Alcoholes del Uruguay reports record biofuel output in 2015

Uruguay's Alcoholes del Uruguay (AdU), a subsidiary of state-owned oil company Ancap, expects to register its highest biofuel production this year with over 130 million litres (34.3m gallons).

The company will by the end of the year report 57 million litres of biodiesel and around 70 million litres of ethanol.

The report comes after AdU launched Uruguay's largest ethanol plant in February.

Including sugar production and 110,000 tonnes of animal feed, the company will offset imports worth over $100 million (€94.4m).

Biodiesel and ethanol with a share of 7% and 10%, respectively, are mixed with fossil fuel.

In full 2015, Alur will process nearly 1 million tonnes of raw material, including sugarcane, sorghum, soy, canola, animal fat, recycled oil, and forest biomass.