Sweden’s third biggest pension fund is making its first direct investment in forestry, in a deal worth an estimated SEK11bn (€1bn). AMF – which manages SEK632bn in assets – announced this week that it was to acquire 89.9% of the outstanding shares of BSÖ Holding from Swedish pulp and paper manufacturer BillerudKorsnäs Skog & Industri. BSÖ Holding’s […]
Plant cell walls contain a renewable, nearly-limitless supply of sugar that can be used as a carbon source for microbe-based chemical and biofuel production. However, retrieving these sugars isn’t all that easy. Imidazolium ionic liquid (IIL) solvents are some of the best agents for extracting sugars from plants. But the sugars from IIL-treated biomass are […]