Kosciusko to Get Major Biofuels Plant

According to a news release this morning from the Warsaw Kosciusko County Chamber of Commerce, Governor Daniels is expected to announce today that Louis Dreyfus Agricultural Industries, LLC will build a major biofuels plant near the Kosciusko County town of Claypool. The Chamber reports that Phase one of the project will be a soybean processing facility that will initially employ approximately 80 workers. The second phase of the Dreyfus plan is an 80-million-gallon-per-year biodiesel plant, which would be the largest biodiesel plant in the United States.