"LUKOIL" AND BIOENERGY WILL BUILD A PLANT IN THE USA

MEMS USA, Inc. recently announced that it has formed a joint venture with Central Pacific Power, Inc., Can-Am Ethanol Two, Inc. to design, build, own, operate and maintain a synthetic biomass-to-ethanol processing plant in Canada. According to MEMS, the plant will cost approximately $150 million to build, with a planned ......

Local Pennsylvania newspaper the Chambersburg Public Opinion reported last month that Franklin County, PA judge Richard Walsh has ruled that York, PA-based developer Penn-Mar Ethanol, LLC must hold conditional use hearings to obtain a permit to build a proposed $80-million ethanol production facility in Greene Township, PA. According to the ......

Is an ethanol supply glut coming in the second half of 2007? Some analysts are predicting that a rash of new ethanol production plants coming online in late 2007 will increase production enough to produce a major surplus. According to the Renewable Fuels Association, there are 120 ethanol biorefineries nationwide ......

Cayuga Concrete Pipe, a subsidiary of Oldcastle Precast, Inc., recently announced the opening of a new concrete pipe plant creating enhanced manufacturing capacity in Croydon, Pa. The new 15,000-square-foot facility, including an automated bi-directional Packerhead pipe production machine, customized moving floor, robotically controlled overhead crane and computerized batching system, is ......

Four entrepreneurs plan to build a biodiesel production plant in York and push Central Pennsylvania onto a small but growing alternative fuels bandwagon. United Biofuels Inc. plans to set up its plant in the city and begin marketing the fuel intensively to local governments for use in official vehicles. Its ......

The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) recently announced that the US BioEnergy Corporation has begun construction on an ethanol plant near Lake Odessa, MI. According to RFA, the plant will be capable of processing 16 million bushels of corn into 45 million gallons of ethanol and 136,000 tons of distillers grains ......

South Dakota-based Broin Cos. has announced plans to build an ethanol plant in Wells County and to put that 60 million-gallon plant on the same side of the city as another planned ethanol project underway by Indiana Bio-Energy LLC, a group of local investors. According to Broin, the new plant, ......

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