Local ethanol plant thriving despite high input costs
WJBC.com
By: Carrie Muehling
GIBSON CITY – The ethanol industry has changed dramatically since the One Earth Energy plant near Gibson City began manufacturing ethanol just a few years ago.
Young professionals within the grain industry in Illinois toured the plant Friday as a part of a development and leadership day coordinated by the Grain and Feed Association of Illinois.
The group learned about the process of making ethanol in a dry grind plant, where the feedstock is corn, and on any given day corn is ground into flour, which is then converted with enzymes into ethanol and dried distiller’s grains, or DDG. One Earth Energy runs 365 days a year and 24 hours a day, according to Steve Kelly, general manager of the facility.
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Young professionals within the grain industry in Illinois toured the plant Friday as a part of a development and leadership day coordinated by the Grain and Feed Association of Illinois.
The group learned about the process of making ethanol in a dry grind plant, where the feedstock is corn, and on any given day corn is ground into flour, which is then converted with enzymes into ethanol and dried distiller’s grains, or DDG. One Earth Energy runs 365 days a year and 24 hours a day, according to Steve Kelly, general manager of the facility.
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