Polmos Bialystok develops a taste for biofuels

The investment will allow the company to become independent from suppliers and to lower costs. Over the past few years the company bought around 20.5 million litres of spirits annually, mainly from Polmos Torun. The cost of the purchases amounted to zl.51.7 million in 2005. The new distilling facility will have a capacity which will exceed the company's own demand and therefore Polmos will be able to sell the surplus to other producers from the CEDC group. The company is also considering building a production line to distill dehydrated spirits used for to produce bioethanol. "For some time we have been considering investing in the prospective biofuel industry," stated the company's financial director Boguslaw Wojtach. (Parkiet, p. 8) E.B.