2 May 202425 April 2024 Making furniture with paper machines – VTT and ISKU have created a novel biocomposite chair from cellulose The chair, designed by ISKU, has a sleek and modern appearance that highlights the natural texture and colour of the biocomposite material
20 February 202419 February 2024 Paptic successfully closed the 2023 growth financing round; EUR 27.5 million was raised to accelerate global growth and ability to serve global customers The company’s unique contract manufacturing business model enables rapid capacity increase, and the new financing will also speed up the industrial scale-up of Paptic’s foam-based manufacturing technology
22 January 202412 January 2024 The Fab Finns, the Top 20 Bioproducts from the bioeconomy’s forest heartland In Finland, although it's known as the "Quiet Country", there have come several innovative products without any spectacular performances
12 October 20237 October 2023 Paptic Ltd, a sustainable packaging materials innovator, raises EUR 23 million in financing to accelerate the development of packaging materials and scale up its ability to serve global customers New strategic partners and international equity investors specifically targeted at facilitating the development of the industrial scale-up of Paptic’s foam-based manufacturing technology
11 January 20218 January 2021 Natural Innovations from Finland Herald the Dawn of a New Wooden Age As global industries turn their focus to sustainability, Finnish innovators are drawing on their proximity to nature to generate new material solutions
30 April 202029 April 2020 VTT and 52 companies to cooperate to reduce need for plastics by using natural fibres In the future, natural fibres may replace plastics in, for example, packaging, hygiene products, building materials and textiles
4 June 201929 May 2019 A new flexible packaging material based on wood fibres Paptic launched the first full-scale commercial product, Paptic® Tringa for shopping or e-commerce bags
7 February 20198 February 2019 Applications are welcome for the “Bio-based Material of the Year 2019” Deadline for submission: end of February 2019
Bewerbungen zum Innovationspreis „Bio-based Material of the Year 2019“ willkommen Einreichungsfrist: Ende Februar 2019
4 April 20184 April 2018 The submission deadline for the Innovation Award “Bio-based Material of the Year 2018″ is still open until mid of April! The winners will be chosen by the participants of the “11th International Conference on Bio-based Materials”
7 July 20175 July 2017 Bioeconomy: Tomorrow’s bio-products are made in Finland Finnish forests has proved to be an incredibly versatile source of raw material for new bio-products
19 June 201713 June 2017 Who are the winners of the European Bio-Based Innovation Awards 2017? Finnish company Paptic is opening a door for novel wood-based materials
16 May 201715 May 2017 “Bio-based Materials of the Year 2017” Announced Winners are packaging materials based on agricultural residues from BIO-LUTIONS (DE), new generation paper bags from Paptic® (FI) and the first biotech raspberry fragrance from Phytowelt (DE)
Der Innovationspreis „Bio-based Material of the Year 2017“ ist verliehen Sieger sind das Verpackungsmaterial aus Reststoffen von BIO-LUTIONS (DE), die neue Papier-Tragetasche von PAPTIC® (FI) und das erste biotechnologisch hergestellte Himbeeraroma von Phytowelt (DE)
30 March 201731 March 2017 Six candidates for the Innovation Award “Bio-based Material of the Year 2017” nominated! The winners will be elected at the International Conference on Bio-based Materials, 10-11 May 2017 in Cologne, Germany
Sechs Kandidaten für den Innovation-Award “Bio-based Material of the Year 2017” nominiert! Die Gewinner werden auf der „International Conference on Bio-based Materials“, 10.-11. Mai 2017 in Köln, gewählt
8 March 20167 March 2016 Five Finnish bioeconomy innovations set to change the future Finland turn towards a low-carbon and energy-efficient society is based on the use of renewable natural resources and recyclable materials
2 October 201530 September 2015 Wood-based plastic bag company Paptic attracted more than a million in seed round Manufacturing of the product to start in autumn at the KCL pilot plant in Espoo