Lantmannen reviews plant plan on biodiesel pricing

27 November 2007 13:48  [Source: ICIS news]

STOCKHOLM (ICIS news)--Swedish agro company Lantmannen said on Tuesday that there had been a "small improvement" in pricing which has given the firm respite of about a month from its plan to mothball its biodiesel plant.

 

An undisclosed customer has offered a better price for the firm's biodiesel output.

 

“The price of rapeseed oil is far from stable. The price of biodiesel must come up a bit more for reasonable margins,” said Per Erlandsson, plant manager at Lantmannen’s Karlshamn plant.

 

The price of the by-product glycerine has also risen considerably in recent months. 

 

Lantmannen said in early November it would mothball its biodiesel plant from 1 January 2008 due to high rapeseed oil prices that could not be passed on to end users.

 

“The threat of closure is still there. We will make a decision in December. If the trend of better prices continues, then maybe we will cancel the mothballing,” he added.

 

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By: Sverker Nyman
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