Efficient use of forest industry side streams plays a key role in advancing resource efficiency and sustainability. By harnessing these materials wisely, businesses can unlock new opportunities and create innovative value chains.
Join us on Wednesday, 10 December 2025, at 3:00 PM (EET) for an engaging webinar featuring industry experts who will share the latest trends, market insights, and real-world case studies on how forest industry side streams are being transformed into high-value applications. The webinar will be organised in collaboration with Pulp & Beyond event.
Register now or latest on 9 December 2025.
Preliminary programme
From Microfibers to Macrostructures: New Approaches to Wood Design, Mass Timber, and Circular Material Use
M. Soledad Peresin, Director Wood Utilization + Design Institute, Professor of Forestry and Environmental Conservation & Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University
Enabler of New Bio-Products: Process and Equipment Perspective to Emerging Bio-Products
Sirpa Välimaa, Head of Business Segment, Pulp, Paper and Board, Sulzer
How to Unlock Value from Forest Side Streams: Case Boreal Bioproducts
Antti Kämäräinen, Market Development Director, Boreal Bioproducts
Speakers
Dr. M. Soledad Peresin is the Director of the Wood Utilization + Design Institute at Clemson University. With over two decades of experience across academia and industry—including her PhD. From NCState, research at Aalto University and five years as a Senior Scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland—her research advances the circular bioeconomy by transforming lignocellulosic biomass into high-value materials for packaging, construction, and environmental remediation applications. A recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, she has authored more than 80 publications and serves in leadership roles with TAPPI and the American Chemical Society.
Sirpa Välimaa is the Head of Business Segment, Pulp, Paper and Board at Sulzer. During her over 20 years in the forest industry she has been involved with a variety of products from sausage casings to pumps and from textiles to packaging design. Her heart beats for customers and driving novel business and innovations forward. Her current position offers her an outstanding outlook how to develop our product portfolio to offer the best performance in customer production processes and how we can support our customers in novel bio-product development.
Antti Kämäräinen earned a Master of Science in Forestry (Forest Economics and Marketing) from the University of Helsinki in 2004. He has extensive B2B sales experience with Finnish forest products companies. Since 2021, he has served as the Market Development Director at Boreal Bioproducts, a startup in Metsä Spring's investment portfolio.
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