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23 January, 2008
The cereal companies, that the Renova company conformed, will duplicate their present capacity in July, when they inaugurate new works. Thus, they will surpass AGD and Bunge, and Dreyfus. Biodiesel plant/Photo: Fernando López King
The local cereal VicentÃn and the multinational Glencore are building a second biodiesel plant elaborated from soya in San Lorenzo, Santa Fe, that will be ready between June and July of this year. This way, they hope to duplicate the production capacity of this biofuel that they have from last October, when they inaugurated in that point of the santafesino agro-industrial cord, one of the two majors factories in the country, with a production capacity of 240,000 annual tons. Managers of both companies confirmed the project, although they preferred not to give more precisions. The plant that is operative, according to what was announced at the time, counts with a unit of crude soya oil refining with a capacity for 330,000 annual tons, that demanded an investment of u$s 40 million. Renova, the company under which they merged in this business, is one of the two mayor biofuel exporting companies of the country. In fact, along with Ecofuel (the company of the other national-multinational cereal pair, Bunge and Aceitera General Deheza (AGD), that has the same present  production capacity and technology that Renova), were responsible for more of 90% of the exports of that product last year. According to the Secretary of Agriculture, in 2007, the sales of the exported biodiesel reached u$s 268 million, that came from 319,093 dispatched tons (equivalent to a value of u$s 841 per ton). Of those shipments, almost three quarters (73%) were destined to the United States, whereas the rest went to countries of Europe. Interest of several In the country there are eight qualified companies to export these vegetal fuels. Besides Renova and Ecofuel, the other plant that has certain weight in the export is the one that has VicentÃn in its place of origin, Avellaneda, in the north of Santa Fe, with a capacity of 47,500 tons. The others are Biomadero, with a capacity for 72,000 tons, located in the Buenosairean locality of Villa Madero; Soy Energy, in the Buenosairean locality of Pilar, with a capacity for 32,400 tons; EnergÃa Sanluiseña RefinerÃa Argentina, in the city of Villa Mercedes, with a capacity for 30,000 tons; Advanced Organic Materials (AOM), also in the Buenosairean Pilar, with a capacity for 15,800 tons, and Biodiesel, in the santafesina Sancti Spiritu, with a capacity for 6,480 tons. There are another five projects under construction, all in Santa Fe. Unitec Bio, of the media entrepreneur Eduardo Eurnekian, of 220,000 annual tons. Mills, food company of the Perez Companc family, began to construct a plant in Rosario, with a capacity for 100,000 tons. The French Trader Louis Dreyfus is building a greater plant, of 300,000 tons, in its General Lagos complex. Explora will produce 120,000 tons in Puerto San Martin, and Patagonia BioenergÃa, 250,000 in San Lorenzo. Mean while, ACA just announced their association with two European companies to build a mega-plants of 250,000 tons of biodiesel in Puerto San Martin. Alejandra Groba Buenos Aires Source: Cronista.com
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