Panda Ethanol To Build Plant In Sherman County — Cattle Manure Used To Fuel Plant

DALLAS Panda Ethanol Inc. has announced that it intends to build a 100 million gallon per year ethanol plant in Sherman County, Texas. The facility will annually refine approximately 40 million bushels of corn and milo into a clean-burning, renewable fuel for the nation’s transportation needs.

The Sherman plant will generate the steam used in the ethanol manufacturing process by gasifying more than 1 billion pounds of cattle manure a year. Once complete, it will be one of the most fuel efficient ethanol refineries in the nation and equal in size to Panda’s Hereford facility which is the largest biomass-fueled ethanol plant in the United States.

Panda’s Sherman refinery will be located on a 1,200 acre site three miles northwest of Stratford, Texas. Construction will take approximately 18 months.