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RISE Processum AB
RISE Processum AB is a partially owned subsidiary of RISE and are experts in biorefinery development. In a unique research environment, we can test new ideas and products from laboratory to demo scale and in this way, we are a link between research and commercialization.
Experts in biorefinery
A biorefinery consists of a series of new processes and solutions that together form an overall solution for converting biomass into green products, which were previously fossil-based. It is an area that requires broad cooperation and access to many different specialist skills. RISE Processum AB's areas of expertise in biorefinery are biotechnology, organic chemistry, residual materials, energy, technoeconomics and systems analyses.
Today's residual product – tomorrow's new products
An important key to reaching the global climate goals is to find new values in what was previously a residual product. At RISE Processum AB, we work, among other things, to make use of the residual currents that are formed in the process industry. We are looking at how we can refine them to create new value chains around the raw material that is already available. By finding a use for residual material, what might previously have been a waste problem can now instead become a source of income, while at the same time having a positive impact on our environment. With our competence and our test and demo environment, we can neutrally and independently carry out development projects or produce substances for further development on behalf of individual parties.
Milestones
Milestones
2001. The companies in the Domsjö area start to sketch on a cluster for process chemistry/ - technology. The idea of a center for collaboration and development with a focus on the process industry receives support from Örnsköldsviks kommun and Länsstyrelsen Västernorrland, as well as from the Kemp Foundations.
2003. Processum Technology Park AB is formed with Processum Bioeconomy Cluster as owners. Early on, Mittuniversitet and Umeå University comes along with their strong competence in chemistry and became partners. SLU Umeå as well as Luleå University of Technology and Åbo Akademi joins a few years later and become academic partners in the cluster.
A study to bring forward development opportunities for the bio-combinate in Domsjö is made and becomes the basis for the strategy that involves biorefinery development on a forest industrial basis. The name is changed to Processum Biorefinery Initiative AB.
2005. Vinnova announces a VINNVÄXT-competition to bring forward initiatives with the potential to develop into sustainable growth engines. With great support from the member companies, Örnsköldsviks kommun, Länsstyrelsen Västernorrland and the universities, the Initiative The Future Biorefinery is prepared and the application is submitted.
2008. The Future Biorefinery is named one of the winners of VINNVÄXT and Processum's business is gradually growing. A council for Research and Development is formed to continuously evaluate and support biorefinery projects within the initiative.
2011. With the help of public funds, the construction of a pilot park with equipment to scale up promising ideas in biorefinery area begins.
2013. Processum Bioeconomy Cluster sells 60% of the shareholding to SP Sveriges Tekniska Forskningsinstitut and the company becomes a subsidiary of the SP Group. The name is changed to SP Processum AB. In the same year, the goal of 100 ongoing and completed biorefinery projects is reached.
2014. The project Single cell, with the aim of producing single cell protein from the residual streams from forest industry to use as fish feed, is recognized and awarded to one of three EARTO Awards 2014. EARTO is the European partner organization for a total of about 350 research institutes.
2016. SP Swedish Technical Research Institute, Innventia and Swedish ICT merge into one group, RISE Swedish Research Institute. SP Processum is thus a subsidiary of the RISE Group and the name is changed to Processum.
2020. The Swedish government has allocated RISE SEK 350 million over two years to RISE with the intent to intensify work on sustainable solutions in bioeconomy. The addition will strengthen RISE investment in test beds for biorefinery. The plan is to build the pilot hall in Örnsköldsvik, in order to create the greatest synergies with existing infrastructure and existing research environments.
2023. Processum Biorefinery Cluster is launched and renamed Processum's existing channels.
Goals and Vision
Processum is the creative hub in a world-leading cluster for the development and commercialization of biorefinery processes, green products, chemicals, and materials.
Processum's vision is achieved in the long term through three main strategies:
- Conducting and supporting R&D activities.
- Promoting the scaling up and commercialization of biorefinery processes.
- Promoting the innovation system.
The Board of RISE Processum AB
Marco Lucisano, RISE Research institutes of Sweden, Ordförande
Inger-Lise Svensson, RISE Research institutes of Sweden
Johanna Mossberg, RISE Research institutes of Sweden
Magnus Hallberg, RISE Research institutes of Sweden
Jonna Almqvist, RISE Research institutes of Sweden
Jerker Jäder, SCA
Åsa Hägglund, Metsä Board
Anna-Lena Lindberg, Örnsköldsviks kommun
Contact
Marco Lucisano, styrelseordförande RISE Processum AB
E-mail: marco.lucisano@ri.se
Tel: +46 76 876 72 85
