Business: Canadian Ethanol Plant Receives 100,000th Delivery of Corn
GreenField Ethanol who is Canada's leading ethanol producer, just yesterday accepted its 100,000th delivery of corn to its Chatham Ontario plant. GreenField Ethanol gets its corn from local Canadian producers.
For the 100,000 delivery, local truck driver Gary Johnston of Wallaceburg, Ontario arrived early yesterday morning to deliver corn from the farm of Jim and Lorne Smith which is in Kent Bridge Ontario.
GreenField Ethanol President and CEO Bob Gallant said of the event, "Since our Chatham plant opened in 1997, GreenField Ethanol's success has been linked with the Chatham-Kent community. This 100,000th delivery of corn would not have been possible without our Chatham employees and the local farms and businesses that we work with on a daily basis, year in, year out. This milestone would not be possible without the local farmers and everyone in the Chatham-Kent community."
GreenField Chatham Logistics Coordinator Chris Deline estimates that GreenField has purchased $532 million of corn for the Chatham plant during the past ten years. That's 100,000 deliveries since 1997 at 38 metric tonnes per delivery.
Ontario's GreenField Ethanol's Chatham facility has produced more than 1.2 billion litres of ethanol using 120 million bushels of corn since they started out. The ethanol production plant in Chatham produces 187 million litres of ethanol per year and produces a full range of ethanol products. These refined products range from fuel ethanol to industrial and beverage alcohol.
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