Fibres from recycled food and beverage cartons produce high-quality moulded pulp packaging, concludes research from Innofibre
Packaging made from cartons has been shown to be stronger than conventional products made from old newspaper
Packaging made from cartons has been shown to be stronger than conventional products made from old newspaper
AUBURN, Ala. – Burak Aksoy, associate research professor in the College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment at Auburn University (CFWE), developed two novel products to help reduce waste in commercial aquaculture feed pellets and meat products intended for human consumption.
The University of Maine (UMaine) has received a significant boost for its sustainable packaging research thanks to a $1.6 million donation from Packaging Corporation of America (PCA).
In the early 1960s, Toscotec pioneered the production of steel dryer cans (TT SteelDryers) building the foundation that has allowed it to become the major supplier of steel dryers and TT SYD Steel Yankee Dryers today.
The first-of-its-kind project is a collaboration among RTI, International Paper, SLB and Amazon
McGill researchers develop new green technology
Researchers find that some infections can improve trees’ chemical defences against the insect pests.
Thanks to the strong support from the forest industry and public funding, 10 research organizations, universities, and companies are establishing a groundbreaking research program with around 20 full-time researchers.
Researchers have identified naturally-occurring pathogenic fungi that infect the Eucalyptus snout beetle within Eucalyptus forest plantations.
Adding “biosolids” along with conventional fertilizer may reduce greenhouse gas emissions while improving soil, study suggests.
One year ago, Mondi, a global leader in packaging and paper opened its first in-house recyclability testing laboratory in Frantschach, Austria with the aim to test the recyclability of paper and paper-based packaging using non-paper components such as coatings.
Major Japanese paper manufacturers are developing a new wood fiber material that could help promote decarbonization and reduce the use of plastics.
Trees are a—sometimes surprising—source of many products in our daily lives, including paper, packaging, nappies, and even clothes.
MSU Department of Forestry partners with Natural Resources Institute Finland to facilitate workshop on climate-smart forestry products.
The test bed Thermochemical pretreatment can be used to decompose biomass to be able to more easily access / expose desired structures / molecules within the biomass.
Researchers seek new formula for energy efficient windows in beer wort, balsa wood, and paper pulp.
AUBURN, Ala., March 22, 2023 -- Out with the old, in with the new! Georgia-Pacific has contributed $100,000 to Auburn University to help fund a new state-of-the-art digester which will give engineering students the ability to test and improve a newly patented innovation in papermaking.
ITENE, AITEX, AXIA, CTP, CEA and CENTI will show the capabilities and services of the open innovation platform of the European project BIONANOPOLYS, in which they participate, and how to apply to the open call that will be opened in a virtual launching day to be held on 17 February.
At a time when energy is an issue affecting many millions of people worldwide, scientists at KTH have managed to harvest electricity by passing water through refined wood. Their work has recently been published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.
Growing up in Rumford, Maine, Liza White learned the extent to which paper manufacturers contribute to the rural economies in which they operate. Residents would regularly say “paper is money” in relation to the mill’s importance; they would celebrate its successes and shudder when it struggled.
Ecohelix, a scale-up company that has a patented technology to produce high-performance biopolymers from side streams of the pulp industry, received SEK 30 million in new capital in a financing round in July.
Florian Schmidt at the Department of Applied Physics and Electronics at Umeå University, together with researchers at RISE Piteå, receives SEK 7.7 million from the Swedish Energy Agency to generate the necessary knowledge for implementation of oxyfuel combustion in existing biomass combustion plants.