Stora Enso's Wood-Based Replacement for Oil-Based Phenolic Materials Gets Award

Finnish renewable and bio-packaging supplier, Stora Enso, has announced that its Lineo brand of bio-based lignin has been awarded ‘Bio-Based Product of the Year’ at the Bio-Based World News Innovation Awards 2018. It was shortlisted alongside products from Clean Plus Inc. and The Chemours Company. Made from wood-based raw material, Lineo can be used in a range of applications where fossil-based materials are currently used.

Commenting on the award, Mr. Markus Mannström, Executive Vice President of the Stora Enso Biomaterials division, said, “Made from lignin, an abundant product and one of the main building blocks of a tree, Lineo is a step on the way to replacing petro-based products with renewable solutions. As we say at Stora Enso, “everything made from fossil-based materials today, can be made from a tree tomorrow” and it is wonderful that this is being recognised by key industry representatives.”

Officially launched earlier this year, Lineo is a renew-able, wood-based replacement for oil-based phenolic materials which are used in resins for plywood, oriented strand board (OSB), laminated veneer lumber (LVL), paper lamination and insulation material. Stora Enso has been industrially producing lignin since 2015 at its Sunila Mill in Finland. Sunila’s capacity is 50, 000 tonnes per year, making Stora Enso the largest kraft lignin producer in the world.