Canfor Pulp and Licella enter into a biofuels-biochemicals joint venture agreement

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Licella Fibre Fuels Pty Ltd. and Canfor Pulp Products Inc. ("CPPI"), through its subsidiary Canfor Pulp Ltd., have signed an agreement to form a joint-venture under the name "Licella Pulp Joint Venture".

Licella Pulp Joint Venture is a strategic relationship between the two companies that will investigate opportunities to integrate Licella's unique Catalytic Hydrothermal Reactor (Cat-HTR) upgrading platform into Canfor Pulp's kraft and mechanical pulp mills to economically convert biomass, including wood residues from Canfor Pulp's kraft pulping processes, into biocrude oil, to produce next generation biofuels and biochemicals.

This additional residue stream refining would allow Canfor Pulp to further optimise their pulp production capacity.Upon successful integration of the Cat-HTR technology, the Licella Pulp Joint Venture would look towards offering this solution to other third party Kraft and mechanical pulp mills.

This agreement follows a successful program of preliminary trials conducted on feedstock from Canfor Pulp's Prince George, British Columbia pulp mill at Licella's pilot plants located in New South Wales, Australia. In these trials, wood residue streams from Canfor Pulp's kraft process were successfully converted into a stable biocrude oil.

"Biofuels and biochemicals represent the next frontier in the utilization of sustainable wood fibre to produce green energy and chemicals," said Don Kayne, CEO of CPPI. "This initiative underscores Canfor Pulp's commitment to innovation and the importance of green energy and chemicals in our future product mix, and we look forward to developing this potentially transforming technology with Licella."

CPPI is a leading global supplier of pulp and paper products with operations in the central interior of British Columbia employing approximately 1,300 people throughout the organization.

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