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Leaf & Andritz Complete Successful Evaluation of Glycell™ Evaluation on EFB
- Published March 21, 2016 3:10PM UTC
- Publisher Wholesale Investor
- Categories Company Updates
16th March 2016, ASX Announcement
Highlights:
- Joint evaluation by Leaf and Adritz show improved recovery of sugars using Glycell™ process
- Andritz nominates Leaf’s Glycell™ process as one of its preferred pretreatments of Empty Fruit Bunch Biomass
Leaf Resources and Andritz (a globally leading supplier of plant, equipment, and services for pulp and paper and other industries) undertook work to evaluate Glycell™ pretreatment technology on the specific biomass known as Empty Fruit Bunch Biomass (EFB) at pilot scale in Springfield, Ohio.
EFB is an abundant, low cost feedstock in palm oil producing countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and others. Approximately 20 million metric tons are “generated”annually by palm oil mills in Malaysia, between 22-23 million metric tons in Indonesia and over 2 million tons in Thailand.
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