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Lignol and Kingspan announce product development agreement for lignin

Lignol Energy Corporation and building materials supplier Kingspan Group PLC will cooperate on the development of commercial applications incorporating Lignol’s unique class of High-Purity Lignin and lignin derivatives (HP-L^TM lignin) into various products.
The agreement establishes a program to incorporate Lignol’s renewable HP-L^TM lignin as a replacement for some of the raw materials presently used in Kingspan’s products.
“We are interested in exploring potential applications for renewable sustainable materials such as Lignol’s HP-L^TM lignin within our business for several key reasons, including reducing the business’ carbon footprint,” said Peter Wilson, a Group Director of Kingspan.
Ross MacLachlan, president and CEO of Lignol, says the agreement “demonstrates our continued progress in the development of potentially large-scale commercial applications for our high purity lignins.”
In converting non-food cellulosic biomass feedstocks, such as agricultural residues and forestry waste, into ethanol, the Lignol biorefining process fractionates the biomass and extracts lignin, to produce a range of unique HP-L lignin materials. These compounds have been shown to have application in a wide range of industrial products.
B.C.-based Lignol is developing biorefining technologies for the production of fuel-grade ethanol and other biochemical co-products from non-food cellulosic biomass feedstocks.