Piedmont Biofuels

Piedmont Biofuels is scaled for 4 million GPY annual capacity and a BQ-9000?-certified producer.

After years focused on small reactor design for making fuel out of waste vegetable oil, Piedmont switched gears and went into commercial production in 2005.

Piedmont Biofuels is also active in the following areas:

• Consulting on setting up biodiesel businesses, both plants and stations.
• Providing fuel maker and laboratory technician training.
• Teaching classes and workshops on biodiesel and straight vegetable oil.
• Lobbying the N.C. legislature, as well as national representatives on behalf of biodiesel and renewable energy.
• Offering an internship program that allows people to live on site and learn about all facets of biodiesel operations

Piedmont has a multi-feedstock philosophy and has made fuel out of everything from peanut oil to canola oil to sausage waste to poultry fat. The Pittsboro plant runs on recycled oils.

Current research and development partners include Novozymes on a project funded by the Biofuels Center on enzymatic biodiesel.

Piedmont Biofuels staff serve on various committees and task forces of the National Biodiesel Board and the North Carolina Biodiesel Association.