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Following is a list of other notable transactions in the ethanol industry during the past year:
• Poet LLC purchased a 90 MMgy ethanol plant in Cloverdale, Ind., and celebrated its reopening in March.
• Pacific Ethanol Inc. restarted its 60 MMgy plant in Stockton, Calif., in December 2010. • The Scoular Company acquired Gate- way Plant LLC in February, planning to extensively renovate the 55 MMgy ethanol in Pratt, Kan., and get it fully operational by fourth quarter 2011. • Kawartha Ethanol Inc. completed its first ethanol plant in Havelock, Ontario. The 80 MMly (21 MMgy) ethanol plant was fully operational in January. • In April, Suncor Energy St. Clair, an ethanol plant in Sarnia, Ontario, announced it had completed an ex- pansion from 200 MMly to 400 MMly. • After nearly two years of sitting idle, the 30 MMgy Abengoa Bioenergy Corp. plant in Portales, N.M., restart- ed in early 2011. • Cargill Inc. announced in March that it was purchasing the completed, but never fully operational, Tate & Lyle corn wet mill ethanol plant in Fort Dodge, Iowa, with plans to create a biorefinery campus to produce etha- nol and other biobased products, similar to its Blair, Neb., campus. • Flint Hills Resources Renewables LLC acquired plants in Shell Rock and Menlo, Iowa, in September 2010 and plants in Iowa Falls and Fair banks, Iowa, in February. All four plants were previously owned by Hawkeye Renewables LLC, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2009. • AltEn LLC is working to restart the former E3 Biofuels plant in Mead,
Neb., a closed-loop ethanol plant co- located with a feedlot and anaerobic digesters. • The 85 MMgy ethanol plant in Ful- ton, N.Y., began producing again in July after being purchased at bank- ruptcy auction by oil refiner Sunoco Inc. • ADM held a ribbon-cutting ceremony in July 2010 to commemorate startup of its 300 MMgy dry mill ethanol plant in Columbus, Neb. • Tharaldson Ethanol Inc. in Cassel- ton, N.D., increased its capacity from 120 MMgy to 150 MMgy in early 2011. • Guardian Energy Holdings LLC acquired a majority share in a 54 MMgy ethanol plant in Lima, Ohio. A retrofit is under way with the facil- ity expected to be operational by the second quarter of 2011.
advantage of being close to the markets for ethanol and wet distillers grains (WDGs). Ethanol is railed to California and the Gulf Coast, while WDGs have found a ready market with the 3.5 million head of cattle in feedlots around the ethanol plant. The disadvantage, of course, is corn supplies are railed in. On the other hand, with 4.8 million bushels of corn storage at the plant the company may be able to develop trading opportunities with the corn it brings in from the Midwest. Another idled plant currently in the process of being restarted is the former Cascade Grain Products plant in Clatskanie, Ore. The 108 MMgy ethanol plant operated for about six months in 2008 before shutting down. It is now owned and being restarted by JH Kelly, one of the contractors who built the plant, and a creditor when the company entered bankruptcy. Renamed Columbia Pacific Bio-Refinery, the ethanol plant is currently undergoing a retrofit with the hope of restarting the Delta-T designed plant this fall,
says Mark Fisler, partner and managing director of Ocean Park Advisors, the company retained to develop strategic alternatives for the facility. One important step in the process of restarting the plant is hiring a general manager. The company recently brought on Dan Luckett, who worked previously for Delta-T, now Applied Process Technology International LLC, and also served as a project engineer at a Michigan ethanol plant, Fisler says. Marquis Energy LLC is a nother company with big plans. Just before the end of 2010 the company acquired a 50 MMgy ethanol plant in Wisconsin. The former Castle Rock Renewable Fuels plant, now renamed Marquis Energy–Wisconsin LLC, is the company’s second ethanol plant, joining the 140 MMgy Marquis Energy plant in Hennepin, Ill. But that plant won’t remain that size much longer. This spring the company announced it would begin construction in the fall to double the capacity to 280 MMgy,
• DENCO II, a 34 MMgy idled Morris, Minn., ethanol plant was re- started in October. • Renova Energy Idaho LLC, a 20 MMgy Heyburn, Idaho, ethanol plant was sold off, piece by piece at auction. Natural Chem Holdings LLC, purchased the on-site anaerobic digester and plans to produce biogas from thick stillage or syrup from area ethanol plants. • Clean Burn Fuels LLC, a 60 MMgy ethanol plant at Raeford, N.C., filed for bankruptcy in April. The plant is idle but the company hopes to restart this year.
bringing the production facility in line with Archer Daniels Midland Co.’s monster ethanol plants. The company has had expansion in mind since construction began on the plant, says Mark Marquis, president of Marquis Energy. It is well situated to produce large amounts of ethanol, with sufficient local corn supplies. The plant is located near the Illinois River where the company operates a barge terminal, plus it has rail access with the Norfolk Southern Railroad. Marquis complimented the plant’s staff for its work to increase the capacity in the existing plant, even before the full-scale expansion begins. “Between the production team, and the logistic advantages here, it’s really a unique site that justifies the size of plant,” he says. Author: Holly Jessen Associate Editor, Ethanol Producer Magazine. (701) 738-4946 hjessen@bbiinternational.com
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