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Plastic precursors from agro and forestry residues

  • Writer: kati sointukangas
    kati sointukangas
  • Jan 13, 2022
  • 1 min read

Updated: Aug 15, 2023

In a recently established Business Finland project - SynbioPro - researchers at VTT and Tampere University are working on turning agricultural and forestry residues into platform chemicals which could replace fossil based precursors for plastics


The project aims to create solutions throughout the value chain in collaboration with the industrial partners Neste, Kemira, Fortum, Olfactomics and Mirka.

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