The forest-based sector is affected by many profound structural changes and the increasing
complexity of the business environment due to, for example, the mature markets of many …

Wood resources have been essential for human welfare throughout history. Also nowadays,
the volume of growing stock (GS) is considered one of the most important forest attributes …

The EU's 2018 Bioeconomy Strategy Update and the European Green Deal recently
confirmed that the bioeconomy is high on the political agenda in Europe. Here, we propose …

This study identifies new wood-based products with considerable potential and attractive
markets, including textiles, liquid biofuels, platform chemicals, plastics, and packaging. We …

Abstract Under the European Union's bioeconomy strategy, wood-based bioeconomy
innovations are expected to produce a stream of marketable substitutive products (lignin …

Forest-based businesses are the center of the transition to the sustainable and competitive
circular bioeconomy in Finland. This study explores the transition of Finnish FBS firms to …

The current challenge facing the European pulp and paper industry is how to materialize the
transformation to a bio-economy, as well as to realize the necessary new green innovations …

Because it is a mature industry, the European pulp and paper industry (PPI) possesses
strengths due to its infrastructure, technological know-how, and the availability of biomass …

The bio-textile products made from certified wood fibers are an important product innovation
able to diversify the wood product portfolio of enterprises and to increase environmental …

Background In terms of global forest product market developments, the twenty-first century
has been in many ways very different from the twentieth century—striking structural changes …