Value Prior to Pulping (VPP) is an effort of the US forest and paper products industry, with funding from the Department of Energy, state of Wisconsin and large forest products companies. It is seeking “cost-effective, high-yield processes to separate and extract selected components from wood prior to pulping, and to process the extracted components to produce commercially viable chemical and liquid fuel products.”
Verenium, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, plans to test its C5 technology for creating ethanol using the pulping by-product.
