Ethanol Europe Hungary for Dunaföldvár plant
The construction of three new plants could soon be underway in Hungary. With a draft government decree issued last month making one of the refineries a priority project, the process of obtaining the necessary documentation will be decreased.
The new plants are to be built in the Hungarian towns of Dunaföldvár, Kaba and Dunaalmas. Already a priority project, the facility in Dunaföldvár will begin construction this month and is expected to be up and running by the end of 2011.
Owned by Ireland-based Ethanol Europe, the plant will generate 200 million litres of ethanol every year from 500,000 tonnes of maize. 170,000 tonnes of feed will also be produced.
If all goes accordingly, these three new plants will consume a total of up to 1.3 million tonnes of maize annually.
According to the agriculture state secretary Zoltan Gogos, 10-15 smaller plants were also in the pipeline but plans broke down after the prices for crops increased. These smaller refineries would have increased Hungary’s annual ethanol output by a further 100,000-150,000 tonnes.
‘If we can build up 600,000 tonnes of new ethanol capacity in Hungary, which assumes input of about 2 million tonnes of maize, we could face much smaller market problems,’ Gogos said.
The new plants are to be built in the Hungarian towns of Dunaföldvár, Kaba and Dunaalmas. Already a priority project, the facility in Dunaföldvár will begin construction this month and is expected to be up and running by the end of 2011.
Owned by Ireland-based Ethanol Europe, the plant will generate 200 million litres of ethanol every year from 500,000 tonnes of maize. 170,000 tonnes of feed will also be produced.
If all goes accordingly, these three new plants will consume a total of up to 1.3 million tonnes of maize annually.
According to the agriculture state secretary Zoltan Gogos, 10-15 smaller plants were also in the pipeline but plans broke down after the prices for crops increased. These smaller refineries would have increased Hungary’s annual ethanol output by a further 100,000-150,000 tonnes.
‘If we can build up 600,000 tonnes of new ethanol capacity in Hungary, which assumes input of about 2 million tonnes of maize, we could face much smaller market problems,’ Gogos said.
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