Methes Energies, providers of a range of products and services to the biodiesel sector, including low-cost, yet top-grade B100 biodiesel and their compact, yet fully-automated continuous flow biodiesel processors (Denami 600 and 3000 models) that are able to run on a wide variety of feedstocks, recently announced reception of a deposit from island-based biodiesel project developer, Antilla Energy VBA (formerly BioFuel Aruba), for the start of manufacture on a new Denami 600 unit destined for one of Antilla’s facilities in Aruba.
Slated for delivery and commissioning by Q4 (September) this year, the new Denami 600 unit will be used to processes locally collected waste cooking oil, which will then be blended with diesel before island-wide distribution. Managing Director of Antilla Energy, life-long biodiesel activist, Gregory Fung-A-Fat, explained that while the extensive due diligence process took awhile, Antilla is now ready for their first Denami from MEIL and they have set themselves up well for future purchases of several additional units.
Destined to form the start of a 6M gallons per year production architecture for Antilla at their Aruba location, this first Denami 600 unit will be followed along by four more units in the near future according to Antilla’s plan, pending prevailing market conditions. However, Fung-A-Fat assured markets that Antilla was already poised to execute on growth of their production footprint via new Denami hardware acquisitions in an easy and cost effective manner, making this deal a real lightening rod for MEIL market activity.
President of MEIL, Nicholas Ng, underscored how well this project fits with the company’s overall business model and tipped his hat to investors that MEIL anticipates this to be the first of many more manufacturing orders that will be placed within the year for the company’s multi feedstock, scalable, real-time online monitorable biodiesel processors. Turns out MEIL has been and is currently working with several other clients which are in a similar position as Antilla, ramped up to a point where they just need to order their first Denami. Today’s order ultimately represents a key step forward for Aruba’s energy independence and overall sustainability, dovetailing into the Green Aruba 2020 targets and helping to make this small island economy a growing, highly successful model for the application of renewable energy.
The company is not content to merely sell their revolutionary biodiesel producers of course and has put together quite the little production operation themselves using their own Denami hardware at the company’s Sombra, Ontario facility (EPA registered, RSF2 Registered), which has some 13M gallons of high quality B100 available per year and a fleet of 26 jumbo rail cars dedicated for delivery to back it up. MEIL has a few other EPA registered production facilities in addition to the main Sombra site, like their R&D showcase facility located in Mississauga (each capable of roughly an additional 1.3M gallons/year). Methes also provides the kind of experienced consultants and strategic partners needed by biodiesel project developers to tackle the complex engineering requirements such projects call for, in addition to the all the back-end inventory management, sales, invoicing and BQ9000 producer/marketer program compliance software which developers require.
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