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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