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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 …
ForestBioFacts: Introduction to forest-based bioeconomy Webinar
From: Forest BioFacts, the digital learning environment and source of in depth information for professionals in pulp and paper and other biomass conversion industries, which is published by the Finnish Forest Products Engineers Association ( www.forestbiofacts.com ). Heikki Hassi participated on the ForestBioFacts: Introduction to forest-based bioeconomy Webinar – presented by Finnish Forest Products Engineers’ Association (PI) and took place on September …
Chemical and Physical performance of Kraft Pulp Cooking
Kraft pulp mill process has become the only dominating cooking process for making chemical pulp. In the 1980’s started an active period where a lot of old conventional cooking capacity were replaced by new mills.
Opportunities and challenges
From: Forest BioFacts, the digital learning environment and source of in depth information for professionals in pulp and paper and other biomass conversion industries, which is published by the Finnish Forest Products Engineers Association ( www.forestbiofacts.com ). The concept of circular bioeconomy is causing a paradigm shift in global economics. This shift provides the forestry sector with a large portfolio of long-lasting …
Re-visiting another 90’s breakthrough invention
Panu Tikka re-visits another SciTech-Service 90’s patent: “Process for the production of a hemicellulose hydrolysate and special high alpha cellulose pulp”
Both DWP and VSF need to perform well in a spinning process
Like a VSF mill, also a DWP mill manufactures cellulosic fibres for their customers’ delicate spinning process.
Re-visiting the patent Process for preparing kraft pulp
Panu Tikka re-visited his patent issued back in 2002 entitled “Process for preparing kraft pulp”. Panu shortly describes his invention and how it affected current pulp mills processes.