Arkansas SoyEnergy Opens Crush/Biodiesel Facility

from Arkansas Business

Arkansas SoyEnergy Group LLC on Tuesday marked the opening of what it says is the "first and only" biodiesel facility in Arkansas with an on-site crusher, making it capable of taking locally-grown soybeans "from the field to the fuel tank" at one location.

The facility, at Arkansas SoyEnergy's DeWitt plant on 2780 Highway 165 South, began operating in mid-2007, and fuel production will begin in April.

Arkansas SoyEnergy said its fuel production facility has the capacity to make 3.5 million gallons of biodiesel now, and can be expanded up to 10 million gallons. The facility is designed to produce cost-competitive biodiesel and other byproducts, and be a "significant contributor to the economy of Arkansas County and southeast Arkansas."

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