VeraSun Brings 110 Million Gallons per Year Fuel Ethanol Plant Online in Iowa

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Privately held VeraSun Fort Dodge LLC (Aurora, South Dakota), the renewable energy arm of VeraSun Energy Corporation, held its ethanol plant grand opening over the weekend and has begun full capacity production at a brand new plant in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Industrialinfo.com has been tracking the project since late 2003 and reported on the ceremonial groundbreaking of the plant in September of 2004 (See related article - VeraSun Energy Plans Groundbreaking This Saturday for Fuel Ethanol Plant in Iowa). Construction of the facility has taken only fifteen months to complete. VeraSun becomes the twenty-first operational ethanol plant in the state of Iowa adding 110 million gallons per year of additional capacity to the domestic fuel ethanol market.

Currently, twenty-one plants in state of Iowa have the ability to produce over one billion gallons of ethanol annually, leading all other U.S states in ethanol production.

The plant will process over 40 million bushels of corn per year into ethanol and also produce 353,000 tons of dried distiller’s grains and create 40 new jobs for the rural community.

The company employed ICM, Incorporated (Colwich, Kansas) as the engineering firm for the project, and the leading ethanol plant builder, Fagen, Incorporated (Granite Falls, Minnesota) served as the general contractor for the $140 million project.

Ethanol production in the state of Iowa is not tapped by a long shot. Currently, ten additional plants are under construction that are expected to add an additional 547 million gallons to the state’s overall capacity and seven other plants are at this time in various stages of early development that could grow the industry by another 358 million gallons. Once all the plants come online by early 2008, Iowa could have the capacity of producing nearly two billion gallons of the renewable fuel annually.

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