Tosoh actively shifting to high-margin products at Yokkaichi

• Book ID: 104388389
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Weight: 69 KB
• Volume: 2009
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1351-4180
• DOI: 10.1016/s1351-4180(09)70466-0

✦ Synopsis

Biofuel gasification plant discontinued

NewPage Corp, a US-based paper maker, has backed away from the biofuels gasification project at its mill in Escanaba, MI, because of spiralling costs. The project, a partnership between the company and Swedish firm Chemrec AB, had aimed to produce methanol and dimethyl ether from kraft pulp black liquor. The project was deemed unviable due to the lack of demand for methanol and dimethyl ether in North America that would sustain the plant's