Brazil’s first integrated ethanol-biodiesel plant was recently opened this November by no less than Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva. Located in Barra do Bugres, Mato Grosso (in Brazil’s soybean belt), the plant will produce cane-derived ethanol and biodiesel from soybean. The plant is seen to boost Brazil’s failing soy and oilseed crushing industries. The integration of bioethanol and biodiesel in a single integrated plant is said to provide major infrastructure and energy savings..