Photo: Renewable Energy Group Inc.
July 10, 2013
BY Renewable Energy Group Inc.
Renewable Energy Group Inc. recently completed $21 million in technology upgrades at its 30 MMgy biodiesel refinery in southern Minnesota. The on-time, on-budget upgrades allow REG Albert Lea to run a wide variety of locally sourced agricultural byproducts such as animal fats, used cooking oils, inedible corn oils and yellow grease as well as vegetable oils.
Within days of start-up, all biodiesel produced met the company’s REG-9000 quality specifications, which exceed the industry’s ASTM D6751 B100 standard. The multifeedstock product has been available since June 19 and enhances biodiesel product availability options as the state of Minnesota prepares to increase its diesel blending requirement from B5 to B10.
REG will celebrate the project with an official ribbon cutting ceremony later this summer.
Photos of the site and new product can be found online.
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Renewable Energy Group is a leading North American biodiesel producer with a nationwide distribution and logistics system. Utilizing an integrated value chain model, Renewable Energy Group is focused on converting natural fats, oils and greases into advanced biofuels. With more than 225 million gallons of owned/operated annual production capacity at biorefineries across the country, REG is a proven biodiesel partner in the distillate marketplace.
For more than a decade, REG has been a reliable supplier of biodiesel that meets or exceeds ASTM quality specifications. It sells REG-9000 biodiesel to distributors so Americans can have cleaner burning fuels that help lessen dependence on foreign oil. REG-9000 branded biodiesel is distributed in nearly every state in the U.S.
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