Ghana's First Ethanol Plant to Open in March
February 10, 2016http://biofuels-news.com/display_news/10155/ghanas_first_ethanol_plant_to_begin_commercial_production_in_march/
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Caltech Ventures, a Ghana-based cassava cropping and processing company, will start the production of ethanol from cassava at a distillery in Hodzo this March 2016.
This would be the first industrial-scale ethanol production in Ghana, which usually imports around 60m liters of ethanol per year. Kasapreko Company (KCL), an indigenous alcoholic beverage producer and a large importer of ethanol, holds 40% shares in Caltech Ventures.
The project will also produce electricity and animal feed. The company will initially use 400 hectares of cassava and will increase this to 1,000 hectares by the end of 2016.
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