Commercial Alcohols Begins Construction of $150 Million Ethanol Plant in Quebec

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Inc; Houston, Texas). Commercial Alcohols (Brampton, ON) has secured financing and will start construction of a $150 million Ethanol plant in Lajemmerais Province within Varennes, Quebec. SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, PQ) has been awarded Engineering, Procurement, and Construction services for the project. The plant is expected to hire 50 full time employees and will produce 120 million liters per year of ethanol using approximately 15 million bushels per year of corn as a feedstock. The project will begin construction in September 2001 and commercial operation is expected by late 2002.