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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001352081-24-000018"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001352081"
company_name: "Cardinal Ethanol LLC"
filed_at: "2024-05-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T00:11:52.570285+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cardinal Ethanol extends Murex marketing deal, signs new agreements for Kansas plant

## Summary
- Amendment No. 5 extends Union City ethanol marketing deal with Murex; Murex will manage and lease at least 180 tank cars (specific rates confidential).
- New ethanol purchase agreement for Kansas plant (acquired Jan 2024) with Murex for exclusive marketing; initial term slightly more than 3 years with auto-renewal.
- Co-product marketing agreement with CHS for all distillers products from Kansas plant; effective April 12, 2024, automatic renewals.
- Kansas plant estimated annual capacity ~70M gallons; agreements cover 100% of ethanol and co-products output.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001352081-24-000018
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001352081
- company_name: Cardinal Ethanol LLC
- filed_at: 2024-05-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1352081/000135208124000018/0001352081-24-000018-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1352081/000135208124000018/card-20240412.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001352081-24-000018
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001352081-24-000018.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001352081-24-000018.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Cardinal Ethanol LLC amended Ethanol Purchase and Sale Agreement with Murex LLC valued at Amendment No. 5 to the Ethanol Purchase and Sale Agreement, extends term, requires Murex to provide (effective 2024-04-26).
  - Action: amendment
  - Agreement: supply
  - Counterparty: Murex LLC
  - Value: Amendment No. 5 to the Ethanol Purchase and Sale Agreement, extends term, requires Murex to provide
  - Effective: 2024-04-26
  source text: Cardinal Ethanol, LLC ("Cardinal Ethanol") entered into Amendment No. 5 to the Ethanol Purchase and Sale Agreement with Murex LLC ("Murex") for the purpose of marketing and distributing all of the ethanol we produce at our plant in Union City, Indiana.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1352081/000135208124000018/0001352081-24-000018-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.