SunPine to build a new crude tall diesel plant in Sweden
Type of post: NEWS IN BRIEF.
SunPine
is a Swedish company focused on the production of renewable fuels and is owned
by Kiram, Preem, Sveaskog, Södra and Lawter. Its Piteå
biorefinery transforms crude tall oil (a byproduct from pulp and paper
manufacturing) into crude tall diesel (raw material for biofuels), bio-oil
(green fuel oil used in the paper industry) and rosin (raw material for
printing inks and adhesives). The crude tall diesel from the plant is mixed
with Preem’s Evolution Diesel.
The owners of SunPine have decided to invest in
a completely new facility in Piteå (press
release, 4/4/2018). Magnus Edin, SunPine CEO, said: “The market for our
sustainable tall diesel fuel is growing, and we want assume responsibility for
the Swedish shift to renewable fuels. The main aim is to increase tall diesel
production capacity, which – as Sweden’s only diesel fuel carrying the Nordic
Eco-label – is supplied to consumers via Preem”.
Figure 1. Model of the new biorefinery (extracted
from the press release)
Those are the key data of the new facility:
Location
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Adjacent
to the company’s existing plant at Haraholmen (Piteå, Sweden).
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Capacity
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It will increase
tall diesel fuel capacity by 50%.
The
existing plant has a yearly production of 100,000 m3 of raw tall
oil diesel.
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Investment
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250
million SEK (around 24 M€)
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Employment
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20 new direct
jobs and significantly more resulting from all the services needed.
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Timeline
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The environmental
permit application will be submitted during this spring, after which the procurement
of equipment and services will begin.
Expected
start-up: 2020.
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