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Article: Kenya taps into Brazil's ethanol expertise.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 14, 2008
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Byline: Rob Crilly
Kisumu, Kenya -- When Spectre International took over an ethanol plant in the far west of Kenya four years ago, the company inherited a run-down site that had been abandoned - unfinished - two decades earlier. The buildings were shells and the distillation columns had never been used.
Today, the Kisumu Ethanol Plant employs 450 people, and tankers load up with 75,000 liters of ethanol every day, destined for pharmaceutical companies and producers of alcoholic drinks.
But as he sits in his office, one of the plant's directors, Israel Agina, says the industry is still in its infancy.
"We have the potential of three ...