by Mike Hughes (Gazette Live) Nova Pangaea Technologies at Wilton will convert trees into sugars to make household items — … One of the region’s newest tech companies needs 50 tonnes of it EVERY DAY to process into biofuels, plastics and chemical manufacturing.
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Nova Pangaea Technologies (UK) is looking for woodland and forestry owners within 75 miles of its Wilton base to allow its plant to operate at full capacity in 2018.
Generally valued for its decorative appearance rather than for its wood, the conventional perspective of birch trees is set to be shaken up by the cutting-edge process. Birch’s very specific composition means high levels of sugars can be readily extracted and transformed into valuable components we use every day. As well as being utilised for bioethanol fuels, the sugars are valuable to the food, beverage, chemical and plastics industries.
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Neil Harrison of re:heat said: … “The plant will be state-of-the-art and highly efficient, making best possible use of every part of the wood it processes. Birch may not have been seen as economically valuable for anything other than firewood in the past, but we now have an interesting new market for these trees which landowners may want to consider. READ MORE