Biodiesel plant starts trial run

China’s Jinjiao Special New Material Co., Ltd. recently put into trial production a biodiesel plant with an annual capacity of 150,000 tons in Baotou in North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The biodiesel facility will process non-grain oil-bearing plants or aquatic materials utilizing direct liquefaction or gasification technologies and hydrogenation and steam cracking. (December 3, 2008)