Biopetrol Starts Up Biodiesel Plant In Rotterdam

AMSTERDAM - Biodiesel producer Biopetrol Industries started to bring its 400,000-tonnes-a-year plant in Rotterdam on stream this week and plans to run the operation at half of capacity in 2009, its chief executive said.

"We took in chemicals and oil yesterday, by the end of this month we expect stable production," Henschel told Reuters in a telephone interview on Tuesday.

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