Flint Hills acquires Georgia Ethanol plant

Flint Hills Resources, a biofuels and chemicals company, has finalised the acquisition of an ethanol plant near Camilla, Georgia, from Southwest Georgia Ethanol.

Flint Hills Resources' biofuels business now includes seven ethanol plants with a combined annual capacity of 820 million gallons, a biodiesel plant and investments in biofuels technology and feedstock development. Camilla is the company's first ethanol plant located outside of the Midwest.

The Camilla plant opened in 2008 and has an annual capacity of 120 million gallons of ethanol. It also produces more than 310,000 tonnes of dried distillers grains and approximately 21 million pounds of non-food grade corn oil each year.