The Idaho Ethanol Processing LLC plant, located across from J.R. Simplot Co.'s French fry processing plant on Idaho 19, was reopened in September by Westway Holdings Corp., a New Orleans-based subsidiary of ED&F Man Holdings Ltd. of London.
ED&F leases the plant from Simplot, which had closed it in 2004. The plant uses potato waste from the French fry factory and local corn to make ethanol.
Idaho Ethanol has a direct pipeline to potato waste from the Simplot plant across the street. That waste is shredded and cooked, then eventually distilled to make 200 proof ethanol. Corn, from local sources as well as out of state, is trucked in daily.
