Rentech Announces Conference Schedule for April 2011

Rentech, Inc. (NYSE AMEX: RTK) today announced its conference schedule for April 2011.

April 13, 2011SAE 2011 World CongressCharging Forward on Petroleum AlternativesDetroit, MIPresenter and panelist: Dr. Harold Wright, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology OfficerSpeaking Time: 10:30 a.m. EDT

April 18-19, 20115th Annual Aboriginal Energy ConferenceToronto, OntarioAttendees and conference sponsors: Doug Miller, EVP of Project Development, and Chris Amey, Director of Project Development

April 21, 2011Advanced Biofuels Leadership ConferenceWashington, D.C.Presenter: Hunt Ramsbottom, President and CEOSpeaking Time: 12:30 p.m. EDT (Presentation)

About Rentech, Inc.

Rentech, Inc. (www.rentechinc.com), incorporated in 1981, provides clean energy solutions. The Company's Rentech-SilvaGas biomass gasification process can convert multiple biomass feedstocks into synthesis gas (syngas) for production of renewable fuels and power. Combining the gasification process with Rentech's unique application of syngas conditioning and clean-up technology and the patented Rentech Process based on Fischer-Tropsch chemistry, Rentech offers an integrated solution for production of synthetic fuels from biomass. The Rentech Process can also convert syngas from fossil resources into ultra-clean synthetic jet and diesel fuels, specialty waxes and chemicals. Final product upgrading and acid gas removal technologies are provided under an alliance with UOP, a Honeywell company. Rentech develops projects and licenses these technologies for application in synthetic fuels and power facilities worldwide. Rentech Energy Midwest Corporation, the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, manufactures and sells nitrogen fertilizer products including ammonia, urea ammonia nitrate, urea granule, and urea solution in the corn-belt region of the central United States. Rentech has been recognized by Biofuels Digest as one of the “50 Hottest Companies in Bio-energy” and has been named as one of the “Biofuels Digest Companies of the Year” for its innovations and achievements, particularly in aviation biofuels.

For more information

Please contact: Julie Dawoodjee, VP of Investor Relations, Rentech, Inc. at 310-571-9800, extension 341, or by email at [e-mail].