Co-products

Bio co-products

The production of liquid biofuels often requires the deconstruction of biomass or organic material. Biomass is essentially a lot of chemicals holding hands to produce say wood. Some of the chemicals can be a feedstock for making energy products while other chemicals can be used to produce non-energy bio-products.

The products from biomass or organic matter can be extracted and reused to produce any of the full range of products that can be made from petroleum. For example plastics from petroleum can be replaced by bio-plastics from biomass chemicals.

The world of bio-materials

Technology developers in New Zealand

GreenChem

Greenchem in the Manawatu has developed investor ready commercially proven technology which produces food grade biopolymers used to make fully recyclable food packaging from hardwoods such as eucalyptus.

Solray

NZ Bioenergy

Licella