Biofuels

Arctic Paper has announced plans to expand the biofuel installation at its Grycksbo paper mill....

Austrian technology company Andritz will deliver a bio-methanol purification plant to Veolia Services Suomi, the Finnish subsidiary of French Veolia group. The plant will be integrated in Metsä Fibre’s bio-products mill in Äänekoski and will refine the crude sulphate methanol generated in pulp production to obtain...

Andritz has signed an agreement with the Sofidel Group to upgrade tissue machines TM 3 and TM 4 at the Kisa tissue mill in Sweden, enabling the company to use bio-syngas in the drying process. In order to be able to burn bio-syngas instead of LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) in the heating process, the burners at TM 3 and...

Metsä Fibre and Veolia are starting the construction of a biomethanol plant announced in 2020. As Veolia said, the plant, which will be able to produce around 12,000 t of biomethanol, is scheduled to start production in 2024, one year later than originally planned. The investment costs now amount to about €50m, two...

UPM plans to make big investments in its UPM Biofuels division. A new biofuel plant will come up either in Kotka, Finland or in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The capacity of the biorefinery will amount to 500,000 tpy. For UPM, the start of the basic engineering phase for a second-generation biorefinery paves the way for...

SCA is to further expand the value chain of its renewable by-products and plans to take the next step from being a supplier of tall oil to the chemical and fuel industries to a processor of its renewable raw materials. The company has formed a joint venture with renewable energy developer and supplier St1 Nordic to...

German paper company Koehler group is converting its power plant in Greiz from pulverised lignite to fine wood fraction fuel. The company has developed an innovative process that allows a type of biomass to be used as fuel in the existing coal-fired power plant. The plant will use the new fuel to come online in June...

New 200,000 tpy biorefinery is being build in Gothenburg....

With its Waste2Fuel project, Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology UMSICHT in Germany plans to produce sustainable fuels from paper residues. In cooperation with seven partners from industry and science, the institute aims at converting 50 t of feedstock from the pulp and paper...

One person was killed by a sulphur dioxide leak in the early hours of 2 June in the pulp digester building of Austrian pulp and biofuel producer Austrocel Hallein. The leak was quickly brought under control and then no longer posed a risk to employees and residents in the surrounding areas, the Austrian company...

A new biogas plant that converts process water into liquefied biogas (LBG) was inaugurated at a virtual event held on 27 April at Stora Enso‘s integrated mill in Nymölla, Sweden. The plant was built as a joint project by Stora Enso and Finnish energy company Gasum and can reportedly produce 75 to 80 GWh of LBG....

Swedish forestry group Södra is founding a new business area in order to sharpen its focus on innovative products made from pulp and wood. The new business area, which was named Innovation, is to strengthen existing operations in the bio-products area, among others, and develop new business. Södra explained that in...

In the area of innovative bio-based products, all biorefineries in Europe together generate sales totalling just under €2.7bn. This figure does not yet represent more than 3 per cent of the European pulp and paper industries’ total sales, but, based on current investment plans and research projects, the share is...

Swedish forest industry group Södra has launched a new bioproducts line called Liquid Forest, which comprises biomethanol, tall oil and turpentine. Södra's bioproducts are produced by the mills which also manufacture paper pulp and textile pulp, using the raw materials that are not needed in the pulping process,...

Veolia plans to build a plant to convert crude methanol into commercial bio-methanol at Metsä Fibre’s Äänekoski pulp and bio-products complex in Finland. The company said the plant would be the largest of its kind to produce commercial grade bio-methanol with an annual capacity of around 12,000 t. The product can...