News

Longstanding Bio4Energy member Mikael Thyrel is new platform leader for Feedstock Pre-processing. Photo by Anna Strom ©2023.©AnnaStrom

New leader for Feedstock Pre-processing Eyes Critical Raw Materials as New Direction for Research

Bio4Energy's smallest research platform has a new leader with…
A slab in a furnace of a hot strip mill. Photo by courtesy of Luleå University of Technology.LTU

Three-year Project Could Set Steelmaker Well on Way to Hydrogen-based Operations

Industry and academia are teaming up to enable a phase out of…
Bio4Energy scientists Kristiina Oksman (left) and Linn Berglund are showing slivers of the brown kelp used as input material, at their research laboratory.LTU

Breakthrough Innovation: Hydrogels from Norwegian Kelp to Be Commercialised

Bio4Energy researchers are behind a breakthrough innovation…
Field trials of growing genetically modified aspen trees in Sweden. Photo by courtesy of Ewa Mellerowicz.Bio4Energy

Field Trials Confirm: Aspen Trees May be Modified for Easier Access for Biorefinery Production

Field trials of transgenic aspen trees have confirmed that genetic…
Algae production at Dåva, Umeå, Sweden. Photo by courtesy of Francesco Gentili.

New Projects Supported by Bio4Energy Strategic Funds

Twenty per cent of all funding to Bio4Energy is set aside as…
Season Greeting from Bio4Energy. Collage and photos by Anna Strom ©2022.©AnnaStrom

Season’s Greetings from Bio4Energy

Bio4Energy wants to wish its members and followers a Merry…
Dimitris Athanassiadis, Bio4Energy Systems Analysis and Bioeconomy, is new coordinator of the Graduate School.©AnnaStrom

New Coordinator for Graduate School: Course Starts in 2024

The Bio4Energy Graduate School, with flagship training on biorefinery…
Most plastics are made from petrochemicals. Could they be recycled using a bio-based process? Photo by ©Anna Strom.©Anna Strom

Recycling of Plastics and Forest Management Under Loup in New Projects

While a part of the research community is trying to develop…
LACCASE lignin encoding in plants could be used to make them resilient to drought and strong winds. Photos by Stockholm University affiliates.Stockholm University/Edouard Pesquet

Plants Adapt their Lignin Using Chemical ‘Encoding’ Enzymes, New Report Suggests

Bio4Energy Associated Member Edouard Pesquet, previously…

Events

Bio4Energy Researchers' Meeting, 21-22 November at Luleå, Sweden.©AnnaStrom

Bio4Energy Researchers’ Meeting

This is where Bio4Energy's researchers and student researchers…
SPIRIT project programme picture.SPIRIT

Workshop om SPIRIT: MAX IV-laboratoriet och European Spallation Source (ESS)

Välkomna till workshop om SPIRIT, en innovationsarena kring…
Mixed forest. Photo by Anna Strom ©2022.©AnnaStrom

Workshop: Raw Material for the Forest-based Industry in Future

This is a WoodWorks! workshop in the Assess4EST project, to…
Bioeconomy Parliment is recurring conference for the bio-based sector in Sweden, including policy makers. Press picture.Biofuel Region

Bioekonomiriksdagen 2023

Bioekonomiriksdagen tar avstamp i förändringarna i vår omvärld;…
Bio4Energy researchers and students assembled at Umeå, Sweden, 16 June; for their biannual Researchers' Meeting. Photos by Anna Strom ©2022.©AnnaStrom

Autumn 2022 Bio4Energy Researchers’ Meeting

This is an event for researchers in Bio4Energy. Attendance is…
Pellets and leaves. Photo illustration by courtesy of Photo by courtesy of Ali Hedayati.Courtesy Ali Hedayati

Bio4Energy Thesis Defence

PhD student Ali Hedayati will defend his thesis Ash…
Photo by courtesy of Gustav Häggström.Courtesy Gustav Häggström

Bio4Energy Thesis Defence

PhD student Gustav Häggström will defend his…
SLU Campus Umeå 2022. Photo illustration by Fredrik Saarkoppel.Courtesy Fredrik Saarkoppel

Biennial Scandinavian Society of Forest Economics Meeting

SSFE 2022 calls for the submission of abstracts to, ssfe2022@slu.se. Deadlines Acceptance…
Anna Strom 2022

Bio4Energy Advisory Board Biannual Meeting

The theme for the day will be applications for biocarbon, metallurgic…