The Bio-En Group

MARCH 2019 | BUSINESS ELITE CANADA 7 whatever support they need, to make sure that it continues to be a credit to them (and to us), for as long as the plant is to run.” Fuel your Business Bio-En’s most recent project in Nicaragua illustrates the capabilities of the team especially well. Bio-En was approached by a major, local beef processor who operated their own feedlot for their animals, as well as their own related slaughterhouse and tannery. Conse- quently, they had a lot of organic wastes (a disposal liability) and they consumed large amounts of electricity and boiler fuel every year in their operations. Bio-En undertook a feasibility study for the processor to examine the volume and nature of the wastes they produced and the energy needs of their facility, and to develop a preliminary outline of the facility that they would need to make it work. Secure in Bio-En’s technical abil- ity, and buoyed by the feasibility study’s data, the processor signed a contract for Bio-En to design and build a plant on their site. “Construction took just under one year, and the plant was commissioned by our staff working alongside their own engineer on site,” says Taylor. “The new plant worked essentially as we had said Plant operator Lance Buchholtz on the catwalk at the Elmira plant.