The Weitz Company: construction general contractor, builder, construction manager - Western Dubuque Biodiesel Begins Producing Fuel

Western Dubuque Biodiesel Begins Producing Fuel

8/17/2007 -Farmer and investor owned Western Dubuque Biodiesel LLC (Farley, Iowa) has completed construction and began producing fuel at a brand new biodiesel plant located in Farley, Iowa. Organization of the company began in August 2005 and ground breaking on the project began in July 2006. It took a year to construct the plant, which has been fully operational for about a week.

The plant utilizes Renewable Energy Group’s (Ralston, Iowa) licensed biodiesel production technology and was built through a joint construction venture between Todd & Sargent (Ames, Iowa) and Weitz Agricultural (Des Moines, Iowa). The plant has a name plate production capacity of 30 million gallons per year and will utilize soybean oil as the primary feed stock. Some 21 million bushels of soybeans will be converted into oil that translates to roughly 1 bushel of soybeans producing about 1.4 gallons of biodiesel.