KAAPA Ethanol celebrating 20 years of growth

Major investment planned at Aurora plant this summer

Photo by Lori Potter/Minden Courier All of the ethanol produced at the KAAPA Ethanol Minden plant is transported to California on a BNSF Railway line. Each car can carry 28,800 gallons.
Photo by Lori Potter/Minden Courier All of the ethanol produced at the KAAPA Ethanol Minden plant is transported to California on a BNSF Railway line. Each car can carry 28,800 gallons.

Editor’s note: This is the second of two installments involving coverage of KAAPA Co-op, a Kearney-area company which in February completed an agreement to operate the ethanol plant in Aurora.
by Lori Potter -- Minden Courier

MINDEN -- Maybe the best way to describe KAAPA Ethanol’s history is to start with the raw product. Corn first was processed into ethanol in November 2003 at a new plant a few …