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25 August 202519 August 2025

Brazil’s bioeconomy – hope or hype?

As Brazil prepares to host the COP30 conference this November, its adoption of bioeconomics could be a beacon of hope for the world - or another missed opportunity

14 March 202410 March 2024

The PROSPLIGN project: Fundacion MEDINA participates as a partner in the launch of a €3.4 Million Project on Lignin Bioprospecting

Kicking off a €3.4 Million Project on Lignin Bioprospecting

Neues EU-Projekt gestartet

Hauptziel des Projekts PROSPLIGN ist die Erforschung des bioaktiven Potenzials von Lignin – einem natürlichen, reichlich vorhandenen und nachhaltigen Biopolymer

14 December 20229 January 2023

The Success Story of Cellulose Fibres Continues – First Peaks Into the Program of the Upcoming Cellulose Fibres Conference 2023 Available

The Presentations Will Introduce the Latest Development in the Sustainable Circular Industry. 8-9 March, 2023 in Cologne, Germany and Online

Die Erfolgsgeschichte der Cellulosefasern schreitet fort – Erste Einblicke in das Programm der kommenden Cellulose Fibres Conference 2023 (CFC) verfügbar

Die Vorträge stellen die neuesten Entwicklungen der nachhaltigen Kreislaufwirtschaft vor. 8.-9. März 2023 in Köln und online

21 April 202214 April 2022

Marcus Wallenberg Prize to Professor Herbert Sixta for the development of Sustainable wood-based textile fibres

The 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize is awarded to Professor Herbert Sixta and Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen for the development and use of novel ionic liquids to process wood biomass into high-performance textile fibres

31 May 201927 May 2019

UPM’s FibDex®, a wood-based innovation for wound care, receives regulatory approval and CE mark

UPM's first wound dressing created from wood-based nanofibrillar cellulose has been developed in collaboration with researchers from the University of Helsinki

Holzbasierte Innovation für Wundversorgung erhält Freigabe und CE-Kennzeichnung

UPM lanciert modernes Wundversorgungsprodukt für den europäischen Markt

17 December 201813 December 2018

Wood-based innovations made an appearance at Independence Day Reception in Finland

Stora Enso's woodpulp has being used as a raw material in the evening gown made by Aalto University for Finland’s First Lady Jenni Haukio

24 October 201819 October 2018

Metsä Group and Itochu establish a joint venture that builds an industrial demo plant to produce wood-based textile fibres

The new technology to be studied and further developed in the demo project is based on direct dissolution using a novel solvent for the pulp dissolution stage

22 September 201620 September 2016

Seven-figure grant for Finnish researcher producing carbon fiber from wood

Michael Hummel, the recipient of the much sought-after ERC Starting Grant, knows that there is a great need for more affordable carbon fibre

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

16 September 201514 September 2015

Making the Most from Carbon in Plants

Meeting the challenge of creating sustainable bioproducts from lignin

3 September 20152 September 2015

Boreal forests challenged by global change

Forest management must adapt in order to ensure that forests stay healthy in a time of unprecedented environmental change

31 March 201429 March 2014

Algae may be a potential source of biofuels and biochemicals even in cool climate

VTT Research: Findings of the ALGIDA project indicate profitable algae cultivation to be possible in Finland

9 August 2012