Choren, Norske Skog plan wood-based advanced biofuels plant in Norway

In Norway, Choren Industries and Norske Skog announced that they will jointly evaluate the potential for an advanced biofuels plant using wood biomass as feedstock for a synthetic biofuels process. Choren recently completed construction on a 4.5 Mgy demonstration biomass-to-liquids plant in Germany. Choren has said that it hopes to increase capacity at that plant to commercial scale of 71 Mgy.

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