KAAPA upgrading local ethanol plant

CEO explains tech upgrades, planned CO2 partnership

  • This drone photo shows some of the recent changes made at the KAAPA Ethanol plant on the west edge of Aurora. Chuck Woodside, the company’s CEO, said he expects the plant’s capacity to reach 150 million gallons of ethanol per year by this fall.
    This drone photo shows some of the recent changes made at the KAAPA Ethanol plant on the west edge of Aurora. Chuck Woodside, the company’s CEO, said he expects the plant’s capacity to reach 150 million gallons of ethanol per year by this fall.
Tens of millions of dollars have been invested at the Aurora ethanol plant in the past year in what KAAPA Ethanol’s CEO reported this week is all part of a concerted effort to increase efficiencies and lower the carbon score on ethanol produced locally.Chuck Woodside, chief executive officer of the Kearney-based LLC which purchased a majority interest in the ethanol plant from the Aurora…

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