US BioEnergy to buy Millennium with stock, cash

28 August 2007 21:32  [Source: ICIS news]

HOUSTON (ICIS news)--Ethanol producer US BioEnergy will pay for its acquisition of Millennium Ethanol with $11.8m (€8.6m) in cash and 11.5m in newly issued  shares, the company said on Tuesday.

US BioEnergy said the acquisition will cost about $133m.

Millennium is building a 100m gal(379m litres)/year plant that should come online in the first quarter of 2008, the company said.

The Millennium acquisition will increase BioEnergy's capacity to 700m gal/year, the company said.

($1.00 = €0.73)


By: Al Greenwood
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