The Crespo installation will deploy 24 biodigestors on 32.76 hectares adjacent to the city’s industrial park, with direct access to National Route 12. The complex will process chicken manure, poultry litter and cattle and swine manure, yielding biogas, biomethane, biofertilizers and food-grade carbon dioxide used by beverage and controlled-atmosphere storage industries. Euler Hermes, Germany’s export credit agency, issued a letter of intent guaranteeing financing for the €190 million phase. The facility will create 84 direct jobs and approximately 150 indirect positions.
Crespo Mayor Marcelo Cerutti confirmed the project will register under Argentina’s Large Investment Incentive Regime (RIGI), which Entre Ríos adopted in 2024. Provincial Industry Secretary Catriel Tonutti identified the biogas plant as the first RIGI-qualified project sited in Entre Ríos territory. Khouri described feasibility studies identifying the province as a significant bioenergy reserve and named Crespo the biomass collection nucleus for the Paraná River coast. Dosbio is advancing a parallel facility on the Uruguay River coast to complete the two-plant integrated system.
Land acquisition in Crespo is complete, with the Arnoldo Luis Fontana family joining as equity partners. Technical studies launched the first week of October with a six-month timeline. Dosbio positions biofertilizers as the primary revenue product, with energy output a secondary stream, inverting the conventional biogas business model. The company targets poultry producers as equity participants, offering waste offtake agreements that convert disposal liabilities into industrial feedstock contracts. The model replicates German digester economics while addressing Argentina’s lack of waste-processing infrastructure at the scale required by Entre Ríos poultry density.
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