Design and installation of
an expansion to the existing ethanol facility:
• Expanding from current operating at 50
mgpy, expanding to 100 mgpy
• Technology is ICM
• Construction completed one month ahead of schudule.
NEWS RELEASEDecember
18, 2007--Watertown, SD-- Glacial Lakes Energy, LLC (GLE) officials
announced today the expansion of their facility in Watertown, SD was
completed late November 2007 and currently they are producing over 100
mgy of ethanol. The expansion was completed a month ahead of schedule
and under budget.
GLE’s
expansion began April 2007 with GLE serving as the General Contractor.
New Mech, Minneapolis, MN and ICM, Inc of Colwich, KS were the
design/builder for this project. GLE was the first 40 mgy nameplate
Fagen/ICM ethanol facility which has been operational since August of
2002. GLE has been running at the 52+ mgy rate for the past two years.
Tom
Branhan, CEO stated “construction went very well this past summer and
the start up of the expansion went fairly smooth considering the
immense amount of new equipment in our plant and we were actually
running the entire plant at 100 MGY rate within three days of startup”.
The
NewMech personnel were very conscious of the working plant environment
they were in which allowed GLE to continue running at over a 50 MGY
rate all through construction with only minimal downtime to tie in the
electrical and piping to the old plant. Branhan
also stated “I’m very pleased with our staff at GLE. They were very
diligent in assuring this project would be complete on time and under
budget. There were several long days and nights for our team and I am
proud of the outstanding job we did managing construction and the start
up of the expanded facility”.
GLCP
is a 4,000+ member cooperative based in Watertown, SD that owns and
operates through its wholly-owned subsidiaries a 100 mgy ethanol
production facility in Watertown, SD and a 100 mgy ethanol plant
currently under construction near Mina, SD. GLE also owns and operates
a grain elevator in Madison, MN. GLCP through its Glacial Lakes Energy
subsidiary has a significant ownership in Granite Falls Energy and in
Redfield Energy, and serves as the manager of Redfield Energy.
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