Laboratories and pilot plants
Wood Science & Technology Laboratory
Infrastructure for basic and applied research on wood and fibre (ultra)structure, properties and advanced wood and fibre biomaterials and products.
Fibres & Wood Composites
Our group works with fundamental and practical questions related to environmentally friendly composites made from sustainable wood and other plant fibers, secondary raw materials, and industrial fibrous side streams
Biomass Technology Center
BTC is a pilot plant for research, development, innovation, and education on the processing and pretreatment of biomass and by-products from bio-based industries.
Research
Spruce Bark Could Replace Toxic Chemicals
A simple decoction made from spruce bark may offer a better alternative to the harsh chemicals traditionally used to prevent the formation of dangerous gases and slime in paper mills and wastewater systems.
Research groups
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Wood Science and Wood Technology
The group of Wood Science and Wood Technology conducts research and education on wood materials and products. -
Biomass Technology and Chemistry
Our research focuses on creating value from industrial biomass residues for energy, material and chemical applications. -
Forest operations
Forest Technology focus on the organization and implementation of forest management and processes for industrial raw materials supply, as well as applied methods and technology for this. This includes regeneration, silviculture aspects and harvesting operations management and raw material logistics. -
Business Administration
The research focus covers the wood based value chain as part of a sustainable bio-economy. Our research includes both product and service production with a triple bottom line understanding in a context of global competition. -
Forest policy
Our research in forest policy focuses on institutions, property rights and policies to govern forest resources and to guide decision making towards a sustainable bio-based economy. -
Forest Economics
Forest economics studies the management of forests with the aim of achieving the greatest sustainable benefits to society. Forests produce a multitude of benefits ranging from extractive (e.g. timber) and non-extractive (e.g. recreation, carbon sequestration) uses to non-use values. -
Forest Resource Economics
Our Resource Economics research is centred around two broad areas: the economics of renewable energy, and understanding decision-making processes related to resource and environmental questions.
Research education
With us you will have coworkers from all over the world studying different subjects. Our work cover the entire forest value chain from advanced technology in forest establishment and harvesting to processed products, including knowledge on how these contribute to a sustainable society and a strong bioeconomy.
Research projects
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BioGlue: Competence Centre for Bio-based Adhesives
The vision of BioGlue is to become a worldleading research environment will be accomplished through development of paradigm-shifting knowledge on bio-based adhesives in three research areas: raw materials and formulations, aspects of adhesives, and end-use requirements and sustainability. -
Forest owners’ cognition and behaviors underpinning Swedish forest biodiversity
Our aim is to offer new information that inform decision makers’ efforts toward increasing biodiversity in Swedish forests. -
Life after Deck?
The aim is to generate new knowledge about end-of-life TMW and the by-products from its production and how these can be used in downstream conversion processes -
WoodTreat – Innovative Integral approach for wood waste depollution and multi-sector valorization
WoodTreat’s ultimate goal is to develop techniques to recover clean secondary materials from post-consumer wood that is highly polluted with preservatives. These same techniques could also be applied to less polluted wood that is often burnt -
SingleTree – Optimizing multifunctional forest-based value chains with single tree information and application of digital technologies
To develop optimized single-tree value chains for improved climate change adaptation, multifunctionality and cascading use of woody biomass. -
Functional bio-adhesives for more sustainable paper-packaging
The project will develop and validate sustainable gluing of cellulose-based materials (paperand cartonboard) with graphene bio-adhesives, which is of great relevance to the demands of the Swedish packaging industry for improved material properties and increased productivity -
Next-generation engineered wood products using bio-based adhesives
The project will enable industrial adoption of bio-based adhesive systems, fostering a new generation of circular engineered wood products with reduced carbon footprint and enhanced market competitiveness. -
BLUECOAT – Bio-based long lasting safe and sustainable by design surface coatings for demanding and extreme conditions
The aim of the BLUECOAT project is to develop a suite of bio-based and low-carbon emission coatings tailored for applications in marine, textile, and construction sectors, alongside versatility studies for three additional end-applications, implementing and surpassing the most advanced SSbD guidance -
A neutron-based system for detection of chemical contaminants in wood waste
A neutron-based system will detect the levels of chemical pollutants for enabling an efficient, accurate and fast on-line sorting of wood waste for more circular and safer bio-based products and efficient energy systems -
FIBSUN
Novel fibre value chains and ecosystem services from sustainable feedstocks. -
Framework for development and implementation of bio-based wood adhesive systems through fracture
The wood product sector aims at replacing fossil-based adhesives with sustainable bio-based alternatives, but so far their industrial implementation is limited. A key challenge is proper evaluation of the mechanical performance of new wood adhesive systems. -
EcoReFibre
Ecological solutions for recovery of secondary raw materials from post-consumer fibreboards -
Tall oil application in industrial fiberboards
The water stability of fibreboards is generally improved by adding a small amount of paraffin wax to the fibres-mat before applying resin. Paraffin wax is a fossil-based expensive chemical with a high carbon footprint, and it needs to be replaced with more sustainable ones. -
A new hydrodynamic process to generate secondary materials from end-of-life wood products
The project aims to develop a cost-effective and energy efficient solution for recovery of secondary fibres from post-consumer wood panels by using novel water jet systems. -
Northern Traffic Lights
Northern Traffic Lights - a digital pan-Nordic platform for road trafficability enabling resilient supply to green industries in a changing climate. -
OptiForValue
Optimising forest operations for sustainable forest management & high-value applications - OptiForValue. -
Climate-adaptive management in Non-Industrial Private Forest Ownership: Decision-making, Policy Options, and Welfare to Advance the Swedish Bioeconomy
This project evaluates optimal adaptation strategies among Swedish non-industrial private forest owners (NIPFOs). -
Uncertain Choices in Environmental Contexts
The project helps answer the question of how ambiguity aversion affects forest-risk insurance uptake. Furthermore, it will also shed light on how individual heterogeneity (e.g. prior experience) affects this link. -
KnockOnWood
Wooden multi-story construction (WMC) has strong potential to satisfy diverse housing needs of urban consumers, enhance promotion of climate-wise construction within municipalities, and boost competitiveness of the companies in the forestry-wood value-chains. -
NordicForestry
The Interreg Aurora funded project NordicForestry aims to explore and provide options of young forest management methods and technologies that meet the forest owners perceptions and objectives. -
WoodReconstruct
The project will investigate how wood can be used effectively for repairs, temporary housing, and long-term sustainable rebuilding in war-torn Ukraine. It will also strengthen Swedish preparedness within wood building. -
Sustainable Nutrients
Developing sustainable nutrient management practices in the Gulf of Bothnia. -
WaVes
The WaVes (Smart Innovative Biotechnology from Arctic Plant-Derived Waxes and NanoBiomaterials) project aims to harness Arctic spruce and berry waxes, along with plant-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs), by extracting them from natural sources. -
Fish farming in the North
The project aims to investigate if and how rainbow trout and Arctic charr can be farmed sustainably in hydropower dams in northern Sweden from a biological, ecological, social and economical perspective. -
CEforestry
The project CEforestry establishes cooperation among researchers, SMEs and large companies to support industrial symbiosis using forestry biomass residues in a more efficient way. -
Forest biodiversity credits: Advancing societal goals across managed Swedish forests in a global context
This project aims to assess the prospects of financially compensating private landowners for more biodiverse Swedish forests.