The Biomass History told by its main actors
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Since 2000 EUBIA, the European Biomass Industry Association, gives its annual prize tothe European company which demonstrated an high effort in supporting biomass development at commercial and industrial level. According to the tradition, the Award Ceremony is hosted and supported by the European Biomass Conference & Exhibition. This year, the 12th EUBIA Award edition ceremony will take place at the Congress Centre of Hamburg, during the Conference Opening Session on Monday the 23rd of June 2014.
It is with very big pleasure that EUBIA hereby announces that the winner of the 12th EUBIA award 2014 is:
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Biochemtex – Italy
For the merit of bringing lignocellulosic ethanol production on industrial scale
Biochemtex is a global leader in the development and engineering of technologies and bio-chemical processes based on the exclusive use of non-food biomass, as an alternative to oil. Biochemetx has a strong focus on innovation and technology development in the green chemicals.
Thanks to a partnership with Beta Renewables – company owned as majority shareholder in Joint Venture with the American private equity firm, TPG (Texas Pacific Group) and the Danish leader in bio-innovation, Novozymes – it develops technologies and industrial project to produce bio-ethanol and other chemical intermediates. After seven years of studies and 150 million Euro of investment, Biochemtex developed the PROESA™ process, an exclusive technology platform commercialized by Beta Renewables.
Proesa™ is used to produce bio-fuels and chemical intermediates and it has been demonstrated on an industrial scale at the Crescentino plant, that is the 1st plant in the world that produces 2nd generation bioethanol on industrial scale. Crescentino plant has been realized also with the contribution of the 7FP of the ECC.
Recently, Biochemtex has advanced also a new technology called MOGHI to convert lignin into bio- aromatics and other bio-chemicals, largely used in industry as intermediate or fuel. In 2012 Biochemtex had a turnover of 200 million Euros, with 250 employees of which 150 dedicated to R&D