World's Largest Soybean Biodiesel Plant Opens in Indiana

America's biodiesel future took a giant step forward this Auguest with the inauguration of the Louis Dreyfus Soybean Processing and Biofuel Plant in Clayton, Indiana, the largest integrated soybean-based production facility in the world.

The environmental benefits of Biodiesel are critical. Biodiesel is the only alternative fuel to have successfully completed the health effects testing requirements of the Clean Air Act. These independent tests conclusively demonstrate biodiesels significant reduction of virtually all regulated emissions, and that it does not pose a threat to human health.

LD Claypool is the largest integrated soybean-based biodiesel plant in the world. Other facts:

• The plant can crush 50 million bushels of soybeans, more than 17 percent of all the soybeans grown in Indiana.
• The plant can produce over 1 million tons of soybean meal to be used in feedstock.
• The plant can produce over 88 million gallons of soy-based biodiesel.
• Moreover, the plant can produce over 80 million pounds of glycerin as a by-product to be used in soaps and detergents.
• A person could drive 3.5 billion miles (thats around the world 140,000 times) with the amount of fuel LD Claypool is producing.
• The plant will purchase approximately $450 million worth of soybeans from local and regional producers.