18 February 202013 February 2020 7 New Changes in USDA Biorefinery Funding Opportunities – Now is the Time to Take Advantage Applicants are encouraged to consider projects that provide measurable results in helping rural communities build robust and sustainable economies
17 February 202012 February 2020 Versalis will soon have Crescentino plants up and running Restart of the most innovative plant in the biomass chemistry sector will be up and running by the first half of 2020
12 February 202014 May 2020 Fintoil, partly owned by Taaleri, invests more than EUR 100 million in a biorefinery in Hamina More than 60% of the biorefinery’s output will be directed as feedstock to biodiesel production
11 February 20206 February 2020 MEGaproject: UPM and its $600M gambit in renewable chemicals Company chewed through a lengthy evaluation process for a technology partner, and ultimately selected supercritical technology and tapped Renmatix as the partner
4 February 20203 February 2020 UPM invests in next generation biochemicals to drive a switch from fossil raw materials to sustainable solutions EUR 550 million in an industrial scale biorefinery to convert solid wood into next generation biochemicals
14 January 20209 January 2020 Is seaweed the solution to sustainable biofuel? In a recent biofuel trial, a car reached 80 kph powered by seaweed-based fuel
13 January 20208 January 2020 Avantium appoints Bart Welten as Chief Financial Officer New CFO will bring 30 years of experience in finance to Avantium and has extensive knowledge of the chemical and life-sciences industries
2 December 20191 December 2019 Manus Bio Facility to Produce Next-Generation Natural Ingredients Manus Bio has now updated the plant’s infrastructure to manufacture its target products
22 November 201919 November 2019 BTG and GoodFuels preparing for major investment in bio-refinery to support shipping’s low carbon fuels demands Dutch technology group and sustainable marine fuel pioneer GoodFuels exploring options for joint investment
Pyrolysis Party and who’s the pilot steering the ship? BTG and GoodFuels to invest in world’s 1st marine biofuel refinery based on pyrolysis oil
7 November 20194 November 2019 Sustainable Technology Corporation Completes Acquisition of DuPont’s Cellulosic (G2.0) Ethanol Technology Company plans to license the technology globally including in biorefineries under development by BioChem USA, LLC
Scientific publication: Pyrolysis oil is a sustainable alternative to creosotes “Life Cycle Assessment on a Biorefinery Approach to Pyrolysis Oil for Wood Modification Treatment”
5 November 20193 November 2019 An interview with Mladen Istuk, director of the biorefinery project development at INA In this exclusive interview, Mladen Istuk talks about what INA is doing in the circular bioeconomy and its involvement in the BBI JU Demo Project GRACE
25 October 201922 October 2019 Turning lignin into bioactive molecules in three green steps Efficient, waste-free process transforms pine wood into novel benzazepines
15 October 201910 October 2019 World’s first combined 2G ethanol and crude lignin oil biorefinery inches closer to reality New bio-refinery at Villaralto, in Cordoba Province, Andalusia will produce second generation ethanol alongside so-called crude lignin oil
10 October 20197 October 2019 Dow teams up with UPM to produce bio-based plastics Agreement with UPM is the latest example of Dow’s strategy to enable a shift to a circular economy for plastics by integrating renewable feedstocks into its production processes
7 October 20192 October 2019 Developing a National/Regional Biostrategy NC Partnering Newsletter 9/2019
2 October 201927 September 2019 IIT Guwahati embarks on joint venture with NRL to manufacture biodegradable plastic Academic-industrial collaborative venture aims to use the waste and intermediate materials from existing oil and bio-feedstock based industries
30 September 201930 September 2019 Dow and UPM partner to produce plastics made with renewable feedstock Dow is integrating wood-based UPM's BioVerno renewable naphtha – a key raw material used to develop plastics – into its slate of raw materials
18 September 201914 September 2019 Sugarcane research and investment being driven further through Rural R&D for Profit Sugarcane and cotton waste turned into fuels, plastics, feed
13 September 201911 September 2019 Project focus: How BBI JU has built the model for the successful expansion of Europe’s growing bioeconomy To ensure that the bioeconomy delivers the environmental and commercial benefits, connections have to be built across industries and geographies
11 September 20196 September 2019 Praj’s propriety technology to be used in USA’s first bagasse based ethanol bio refinery US based domain specialists had visited Praj’s 2G integrated bio-refinery demonstration plant and Praj Matrix, the R&D center in Pune to study ‘enfinity’ technology
10 September 201910 September 2019 Stora Enso: Bio-based carbon materials for batteries Interview with with Lauri Lehtonen, Head of Innovation, Biomaterials, about this exciting innovation to replace fossil-based and mined raw materials with renewable solutions
9 September 20194 September 2019 Avantium awarded €6 million EU grant to accelerate its technologies Company will lead a 4-year research programme 'IMPRESS' consortium containing ten industry and academic organisations across Europe
4 September 20192 September 2019 UPM Raflatac responds to the growing need for renewable packaging materials by unveiling industry’s first wood-based film material A 100 percent wood-based solution originating from sustainably managed forests
2 September 201928 August 2019 Beyond food: the role of animals in the bioeconomy The bioeconomy may be dominated by plant-based processes, but animals also have key roles to play
30 August 201927 August 2019 Avantium plans to open bio-MEG demo plant in November Based on the results of a demo plant, Avantium will be able to validate the technical performance and refine its economic opportunities
Planned biorefinery first step to ‘Biopolis’ With big investments in biological research to industrial manufacturing and creation of innovative products, Thailand becoming a hub for biotechnology in Southeast Asia
9 August 20194 August 2019 3F BIO secures €17m backing from European Commission for first integrated bio-based protein biorefinery Flagship grant awarded for first-of-its-kind zero-waste biorefinery to produce proteins for food from low-cost sustainable feedstocks
24 July 201922 July 2019 New Technical Report from IEA Bioenergy Technical, Economic and Environmental Assessment of Biorefinery Concepts — Developing a Practical Approach for Characterisation
11 July 201910 July 2019 Assam Bio Refinery selects partner to develop bamboo supply chain with farmers Assam Bio Refinery has selected the National Small Industries Corporation to facilitate the supply of bamboo from farmers to different chipping centers
9 July 20194 July 2019 Kemira to participate in the development of 100% bio-based chemicals for paper and cardboard production as part of an EU funded project In addition, the project aims to develop new means to improve production efficiency at pulp mills with higher utilization of wood biomass
8 July 201912 July 2019 Total Starts Up the La Mède Biorefinery French energy giant's final step in the €275m project, aiming the conversion of a former oil refinery into a new energies complex
CH-Bioforce revolutionizes biomaterials production Finnish start-up successfully provides a completely new way of replacing fossil- and food-based raw materials
4 July 20192 July 2019 BTG commissions innovative thermo-chemical fractionation plant Important step towards the commercialisation of a fast pyrolysis based biorefinery
28 June 201924 June 2019 BTG commission world-first fast pyrolysis biorefinery pilot plant New facility enables the transformation of lignocellulosic biomass such as sunflower seed husks into a huge range of products
19 June 201914 June 2019 5 Minutes with… Elisabeth Stanger of Lenzing Derived from pulp from beech wood, LENZING Acetic Acid Biobased is free from solids, high in purity and has a huge range of applications
13 June 201911 June 2019 Study identifies most promising feedstocks for pyrolysis based biorefinery A shortlist of 10 feedstocks were studied, focusing on residues from agriculture, food/feed processing and forestry
4 June 20193 June 2019 FPInnovations and Resolute Inaugurate Thermomechanical Pulp Bio-Refinery in Thunder Bay TMP-Bio is a patented technology developed by FPInnovations for the commercial production of large quantities of bio-sourced chemicals
31 May 201928 May 2019 How companies across Europe are creating sustainable products using no fossil fuels European Union is planning to invest another 10 billion euros in Bioeconomy research by 2027
22 May 201918 May 2019 Ireland’s first grass-fed biorefinery hits the road to help farmers go green A New Mobile Refinery Is Travelling Across The West Of Ireland To Turn Grass Into Sustainable Materials
8 May 20196 May 2019 Blue Bioeconomy in Northern Germany BMBF has approved a project coordinated by Kiel University: "Bioeconomy at Marine Sites (BaMS)" with funding of up to 20 million Euro
Renewable Diesel is a Game Changer for Sustainable Aviation and Low Carbon Fuel Markets in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Southeast Asia Low Carbon Fuels for Air, Land and Sea finds a growing number of strategic investment partnerships arriving to build new biorefineries
2 May 201926 April 2019 Finnish bioethanol project worth millions – Swedish SEKAB provides technology New biorefinery in Finland, Nordfuel, will open in 2021 using Sekab’s Celluapp technology
25 April 201919 April 2019 The Maine Technology Institute (MTI) Awards $1.5 Million in its Emerging Technology Challenge for Maine’s Forest Resources Maine company funds project by Biofine to produce biobased levulinic acid
23 April 201915 April 2019 KaiCell Fibers has significant economic influence in the province of Kainuu and for Finland Mill site pre-agreement signed
17 April 201912 April 2019 How to convert wheat straw waste into green chemicals An EU initiative has produced renewable bio-isobutene for use in various applications ranging from cosmetics to fuels
15 April 201910 April 2019 The technology to make bioplastics from softwood is here At World Bio Markets trade fair in Amsterdam, clean-tech company SEKAB E-Technology will present their patented technology platform Celluapp
12 April 201912 April 2019 Mega-order from Finland for Dutch energy technology 100 million euros to be invested in production of sustainable oil
8 April 20193 April 2019 NC Partnering Newsletter 3/2019 Vesa Mikkonen from Kaicell Fibres will tell about some evolving ways to control the salinity level in biorefineries
