Forest Industry Future

Vision 2013

Finland in 2013 has a successful, competitive and sustainable operating forest cluster, whose ability to utilise the best available expertise and to commercialise innovations has become more effective especially in small and medium-sized enterprises.

The forest industry is regenerated through cross-disciplinary innovations

The Forest Industry Future Cluster Programme aims at generating new kind of entrepreneurship and renewable business through applied research and innovations. This calls for close and seamless international cooperation with various stakeholder groups.

The programme collects and combines varied know-how at the boundaries between technologies and industries, in addition to creating a new type of cooperation and product and service innovations with an eye on business. The further processing value of the forest industry is increased by developing new cross-disciplinary and cross-technological product innovations in parallel with traditional pulp production.

Strong and diverse know-how as the starting point

The Forest Industry Future Competence Cluster combines the research activities of global corporations, the strong operational environment of the forest industry and the multidisciplinary network of the fields of paper, pulp, sawmill, mechanical engineering, energy and information technology.

Fields of competence

1. Tailored fibre supply
2. Wood chemistry and novel products
3. Composites and Intelligent Wood
4. Packaging
5. Printed Intelligence
6. Measuring Technology
7. Enabling Technologies