Biofuels company Gevo Inc. acquired the Luverne, Minn., ethanol plant in 2010. It's being converted into the nation's first commercial-scale corn-to-isobutanol plant.
Project cost: $40 million
Construction workers: 200
Completion/start-up: June
Output: 18 million gal./year
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