Forestcluster Ltd is an innovation company established to network top level research and innovation in the Finnish forest cluster. Its task is to initiate research and innovation programmes and to channel research funds to selected focus areas. It intends to become the strongest innovation environment of the branch globally.

Forestcluster Ltd is running three remarkable research programmes

The Intelligent and resource-efficient production technologies programme develops radically new production systems that make the best use of resources and are energy-efficient so as to reduce capital intensiveness and improve the entire cluster's efficiency and flexibility.

The Future biorefinery programme develops new ways to fractionate wood and thereby, enable the generation of new wood-based value chains. The Customer solutions for the future programme develops new attractive, customer-oriented and competitive products and service concepts, for example to meet the needs of printed communications, packaging, construction, decoration and new product fields such as chemical and energy products.

Finnish Wood Research Ltd spurs research in the wood products industry

The common research strategy published by the Finnish wood products industry in autumn 2008 will serve as a foundation for Finnish Wood Research Ltd’s efforts to establish a broader basis of innovative competence that will support the renewal of the wood products cluster and provide support for the generation of new, robust business activities for the industry.

The organisation is actively looking for new partners both from within the industry as well as from actors closely associated with the wood products industry.

The environmental performance of wood, wood construction and the energy-efficiency of buildings, and the opportunities of bioenergy and bio-based chemicals will be among the issues on the Finnish Wood Research Ltd’s  agenda.

Both companies are owned by leading forest corporations, and are open for international cooperation and partnerships on future-shaping research and innovation.