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The Volume of Ethanol Production at the New Plant Expected for 2023 Represents 45.8% of the Amount of Fuel Produced in 2021/2022
A new corn ethanol production plant will start operating within the 2023/2024 cycle, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, establishing the state as the second largest producer of sustainable fuel in Brazil. This forecast was published by UNEM (National Union of Corn Ethanol), on Wednesday (8), according to the website G1.
The forecast published by UNEM for the plant shows that, in May 2022, Inpasa, a group operating in Paraguay and Brazil, began operations at its plant in the southern part of the state, in Dourados, and in September the company was authorized by ANP (National Agency of Petroleum) to operate with its limiting capacity of 2,500m³ daily of two fuels: hydrated ethanol and anhydrous ethanol.
Additionally, the company states that, by the middle of the corn ethanol production harvest, another ethanol plant, called Neomille, which is part of the Cerradinho Bio group, will start producing corn ethanol in Maracaju, in the southern part of the state. With these two ethanol plants operating in the state, it could total 1.14 billion liters, or 61% more than the harvest in the years 2022 and 2023, which produced 710 million liters of the fuel.
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Extraordinary Volume of Ethanol Produced in the Plants
This volume of ethanol produced by the plants in Mato Grosso do Sul could make the state the second largest in national production of sustainable fuel made from corn. Only in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, the plant is expected to process 4.16 billion liters of corn ethanol, and in Brazil, the production of the fuel may reach 6 billion liters.
In comparison, corn ethanol production in the 2023/2024 harvest in Mato Grosso do Sul represents the equivalent of 45.8% of the total volume of corn ethanol processed by sugarcane mills in the southern Mato Grosso do Sul region in the 2021/22 harvest, which reached 2.4 billion liters.
According to the president of Unem, Guilherme Nolasco: “Even with all the adversities faced due to effects like the pandemic, reduction of economic activity, tax policies, and the electoral process, we should close the next harvest with a growth of 1,053% compared to 2017. Today, in 31 days of operation, we have the capacity to produce what was produced in all of 2017.”
