At Stora Enso, we’re extracting the maximum value from biomass so you can maximise your business potential.
We’ve seen it in our labs and in our customers’ own products - bio-based chemicals reveal the true potential of the forest as a treasure-trove of wood-based raw materials that can help you manufacture environmentally sound products.
Bio-based chemicals, such as crude tall oil, turpentine, xylose sugars and fly-ash are creating exciting new opportunities for the chemicals, plastics and construction industries, to name but a few. These materials come from a renewable resource and are non-food and non-land competing. They can contribute to a more sustainable future by replacing fossil-based materials in applications like bioplastics, biochemicals and biofuels.
A selection of biomass applications in biochemicals: