Associated British Foods plc (ABF), the international food, ingredients and retail group announced in June 2007 that it has joined forces with BP and DuPont to build a world-scale biofuel plant in the UK.
The ~£200 million plant will produce bioethanol from wheat and is expected to produce 420m litres (330,000 tonnes) of bioethanol a year. Production is expected to start in late 2009.
Associated British Foods plc (ABF), the international food, ingredients and retail group announced in June 2007 that it has joined forces with BP and DuPont to build a world-scale biofuel plant in the UK.
The ~£200 million plant will produce bioethanol from wheat and is expected to produce 420m litres (330,000 tonnes) of bioethanol a year. Production is expected to start in late 2009.
The plant will initially produce bioethanol, but the partners will look at the feasibility of converting it to biobutanol once the technology is available. BP and DuPont intend to build a jointly funded biobutanol demonstration plant, which will run in parallel with the main plant.
This announcement follows the previously announced investment by British Sugar to build the UK's first bioethanol plant at Wissington, Norfolk. This plant will produce 70m litres (55,000 tonnes) of bioethanol a year, using sugar beet as a feedstock, and the plant will start production next month.
You can read a press release here.
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