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  Contact www.ipwonline.de Imprint March 03
2015
         
           



Roswitha Keppler Junius
Publisher
Dear ipw reader,

greetings from the World Bio-Markets Conference in Amsterdam, where UPM received the highest honors for the Lappeenranta Biorefinery by winning the Commercial Scale Plant of the year award at last night's gala event. UPM's BioVerno is produced out of crude tall oil, a wood-based residue of pulp production. A big portion of the raw material comes from UPM’s own pulp mills in Finland. Read more on this below, as well as other recent news on our website.

Up next week ist the International Munich Paper Symposium; to see the program or to register click here. (http://www.paper-online.de/en/imps-2015/programme) and the week after is Tissue World in Barcelona!

The editorial deadline to the next ENERGY issue of ipw is now; please send us information for us to include! (edit@ipwonline.de or ads@ipwonline.de).

Best regards,

your ipw team

PS: For bio-fibre magazine related news, please click here, and for all ipw news, please click here!




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