 2.5% denaturant, usually gasoline, and then shipped to renewable fuels markets. For specialty alcohols, the products can be
sold pure or as one of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) approved specially denatured alcohol (SDA) formulations to
meet customer specifications.

The residual stillage is separated into a coarse
grain portion and a liquid portion through a screw press or centrifugation process. The soluble liquid portion is concentrated to about
40% dissolved solids by an evaporation process. This intermediate state is called condensed distillers solubles, or syrup. The coarse
grain and syrup portions are then mixed to produce wet distillers grains with solubles, or WDGS, or can be mixed and dried to produce
dried distillers grains with solubles, or DDGS. Both WDGS and DDGS are high-protein animal feed products.

Wet Milling Process

In the wet milling process, corn or other high-starch
grain is first soaked or “steeped” in sulfurous acid for approximately 24 hours to soften the whole corn kernel prior to
milling. After steeping, the grain is coarse milled to gently open the kernels to separate the corn germ and from which corn oil is further
extracted in a separate process. The remaining fiber, protein and starch components are further separated and sold.

The stillage from the fermentation process is
concentrated in an evaporator and is co-dried with the fiber component and sold as corn protein feed. The protein component is separated
from the starch, filtered and dried to produce corn protein meal, a product with greater than 60% protein content. The starch component
is processed into alcohol through fermentation. The fermentation process for alcohol at this stage is similar to the dry milling process.
In addition, we separate and dry yeast to produce distillers yeast.

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Overview of Distillers Grains Market

Distillers grains are produced as a co-product
of alcohol production and are valuable components of feed rations primarily to dairies and beef cattle markets, both nationally and internationally.
Our facilities produce both WDGS and DDGS. WDGS is sold to customers proximate to the facilities and DDGS is delivered by truck, rail
and barge to customers in domestic and international markets. Producing WDGS uses up to one-third less process energy, thus reducing
production costs and lowering the carbon footprint of our Western production facilities.

Historically, the market price for distillers
grains has generally tracked the price of corn. We believe that the market price of WDGS and DDGS is determined by a number of factors,
including the market prices of corn, soybean meal and other competitive ingredients, the performance or value of WDGS and DDGS in a particular
feed formulation and general market forces of supply and demand, including export markets for these essential ingredients. The market
price of distillers grains is also often influenced by nutritional models that calculate the feed value of distillers grains by nutritional
content, as well as reliability of consistent supply.

Customers

Our Kinergy Marketing LLC, or Kinergy, subsidiary
sells all of our produced alcohols and also markets fuel-grade ethanol produced by third parties. Our Alto Nutrients, LLC subsidiary
sells all of the essential ingredients we produce. Our Alto Carbonic, LLC subsidiary sells all of the liquid CO2 we produce
and our Eagle Alcohol business sells our alcohols and third-party alcohols in break bulk quantities to customers in the beverage, food,
industrial and related-process industries.

We have extensive and long-standing customer relationships,
both domestic and international, for our specialty alcohols and essential ingredients, including yeast for pet food and human foods.
These customers include producers and distributors of ingredients for cosmetics, sanitizers and related products, distilled spirits producers,
food products manufacturers, producers of personal health/consumer health and personal care hygiene products, and global trading firms.

Our renewable fuel customers are located throughout
the Western and Midwestern United States and consist of integrated oil companies and gasoline marketers who blend fuel-grade ethanol
into gasoline. Our customers depend on us to provide a reliable supply of fuel-grade ethanol and manage the logistics and timing of delivery.
We secure additional fuel-grade ethanol supplies from third-party fuel-grade ethanol plants.

We market our essential ingredient feed products
to dairies and feedlots, in many cases located near our production facilities. These customers use our feed products for livestock as
a substitute for corn and other sources of starch and protein. We sell our corn oil to poultry, renewable diesel and biodiesel customers.

Our Pekin Campus production segment generated
$416 million, $416 million and $502 million in net sales for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively, from the
sale of alcohols. Our Pekin Campus production segment generated $175 million, $169 million and $218 million in net sales for the years
ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively, from the sale of essential ingredients.

During 2025, 2024 and 2023, our Pekin Campus production
segment sold an aggregate of approximately 208 million, 214 million and 209 million gallons of alcohols and 919,600, 906,300 and 878,400
tons of essential ingredients, respectively.

Our Western production segment generated $67 million,
$115 million and $167 million in net sales for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively, from the sale of alcohols.
Our Western production segment generated $32 million, $37 million and $57 million in net sales for the years ended December 31, 2025,
2024 and 2023, respectively, from the sale of essential ingredients.

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During 2025, 2024 and 2023, our Western production
segment sold an aggregate of approximately 33 million, 61 million and 67 million gallons of alcohols and 299,600, 514,600 and 642,300
tons of essential ingredients, respectively.

Our marketing and distribution segment generated
$221 million, $217 million and $263 million in net sales for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively, from the
sale of our own alcohols and third-party produced alcohols.

Our Corporate and other segment, which includes
Eagle Alcohol’s business, generated $7 million, $11 million and $16 million in net sales for the years ended December 31, 2025,
2024 and 2023, respectively, and sold 2.2 million, 3.6 million and 4.0 million gallons of alcohols, respectively, for those years.

During 2025, 2024 and 2023, we produced or purchased
from third parties and resold an aggregate of 350 million, 386 million and 383 million gallons of alcohols to approximately 82, 85 and
88 customers, respectively. For 2025, 2024 and 2023, sales to our largest customer, Chevron Products USA represented an aggregate of
approximately 9%, 11% and 9% of our net sales, respectively. For 2025, 2024 and 2023, sales to each of our other customers represented
less than 10% of our net sales.

Suppliers

Pekin Campus and Western Production Segments

Our production operations depend upon various
raw materials suppliers, including suppliers of corn, natural gas, electricity and water. The cost of corn, including delivery costs,
is the most important variable cost associated with our alcohol production. We source corn for our plants using standard contracts, including
spot purchase, forward purchase and basis contracts. When resources are available, we seek to limit the exposure of our production operations
to raw material price fluctuations by purchasing forward a portion of our corn requirements on a fixed price basis and by purchasing
corn and other raw materials futures contracts and options.

During 2025, 2024 and 2023, purchases of corn
from our two largest suppliers represented an aggregate of approximately 28%, 29% and 26% of our total corn purchases, respectively,
for those periods. Purchases from each of our other corn suppliers represented less than 10% of total corn purchases in each of 2025,
2024 and 2023.

Marketing and Distribution Segment

Our marketing and distribution operations include
alcohols and essential ingredients we produce but also depend upon various third-party producers of fuel-grade ethanol. In addition,
we provide transportation, storage and delivery services through third-party service providers with whom we have contracted to receive
fuel-grade ethanol at agreed upon locations from our third-party suppliers and to store and/or deliver the ethanol to agreed-upon locations
on behalf of our customers. These contracts generally run from year-to-year, subject to termination by either party upon advance written
notice before the end of the then-current annual term.

During 2025, 2024 and 2023, we purchased and resold
from third parties an aggregate of approximately 107 million, 108 million and 103 million gallons, respectively, of fuel-grade ethanol.

During 2025, 2024 and 2023, purchases of fuel-grade
ethanol from our three largest third-party suppliers represented 74%, 79% and 86%, respectively, of our total third-party ethanol purchases
for each of those periods. Purchases from each of our other third-party ethanol suppliers represented less than 10% of total third-party
ethanol purchases in each of 2025, 2024 and 2023.

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Production Facilities

We operate five alcohol production facilities.
Three of our production facilities are located in Illinois, one is located in Oregon, and another is located in Idaho. We have an annual
alcohol production capacity of up to 330 million gallons, including both fuel-grade ethanol and specialty alcohols ranging from industrial-,
pharmaceutical-, and high-quality food- and beverage-grade alcohols. Of this amount, we are able to produce up to 110 million gallons
annually of specialty alcohols, depending on our product mix among high-quality beverage-grade alcohol and other quality specification
alcohols. We also own and operate a liquid CO2 production facility adjacent to our plant in Oregon for the offtake of CO2
gas from the plant for conversion to liquid CO2 and subsequent sale.

The tables below provide an overview of our five
alcohol production facilities and our liquid CO2 production facility. As market conditions change, we may increase, decrease
or idle production at one or more operating facilities or resume operations at any idled facility.

Pekin Campus Production Facilities

Pekin

Wet Facility
Pekin

Dry Facility
Pekin

ICP Facility

Location
Pekin, IL
Pekin, IL
Pekin, IL

Current operating status
Operating
Operating
Operating

Approximate maximum annual alcohol production capacity (in millions of gallons)
100
60
70

Approximate maximum annual specialty alcohol production capacity (in millions of gallons)
74
—
66

Production milling process
Wet
Dry
Dry

Primary energy source
Natural Gas
Natural Gas
Natural Gas

Western Production Facilities

Columbia

Facility
Liquid CO2

Facility
Magic Valley

Facility

Location
Boardman, OR
Boardman, OR
Burley, ID

Current operating status
Operating
Operating
Cold-Idled

Approximate maximum annual fuel-grade ethanol production capacity (in millions of gallons)
40
-
60

Approximate maximum annual liquid CO2 capacity (in thousands of tons)
-
70
-

Production milling process
Dry
N/A
Dry

Primary energy source
Natural Gas
Electricity
Natural Gas

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Commodity Risk Management

We employ various risk mitigation techniques.
For example, we may seek to mitigate our exposure to commodity price fluctuations by purchasing forward a portion of our corn and natural
gas requirements through fixed-price or variable-price contracts with our suppliers, as well as entering derivative contracts for fuel-grade
ethanol, corn and natural gas. To mitigate fuel-grade ethanol inventory price risks, we may sell a portion of our production forward
under fixed- or index-price contracts, or both. We may hedge a portion of the price risks by entering exchange-traded futures contracts
and options. Properly executing these risk mitigation strategies can reduce the volatility of our gross profit margins.

Specialty alcohols have relatively low price volatility
and are usually priced at significant premiums to fuel-grade ethanol. The market price of fuel-grade ethanol is volatile, however, and
subject to large fluctuations. Given the nature of our business, we cannot effectively hedge against extreme volatility or certain market
conditions. For example, fuel-grade ethanol prices, as reported by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, or CME, ranged from $1.57 to $2.07
per gallon during 2025, from $1.38 to $2.12 per gallon during 2024 and from $1.58 to $2.67 per gallon during 2023; and corn prices, as
reported by the CME, ranged from $3.72 to $5.02 per bushel during 2025, from $3.62 to $4.71 per bushel during 2024 and from $4.50 to
$6.85 per bushel during 2023.

Climate-Related and Other Risks

Short- to medium-term climate-related and other
risks include high sensitivity to certain commodity prices such as corn and natural gas; regulatory changes and political volatility,
both domestic and international; ethanol supply and demand imbalances; logistics and storage constraints from river access during inclement
or volatile weather conditions; lack of automation of process optimization; high repair, maintenance and production costs resulting from
older facilities; poor cooling capacity of our older facilities as water temperatures increase; and international market competition.

Long-term climate-related risks include water
resource limitations; lower or volatile grain availability in local markets; market transition away from combustion fuels that include
renewables; and the energy cost impact of technology such as wet milling and multiple distillation processes for high-quality alcohol.
We also may be impacted by costs and regulatory burdens associated with carbon emissions from our production and distribution as well
as truck transport and packaging associated with Eagle Alcohol’s use of drums and totes. See “Risk Factors.”

Marketing Arrangements

We market all the alcohols and essential ingredients
produced at our facilities. We also market and distribute alcohols produced by third parties.

Competition

We are a leading producer of specialty alcohols
in the United States.

Other significant producers of specialty alcohols
in the United States are Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, Grain Processing Corporation, Golden Triangle Energy, CIE and Greenfield Global
Inc. Together with many smaller producers, these companies account for a significant majority of the total installed specialty alcohol
production capacity in the United States.

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The largest producers of fuel-grade ethanol in
the United States are POET, LLC, Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC, Archer-Daniels-Midland Company and Green Plains Inc., collectively
with approximately 39% of the total installed fuel-grade ethanol production capacity in the United States. In addition, there are many
mid-sized fuel-grade ethanol producers with several plants under ownership, smaller producers each with one or two plants, and several
fuel-grade ethanol marketers that create significant competition. Overall, we believe there are over 190 fuel-grade ethanol production
facilities in the United States with a total installed production capacity of approximately 18.5 billion gallons and many brokers and
marketers with whom we compete for sales of fuel-grade ethanol and its co-products.

Our fuel-grade ethanol also competes in a global
market against production from other countries, such as Brazil, which may have lower production costs than United States producers. Lower
feedstock input costs such as sugarcane used in Brazil as compared to corn used in the United States may give foreign producers a competitive
advantage. In addition, fuel-grade ethanol from sugarcane feedstock qualifies as an advanced biofuel, unlike corn ethanol, allowing certain
producers to economically satisfy an advanced biofuel standard. Moreover, new products and production technologies are under continuous
development, many of which, if adopted by competitors, could harm our ability to compete.

We believe that our competitive strengths include
our customer and supplier relationships, our diverse product mix, the barriers to entry to our most profitable lines of business—including
our certifications at our production facilities—our experienced management, and the strategic location of our Midwest production
facilities. See “—Competitive Strengths.”

Governmental Regulation

Our business is subject to a wide range of federal,
state and local laws and regulations directed at protecting public health and the environment, including those promulgated by the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, the EPA, and numerous state, local and international
authorities. These laws, their underlying regulatory requirements and their potential enforcement, some of which are described below,
impact, or may impact, nearly every aspect of our operations, including our alcohol production (including distillation), our essential
ingredient production, including CO2, our storage facilities, and our water usage, wastewater discharge, disposal of hazardous
wastes and emissions, and other matters pertaining to our existing and proposed business by imposing:

● restrictions on our
existing and proposed operations and/or the need to install enhanced or additional controls;

● special requirements
applicable to food and drug additives;

● the need to obtain
and comply with permits and authorizations;

● liability for exceeding
applicable permit limits or legal requirements, in some cases for the remediation of contaminated
soil and groundwater at our production facilities, contiguous and adjacent properties and
other properties owned and/or operated by third parties; and

● other specifications
for the specialty alcohols and essential ingredients we produce, market and sell.

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In
addition, some governmental regulations are helpful to our production and marketing business.
The fuel-grade ethanol industry in particular is supported by federal and state mandates
and environmental regulations that favor the use of fuel-grade ethanol in motor fuel blends.
Some of the governmental regulations applicable to our production and marketing business
are briefly described below.

Food and Drug Regulation

Our products for the Health, Home & Beauty,
Food & Beverage and Essential Ingredients markets are subject to regulation by the FDA as well as similar state agencies.
Under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or FDCA, the FDA regulates the processing, formulation, safety, manufacture, packaging,
labeling and distribution of food ingredients, vitamins, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals for active and inactive ingredients. In 2022,
The Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act (MoCRA) was enacted as part of the FDCA. This was a significant expansion to the FDCA,
and established requirements for cosmetic product facility registration and product listing, widening regulatory oversight of many more
of our customers’ products. Many of the FDA’s and FDCA’s rules and regulations apply directly to us as well as indirectly
through their application in our customers’ products. For proper marketing and sale in the United States, an applicable product
must be generally recognized as safe, approved and not adulterated or misbranded under the FDCA and relevant regulations issued under
the FDCA. The FDA has broad authority to enforce the provisions of the FDCA. Failure to comply with the laws and regulations of the FDA
or similar state agencies could prevent us from selling certain of our products or subject us to liability.

Renewable Fuels Energy Legislation

Under the RFS, the mandated use of all renewable
fuels, including fuel-grade ethanol, rose incrementally and peaked at 36 billion gallons in 2022, including an implied 15 billion
gallons of conventional, or corn-based, ethanol. The EPA set the implied conventional renewable fuel volume at 15 billion gallons for
each of 2023, 2024 and 2025 and has proposed to maintain that level for 2026 and 2027. Under the provisions of the Energy Independence
and Security Act of 2007, the EPA has the authority to waive the mandated RFS requirements in whole or in part. To grant a waiver, the
EPA administrator must determine, in consultation with the Secretaries of Agriculture and Energy, that there is inadequate domestic renewable
fuel supply or implementation of the requirement would severely harm the economy or environment of a state, region or the United States
as a whole.

Various bills in Congress introduced from time
to time are also directed at altering existing renewable fuels energy legislation, but none have passed in recent years. Some legislative
bills are directed at halting or reversing expansion of, or even eliminating, the renewable fuel program, while other bills are directed
at bolstering the program or enacting further mandates or grants that would support the renewable fuels industry.

The EPA has allowed fuel and fuel-additive manufacturers
to introduce into commercial gasoline up to 15% fuel-grade ethanol by volume, or E15, for vehicles from model year 2001 and after. According
to the Renewable Fuels Association, E15 is explicitly approved by the manufacturer for use in approximately 95% of model year 2024 and
newer cars and light trucks based on its annual review of vehicle owner’s manuals and warranty statements. Commercial sales of
E15 have begun in a majority of states. E15 has historically been prohibited in most states during the summer driving season due to concerns
over evaporative emissions and to meet federal clean air standards. For the 2025, 2024 and 2023 summer driving seasons, the EPA issued
emergency fuel waivers to allow the sale of E15 to help alleviate high gasoline prices. E15 may, however, be sold year-round in states
that have a reformulated gasoline program. In February 2024, the EPA issued a final rule approving the petitions of eight Midwestern
states—Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin—to permit the sale of E15 year-round
with an effective date in April 2025, except that the EPA has extended the effective date to April 2026 for Ohio and nine counties in
South Dakota.

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Various states including California, Oregon and
Washington, and other regions such as the Canadian province of British Columbia, have implemented low carbon or clean fuel standard programs
focused on reducing the carbon intensity of transportation fuels. New Mexico has enacted a Clean Transportation Fuel Program, a state
low carbon fuel standard that is scheduled to take effect no later than July 1, 2026. In addition, various states, including New York,
New Jersey, Minnesota, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Massachusetts, Michigan and Illinois, currently have proposed legislation or policies
that would establish a low carbon fuel standard program. Blending fuel-grade ethanol into gasoline is one of the primary means of attaining
these goals.

Additional Environmental Regulations

In addition to the governmental regulations applicable
to the alcohol production and marketing industry described above, our business is subject to additional federal, state and local environmental
regulations, including regulations established by the EPA and state regulatory agencies related to water quality and air pollution control.
We cannot predict the manner by which, or extent to which, these regulations will harm or help our business or the alcohol production
and marketing industry in general.

Human Capital Resources

As of March 12, 2026, we had approximately 390
full-time employees. Our human capital resources objectives include attracting and retaining well-qualified and highly skilled and motivated
employees and executives. As of that same date, approximately 51% of our employees were represented by a labor union and covered by a
collective bargaining agreement. We have never had a work stoppage or strike and we consider our relations with our employees to be good.

Our compensation program is designed to attract,
retain and motivate our personnel. We use a mix of competitive salaries and other benefits to attract and retain employees and executives.
Some of these benefits include matching 401(k) contributions of up to 6% of salary, health and wellness programs and a paid service day
for employees to give back to their communities. At the direction and with the involvement of our Sustainability and Governance board
committees, we have established a Sustainability working committee that draws from our many administrative and operational departments
to review key policies and procedures, conduct employee engagement surveys, champion volunteering and charitable drives, develop and
implement formalized recruiting and training efforts to prioritize collecting data and improve on key metrics from industry frameworks
such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standards which are maintained by
the International Sustainability Standards Board of the IFRS Foundation.

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