Horseshoe Media Ltd., Morden, U.K., reports this week on its Bioenergy Insight magazine website that in France, Delipapier Frouard, part of the Sofidel Group (Porcari, Italy), has launched its new biomass plant with an overall investment of approximately EUR 6.5 million. The company announced that this is yet another step forward in its strategy to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

 

The plant is expected to reduce greenhouse gases by more than 6.8 million cubic meters and will cut Delipapier's carbon emissions by more than 13,500 metric tpy.

 

The work is part of the BCIAT 2011 project (Biomasse Chaleur Industrie, Agriculture et Tertiaire) launched by ADEME (Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Energie) to encourage industries to produce heat energy using biomass.

Constructed over an area of more than 2,000 sq. meters, the plant produces heat energy in the form of saturated steam and provides approximately 60% of the factory's entire requirements.