Borregaards Transformation from a Traditional P&P
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Ares(2018)2076230 - 18/04/2018 Workshop on the Non-binding Guidance on Cascading Use of (Woody) Biomass Brussels, 13 April 2018 BORREGAARDS TRANSFORMATION FROM A TRADITIONAL P&P COMPANY TO THE WORLDS MOST ADVANCED BIOREFINERY Gudbrand Rødsrud Technology D i r e c t o r Business Development Borregaard AS, Norway Borregaard in a nut shell 1050 100 (10%) employees Employees in innovation 450 M€ annual sales Production in 7 countries 5% Head office, R&D and Sarpsborg Biorefinery Sales office Technical services Plant Innovation intensity Turning all parts of the wood log into products The “LIGNIN COMPANY” Leading supplier of lignin based Bleached Specialty performance chemicals Cellulose 160 ktons/y cellulose cellulose Top 3 supplier of high Bioethanol 20 mill litres/y quality specialty cellulose Sarpsborg sulphite mill Vanillin 1500 tons/y Only supplier of vanillin from wood The largest producer of ethanol from wood Lignin 168 ktons/y Sarpsborg biorefinery Only supplier of microfibrillated cellulose External (MFC) sulphite Lignin ~300 mills ktons/y Other lignin Only supplier of defibrillated cellulose for operations food market Synthetic Pharma chemistry intermediates CELLULOSIC SUGARS D-MANNOSE SPECIALTY CELLULOSE LIGNIN VANILLIN BIOETHANOL CELLULOSE FIBRILS Construction materials Concrete additives Food Pharmaceutical industry Adhesives Filters Animal feed Perfumes Biofuel Coatings Inks and coatings Agrochemicals Pharmaceuticals Paint/varnish Agricultural chemicals Casings Batteries Car care Personal care Food/Pharma/Personal care Briquetting Home care Textiles Soil conditioning S P E C I A LT Y Construction … SUGARS .. Feed Food . Pharma Cosmetics Borregaards internal circular economy wood Steam and energy PRODUCTS FOR SALE FOR PRODUCTS Saw mill Wood cellulose- chips plant ethanol- lignin- plant vanillin- ethanol plant biogass- plant plant Energi recovery Wood based industry – a circular industry forest Saw mill lumber buildings larger constructions Wood and chips CO2 materials paper fuel materials chemicals energy waste , packaging paper Pulp and bioraffinery paper Waste Waste industry Municipal Samfunn Nothing is new - The forest as feedstock 1940 Borregaards product line history Specialty sugars 1950’ies: Limited access to domestic wood feedstock • In the late 1950’ies limited access to wood quotas on wood supply. • No volume expansion in Norway • Growth had to come from value expansion • Borregaard: strategy: «squeeze maximum value out of each wood log» BIOREFINERY concept FOOTER TEXT 1 2 . 0 4 . 2 0 1 8 9 Borregaards product line history Specialty sugars Restructuring the world lignin market Operating revenues • Size to afford RnD NOK million 1600 • Streamlining product Brazil 1400 Russia lines Czech 1200 South- rep. Africa II 1000 South- • Combined Africa competences more 800 China I WA than the sum of 600 Switzer- USA land Sweden competences 400 WI Finland USA Sweden 200 Germany Spain • Market leader – UK 0 attractive position 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 Borregaards product line history Specialty sugars SUMMARY • Borregaard started as a conventional • Environmental issues and market pulping operation conditions forced Borregaard to • Sulphite technology can not cost- search for other strategies competitive in the paper market • «BIOREFINERY» long before the word (a burden and an opportunity) was invented • • Sulphite technology is great for Strong financial owners from 1986 enabled restructuring of the global • specialty cellulose, lignin market • lignosulfonate performance chemicals • vanillin (only spruce) • Strategy: • ethanol • continuous efficiency improvments & • innovation FOOTER TEXT 1 2 . 0 4 . 2 0 1 8 13 The BALI project Bleached Specialty • Decoupling of expansion of the the Cellulose lignin operation long term and cellulose cellulose expansion of the cellulose Bioethanol Sarpsborg biorefinery production Sarpsborg sulphite mill Vanillin • Co-production of lignosulfonates and sugars Lignin External Borregaard LignoTech • Biomass pretreatment and Lignin sulphite mills production sites separation technology Lignin BALI™ plant Bioethanol Cellulose Sugar Biochemicals 10 µm Exilva Microfibrillated cellulose Human hair Typical diameter 75µm ( 20 – 200 µm) Microfibrillated Cellulose Typical length 2 – 50 cm (20 000 – 500 000 µm) Produced from Norway spruce Cellulose fiber in paper Still crystalline microfibers Typical diameter 20 – 60 µm Typical length 2-3 mm (2000 – 3000 µm Water dispersible, not water 10 µm soluble Microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) MFC Typical diameter 10 – 100 nm (0,01 – 0,1 µm) Typisk diameter 10 – 100 nm (0,01 – 0,1 µm) Typical length 2 – 3 mm (2000 – 3000 µm) Typisk lengde opp til 100µm 10 µm http://www.exilva.com/ THE EXILVA INDUSTRIAL PLANT http://www.exilva.com/ • New production facility • Capacity 1000 tonnes • Production started in Q4-16 • Location: Sarpsborg, Norway • Grant from BBI JU (EU H2020) as flagship project • 25 m€ over 3 years (May 2016-April 2019) European project funded by the Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N°709746 EXILVA BY BORREGAARD Mannose process currently in pilot stage • Raw material is Norway spruce (Picea abies) • Process based on in-house IP • Isolation and purification of mannose done in GMP certified pilot plant 1 2 . 0 4 . 2 0 1 8 17 Samples of D-mannose available • Process based on in-house IP • Isolation and purification in GMP certified pilot plant • 100 g samples available for testing • Product specification: • D-(+)-mannose • Purity: >99% 1 2 . 0 4 . 2 0 1 8 18 Sensefi Cellulosic Texture Enhancher & Dietary Fibre http://www.sensefi.com/ • Multifunctional dietary fiber • Advanced texturizing • Superior water binder & fat replacer • Thickening, stabilizing and suspension • Succulent texture and clean taste 2%cellulose 2%SenseFi 2% 19 .