Chief Ethanol Fuels of Hastings, Nebraska has acquired Corn Husker Energy of Lexington, Nebraska. State Ethanol Board Administrator Todd Sneller says Chief’s expansion is a very positive development for the Nebraska ethanol industry.

He says Chief Ethanol is the longest operating ethanol plant in Nebraska and has been in business since 1984 and are no stranger to the Lexington area.

Sneller says combining the Hastings facility with the Lexington plant will give the company a capacity of close to 200 million gallons of ethanol a year.

Sneller says Chief Ethanol Fuels was the first dry mill ethanol plant in Nebraska. Their General Manager Duane Kristensen serves as Vice President of the American Coalition for Ethanol’s Board of Directors.