BioCat Fuels
16300 Valley Drive
Andover, MN 55304
763- 331-0958

Like ethanol, biodiesel can be made from corn and soybeans, food commodities whose prices have increased over the past two years. In part, these price changes are a result of growing demand for corn, soybeans and other crops for biofuels.  Increases have also been driven by increased global demand (China and India), rising energy costs and the weak dollar.

BioCat has a different strategy – using non-food sources to produce biodiesel.

Unlike other biodiesel production processes, the Mcgyan process can use many different oils – not just those used for food. Waste oil from restaurants (fryers and griddles), for example, can be easily made into biodiesel. Beef and swine tallow as well as byproducts of large soybean and corn processing plants are other examples. And even the byproducts from the ethanol and traditional biodiesel processes can be transformed by the Mcgyan process. Perhaps the most exciting opportunity is the future use of algae as an oil source. It’s a couple of years away yet, but you may be eventually run your truck on biodiesel made from slimy green things related to those that cover your pond in summer.