Austrian biofuel plant starts output in June

摘要

AGRANA's bioethanol plant in Pischelsdorf, Lower Austria will be started up on schedule in May 2008. The first bioethanol will be produced on 7 June 2008. Following pilot production runs in the fourth quarter of 2007, the commissioning of the plant was suspended due to the excessively high wheat prices prevailing at the time. The plant will operate primarily on the basis of maize. The Pischelsdorf bioethanol plant, in which AGRANA Starke GmbH holds a 74.9 per cent interest, the remaining 25.1 per cent being held by Austrian sugar beet growers, was constructed to allow the flexible use of raw materials.