A green tech start-up company is adding forest biomass to its fuel mix to produce syngas at a pilot plant in Sault Ste. Marie.
Elementa Group is making modifications to a demonstration plant with the help of almost a $1 million from a provincial forest products initiative.
CRIBE (the Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio-Economy) announced in April it was investing $923,261 in Elementa's pre-commercial demonstration plant to allow the company to make upgrades to mix municipal garbage with biomass from forestry operations, such as tree tops, branches and foliage.
Elementa uses a non-incineration process that converts waste into synthetic gas (syngas).
“Instead of this waste counting as an overhead cost to the (forestry) industry, now we can convert it into a renewable energy source, said CRIBE chairman and Tembec founder Frank Dottori, in a statement.
CRIBE is a Thunder Bay-based provincial government initiative with a $25 million funding pool designed to create bio-economy jobs in the North's forest products industry.
CRIBE's news release said the addition of forest biomass will add five to six jobs to Elementa's current workforce of 20.
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