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Sarnia

One Of Canada's Best Kept Secrets

The National Post has named Woodland Biofuels Inc. in it's article "Canada's best-kept secret: 14 cool and innovative clean-tech companies.

The company has a $12-million demonstration plant at the Western-Sarnia-Lambton Research Park.

Vice President of Engineering, Construction and Project Implementation Douglas Gray is pleased.

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Gray says they're looking at expanding the number of employees locally.

About 10 people are currently on the payroll at the Modeland Rd. facility.

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