ADM to increase biodiesel production capacity

Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is to construct a biodiesel plant in Canada to help fulfil the nation's renewable diesel mandate.

In response to the B2 blending mandate that came into effect on 1 July this year, the new plant will be designed to produce 265 million litres a year of biodiesel from canola. It will be located in Lloydminster, Alberta, Canada, adjacent to ADM's existing canola crushing facility.

The manufacturing facility will increase ADM's North American biodiesel production capacity by 50%.

ADM expects to break ground on the facility by mid-2012. It will be completed in Q4 2013.

'The same agricultural processing operations we use to transform canola into oil for food and meal for animal feed also provide ADM with the ability and scale to efficiently produce cleaner-burning, renewable biodiesel,' says Mike Livergood, ADM's vice president of global oleo chemicals. 'This new biodiesel facility will help support canola crush margins and capacity utilisation at this facility.'