Hero BX wins $1.64 million grant to expand biodiesel production capacity from 45 Mgy to 55 Mgy

In Pennsylvania, Hero BX won a $1.64 million grant to expand its biodiesel production by 10 Mgy to 55 Mgy. American Agriculturalist is reporting that the company expects to move to up to 25 percent camelina as a feedstock source by 2012. According to the report, the company is already working with Penn State Extension and Ernst Seeds on the feedstock switch, and has previously highlighted to the DIgest its works with Great Plains—The Camelina Company.

The company said it is researching a Pennsylvania-grown camelina feedstock operation to diversify its feedstocks sources while encouraging Pennsylvania based feedstocks. The company is working with Great Plains — The Camelina Company on development, and noted that Pennsylvania has 200,000 of land unusable for food production, which could be returned to production with the introduction of camelina. “Camelina is not ‘the’ answer, but it is a step in the right direction,” Kosar told the Digest in September, at the time the company changed its name from Lake Erie Biofuels to Hero BX.

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