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STORA ENSO


Rethinking wood:


what can a tree do?


Pulp Paper & Logistics


all, wood has been about since long before human civilisation began and that’s how it’s always been. If there was more to it, we’d have figured it out by now, wouldn’t we? Well, what if I told you that every material that’s made with fossil


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imber, paper, cardboard – that roughly captures the material possibilities offered by a tree. After


There’s more to the use of forestry products than in the obvious timber, paper and packaging industries. Karl-Henrik Sundstrom, chief executive of Stora Enso, says we have a responsibility to the environment to employ them for a much wider range of applications


fuels today can be made from a tree tomorrow? And that, even today, forestry-


products are being used in new and imaginative ways? It’s a new approach to materials, but one that will become ever more pressing as we as a society


look to meet climate change targets and reduce waste.


The theory It makes sense when you think about it. Trees are made from three polymeric carbohydrates: cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin.


Where we don’t use wood as a material itself, we tend to break it down into these constituent parts to make paper and fibre products. Of these, the traditional pulping process is intended to take out the cellulose fibres and the remainder is usually burnt to provide


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