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From toothpicks to paper electronics
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AMAZING FOREST-BASED INNOVATIONS
Discussion 2: Wood, innovation and the Bioeconomy
Johan Elvnert, Managing Director
The Forest-based Sector Technology Platform
FTP is the European hub for research and innovation in the forest-based bioeconomy
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Forest innovations in everyday products
There’s an ingenious
process behind the
most unassuming
uses of wood!
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1. Wood log is mounted and debarked
2. Unravelling (like rolls of paper)
3. Punching (into individual sticks)
4. Drying and hardening
5. Polishing (final, smooth shape)
6. Sifter (removing damaged picks)
7. Packaging into boxes
1 birch 1.000.000 toothpicks
The Forest-City: Tradition meets Innovation
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✓ Low embodied energy
✓ low weight
✓ high thermal insulation
New wood-based
buildings and cities!
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The best strategy to
immediately fulfil the Paris
COP21 Climate Agreement is to
build with wood!
Enabling theCircular Economy…
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• Electronic waste is challenging to recycle
• This indirectly motivated the Circular Economy strategy
…or making it obsolete?
• Paper electronics is half a century behind the development of silicon
• But paper electronics could be made to be biodegradable
Forests - a resource for human creativity
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A knowledge-based
society, sustained in
every way by growing
European forests
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Vision Targets 2030
“…. Bearing in mind the full range of demand and
production constraints*, harvesting possibilities in
Europe have increased by 30% (until 2030), enabling
forest owners to manage their forests more efficiently
and sustainably.”
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* In many regions specific forest growth is increasing and management is optimised for additional harvesting
possibilities. In other regions, especially in the Mediterranean area, where the impact of climate change is predicted to
be severe, creating resilient, stress-tolerant forest is particularly important. In some landscapes the main aim is nature
conservation and providing ecosystem services.
Vision Targets 2030
“Wood-based construction in Europe has tripled
its market share, from the 2010 level…”
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This equals 1 years’ CO2-emissionsfrom 10.000 EU-citizens
>60% reduction of CO2 emissions if the European Parliament hadbeen built with wood
Translation for policymakers
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Twitter: @ForestETP
Email: [email protected] hub for research & innovation
in the EU forest-based bioeconomy