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| Ibikunle Amosun |
Former President
Olusegun Obasanjo and Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, has unveiled a
multibillion naira ultra-modern ethanol manufacturing plant in Igbesa, Ogun
State.
The plant built by
Allied Atlantic Distilleries Ltd, a subsidiary of the Lexcel Group, is the
first of its kind in Africa to produce ethanol, a major component in the
production of wines and spirits using cassava.
The Managing
Director, AADL, Anurag Dhiman, said the factory had installed capacity for 10
million litres per annum of ethanol requiring approximately 240 tons of cassava
per day at an average of 10 tons per hour.
It is expected
that the establishment of the plant will herald a new dawn in the production of
wines and spirits in the competitive Nigerian market.
He added that the
new plant has further reinforced the company’s objective to remain the market
leader notwithstanding competition in the distillery sector as no other
distillery has a distillation plant in Nigeria, not to talk of extracting
ethanol from cassava.
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