Chatham

Chatham has one of only three dry mill continuous ethanol producing plants in North America. The facility is uniquely capable of alternating between fuel and industrial ethanol production.

Fuel ethanol currently produced: between 103 and 133 million litres per year (mlpy)
Industrial alcohol produced: between 60-90 mlpy
CO2 emission reduction each year: 170,000 tonnes (net)
Corn purchased each year: 19 million bushels
Distillers' grains returned to farmers as feed: approximately 150,000 tonnes
In operation since: 1998
Full-time employees: 70

GreenField Ethanol Chatham
275 Bloomfield Road
Chatham, Ontario N7M 5J5

Phone (519) 436-1130
Fax (519) 436-1595

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Hensall

The Hensall plant will be adjacent to the largest in-land grain terminal in Eastern Canada and serviced by the marine facilities at the port of Goderich. The plant’s construction is projected to create 150 jobs. A construction schedule is forthcoming.


Engineers’ rendering of the future Hensall plant.

Johnstown

Situated on the St. Lawrence Seaway and adjacent to the Port of Prescott grain terminal, Johnstown will be one of the closest ethanol production facilities to the north-eastern US market.

Fuel ethanol to be produced: 200 mlpy
CO2 emission reduction each year: 370,000 tonnes expected (net)
Corn purchased each year: 20 million bushels
Distillers’ grains returned to farmers as feed: approximately 154,000 tonnes
Became operational: December 2008
Full-time employees: 46
Ethanol Expansion Program: the federal government contributed $15 million towards the construction of the Johnstown facility.

GreenField Ethanol Johnstown
141 Commerce Drive, R.R.3
Prescott, ON K0E 1T0

Phone (613) 925-1385
Fax (613) 925-1292

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Tiverton

GreenField's original plant is an ideal testing site for research and development projects because the plant ferments ethanol in batches instead of continuously. This limits the impact of unexpected trial outcomes.

Fuel ethanol produced: 3.5 mlpy
Industrial alcohol produced: 27 mlpy
CO2 emission reduction each year: 5,000 tonnes estimated (net)
Ontario corn purchased each year: 2.7 million bushels
Wet distillers' grains returned to farmers as feed: 65,000 tonnes
In operation: since 1989
Full-time employees: 27

GreenField Ethanol Tiverton
Bruce Energy Centre
4th Concession Road
Tiverton, Ontario N0G 2T0

Phone (519) 368-7723
Fax (519) 368-7016

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Varennes

The first ethanol plant to be built in Quebec, Varennes is a model for water and energy efficiency.

Fuel ethanol produced: 120 mlpy
CO2 emission reduction each year: 234,000 tonnes(net)
Corn purchased each year: 12 million bushels
Dried distillers’ grains returned to farmers as feed: 70,000 tonnes
Wet distillers’ grains returned to farmers as feed: 50,000 tonnes
In operation since: February 2007
Full-time employees: 49
Ethanol Expansion Program: the federal government contributed $18 million towards construction of the Varennes facility.

GreenField Ethanol Varennes
Administrative Office
3300 boulevard Marie-Victorin
Varennes, Quebec J3X 1P7

Phone (450) 652-1800
Fax (450) 652-5290

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COMMERCIAL ALCOHOLS

bouche

Boucherville, Quebec

Fully bilingual staff at the Boucherville distribution and sales office provide customer service and sales support to Commercial Alcohols’ clients in Quebec and Atlantic Canada.

Size: 11, 000 square feet
Product: pure alcohol and all grades of denatured and specially denatured ethyl alcohol
Packaging: 210 litre drums, 25 litre pails, and 4 x 4 litre, 20 x 500ml and 12 x 500ml cases
Facility: located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River

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Brampton, Ontario

Commercial Alcohols' Brampton packaging facility serves virtually the entire Canadian customer base for packaged alcohol as well as numerous clients worldwide.

Size: 25,000 square feet
Product: custom blended and denatured alcohol
Packaging: 210 litre drums, 25 litre pails, or a range of bottles down to the 500ml size
Facility: includes a fully equipped laboratory, tank farm and explosion-proof filling rooms

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Additional Facilities

Commercial Alcohols' products are also distributed from these locations in Western Canada:

Langley, British Columbia
Winnipeg, Manitoba

For more information, please visit comalc.com

 

Pharmco-AAPER

Shelbyville, Kentucky

From a filling and storage building in Shelbyville, Kentucky, PHARMCO-AAPER manufactures and supplies a wide range of pure and denatured ethanol products. Their US clients include the food, flavor, fragrance, life science, institutional and industrial markets.

Size: 30,000 square feet
Storage: bulk capacity of 2,000,000 litres (520,000 gallons)
Facility: benefits from excellent rail access

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Brookfield, Connecticut

PHARMCO-AAPER's bottling and storage building in Brookfield, Connecticut, offers a wide selection of formulas, proofs and grades of alcohol in various package sizes and custom specifications.

Size: 50,000 square foot
Storage: bulk tank farm with a capacity of 380,000 litres (98,800 gallons)
Facility: includes bottling lines for gallon, pint, drum, pail and tote containers as well as a full laboratory for quality control and a print shop for product labeling

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Kinder-Morgan, Philadelphia

GreenField's facilities at the Kinder-Morgan Terminal allow for grain ethanol storage and shipping to clients in the Northeast US.

Size: 35 acres of total terminal space
Ethanol storage: two 500,000 gallon tanks
Denaturant storage: ten x 5,000 gallon tankers

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Additional Facilities

GreenField's PHARMCO-AAPER products are delivered from 5,000 sq. ft. storage facilities in five strategic locations:

Charlotte, North Carolina
Camarillo, California
Oakland, California
Farmers Branch, Texas
Vancouver, Washington

For more information, please visit pharmcoaaper.com

Research and Innovation

For 20 years, GreenField has used new technology to increase ethanol yields and energy efficiency.

Commentary

For the first time since 9/11, a new issue has tied health care as the number one concern of Canadians, as revealed by a Gandalf group poll in July.

Cellulosic Ethanol

Canada’s ethanol pioneer: working to produce cellulosic ethanol from waste on a commercial scale.

Buy and Sell Grains

For over 20 years, GreenField has been buying corn from local producers and returning a third of it to farmers as distillers’ grains, a valued form of livestock feed.

Quick Facts

Ethanol use as a blending component of gasoline began in Manitoba in 1981 with a 10 per cent ethanol blend.