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Horizon Ethanol, LLC near Jewell, Iowa Schedules Groundbreaking Ceremony



Wednesday, April 13, 2005


Sioux Falls, SD – The Broin Companies are pleased to announce a groundbreaking program and ceremony for Horizon Ethanol, LLC in Jewell, Iowa, to be held on April 28, 2005. The program will take place at 1:30 p.m. at the Jewell Fire Department, 838 Main Street. A groundbreaking ceremony will be conducted at the plant site following the program. The public is invited to attend both events.

Horizon Ethanol will be the sixth ethanol plant the Broin Companies of Sioux Falls, S.D., have built in the state of Iowa and the 23rd plant built since its inception. With cooperation and partnership from the agricultural community along with the county and community leadership, Broin Companies and Horizon Ethanol are excited to bring another new value-added agricultural business to Iowa.

“This regional effort will be rewarded with one of the most technologically-advanced, economically enhanced, environmentally-friendly ethanol production facilities in the nation,” says Jeff Broin, CEO of Broin Companies. “Advances in design, research, construction, microbiology, and technology made by our firm over the past 20-plus years make this facility one of the most efficient ethanol plants in the world.”

Annually, Horizon Ethanol will produce 60 million gallons of ethanol by consuming over 21 million bushels of corn from the regional area. The plant will employ approximately 40 people, most from the local area. Horizon Ethanol will also help improve the local corn basis while providing an environmentally friendly fuel and a premium Dakota Gold brand livestock feed for local, regional, and national markets.

Surveying, permitting, and other site development activities are in the final stages. Site work is scheduled to start in April with concrete and construction work to begin in June. Plant start-up is projected for summer of 2006.

Broin Companies, who began building ethanol plants in 1983, have built plants in five states and provides turnkey development, design/build, management and product marketing services for their partner facilities.

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