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News Release from: UPM-Kymmene Corporation
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 January 2008
Paper Firm Pushes Agro Pulp Paper
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The examination of the potential of agro residues producing pulp for paper is being continued by UPM through a licence agreement with Chempolis Oy, a Finnish technology company.
UPM said that it will be using a biorefining technology for the production of papermaking fibre and biochemicals According to the company, agro residues and other non-wood feedstocks, such as straw and reed, can be used as raw materials for pulp
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 22 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The company claimed that the biorefinery would be the first industrial facility using this technology in the world.
The UPM Asia Research and Development Centre is said by the company to play a key role in the research for agro residues as the base for pulp production.
UPM added that non-wood materials include a number of cultivated and naturally growing plants, such as agricultural residues and they are available in abundance in highly populated countries that have a shortage of papermaking fibres, for instance.
The biorefining technologies, patented by Chempolis, do not employ sulphur, or chlorine chemicals.
Low water consumption, low greenhouse gas emissions and minimisation of the impact of other factors are also claimed by the company to be the main environmental benefits of the new method.
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