Sweden and Brazil to conduct research on uses for wood-based ethanol

At the Nordic Wood Biorefinery Conference 2012 held in Helsinki, Swedish research institute Innventia presented plans for Swedish and Brazilian research institutes to study the potential uses of wood-based ethanol. Brazil is a world leader in the production of biomass ethanol, while Innventia is a leading institute in the study of lignin, a complex chemical compound commonly derived from wood, and an integral part of the secondary cell walls of plants and some algae.
A possible future area where ethanol can be used is bio-plastics, which can, among other things, be used for packaging. (December 3, 2012)