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JUNE 14, 2013

Forest BtL Oy, owned by Vapo, A Finnish bioenergy, peat and sawmill company, awarded Technip a contract, worth approximately €5 million, for the front-end engineering and design (FEED) of a new biomass-to-liquid (BTL) plant to be built on Ajos island, Finland. Principal off-takers are expected to be diesel and gasoline retailers.

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APRIL 29, 2013

Finland-based forestry-industry company UPM, VTT and VV-Auto Group will start fleet tests of renewable diesel produced mainly from crude tall oil, which is a residue of chemical pulp production, UPM BioVerno. UPM BioVerno diesel has previously been studied in engine and vehicle tests conducted by VTT and others.

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JUNE 28, 2022

It also marks an important step in ensuring our future competitiveness and our renewables’ growth strategy execution as it will bring a substantial amount of renewable diesel, SAF and renewable feedstock for polymers and chemicals to our sustainability-focused customers. —Matti Lehmus, President and CEO of Neste. million tons annually.

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MARCH 5, 2019

The analysis covered 23 markets in Europe and found a direct correlation between diesel car registrations and average CO2 emissions. With increased negative public perception towards diesels, combined with new government regulations such as WLTP and scrutiny of the fuel type, demand for diesel fell by 18% in 2018.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Building on its capability of proactive transformation, Neste has initiated a strategic study on transitioning its refinery in Porvoo, Finland to non-crude oil refining and into a globally leading renewable and circular solutions site. Porvoo refinery. Neste’s growth strategy is centered on renewable and circular solutions. million ton/a.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

From this waste ham fat, Neste produced 10,000 liters of Neste MY Renewable Diesel at its Porvoo refinery for sale at Neste stations. Altogether, we received 12,000 kg of waste ham fat, producing enough renewable diesel to travel four times around the globe.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2014

When the new rosin plant is up and running, SunPine will be producing three different products: Raw tall diesel, a feedstock used in the production of renewable diesel; rosin, a raw material used in the production of derivatives, including printing ink and adhesives; and tall oil pitch, an energy product used in the paper industry.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Neste Oil, developer of the NExBTL process for renewable diesel, and agritrader Raisioagro have launched a research project to investigate the potential of straw as a raw material for producing NExBTL renewable diesel via Neste’s microbial oil technology. Earlier post.). The cells are then harvested and the oil recovered.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Neste Oil Singapore Pte Ltd and National Oxygen Pte Ltd (NOX), one of the one of the largest industrial gas manufacturers in Singapore, have signed an agreement to install a carbon dioxide recovery and liquefaction plant at Neste Oil’s renewable diesel (NExBTL) refinery in Singapore.

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APRIL 11, 2020

In a three-year Business Finland BioFlex project, VTT—the Finnish state-owned research agency—and partners are exploring how suitable fuel oils made from biomass and waste plastics are for power plants and ship diesel engines. Internal-combustion engine power plants use natural gas or heavy fuel oil in diesel engines.

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JUNE 1, 2016

Researchers in Sweden and Spain have devised a three-step process for the conversion of precipitated kraft lignin from black liquor into green diesel. Pöyry Forest Industry Oy in Finland, noted that: The magnitude of the recovery process is often not fully appreciated. Their paper appears in the journal ChemSusChem. Löfstedt, J.,

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MARCH 29, 2021

Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel, has joined the eFuel Alliance , an interest group dedicated to the industrial production of synthetic fuels based on hydrogen and CO 2 from renewable sources.

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JULY 22, 2011

Vehicles operated by the competition organization at this year’s Neste Oil Rally Finland, held between 28 and 30 July, will run on 100% NExBTL renewable diesel produced by Neste Oil. The revamped route of this year’s Neste Oil Rally will extend from Central Finland southwards to the Päijät-Häme region around Lahti.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Neste Oil, the world’s largest producer of premium-quality renewable fuels, is working with DONG Energy, one of the leading energy groups in Northern Europe, to develop an integrated process to produce renewable diesel and aviation fuel derived from agricultural residues. Aviation Bio-hydrocarbons Biomass Biomass-to-Liquids (BTL) Diesel'

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MAY 25, 2018

A new study by a team from Aarhus University in Denmark has found that car dealerships pose a significant barrier to electric vehicle adoption at the point of sale due to a perceived lack of business case viability in relation to gasoline and diesel vehicles. Their study is published in the journal Nature. —de Rubens et al.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

In addition to producing renewable diesel, all Neste’s renewable product refineries are able to produce renewable aviation fuel and raw materials for various polymers and chemicals materials. Of this total, more than one million is produced in Singapore, the same amount in Rotterdam in the Netherlands and the rest in Porvoo, Finland.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

With this agreement, rapeseed oil produced in Finland will become a raw material source in the renewable diesel production of the Porvoo refinery. Until now, we have used practically all domestic waste animal fat sourced from food industry at our NExBTL plants.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The Cijian Island passenger ferry is retrofitted with a Visedo electric propulsion system, replacing the original diesel engine. It heralds Asia’s first hybrid electric ferry and, if successful, the Kaohsiung City Government plans to retrofit the rest of its diesel fleet to help reduce pollution levels around Taiwan’s largest harbor.

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

Neste Oil celebrated the grand opening of its NExBTL renewable diesel refinery in the Port of Rotterdam. The refinery has an annual production capacity of 800,000 metric tons or 1 billion liters (264 million gallons US) of renewable diesel and cost around €670 million (US$873 million) to build. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

Neste Oil celebrated the official opening of Europe’s first pilot plant for producing microbial oil from waste and residues at its site in Porvoo, Finland. Microbial oil produced from industrial and agricultural residues such as straw represents one of the most promising future raw materials for NExBTL renewable diesel, the company said.

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JULY 3, 2011

Wärtsilä was recently contracted by the STX Finland shipyard in Turku, Finland, to supply the main engines for a new multi-purpose cargo vessel. The liquid bio-fuel is produced at the ship owner’s process refinery in Uusikaupunki, on the south-west coast of Finland. STX Finland is part of the international STX Europe Group.

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APRIL 5, 2013

(Sweden-based Preem has developed a renewable diesel from tall oil in a process that first esterifies the tall oil through the addition of methanol, then distills the tall oil is distilled in a vacuum to separate the raw tall diesel from the tall oil pitch. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 5, 2015

In practical terms, this is enough to power for two years all the 650,000 diesel-powered passenger cars in Finland with NEXBTL renewable diesel manufactured from waste and residues. NEXBTL products (renewable diesel, jet, and naphtha fuels and isoalkane) are produced by hydrotreating vegetable oil or animal fat (HVO).

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MARCH 28, 2017

Today Preem already produces non-fossil diesel made from tall oil, a by-product of the forestry industry, but it also intends in the future to produce renewable fuel from sawdust and forestry residues from timber felling and lignin from the wood pulp industry. —Petter Holland, CEO and President at Preem.

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JUNE 10, 2015

NExBTL products (renewable diesel, jet, and naphtha fuels and isoalkane) are produced by hydrotreating vegetable oil or animal fat (HVO). The new agreement is an important step towards growing our foothold in the chemical industry, where the demand for renewable components is on the increase.

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MARCH 27, 2020

Against this negative backdrop, electrified vehicles (HEVs, PHEVs and BEVs) were once again the outlier in the industry. The increase of more than 80% came at the expense of diesel and gasoline cars which saw significantly fewer registrations. Their registrations jumped from 75,400 units in February 2019 to 135,500 units last month.

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MARCH 10, 2020

Only two years ago not many in the industry would have predicted such high levels of demand for EVs. They posted a record in volume and market share due to increasing incentives for consumers, greater awareness about the benefits of electrified vehicles, and the growing concern about diesel and gasoline cars, JATO said.

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MARCH 5, 2011

Wärtsilä will supply the propulsion machinery for a new passenger ferry to be built by STX Finland Oy for Viking Line. The vessel will be the largest passenger ferry to operate on liquefied natural gas (LNG), making it the most environmentally sound and energy efficient large passenger vessel in the industry to date.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Biomass technology group BTG plans to set up a new high-tech technology company that can convert crude pyrolysis oil into diesel fuel suitable for the shipping sector. The low-sulfur diesel fuel for the shipping sector made from pyrolysis oil will also ensure compliance with soon-to-be introduced global low sulfur fuel regulations.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Neste Oil and St1 have begun working together on a fuel project as part of the TransEco development program coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The oil industry has proposed increasing the biocomponent content of traffic fuels in Finland on a phased basis to 10% by 2015.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

Neste Oil—the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel—has launched the commercial production and sales of renewable naphtha for corporate customers; the company is one of the first to supply bio-naphtha on a commercial scale. It has been observed that diesel selectivity decreases with increasing reaction temperature while.

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MARCH 19, 2024

Diesel cars still sold slightly more.) Market share grew fastest in established EV markets Finland, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The lack of interest from private buyers is a major hurdle for the industry to overcome. Battery EVs set a new record, selling over two million units and taking 15.7%

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

gallon US) production cost for diesel. The gasification of biomass and the gas cleaning process are developed and piloted by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd together with GKN Sinter Metals Filters GmbH. The COMSYN project validates the process concept from biomass gasification to final biofuel product.

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JUNE 11, 2010

UPM, one of the world’s leading forest products groups, recently began an official procedure for an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for a second-generation biofuels plant in Lappeenranta, Finland. The main end products of the plant would be renewable diesel, and bio- gasoline, kerosene and naphtha.

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JUNE 9, 2017

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. The middle-distillate fraction is also hydrotreated and thereafter distilled to renewable jet-fuel and/or diesel.

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MAY 6, 2011

Electric mobility is the task of the century for the automotive industry and the European industrial community as a whole. E85 and diesel engines. The engine is slated for use in the Passat and Passat CC, initially in Sweden and Finland, where E85 fuel has been widely available for many years now. liters per 100 km.

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JULY 2, 2012

Air pollution emitted from sources such as traffic, industry and households is still above internationally agreed limits in 12 European countries, according to newly published data. These were Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden. Source: EEA data viewer.

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