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Marion, Ohio POET Biorefining expansion celebrated

POET Biorefining in Marion, Ohio has opened it’s 80-million-gallon expansion, more than doubling the ethanol plant’s yearly capacity to 150-million gallons. POET says the plant will also produce 360-thousand tons of high protein animal feed each year.

POET officials say the Marion expansion creates demand for an extra 26-million-bushels of corn for area farmers “at a time when agriculture faces serious economic challenges.” The Marion (Ohio) plant opened 10 years ago.