Forestry company UPM aims to become a major producer of renewable diesel. In May, UPM and VTT began test runs with UPM's BioVerno diesel in traffic in the Helsinki metropolitan area. Watch a video of the test runs. VTT test drivers drive in the test runs
To enhance commercialization, collaboration between the research and business worlds must fall into place.
The bioeconomy factor of the future is an innovative, problem-solving, entrepreneurial and collaborative multi-skilled person.
According to customs statistics, forest industry exports were worth 6,8 billion euros in January-July 2015.
If all goes according to plan, wood will become one of the most important raw materials for textiles within a few decades.
The total amount of investments that are ongoing or have already been completed amounts to almost two billion euros.
There is a longing for partners in the bioeconomy, as cross-industry cooperation could produce added value, the impact of which no one can foresee.
The keys to the competitiveness of Finnish Wetend Technologies Oy are an agile team and an innovation that enhances the chemical mixing in the wet end of a paper machine. The TrumpJet technology, developed by M.Sc. (Eng.) Jouni Matula in 1999, is still in use today.
Stora Enso, which has declared itself a growth company in renewable materials, is looking confidently to the future, says Country Director Seppo Parvi. The company's strategic spearheads now include products with a higher degree of processing from traditional pulp, the increasing use of packaging materials
Spinnova Oy, founded by Juha Salmelan (left) and Janne Poranen, is developing a manufacturing method that produces yarn from pulp without the use of difficult chemical processes. Spinnova, founded in early 2015, is one of