LigniMatch
The LigniMatch project is a spin off project from the ScanBalt Campus Knowledge Network Environmental Biotechnology and co-funded by NICe and industry. The project aims at an efficient upgrading of lignin fractions from e.g. paper-pulp industry and will provide significant steps towards sustainable solutions for the society.
During the project methods for processing the lignin will be compiled, potential yield and potential market value for lignin based chemicals will be characterized, the possibility of replace plastics by cross-linked lignin materials will also be explored In the end of the project a road-map for the future to guarantee the efforts to launch new lignin-based products on the international market, beyond the present project, will be presented.
The main objective of the cooperative project is in this context defined as: create a road-map to guarantee the efforts to launch new lignin-based products on the international market.
The project is one of the 5 projects constituting NICe’s focus area of Environmental technology. The project is combining two industry sectors the forest and the chemical industry in a new way. The project is an example of how new technology can solve environmental challenges and at the same time exploit economic potential in raw material that the Nordic countries have great resources of.
The theoretical platform is well represented by the participating research institutes and companies. Within the project knowledge on industrial production, classical lignin chemistry and biotechnology merge to find appropriate methods for industrial production of lignin based chemicals having high commercial value. An important prerequisite of the project is the novel lignin extraction process that is crucial for a large scale production of raw lignin to be used as feedstock for various lignin based chemicals.
The project partners are; Øresund Environment, Chalmers tekniska högskola AB, Volvo Car Corporation, Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry, University of Helsinki, STFI-Packforsk AB, Novozymes A/S, Södra skogsägarna ekonomisk förening, Akzo Nobel Surface Chemistry AB, VTT, Stora Enso Consumerboards/Karlstad Research Centre/Product and Process Chemistry, Borregaard Industrier
