Heron Lake BioEnergy, LLC Announces Board of Governors Change
July 26, 2018 at 06:12 am EDT
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On June 11, 2018, Milton McKeown, the alternate at-large governor appointed to Heron Lake BioEnergy, LLC’s (the "Company") board of governors, passed away. Mr. McKeown McKeown was an original member of its founding Board of Governors, serving as an at-large governor until July 2013, when he was appointed as an alternate at-large governor. Effective July 19, 2018, Jeremy Janssen was appointed as the Company’s Alternate At-Large Governor to fill the vacancy left by Mr. McKeown’s death. Mr. Janssen was appointed to his seat by the elected at-large governors pursuant to Section 5.3(m) of the Company’s operating agreement. Since May 2011, Mr. Janssen has been employed by United Prairie Bank, serving as the Market President for its Windom and Mountain Lake, Minnesota branches since December 2014 and prior to that employed as its Vice President of business banking. Before joining United Prairie Bank, Mr. Janssen was employed for 10 years with Commercial Bank of Minnesota in Heron Lake, Minnesota. He is also the owner of Minnesota Investment Properties, LLC.
Heron Lake BioEnergy, LLC owns and operates an ethanol plant near Heron Lake, Minnesota with a permitted capacity of approximately 72.3 million gallons per year of undenatured ethanol on a twelve-month rolling sum basis. In addition, Heron Lake BioEnergy, LLC produces and sells distillersâ grains with solubles and corn oil as co-products of ethanol production. The Companyâs segments include Ethanol Production and Natural Gas Pipeline. Heron Lake BioEnergy, LLCâs wholly owned subsidiary, HLBE Pipeline Company, LLC (HLBE Pipeline Company), is the sole owner of Agrinatural Gas, LLC (Agrinatural). Agrinatural, is a natural gas pipeline company that owns and operates the natural gas pipeline that provides natural gas to the Companyâs ethanol production facility and other customers through a connection with the natural gas pipeline facilities of Northern Border Pipeline Company in Cottonwood County, Minnesota.