PureVision is one of the only companies in the world with a new, more efficient pulping technology utilizing agricultural residues. The worldwide pulp market is largely made up of large corporations using wood, and the Kraft pulping technology is employed in more than 80% of pulp mills today. Their reliance on wood results in deforestation, a major driver of global warming that is responsible for up to 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, PureVision has developed an environmentally friendly pulping process that has value-added co-products of lignin and sugar, creating the opportunity to develop smaller and decentralized refineries.
The CCR technology is a dramatic evolution of today’s pulping operations as a feedstock agnostic, continuous (vs. batch) and rapid (minutes vs. hours) pulping process that produces high-value lignin and sugar co-products. The rapid transformation of biomass into pulp, lignin and sugars using CCRs allows for biorefinery operations with a smaller footprint, lower CapX at scale with the capability to produce alternatives to wood pulps using local biomass.
PureHemp pulp being turned into hemp paper at affiliated paper mill
PureVision projects its technology can economically produce non-wood market pulp with similar performance characteristics as wood, with lower environmental impacts and at competitive prices. These pulps can be used in all forms of paper products as well as a wide range of other materials including alpha cellulose, dissolving pulps for producing viscose, rayon and cellulose acetate fibers used in both textile and technical applications, fiber for automotive composites, and building products. In addition, the CCR pulp has been converted into a glucose-rich fermentable syrup for chemical and fuel production.