By: ICN Bureau
Last updated : September 09, 2025 12:58 pm
The two companies are now actively collaborating to determine the location in Canada and Europe for the new 500-barrel-per-day modular biorefinery system
BTG Bioliquids BV (BTL), a Netherlands-based leader in fast pyrolysis technology, and NanosTech Technology & Innovations Ltd. (NanosTech), a Canada-based catalyst development and manufacturing company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to deliver a fully integrated solution to produce advanced, drop-in biofuels.
The partnership combines BTL’s proven fast pyrolysis technology, which converts sustainable biomass into bio-oil, with NanosTech’s proprietary Aquaprocessing (AQP) platform, which upgrades even the most challenging bio-oils into refinery-ready feedstocks to produce fuels such as sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), renewable diesel, and marine fuels.
The two companies are now actively collaborating to determine the location in Canada and Europe for the new 500-barrel-per-day modular biorefinery system. This system can be deployed near the feedstock source, reducing transportation emissions, improving economic viability, and creating new value chains for bio-based producers.
Second-generation biofuels, made from non-food biomass such as forestry residues and agricultural waste, offer a critical path to decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors like aviation, shipping, and heavy transport. The BTL-NanosTech solution enables this with a flexible, modular system that eliminates the need for large external hydrogen or massive refinery-scale infrastructure.
The companies are actively engaging industrial and government stakeholders to accelerate deployment by the end of 2025.
The two companies aim to deliver a compact, modular, and economically viable solution.