Corn Oil ONE breaks ground for distillers corn oil facility at SIRE ethanol plant
In Iowa, Corn Oil ONE has broken ground for its new distillers corn oil facility in Council Bluffs, to be collocated with a Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy ethanol plant. The plant will purify constituents out of distillers corn oil with a patent-pending process. The purified product will “improve the efficiency, efficacy and economics of biodiesel and oleo-chemical production by eliminating the need for capital-intensive pretreatment steps,” said Joe Riley, Corn Oil ONE’s general manager.
The plant is expected to be completed in early 2015 and will source much of its distillers corn oil from FEC solutions, based out of Des Moines.
As the Digest previously reported, SIRE joined the Renewable Fuels Association this year as the Iowa ethanol industry seeks to preserve government incentives for biofuel development. SIRE is located in Council Bluffs, Iowa and produces more than 120 million gallons of ethanol and more than 330,000 tons of Dried Distillers’ Grain (DDG) each year. The company also produces both wet DDGs and corn oil, selling their high protein feedstock to facilities in the United States, Mexico, and the Pacific Rim. They are involved in the local agricultural community consuming more than 40 million bushels of corn per year from local farms in both Iowa and Nebraska.
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