Johnson Renewables and Fage USA legal battle kicks up a notch

In New York state, the legal macerations between Johnson Renewables and Fage USA continue as the former filed a $13 million countersuit against the latter following the latter’s original suit this summer following the biofuels company’s failure to establish a co-located ethanol production plant at Fage’s yoghurt plant by October 31, 2016. The facility would have used acid whey from yoghurt production as feedstock. A major financier of Johnson’s died unexpectedly a few months after the agreement to build the plant had been signed, significantly delaying the project.

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