Permolex

Electrical budget:       $1.5 Million

Project Description:
The Permolex facility in Red Deer produces bakery flour, vital wheat gluten, fuel grade ethanol and livestock feed. It also has the potential to produce higher protein vital wheat gluten as well as other grades of Ethanol.

Upgrades and additions to the existing processes were done in February 2007in order to increase Ethanol production to 40 million litres. Additions were made to the following areas:

• Grain receiving, milling, transfer
• Meal Storage
• Slurry
• Liquefaction
• Fermentation
• Stillage
• Decanters (Centrifuges)
• Cooling Tower
• Distillation

Canem was responsible for all electrical engineering and PLC programming.

For more information, contact Dale DeWit.