PulPaper 2022 startup competition won by Montinutra

Seven companies participated in the PulPaper Award Startup Competition. The competition brings forth new and significant solutions in the field of forest bioeconomy. The winner of the competition is Montinutra, which uses sawdust as raw material in the preparation of ...

Steelphalt, a harsco environmental company, launched carbon- negative asphalt product

SteelPhalt has introduced the world’s first carbon-negative steel slag aggregate-based asphalt using lignin binder product made from trees. Continue to the original story...  ...

Lignin-based glue used in plywood production

Latvijas Finieris, a global producer of birch plywood products under the brand Riga Wood, now uses bio-based glue in plywood production. The fossil-based phenols in the glue are replaced with bio-based lignin Lineo® by Stora Enso, and thanks to the ...

Collaboration of Lignopure and aerogel-it

Lignopure GmbH and aerogel-it GmbH have agreed on a collaboration on the development of new materials for Biomedicine and Cosmetic applications. Continue to the original story here ...

The European Union co-funds Lignin Industries expansion to create a green industry to replace fossil-based plastics

Lignin Industries is one of the few selected companies among 232 proposals to be supported by the European Union Innovation Fund that will co-fund Lignin Industries by financing the expansion of the first-of-its-kind large-scale production site, located in Sweden. Continue ...

Collaboration between Chempolis Oy and Engineers India Limited (EIL)

Chempolis Oy and Engineers India Limited (EIL) have signed a strategic alliance for conversion of Biomass to Green fuels. Continue to the original story here ...

LignoPure awarded as state winners of the KfWAward 2021

Out of 470 startups LignoPure has been awarded in KfWAward 2021 as state winners in Hamburg. Continue to the original story ...

Stora Enso’s wood-based battery material wins Metsä360 award

Stora Enso's bio-based battery material Lignode® by Stora Enso has won the Metsä360 award in Finland. The EUR 30 000 prize, funded by the Marjatta and Eino Kolli Foundation was granted for the second time, was announced at the Lahti ...

Finnish cleantech company MetGen has won EU’s Innovation Radar Prize 2021

The European Commission awarded prizes to Europe's most promising innovations that have emerged from EU-funded research and innovation projects. MetGen from Finland was awarded the overall 2021 Innovation Radar Prize for their game-changing bio-based solution to replace petrochemical wax-based solutions ...

Coca-Cola, Changchun Meihe and UPM Cooperate to Commercialize Next-Generation Biomaterials

The Coca-Cola Company, Changchun Meihe Science & Technology and UPM today announced the first planned commercialization of technologies to efficiently convert second-generation biomass to plant-based monoethylene glycol (bMEG). Continue to the original story ...

Maersk invests in Vertoro to develop green lignin marine fuels

Maersk Growth, the corporate venture arm of A.P. Moller – Maersk, invests in Vertoro – a Dutch start-up focused on developing liquid lignin technology which can be used as a marine fuel. Continue to the original story ...

UPM launches UPM BioMotion™ Renewable Functional Fillers (RFF) – a renewable product to significantly reduce CO₂ footprint of rubber and plastics applications

UPM BioMotion™ Renewable Functional Fillers (RFF) represent UPM's latest revolutionary development in sustainable solutions. They address the urgent need to reduce CO₂ emissions of rubber and plastics products by offering a truly sustainable alternative to fossil-based carbon black and precipitated ...

In Peab Asfalt’s pilot project part of the bitumen is substituted with biobased lignin from St1

Peab Asfalt one of the biggest construction groups in the Nordic countries, invests heavily in the implementation of sustainable and environmentally friendly solutions. The most recent environmental act from Peab Asfalt’s was the start of ECO-Asfalt™ production in Finland this ...

Valmet to rebuild pretreatment system for RE Energy’s biorefinery in Denmark

Valmet will rebuild the pretreatment system for RE Energy’s biorefinery in Kalundborg, Denmark. The order was included in Valmet’s orders received of the second quarter 2021 and the delivery is planned for the first half of 2022. The value of ...

Lignin pilot projects in Canadian cities pave way for greener roads

The northern Ontario City of Thunder Bay is looking to become the second Canadian municipality to pave its roads with the complex organic polymer lignin, an experimental “green asphalt” that is a forestry byproduct from the pulp making process. Continue ...
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The fungal factories growing next-generation bio-compounds

In order to significantly cut harmful emissions and encourage greener industrial practices, Europe is transitioning to a bio-based economy. This means moving away from chemical processes based on fossil fuels, and towards biological processes based on renewable resources. With this ...
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Blue Biofuels Files Two New Patents on the Production of Lignin and Nanocellulose from its CTS Technology

Blue Biofuels, Inc. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it filed two more patents that follow on the granted patent and three previously filed patents pending to its Cellulose-to-Sugar (“CTS”) technology system. Continue to the original story… ...
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Bio-based coating for wood outperforms traditional synthetic options

Researchers turn a non-toxic residue into wood coating that resists abrasion, stain, and sunlight. Continue to the original story ...
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Stora Enso’s pilot plant for producing lignin-based carbon materials for batteries is now operational

Stora Enso’s pilot facility for producing bio-based carbon materials from lignin has started operations. This follows the company’s EUR 10 million investment announced in 2019. Pilot production of Lignode® by Stora Enso, wood-based carbon for batteries, is currently being ramped ...

Vertoro scores $2.4M EU grant for lignin/2G ethanol plant in Rotterdam

In the Netherlands, Ship & Bunker reports that Vertoro has won a EUR2 million grant from the ReactEU program to build a 50,000 metric ton cellulosic ethanol facility and 125,000 ton lignin-based Goldilocks crude oil facility in Rotterdam. The project ...

The VIOBOND consortium will replace fossil resources with renewable lignin in everyday consumer products

Project was selected in the frame of HORIZON Europe programme for research and innovation and aims to take significant commercialization steps based on the natural wood component lignin, creating industrial technologies for a significant reduction of the share of fossil ...

Valmet to supply technology for Spinnova-Suzano joint venture textile fibre factory in Finland

Valmet will supply drying technology to Spinnova-Suzano joint venture textile fibre factory in Jyväskylä, Finland. The facility, producing SPINNOVA® fibre, is the first step towards scaling production volumes to one million tonnes annually within ten years. Spinnova’s annual capacity could ...

Avantium and Roelofs construct the world’s first test road with lignin produced in the Netherlands

Infrastructure company Roelofs today starts the construction of the world’s first test road made from bio-asphalt with Dutch lignin. This lignin is produced by Avantium, a leading technology company in renewable chemistry. The fully plant-based lignin is used as a ...

Praj Industries has announced development of technology to produce lignin based bio-bitumen

Praj Industries has announced that it has developed a technology to produce Bio-bitumen based on lignin. The Netherlands-based Circular Biobased Delta, one of Europe’s consortia to promote bioeconomy, has approved Praj’s Bio-bitumen samples processed from Purified Lignin, as a part ...
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Peab continues its journey towards climate-improved asphalt with Stora Enso’s lignin

In collaboration with Järfälla municipality close to Stockholm in Sweden, Peab Asfalt is paving another test section with lignin on Viksjöleden road. Lignin is wood's natural binder. It can be used to partially replace oil-based bitumen, with significant environmental and ...

The one with 3D printed furniture from sawdust and lignin

Indeed, according to a filing back in October of 2020, the company's gross assets acquisition showed a price of $2.5 million USD, including a $2 million in cash considerations. Now, Desktop Metal has introduced Forust as its new portfolio manufacturing ...
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Sekab and Vertoro to build large-scale demonstration plant to produce a new platform for sustainable fuels, chemicals, and materials

Sekab and Vertoro have begun the construction of a demonstration facility in Örnsköldsvik. In the plant, biomass, lignin or residues from the paper and pulp and forestry industry will be converted into Goldilocks®, a proprietary blend of ethanol and soluble ...

Stora Enso partners with Vogue Scandinavia for eco-friendly fashion media

Stora Enso and Vogue Scandinavia have formed a strategic partnership to replace plastics in magazine packaging. As a part of the partnership, Stora Enso will provide Vogue Scandinavia with sustainability and packaging design expertise. A renewable, carbon neutral eco-package concept ...

Stora Enso launches bio-based binder for safe and healthy everyday living

Stora Enso is today launching its latest lignin-based innovation, NeoLigno® by Stora Enso. NeoLigno is a fully bio-based binder system without formaldehyde and isocyanates, thus, providing healthier indoor and working environments. Continue to original story ...

Genetically engineered bacteria boost lignin utilisation – a new study receives €1.3 million

Tampere University’s researcher Suvi Santala received significant funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to study the utilisation of lignin. In a five-year biotechnology research project, Santala and her group will develop breakthrough technologies to recycle lignin from plant biomass that ...
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News Release: Groundbreaking Research into White-Rot Fungi Proves Its Value in Carbon Sequestration from Lignin

A foundational study conducted by scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory(NREL) shows for the first time that white-rot fungi are able to use carbon captured from lignin as a carbon source. Continue to original story ...
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RenCom Announces Company Name Change to Lignin Industries AB

Swedish RenCom AB today announced that it will begin operating under a new name and be known as Lignin Industries. Continue to original story ...
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Montinutra got an industrial anchor investor Metsä Spring on board.

Metsä Spring invests in Montinutra, a startup that commercialises wood extracts. Continue to original story ...

Lab-grown wood could be future of furniture

Ashley Beckwith, lead author of the study, said her hope is that lab-grown wood could one day supplement traditional forestry methods. Her team is growing the wood by using a 3D-printed gel to mould plant cells into the desired shape ...
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SWEETWOODS delivers first tons of high purity lignin and wood sugars

The flagship of SWEETWOODS has reached its first milestones with industrially representative samples of high purity lignin and wood sugars available at the ton scale for testing at novel value chains. Continue to original story ...

Straw-based textile fibre by Fortum Bio2X debuts in an international fashion event

A fashion collection made of Bio2™Textile, the straw-based textile fibre developed by Fortum Bio2X, will premiere in the online event of one of the most significant fashion weeks for men, Pitti Uomo. The collection was designed by an award-winning Finnish ...

RenCom starts production of lignin-based material Renol®, to replace fossil-based plastics, with a capacity of more than 1000 tonnes/year

RenCom’s patented technology is based on lignin, a by-product from the forest industry, transforming it into a high-performance renewable material that will replace plastics. Renol® can be used in ratios up to 50 % in applications such as films (shopping ...
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A new way to make wood transparent, stronger and lighter than glass

The conventional method for making wood transparent involves using chemicals to remove the lignin—a process that takes a long time, produces a lot of liquid waste and results in weaker wood. In this new effort, the researchers have found a ...
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LignoPure secures € 2.2 Million seed round with High-Tech Gründerfonds, Innovationsstarter Fonds Hamburg GmbH (IFH) and Swiss Holding Tanovis AG

LignoPure invented a unique approach to replace plastics through utilization of wood waste and the team just closed its seed round with HTGF, IFH and Tanovis AG to scale its own technology for the transformation of lignin – a byproduct ...

Edible shock- and heat-resistant wood foam could replace plastic packaging

A new bio-based material could replace substances such as Styrofoam and bubble wrap. Artificial intelligence is being used to the development of the material. Continue to original story ...
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UPM Biochemicals grows lignin business with new Domtar supply agreement

UPM and the US-based pulp and paper producer Domtar Paper Company LLC have signed an agreement for UPM to acquire the total annual kraft lignin production of Domtar’s Plymouth Mill in North Carolina, USA as of January 2021. This step ...

Breakthroughs in lignin value chain in cooperation with Prefere Resins

UPM is a pioneer in decades-long research on the utilisation of lignin in resins, adhesives, bioplastics and polyurethanes, for example. Since 2017, lignin has been used as part of the WISA BioBond gluing technology in UPM Plywood’s production. As of ...

Sekab and Praj Industries collaborates to produce sustainable biofuels and chemicals

Sekab E-technology AB and Praj industries, India have signed a collaboration agreement to develop and commercialize CelluAPP® technology platform developed by Sekab to produce biofuels and biochemicals. Praj Industries operates in over 75 countries and experienced in delivering ethanol production ...
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Stora Enso and Cordenka to develop bio-based carbon fiber materials

Stora Enso and Cordenka have signed a joint development agreement to develop precursors for bio-based carbon fiber production. Stora Enso has been developing bio-based carbon fiber production from e.g. dissolving pulp and lignin at laboratory scale. The joint development with ...

Coperion supports RenCom in production of lignin-based biomaterial “Renol”

RenCom will be using Coperion's twin screw extrusion system to produce RENOL®. Starting late 2020, RenCom aims to produce up to 1000 ton RENOL®. RenCom's patented technology converts lignin into renewable and biodegradable biomaterial that can substitute fossil based plastics. Continue to original story ...
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Bloom Biorenewables secures 2.9M€ fundraising for pilot scale production and signs partnership agreement with Yokogawa

Lead investment from Yokogawa Electric Corporation, a worldwide leader in automation of industrial production processes,  brings Bloom Biorenewables seed funding round to a total of 2.9M€. Bloom's patented technology prevents lignin from condensing during extraction. The investment will be used ...
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Avantium awarded €0.5 million funding to develop lignin based asphalt

In the Netherlands, Avantium awarded €0.5 million through their participation in the CHAPLIN XL project funded by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency to develop lignin as a substitute for fossil-based bitumen in asphalt. Avantium's Dawn technology converts agricultural and forestry residues ...
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Canada launches EOI aiming for $1 million joint investment for lignin

In Canada, Nextfor launched a series of forums targeting lignin product development in Canada and Ontario. Industry leaders identified three lignin opportunity areas for commercialization: Polymers & Fine Chemicals, Resins & Adhesives and Thermoplastics & Composites. An EOI have been ...
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Sekab and Peab Asfalt replaces a fraction of bitumen with softwood lignin

Sekab and Peab Asfalt replaced a fraction of the oil-based bitumen with softwood lignin on a road in Sweden. Peab Asfalt and Sekab are one of the eleven partners of the EU industrial development project Rewofuel. As part of the ...
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UPM invests 550 MEUR to develop sustainable solutions

UPM enters the biochemicals business by investing in a biorefinery at Leuna, Germany. The refinery will focus on producing wood-based biochemicals including bio-monoetyhlene glycol (MEG) and lignin-based functional fillers. In addition, the biorefinery will produce bio-monopropylene glycol (BioMPG) and industrial ...

Frost & Sullivan awards MetGen for its enzyme technologies

Frost & Sullivan has awarded MetGen with the 2019 European Technology Innovation Awards for its enzyme technologies. The award goes to MetGen's METNIN™ and ENZINE® .  METNIN™ facilitates complete lignin valorisation while  ENZINE®  can be used to improve any enzyme during ...

CH-Bioforce’s new article emphasizes lignin as a climate-neutral raw material

CH-Bioforce, a Lignin Club member, has released a new article emphasizing the increasing focus from the industry towards renewable and biodegradable raw materials. The company with their fractionation technology produces dissolving pulp, polymeric hemicellulose and sulphur-free lignin from biomass close to their natural ...

Borregaard’s Dustex is verified for USDA certified Biobased Product Label

Borregaard's Dustex, binder for road and soil dust control, has received  U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) Certified Biobased Product Label, with 100% biobased content. Borregaard's Dustex replaces oil-based alternatives for dust suppression and reduces the need for watering by up to ...
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Stora Enso to build a pilot facility for production of lignin-based carbon materials

Stora Enso is investing EUR 10 million to build a pilot facility that will produce lignin-based carbon materials. The company is producing lignin at their Sunila Mill undee the brand name Lineo™ which is used as a renewable alternative for ...

Segezha Group is opening a new industrial facility to produce dry lignosulphonate at Sokolsky PPM in Vologda, Russia

Segezha Group (part of Sistema JSFC), plans to install a drier for the production of dry lignosulphonate at Sokolsky PPM PJSC in Vologda Region. The design process of the new industrial facility is in its last stages. The equipment is expected ...
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Yanfeng Automotive Interiors and Prisma Renewable Composites Collaborate utilise lignin-based material in automotive interiors

Yanfeng Automotive Interiors (YFAI) and Prisma Renewable Composites announced that the companies have signed an agreement that gives YFAI exclusive use of Prisma's lignin-based material to develop automotive interiors. Prisma's  BioLAN is based on lignin and it is a sustainable ...
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CH-Bioforce receives over €2 million grant from EU’s horizon 2020

European Union’s Horizon 2020 SME programme has granted significant funding to CH-Bioforce for further development of the company's sulphur-free biomass fractionation technology. The project has been allocated a total budget of over €3 million and will run from March 2019 to February 2021 ...

Attis Industries partners with Iowa State University to research lignin-based carbon fiber

Attis Industries has partnered with Iowa State University to develop carbon fibers from its melt-flowable lignin. The funded research program will focus on laboratory and pilot testing of Attis's lignin aiming to meet the industry standard carbon fiber requirements in ...
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Research from FFPRI shows that lignin lightens the load in thermoset composites

A research consortium in Japan, headed by  Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI) is developing lignin based applications; hybrid films, flexible electronic devices, gasket materials and carbon fiber. Miyagi Kasei Co, a consortium member has teamed up with Mitsuoka Motor ...
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Fortum’s development project aims for global bioproduct markets

Fortum is launching a significant development project, aiming to produce high-value added products from agriculture residues and woody biomass. The 2-year project is supported by Business Finland fro 14.4 million-euros. During this time span, Fortum and its partners will conduct ...

ORNL researchers create 3D printing material from lignin

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, have developed a 3D printing material based on lignin which is a renewable feedstock. Researchers at ORNL combined a a melt-stable hardwood lignin with low-melting nylon and carbon fiber. Combining the lignin with nylon ...
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Domtar invests in Prisma Renewable Composites: Step forward in lignin development

Domtar recently made an investment in Prisma Renewable Composites as a step forward in lignin development and commercializing lignin-based applications. Prisma Renewable Composites produces advanced materials from lignin and other natural resources.With this investment Domtar aims to help commercialize lignin-based ...
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LignoValue Pilot project by VITO and partners is launched

Biorizon co-initiator VITO and partners have recently launched the EFRO LignoValue Pilot project for the production of bio-aromatics from lignin/wood. The € 4.3 million project is expected to be functioning by Q1 2021. The LignoValue Pilot with capacity of ± 200 ...
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Rottneros to build new lignin plant for biofuels at its pulp mill in Vallvik, Sweden

Preem, RenFuel and Rottneros are in collaboration assessing the construction of one of it's kind lignin plant for biofuels, at the pulp mill in Vallvik, Söderhamn. The plant is expected to be completed in 2021, producing 25,000-30,000 tonnes of lignin ...
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MetGen joins integrated biorefinery flagship project with four novel enzymatic technologies

MetGen, industrial enzyme solution provider, announced their participation to  partially publicly funded EU Flagship project SWEETWOODS. SWEETWOODS is a 43-million-euro joint pilot project and it has recently been granted 21 million euros in funding from EU's Horizon 2020 programme’s Bio-Based Industries ...

Sweetwater and Graanul announce first commercial biorefinery for cellulosic sugars and lignin

Sweetwater Energy and AS Graanul Invest will build a commercial scale biorefinery that will produce clean cellulosic sugars and highly pure lignin from 50,000 tons of local hardwood each year. The plant will utilise Sweetwater's Sunburst pretreatment technology which uses ...
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Lignin-based graphene from Domtar and USDA

Domtar's Biomaterials team in collaboration with United States Department of Agriculture's Forest Products Laboratory have developed a way to produce graphene from lignin. Graphene, made up of a single layer of graphite, is remarkably strong and light. A sheet of ...
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Domtar introduces lignin pellets in collaboration with National Research Council Canada (NRC)

Domtar's research team developed lignin pellets and lignin-polymer compound pellets in collaboration with National Research Council Canada (CNC). They have recently installed a demonstration plant in Ontorio to further develop lignin pellets as a bioalternative to plastic and chemicals as ...
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BC Innovation Council awards innovation grant for lignin-based filaments

British Columbia's BC Innovation Council has awarded $300,000 for the development of lignin-based filaments through their fourth Ignite Awards. The grant went to Darrel Fry from Advanced BioCarbon 3D and Jason Taylor from Selkirk College. They will be developing biodegradable 3D ...
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Researchers develop lignin-based binder for primer formulations

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM in Bremen have developed lignin-based binder to be used in paint primer formulations. So far, the focus has been producing lignin monomeric starting materials that has the same ...
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Hardwood and sulfur-free pulping process at Domtar’s Kingsport Mill

Domtar has been operating a commercial-scale lignin separation plant at its Plymouth, North Carolina mill and the  mill produces BioChoice lignin which can used in variety of applications such as adhesives, dispersants and fuel additives. Domtar has now been exploring ...
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Stora Enso launches Lineo, lignin product to replace fossil-based materials

Stora Enso has launched Lineo, a lignin product,  as renewable replacement for oil-based phenolic materials. They have been producing kraft lignin at industrial scale at their Sunila pulp mill in Finland since 2015 with 50 000 tonnes per year capacity ...

Resolute Forest Products plant to be home to new thermo-mechanical-pulp bio-refinery

Resolute Forest Products plant in Thunder Bay together with FP Innovations is going to be home to a $21-million project to extract bio-chemicals from wood that could potentially replace petroleum-based chemicals found in everyday products such as plastics and insulation. The ...
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Attis receives $3 million grant from USDA for their lignin technology

Meridian Waste Solutions Inc., recently announced the award of  $3 million grant from USDA to support the commercialization of  patented and patent-pending lignin conversion and refining technologies owned by Attis Innovations Inc, Meridian's subsidiary. Attis' AST-Organosolv process uses the technology developed ...
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RISE announces breakthrough for lignin-based biofuels

The Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) reports that through BioLi2.0 project they have successfully extracted and upgraded lignin into a product that can be mixed with current fossil based fuels. The team managed to mix lignin up to 30 percent with ...
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Sweetwater Energy presents lignin-based activated carbon to market

Sweetwater Energy has created a biomass conversion technology, producing pure form of lignin that works as a raw material for high-quality activated carbons. This native-lignin can be carbonized and activated to produce high-end powdered activated carbons for municipal potable water ...
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UPM Biochemicals evaluates the potential of building a biorefinery in Germany

UPM Biochemicals moves forward with biochemicals business by evaluating the potential of building a biorefinery in the Chemical Park Frankfurt-Höchst in Germany. The new biorefinery would combine novel technologies with wood coming from sustainably managed forests in Central Europe. UPM ...

Borregaard and Borg Havn are set to build new lignin warehouse in Norway

Borregaard and Borg Havn will be building a modern, sustainable lignin warehouse in Øra, Norway. The press release states that, according to pre-project studies, the warehouse will be 17,000 square meters in size. The new centralized warehouse will make the logistics more ...
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FPInnovations successfully substitutes up to 20% commercial PF resin with LignoForce kraft lignin

FPInnovations, who developed LignoForce SystemTM that facilitates recovery of lignin from biomass and biomass processing operations, has been successful in replacing commercial PF resin up to 20% with lignin extracted from black liquor. This achievement is expected to catalyze market ...
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Hexion completes expansion of R&D facility in Edmonton, Alberta in partnership with Alberta Innovates

Hexion Inc. completed the expansion of the R&D center at it's forest products complex in Edmonton, Alberta. The R&D center will be focusing on the development of next generation resin chemistry for panel production which complements company's existing EcoBind™ resin technology ...
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Lignin Ecosystem Joint Workshop-CEFIC/Pöyry

We are pleased to announce our joint workshop with CEFIC (The European Chemical Industry Council) on Lignin Ecosystem. In the event, we will have presentations from our Lignin Club members and panel discussions on overcoming the barriers of lignin commercialization ...
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Spinning PAN and lignin together to produce carbon fiber for cars,planes

Researchers in Washington State University, led by Birgitte Ahring, Ph.D., has reported that they have produced an automobile-grade carbon fiber containing 20 to 30 percent lignin. Currently carbon fiber found in cars and planes are made from polyarylonitrile (PAN), an expensive and nonrenewable ...
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Sweetwater Energy licences MetGen’s groundbreaking lignin fraction technology

Sweetwater Energy,Inc., a renewable bio-products producer based in Rochester NY, has signed a licensing and joint technology development agreement with the Finnish company MetGen Oy.  The collaboration is expected to open doors in developing high value lignin-based products ranging from ...

Replacing 100% phenol with lignin in phenolic adhesive formulations

A joint research by Mojgan Nejad from Michigan State University, proves that phenol in phenolic adhesive formulation can be fully replaced by lignin. Up till Nejad's research only up to 50 percent partial replacement with lignin was possible. Nejad's research ...
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Enerlab receives $1.34 million funding from Canada’s Industry Transformation Program (IFIT)

Enerlab, an insulation manufacturer based in St-Mathieu de Beloeil, Que, has received federal funding for it's lignin project aiming to replace petroleum based raw materials. Enerlab plans to produce insulating and structural panels with lignin coming from pulp and paper processes ...
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Federal Government Announces Support to Canadian Forest Sector

On June 01,2017 Federal Government announced support for Canadian forest sector including market and product diversification and forestry-based indigenous communities. FPInnovations, a non profit R&D institute that supports Canadian forest sector, previously received funding by the Federal Government for innovative ...
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Lignin-polyester copolymers and nanofibers for healthcare applications

A recent article published in  the journal of American Chemical Society presents synthesis of new lignin based copolymers, lignin-PCLLA. Stated copolymers were blended with polyesters and converted into ultrafine nanofibers which could improve the mechanical properties of nanofibers. Good antioxidant activity ...
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Breakthrough in lignin based carbon fibres

Researchers at Texas A&M AgriLife have succeeded in making good quality carbon fibres from lignin. Carbon fibres are not a new application for lignin research, but the challenge has been to produce adequate quality carbon fibres for demanding end-use applications ...
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Montisera was awarded the Most Promising Growth Company of the Finnish Bioeconomy

Montisera, one of our Lignin Club members, was awarded the Most Promising Growth Company of the Finnish Bioeconomy at Kasvu Open 2017. Kasvu Open gathers growth professionals, investors and other partners together into one solid network, where growth companies have an opportunity ...

Borregaard to invest NOK 500 million in lignin operations

Borregaard is investing NOK 500 million (~54 MEUR) in upgrading and specialising their 160 000 t/a lignosulphonate production at Sarpsborg site in Norway. The investment includes new drying capacity, liquid storage tanks and improvements in logistics, infrastructure and energy solutions ...
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Concrete plasticisers from lignin

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a novel technology, LigniOx, to convert lignin water-soluble by means of oxygen oxidation. VTT's water-soluble lignin has proven to work particularly well as a concrete plasticiser, outperforming commercial lignosulphonate-based plasticisers. VTT continues ...

Sappi partners with CellMark for lignin sales

Sappi Biotech, the world's largest producer of lignosulphonates and a Lignin Club member, has appointed CellMark as the non-exclusive sales agent for Sappi's Hansa lignin products. The Hansa lignin product family includes different types of lignosulphonates produced in liquid and ...

New Joint Venture for lignin plastics

Meridian Waste Solutions, Meridian Innovations and Advanced Lignin Biocomposites signed an agreement in early April to form a Joint Venture to develop Advanced Lignin's technology portfolio. The initial focus of the JV will be to produce high performance yet low ...
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Four year research project Flippr continues to scale-up

Mondi recently hosted the closing event of a four year R&D project Flippr (Future Lignin and Pulp Processing Research), which aimed to identify future business areas for the companies in the fields of lignin and modern fibre utilization. The project ...
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MetGen has launched new enzymes for lignin valorisation

MetGen, a Finnish SME designing and marketing novel enzymatic solutions, has added new enzymes to their MetZyme Ligno product family. According to MetGen, MetZyme Ligno enzymes enable lignin valorisation towards a much wider range of drop-in solutions in e.g. coatings, plasticizers, ...
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Welcome to the Lignin Club website!

Welcome to the official website of the Lignin Ecosystem project! The Lignin ecosystem accelerates lignin market creation and empowers the success of end-user applications. The project is coordinated by Pöyry Management Consulting and funded by Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation, ...

Nordic pulp makers active in kraft lignin

Lignin Club members Stora Enso, Metsä Fibre, UPM and Pöyry are highlighted in Reuters' recent article on Nordic pulp makers and their activities in bioproducts. Stora Enso has signed its first order of lignin with a glue manufacturer, Metsä Fibre ...

Fraunhofer ICT optimising Organosolv lignin

Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT is working on the sulphur-free isolation of lignin and cellulose using an acid-catalysed process called Organosolv. They have a project called “Optimisation of an Organosolv pulping process – grass and hardwood/fractionation of lignin and ...
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VTT has developed CatLignin technology for producing reactive lignin

One of the Lignin Club members, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, has developed a technology known as "CatLignin" to produce reactive lignin to be used as a replacement for toxic phenol compounds in wood adhesives that are widely used ...

Full afternoon of lignin talks at NWBC 2017!

The 7th Nordic Wood Biorefinery conference in Stockholm later this month features a full afternoon of lignin presentations and discussions from renowned lignin experts including Pöyry's Dr. Petri Vasara as well as Dr. Tiina Liitiä and Dr. Hanne Wikberg from ...

Sunscreen from lignin?

Researchers from McMaster University found that sunscreen containing just one per cent of organosolv lignin had double the lotion’s original sun protection factor, or SPF. This interesting study is published in the ACS journal of Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. Continue to original ...
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Borregaard to receive NOK 13.9 million funding for lignin research

Borregaard received funding from the Research Council of Norway for two different research projects related to lignin utilisation. The WOCA project aims to develop bio-based binders for the metallurgical industry, while the Ligno 2G project aims to modify lignin for ...
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