Customer case:

Climate-friendly Bioethanol from agricultural waste at Clariant in Germany

Aug 12, 2015

The Swiss speciality chemicals company Clariant, inaugurated Germany's largest second-generation bioethanol plant in July 2012. The cellulosic ethanol produced by Clariant reduces CO2 emissions by 95% compared to fossil fuels, and it does not interfere with food or feed production. The raw material is agricultural residue such as wheat straw or corn stover.

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We are very pleased with the performance of Valmet's pretreatment system. The integration into our sunliquid process set-up works very well, and the pretreated material demonstrates good properties in downstream process steps."
Dr. Markus Rarbach, the head of Clariant's Start-up Business Projects Biofuels & Derivatives

Summary

Location Germany
Keywords Biofuels and biomaterials, Europe, Bioethanol
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