Renmatix to initiate the development of its Bioneer™ Biorefinery next year
According to
recent news published by Bloomberg (November
17), Renmatix will develop its first
commercial biorefinery next year. The Bioneer™ biorefinery
will produce between 100,000 tons to 300,000 tons of sugars annually and it will
suppose the first commercial iteration of its Plantrose
process. It is anticipated that the Bioneer site will be co-located with
biochemical manufacturing capability. Investment and location selection
announcements are expected to be made within the next year.
Figure 1.
Simplified diagram of Plantrose process (extracted from Renmatix web page)
Operated by a
Plantrose licensing partner, the facility will demonstrate world scale
operation of this supercritical cellulosic conversion technology. This continuous
process deconstructs a range of plant material into renewable feedstocks to
produce separate streams of sugars C5/C6 from hemicellulose and cellulose.
After sugar extraction, remaining lignin solids can be burned to supply heat energy
required for the process or utilized in higher value applications like
adhesives or thermoplastics.