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Biodiesel Plant Set to Open Tomorrow
   posted 3:04 pm Mon February 18, 2008 - Dewitt, AR
Arkansas SoyEnergy Group LLC is to open its biodiesel facility near DeWitt tomorrow. The company says the plant will turn soybeans grown in the area into fuel and other products.
     The company says the facility will be the only one in Arkansas with its own crusher, which will enable the soybeans to be fully processed on site.
     The plant on U.S. Highway 165, four miles south of DeWitt, is to ship soybean meal, soybean oil and a diesel fuel that is 100 percent soy.
     Senator Blanche Lincoln and Congressman Marion Berry are to be on hand for tomorrow's opening.
     The plant is to have a crushing capacity of 4 million bushels per year, which would produce 4.5 million gallons of oil. A second phase is to expand that to 7 million gallons of soydiesel.
Latest Comment on Biodiesel Plant Set to Open Tomorrow
AR Veteran
This is great news for DeWitt. Some may have never been to DeWitt but it is a rural Arkansas County town of a couple thousand people. Having been born and raised nearby. I have seen the town slowly dwindle away. Business after business has closed over the years. The shoe factory closed pre Iraq invasion but was reopened and now makes most of the boots the military is wearing at this moment. That was great news for the city and families when it reopened being it employeed more than anyone else. Adams fertilizer equipment is the next bigest factory in the town. . Now a new biodiesel facility is coming to town and not sure how many it will employ but it will make a difference. A difference in many ways. It helps the enviorment, farmers, farm hands, local stores etc. And I belive it is something that will catch roots and grow very well. I congratulate The Hornbeck Brothers, Congressman Berry and Senator Blanche Lincoln for the vision of this becoming great for the small town and other rural areas. Fuel is blood to America and until we become less dependent on foreign oil and come up with new technolgies we are in for a long tuff ride. So again Congrats and keep America Strong. God Bles!

     
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