Aventine opens 110mgy ethanol plant

In Mount Vernon, Indiana, US, ethanol producer Aventine Renewable Energy's ethanol plant was officially opened on 6 April 2011.

The news comes after construction came to an end when Aventine became bankrupt. However it recovered in March 2010 and construction on the Mount Vernon facility commenced.

Building work on the project finished in November 2010 and operations began on 1 December 2010. Since then Aventine has ramped up production capacity at the plant and it currently produces 110 million gallons a year of ethanol.

'I am happy to report that we are already ahead of production goals,' says Aventine's CEO Thomas Manuel. 'Today we mark a successful launch and look forward to a long future in Mount Vernon.'