Forbes International has just published a report that shows S.Oleum to be a company dedicated to the large scale production of sustainable, carbon negative feedstocks, and grounded in the bioeconomy, which has chosen the macaúba, an oleaginous tree native to Brazil as the source of a feedstock for the energy, chemical and food industries.
Instead of competing for areas that can be farmed, S.Oleum will be planting its macaúba crops in damaged areas of the Brazilian Cerrado, using agroforestry systems for the production of energy and other ingredients and products.
“Energy sources of the future must be efficient as well as sustainable,” says Francisco de Blanco, one of the co-founders of S.Oleum. “Petroleum comes from ancient decomposed plant and animal matter. It is finite. Oil from trees, on the other hand, is inexhaustible as long as the trees keep growing.”
Founded in sustainability, S.Oleum works together with software developed by SAP to ensure transparency in all links of the chain and to prove that it is a company that is more than carbon neutral, rather it is one that is carbon negative, sequestering much more carbonic gas than it emits.
Read the full report at: Can Oil From Trees Be The Next Big Thing In Sustainable Energy? (forbes.com)
