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Global Lignin Market: Recent Developments

In March 2022, Latvijas Finieris, a global manufacturer of birch plywood products sold under the trade name of Riga Wood, started manufacturing of plywood by using bio-based glue. Stora Enso has been working with Latvijas Finieris a leading plywood and its products' manufacturer in Baltic States, to replace fossil-based phenols in the glue with Lineo, a bio-based lignin.
In September 2021, The City of Thunder Bay in Northern Ontario, Canada, announced its plans to pave its roads with lignin, an experimental “green asphalt” that is a forestry byproduct from the pulp making process.
In December 2021, Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. is a Japanese paper manufacturing company and Stora Enso signed a partnership agreement to use trees to revolutionize the battery industry. The research concentrates on the replacement for lithium-ion and rare-metal batteries by lignin.
In April 2023, Ahlstrom is a global leader in fiber-based materials, supplying innovative and sustainable solutions launched a new range of renewable and sustainable lignin based filtration for automotive application

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