The company that built the EXOL plant in Glenville has announced plans to build an ethanol plant in Hanlontown, Iowa, around 25 miles south of Albert Lea.

&uot;It will be a sister facility to our facility,&uot; said Rick Mummert,

general manager at EXOL.

The facility in Hanlontown, according to Mummert, will be a 45 million gallon plant. EXOL is a 36 million gallon plant. He says it will have 40 employees, the same number of employees that EXOL has.

Broin and Associates, the South Dakota company which helped to build and manage the EXOL facility, and will be doing the same for Hanlontown didn’t give much information on the plant. Officials did verify that a plant was going to be built, but referred any other questions to Win-Worth Betco, the economic development firm of Winnebago and Worth Counties in Iowa.

Officials at Win-Worth could not be reached.

Mummert said the new plant will have the advantage of learning from the experiences of EXOL and the other plants that Broin owns.

&uot;That plant will benefit from the technology learned from these 13 original plants such as EXOL,&uot; he said.

&uot;In a lot of ways it will mirror the EXOL facility,&uot; Mummert added.

The two plants will share parts inventory, technology, and, if needed, personnel, he said.

The plant foundation is now being laid in Hanlontown. It is expected to be finished and running by the summer of 2004.