A Grand Forks, ND, biorefinery that will turn sugar beet waste into ethanol will break ground Wednesday, reports theGrand Forks Herald.
City, state and economic leaders are expected to speak Wednesday at the ceremony for the Red River Biorefinery, an 80,000-square-foot facility that will convert more than 500,000 metric tons of agricultural byproducts per year, according to a news release.
The plant should create 100 to 200 jobs for construction and about 25 permanent technical jobs, said Jacek Chmielewski, managing member for BioMass Solutions.
Ethanol produced from the plant is expected to be sold to Canadian and Californian markets.
The plant is slated to go online in the winter 2019.
