Kristinestad offers several advantages for a company planning to establish a drying facility for biomass, wood, grain, or other food products. The Kristinestad region has a significant amount of agriculture and forestry, which requires drying facilities. The mainland provides a…
Kristinestad offers numerous advantages to companies planning to build large greenhouses and grow vegetables or fruits in them. There is already a significant amount of greenhouse farming in the Kristinestad region, as the area offers many advantages to greenhouse farmers.
Kristinestad offers several advantages to a company planning to start fish farming. The Kristinestad region already has a well-established fishing industry, fish farming, and other related businesses. There are suitable areas at sea for fish farming. Warm water and oxygen…
According to preliminary data from the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), the use of solid wood fuels in heating and power plants decreased by 5 percent in 2025. The biggest change was in the use of wood chips, which fell…
The factory premises in Nykarleby are teeming with life. The boxes are swarming with a huge number of larvae, each about a centimetre long. Robots look after them under computer-controlled conditions and feed them a set amount of food. The…
In Europe, demand for bio- and synthetic methane gas—which can replace natural gas—is set to grow rapidly in the coming years. Germany is currently in the process of passing a law requiring that natural gas used for heating be blended…
A farmer may have a large pile of manure that needs to be dealt with, while a nearby biogas plant is actively looking for manure to use as feedstock. In theory, the farmer could sell the manure to the plant.…
The ReFlow Hackathon invites students, innovators and entrepreneurs to explore concrete ways to turn process industry side streams into circular economy products, or to co‑create entirely new service concepts related to material flows together with industrial companies operating in the…
Metsä Group’s pilot plant for lignin processing has begun operations in Äänekoski. The plant uses lignin separated from the production process of the bioproduct mill as its raw material, and its nominal capacity is two tons of a new type…
Mikael Ehrs, lecturer at Novia University of Applied Sciences, encourages owners of biowaste streams to consider alternatives to biogas production. If the bio-waste generated in connection with your own production, or more specifically the side streams, is processed into transport…