AFYREN inaugurates its first-of-its-kind biorefinery

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AFYREN has inaugurated its first large-scale plant, AFYREN NEOXY, in Carling Saint-Avold (Grand Est, Moselle, France) on the Chemesis industrial platform. It came online within its deadline and budget.

Press release: "AFYREN inaugurates its first factory, AFYREN NEOXY, a first-of-its-kind biorefinery", 29/09/2022.

Related post: “AFYREN starts construction of its first biorefinery to produce biobased organic acids”, 14/12/2020. 

Figure 1. AFYREN NEOXY

After the start of construction in December 2020, major milestones included obtaining the operating permit, completion of civil engineering work, construction of the plant and the gradual industrial commissioning of its various units. All told, it only took 20 months for AFYREN NEOXY to open its doors, on September 29, 2022.

Perfectly operational and secure, the biorefinery has reached production start-up phase in the 2022 calendar year, as announced. AFYREN plans to gradually increase volumes to produce 16,000 metric tons of carboxylic acids within two years, a world first. At this stage, 70% of AFYREN NEOXY’s target production of organic acids has already been pre-sold.