Forestry sector set sights on high value bioproductsFriday 24 Jan 2025
“Industry leaders from across the forestry supply chain are getting behind a new initiative to support new technologies and processes for extracting high value chemicals from logs and other forestry byproducts from sawmills”, he added. In collaboration Scion, the New Zealand Product Accelerator, chair Steve Wilson is initiating a new forestry biofactory to foster new developments for making new bioproducts from forest resources to deliver much higher value export products to fruition. “To bring our industry innovators together, we are pleased to announce a new conference called Forest Bioeconomy Innovations. It will run on 20-21 May 2025 in Rotorua. We are bringing international startup leaders together with forest and wood technology innovators to supercharge new processes to complement and eventually replace pulp and paper mills to a large degree,” says Stulen. “We are also working closely with officials and the Minister at MPI/Te Uru Rakau and key industry leaders to showcase sustainable and potential bioeconomy export products from New Zealand’s vast forest resources.” Local entrepreneurs are already developing new products from sustainable resources:
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