Two ethanol plants begin production

April 23, 2007

US BioEnergy Corp. and The Andersons Inc. have both announced the recent openings of ethanol plants within their companies. US BioEnergy's facility at Ord, Neb., and The Andersons' plant at Clymers, Ind., are both operational and producing fuel ethanol from corn.

US Bio Ord is a 50 MMgy facility in central Nebraska that broke ground in December 2005 and was completed ahead of its 20-month construction schedule. The facility is expected to utilize 15 million to 18 million bushels of local corn per year and produce about 275,000 tons of modified wet distillers grains in addition to fuel ethanol.

The Ord plant is the fourth US BioEnergy plant on line and the third brought into production since September 2006. The company also has three additional plants in construction. When all US BioEnergy plants are producing, the company is expected to have a fuel ethanol capacity of 600 MMgy.

The Andersons Clymers Ethanol LLC is a 110 MMgy facility in north-central Indiana and is expected to produce 350,000 tons of distillers dried grains per year in addition to its fuel ethanol output. Construction on the ICM Inc.-designed plant began in early 2006 and The Andersons is a 37 percent equity investor in the project. The company will manage the facility and provide grain origination, risk management and market both the distillers dried grains and fuel ethanol.

Based in Maumee, Ohio, The Andersons also has a 55 MMgy facility operating in Albion, Mich., and another 110 MMgy facility under construction in Greenville, Ohio.

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