Sit back and relax as we go on a vitrual tour of Oilean Glas Teoranta’s Seaweed Processing Plant in Kilcar, Donegal, Novamont’s facility Italy which manufactures Compostable Resins & Pannonia Bio-Biorefinery in Hungary.

OGT’s Seaweed Processing Plant in Kilcar, Donegal

Oilean Glas Teoranta (OGT) was established in 2004. The company harvests seaweed in Donegal and Mayo, the seaweed is then processed into specialty products for the global crop nutrition and animal feed markets. Today OGT is a consolidated company with a team of professionals, operating in Europe and North America. In 2014, the company was acquired by Tradecorp in Spain. The presentation will outline the company with a virtual tour of the operations in Donegal.

David Murrin, Factory Manager at Tradecorp International – Rovensa, Ireland

Manufacturing Compostable Resins

This virtual tour will show the process to biorefine products in order to provide the building block for compostable resins.

Tony Breton, Novamont, Italy

Pannonia Bio-Biorefinery in Hungary

From its beginnings as a bioethanol producer in 2012, the refinery has almost tripled in size and developed into a multiproduct facility. Today, nutrition, health, biochemical and fuel bioproducts are manufactured as alternatives to fossil materials. The biorefinery is the largest single site bioethanol plant in Europe.

James Cogan, Industry Analyst, Clonbio Group Ltd, Ireland

Producing Hydrogen in Northern Ireland

Peter Baillie, Managing Director, Energia Renewables

This event is taking place as part of the National Bioeconomy Summit: https://bioeconomy.ie/