Companies Producing Chemicals from Biomass

The following table identifies eight public companies that produce and sell chemicals produced from biomass materials:

 

company	chemicals
adm	polyols; solvents; dispersants; oils
corbion	lactic acid
neste oil	feedstock for plastics
origin materials	polyethylene terephthalate; furfural
sappi	furfural
stora enso	tall oil; turpentine
suzano	bio-oil
upm	nanofibrillar cellulose

 

Most of the companies in the table produce pulp and paper as their main products and therefore use wood as the biomass from which they also are producing the chemicals listed in the table.

The companies recognize the environmental-related imperatives to replace chemicals produced from fossil fuels with chemicals produced by another raw material source.  Since renewable wood is the prominent raw material resource for these companies, they are strongly motivated to find ways of producing chemicals from the biomass wood.