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Canola biodiesel plant under construction in Italy

24th April, 2008

In Italy, Oxem Group has begun construction on a 60 million gallon a year canola-based biodiesel plant near Pavia, in Lombardy.

Oxem will invest $100 million (€63.4 million) in the project that will use feedstock from France, Germany, Romania and Hungary.

According to the European Biodiesel Board, Italy produced 447,000 tonnes of biodiesel in 2006. Last year, this increased to 1.36 billion, including additional capacities of hydrodiesel. Germany ranked top in Europe's biodiesel producers in 2007, manufacturing 4.36 billion tonnes of biodiesel.