Sioux Falls, South Dakota [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] POET will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for POET Biorefining – North Manchester, a new $130 million ethanol production facility in North Manchester, Indiana, that will produce 65 million gallons of ethanol per year (mgy). To be located on 200 acres, the facility will consume 21 million bushels of locally grown corn and produce 178,000 tons of premium Dakota Gold Enhanced Nutrition Distillers Products. The facility will use Norfolk Southern rail service. This is the third site in Indiana where POET has an ethanol plant under construction. Cumulatively, the three projects represent an investment of more than $350 million in Indiana and will produce 190 mgy.
