MARKETING & SUPPLY Meeting the challenges of hauling biodiesel year-round
CASE STUDY: POLAR TANK HELPING KANE TRANSPORT
This 8,500-gallon DOT 406 aluminum tank trailer was developed by Polar Corp. for Kane Transport in Sauk Centre, Minn. It has piping that insulates and warms the fuel, allowing Kane to be productive hauling biodiesel all year round.
tributing it—was still in the germination stage. Two generations later, the family business, Kane Transport, has biodiesel transportation down to a science. One way it achieves this is with custom- engineered DOT 406 aluminum tank trailers from Polar Tank. Based in Sauk Centre, Minn., Kane Transport is
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one of the largest liquid bulk carriers in the Upper Midwest and is a leading hauler of gasoline, die- sel, biodiesel, ethanol, and other petroleum-based
HEN PETER KANE'S GRANDFATHER bought a truck for hauling gaso- line in 1949, the idea of mak- ing reliable fuel from vegetable oils—let alone selling and dis-
fuels. It established a biofuels division in 2005 to coincide with a mandate in Minnesota requiring virtually all diesel sold there to be blended with 2 percent biodiesel (B2).
THE MARKET WAS POISED TO TAKE OFF. "We saw an opportunity to offer customers the specialized service and handling that biodiesel requirement," said Peter Kane, the company's vice president of operations. "It's a product that does not flow well at low temperatures. When your territory includes Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, as well as Manitoba and
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