From data deluge to knowledge
11.08.2021
The Tampere-based Quva Oy has made a business out of analysing big data.
The Tampere-based Quva Oy has made a business out of analysing big data.
Lignin is converted into a workable format using an oxygen oxidation developed by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The technology is demonstrated in an EU project.
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a technology that allows the production of reactive lignin from pulp mills’ side streams. Reactive lignin can replace the toxic substances in wood adhesives, for example.
“Meaningful and diverse work with bio-based products, fuels or biomass. If that would also include a chance for international tasks, it’d be my dream job,” says student Minna Ukkonen, summing up her career hopes.
The technological community strengthens the common voice of the European forest sector.
Analysis Riitta Hänninen Senior Scientist Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke): “The customs duties of the United States are creating waves in the market for sawn
In the economic evolution driven by creative destruction, market dynamics destroys the slow and spares the fast.
Kati ter Horst heads Stora Enso’s paper business in a situation where the entire industry has gone through a major change, brought on by gradually declining demand. Yet paper is still a big business.
The modernised mill of Stora Enso in Varkaus is in brand new shape and ready to give an increasingly efficient response to the changing global demand for forest industry products. Late last year, with help of a diverse network of partners, the mill’s fine paper producing paper machine PM3 was converted into a machine that produces packaging board.
VTT developed a fully bio-based food package with excellent technical properties. The stand-up pouch is coated with, among other things, nanocellulose produced with the HefCel method.
Puunvuoro / Legendium Oy
Kutomo Business Park
Kutomotie 16
00380 Helsinki
