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CANADIAN COMPANY TO TURN MILK INTO ETHANOL AT NEW $41M MICHIGAN PLANT
Aug. 8, 2024
By Lucas Smolcic Larson, Michigan Live
CONSTANTINE, MI - A Canadian company that got its start distilling milk byproduct into spirits, like its "Vodkow" vodka, and a large cooperative owned by Great Lakes dairy farmers have broken ground on a new Michigan plant promising to unite their businesses to make ethanol.
The vast majority of U.S. ethanol, blended into most gasoline available at the pump, is fashioned from corn, but Ontario-based Dairy Distillery and the Michigan Milk Producers Association, or MMPA, have a different plan.
Their under-construction facility, located in Constantine, Mich., near the Indiana border in St. Joseph County, will repurpose milk permeate, a byproduct of dairy goods production.
"Our partnership with MMPA represents a groundbreaking innovation in the dairy sector. Utilizing milk permeate to produce low-carbon ethanol is an innovative solution to reduce carbon footprint and provide dairy farmers more value from their milk," said Dairy Distillery CEO Omid McDonald in a statement announcing the groundbreaking on Tuesday, Aug. 6.
The new $41-million plant, slated to go online in 2025, will take 14,000 tons of the dairy byproduct and produce 2.2 million gallons of ethanol a year, according to the partnership, called the Dairy Distillery Alliance.
"The Dairy Distillery Alliance marks a significant step forward in our sustainability journey. By transforming milk permeate into ethanol, we are not only reducing waste but also contributing to a cleaner environment," said MMPA President and CEO Joe Diglio in a statement.
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