Presentation

Arbaflame is a bio-tech company, which has developed, patented and verified a production method for biomass black pellets with similar characteristics as coal. The ArbaCore pellet can thus replace coal in existing facilities, reducing CO2 emissions by >90% at a fraction of the conversion capex compared to white pellets.

The company’s history dates back to before 2010 and the technology has been verified at 14 full-scale power plants operated by nine different utility companies across the world. Arbaflame has already built a full-scale commercial plant, ArbaOne, located outside of Kongsvinger, Norway. The plant has an annual capacity of 70,000 tonnes of ArbaCore, in addition to high-value bio-chemicals including furfural, methane and methanol. The share of bio-chemicals is targeted to increase through future R&D programmes. Arbaflame is working with leading research institutes and partners, including UiB, NTNU, Sintef, TNO and the Research Council of Norway. In November 2021, the company entered into an LoI with the Ministry of Energy in Romania for a verification program to replace coal in the country. The first tests will start in H1’22.