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For those of you who don’t know: CMC pulp (carboxymethyl cellulose) is used to give yoghurt its consistency. Pulp is used for the same purpose in many pharmaceutical pills. ‹#›
The use of forests brings vitality to rural areas where other livelihoods are fairly scarce. Forestry is the only branch of industry which survives everywhere in Finland on the terms of global markets without subsidies. The use of forests also provides other support to rural areas. Thanks to the use of forests, it has been possible to build comprehensive networks of roads and mobile communications in rural areas. Both networks are accessible by all Finns for recreation and any other forest-related pursuit. Since the use of forests keeps the countryside in good vigour, it slows down urbanisation, which is one of the strongest global trends, due to difficult environmental problems. ‹#›
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When people speak of biomaterials they always seem to use fancy words. We often forget that the forest industry still manufactures common or garden biomaterials, and in huge volumes. In Finland, we still have 74 pulp, paper and paperboard machines in about 50 mills. In addition, we have over 250 sawmills that export goods all over the world. One of them is Veljekset Vaara in Tervola, who supplied the wooden frame elements to the Pilke building owned by Metsähallitus in Rovaniemi. Veljekset Vaara’s website is available in seven language versions. How many IT companies need that many languages for their export? Moreover, Finnish mills and sawmills are among the best in the world, and they are constantly being refurbished and expanded. According to the investments surveys by the Confederation of Finnish Industries EK, the forest industry continuously invests considerable sums to keep the mills up to date and to construct new capacity. The current industry is important as a foundation and a source of revenue for developing new products alongside existing ones. In fact, the world’s most extensive research project on industrial biomaterials is under way in Finland. The goal is to double the value of wood processing by 2030, half of which should be derived from new products. The research and development investment of the forest industry alone is larger than ever. Finns were among the first nations to print smartness on porous paper. Patent applications for the method have been submi
For long, Finns have debated over the fact that we construct large numbers of houses of wood, but they are all small, such as one-family houses. Finns do construct substantial wooden buildings, but they are all situated in other countries. As an example, this picture shows the rollercoaster at the Six Flags theme park in Jackson, New Jersey, USA, which is constructed of Kerto wood by Finnforest. Another example is the roof of Terminal 5 at the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. The Finnish company Finnforest won the construction job expressly because of its technological demands. Still, the roof of this terminal is not situated at the Helsinki–Vantaa airport. But why should we use wood for construction? The reason is that when you use wood, you use a renewable material. Steel, concrete and plastics, for example, are not renewable. The making of wooden constructions uses less energy than the making of concrete, for example. In interiors, wooden surfaces provide an optimal humidity. What’s more, products made of wood function as carbon storages. As the volume of living wood in a forest increases by one cubic metre, it sequesters one tonne of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The difficulty with construction is that half of the world’s natural resources are used in construction, and construction generates 40 percent of all waste. As the world’s population increases and grows more prosperous, people tend to migrate into towns, and new houses are needed. In Europe, two million buildin
A conventional Finnish forestry mill, and a pulp mill in particular, generates an enormous volume of heat and electricity. In the manufacturing of pulp from wood, a thousand kilos of wood normally yields 500 kilos of pulp. The rest mainly becomes black liquor, which is incinerated at the mill to make electricity and heat. Some of these resources have been used at the mill itself, but the production rates are so high that a pulp mill always also generates the district heat for the surrounding town and sells plenty of electricity to the national grid. In fact, it is a general saying that 30 percent of each forest company is actually an energy company. Sawmills have also always burned all the bark from their raw material, and often also the sawdust. However, the waned sapwood boards (??) rejected after processing are sold to pulp mills, since sapwood makes the best pulp. For decades, Finland has been the leading producer and user of bioenergy in Finland, and this is due to the forest industry. Even before the climate change made it to public forums, over one fifth of the energy produced in Finland was based on biomaterials. Four fifths of that consisted of electricity and heat generated as a by-product of forest industry. ‹#›
A package serves as protection, brand element and advertisement. The importance of packaging continues to grow, especially thanks to e-commerce. When individual products are individually packaged and transported to a buyer on the other side of the world, it is especially important that packages are light and recyclable. Moreover, in the developing countries the selling of food and other goods is moving from open markets to supermarkets and other stores, so they need packaging, too. This picture shows a CD/DVD case developed by Stora Enso. It is incredibly practical to use and easy to open, unlike the hard plastic case. Its whole surface can be used for printing. Everyone who has ever held one of these in their hand has loved it. The case has been manufactured for years. A paperboard case made of wood is superior because it is both durable and light, its surface can be used for printing (see Slide X; a plastic CD case needs a separate paper insert to describe the contents, for example), it is made of a renewable material, it can and will be recycled, and when it is finally discarded, it may be burned to generate bioenergy. ‹#›
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