NExBTL Renewable Diesel wins top Cleantech Finland award
Neste Oil's NExBTL Renewable Diesel has been declared the winner in
the product category of the Finnish section of the European Business
Awards for the Environment 2008. Known as Cleantech Finland, the
Finnish national competition is coordinated by Sitra, the Finnish
Innovation Fund, which appointed a jury of experts to recognize six
companies in three categories. The awards were made by the Finnish
Minister of the Environment, Kimmo Tiilikainen, on November 7 at the
closing seminar of Sitra's Environmental Programme.
The European Business Awards for the Environment are intended to
recognize companies working towards a more sustainable future. The
recipients are all pioneers in environmentally responsible
operations, products, and processes. In addition to a proactive
approach to the environment, innovation and market success are also
important selection criteria.
The winners of the Finnish competition take part in a European-wide
competition organized every other year by the European Commission's
Environment Directorate-General. The winners of the next European
competition will be announced in Brussels in June 2008 during
Europe's Green Week.
NExBTL Renewable Diesel
Neste Oil's NExBTL Renewable Diesel is the world's first commercial
second-generation biodiesel. Produced using proprietary technology
developed by Neste Oil, NExBTL is the cleanest biodiesel available,
and can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by between 40% and 60%
compared to fossil diesel fuel and improve air quality by cutting
other harmful tailpipe emissions significantly. NExBTL is completely
compatible with today's diesel engines, and is the outcome of over 10
years of development work. Neste Oil's NExBTL production plant at
Porvoo is the first refinery-scale unit producing a second-generation
biodiesel anywhere.
Virtually any vegetable oil or animal fat can be used to produce
NExBTL, making it the world's most flexible biodiesel technology.
Palm oil, rapeseed oil, and animal fat are currently used as
feedstocks. Palm oil is the most widely available of these raw
materials, and also the most competitive vegetable oil feedstock in
terms of greenhouse gas emissions as measured across its entire
lifecycle. Neste Oil's policy is to use only sustainably produced raw
materials, and the Company is actively promoting the introduction of
an international certification system for palm oil production.
Neste Oil's competitiveness is based on a long-term commitment to
developing and producing environmentally benign fuels - and ensuring
that consumers in Finland and elsewhere have access to cleaner,
higher-performance fuels, both today and tomorrow.
Neste Oil Corporation
Osmo Kammonen
Senior Vice President, Communications
Further information:
Neste Oil
Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications Osmo Kammonen, tel.
+358 (0)50 458 4885, osmo.kammonen@nesteoil.com
HSE Manager Tiina Tuominen, tel. +358 (0)10 458 11,
tiina.tuominen@nesteoil.com
www.nesteoil.com
Sitra
Executive Director, Environmental Programme Jukka Noponen, tel. +358
(0)9 6189 9430, jukka.noponen@sitra.fi
Project Manager Riina Loukola, tel. +358 (0)9 6189 9468,
riina.loukola@sitra.fi
http://www.sitra.fi/en/Programmes/environment/business_awards/business+awards.htm