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percent of the water typically used to cultivate sugar
cane, and once the oil is extracted the resultant material
can be used to create nutrient-rich meal for use by the
state’s cattle industry.
More than 150 employees are on staff across the
company’s combined operations, and all of them, King
said, are in tune with the mission of the leadership.
“Everyone here, whether it is a truck driver
collecting feedstock, a fuel processor, office clerk or
senior manager, understands what we’re about and is
committed to the work,” she said. “We have people
who come to the pump to purchase locally made
biodiesel who thank us as they pay. You never see that
“Everyone here… understands what
we’re about and is committed
to the work,”
–
Kelly King
at a gas station. Often we struggled, but we always
knew we were doing the right thing.”
Pacific Biodiesel was established in 1996 and is
headquartered in Kahului, Hawaii, site of the company’s
first small-scale plant, which was the first commercially
viable biodiesel operation in the United States.
The operation has since been fueling generators,
commercial fleets, farm equipment, county busses,
military and county vehicles and hundreds of personal
vehicles on the refined, residual energy of materials
once discarded – cooking oil and materials collected
from local restaurant grease traps.
Hawaii Military Biofuels Crop Project,
North Shore, Oahu
AT A GLANCE
WHO:
Pacific Biodiesel
WHAT:
Provider of engineering, equipment,
contracting and laboratory services for
production of biodiesel from multiple
feedstocks
WHERE:
Headquarters at Kahului, Hawaii
