Celtic Renewables
EMEA
Grangemouth
,
United Kingdom
Scaleup
FOUNDED
2012
HEADCOUNT
21-100
FUNDING
Privately held
Keywords:
fermentation, bacteria, waste_valorization, biofuels, commodity_chemicals
BUSINESS
Celtic Renewables is an Edinburgh-based biotech company founded in 2012, spun out of Edinburgh Napier University, that converts low-value industrial byproducts, initially pot ale and draff from Scotch whisky distilleries, into biobutanol, bioacetone, and bioethanol. Their first commercial-scale biorefinery at Grangemouth, Scotland was completed in 2021 and has begun shipping product, with Caldic as a distribution partner.
BIOTECH INVOLVEMENT
Core; Edinburgh-based (2012, Napier University spin-out) commercial biorefinery running ABE fermentation of industrial and agricultural waste (e.g., whisky distillery residues) to produce bio-acetone, bio-butanol, and bio-ethanol.
TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
ABE fermentation (acetone-butanol-ethanol)
PRIMARY PRODUCTS
Bio-acetone, bio-butanol, bio-ethanol