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By Gerald Ondrey August 3, 2020
GranBio SA (Sao Paulo), a 100 percent Brazilian commercial biogeneration company, and NextChem, the subsidiary of Mayor Tecnimont SpA (Rome, Italy) for the energy transition, have announced a strategic partnership with the world leader in licensing the patented GranBio 2G Ethanol Generation to produce cellulosic ethanol.
GranBio’s 2G ethanol generation converts non-food lignocellulosic biomass into low-carbon renewable biofuels. NextChem partners with GranBio to license this generation worldwide. The alliance combines GranBio’s generation and wisdom in biomass and second generation biofuels with NextChem’s engineering intelligence, EPC’s functions and the Group’s global presence to deliver built-in services, feasibility studies, integration projects, engineering and production plant structure worldwide.
The generation developed through GranBio to produce 2G ethanol has already been implemented at its plant in Sao Miguel dos Campos, in Alagoas, the first in the southern hemisphere committed to cellulosic ethanol.
“We will be pioneers in this business model, leading the progress of the cellulosic ethanol industry on a global scale. Some countries already recognize the renewable carbon premium; our flexible approach allows us to use all kinds of agricultural waste and energy crops as uncooked. materials such as stuncooked cane, miscanthus and corn stalks and even traces of wood such as pine and eucalyptus. With the NextChem Alliance, we have the ambition to conquer a significant percentage of the market we have: we have the security and reliability that our generation is very promising,” said Paulo Nigro, CEO of GranBio.
“This partnership with GranBio complements our biofuel generation portfolio with a flexible and cost-effective solution to produce ethanol, an internationally used chemist with many established business programs and enormous potential,” said Pierroberto Folgiero, CEO of NextChem and Major Tecnimont. “The GranBio reference plant is the only one of its kind, on a commercial scale, that operates worldwide. We are confident in a winning solution that we can market anywhere, thanks to our global presence and engineering capabilities.”
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