Help bioboost Moelven with a new packaging solution

Do you want to contribute to a sustainable future through new innovative packaging solutions? Then this is an innovation challenge for you. Help Moelven find a packaging solution that can protect and store their wooden interior panels.

Moelven is one of the Nordics’ leading wood industry companies. Among their products are wooden panels for indoor use, which can be found in several large hardware store chains. The packages are made of fossil-based plastic and are up to 5.4 meters long and 24.5 centimeters wide. Each year, one million packages are sold enclosed in the packaging.

Today, Moelven Wood packages these panels in fossil-based plastic. It fulfills the functional need but does not live up to Moelven’s own standards and the future’s demands for sustainability. Therefore, they seek alternative solutions to replace the packaging and are now turning to startups, companies, innovators, and researchers to find a solution.

“We want to find a sustainable solution that can meet the requirements for protection, moisture regulation, and visual presentation that is also cost-effective and scalable. It doesn’t have to be a “ready to use” solution that is offered, it can be an idea, a material, or a product that we can take a closer look at together”, says Tjalling Chaudron, product developer at Moelven Wood.

Read more and apply at Paper Province website Help BioBoost Moelven with a new packaging solution (paperprovince.com)

Join us at the inaugural working group session of BIOTRANSFORM project, focusing on the theme of “Governance and financing challenges for circular bioeconomy.” This online session will be held on 10 October 2023, from 14:00 to 16:00 CEST. The objective of this meeting is to explore and gain deeper insights into the governance and financial obstacles confronting governmental bodies as they navigate the transition towards circular bio-based systems.

As a representative of a public authority, your active participation in this focus group will enable you to make your voice heard and identify, discuss, consolidate, and prioritise the identified barriers with other public actors. You will also hear more about the specific regions and bioeconomy value chains that will be investigated over the course of the project. This interactive session will be the first step into the creation of technical transition guidelines for public authorities, listing effective governance and financing instruments to transition to a circular bio-based system.

If you are eager to contribute your valuable insights to the work of BIOTRANSFORM and would like to learn more about the experiences of other regions in the field of bioeconomy, we kindly request that you complete the registration form by 3 October.

Help bioboost Moelven with a new packaging solution

How can packaging used to protect and store interior panels in wood be made more environmentally friendly than the ones made of fossil-based plastic used today? Moelven Wood is looking for the solution. Maybe you have the answer?

On September 25, we invite you to a webinar to present this challenge and start the search for innovative ideas from start-ups, companies, innovators, and/or researchers.

The challenge

Currently, Moelven Wood uses fossil-based plastics to package and protect the interior panels they produce for indoor use. By replacing this packaging with a fossil-free alternative, major environmental savings can be made. To make this a reality they are looking for others to collaborate with and contribute to the solution.

To make this happen, Moelven Wood, is the first in Sweden to boost its challenge through BioBoosters. And now they are ready for takeoff.

Together with Paper Province, they invite you to a webinar to let you know more about the challenge, their needs, and the possibilities for collaboration or possibly a business deal.
The webinar will also provide information on plastics as a material choice and on packaging solutions from experts in the field.

The program

• This is BioBoosters – Anna Aalto, Jamk University of Applied Sciences
• Replacement of fossil plastics – Mattias Andersson, researcher at RISE.
• Packaging solutions
• Looking for a new packaging solution – Moelven

When: September 25, 13.00-14.30 pm (CEST)
Where: Digitally via Teams
Register her!

Welcome to our next BioTalks webinar (Friday September 22, 2023, at 12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (EEST / UTC+3), where industry representatives along with specialists from research institutes discuss the development needs and opportunities at dairy farms to boost viability and resilience and to tackle the challenges of seasonal variation in milk production.

Changes in the operating environment challenge dairy farm entrepreneurs, but knowledge, skills and technology will ensure profitable operations also in the future. On BioTalks, we are on a mission to discover functional and profitable farm-level solutions for managing the seasonal variation in milk production. A steady production is more economically profitable for the dairy farm, but it can also enable a transformation throughout the production chain. Welcome to hear and discuss the business opportunities and latest research findings!

In this webinar we will also announce the upcoming ValioHackathon innovation competition aiming at finding concrete and effective ways to balance seasonality on farm level. Depending on the maturity of the idea, Valio offers Hackathon participants either the opportunity for business cooperation or the opportunity to start a joint project or pilot for testing the presented idea. – Welcome to solve the challenge!

BioTalks is a webinar series hosted by biobusiness accelerator BioPaavo by Jamk. The aim of the webinar is to bring like-minded people together, exchange knowledge, get inspired and perhaps start something new together!

https://www.jamk.fi/en/event/biotalks-viable-and-resilient-dairy-farming

An online survey on youth inclusion in the Bioeconomy (BE) has been launched by the Youth Ambassador Program of the International Advisory Council on Global Bioeconomy (IACGB). BE is an emerging sector that aims to provide sustainable solutions within and across all economic sectors and enable a transformation towards a sustainable economy through the production, use and conservation of biological resources, including knowledge, science, technology and innovation (IACGB, 2020). However, to ensure the success of the BE, it is crucial to involve and engage young people.

The survey aims to gather insights from BE actors on their awareness, interest, and involvement in the BE. The final aim is to understand the challenges and opportunities people face when participating in this sector and gather ideas and recommendations for enhancing youth inclusion in the BE. Your participation in this survey will help in better understanding how to involve and engage young people in the BE effectively. The answers will be kept confidential and used only for research purposes.