ADM to build large biodiesel plant in Alberta

In Canada, one of the world’s largest grain processors, Archer Daniels Midland, announced plans to build a 70-million gallon biodiesel plant in Lloydminster, Alberta, Canada, increasing its North American biodiesel production capacity by 50 percent.

The new plant will be located adjacent to the company’s existing canola-crushing facility, which the company is also expanding. The biodiesel plant also will be used to fulfill renewable diesel requirements in Canada, which mandates that all diesel fuel and heating oil sold in the country contain at least 2 percent biodiesel.

Construction of the Lloydminster plant is expected to start in the spring of 2012, with completion planned for the end of 2013.