Roxas to produce 3 million liters of ethanol per month

Roxol Bioenergy Inc., the biofuel unit of Roxas Holdings Inc., will produce three million liters of ethanol a month from its facility in La Carlota City, Negros Occidental, Philippines, in the first six months of the year, Energy Assistant Secretary Mario Marasigan said. Marasigan said the additional capacity would increase the country’s annual ethanol production to 70 million liters. Roxol signed an agreement with KBK Chem-Engineering Private Ltd. of India last year to build and activate its ethanol plant on a turnkey basis. (January 29, 2010)