New ethanol plant going up near Johnson Creek

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Pete Dempsey (far right), an employee of Renew Energy, conducted a tour of the old barley malting plant, previoulsy owned by Ladish and Cargil. RENEW Energy recently purchased the site for a new ethanol production facility south of Johnson Creek. Joining the tour were (left to right) Gerry Flakas (holding notebook), a RENEW board member; Ken Walz, a chemistry instructor at the Madison Area Technical College; two other instructors from MATC.