Puunjalostusinsinöörit ry – Finnish Forest Products Engineers’ Association Plaquette of Merit Awarded to Panu Tikka and Heikki Hassi

Quite the day for SciTech-Service Oy Ltd. at Puunjalostusinsinöörit ry – Finnish Forest Products Engineers’ Association autumn meeting. Both our founder, Panu Tikka, and Director, Heikki Hassi, were awarded the Association’s Plaquette of Merit! We could not be more proud. Congratulations! Read more: Syyskokouksessa 2024 stipendein ja tunnustuspalkinnoin palkitut | Puunjalostusinsinöörit

SciTech-Service Oy presents new team expert

We are pleased to inform that Martti Pekkanen joined SciTech-Service Oy on December 2021.   Martti Pekkanen, Ph.D. in chemical engineering, has long experience in process modeling and process conceptual design both in academia and in engineering practice, e.g. in Rintekno Oy, Neste Jacobs Oy, and Kemira Oyj. At SciTech-Service Oy Martti will provide his consulting services as leading expert in the field. www.scitech.fi  SciTech-Service offers outsourced technology development for biomass processing in the areas …

Pulp & Paper Industry in Russia

Sulfite pulping in Russia: In anticipation of the conference on Russian Pulp and Paper Industry in Vienna in December, we had the opportunity to chair a virtual round table discussion on sulfite pulping in Russia. This is a very interesting subject as sulfite pulping has largely disappeared from Scandinavia. It turns out that in Russia the sulfite industry is doing …

SciTech-Service Oy keeps growing!

We are pleased to announce that SciTech-Service’s biorefinery team has been strengthened by the addition of Topias Anttila. Mr. Topias Anttila, M.Sc., joins as Project Engineer in the Biorefinery team. He recently finished his master thesis in Aalto University, School of chemical engineering. Topias studied Chemical and process engineering with his major in Plant Design and Master’s thesis focused on …

SciTech at the 15th Cellulose Fiber (Viscose) industry forum

Xiang You and Heikki Hassi ‘s recently participated in the 15th Cellulose Fiber (Viscose) industry forum and their presentation is now fully available. The meeting took place from 25th to 27th May in Hangzhou, China. SciTech ‘s presentation was streamed for all conference participants on the 27th May 2021 at 11:10-11:35 a.m. Chinese time (6:10-6:35 a.m. Helsinki time). The event …

Scitech at the 2nd International Conference on Cellulose Fibres

Heikki Hassi had the pleasure to present at the 2nd International Conference on Cellulose Fibres. The online event took place on the 2nd to 3rd February. You can watch below Heikki Hassi ‘s presentation regarding the topic “The challenging conversion of natural elementary fibrils into Man-Made Cellulosic Fibres” : You can also download the presentation PDF below:

PoDoCo awarded a grant to Xiang You & Scitech joint project

We are pleased to inform that on the 2nd December 2019, Xiang You and SciTech-Service Oy were awarded a PoDoCo grant. The Post Docs in Companies (PoDoCo) is a joint initiative of Finnish universities, industry and foundations. This matchmaking program has been supporting long term competitiveness and strategic renewal of companies and employment of young doctors in the private sector. …

Welcome to the bioeconomy in 2016 – we´ve saved you a seat!

SciTech-Service has been a leading developer of new solutions for the biomass processing industry for more than 30 years. Admittedly, the first 20+ years we called it the pulp and paper industry, but the aim has always been the same, to produce added value from biomass for our clients. Back around 10 years ago when I was starting my journey …

Impregnation, vapor phase and methanol as means of intensifying the softwood kraft pulping process (Helsinki University of Technology)

ABSTRACT The objective of the research was to find ways to shorten the cooking time, i.e. intensify the kraft pulping process. The reason for undertaking such a study lies in the long standing trend of ever increasing reactor size in the kraft pulping industry. The huge digester size in use presently has lead to severe problems in understanding the behavior …