Praj Industries has bagged an order
worth Rs.92 crore ($20 million) for supply of technology and machinery for two
ethanol plants being set up for Cilion Group in California, USA.
The two plants with a capacity of over
600,000 litres per day each (55 million gallons per annum-mgpy), based on corn
are scheduled to go on stream by mid-2007. Total capacity planned by Cilion is
440 mgpy by 2008.
Cilion, who are planning to set up
total of eight ethanol plants also selected the company's technology for
additional two plants for which machinery orders are yet to be awarded.
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