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Industries We Serve

Ethanol and Biofuels

Technology, automation, data, and engineered systems for ethanol plants and biofuel producers focused on reliable production, better visibility, and long-term plant performance.

Why Direct

Built for Complex Plant Environments

Plant projects often reach beyond a single system. A controls upgrade may affect instrumentation, networks, production data, tank systems, or field equipment, making coordination just as important as the technology itself.

Direct brings automation, data management, OT, fabrication, and field expertise together under one team. That helps reduce handoffs, keep decisions aligned, and build around the technology and infrastructure already supporting your operation.

Direct Team Supporting Ethanol and Biofuel Plant Operations

WHAT WE HANDLE

Solutions Across Your Plant

Whether you're modernizing controls, improving process performance, connecting plant data, or upgrading tank and fabricated systems, Direct supports the technology behind ethanol and biofuel production.

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Our Advantage

Engineering That Fits the Operation

Plant improvements have to work within the realities of production. Our teams plan around operating schedules, shutdown windows, existing equipment, and the people who’ll support the system after startup, helping projects move forward with less disruption, better coordination, and fewer surprises.

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Your Plant. Your Technology Choice.

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Ready to Improve Your Operation?

Tell us what you’re working on, where you’re seeing challenges, or what you’re planning next. Our team can help identify the right expertise and a practical path forward.

Contact Our Team

(866) 583-3377

Sioux Falls Headquarters

3405 N Louise Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57107

Email Our Team

info@directcompanies.com

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Move Forward

Keep Your Plant Moving Forward

Planning an ethanol plant or biofuel facility upgrade, expanding production, or working through an existing system challenge? Bring the right technical expertise into the conversation early.

Operational Data Assessment

Use our free 20-point operational data assessment to uncover disconnected systems, manual reporting, visibility gaps, and opportunities to improve your operation.

Instant access after submission.

How Strong Is Your Cybersecurity?

Use our free 20-point cybersecurity assessment to uncover security gaps, overlooked risks, and areas where stronger protection is needed.

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Is Your Control System a Downtime Risk

Use the free 10-point checklist to uncover reliability gaps, aging components, documentation issues, and modernization risks before they lead to unexpected downtime.

Instant access after submission.

Get the Operational Technology Assessment

Evaluate 20 areas across systems, infrastructure, data, security, and support to identify gaps and opportunities to improve.

Instant access after submission.

Get the Panel Project Readiness Guide

Plan your control panel project with fewer surprises. Get the free guide to organize key requirements and prepare for fabrication with confidence.

Instant access after submission.

7 Common Tank Gauging System Headaches

Download the Emerson white paper on tank gauging accuracy, safety compliance, and modernization.