BIORECRO AB

Their core work

BIORECRO AB is a Stockholm-based SME specialising in bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and negative emissions technologies — one of the most niche and consequential areas in climate engineering. In CONVERGE, they contributed expertise in biomass gasification process chains, including tar cracking, sorption-enhanced reforming, and CO2 removal from syngas streams to produce green methanol and biodiesel. In LANDMARC, they shifted to the systemic dimension: modelling BECCS deployment scenarios within land-use frameworks, earth system models, and macro-economic climate pathways. This dual capability — process-level engineering and system-level climate modelling — makes them an unusual bridge between lab-scale biomass conversion and policy-relevant carbon removal accounting.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

BIORECRO began their H2020 participation focused firmly on thermochemical process engineering — the conversion of biomass into clean fuels via gasification, reforming, and membrane separation (CONVERGE, 2018). By 2020, their focus shifted upstream and outward: from the reactor to the landscape, and from process yields to climate system impacts. The LANDMARC project brought them into land-use modelling, BECCS scenario analysis, and earth system simulations — a significant leap in abstraction. The consistent thread is BECCS: they appear to have deepened from "how do we build a BECCS plant" to "how does BECCS deployment reshape land use and climate trajectories at scale."

BIORECRO is moving toward systemic climate modelling and policy-relevant BECCS accounting, positioning themselves as experts who can quantify the land and climate impacts of large-scale bioenergy deployment — a capability increasingly demanded by EU climate governance and net-zero compliance frameworks.

How they like to work

BIORECRO has never led an H2020 project, always joining as a specialist participant — consistent with a small, focused company that brings rare domain expertise to larger consortia rather than managing broad research programmes. With 28 unique partners across just two projects, they consistently work in large, multi-country research teams (averaging 14 partners per project), suggesting they are comfortable operating within complex consortium structures. This profile — specialist in large collaborative projects — means they are likely to be a reliable, low-overhead partner who delivers a defined technical contribution without requiring project management support.

BIORECRO has built a surprisingly broad network for a two-project SME: 28 unique consortium partners across 15 countries, implying connections across Northern Europe, Western Europe, and likely beyond given LANDMARC's global climate modelling scope. Their network spans both process engineering research groups (from CONVERGE) and climate/land-use modelling institutes (from LANDMARC).

What sets them apart

BIORECRO occupies an exceptionally rare niche: a private company with hands-on expertise in both the engineering of BECCS processes and the systemic modelling of BECCS at climate-policy scale. Very few organisations — and almost no SMEs — span both the thermochemical process side and the earth-system modelling side of carbon removal. For any consortium building a project around negative emissions, BECCS deployment, or carbon removal governance, BIORECRO brings credibility that neither a pure engineering firm nor a pure modelling institute can offer alone.

Highlights from their portfolio

• CONVERGE
  The largest of their two projects (€484,475), focused on converting biomass carbon into green methanol and biodiesel via an integrated gasification chain — directly relevant to industrial decarbonisation and sustainable aviation fuel supply chains.
• LANDMARC
  A high-profile climate mitigation project linking land-use decisions, BECCS scenarios, and earth system models to real climate pathways — placing BIORECRO at the intersection of climate policy and negative emissions quantification.