Sioux Falls, SD – Northern Lights Ethanol, LLC, located near Big Stone City, SD and designed, constructed, managed and marketed by Sioux Falls-based Broin Companies, today announced intentions to expand the ethanol production facility. Plans include increasing plant capacity by 50% from 50 to 75 million gallons annually as well as implementing Broin Companies’ patent-pending BPX™ ethanol production technology.

Northern Lights Ethanol, LLC, a partnership of Northern Growers, LLC and Broin Companies, began operations in July 2002 with a nameplate production rate of 40 million gallons per year. Currently, the plant is operating at 125% above design capacity producing 50 million gallons of ethanol annually. In addition to creating a new market for additional corn, the expansion will increase Northern Lights’ annual production of Dakota Gold™ Enhanced Nutrition Distillers Products™ to 225,000 tons.

“This expansion will increase Northern Lights’ annual corn consumption by 9 million bushels, bringing our total usage to 26.5 million bushels,” said Northern Lights’ General Manager Blaine Gomer. “This offers yet another market for our local corn producers and will have many additional positive economic impacts on the area.”

Northern Lights Ethanol has also signed a new long-term contract for management and marketing services provided by Broin Companies.

“We are pleased with the continued partnership with Northern Lights Ethanol,” said Jeff Broin, CEO of the Broin Companies. “Northern Lights has performed very well and we are looking forward to even greater success in the future with the addition of state-of-the-art BPX technology and increased production capacity.” Engineering activities and due diligence items for the technology implementation and expansion are moving forward at a brisk pace.