Green Way Bio Energy to Start Construction on New Arkansas Biodiesel Plant This Week

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). Privately-owned and newly formed biofuel venture Green Way Bio Energy, LLC (Stuttgart, Arkansas) is planning to start construction this week on what will become Arkansas’ third operating biodiesel plant. Plans were to originally build a 10 million-gallon per year plant but the size of the plant has now been scaled back to a 5 million-gallon per year facility. The plant will utilize virgin soybean oil feedstock to produce the fuel and the port location is ideal for receiving raw product and shipment of finished product.

The company has hired local design-build contractor Agri Process Innovations (Stuttgart, Arkansas) to construct the plant and plans are to start mobilizing equipment and field personnel to the site later this week. The plant will be located at the Port of Little Rock on Industrial Drive.

Costs to build the plant are approximately $5 million and construction is expected to be complete by May or June of 2007.

Back in April of 2006, another emerging player in Arkansas’ biofuel development, Patriot Biofuels began operating a 3 million-gallon per year biodiesel plant in Stuttgart and is planning to ramp up production to 10 million gallons per year by the spring of 2007.

And another Arkansas biodiesel producer FutureFuel Corporation (Batesville, Arkansas), formally Eastman Chemical Company as of October 31, 2006, was producing only 3 million gallons per year of the renewable fuel and is currently undergoing a $40 million, multi-phase expansion project to increase production capacity to over 160 million gallons per year by late 2007.

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