Koskisen and Stora Enso Develop Revolutionary Bio-Based Furniture Board

Koskisen is a Finnish wood industry company that produces sawn timber and panel products, such as birch plywood, furniture and construction boards made of chip board. Koskisen uses Stora Enso’s bio-based binder, NeoLingo® by Stora Enso, which is replacing fossil-based resins used in furniture boards.

Both the furniture board raw material and the binder are made of wood and sourced from the production process flows of both companies. As a result, all raw materials of the Zero Furniture Boards being bio-based.

Commenting on the new bio-based binder, Koskisen CEO Jukka Pahta said:

“The cooperation with Stora Enso has offered us a unique opportunity to address the CO2 emissions issue: the lignin-based NeoLingo® makes the Zero Particle Board bio-based. It is an excellent opportunity to bring something new into the market. Being bio-based, Zero Particle Board is an excellent example of a circular economy product. At Koskisen, the main raw material of the panel, wood chips, come from our own production. Similarly, Stora Enso gets lignin from their Sunila pulp mill in Finland, extracted in connection to pulp production. Combining these two ingredients, we can bring something new and valuable to our customers. It is hard to imagine a stronger message to our customers and their customers, than offering something that has a lower environmental impact and is bio-based.”