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Technology and Production

TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCTION

INDUSTRIAL PILOTING 

We offer an agile and flexible industrial piloting environment for testing new ideas, comprising the activities supporting the industrialization of new bioproducts and bioprocesses. 

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FIBERX PILOTING CENTER is our neutral, open access "professional playground" to develop and test novel biobased innovations, materials, recipes, products & processes for commercial scale-up. 

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Our lean core team combined with a large expert network assist your team from Research to Business with a professional and cost-effective can-do-approach.

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Piloting is learning.

Succeeding together.

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Raw materials

RAW MATERIALS

Lignocellulose based materials e.g.

 

  • Agrofibers

  • Recycled Fibers 

  • Wood Pulp 

  • Bark

  • Side Streams

  • Textile Fibers

  • Special Fibers:  

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  • Nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC)

  • Microfibrillated cellulose (MFC)

  • Microcrystalline cellulose (MCC)

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Fiber Treatment

FIBER TREATMENT

Refining & Pulping

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Processing Raw Materials into Cellulose & Fractionation 

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Internal Fibrillation 

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Fractional Piloting: Hemicelluloses, Extractives, Lignin

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Special Fibers:  

NFC/MFC & MCC

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Stock Washing & Processing 

Pilot Line Converting

PILOT LINE & CONVERTING

PROCESS DEVELOPMENT & EQUIPMENT TESTING

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  • Special head boxes

  • Foam forming

  • High-density lining

  • Sensor testing

  • Barrier testing

  • Special coatings

  • Electrospinning

  • Die presses

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MATERIAL & RECIPE TESTING

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  • Composites

  • Multilayer & membrane materials

  • Films & filters

  • Fillers & chemicals

  • Special fibers & materials (MCC/MFC, recycled fibers) 

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TRAINING

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Hands on customer training including both theory and practical training, on our pilot paper machine.

INDUSTRIAL PILOTING & TESTING ENVIRONMENT

We offer our customers and partners a creative, supportive and results-driven environment where ideas are freely tested and refined. 

 

In Lappeenranta/Lemi, Finland we have progessively improving possibilities to serve demanding testing and industrial piloting requirements. Pilot paper machine, fiber treatment units, stock preparation and laboratories etc.

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  • Flexible piloting

  • Pre-production & proof-of-concepts

  • Showcase your products & equipment to your customers.

  • Any cellulose-based material manufacturing

  • Our machines can be found here

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  • Product development & scale up

    • Packaging concepts

    • Filter materials

    • Molded products

    • Composites

    • Films

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INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM / CLUSTER

@ Lappeenranta, 2024

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New open access pilot site will concentrate on industrial piloting & development of waste and side stream conversion to pulp and value added fractions.

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  • Agropulping

  • Extraction

  • Lignin processing

  • Biobased adhesives

  • Waste textile solutions: Polycotton separation

  • Bark residues

  • Microfibrillated/crystalline cellulose

  • Conversion of food waste to bioplants: spent beer grain, citrus peels, flour residues, oil pressing cakes, etc.

 

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More info: joonas.soikkeli@fiber-x.fi 

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Piloting and Testing Environment
Process development
PROCESS DEVELOPMENT

Our core competence is to design and build new concepts and pilots for novel materials, products and processes. We play a key role as a technological partner, by adding sustainable value to the innovation chain from raw material to final products. 

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OUR OFFERING

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  • Process technology development

  • Process optimization & retrofitting

  • MINIMILLS – smaller scale satellite & modular manufacturing units

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OUR FOCUS IS ON NOVEL MATERIAL INNOVATIONS FOR FAST COMMERCIAL SCALE-UP!

PRACTICAL TRAINING

FIBERX has trained over 1000 engineers, specialists and sales personnel from machine manufacturers, chemical and packaging companies during the past decades.

 

The secret is practical training in a live paper machine environment by industry experts combined with laboratory measurements and workshop & classroom training. 

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We'd be happy to fill your and your partners' knowledge gaps and give "Heureka" moments with deep understanding of paper and board processes! 

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Those interested...

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  • All personnel working in the paper and pulp industry

  • Suppliers working in the paper and pulp industry environment

  • Schools and educational institutions

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More info: joonas.soikkeli@fiber-x.fi

Practical Training
Get in Touch

Want to know more about our Piloting services?

Get in Touch

joonas.soikkeli@fiber-x.fi

+358 505 865 373

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