The forest has great potential to create wealth and growth, but also to help our transition to a sustainable future. We at Sekab want to take the lead. We’ve developed CelluAPP - a unique IP-protected technology for making green biofuels and chemical products from biomass. For example, softwood residues from the sawmill industry.

The technology is advanced, but the idea is simple - take advantage of more of the forest.

The forestry and timber industries, agriculture, the food and manufacturing industries. Many companies have one thing in common – cellulose-based by-products, a resource they do not know how to make best use of. Sekab has developed CelluAPP® in response to this need.

CelluAPP® makes it possible to process almost all forms of biomass into environmentally friendly, high-quality and marketable chemical products and raw materials such as biogas, cellulosic sugars, ethanol and lignin. Which in turn can be used as climate-neutral and high-quality raw materials in the manufacture of many of the everyday products around us such as cosmetics, hygiene articles, biofuels, plastics and pharmaceuticals.

The technology has been developed in Domsjö, Sweden, where cellulose research goes back over 100 years. In the biorefinery cluster outside Örnsköldsvik, we have, through intensive research efforts and continuous test runs of our pilot plant, refined a technology to take advantage of the value of residual products from forestry and agriculture. The goal: chemicals and fuels that do not require fossil resources or arable land and that meet the future requirements of environmental benefit and sustainability.

Today, we have a number of patents in everything from the digestion of biogas to the separation of lignin and the pretreatment of raw materials and we are at the forefront of international research.

CelluAPP® – an advanced product platform
CelluAPP® technology has been developed and verified in an industrial test environment through extensive continuous operating test runs in a demonstration plant. The demonstration plant, which in April 2013 was named the Biorefinery Demo Plant, is in close proximity to Sekab’s production facility and has been in operation since 2004. The development of CelluAPP® technology has covered everything from raw materials, chemical and biological processes, steering and monitoring technology to the integration with other production.

The result is technology with great potential for those of you who have biomass as a by-product or residual product of your business. With CelluAPP®, you can take advantage of an unused resource while at the same time do a great service to both the environment and the climate.