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Oenon Holdings Building 1.3M Gallon Rice Ethanol Plant
12 January 2008
Nikkei. Alcoholic beverage manufacturer Oenon Holdings has contracted with Tsukishima Kikai Co. and Marubeni Corp. to build a plant that will make bioethanol fuel from rice. Initial capacity will be 5,000 kiloliters (1.3M gallons US) per year in 2009, increasing to 15,000 kl in fiscal 2011.
The Oenon group will invest around ¥4.4 billion (US$40.4 million) in the project, half of which will be covered by a subsidy from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
Tsukishima Kikai and Marubeni are also building a plant in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, that will commercially produce ethanol from scrap lumber. In addition, in partnership with Sapporo Breweries Ltd., they are pursuing a project that would create ethanol from sugar cane and molasses waste in Thailand.
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Posted by: sjc | January 13, 2008 at 10:06 AM
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If they gasify the rice straw they can make methane, methanol, ethanol or many other fuels. This would be a good way to go.