Business View Australia

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The indiscriminate use of fossil fuels has led to

global warming and unacceptably high levels of

pollution in many cities around the world. ARfuels,

has an installed capacity to produce 150 million

litres of biodiesel a year. The use of biodiesel re-

sults in lower pollution levels and serves to slow

down global warming. With three plants located at

Barnawartha, Adelaide and Picton, the company

which was founded in 2005, has established itself

as a proven and reliable supplier of biodiesel. AR-

fuels is the only publicly listed biodiesel producer

in Australia and has successfully secured for itself

a leading position in this nascent industry as an

organisation which is committed to becoming the

first choice for the fuel of the future.

ARfuels uses BDI and Energea plants that are

technologically proven and have been in use glob-

ally for over 15 years. The plants are capable of

ARfuels

Towards a Sustainable Future

using tallow, vegetable oils and used cooking oils

as feedstock. The company’s personnel are fully

conversant with the technologies that these plants

utilise and have successfully optimised their func-

tioning to increase yields and simultaneously re-

duce environmental discharges.

While ARfuels has a well-developed and reliable

supply chain for feedstock, it is the company’s con-

stant endeavour to increase the number of sources

from which it obtains its raw material. To achieve

this end the company actively promotes research in

the area of biodiesel feedstock and is confident of

its ability to arrange adequate quantities of this in-

put to meet its requirements. ARfuels is conscious

of the ongoing debate about diversion of food to

manufacture biodiesel and as a responsible global

citizen is taking steps to explore alternate sources

like algae.