The Veolia group announced on Wednesday the launch of an industrial solution to produce in Finland, from 2024, biofuel from paper pulp, a path still little explored.

According to the French group, this is the "largest biorefinery project in the world producing CO2-neutral biomethanol from a pulp production plant".

This solution was developed in collaboration with Metsä Fibre, the world's leading producer of market pulp and sawn timber.

This alternative source for making biofuels is almost entirely unexplored to date, underlines the water and waste giant, which wants to be the world leader in ecological solutions.

Veolia is launching the world's largest biorefinery project producing CO2-neutral bio-methanol from a pulp production plant in Finland.

It reveals the potential of this alternative source of raw material for the manufacture of biofuels.

— Veolia (@Veolia) April 6, 2022


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Reduce CO2 emissions by 30,000 tons annually

This project reveals a global production potential of biomethanol of around 2 million tonnes per year, as it is "replicable in 80% of pulp mills in the world", adds Veolia.

Biomethanol can help replace fossil fuels in transport.

The Danish maritime transport giant Maersk has thus announced the launch in 2024 of its first container ship running on biomethanol.

In Finland, the biomethanol refinery, owned and operated by Veolia, will be adjacent to Metsä Fibre's Äänekoski plant.

It will have an annual production capacity of 12,000 tonnes and will, by replacing fossil fuels in transport, reduce CO2 emissions by 30,000 tonnes annually.

This investment of 50 million euros is subsidized by the Finnish Ministry of Economy, according to the press release.

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