Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy, LLC ('company') announced that Series B Director Aaron A. Meyerle voluntarily tendered his resignation from the board of directors of effective February 21, 2014. Effective March 17, 2014 the company appointed Eric Heismeyer as the Series B Director of the company to replace Mr. Meyerle. Mr. Heismeyer served as a Vice President of Agribusiness for Bunge from October, 2011 through January, 2014 when he was subsequently appointed the Vice President and Commercial Manager for Bunge's Milling Division.
Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy, LLC is engaged in the production of ethanol. The Company sells its ethanol, distillers grains, corn condensed distillers soluble, distillers corn oil and carbon dioxide (CO2) in the continental United States, Mexico and the Pacific Rim. Its production facility (the Facility) is located in Pottawattamie County in southwestern Iowa, south of Council Bluffs. The principal purchasers of ethanol are wholesale gasoline marketers or blenders. The Company produces approximately 123.3 million and 127.0 million gallons of ethanol. It produces two forms of distillers grains, namely wet distillers grains with solubles (WDGS) and dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS). The Company's system separates corn oil from the post-fermentation syrup stream as it leaves the evaporators of the ethanol plant. The corn oil is then routed to storage tanks, and the remaining concentrated syrup is routed to the plantâs syrup tank.