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While the new applications of energy production are evolving, the current level of innovation and product development are not sufficient for breaking away from oil.

The Finnish start-up company PintaWorks manufactures camera-based inline quality control systems for the paper and printing industries.

Traditionally, lignin – the substance that binds wood fibres – has been incinerated along with black liquor in a pulp mill’s soda recovery boiler. The result has been steam and heat for energy use. The exploitation of lignin is nevertheless expanding, since a new technology is also opening doors for its use in bioeconomy applications.

As part of an extensive EU project, new construction materials are being developed from demolition wood.

Russia’s fibre and paper production is able to satisfy the home-market demand, but in terms of specialty papers and coated packaging board, it has to rely on imports.

Partnerships reaching into the future arise in various forms in different companies.



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.

The technological community strengthens the common voice of the European forest sector.

In the economic evolution driven by creative destruction, market dynamics destroys the slow and spares the fast.