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  • Nova Scotia allows NewPage to sell crown wood for electricity

    The province is furthering its commitment to creating and securing jobs, increasing renewable energy, and contributing to a green economy. NewPage Port Hawkesbury Corp. was given consent today, Nov. 3, to sell harvested, Crown-land timber to a proposed wood biomass-fueled electrical generation facility for the Strait area. More

  • Smurfit Kappa to invest Euro25M on biomass energy at mill in Spain

    SMURFIT KAPPA NERVIÓN S.A., part of the SMURFIT KAPPA Group, a world leader in paper based packaging, has announced capital expenditure of 25 million Euros on a biomass-based renewable energy plant together with residual gas treatment at the SK mill in Iurreta, Biscay, SPAIN. Energy efficiency, sustainability More

  • The future is bright - Substantial investment in biofuel conversion technologies

    The commercial viability of second-generation biofuels grows ever closer as finance pumps into research, and pilot plants for cellulosic ethanol conversion proliferate. With the goal of producing ethanol-based biofuel for less than US$1.07/gallon, significant reductions in operating costs are still needed. However pilot and demonstration plants are More

  • Domtar building $40M biomass cogen at South Carolina mill

    Domtar began construction this week of a new $40 million, 45-MW biomass cogeneration plant at its uncoated freesheet mill in Bennettsville, SC. The new plant when completed next year will double the 20-year-old mill's biomass consumption and raise its energy self-sufficiency to 95%, local press reports noted. More

  • Sweden firms Holmen, Stora, SCA join Vattenfall energy project

    Sweden's basic industries are now launching a joint project with Vattenfall to secure energy production and electricity supply at competitive prices in the future. In recent days, Industrikraft i Sverige AB, a newly formed company owned equally by Boliden, Eka Chemicals, Holmen, Stora Enso and SCA Forest More

  • Honeywell to automate Flambeau River diesel plant in Wisconsin

    Honeywell today announced that Flambeau River Biofuels (FRB) has selected it to supply and integrate all automation equipment for the largest second-generation "green diesel" plant in the United States. The plant - located in Park Falls, Wis., and expected to be operational by 2012 - will produce More

  • Verenium and VPP sign agreement to test C5 cellulosic technology on pulping feedstocks

    Verenium Corporation, a pioneer in the development of next-generation cellulosic ethanol and high-performance specialty enzymes, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Value Prior to Pulping (VPP), an organization created by the Agenda 2020 Technology Alliance, a special project of the American Forest and More

  • Morbark and HTI form Waste-to-Power partnership

    Morbark, Inc., a world leader in the manufacture of wood reduction equipment announced an agreement with Heat Transfer International (HTI) of Kentwood, Michigan. HTI is a technology company providing turnkey waste-to-energy systems which create renewable energy through SALT TM gasification of biomass. The agreement, which will create More

  • US cellulosic biofuel tax credit may open up to paper industry

    In addition to potential federal incentives to pulp and paper mills for use of biomass for energy next year, a greater windfall could be available to the industry for continued black liquor combustion tax benefits under a federal cellulosic biofuel producer credit. The new credit would basically More

  • Arizona Chemical investigates biodiesel from crude tall oil

    Arizona Chemical, the world's leading bio-refiner of Crude Tall Oil, is studying the possibility of producing biodiesel at its manufacturing plants. Crude Tall Oil, a renewable natural material that is a co-product of the wood pulping process, can be used to make green products based on renewable More



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