Green Plains Inc Company Profile

Green Plains is an Iowa corporation, founded in June 2004 as an ethanol producer. We have grown through acquisitions of operationally efficient ethanol production facilities and adjacent commodity processing businesses. We are focused on generating stable operating margins through our diversified business segments and risk management strategy. We own and operate assets throughout the ethanol value chain: upstream, with grain handling and storage; through our ethanol production facilities; and downstream, with marketing and distribution services to mitigate commodity price volatility, which differentiates us from companies focused only on ethanol production. Our other businesses leverage our supply chain, production platform and expertise.

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Ethanol Production. Our ethanol production segment includes the production of ethanol, distillers grains and corn oil at 17 ethanol plants in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. At capacity, we expect to process approximately 524 million bushels of corn per year and produce approximately

1.5 billion gallons of ethanol, 4.1 million tons of distillers grains and 340 million pounds of industrial grade corn oil, making us the second largest consolidated owner of ethanol plants in North America.
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Agribusiness and Energy Services. Our agribusiness and energy services segment includes grain procurement, with approximately 60.3 million bushels of grain storage capacity, and our commodity marketing business, which markets, sells and distributes ethanol, distillers grains and corn oil produced at our ethanol plants. We also market ethanol for a third-party producer as well as buy and sell ethanol, distillers grains, corn oil, crude oil, grain, natural gas and other commodities in various markets.

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Food and Food Ingredients. Our food and food ingredients segment includes a cattle feedlot operation with the capacity to support 73,000 head of cattle and grain storage capacity of approximately 2.8 million bushels, and Fleischmann’s Vinegar, one of the world’s largest producers of food-grade industrial vinegar.

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Partnership. Our master limited partnership provides fuel storage and transportation services by owning, operating, developing and acquiring ethanol and fuel storage tanks, terminals, transportation assets and other related assets and businesses. The partnership’s assets include 39 ethanol storage facilities, 8 fuel terminal facilities and approximately 3,100 leased railcars.

Grow Organically. We continually leverage our operational expertise to identify expansion projects that maximize our production capabilities at our ethanol and vinegar plants, and cattle feedlot operations. Owning grain storage at or near our ethanol plants allows us to develop relationships with local producers and originate corn more effectively at a lower average cost. We also seek organic growth projects in adjacent businesses and downstream distribution services that take advantage of our existing assets’ locations.

Acquire Strategic Assets. We maintain a disciplined evaluation process in pursuit of strategic assets, taking into consideration rigorous design, engineering, financial and geographic criteria, to ensure the assets will generate favorable returns. We seek acquisitions that leverage our core competencies in adjacent markets, products and services with attractive margins or more predictable revenue streams.

Conduct Safe, Reliable, Efficient Operations and Improve Operational Efficiency. We are committed to maintaining safe, reliable and environmentally compliant operations and employ an extensive production control system at each ethanol plant to continuously monitor performance. We use the performance data to develop strategies that can be applied across our platform. In addition, we research operational processes that may enhance our efficiency by increasing yields, lowering processing cost per gallon and growing production volumes.