On 21 January, Innventia inaugurated its newly extended pilot facilities. Here, the concepts for future fibre-based products will be verified and demonstrated. This Innovation centre will help the industry to reach its goals when it comes to dramatically reduced energy and raw material utilisation.

In order to facilitate the process of bridging the gap between new ideas and industrial implementation, Innventia and the Royal Institute of Technology are establishing a new innovation centre called CAPPI (Centre for Advanced Process end Product Innovation). This centre is being realised thanks to a grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. One of the steps in this establishment is an extension of the pilot facilities at Innventia.

At the festive inauguration on the 21st, many guests from the industry and different national bodies were gathered to listen to Jouko Karvinen, CEO at Stora Enso, Hans-Peter Sollinger, President at Voith Paper, and Charlotte Brogren, Direcor General of VINNOVA (The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems), giving their point of view on challenges and opportunities for the industry.

- Many of these challenges concern the need of new processes with reduced energy and raw material utilisation. Several new concepts will now be tested and verified in full scale, says Professor Daniel Söderberg at Innventia.