Rentech Announces Conference Schedule for May 2011

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

May 2, 2011Milken Institute Global Conference 2011Natural Gas and America’s Energy FutureLos Angeles, CAPanel Moderator: Dr. Harold Wright, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology OfficerPanel Time: 11:00 a.m. PDT

May 4, 2011Coordinating Research CouncilEmerging Fuels GroupLife Cycle Assessment of BTL Diesel and Jet Fuels Produced from Forested ProductsSeattle, WAPresenter: Dr. Robert Freerks, Director of Product Development

May 24, 2011Stifel Nicolaus Cleantech Conference 2011New York, NYPresenter: Dan Cohrs, EVP & Chief Financial OfficerSpeaking Time: 12:55 p.m. EDT (Presentation and Webcast)

May 25-26, 2011Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative Environmental Team GHG, LCA and Sustainability WorkshopsCambridge, MAAttendee: Dr. Robert Freerks, Director of Product Development

About Rentech, Inc.

Rentech, Inc. (www.rentechinc.com), incorporated in 1981, provides clean energy solutions. The Company's Rentech-SilvaGas and Rentech-ClearFuels biomass gasification processes 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.