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Blair Lands 100-Worker Ethanol-Related Plant
By Mr Ethanol | June 24, 2008
SW Iowa News:
Blair, Neb., will gain a new 100-employee plant to produce an energy-saving ingredient for making ethanol, an investment of $80 million to $100 million by an international company that touts itself as friendly to the environment, its customers and its workers.
Novozymes, based in Bagsvaerd, Denmark, near Copenhagen, chose a 30-acre portion of Cargill Inc.’s industrial campus south of Blair over sites in South Dakota and Iowa, passing by low-labor-cost locations in China and Latin America.
The company, which says it is the world leader in “bioinnovation,” plans an official announcement this morning in Blair. 
Cargill opened its $300 million ethanol plant in 2001 just south of town, and four other related businesses also operate there.
Besides helping produce corn-based ethanol immediately, Novozymes also expects the Blair plant to have a key role in producing nonfood ethanol, the next generation of nonpetroleum fuels.
The new plant will enhance the Blair site’s state-leading industrial investment zone, which already is past $1 billion, said Paula Hazlewood, executive director of Washington County’s Gateway Development Corp. Read more.
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