Pritzker opens Incobrasa soybean plant, boosts Illinois biodiesel hub
Pritzker opened Incobrasa’s $250 million Gilman expansion, adding 40 jobs and nearly 100 million bushels of soybean crush capacity.
JB Pritzker on June 22 cut the ribbon on Incobrasa Industries Ltd.’s more than $250 million soybean expansion in Gilman, Illinois. The project will create 40 full-time jobs, retain 200 existing positions and add 170,000 square feet of production space.
The new plant and Incobrasa’s existing facility together can process nearly 100 million bushels of soybeans a year, or about 300,000 bushels a day. The expansion also includes a 50-acre solar array that can generate 5 megawatts of power at a site that has been operating in Illinois since 1997.
The plant turns soybeans into meal for animal feed and soybean oil for biodiesel and other renewable fuel products. Incobrasa said the expansion would provide a stable market for 7,000 local family farms. Illinois is the nation’s leading soybean-producing state and a major source of feedstock for renewable diesel and biodiesel makers.
Pritzker said the expansion would create jobs and scale up production capacity for biofuel, farm feed and other products. Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton said the project showed that good-paying jobs and sustainability can go together. Kerry Fogarty, Incobrasa’s quality control manager, said the new crush plant is the largest single extraction process in the country and would give area growers a stable market.
The project was announced and broke ground in September 2023, with plans to more than double production capacity by 2030. Illinois supported the expansion with its EDGE incentive program.
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