Biodiesel New Zealand management is awaiting fuel-sector price developments before it commits to a new $10 million to $20m biodiesel plant at its Rolleston site.
A recommendation by the team to the firm's state-owned parent Solid Energy to go ahead with the plant could come in 18 to 24 months, says Christchurch's Biodiesel NZ general manager Andrew Simcock.
The parent had already made a capital investment in the order of $20m in Biodiesel NZ including an oilseed rape (canola) storage facility and a pressing plant in Rolleston and a small biodiesel plant at an Addington site.
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<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
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lh4qhXc_5s&feature=youtube_gdata.
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