New Cellulose Products and Process Technologies, Kalle Ekman
1. FuBio Products from Dissolved Cellulose
“Industry view”
FiBiC Seminar 20.11.2013 Hanasaari
Kalle Ekman
November 26, 2013
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2. Outline
• Need of new products/Pre-Competitive joint research
• Value of networking
• Infrastructure & education
• (New) Products from (Dissolved) Cellulose
• Summary
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6. Cellulose as raw material
H Sixta 24.4.2013
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7. Dissolving pulp
Enocell pulp mill produces also dissolving pulp
from birch wood with a capacity of
150.000 tonnes per year.
The main end use for the dissolving pulp is
found within textile industry
8. (New) Products from (Dissolved) Cellulose?
H Sixta 24.4.2013
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9. Industry needs radical innovation?
Rainer Feurer, Kazem Chaharbaghi, (1995) "Performance
measurement in strategic change", Benchmarking for
Quality Management & Technology, Vol. 2 Iss: 2, pp.64 83
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http://www.designdriveninnovation.com/book.html
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10. WP5: Market assessments and
techno-economic modelling
Market opportunities
Technical and economic
opportunities
Close cooperation between
stakeholders in the project: an
iterative process engaging
researchers from industry and
academia
1. Facilitate communication
between researchers and decision
making companies
2. Point out central R&D needs in
FUBIO Cellulose program
Partners of the work package include: GloCell, Kemira, Metsä Fibre, Pöyry Management Consulting,
Stora Enso, Suominen Corp., UPM and VTT.
FuBio Cellulose
11. Value chain evaluation
Cumulative added value of
selected value chain
Value creation of selected value
chain
Jaakko Pöyry Nov 2012
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12. Summary
• FuBio Programs have promoted R&D co-operation in
Finland
• Radical improvements/new products and production
technology needed
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