Eastern Illinois Biodiesel Plant Opens

DANVILLE The owners of an eastern Illinois biodiesel plant have opened it months after buying the facility from its builders.
Blackhawk Biofuels says the plant in Danville, on the Indiana border, can produce up to 45 million gallons of fuel a year. The fuel's made from vegetable oil.
Blackhawk said Wednesday in a news release that it expects the plant to sell biodiesel by the end of the year. Blackhawk, which is based in Freeport, about 30 miles west of Rockfordsays the plant employs 27 people.
The company bought the plant just before Biofuels Company of America completed construction.