POET Biorefining-Laddonia, MO, is undergoing a 10-million-gallon expansion that will result in additional corn demand of three million bushels/year from area farmers, reports The Vandalia Leader.
POET General Manager Steve Murphy told the Leader that POET had been looking to expand for several years, but those plans were halted by a drought in 2012.
The expansion is scheduled to be complete by early to mid-summer, weather permitting. The bioprocessing facility is adding a small building extension for equipment, another fermenter and another mill to grind corn into flour. Most of the expansion, though, will occur inside the existing plant.
