{"id":37452,"date":"2016-09-23T07:20:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T05:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rss.nova-institut.net\/public.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biofuelsdigest.com%2Fbdigest%2F2016%2F09%2F16%2Fborregaard-invests-70-7m-in-bioethanol-plant-upgrade%2F"},"modified":"2016-09-21T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T10:00:09","slug":"borregaard-invests-in-bioethanol-plant-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/borregaard-invests-in-bioethanol-plant-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Borregaard invests in bioethanol plant upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The project has been awarded a grant of NOK 18.9 million from Enova, a Norwegian government agency which promotes environmentally friendly restructuring of energy end-use, renewable energy production and new energy and climate technology.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bioethanol plant upgrade includes installing modern production technology which will reduce significantly the specific use of energy in the production process. As a result of the rebuild, there will be sufficient capacity to deliver the whole production as 100% water-free bioethanol. This market is growing, mainly driven by increased demand for bioethanol in automotive fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Borregaard is a significant producer of biogas from process residues, which is used internally as an environmentally friendly source of energy. The new installation will make it possible to capture and store a bigger part of the available biogas, and thus increase the internal use.<\/p>\n<p>The project work will start up during the second half of 2016. The bioethanol rebuild will be completed in 2017, and the biogas installation will be finished in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>About Borregaard<\/h3>\n<p>Borregaard has one of the world\u2019s most advanced biorefineries. By using natural, sustainable raw materials, Borregaard produces advanced and environmentally friendly biochemicals and biomaterials that can replace oil-based products. Borregaard has 1080 employees in 16 countries and is a global leader in lignin-based products. Lignin accounts for almost half of Borregaard\u2019s sales, with plants in seven countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project has been awarded a grant of NOK 18.9 million from Enova, a Norwegian government agency which promotes environmentally friendly restructuring of energy end-use, renewable energy production and new energy and climate technology. The bioethanol plant upgrade includes installing modern production technology which will reduce significantly the specific use of energy in the production [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5838,12584],"supplier":[504,12651,12650],"class_list":["post-37452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioeconomy","tag-biorefineries","supplier-borregaard","supplier-enova-no","supplier-government-no-norwegian-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37452"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=37452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}