{"id":45776,"date":"2017-09-19T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rss.nova-institut.net\/public.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbiomassmagazine.com%2Farticles%2F14663%2Fsodra-to-produce-biobased-methanol-in-sweden"},"modified":"2017-09-12T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T09:33:00","slug":"soedra-commences-biofuel-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/soedra-commences-biofuel-production\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00f6dra commences biofuel production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>S\u00f6dra will invest more than SEK 100 million in the production of biomethanol, a sustainable fuel from forest raw material. The project will commence in autumn 2017 and is scheduled to be ready for operation by spring 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The aim is to produce 5,000 tonnes of biomethanol per year at the new facility to be situated at S\u00f6dra\u2019s pulp mill at M\u00f6nster\u00e5s. The long-term aim is to further increase production for passenger, truck and ship transport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore and more people are realising why we need to switch to fossil-free alternatives, but products must also move forward. We have access to the best and most renewable raw material available \u2013 forests. We also have the industrial expertise required for these types of complex and innovative products,\u201d said Catrin Gustavsson, Senior Vice President of Innovation and New Business at S\u00f6dra.<\/p>\n<p>The biomethanol will be made from the crude methanol produced by the manufacturing process at S\u00f6dra\u2019s pulp mill. It will be part of the circular process that already exists at S\u00f6dra\u2019s mills, in which all parts of the forest raw material are used for the best possible effect. The first delivery will reach the market in spring 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Sweden is to achieve the fossil-free climate targets, there must be viable alternatives to the fossil-fuel products that are currently available. This will be a major milestone in that development. It\u2019s also in line with S\u00f6dra\u2019s own strategy to be totally fossil-free by 2030,\u201d said Henrik Brodin, Business Developer for fuels at S\u00f6dra.<\/p>\n<h3>Facts:<\/h3>\n<p>S\u00f6dra\u2019s biomethanol is produced entirely from forest raw material, which means that fossil carbon emissions from burning are zero. The production process does, however, account for a marginal fossil carbon emission at present. From a climate footprint perspective, replacing fossil fuel with S\u00f6dra\u2019s biomethanol will reduce CO\u2082emissions by about 99 percent \u2013 the highest percentage in the market today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Europe, international forestry group S&ouml;dra has announced plans to produce biobased methanol from &#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":[13749],"supplier":[8002],"class_list":["post-45776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biomethanol","supplier-sodra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45776","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=45776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45776"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=45776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}