A NEW biodiesel plant at Donald's industrial estate will start crushing canola for biodiesel within four weeks.
Brisbane-based Impi Technical Investments is heading the development on Tower Road.
Operations manager Brendan Ryan said the pre-fabricated biodiesel plant was being built in Brisbane and was almost finished.
He said the plant would arrive at Donald in eight to 10 weeks.
"The plant is built in a ship container and then moved here," he said.
"It will produce four and a half million litres a year.
"The oil is crushed and goes in one end and comes out the other end as biodiesel."
Mr Ryan said the plant was made up of six 12-metre containers. Three containers will be installed with the remaining three stacked on top.
Mr Ryan said job recruiting would start soon.
"There will be 10 jobs created there for all local people. This is for the community and for local industry for small towns," he said.
"Any small towns could put one in and produce four million litres of fuel a year."
Mr Ryan said 15,000 tonnes of canola was needed each year to run the plant.
"This year is tough. Hopefully we'll get rain and can grow canola," he said.
Mr Ryan said people could buy biodiesel from the plant once it was up and running.
He said officials had already signed a contract to sell oil in Germany to a German Impi Technical Investments shareholder.
He said the business was negotiating plans for a plant in Tasmania. He refused to elaborate on other plans.
