What does it take to make bio refineries commercial?

It´s time to tell a story before knowing how it ends. The Forest Refine project started 2012 and 2014 is our final year. Every story has a history and Forest Refine is only a two year chapter in a ten year cross border cooperation between partners in Sweden and Finland. However there is no plan today to end the cooperation between countries that are front runners in knowledge about forestry. To be competitive it is of vital importance to continue to developed efficient supply chains for new and old forest industries.

However, it´s time to reach out with the results from our common work from this chapter. This spring we arrange cross border seminars to take place in Vaasa 8th April and in Umeå the day after: 

• In Vaasa, the results about how to develop efficient supply chains to bio refineries will be shared with viewpoints from the industry by Vaskiluodon Voima Oy, the world’s largest gasifier of forest biomass, and UPM. University of Vaasa will present research about renewable energy. Seminar language will be mainly Finnish and title is: "Uusia tuotteita metsistä- hankintaketjut ja jalostusprosessit”.
• In Umeå, 9th of April, Forest Refine and Bio4Energy will present results together in the seminar; New products from Forest – Supply chains and refinery processes. The seminar can be divided into four sections starting with the key note speaker, Krister Sjöblom from Valmet. Valmet has developed a family of intelligent processes to meet the ever-increasing demand for environmentally friendly and cost efficient converting of renewable biomass to valuable fuels and products. Sections two is the Forest Refine session outlining the development of the supply chain. The next researches in line are from the Bio4Energy research program and they will present developing methods and tools for bio refinery operations. Finally Forest Refine will talk about findings and requirements for the raw material before it can be used in a bio refinery. Clas Engström, Managing Director at SP Processum will guide us through the day.
  

The cost for harvest, transport, storing and handling often represents half of the overall cost for bio refining. To be competitive - large amounts of the biomass can be used as fuels, while smaller but economically significant amounts are further refined to products of higher value. I believe, we need to see increased cooperation between different research disciplines and new business models to make bio refineries commercial in the future says Magnus Matisons project manager of Forest Refine.

See the agenda here! 

Register here!

For contact and more information

Magnus Matisons, project manager Forest Refine, BioFuel Region
magnus.matisons@biofuelregion.se
+46 70 786 85 40

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