SERVICES

SciTech-Service Oy offers outsourced technology development.
We cover biomass processing in the areas of pulp manufacture (paper, board, dissolving, fluff and high-yield grades), viscose production and other regenerated cellulose products as well as biobased chemicals.

We provide:

  • Concept level process design and evaluation
  • Planning and execution of laboratory studies
  • 2ndopinion services for technical concepts
  • Mill conversion and improvement services

SciTech-Service
outsourced technology development

Our mission is to be a complementing resource for the internal resources of industrial players. We achieve this by having strong in-house expertise, by running our own reactor laboratory, by co-operating with the best in the business and by staying curious towards the world around us.

As we have been in providing these services since 1983, it is very likely that we can generate the solution You are looking for.

LABORATORIES OF SCITECH

Rauma laboratory - wood to pulp

  • Chemical pulping experiments in kilogram-scale and pilot-scale reactors
  • 30+ years experience with versatile raw-materials and processes

Espoo laboratory - pulp to dope

  • Preparing and testing viscose and Lyocell spinning dopes used for MMCF (man-made cellulosic fibre) production
  • Dissolving pulp suitability to viscose manufacture (bench scale), dope quality assessment and recipe optimization
  • We have an extensive reference database, from lab and pilot trials and from industrial operations covering various pulp raw materials and filament products (e.g. from former Säteri/Avilon)

COMPETENCE AREAS

SciTech-Service provides development, consulting and laboratory services in the following areas

PULP PRODUCTION FOR PAPER AND BOARD APPLICATIONS

• Evaluation and testing of technology upgrades, raw-material changes

• Identification of debottlenecking opportunities

• Fiber quality improvements

• Lab piloting services from chips to final pulp

VISCOSE DOPE & SPINNING TESTS

• Dope preparation, filtration and spinning

• Dope recipe optimization (pulp specific)

• Spinning conditions optimization (pulp/dope specific)

• Comparison of mill vs. optimized lab/mill process assessment

BIOMASS FRACTIONATION, BIOREFINING

• Conceptual evaluation of technologies and processes

• Technology readiness upgrading services up to H2020/EARTO Level 7

• Proof of concept and pre-engineering lab tests

CELLULOSIC TEXTILE “KNOW-HOW” PACKAGES

• Fire retardant viscose fibre manufacture

• Proprietary Paper Pulp Viscose (PPV) technology licensing

SIDE-STREAM UTILIZATION

• Lignin separation and processing

• Hemicellulose rich prehydrolysis liquor recovery and processing

• Soap and tall oil recovery optimization

• Turpentine recovery

PULP/CELLULOSE SUITABILITY FOR VISCOSE MANUFACTURE

• Testing of raw-material suitability as such

• Testing of suitability through Paper Pulp Viscose (PPV) technology

DISSOLVING PULP PRODUCTION

• Pulp mill conversion assessments

• Dissolving pulp quality optimization (viscose and high-grade pulps)

• Pulp reactivity tests by Treiber method

OUR AREA IN THE BIOECONOMY

biomass

CASES

PULPING: From laboratory to industrial scale

The flagship project for SciTech-Service was the work to develop the SuperBatch displacement batch kraft pulping technology.

The work spanned from helping develop the original idea, through extensive laboratory tests to implementing the process on industrial scale. The biggest tangible results of the work visible today are:

• an industrial process marketed by Valmet that is used to produce >10Mt paper and specialty dissolving pulp annually
• the SciTech-Service laboratory in Rauma

A similar upscaling was later repeated in the form of developing a novel non-wood (agricultural straw) pulping technology from idea to industrial readiness.

VISCOSE TEXTILES: From idea to garment

In the area of cellulosic textiles, SciTech-Service offered the know-how and laboratory services needed for the Australian company Nanollose to produce a demonstration textile from bacterial cellulose raw-material.

Nanollose has technology to produce bacterial cellulose for the use in viscose textile making. SciTech provided Nanollose with the services needed to make the viscose filaments, spin the thread and knit the actual fabric for a dress.

The project took a mere 6 weeks from first contact to having a dress to present at an international conference.

PUBLICATIONS

NEWS AND COMMENTS

ARTICLES/PRESENTATIONS

DOCTORAL THESES

PATENTS

VIDEOS

TEAM

Eric Enqvist

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Dr. in pulping technology.
Specialized in non-wood raw-materials and unconventional pulping methods, co-inventor of FreeFiber process.

Ville Tarvo

Technical Director

Dr. in chemical engineering.
Specialized in process modeling and industrial pulp bleaching.

Heikki Hassi

Director

Dr. in wood chemistry.
Long international experience in pulp & paper, chemical and textile fibre industries.

Prof. Panu Tikka

Founder

Dr. in pulping technology. Independent process technology developer, consultant and entrepreneur. Inventor of various pulping processes, such as SuperBatch, FreeFiber.

Topias Anttila

Project Engineer, biorefining

MSc. in chemical and process engineering. Specialized in process development and biorefining.

Antti Hasanen

Senior Expert, Biorefining

Lic. Sc. in chemical engineering.
Specialized in biorefining technologies, process development and engineering.

Lauri Hauru

Senior Expert, Regenerated Cellulose

D.Sc. (Tech.) in biorefining, M.Sc. in organic chemistry.
Specialized in ionic liquid-assisted processing of biomass, textile fiber spinning, textile recycling and chemical process development.

Estefania Isaza Ferro

Expert, Process Technology

Dr. in chemical engineering. Specialized in pulp bleaching, biorefining and process technology.

Aaro Knuts

Process Consultant

MSc. in paper technology.
Specialized in equipment solutions, instrumentation, sensor technology and nano cellulose.

Heikki Kolehmainen

Senior Project Engineer

MSc. in pulping technology. Specialized in demanding experimental and piloting setups

Ella Kultalahti

Thesis Worker

Lê Huy Quang

Research Scientist

Dr. in bioproducts technology.
Specialized in pulping techniques, pulp characterization and valorization.

Elsa Marques

Project Engineer, Laboratory Manager

Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences, M.Sc. in Neurosciences and Degree (Lic.) in Biology.
Specialized in scientific research and a wide array of laboratory techniques. Focusing mainly on the cellulosics laboratory experiments and management.

 

Martti Pekkanen

Leading Expert

Dr. in chemical engineering. Specialized in process modeling and conceptual design.

Antti Tikkanen

Senior Project Engineer, biorefining

MSc. in pulping technology. Specialized in pulp mill process engineering with the emphasis on chemical recovery and energy processes.

Tiina Skogberg

Office Manager

 

Vision & Mission

SicTech-Service Oy’s vision is to help mankind find a travelable path to a circular bioeconomy.

SciTech-Service Oy’s mission is to provide top level expert and laboratory services to support the aspirations of our clients – we develop own ideas to provide missing steps on the path to circular bioeconomy.

Company Overview

  • Established in 1983
  • Global network of world leading experts​
  • Independent subsidiary of Andritz Oy since 7.7.2023​
  • Year 2023 key figures:​

               ✓  2.5 M€ turnover​

               ✓  26 customers served in Europe (7 different countries), South America, Africa and Asia​

             

Company information

Our office
SciTech-Service Oy
Eteläesplanadi 22 B, 4th floor
00130 Helsinki
Finland

info@scitech.fi
+358 50 583 2665

Business ID – 0639604-2
VAT number – FI06396042

Our laboratories

Espoo Laboratory
SciTech-Service Oy
Tekniikantie 3 H
02150 Espoo
Please verify the delivery schedule with SciTech before sending shipments to the lab.

Rauma laboratory
www.experimentis.fi

Invoicing:
E-invoicing OVT – 003706396042; Operator Maventa (003721291126)

PDF-invoicing – invoice-06396042@kollektor.fi

Paper invoicing
Scitech-Service Oy
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Inquiries related to invoicing: info@scitech.fi

CONTACT

firstname.lastname@scitech.fi

Eric Enqvist, CEO

Phone: +358 40 593 5770

www.scitech.fi