(Sioux Falls, S.D.)– Verasun Energy Corporation announced Thursday it has started construction on an ethanol plant near Welcome, on the Iowa/Minnesota border.
Brookings, South Dakota-based Verasun is the nation’s second-largest ethanol producer.
The Welcome plant–which will be Verasun’s fifth– will be able to produce 110 million gallons of ethanol each year and process more than 39 million bushels of corn annually.
Construction is expected to take about 16 months.
The plant will employ about 50 workers.
Earlier this week, Verasun announced it has started building an ethanol plant of similar capacity in Hartley.
The company has two ethanol plants already in operation–in Aurora, South Dakota, near the company’s headquarters; and in Fort Dodge.
(Story from the Associated Press).
