St1 Pushes for Bioethanol Plant in Norway
August 24, 2016http://biofuels-news.com/display_news/10928/st1_presses_ahead_with_norwegian_bioethanol_plant_development/
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A biofuels firm from Finland, St1, recently announced that its Norwegian subsidiary, Smart Fuel, will build a bioethanol plant at a former paper mill in Norway. The plant will use local forest industry residues as feedstock.
"This project marks a milestone towards delivering on our vision to be the leading seller and producer of CO2-aware energy in Norway. We are very excited about the opportunity to cooperate with Treklyngen and Viken Skog in producing renewable fuel from renewable forest residue," says Thomas Hansen, director of Renewable Energy in Smart Fuel.
St1 focuses on waste-based, advanced ethanol production. In Finland, the company already has four Ethanolix plants utilizing food industry residues and one Bionolix plant producing ethanol from biowaste collected from grocery retailers and the community.
The planned Cellunolix plant will be built in Honefoss and will be designed to produce 50 million litres of ethanol per year. The plant is scheduled to become operational by 2021.
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