Leuna

News continuing past 18 October.

UPM formally inaugurated its 1.37 billion euro wood-based chemicals biorefinery in Leuna, Germany, 15 October.

Further coverage followed.

The 220,000 ton per year plant, the world's largest of its type, converts beechwood residues into industrial sugars and lignin chemicals via enzymatic hydrolysis.

So the first project that I brought is the energy park Bad Laubstedt, where we are currently in commissioning of a 30 megawatt asset in eastern Germany.

This is so cool because it connects renewable electricity from a nearby wind farm, an electrolyzer from an OEM in Dresden, a transport via an ONTOS pipeline, and industrial use in the Leuna refinery, 27 kilometers away.

So this makes an integrated regional hydrogen chain.

And it's a practical example of how domestic production, infrastructure, and demand can grow together.

And do you have off-takers already lined up to purchase the green hydrogen?

We do have, yeah.

It's the Total Energies Refinery, 27 kilometers next to Bad Lauchstedt in a small city called Leuna.

And they will take the whole production borium that we produce.

What was the denominator there?

The Allied planners identified that the Luftwaffe's aviation gasoline came almost entirely from a small, finite, highly countable set of synthetic fuel plants, like the massive facility at Leuna.

They knew exactly how many plants existed.

They knew exactly what percentage of production they needed to knock off line to ground the German Air Force.