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Thursday, April 7, 2011

Poet corn oil to supply up to 60 MMgy of biodiesel production

Biodiesel Magazine By Poet LLC April 06, 2011

Planned expansion of corn oil production at all of Poet’s ethanol plants will produce enough raw material for up to 60 million gallons of biodiesel.


Poet, which owns a total of 1.7 billion gallons of ethanol refining capacity, is now selling trademarked Voilà corn oil from Poet Biorefining-Hudson in South Dakota into biodiesel and feed markets, and its success has prompted Poet to start plans for rolling out its patent-pending production to its other plants. The rollout schedule is still being set, but the company will begin installation this year on the first plants.

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