Lignin valorization

Integrated biorefinery hubs that route one biomass stream through a value hierarchy — food/feed and specialty chemicals first, then materials, then bioenergy last — extracting several times more value per tonne than single-product processing.

Depolymerising the lignin fraction of woody biomass into renewable aromatic platform chemicals — vanillin, phenolics, BTX and lignosulfonate dispersants — replacing petrochemical aromatics.

Cellulose nanocrystals, nanofibrils and bacterial nanocellulose — the strongest, lightest bio-based materials — and the cellulose aerogels and lignin co-products that turn wood pulp into high-value performance biomaterials.