Indian firm completes biodiesel plant

Southern Online Bio Technologies Ltd. has announced that the company has established a biodiesel production unit with an annual production capacity of 10,000 metric tons of biodiesel in the Nalgonda District, Andhra Pradesh, India. The company entered into an agreement with Lurgi Lift Sciences, Germany and their engineering partner Chemical Construction International Pvt. Ltd., based in New Delhi, in October 2005 for the technology to manufacture biodiesel from various kinds of oils such as from jatropha, pongamia, rape seed, tallow, fish oil, etc. Trial runs commenced in the fourth quarter of 2006 and commercial production is expected by May. (April 2, 2007)