Castle Rock Renewable Ships First Load of Ethanol from New Wisconsin Plant

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Investor-owned ethanol start-up Castle Rock Renewable Fuels LLC (Necedah, Wisconsin) loaded 12 rail cars last week and shipped the first batch of fuel ethanol from its new plant in Necedah. The plant officially started production on February 2, 2008, and is currently tweaking production equipment and working out the bugs.

The company broke ground on the project in October 2006, and the plant was built in the traditional 14- to 16-month construction window. For more information, see related October 31, 2006, article - Castle Rock Renewable Breaks Ground on New Fuel Ethanol Plant in Wisconsin. The plant utilizes ICM Incorporated's (Colwich, Kansas) licensed ethanol process technology and was built by Fagen Incorporated (Granite Falls, Minnesota).

The 50 million-gallon-per-year plant will process approximately 19 million bushels of corn annually and generate 160,000 tons of dried distillers grains per year. The cost to build the plant is estimated in the $100 million-plus range.

The plant, which employs 35 people, is located in Central Wisconsin in Juneau County roughly 125 miles northwest of Milwaukee.

Ethanol production in Wisconsin continues to rise, and with the Castle Rock plant now operational, eight plants are running in the Badger State with a total production capacity of 458 million gallons annually.

Industrial Info's Ethanol Database provides a comprehensive outline of all current development activities in the emerging alternative fuels market. This database covers 124 ethanol plants in operation and 504 plants under development. It also covers 68 operational biodiesel plants and 205 biodiesel plants under development.

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