Biodiesel Refueling Station Coming to Seneca
by Kevin Solari (Morris Herald-News) REG opening 1st facility of its kind at Seneca refinery — The Seneca location for Renewable Energy Group is going to be a testing ground for a new concept for the company. At an open house Friday, the the Ames, Iowa-based biofuel company revealed its new diesel fueling station that it plans to open up on site in spring.
REG leaders said the plan has been in the works for some time.
“We’ve been talking about have a diesel fuel retail project since 2010 or 2011,” said Jon Scharingson, executive director of sales and marketing for REG. “It makes great sens to build our first fueling station in Seneca.”
Plant manager Tim Mann said that more than 17,000 trucks come through the facility each year, and the facility would also be open to the public. He said the prices would be competitive with other diesel providers in the area.
Mann also said that, as a lifelong Seneca resident, the history of the site and this project is not lost on him. The REG facility is in an industrial park that sits atop the same land as the Seneca Shipyards did during World War Two. Back then the yard built LSTs, ships used to deliver tanks during amphibious landings in Europe and the Pacific Theaters of the war.
Mann said the area was doing something good for the country then, and he saw REG’s plant as having a similar mission. READ MORE
Construction begins in Illinois on REG’s 1st fueling station (Biodiesel Magazine)
