2012-04-24 19:02 Chemrec AB Chemrec today signed a cooperation agreement with China Tianchen Engineering Corporation, TCC, to provide an integrated offering of Chemrec plants on a global lump-sum turn-key basis and co-market the Chemrec black liquor gasification technology – a route to 2nd generation biofuels or green power.

2011-11-10 07:00 Chemrec AB 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.

2011-01-26 17:51 Chemrec AB 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.

2010-10-21 16:40 Chemrec AB Chemrec, provider of a unique gasification technology used in pulp and paper mills to produce sustainable, low-carbon fuels, today announced it has been named in the prestigious 2010 Global Cleantech 100. The award goes to the most promising private clean technology companies from all around the world, companies likely to make the most significant market impact over the next 5-10 years.

2010-09-09 10:53 Chemrec AB On Thursday September 9 the world’s first plant for production of the renewable motor fuel BioDME was inaugurated. “A major step forward for the global biofuels market”, said Kyriakos Maniatis of the European Commission. The plant is built and operated by Chemrec, a Swedish-based technology company, at the company’s development plant located at the Smurfit Kappa paper mill in Piteå, Sweden.

2010-08-31 17:01 Chemrec AB Pressinvitation to the inauguration on September 9 of the world’s first plant for production of the renewable fuel BioDME in Piteå, Sweden. The biofuels process is based on gasification technology from Chemrec AB and fuel synthesis technology from Haldor Topsøe A/S.

2009-09-18 11:15 Chemrec AB On Friday September 18, His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden broke ground for the world’s first plant for the production of a renewable automotive fuel called BioDME. The plant will be built by Chemrec, a Sweden-based development company, within the company’s development unit located at the Smurfit Kappa paper mill in Piteå, Sweden.