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Brazilian Company to Build Grain-Based Ethanol Plants

January 30, 2013
http://www.biofuels-news.com/industry_news.php?item_id=5821

Brazil-based biofuel company Vinema Biorefinarias do Sul Ltda. plans to invest $354 million for the construction of six ethanol fuel plants that will use grains as raw material. The fuel mills will be built in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul where ethanol is imported from other states that manufacture the fuel from sugarcane. The plants are expected to produce annually 600 million liters of ethanol fuel from grains such as rice, sorghum and oats from year 2020.