About Willamette Biomass Processors
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© 2008 Willamette Biomass Processors, Inc. All rights reserved
Tim Parker started researching the biofuel industry in 2005 after filling his
diesel powered pickup truck with $3.50/gallon fuel. His passion grew once
he talked with a man that he saw at his daughter’s grade school that had a
bumper sticker on the back of his truck announcing that his vehicle ran on
“biodiesel.” Tim’s research led him to his first Portland Community College
2006 Northwest Biofuels Conference and by mid 2006 he had successfully
recruited his brother Craig to join him in his quest to bring their talents and
passion into some kind of a business resulting from the favorable national
and Oregon political climate for the alternative fuels movement.
Numerous meetings with industry analysts taught Tim and Craig that there
was an unmet need in Oregon for large scale seed oil processing for the
biodiesel industry. There had been some interest within the agriculture
community to grow biofuel feedstock in Oregon but, there was no local
feedstock processor to convert the raw material into vegetable oil for the
biodiesel industry.
By late 2006 the hunt was on for a site to build their first seed oil production
plant and this culminated in the discovery of the present location on hwy.
99W in Rickreall, OR. Formerly the “Dallas Co-op” grain elevator, this
facility has enough bulk storage for 432,000 bushels. WBP’s site acreage,
existing 750’ rail and 80’ truck scale, plus its state of the art cold press seed
crushing and meal handling gives Oregon the momentum to move forward
as a leader in the Northwest alternative fuels movement. At capacity, this
facility will be capable of processing 100,000,000lbs. of seed annually
equating to approximately 4.2mm gallons of vegetable oil with engineering
and space that allows for unlimited expansion.
In addition we wish to thank OSU and the open door of Dr. David
Hackleman (Chemical Engineering) and Daryl Ehrensing (Crop and Soil).
Other influential keys to WBP’s early success include the analysts at the
Oregon Department of Energy (Mark Kendall, Rick Wallace, Evan Elias,
and Jeff Keto).
Finally, WBP would like to thank Tyson Keever of Sequential-Pacific for the
professional partnership that continues to grow between our companies.
diesel powered pickup truck with $3.50/gallon fuel. His passion grew once
he talked with a man that he saw at his daughter’s grade school that had a
bumper sticker on the back of his truck announcing that his vehicle ran on
“biodiesel.” Tim’s research led him to his first Portland Community College
2006 Northwest Biofuels Conference and by mid 2006 he had successfully
recruited his brother Craig to join him in his quest to bring their talents and
passion into some kind of a business resulting from the favorable national
and Oregon political climate for the alternative fuels movement.
Numerous meetings with industry analysts taught Tim and Craig that there
was an unmet need in Oregon for large scale seed oil processing for the
biodiesel industry. There had been some interest within the agriculture
community to grow biofuel feedstock in Oregon but, there was no local
feedstock processor to convert the raw material into vegetable oil for the
biodiesel industry.
By late 2006 the hunt was on for a site to build their first seed oil production
plant and this culminated in the discovery of the present location on hwy.
99W in Rickreall, OR. Formerly the “Dallas Co-op” grain elevator, this
facility has enough bulk storage for 432,000 bushels. WBP’s site acreage,
existing 750’ rail and 80’ truck scale, plus its state of the art cold press seed
crushing and meal handling gives Oregon the momentum to move forward
as a leader in the Northwest alternative fuels movement. At capacity, this
facility will be capable of processing 100,000,000lbs. of seed annually
equating to approximately 4.2mm gallons of vegetable oil with engineering
and space that allows for unlimited expansion.
In addition we wish to thank OSU and the open door of Dr. David
Hackleman (Chemical Engineering) and Daryl Ehrensing (Crop and Soil).
Other influential keys to WBP’s early success include the analysts at the
Oregon Department of Energy (Mark Kendall, Rick Wallace, Evan Elias,
and Jeff Keto).
Finally, WBP would like to thank Tyson Keever of Sequential-Pacific for the
professional partnership that continues to grow between our companies.
The WBP team examining
Camelina at the OSU Klamath
Experiment Station. For more
pics from this trip, click here.
Camelina at the OSU Klamath
Experiment Station. For more
pics from this trip, click here.