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Lignofuels 2024
ACI is pleased to be hosting 13th Annual Lignofuels Conference on 7th & 8th February 2024 in Helsinki, Finland.
Building on the success of Lignofuels 2023 which brought 150+ senior level industry professionals to Helsinki in February 2023, we are delighted to be returning to Finland for the 5th consecutive year for the 2024 edition of the conference. It will once again bring together key lignofuels and advanced biofuels and materials stakeholders to join our forum discussions and networking, including leaders from advanced generation biofuels companies from across the globe represented by Technical, Strategic and Business Development Executives from First and Advanced Generation Biofuels Producers, Oil Refiners, Process Technology Providers, Enzyme Developers, Engineering Firms and Agribusiness as well as Financiers, Investors, Policy & Regulators, Automotive & Aviation Industries, Consultants, Traders & Brokers and Chemical Companies.
Exclusive Fintoil’s Hamina-Kotka Biorefinery Site Visit:
During the afternoon of Tuesday, 6th February 2024, a day prior to the conference, a limited number of conference delegates will have the unique opportunity to visit Fintoil’s Crude Tall Oil (CTO) Biorefinery in the port of Hamina-Kotka.
Fintoil’s cutting-edge CTO biorefinery’s production process is based on a fractionation process, where the raw material is distilled into its component parts or fractions by using thermal energy and vacuum. Production at the biorefinery started in the autumn of 2022. Fintoil’s biorefinery utilizes intelligent tall oil fractionation technology NEXPINUS™ licensed by Neste’s Engineering Solutions (NES). The modern refinery’s input capacity is 200,000 tons of crude tall oil, making Fintoil the third largest crude tall oil refiner in the world. The plant was also designed with the possibility of increasing the input capacity in the future.
There is no extra charge to join the site visit, although the number of places is limited and allocated to the conference delegates on a first-come first-served basis. Therefore, we would strongly recommend you to book your place early enough to avoid disappointment.
- Details
- Key Topics
- Confirmed Speakers
- Who Will Attend?
- Fintoil's Hamina-Kotka Biorefinery Site Visit
- Call for Papers
- Sponsors
- Agenda
- Partners
- Maximising Face-to Face Networking
- An Overview of the Current Lignofuels Market
- Update on Technological Developments and Innovations
- Legislation Influencing Biofuels
- Diversifying the Various Types of Feedstock
- Overcoming Obstacles in The Biofuels Industry
- Lignofuels and The Environment
- Financing Projects in The Industry
- Lignofuels in Aviation, Automotives and Marine Industries
- Moving Towards a Future of Lignofuels
- Andreas Teir, Head of Innovation Platform, Neste
- Marko Janhunen, Director, Public Affairs, UPM
- Andrea Martelli, Global Head of Biofuels Trading, Supply & Sustainability, ENI
- Oskar Meijerink, Head of Future Fuels, SkyNRG
- Henrik Brodin, Head of Energy, Sodra
- Mihkel Jugaste, CSO, AS Graanul Invest
- Daniel Madrid García, Trading Manager, Generandi
- Michael Maimann, Expertise Director in Biomass and Biofuels, Niras
- Bharadwaj Kummamuru, Executive Director, World Bioenergy Association
- André Paula Santos, Public Affairs Director, EBB
- David Carpintero, Director General, ePURE
- Reberth Machado, Senior Corporate and Business Development Manager, Steeper Energy
- Jukka Ravaska, Managing Director, Fintoil
- Harri Haavisto, Senior Specialist, Finland Ministry Of Economic Affairs And Employment (MEAE)
- Arvid Loken, Senior Advisor, Carbon Reduction Programme, Avinor
- Jens Price Wolf, General Manager Europe and Vice President Commercial, Enviva
- Andy Hill, Deputy Chair, Wood Recyclers’ Association
- Elmar Baumann, Managing Director, Verband der Deutschen Biokraftstoffindustrie e. V.
- Felipe Ferrari, Technology Innovation Renewable Fuels, GoodFuels
- Manolis Karampinis, Director, Business Development and Membership Department, Bioenergy Europe
- Kari Kaskes, Business Development Director, Neste Engineering Solutions
- First and Advanced Generation Biofuels Producers
- Oil Refiners
- Process Technology Providers
- Enzyme Developers
- Engineering Firms
- Agribusiness
- Financiers & Investors
- Policy makers & Regulators
- Automotive & Aviation Industries
- Consultants
- Traders & Brokers
- Chemical Companies
During the afternoon of Tuesday, February 6, 2024, a day prior to the conference, a limited number of conference delegates will have the unique opportunity to visit Fintoil’s Crude Tall Oil (CTO) Biorefinery in the port of Hamina-Kotka.
Fintoil‘s cutting-edge CTO biorefinery’s production process is based on a fractionation process, where the raw material is distilled into its component parts or fractions by using thermal energy and vacuum.
Production at the biorefinery started in the autumn of 2022. The modern refinery’s input capacity is 200,000 tons of crude tall oil, making Fintoil the third largest crude tall oil refiner in the world. The plant was also designed with the possibility of increasing the input capacity in the future.
Fintoil’s biorefinery utilizes intelligent tall oil fractionation technology NEXPINUS™ licensed by Neste’s Engineering Solutions (NES). In addition to the license, NES delivered the process design package (PDP), basic engineering, EPCM services, the automation solution and proprietary equipment for Fintoil’s plant. The cooperation gives Fintoil access to NEXPINUS™ technology,” which is tailored for the production of premium quality products.
In addition to crude fatty acid, Fintoil’s distillation process separates rosin, pitch, sterol pitch, and turpentine, which are sold for further refinement to clients in the biofuels, chemicals, foodstuffs and pharmaceuticals industries, to name a few. During the site visit attendees will also have the opportunity to meet NES representatives as well as to listen to their presentation about CTO fractionation.
There is no extra charge to join the site visit, although the number of places is limited and allocated to the conference delegates on a first-come first-served basis. Therefore, we would strongly recommend you to book your place early enough to avoid disappointment.
If you would like to be considered as a speaker for the event with a 30-45 minute presentation, please submit an abstract for consideration to:
Ted Hughes
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3141 0608
Email: [email protected]
Axens group provides a complete range of solutions for the conversion of oil and biomass to cleaner fuels, the production and purification of major petrochemical intermediates, the chemical recycling of plastics, all natural gas treatment and conversion options along with water treatment and carbon capture. The offer includes technologies, equipment, furnaces, modular units, catalysts, adsorbents and related services. Axens is ideally positioned to cover the entire value chain, from feasibility study to unit start-up and follow-up throughout the entire unit life cycle. This unique position ensures the highest level of performance with a reduced environmental footprint. Axens global offer is based on highly trained human resources, modern production facilities and an extended global network for industrial, technical supports and commercial services. Axens is an IFP Group company.
Founded in 1940, Topsoe is a global leader in developing solutions for a decarbonized world, supplying technology, catalysts, and services for worldwide energy transition.
Our mission is to combat climate change by helping our partners and customers achieve their decarbonization and emission-reduction targets, including those in challenging sectors: aviation, shipping, and production of crucial raw materials. From low-carbon or zero-carbon chemicals to renewable fuels and plastic upcycling, we are uniquely positioned to aid humanity in realizing a sustainable future.
Topsoe is headquartered in Denmark, with 2,400 employees serving customers all around the globe. To learn more, visit www.topsoe.com
Steeper Energy developed a hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) technology suite that has now been proven through a pilot phase and is in the process of being proven in a demonstration-scale facility in Norway. Steeper’s technology confirms an economic pathway for the production of biofuels such as marine bunker fuel, heating oil, renewable diesel, and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from a wide range of biowaste feedstocks. Our focus has been on lignocellulosic materials, but other streams include the biogenic portions of MSW, animal waste, and agricultural wastes among others. Steeper’s Calgary-based Advanced Biofuels Center (ABC), a lab-scale refinery, was commissioned in late 2021. ABC is optimizing Steeper’s Hydrofaction® Oil upgrading pathways to advanced biofuels with a particular focus on maximizing yields of finished fuels. Steeper holds over 200 patents either obtained or pending in 25 patent families and is advancing towards the commercialization of its technology in prospective plant projects around the world.
Sulzer Chemtech – we make chemistry happen
Global market leader in innovative mass transfer, static mixing and polymer solutions for chemicals, petrochemicals, refining and LNG. We are steering the way in ecological solutions such as bio-based chemicals, polymers and fuels, recycling technologies for textiles and plastic as well as carbon capture and utilization/storage, contributing to a circular and sustainable economy. Our product offering ranges from process components to complete process plants and technology licensing.
Leaf, business unit of Lesaffre, is a global key player in industrial biotechnology to enable a better future.
We push boundaries to reveal the full potential of fermentation and develop industrial microorganisms and processes that allow renewable productions. In collaboration with players that are also passionate about accelerating the transition, we design and put into action high performance bio-based solutions.
Drawing upon Lesaffre’s global presence and 170 years of fermentation expertise, we offer high quality and locally manufactured biomass and bio-based products. At Leaf and Lesaffre’s network of fermentation labs (R&D and application lab), we provide answers to our clients’ demands, to overcome their challenges and to seek for improvement potentials. With a team committed to sustainability, customers’ satisfaction and innovation, Leaf is your industrial fermentation partner for a sustainable tomorrow.
Fintoil is a renewable specialty chemicals company. We refine Crude Tall Oil into multiple different products.
Our 200 000 t/a feed capacity biorefinery began operations in 2022. The modern refinery is located in Hamina, on the south-eastern coast of Finland. Our production process is based on a fractionation process, wherein heat and vacuum are applied to separate Crude Tall Oil into desired fractions.
Crude Tall Oil is a by-product of the kraft pulping process, making our raw material and naturally all our products completely renewable. Our work contributes to Finland’s, the EU’s and the world’s efforts to reach carbon neutrality, seeing as the carbon footprint of CTO derivatives is up to 90 % smaller than that of fossil alternatives.
Our products are finetuned to our customers’ specifications and mainly include Crude Fatty Acid, Tall Oil Rosin, Tall Oil Pitch, and Turpentine. Our customers use our products in renewable biofuels, oil field chemicals and lubricants, ink binders, adhesives, and aromachemicals, to name a few. The applications are many and continue to increase as R&D is intense around the great shift to renewables.
Neste’s Engineering Solutions is a preferred solution provider specialized in providing a unique combination of high-quality technology, engineering and project management services and solutions for combating climate change and accelerating the shift towards a circular economy in Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals and Bio-industries. We have over 60 years of international experience in technology development and industrial investment projects as well as maintenance and performance improvement projects. We have extensive understanding of converting various complex bio-based feedstock into more valuable chemical intermediates or final products. At Engineering Solutions we have a successful and unique track record in designing first-of-a-kind processes and plants in the renewables space. Our owner (Neste) has consistently been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices and the Global 100 list of the world’s most sustainable companies.
Many companies base their success on highly competitive novel process technologies developed by Neste’s Engineering Solutions. Our intelligent tall oil fractionation technology NEXPINUS™ is the world’s leading globally licensed technology for crude tall oil fractionation for premium quality products. NEXPINUSTM is feedstock flexible reliable tall oil refining technology based on advanced modeling and validated property data.
neste.com/engineeringsolutions
AFRY provides engineering, design, digital and advisory services to accelerate the transition towards a sustainable society. We are 19,000 devoted experts in industry, energy and infrastructure sectors, creating impact for generations to come. AFRY has Nordic roots with a global reach, net sales of 24 BSEK and is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.
Valmet is a leading global developer and supplier of process technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries. With our automation systems and flow control solutions we serve an even wider base of process industries. Our 17,500 professionals around the world work close to our customers and are committed to moving our customers’ performance forward – every day. We use our expertise to provide and develop sustainable, cost-effective technologies and solutions for companies in the biofuels and biomaterials industry. These include flow control solutions and automation, as well as systems for entire process areas, like CHP boilers and hydrolysis systems. And we have over 220 years of industrial history and a strong track record in continuous improvement and renewal.
Find out how we can move your performance forward with our unique technology, automation, and services offering for the biomass industry at www.valmet.com.
American Process specializes in the development of technologies for the commercial production of sugars and ethanol from biomass.
API integrated development team is comprised of experts spanning the entire project life-cycle from laboratory research and detailed engineering to project execution and operations.
ACI has put together a range of packages to suit your requirements. These range from branding options, to full scale partner solutions and can be tailored to meet your objectives and budgets.
If you are launching a new product or service and wish to gain visibility and brand recognition within your industry, contact us today!
For commercial opportunities, please contact:
Sam Cormack
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3141 0609
Email: [email protected]
The Bioenergy Association of Finland (Bioenergia) is the guardian of the interests of more than three hundred member organizations and individual members. As the EU and Finland move towards carbon neutrality, we want to develop the bioenergy sector so that Finland has the best conditions in the world to produce sustainable and even carbon-negative products based on biomass. In our operations, we strive for the highest possible value added and exports, and we support energy self-sufficiency, security of energy supply and supply, employment and the regional economy. We work together with our members as part of a bio- and circular economy where energy is recovered from by-products.
For more information visit us at https://www.bioenergia.fi/
Fecc is a Thought Leadership Platform connecting all parts of the value chain so that distributors of raw materials, ingredients and chemicals can create a sustainable future.
A European federation with a global reach, Fecc is there to listen, be the voice for, inform and serve our industry and its stakeholders.
For over 20 years, F&L Asia has remained the preferred media choice for industry giants such as Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, SK Lubricants, S-Oil, Lubrizol, Infineum, Chevron Oronite, Afton Chemical, BASF, Evonik Industries, Tianhe Chemicals and many more.
Each year, F&L Asia produces F+L Week, the industry conference and exhibition premier event. A sounding board for the latest developments in base oils, lubricants, fuels and additives, F+L Week attracts the very best amongst top industry scientists, market trend setters and decision makers from all around the planet to its economic epicentre in Asia.
Bunkerspot is a key source of quality information for all professionals working in the international bunker industry. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive, accurate – and always independent – view of the multi-faceted global marine fuels industry.
The Bunkerspot website includes a subscription-based real-time news and pricing service, as well as information channels, industry announcements and updates on conferences, exhibitions and other key events. An annual subscription entitles you to see all the subscribers’ newsboard stories and access thousands of articles on the Search Archive.
TD The Market Publishers, Ltd is a stand-alone company with a strong history of promoting and trading market research reports and analytical reviews produced by our many transnational partners, which include both large multinationals and smaller, more specialist concerns.
Our web-based platform, MarketPublishers.com, offers an unmatched collection of market research reports, company reviews, databooks, articles, periodical publications, databases, on-line subscriber services, and much more, delivered by the successful and well-established publishers with whom we are currently in partnership.
Here, at Market Publishers, research experts exploit a wide range of marketing media to efficiently engage with our clients to use these for the benefit of our clients, and so generate enhanced revenue streams for their businesses.
Market Publishers’ team continuously works to update and expand our existing collection of market research reports (more than one hundred thousand) by partnering with new publishers and adding their studies to our web-site’s content. Market Publishers’ support and services, on-line and offline, are at our customers’ disposal twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week throughout the year.
Austrian Biomass Association offers an annual prize in the categories of firewood, wood chips and pellets. Submissions are possible from private persons as well as companies.
Projects from fuel production, plant production as well as construction and end customer projects of all sizes can be submitted.
Submission deadline: 30.Sept. 2023 to [email protected]
24th Biomass Day & Heating-Plant-Operators Day on 8.+9.Nov 2023 www.biomassetag.at
The program of the 24th Austrian Biomass and Heating Plant Operators Day reflects the current energy policy developments and shows what contribution the biomass industry can make to building a crisis-resistant energy system based on domestic renewable resources.
The heating plant operators day is once again focused on local heating and provides a practical overview of the current political framework and technical innovations.
Worldoils is a company that combines the power of marketing as well as thein-house expertise for the Oil, Gas, Offshore and the Maritime industries. Worldoils’ web portal www.worldoils.com has become a truly central platform for visitors who need information regarding oil and gas products and services, research, training, conferences, news and events as well as a popular advertising base for providers of Oil, Gas, Marine and Offshore services. Worldoils has also launched the jobs system and a marketplace. In the recent months, Worldoils has strengthened its position as a fast developing central place for buying and selling of land rigs, offshore rigs, barge rigs and other oilfield and subsea equipment.
Renewables Now is an independent one-stop shop for business news and market intelligence for the global renewable energy industry.
Biobased Press (www.biobasedpress.eu) is an independent, non-sponsored website that takes a helicopter view of the biobased economy. It discusses business and research, and links the biobased economy to neighbouring areas like sustainability, biotechnology, energy, agriculture, policy and the economy. Recently, we ran a series on the history of antibiotics.
E-mail: [email protected]
Website : www.biobasedpress.eu
Twitter : @biobasedpress
Address: Lauriergracht 52, 1016 RL Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Phone: +31 653 842048
Direct line +44 (0)203 551 5751 www.biofuels-news.com
BIOFUELS INTERNATIONAL magazine is brought out 10 times a year and is the leading global publication in the market. Designed to appeal to those who wish to learn and be kept abreast of this increasingly important area, the magazine encompasses, biodiesel, bioethanol, and biomass.
Every issue includes in-depth news analysis and features on related subjects, including distribution, handling, storage, equipment and second generation technology. Industry experts regularly contributing to the magazine include the European Bioethanol Fuel Association and Will Thurmond, author of Biodiesel 2020: A global market survey.
Biofuels International is mailed to a minimum of 3,100 named individuals within the sector and is the industry’s only audited magazine. These consist of senior engineers, technical managers, project managers, CEOs/managing directors and logistics and distribution managers, as well as the appropriate and relevant financial and trade bodies with a specific interest in the biofuels industry.
For more information please contact Claire Smith on [email protected]
Direct line +44 (0)203 551 5751 www.biofuels-news.com
Biomass events promotion resource is the international events bulletin focusing on biomass news, biomass technologies, biomass conferences and exhibitions.
The website has been established to supply information about the latest events in biomass and bioenergy field. Our main objective is to support biomass industries worldwide, promoting key biomass events. We believe that biomass will play one of the decisive roles in creative sustainable bioenergy Europe.
Wood pellets Ukrainian Biofuel Portal – is a specialized B2B platform on biomass and biofuel trade representing extensive base of suppliers and manufactures. Find reliable biofuel traders.
Ukrainian Biofuel Portal carries out mission of a consulting, project management partner, providing professional informational business-to-business service in alternative energy and power supply.
The marketers of Ukrainian Biofuel Portal try their best to find reliable partners from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
Worldoils is a company that combines the power of marketing as well as the in-house expertise for the Oil, Gas, Offshore and the Maritime industries. Worldoils’ web portalwww.worldoils.com has become a truly central platform for visitors who need information regarding oil and gas products and services, research, training, conferences, news and events as well as a popular advertising base for providers of Oil, Gas, Marine and Offshore services. Worldoils has also launched the jobs system and a marketplace. In the recent months, Worldoils has strengthened its position as a fast developing central place for buying and selling of land rigs, offshore rigs, barge rigs and other oilfield and subsea equipment.
Bioferefing Blog publishes important, innovative technical aspects about the facilities, processes and technologies encompassed by the field of the green chemical engineering, bioeconomy and biorefining.
BRB’s aim is promote and encourage the development of the biorefineries and the growth of the bioeconomy in Spain, Europe and across the world.
At the event we strive not only to bring you to the same location at the same time as your customers/suppliers/peers, we strive to ensure you meet face-to-face with each and every one of your target contacts and to provide you with the time you need to have multiple unhurried conversations with them and build a lasting business relationship:
• A pre-event informal introduction the evening before the conference
• A minimum of five hours’ networking built into the two day conference agenda
• A networking grid which enables you to make your target contacts aware you are looking for them
• The option to join either social drinks or dinner during the evening of Day One
• ACI’s on-site team will assist you in locating your hard-to-find target contacts & make face-to-face introductions
Of course, if there is anybody you are unable to meet over the two days, ACI’s event team will do their best to initiate contact after the event.
