FutureFuel delays restart of biodiesel plant

Biodiesel and chemical producer FutureFuel Corp. issued an update on Feb. 28 on the timing of the planned restart of its biodiesel plant in Batesville, Arkansas. The plant produces 60 million gallons of biodiesel per year.

In January, FutureFuel had announced that it had been retrofitting the plant since last December. According to the plan, this retrofit was scheduled to be completed in February, making March the earliest the plant was scheduled to restart.

However, FutureFuel said that due to the effects of severe weather in the Batesville area in February, the company was not able to complete the retrofit work as planned and was unable to recover losses and restart the plant’s production process. As a result, the company now says biodiesel production will not resume until the end of March at the earliest.