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We are excited to welcome Matilda Martin as our newest Customer Service Manager.

Meet Matilda Martin (M. Sc., Tech.) our latest addition to our Laboratory Services Team. With a background in binder and paper coating development Martin will bring a wealth of hands-on experience to strengthen our laboratory coating and paper & paper board testing services. As our new Customer Service Martin is dedicated to helping our clients

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DELSCI: Giving Superpowers To Paper

Next-generation barrier papers are replacing non-recyclable packaging materials in even more food and non-food applications. DELSCI creates minimum viable prototypes that can be tested on customer packaging lines before being industrialized. Revolutionizing paper food packaging, no less. DELSCI’s innovations keep on the beneficial, sustainable properties of paper component – as being recyclable or compostable. On

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The extrusion coating pilot line moved from Tampere to Espoo 

Three 26-meter-long trucks, two sea containers and numerous vans were required to move the extrusion coating pilot machine from Hervanta, Tampere to the KCL pilot plant in Otaniemi, Espoo. The equipment was built in 1988 at the Tampere University of Technology to serve education and research and development of paper and paper board converting technology.

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Innomaterials adopts KCL name

Effective February 27, 2023, Innomaterials Oy adopted the name Oy Keskuslaboratorio – Centrallaboratorium Ab (shortened KCL). This name change does not affect any administrative functions of KCL. The business ID and VAT number stays the same FI33242364. Moreover, the bank account number, invoicing and postal address will stay the same. The change of name does

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New owner for KCL piloting and laboratory services

Innomaterials Oy acquired piloting and laboratory operations of Oy Keskuslaboratorio-Centrallaboratorium Ab (KCL) to continue the service for the forest industry and bio industry in the same premises in Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland. KCL personnel will transfer to Innomaterials Oy as old employees in the transaction. Innomaterials Oy aims to continue the business with the traditional name

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Extented analysis offering for biomaterials

KCL is now fully able to support your research activities by offering analysis of carbohydrates, lignin and extractives. Our newest analysis equipment for analysis of carbohydrates and polysaccharides, the HPAE-PAD, is installed, calibrated and verified against reference material. Beyond carbohydrates analysis, we can analyze lignin content (Klason and acid-soluble) and extractives content from a large

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Recyclability is as important as the other properties of a material

Due to the single-use plastic EU directives more and more single-use plastic products are replaced with fiber-based products. These fiber-based products need to be recyclable as the aim in Europe is to raise the overall recycling rate of fiber-based packaging to 90% by 2030. To optimize recycling properties of a material, the development of the

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