Forestcluster Ltd

Forestcluster Ltd - Paving the way for a biosociety of sustainable development

Forest cluster aims at doubling the value of the industry's products and services by the year 2030 when compared to 2006. The goal is to ensure that at least 50 per cent of production value is based on new and innovative world-class products and services.

As one of Finland's six Strategic Centres for science, technology and innovation, Forestcluster Ltd's strategic goal is to develop industry expertise by facilitating and providing opportunities for networking among companies and research organizations; and channeling financing to goal-oriented research.

Results from Forestcluster Ltd's programs were widely present at SHOK Summit 2012. Heikki Hassi from Avilon had interesting presentation in the morning seminar session. Jaakko Kangasjärvi, University of Helsinki and Risto Kallio, Stora Enso Oyj gave excellent short Hyde Park presentations. In addition, Forestcluster results were presented in 5 posters and 4 short videos. The complete material can be found on SHOK.fi.

Foam forming enables novel structure in paper-like materials

Researcher Ahmad Al-Qararah currently working on the research program EffNet (Efficient Networking towards Novel Products and Processes) of the Forestcluster Ltd. The work package focuses on expand paper and board properties with new resource-efficient furnish and technology concepts and foam forming is one of them. Novel fibrous paper-like structures can be formed using foam as the material carrier instead of water. The modeling research task is led by Jukka Ketoja from VTT.