TORONTO, March 27 /CNW/ - GreenField Ethanol, Canada's largest ethanol
producer, welcomes Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and Secretary of State
(Agriculture) Christian Paradis to its newest ethanol plant on Wednesday,
March 28, 2007.
Minister Flaherty and Secretary of State Paradis will be welcomed by
GreenField Ethanol President and CEO Robert Gallant and Bernard Marin, Vice
President of Pro-Ethanol, a group of Quebec corn farmers who have invested in
the Quebec plant.
GreenField Ethanol, formerly Commercial Alcohols, is Canada's leading
ethanol producer. The company produces 250-million litres a year of corn-based
fuel ethanol at its plants in Chatham and Tiverton, Ontario and Varennes,
Quebec. Two more plants are under construction in Hensall and Johnstown,
Ontario, and will be operational in 2008. GreenField Ethanol will be one of
the top producers in North America with five operating plants, producing more
than 700-million litres of ethanol per year by 2008. GreenField's Ethanol is
available at more than 1,500 gas stations across Canada.
For more information visit the GreenField Ethanol website at
www.greenfieldethanol.comDate: Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Time: 10:00 am
Location: GreenField Ethanol Varennes plant
3300, boul. Marie-Victorin (Hwy 132)
Varennes, Quebec
Directions from Highway 401:
- Highway 401 East,
- Highway 40 East (Montreal area),
- Highway 25 South,
- Cross the St-Lawrence River by the Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine
Tunnel,
- Highway 132 East (Montreal south shore)
- Continue on Highway 132 until you pass the town of Varennes and
enter the industrial park. The plant will be on your left. Just to
clarify, Hwy 132 becomes "boul. Marie-Victorin" in the town of
Varennes.
For further information: Melanie Gruer, Director of Communications,
GreenField Ethanol, Cell: (416) 902-0595, Email:
m.gruer@greenfieldethanol.com
