In Finland, Neste and Finnish company Eckerö Line, which operates ferry services between Helsinki and Tallinn, are continuing their collaboration to reduce maritime emissions. Eckerö Line provides freight and passenger services on the Baltic Sea and is the first company in Finland to adopt Neste MY Renewable Diesel™ for commercial maritime transport. By replacing a […]
In Finland, German ABO Energy group has been granted a planning reservation to build a hydrogen production plant in Oulu in northern Finland. In the preliminary plan, the new hydrogen plant would have an electrolyser with a maximum capacity of 600 MW. Implementation would take place in 2–3 phases. In addition to hydrogen production, the […]
In Finland, Suomen Lantakaasu Oy’s new biogas and fertilizer production plant in Varpaisjärvi, Lapinlahti, has been granted an environmental permit. With the completion of the area’s zoning and permitting, Suomen Lantakaasu has made a positive investment decision to build the plant. The plant planned for Lapinlahti is one of the so-called satellite plants of the […]
In Finland, Tour d’Europe is an initiative demonstrating the availability and potential of renewable fuels to help drive decarbonization and contribute to climate neutrality today and for decades to come. The Tour d’Europe involves 20 different companies, associations and institutions from across the automotive and fuels value chain. Cars and trucks bearing a distinctive “Tour […]
In Finland, Nordic energy company Gasum and the food and confectionary group Fazer have entered into an agreement on the use of biogas in the transport of Fazer’s bakery products. The inedible food waste generated at the bakeries is used to produce biogas in Gasum’s biogas plants. This means that some of Fazer’s products travel […]
In Finland, salad and herb producer Viherkaste is using a new adhesive for its cardboard packaging that is made from up to 70% biobased raw materials. Developed by Finnish chemical company Kiilto, the adhesive is reported to the world’s first biodegradable and compostable hot melt adhesive. Viherkaste hopes its use of Kiilto Biomelt will expand […]
In Finland, oil company Neste has announced a performance improvement program that includes deemphasizing renewable chemicals. The company cites a significantly changed market environment and weakened financial performance for the strategic shift. “Our current financial performance is weak and not sustainable,” said Neste’s President and CEO Heikki Malinen in a press statement. “Therefore, we must […]
In Finland, to further strengthen their collaboration on reducing emissions in logistics, DHL Group and Neste have agreed to jointly evaluate how Neste’s renewable solutions such as renewable diesel, also known as “HVO100”, and sustainable aviation fuel can support DHL in its decarbonization targets in air and road transportation. DHL Group aims to achieve net-zero […]
In Finland, dairy major Valio has initiated a research collaboration with Melt&Marble, a Swedish company that produces fats for food applications using cellular agriculture. These fats can serve as alternatives to animal fats and tropical plant fats linked to sustainability concerns, such as palm oil. Valio and Melt&Marble’s long-term research and development collaboration aims to […]
In Finland, Freija will make eMethane at scale from clean hydrogen and biogenic CO2 based on a cost competitive, proprietary and modularized solution with an integrated electrolyser facility. Following site selection, the company has issued the EnvironmentalImpact Assessment (EIA) program report and has started front-end engineering and design studies based on a capex and opex […]
