27th August 2013 FuBio Seminar

Paasitorni Annaleena Kokko, Program Manager, FuBio Joint Research 2

Anna Suurnäkki, Program Manager, FuBio Cellulose

’Future Biorefinery’ (FuBio) research theme of Finnish Bioeconomy

Cluster FIBIC

Finnish Bioeconomy Cluster FIBIC

• FIBIC Ltd is one of the first SHOK’s in Finland

• It’s predecessor Forestcluster Ltd was established in 2007

• SHOK stands for a Strategic Centre for Science, Technology, and Innovation

• Today, six SHOKs are active in Finland

– Forest-based sector broadly, FIBIC

– Energy and the environment, CLEEN

– Health and well-being, SalWe

– Information and communication industry and services, TIVIT

– Built environment innovations, RYM

– Metal products and mechanical engineering, FIMECC

• These SHOKs carry out long-term cooperation in fields most crucial for the future. The results are breakthrough innovations of global importance, which can be agilely transformed into growth in business life and wellbeing in society

FIBIC owners

FuBio – Future Biorefinery program • FuBio program

• 5 year (2009-2014) program entity of FIBIC

• Currently, on-going are FuBio Joint Research2 and FuBio Cellulose programs

• Main objective: to establish, in Finland, a world-leading competence platform in the field of wood biorefinery R&D

• Focus of FuBio: Novel value chains, in which wood is refined into new materials & chemicals

• A competence platform comprises many attributes, like people, business concepts, processing technologies, R&D and testing facilities, networking, etc.

FuBio JR2

FuBio Joint Research 2

The main aim is to develop novel materials from wood

• Wood consists of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin and all these components need to be used also in the future biorefinery

• Lot of the work focuses on fractionation of wood, with for example hot water or ionic liquids

• And the rest on using the fractions in the best possible way in new and existing value chains

Details: Duration: 1.6.2011-31.5.2014 Budget: 21,1 M€ Funding: industry, universities, Tekes & research organisations

FuBio Cellulose

FuBio Products from Dissolving Cellulose

Main objective: To develop novel, sustainable processes for production of

• regenerated cellulose stable fibres

• novel functional materials based on cellulose beads, nonwovens or thermoformable structures

• cationic cellulose chemicals

Details

Duration: 1.6.2011 – 31.5.2014

Budget: 11.6 million €

Funding: Industry, Tekes & research organisations