Its role Investor / Financier
Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) is an international financial institution owned by the eight Nordic and Baltic countries: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden. Headquartered in Helsinki, it provides long‑term financing to projects that strengthen competitiveness and deliver measurable environmental benefits across its member countries. NIB funds its lending mainly through bond issuance in international capital markets, including dedicated NIB Environmental Bonds.
For the chemical industry and related value chains, NIB finances industrial investments such as process modernisation, energy efficiency and electrification, emissions and wastewater abatement, circular economy solutions, and the transition to lower‑carbon and bio‑based production. It also supports enabling infrastructure in energy and transport that underpins industrial performance. Lending is guided by a structured impact assessment covering productivity and environmental outcomes, and borrowers include corporates, utilities, municipalities and project companies.
chemXplore tracks 3 projects involving NIB, of which 3 are active.
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Revenue rose to SEK 30.4bn and operating profit to SEK 5.4bn (SEK 4.9bn excl. PIR). Stable production; records at Kevitsa and Harjavalta; agreement to buy 64.68% of Nexa Resources.
Q3 sales €2,202m and comparable EBIT €131m; operating cash flow rose to €420m as working‑capital measures offset lower deliveries and higher variable costs.
World’s largest lignocellulosic biorefinery with 220,000 t/yr capacity converts beechwood and sawmill residues into industrial sugars and lignin for renewable chemicals and fuels.
Heat-exchange package will support a BECCS plant capturing, liquefying and storing up to 800,000 t/yr CO2, with operations due to start in 2028.
Q2 comparable EBIT rose 71% to €212m; portfolio moves include a graphic paper joint venture and approved demerger of the plywood unit.
EBITDA fell on weak silicon prices; raised NOK 1.8bn, refinanced EUR 1bn facility and obtained NOK 750m NIB loan; Elkem Iceland reclassified as discontinued.
The biorefinery produces industrial sugars, enabling renewable glycols and lignin fillers, supporting the shift from fossil to bio-based materials, with full operations expected by 2026.
UPM's new pigment, derived from lignin, offers recyclability and a carbon-negative footprint, addressing black packaging's recycling challenges and supporting sustainable packaging solutions.
What each is building and closing, and the pipelines and grids between them, on one map.
The 6 sharing the most projects, of 9.
