Ethanol business increases co-product supply chain with gas company

Airgas Carbonic, a subsidiary of gas supplier Airbus, has signed a long-term agreement for the supply of liquid carbon dioxide from Fox River Valley Ethanol's newly acquired plant in Wisconsin, US.

Airgas Carbonic will market food and beverage-grade liquid CO₂ co-products from the plant in Oshkosh, which is expected to begin production in October and yield 250 tonnes per day of liquid CO₂.

‘We have partnered with Fox River's parent company, Ace Ethanol, for the past decade to market the liquid CO₂ co-product from Ace's ethanol plant in Stanley and we now expand our relationship to their new plant,’ says Phil Filer, president of Airgas Carbonic.

‘Ethanol plants are an important source of liquid CO₂ in the Midwest, and we look forward to beginning production at our plant in Oshkosh and providing the liquid co-product to help serve the needs of the many large users in the region,’ adds Fox River president Neal Kemmet.