Borregaard picks up $6 million in advanced biofuels R&D funding from EU

In Norway, Borregaard has been awarded $6 million in research grants from the EU, that will be utilized for biorefinery projects making renewable chemicals and fuels from biomass. The grants came in two projects awarded under the Joint Biorefinery Call for 2010-2014 that is expected to make $85 million in total awards. The EuroBioRef project led by Lille University in France is one awardee, with 28 partners developing new technologies for processing renewable chemicals from biomass. The other project, Suprabio, has 16 partners. The funding focuses on support of demonstration-scale projects.

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