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1st Japanese rice ethanol plant to start in 2009

Published on 29 January 2008

Japan's first commercial plant to produce ethanol for cars from locally grown rice will reach full capacity of 1,000 kilolitres a year by March 2009, a few months behind schedule, a senior manager said on Friday

 

The project in Niigata, central Japan, for which the Japanese government is paying half the plant construction cost of 1.6 billion yen (US$15 million), is one of Japan's three such government-backed commercial production schemes

 

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