Nordic Pulp and Paper Companies Plan to Invest $3 Billion in Pulp, BioEnergy and BioMaterials

摘要

Forest companies in Northern Europe have announced plans to investment three billion dollars in 2014 in attempt to move beyond mostly producing newsprint and commodity packaging grades. The idea is to diversify their product lines to include new bio-products from wood fiber and to generate bioenergy to reduce the region's dependence on fossil fuels, reports Wood Resource Quarterly (WRQ).