Canadian National Railway Company announced that it is planning to build a pilot plant worth up to $50 million next year to create pucks made of oilsands bitumen to transport by rail and ships to customers around the world. CN plans to install a diluent recovery plant alongside the commercial CanaPux facility to recover the valuable diluent for resale. CN has signed a memorandum of understanding with an unnamed Asian customer who is interested in importing the pucks to his country and separating the oil and polymer for processing and sale.