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Article: Cumberland manufacturer revs up for biodiesel foray
- Article from:
- Daily Reporter (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 18, 2008
- Author:
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Ardisam Inc. is expanding its ice auger and gear-box
manufacturing business into biodiesel because it costs less for
materials and because the government is offering it an incentive.
The price of materials to build tools and gear boxes in China is
seven times cheaper than in the U.S. There is no reason to buy
materials in China but produce the tools in Cumberland, said Ronald
Ruppel, chief financial officer for Ardisam and chief executive
officer of Sunpower Biodiesel, its new branch that will begin
manufacturing 3 million gallons of biodiesel annually in the coming
years.
"It's seven times cheaper for us to get it from overseas," he
said. "You have to buy them over there, why not just add ...
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