Sekab products

Carbon-neutral raw materials for new environmentally friendly chemicals, biofuels and energy carriers. The forestry and timber industries, agriculture, the food and manufacturing industries. Many companies have one thing in common – cellulose-based by-products, a resource they do not know how to make best use of. Sekab has developed CelluAPP® in response to this need.

Using our biorefinery technology we can decompose cellulose. Cellulose is a carbohydrate that forms the major part of all plants’ cell walls and is thus the most common organic substance in nature. Cellulose is relatively hard, making plants stiff and steady. The plant fibres consist almost entirely of cellulose and can be utilised by man in many ways. For example, the fibres of linen and cotton are made into thread and yarn, pulp and special viscose are made from wood fibres, and can then be converted into paper and textiles. However, we humans cannot use cellulose as food. Our stomachs cannot digest it. Nevertheless, a small amount of plant fibres is good to keep your stomach in shape. The animals that are best at making use of cellulose are the ruminants, for example cows.

Sugar from lignocellulose: Sekab’s CelluAPP technology comprises process technology for the production of sugar solutions from lignocellulose. Basically, the raw material is pretreated so that sugar is released and the crystalline structure of the cellulose is broken down. More sugar is released through enzymatic hydrolysis. Using our CelluAPP technology we can extract cellulose sugar. Cellulose sugar can be used in the production of many different types of biochemicals and biofuels.