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Coronavirus dislikes wooden surfaces – hospital hygiene could be improved by using more wood
Uppdaterad: Thursday, 3 December, 2020Category: WoodWooden surfaces have twofold hygienic properties: Even when dirty, wood destroys bacteria clearly better than glass, for example. Coronaviruses, too, lose their contagiousness fairly rapidly on a wooden surface, compared to something like plastics. / Finnish Forest AssociationLäs mer -
BASF and BillerudKorsnäs cooperate to develop unique home-compostable paper laminate for flexible packaging
Uppdaterad: Thursday, 3 December, 2020Category: Pappersprodukter omger oss varje dagThe Swedish packaging manufacturer BillerudKorsnäs have cooperated to develop a unique home-compostable paper laminate for flexible packaging. / BASFLäs mer -
Open Source Wood hackathon goes online – virtual innovation event organised by Metsä Wood and FCBA
Uppdaterad: Wednesday, 2 December, 2020Category: WoodThe 8th Open Source Wood hackathon was the first one to be organised virtually and taking place in several locations at the same time. The hackathon challenged the participating engineering and architecture students from France and Switzerland as well as students and research scientists from Canada to innovate ways to reuse wood. Metsä Wood’s Open Source Wood is an initiative aiming to increase modular wood construction all over the world. / Metsä WoodLäs mer -
SCA divests SCA Wood Supply UK Ltd to BSW Timber Ltd
Uppdaterad: Wednesday, 2 December, 2020Category: WoodSCA Wood Supply UK Ltd, which is engaged in the manufacture and distribution of timber and associated products for the Home Improvement and Builders Merchant sector in the United Kingdom, has today been divested to BSW Timber Ltd. SCA will keep its organization for the sales of wood products to industrial customers in the UK. / SCALäs mer -
Building with wood in urban areas could offset almost half the carbon emissions of Europe’s cement industry
Uppdaterad: Friday, 27 November, 2020Category: ForestryCarbon storages in towns could be increased by using more wood in both new construction and renovation. In Europe alone, the total area of new dwellings is 190 million square metres a year, and most of them are built in towns and cities. / Finnish Forestry AssociationLäs mer -
Liquid Forest™ - Södra’s sustainable biosolutions
Uppdaterad: Thursday, 26 November, 2020Category: ForestrySwedish forest industry Group Södra has launched Liquid Forest™, a pioneering range of bioproducts: biomethanol, tall oil and turpentine. The Liquid Forest™ brand is a concept that offers the market and customers an opportunity to choose climate-smart products derived from sustainably-managed forests from the company’s 53,000 forest-owning members in southern Sweden. / SödraLäs mer -
BillerudKorsnäs solution for E-Commerce mailers - the conscientious alternative for consumers and online retailers
Uppdaterad: Tuesday, 24 November, 2020Category: The pulp and paper industryE-Commerce mailer bags made from BillerudKorsnäs’ Xpression E-com paper have 50 percent lower fossil emissions than virgin plastic mailer bags and using this leads to the removal of biogenic carbon from the atmosphere. This is proven by a new independent study that compares the environmental impact of different types of e-commerce packaging. / BillerudKorsnäsLäs mer -
Remsoft Enters Scandinavian Partnership with ForestX to Improve Forest Management and Supply Chain Planning in the Region
Uppdaterad: Monday, 23 November, 2020Category: ForestryOur new alliance with ForestX gives Remsoft a foothold in the Scandinavian forestry sector and promotes the use of planning analytics to improve forest-operations management productivity in the region. / RemsoftLäs mer -
Thanks to an interest in forest bioeconomy, the Prince of Wales initiated an ambitious plan to invest in nature
Uppdaterad: Friday, 20 November, 2020Category: ForestryA new 10-point plan for a circular bioeconomy, published by the European Forest Institute, calls on all bodies to invest in nature. ‘Not only is it the best, but also the unavoidable route to achieve change and a new economy,’ says Marc Palahi, the Institute’s Director and coordinator of the study. / Finnish Forestry AssociationLäs mer -
OPINION - We are printing less - why this isn't a good thing
Uppdaterad: Wednesday, 18 November, 2020Category: ForestryThere's long been a move towards less printing, a paperless society, and this is even more true in 2020. With many working from home, and schools closed for a large part of the year, there has been significantly less consumption of office paper. But that's not necessarily as good as it sounds. / Forestry in South AfricaLäs mer