Signing of Memorandum Of Understanding (July 2007). Front row: Mr. Per Ewers and The Mayor of Ulsan, Mr. Maeng-Woo Park

The contract, which extends over 15 years, is worth more than 750 million Swedish kronor. Thanks to this breakthrough in South Korea and an enormous interest from all over the world, Scandinavian Biogas will be hiring fifteen new employees in Uppsala and Linköping and establishing subsidiaries in South Korea, Brazil, India, China, and Poland. The company is also carrying out discussions with several potential clients who have large amounts of organic material that can be transformed into biogas.

Using Scandinavian Biogas technology, practically all organic material can be processed as biogas. The sewage treatment plant in Yongyun will be able to handle four times as much sludge and food waste as previously and will be able to increase its biogas production many times over, in its existing plant. The technology is especially interesting to South Korea because the country is in the process of prohibiting dumping waste in the sea and thus quickly needs to find new solutions for managing waste.

“Biogas is receiving increasingly more attention, since it is a superior alternative in many ways to fossil fuels,” says Erik Danielsson, founder and working chair of the company’s board. “Sweden has made great advances in the field of knowledge surrounding biogas. Scandinavian Biogas has gathered many of the country’s leading experts in industrial biogas production under the same roof, in order to offer solutions like this one.”

Signing of Contract. Mr. Per Ewers, Scandinavian Biogas and Mr. Ki-Soo Cho, Director General Environmental Affairs Bureau (Nov 2007)

“Every week, 5,000 truckfuls of sludge, food waste, and other organic material from Seoul alone are dumped into the sea outside the city,” adds Per Ewers, CEO at Scandinavian Biogas. “This equals approximately 15 million cubic meters of raw gas sludge a week. Now, with this contract, we will be able to help the Koreans make biogas out of the sludge, replacing gasoline and diesel and providing them with large volumes of renewable and climate-smart fuel.”

According to the Swedish National Environmental Protection Agency, pure biogas reduces climate impact by 85 percent as compared to gasoline. At the same time, emissions of eutrophicating and acidifying nitrogen oxides are reduced by two-thirds and the emissions of carcinogenic particles are practically zero. Since biogas is a renewable resource, this also reduces dependency on limited and increasingly expensive fossil oil, gasoline, and diesel.

Scandinavian Biogas, founded in November, 2005, has its headquarters in Uppsala and research unit in Linköping. Over the past year, the number of employees has risen over from four to 26. In June this year, the company signed its first major order, with the Himmerfjärden sewage treatment plant outside Södertälje, where it is helping the plant increase its biogas production from under 2 million cubic meters of biogas per year to more than 8 million cubic meters pure biogas, corresponding to 9 million liters of gasoline. Biogas from the Himmerfjärden plant thus reduces emissions of fossil carbon dioxide by about 40,000 tons per year. Some of the biogas is being sent to filling stations in Stockholm, where there has long been a shortage.


For more information, contact:

Erik Danielsson, Chairman of the Board and founder of Scandinavian Biogas, +46 (0)708 10 80 01, Email: erik.danielsson@scandinavianbiogas.com

Per Ewers, CEO, Scandinavian Biogas, +46 (0)705 98 98 78, Email: per.ewers@scandinavianbiogas.com


Scandinavian Biogas has developed unique methods for the industrial production of biogas at lower cost than previously possible. The company’s business concept is based on continuous improvement of the digestion process for producing biogas from biomass, primarily using the large amounts of waste formed during ethanol and biodiesel production and during sewage treatment. In just a short period of time, Scandinavian Biogas has attracted considerable interest and was recently presented with the CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Global Award for the year 2007. Company headquarters are in Uppsala, Sweden. Scandinavian Biogas is currently expanding at a rapid rate.

Press release in English (pdf) Ulsan City 071129 Eng.pdf

Pictures: Ulsan City MOU (July 2007).jpg     Agreement signing (Nov 2007).jpg