Manildra ready for Australia 10% mandate

Australia-based Manildra Group Chairman Dick Honan said that the company’s ethanol plant in Bomaderry, New South Wales is ready for the country’s soon-to-be-implemented 10% ethanol mandate. The plant, Honan mused, would be able to produce half of New South Wales’ ethanol needs when the mandate takes effect. A number of country Labor MPs, including the Minister for Lands, Tony Kelly, toured the plant on the state’s south coast. The plant is currently undergoing an A$200 million (US$160.38 million) expansion after the introduction of a 2% ethanol mandate in 2007. The expansion, Honan said, will be finished in time for the mandate the government promised to introduce in 2011. “That will bring us to approximately 300 million litres of ethanol. A 10% mandate will require approximately 600 million liters,” he said. (July 3, 2009)