Havre company announces plans to build biodiesel plant

HAVRE, Mont. (AP) A Havre company says it has chosen a site close to home for a new biodiesel plant and production facility. It will eventually produce 10 million gallons of fuel a year.

Robert Allen is vice president of operations for Allied Bio-Energies. He says they'll start with 18 employees, and in three years will have 48.

CEO Scott Geda says the company picked a site near Havre because it is central to the most productive growing area in Montana. And he says the mission and goal of Allied Bio-Energies are complementary to the Northern Agricultural Research Center, south of Havre, and to Montana State University-Northern.

Allied Bio-Energies says the new facility would be Montana's first commercial bio-diesel processing and refining plant. The company says the plant will produce five million gallons of biodiesel a year, expanding to 10 million by its third year in operation.

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