Biodiesel plant to be built in NE Mississippi

SSOE, a Toledo, Ohio, architecture and engineering firm, announced today that it has been commissioned to build two new biodiesel plants, including one in northeast Mississippi.

The Mississippi plant will be built in Burnsville, and the project was commissioned by Three Rivers Bio-Fuels, it was announced. The plant will have a capacity of 30 million gallons a year, with all produciton from soybean oil. The other plant will be build in Mason City, Iowa, for Freedom Fuels.

Burnsville is located on U.S. 72 about halfway between Corinth, Miss., and Cherokee, Ala.

Tony Damon, CEO of the firm, said that the company's experience in designing refineries dates back to the 1970s. SSOE, he said, has worked with major oil and gas companies, including Shell, Sunoco and Marathon.