The main aim and goal of Pacific Ethanol is to achieve dominance in the Western United State s marketing as well as production of fuels that are renewable. Laying emphases on products that use clean burning corn-based ethanol, this company has more than twenty years of experience in the development of bio-fuels and are well placed to meet the surging demand for alternative fuels that are domestically sourced.
It is not just all business at Pacific Ethanol which also aims to have good neighborly relations with the community and its ethanol plants will provide benefits to the local economy by creating new jobs, directly as well indirectly. With more clean-burning fuel being churned out by Pacific Ethanol, it will also contribute to lesser air pollution and promote better environments.
Gasoline That Is Blended with Ethanol Would Comply With Clean Air Regulations
Pacific Ethanol recognizes that the market for ethanol in the United States has increased and with the prohibition in states all over the country against using Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether, which was the fuel used to increase octane levels in gasoline, it has left ethanol as the only viable alternative additive that will ensure gasoline being compliant with state as well as federal clean air regulations.
Pacific Ethanol sells more than just ethanol and along with producing and selling alternative fuels it also sells byproducts though the focus is on corn-derived ethanol. This ethanol has many uses including being a fuel additive, a fuel by itself, a part of hydrogen fuel cells and a constituent of livestock feed. Pacific Ethanol has two strategically important production plants to cater to the West Coast s ethanol requirements and these are situated in the California farm belt in the San Joaquin Valley and also in Oregon to serve the Pacific Northwest of the country. The company also has ambitious expansion plans and is thinking about constructing production units that would have 420 million gallon capacity. This in itself is an amazing fact to consider.
Pacific Ethanol has purchased a new and state-of-the-art grain receiving as well as processing and storage facility situated in Madera, California that takes up 137 acres of land for the purpose. This facility is able to store 50,000 tons of grain and also has a completely automated feed mill as well as two rail loops to take care of up to 164 rail cars at the same time.