Global agribusiness giant Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) has started building a soyabean processing plant in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, USA, World Grain reported.
Scheduled for completion in March 2026, the facility would have the capacity to crush 1.5M tonnes of soyabeans/year, producing 320,000 tonnes of soyabean oil, the 2 July report said.
“The new facility will boost LDC’s presence in growing edible oil and animal feed markets, and create opportunities in renewable energy feedstock markets,” the company was quoted as saying.
LDC said the facility would complement the company’s regional industrial and logistics network.
“This new facility will leverage LDC’s existing regional logistics network and synergies with our other integrated oilseed processing facilities in the region: our recently-expanded crushing, biodiesel refining, and glycerine and lecithin production complex in Claypool, USA, and our canola processing plant in Yorkton, Canada, which we are also expanding,” LDC’s US head of Grains & Oilseeds Gordon Russell was quoted as saying in a 23 October World Grain report when the facility was first announced.
