Risto Ruohola is in his fourth year studying chemical and process engineering at Åbo Akademi University. He is originally from Rauma and has a Finnish background; his knowledge of Swedish when he started his studies was purely from
Risto Kotilainen works as a project manager on the commissioning project of the lignin unit at UPM's biorefinery in Leuna, located in the former East Germany near Leipzig. "We check all the equipment, instruments and automation systems before the actual commissioning,
New Zealander Karyn Boniface had visited Finland before when her husband had an interesting job opportunity in Helsinki. They had lived and worked in England for 15 years, and because
Ulla Lainio, a commercial advisor at Business Finland in Washington, DC, points out that the United States is currently Finland's largest trading partner. North America is a fascinating market, but also a competitive one.
Kishore Shouche was browsing LinkedIn when he came across an interesting job opportunity: Metsä Group was looking for a technology manager for the Äänekoski pilot plant, where the manufacturing technology for the new Kuura textile fiber made from softwood pulp is being developed. The job was very suitable.
Olli Ylä-Jarkko is the CTO of TreeToTextile, a Swedish company that develops eco-friendly textile fibers. Founded in 2014, the startup is owned by H&M and Ikea, among others. StoraEnso joined in 2019,
Konrad Klockars' doctoral thesis at Aalto University investigated structural colors formed by nanocellulose crystals. The research is based on an observation made in Canada in the 1990s and also involves interdisciplinary collaboration with designer Noora Yau.
Petri Paukkunen, a long-time Valmet employee, started working for the company as a specialist in 1991. Since then, he has worked in the development of process technology related to the production of board and paper, product management, sales and customer relations.
Bioproduct technology student Meri Pekki has been involved in many things. In 2022, she was the chair of the Young Forum of Wood Processing Engineers and thus a member of the PI board. In the same year
Matias Karhula was working as a maintenance engineer at UPM's Kaukas pulp mill in Lappeenranta when he was offered the opportunity to go to Uruguay to work on the massive pulp mill project in Paso de los Toros as a mechanical supervisor for the installation of a turbine plant.