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Finnish Paper Firm Targets Sugar

by Marc S. Reisch
September 8, 2014 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 92, Issue 36

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Credit: Virdia
Virdia’s pilot plant in Danville, Va.
A fisheye photo of the interior of a chemical plant shows eight yellow funnels among various pipes, tubes, valves, scaffolds, tanks, etc.
Credit: Virdia
Virdia’s pilot plant in Danville, Va.

Finnish forest products company Stora Enso will spend $43 million to build a demonstration plant in Raceland, La., that extracts sugar from waste sugarcane biomass. The firm got the technology in June with the $62 million purchase of California-based start-up Virdia, which focused on making industrial sugars for biobased specialty chemicals and fuels. The plant will use hydrochloric acid to break down woody biomass. The high-purity five-carbon sugars produced at the plant, to open in 2017, will be targeted at food and personal care markets.

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