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Owners Of Marion Ethanol Plant Announce Expansion Plans

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The owners of an ethanol refinery in Marion plan to expand the facility.

Poet Biorefining will spend 120 million dollars to expand production from 70 million to 150 million gallons per year. The plant uses 24 million bushels of locally grown corn to produce ethanol. The expansion is expected to increase that to 50 million bushels. An estimated 245 plant and construction jobs will be created when the expansion is completed late next year.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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