Scottish green chemicals company Celtic Renewables has unveiled plans to build an industrial-scale production plant in Grangemouth.
The new facility will have ten times the capacity of the company’s current demonstrator plant.
It has appointed Stirling-based engineering design consultancy Allen Associates, part of the Forsyths Group of companies, to work on the project.
Celtic Renewables turns locally sourced by-products and waste from the food, drink and agricultural industries into bio-acetone, bio-butanol, and bio-ethanol.
CEO Mark Simmers said the company was looking “to ramp up our current production capabilities to meet the growing global demand for bio-based alternatives to chemicals derived from fossil fuels.
“Our new biorefinery at Grangemouth will be Celtic Renewables’ first world-scale commercial facility. It will provide the blueprint for future green chemical production facilities, both here in the UK and in other markets around the world.”
Allen Associates worked in the Scotch whisky industry whose distilleries use similar equipment, processes and technologies to those required for the Celtic biorefinery.
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