Plant That Brewed Beer Shifts Attention to Ethanol

Now he is the engineering director of a project aiming to turn the ghostly, 420-acre complex into the Northeast’s first ethanol production plant, churning biofuel out of the massive vats that once brewed Miller Lite.

So the owners of the Fulton plant, a fledgling local company called Northeast Biofuels, hope to start by producing corn-based ethanol at the beginning of 2008, and plan to later experiment with ethanol from wood chips. They formed a partnership with an established Canadian ethanol producer, Permolex, and even received a $3 million loan from the pension funds of two union locals in the Syracuse region who see jobs in the reconstruction of the brewery.

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