Siloam Springs, Arkansas
The Siloam Springs, Arkansas BDO Zone for Poultry Litter is rated ‘A’.
Rating Issue Date: October 18, 2021.
'A' ratings denote high prospective viability of Feedstock Supply and Infrastructure and low expectations of default risk in the Zone. Capacity to support new biobased plant operations is considered strong.
Siloam Springs, AR holds an investment-grade BDO Zone ‘A’ Rating for Poultry litter. Issued in Oct 2021, the rating certifies approximately 1,500,000 tons/yr of reliable, low-risk biomass feedstock available within a 40 miles.
A ‘A’ rating is an investment grade rating, signalling a reliable, low-risk feedstock supply. It signals to developers, lenders, and investors that Siloam Springs, AR’s feedstock supply has undergone rigorous, standardized due diligence across 100+ risk indicators, the same framework applied to every BDO Zone across North America.
Every BDO Zone Rating assesses a region across three dimensions, mapped as expanding radii around a candidate site.
- Feedstock surplus: Data indicating at least 50,000 tonnes per year of excess feedstock available to support typical intake of new biofuels manufacturing plants.
- Supply chain strength: Evidence supporting long-term commitment to supply both quantity and quality by local farmers, forestry companies, food waste generators, haulers and municipalities.
- Sound infrastructure: Suitable transportation, logistic, operating and supporting infrastructure to meet the requirements for new facility operations.
Assets & liabilities
- Stable long-term outlook on quantity, reliability and supply chain resilience.
- 10X Biomass Availability Multiple: 1,500,000 tons of PL within 40 miles of the Siloam Springs BDO Zone.
- Key supply chain components are well-developed and mature.
- Supply chain redundancy is high. Risk of supply disruptions due to individual supplier failure is low.
- A new bio-based production facility in Siloam Springs would short-haul many existing markets.
- Local aggregators and producers indicate that new biomass development would be widely accepted and encouraged.
- PL cost fluctuates with the cost of manufactured fertilizer. Limited exposure to price risk over time.
- PL is not wholly homogeneous in composition or nutritive value and different types of bioprocessing facilities may be more or less impacted by the variability.
Local grants & incentives
- Opportunity Zone #05007021101 enabling the opportunity for private investors to support businesses and distressed communities
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