ACOR: production of biodiesel in the heart of Castilian lands
January 12, 2009
After months of implementation to point, just a few weeks ago the plant of Olmedo has already achieved a continuous production. The forecasts are to reach the 300 tonnes per day by mid-year. To do this it will work for 330 days a year, stopping a few times to perform maintenance tasks. The biodiesel plant, is composed of four internal factories, one of reception, storage and processing of grain, another of extraction of oil, other refiners and a final of esterification, as well as other cogeneration plant.
Rape, a product is on the rise
Production of rapeseed as alternative energy crop is growing leaps and bounds in Castilla y León, in which provinces like Zamora, Valladolid, Ávila, Salamanca and Burgos are coming to register potential comparable to countries such as France and Germany. With Acor plant production of rapeseed is now a major commercial output.
From the 1st day of January has already begun to market all produced biodiesel, coinciding with the entry into force in Spain from the requirement of use of biofuels for oil operators.
The President of Acor, Carlos Rico, evidenced in the last general Assembly that the biodiesel production project is a reality "that already has borne fruit because it opens the possibility of expanding the sources of income with the oleaginous crops contributing to the improvement of our rotation from the agricultural point of view".
