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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 […]

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

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.

Listen, listen, listen. That is how you learn about others’ needs. But according to Baptiest Mol, the KCL’s new Head of Sales and New Business Development, you cannot learn to become a salesman. You either are one – or not. Mol enjoys working with trustworthy Finns and wants to take KCL to the European market.

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

Risto Hertzberg (MSc. Eng.) has joined KCL as the new Head of Biomaterial Processing. His professional background covers areas in dissolving pulp production, lignin processing and cellulose-based textiles. As Head of Biomaterial Processing, Risto’s objective is to ensure clients achieve their goals through piloting and testing. Moreover, his aim is to guide investments for an