Woodland Biofuels Eyeing Arlanxeo Bio-Industrial Park for Full-Scale Plant
by Melanie Irwin (Blackburn News) Toronto-based Woodland Biofuels is looking to build its first commercial plant in the Arlanxeo bio-industrial park on Vidal Street. Bioindustrial Innovation Centre (BIC) Executive Director Sandy Marshall told Lambton County Council discussions are underway.
“They’ve had their pilot plant at the Sarnia-Lambton Research Park now for probably ten years,” said Marshall. “They continue to operate that pilot plant and they’re collecting some final data and we’re working with them very specifically to help them engineer their first commercial plant. They’re looking to build this plant at the Arlanxeo site and are in discussions with Arlanxeo.”
In late August 2019, the federal government announced an investment of nearly $5 million to help Woodland build an 80 million litre full-scale plant that will create about 324 full-time equivalent jobs. Woodland expected to locate the plant in Sarnia but a site wasn’t identified.
The plant would use a mixture of forestry waste and construction and demolition wood waste to produce sustainable and renewable ethanol. READ MORE