Chemrec AB, the technology and project development company, offering to turn pulp mills to biorefineries through gasification of the residual product black liquor and synthesis of the gas to biofuels, recently received two prestigious awards, the AlwaysOn GoingGreen Global 200 and the 2011 Global Cleantech 100, both for the third year running.

Chemrec AB, teknologi- och projektutvecklingsföretaget, som omvandlar massabruk till bioraffinaderier genom förgasning av restprodukten svartlut och syntes av gasen till biobränsle, fick nyligen två prestigefyllda utmärkelser: AlwaysOn GoingGreen 200 och 2011 Global Cleantech 100, båda för tredje året i rad.

The European Union has approved the SEK 500 million (€55 million, $75 million) R&D grant awarded by the Swedish Energy Agency towards the industrial scale demonstration biofuels plant based on Chemrec’s gasification technology at the Domsjö Fabriker biorefinery in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. The plant will produce the renewable biofuels biomethanol or bioDME using forest harvest residues as feedstock.