Evaluation Report Publications of the Academy of Finland 1/11

Research profile
The main expertise of the unit is related to the versatile utilisation of wood and its 
components for the Finnish forest cluster. The projects related to the area of wood 
processing chemistry have been more recently concentrated on the analysis of wood 
and non-wood raw materials, the characterisation of various process liquors from 
cooking, bleaching and papermaking as well as the chemistry of delignification and 
papermaking processes. The research initially on process optimisation is also extended 
to the utilisation of biomass for the production of new chemicals and energy and 
environmental chemistry.