There is growing opportunity to successfully develop community-scale oilseed processing facilities to supply cost-effective feedstocks to the biofuel industry. There are a number of strengths that are found in well-designed and resilient community plants and, if these had to be summarised in a word, it would be flexibility. To be sustainable through market swings and instability, decentralised facilities can be designed to incorporate myriad processing and marketing options that span the entire range of the value added processes they operate in. Because of these market fluctuations and policy gaps, plants that want to stay in this industry long-term will need to utilise a diverse set of biomass and energy inputs that can supply vegetable oil-based products to numerous markets including renewable diesel, human food and animal feed markets.
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