Abengoa Bioenergy Corporation.
Abengoa Bioenergy Corporation, Chesterfield, Mo., has completed a 15-million-gallon-per-year expansion to its ethanol plant in Portales Portales (pôrtăl`ĭs), city (1990 pop. 10,690), seat of Roosevelt co., E N.Mex., near the Tex. line; inc. 1910. It is the trade and processing center of an agricultural area. There is food processing, printing and publishing, and the manufacture of machinery, furniture, building products, and feeds., N.M. The plant now processes more than 11 million bushels of grain sorghum sorghum, tall, coarse annual (Sorghum vulgare) of the family Gramineae (grass family), somewhat similar in appearance to corn (but having the grain in a panicle rather than an ear) and used for much the same purposes. Probably indigenous to Africa, it is one of the longest-cultivated plants of warm regions there and also in Asia—especially in India and China. into 30 million gallons of ethanol and approximately 90,000 tons of distillers' grains annually.
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