But it could still bring in a profit, said Amber Pearson, spokeswoman for the National Biodiesel Board, a trade association.
"You can find a lot of plants around that size now," she said.
And some companies are turning to cheaper ingredients that could widen their profit margins, she said.
Whether it's the potential profits or the tangled story behind F&S, the biodiesel plant has attracted much "through-the-grapevine hype," Gagliardi said.
"But the litmus is: do we actually have someone interested in this facility?" he said. "If you were to walk through the plant, what you're going to see is a half-dozen tanks, some sophisticated units, a generator, but it's just that -- just standardized units.
"It's not that I'm diminished in my positive attitude," he said. "It's just that we have something on our hands that's totally different."
Contact Lynn Doan at ldoan@courant.com.
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