VeraSun breaks ground on two plants in one week
October 26, 2006
BY Dave Nilles
VeraSun Energy is strengthening its hold as the nation's No. 2 ethanol producer. The Brookings, South Dakota-based company announced this week that construction started on two more 110 MMgy plants.
Archer Daniels Midland Co. is the largest U.S. ethanol producer with more than 1.1 billion gallons of production per year. With the completion of VeraSun's newest projects the company expects to have production capacity of 560 MMgy of ethanol by the end of the first quarter of 2008.
VeraSun's two new projects are in Welcome, Minn., and Hartley, Iowa. Both plants are 110 MMgy and being built by Granite Falls, Minn.-based Fagen Inc. Colwich, Kan.-based ICM Inc. is providing engineering for both facilities, which are slated to start-up in the first quarter of 2008.
The facilities will each consume more than 39 million bushels of corn per year. VeraSun will market the plants' ethanol and distillers grains.
The company said a public information meeting is being planned with a formal groundbreaking ceremony in the spring of 2007. Contractors are on site and initial site work is underway, according to VeraSun.
The Hartley and Welcome plants will be VeraSun's fourth and fifth facilities. VeraSun's Aurora, S.D., plant began operations in December 2003 and was the first new generation ethanol plant built at 100 MMgy. The plant now produces 120 MMgy. The company's 100 MMgy Fort Dodge, Iowa, facility began production in October 2005.
VeraSun has a third plant under construction near Charles City, Iowa. The 110 MMgy facility is slated to start operations at the end of the second quarter of 2007.
VeraSun Welcome LLC
Location: Welcome, Minnesota
General contractor: Fagen Inc.
Process technology: ICM Inc.
Capacity: 110 MMgy
Feedstock: corn
Ethanol marketer: VeraSun Energy
Distillers grains marketer: VeraSun Energy
Carbon dioxide marketer: N/A
Broke ground: November 2006
Target start-up date: first quarter 2008
VeraSun Hartley LLC
Location: Hartley, Iowa
General contractor: Fagen Inc.
Process technology: ICM Inc.
Capacity: 110 MMgy
Feedstock: corn
Ethanol marketer: VeraSun Energy
Distillers grains marketer: VeraSun Energy
Carbon dioxide marketer: N/A
Broke ground: November 2006
Target start-up date: first quarter 2008
Dave Nilles is Online Editor for Ethanol Producer Magazine. Reach him at dnilles@bbibiofuels.com or (701) 373-0636.
Posted: 12:57 p.m. CST Friday, December 1, 2006
Archer Daniels Midland Co. is the largest U.S. ethanol producer with more than 1.1 billion gallons of production per year. With the completion of VeraSun's newest projects the company expects to have production capacity of 560 MMgy of ethanol by the end of the first quarter of 2008.
VeraSun's two new projects are in Welcome, Minn., and Hartley, Iowa. Both plants are 110 MMgy and being built by Granite Falls, Minn.-based Fagen Inc. Colwich, Kan.-based ICM Inc. is providing engineering for both facilities, which are slated to start-up in the first quarter of 2008.
The facilities will each consume more than 39 million bushels of corn per year. VeraSun will market the plants' ethanol and distillers grains.
The company said a public information meeting is being planned with a formal groundbreaking ceremony in the spring of 2007. Contractors are on site and initial site work is underway, according to VeraSun.
The Hartley and Welcome plants will be VeraSun's fourth and fifth facilities. VeraSun's Aurora, S.D., plant began operations in December 2003 and was the first new generation ethanol plant built at 100 MMgy. The plant now produces 120 MMgy. The company's 100 MMgy Fort Dodge, Iowa, facility began production in October 2005.
VeraSun has a third plant under construction near Charles City, Iowa. The 110 MMgy facility is slated to start operations at the end of the second quarter of 2007.
VeraSun Welcome LLC
Location: Welcome, Minnesota
General contractor: Fagen Inc.
Process technology: ICM Inc.
Capacity: 110 MMgy
Feedstock: corn
Ethanol marketer: VeraSun Energy
Distillers grains marketer: VeraSun Energy
Carbon dioxide marketer: N/A
Broke ground: November 2006
Target start-up date: first quarter 2008
VeraSun Hartley LLC
Location: Hartley, Iowa
General contractor: Fagen Inc.
Process technology: ICM Inc.
Capacity: 110 MMgy
Feedstock: corn
Ethanol marketer: VeraSun Energy
Distillers grains marketer: VeraSun Energy
Carbon dioxide marketer: N/A
Broke ground: November 2006
Target start-up date: first quarter 2008
Dave Nilles is Online Editor for Ethanol Producer Magazine. Reach him at dnilles@bbibiofuels.com or (701) 373-0636.
Posted: 12:57 p.m. CST Friday, December 1, 2006
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