The facility, which will have an annual capacity of seven million gallons, is eastern Europe’s first biodiesel production plant to come online. The plant is a key part of Romania’s attempts to meet the EU’s requirement for 5.75% biofuels use based on the country’s extensive agrarian holdings.
Adrian Porumboiu, owner of the Racova Group, which encompasses Ulerom, said: This facility has more than just a business reason to exist; it represents a big step in the direction of energy independence, a logical and lucrative outlet for our crops and a serious playing card in the worldwide battle against warming and pollution.
Greenline said that its technology places the emphasis on two key issues in the biodiesel industry: the process itself has to be environmentally clean, and the design must allow for rapid deployment of small- to medium-sized plants anywhere in the world.
