A Seneca biodiesel facility mothballed in March after its owner filed for bankruptcy, reopened Thursday under new ownership.
The 60-million-gallon-a-year plant produced for less than a year under Nova Biosource, and all but six of of approximately 40 workers were laid off. Renewable Energy Group acquired the facility in April.This is the second such purchase this year by Renewable Energy, which also bought a biodiesel facility in Danville in February.
(The success of the biodiesel fuel industry relies heavily on biodiesel testing <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s32Ke2VzrqU>, not only at the production level but at the consumer level, where degraded fuel may cause engine failures. Of major concern to diesel and biodiesel users is the very real possibility that water has contaminated their fuel. (See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YcczdvPyAk). The potential catastrophic impact of this problem is discussed at length in this video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lh4qhXc_5s&feature=youtube_gdata.
Fleet Fuel's family of inexpensive biodiesel test kits is just a click away on the internet at:
<http://fleetbiodiesel.com/biodiesel_testing_and_supplies.html>)
