U.S. Bio Ord Starts Ethanol Production at New Ord Nebraska Plant

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). US BioEnergy Corporation (NASDAQ:USBE) (Brookings, South Dakota) and subsidiary US Bio Ord LLC (Ord, Nebraska) has started grinding corn and producing batches of ethanol at their new fuel ethanol plant located in Ord, Nebraska.

Construction started on the project began in December 2005 and was completed in seventeen months, about three months ahead of the original 20 month construction time table. The plant has the capacity of producing 50 million gallons per year of ethanol and will also generate 275,000 tons of wet distiller’s grains when running at full capacity. Currently, the plant is going through equipment de-bugging and tweaking and the plant is expected to be running at full efficiency and capacity within the next 10 to 14 days.

The plant was designed and built by Fagen Incorporated (Granite Falls, Minnesota) and represents a capital investment of over $75 million.

US BioEnergy currently has four ethanol plants under construction in the country representing 400 million gallons of annual capacity. Once current plants under construction go on-line, it will boost the companies overall production capacity to over 700 million gallons per year. The company already has three operational plants running in Central City, Nebraska (100MM gal/yr); Albert City, Iowa (100MM gal/yr) and Lake Odessa, Michigan (50MM gal/yr).

Additional plants in the pre-construction stage are located in Springfield, Minnesota (100MM gal/yr); Guymon, Oklahoma (55MM gal/yr); Altamont, Illinois (100MM gal/yr) and Hayland, Nebraska (100MM gal/yr). Once all twelve plants are on-line, US BioEnergy will have the capacity of producing over 1 billion gallons of fuel ethanol annually by the fall of 2009.

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