Celtic secures more funding

Celtic Renewables, a spin-out from Edinburgh Napier University, has secured £16.23 million in public and private funding to scale its production of green chemicals. It will use this to fund the planning and development of a £120 million industrial-scale biorefinery at Grangemouth with ten times the capacity of its current facility.

Operational since 2023, the commercial demonstrator biorefinery uses Celtic’s patented ABE fermentation process to produce bioacetone, biobutanol and bioethanol from locally sourced waste and by-products, including pot ale from whisky distillation and rejected potatoes. This firm claims to have proven the process o be scalable and commercially viable.