Biorefinery Mikael Hannus / October 22, 2010
Stora Enso in brief 27/10/2010 Presentation name / Author 2 Stora Enso is a forest products company producing newsprint, magazine and fine papers, consumer boards, industrial packaging and wood products 10 million tonnes of paper and board / year 5 million m 3 of sawn and processed wood products / year Wood raw material flow ~40 million m 3 / year Sales EUR 9.0 billion 27 000 employees in more than 35 countries
27/10/2010 Presentation name / Author 3 Introduction The Good news: Bioenergy & Biorefining is the single biggest growth opportunity in Europe since the rise of mobile telephony in early 1990 s; global growth in biofuels Overall e.g. ~10-20% annual growth for more than a decade Stora Enso has lots of capabilities that can be built on The Bad news The opportunity is fragmented with lots of uncertainty; regulatory, technology and market risks are significant Competing (energy) uses of biomass are a threat to the pulp & paper industry as such Stora Enso s capabilities are insufficient to cover all aspects; development is fast and competition is intensifying - some competitors with unlimited resources
27/10/2010 Presentation name / Author 4 Bio economy require bio efficiency We cannot afford wasting valuable biomaterial in processing some single favored products that is sub-optimizing
Overall Bioenergy & Biorefining Roadmap Basic idea: The earlier opportunities bring revenues quickly while also being the needed base for the higher value added businesses of the future Value added, R&D intensity Biochemicals; Advanced materials, Biopolymers/plastics. Highest value-add higher uncertainties, nee external partners Biofuels =>Bio-crude wax for renewable diesel Major demand growth, regulator dependent Capturing additional value of existing sidestrams Known technolog new solutions to old problems Pellets, power & heat generation and biomass sales & trading Immediate marke Now 2008 ~2013 ~2015 Timing (indicative) 27/10/2010 Presentation name / Author 5
27/10/2010 Presentation name / Author 6 Some of the biorefinery key questions Is there a true market pull at a growing market? Is the product performance superior to the alternatives? At what speed can the biorefinery product penetrate the market? What is the sustainability performance of the product? What is the feasibility of the business case? Capex demand? Existing or novel technology? Distribution channels? Marketing and sales investment? Product, investment and market risks? Time to get products qualified at customers (and their customers) Start-up curve Risk of price erosion due commoditization
27/10/2010 Presentation name / Author 7 Stora Enso / Neste Oil Joint Venture 50/50 Joint Venture NSE Biofuels Oy to develop technology and later produce next generation renewable diesel crude from forest biomass First step is a 12MW demonstration plant in Stora Enso s Varkaus mill Running long-term testing Investment decision for a commercial scale plant when enough experience from the demonstration plant Strong development consortium Joint Venture partners: Testing & research partner: Gasification supplier:
Public investment support in the range of 200 M is necessary to balance the risks in technology up-scaling, raw material cost and politics 27/10/2010 Presentation name / Author 8
27/10/2010 Presentation name / Author 9 Snap shot of interesting cases Variety of lignin applications Lignin as replacement for expensive materials or their components Lignin as platform in chemical applications Fiber modification Use of fiber fragments in non-traditional materials and chemicals Extractives and volatile organic compounds Variety of uses: plant and wood protection Platforms for advanced synthesis of specialty compounds Residuals from mills Combinations of cost reductions and new value streams
27/10/2010 Presentation name / Author 10 Towards cost effective commercial scale biorefining key areas Biomass feedstock Sourcing & Logistics Competitive uses for biomass Sustainability Bio material efficiency Smart utilization of all fractions Integration, efficiency Stabile heat sinks Shared infrastructure Markets Producing high value products Right size for each market
27/10/2010 Presentation name / Author 11 Lessons learned Markets and end products determine the basis for any business Biomass can be used to make a lot of different products Major research is still needed to imporve fractionation and industrializing the processes Large scale and small scale are both very challenging Many potential products need an oil price much higher than today Markets of high value products are usually too small growing the volumes often slaughter the price levels