Giant Park for Development of Bio-based Products, Materials, Opens in Northern Sweden

Development park Bioeconomy Arena opened today, at Örnsköldsvik in northern Sweden.

It is a 2,400 square metre park for development of products and materials from bio-based input material, such as residue from forestry operations or bio-based waste from pulp and paper making.

Processum Biorefinery Cluster, Bio4Energy’s strategic collaboration partner, stands host to the Arena. It is part of an industrial development called Domsjoe Development Area. Its centre player Domsjö Fabriker is a full-scale biorefinery, owned by Aditya Birla Group of India.

“Sweden’s most interesting environment for development of bio-based products and materials is taking a large step forward. Together, we represent the entire value chain from research to industrial production”, said Emil Källström, CEO at SEKAB, a company in the Bio4Energy Industrial Network, based at the development area.

In September 2022 the mother company RISE Research Institutes of Sweden inaugurated the first leg of a large investment in biorefinery test beds nationally, with Piteå and Örnsköldsvik as hubs for biorefinery pilot and demonstration facilities.

“Here large companies will meet tech companies in expansion and create new possibilities”, said RISE CEO Malin Frenning, referring to Bioeconomy Arena.

“The pilot hall… also has the potential to attract international firms that want to place new research units in the creative environment here”, Frenning said.

Bioeconomy Arena, Örnsköldsvik, Sweden

Three-story development park
Surface area of 2,405 square metres
Planned capacity for 130 – 150 test beds
Main technologies developed: Pulping, chemicals, carbon capture and storage, carbon capture and use, plus industrial biotechnology

Source: RISE Research Institutes of Sweden (press release). With special thanks to Frida Karlsson Niska, Head of Communication, Bioeconomy. The article also contains information collected by Bio4Energy Communications for previous news articles.

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