SERVICES

SciTech-Service Oy offers outsourced technology development.
We cover biomass processing in the areas of pulp manufacture (paper, board, dissolving, fluff and high-yield grades), viscose production and other regenerated cellulose products as well as biobased chemicals.

WE PROVIDE:

  • Concept level process design and evaluation
  • Planning and execution of laboratory studies
  • 2ndopinion services for technical concepts
  • Mill conversion and improvement services

 

Our mission is to be a complementing resource for the internal resources of industrial players. We achieve this by having strong in-house expertise, by running our own reactor laboratory, by co-operating with the best in the business and by staying curious towards the world around us.

As we have been in providing these services since 1983, it is very likely that we can generate the solution You are looking for.



COMPETENCE AREAS

SciTech-Service provides development, consulting and laboratory services in the following areas

PULP PRODUCTION FOR PAPER AND BOARD APPLICATIONS

• Evaluation and testing of technology upgrades, raw-material changes

• Identification of debottlenecking opportunities

• Fiber quality improvements

• Lab piloting services from chips to final pulp

BIOMASS FRACTIONATION, BIOREFINING

• Conceptual evaluation of technologies and processes

• Technology readiness upgrading services up to H2020/EARTO Level 7

• Proof of concept and pre-engineering lab tests

SIDE-STREAM UTILIZATION

• Lignin separation and processing

• Hemicellulose rich prehydrolysis liquor recovery and processing

• Soap and tall oil recovery optimization

• Turpentine recovery

DISSOLVING PULP PRODUCTION

• Pulp mill conversion assessments

• Dissolving pulp quality optimization (viscose and high-grade pulps)

• Pulp reactivity tests by Treiber method

 

VISCOSE DOPE & SPINNING TESTS

• Dope preparation, filtration and spinning

• Dope recipe optimization (pulp specific)

• Spinning conditions optimization (pulp/dope specific)

• Comparison of mill vs. optimized lab/mill process assessment

CELLULOSIC TEXTILE “KNOW-HOW” PACKAGES

• Fire retardant viscose fibre manufacture

• Proprietary Paper Pulp Viscose (PPV) technology licensing

PULP/CELLULOSE SUITABILITY FOR VISCOSE MANUFACTURE

• Testing of raw-material suitability as such

• Testing of suitability through Paper Pulp Viscose (PPV) technology

OUR AREA IN THE BIOECONOMY

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CASES

PULPING: From laboratory to industrial scale

The flagship project for SciTech-Service was the work to develop the SuperBatch displacement batch kraft pulping technology.

The work spanned from helping develop the original idea, through extensive laboratory tests to implementing the process on industrial scale. The biggest tangible results of the work visible today are:

• an industrial process marketed by Valmet that is used to produce >10Mt paper and specialty dissolving pulp annually

• the SciTech-Service laboratory in Rauma

A similar upscaling was later repeated in the form of developing a novel non-wood (agricultural straw) pulping technology from idea to industrial readiness.

VISCOSE TEXTILES: From idea to garment

In the area of cellulosic textiles, SciTech-Service offered the know-how and laboratory services needed for the Australian company Nanollose to produce a demonstration textile from bacterial cellulose raw-material.

Nanollose has technology to produce bacterial cellulose for the use in viscose textile making. SciTech provided Nanollose with the services needed to make the viscose filaments, spin the thread and knit the actual fabric for a dress.

The project took a mere 6 weeks from first contact to having a dress to present at an international conference.

PUBLICATIONS

NEWS AND COMMENTS

ARTICLES/PRESENTATIONS

DOCTORAL THESES

PATENTS

VIDEOS

TEAM

Prof. Panu Tikka

Founder

Dr. in pulping technology. Independent process technology developer, consultant and entrepreneur. Inventor of various pulping processes, such as SuperBatch, FreeFiber.

 

Eric Enqvist

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Dr. in pulping technology.
Specialized in non-wood raw-materials and unconventional pulping methods, co-inventor of FreeFiber process.

 

Heikki Hassi

Director

Dr. in wood chemistry.
Long international experience in pulp & paper, chemical and textile fibre industries.

 

Ville Tarvo

Technical Director

Dr. in chemical engineering.
Specialized in process modeling and industrial pulp bleaching.

 

Heikki Kolehmainen

Senior Project Engineer

MSc. in pulping technology. Specialized in demanding experimental and piloting setups

Aaro Knuts

Process Consultant

MSc. in paper technology.
Specialized in equipment solutions, instrumentation, sensor technology and nano cellulose.

Antti Hasanen

Senior Expert, Biorefining

Lic. Sc. in chemical engineering.
Specialized in biorefining technologies, process development and engineering.

 

Elsa Marques

Project Engineer & Marketing, digital content and laboratory manager

Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences, M.Sc. in Neurosciences and Degree (Lic.) in Biology.
Specialized in scientific research and a wide array of laboratory techniques. Focusing mainly on the cellulosics laboratory experiments and management.

 

Lê Huy Quang

Research Scientist

Dr. in bioproducts technology.
Specialized in pulping techniques, pulp characterization and valorization.

Topias Anttila

Project Engineer, biorefining

MSc. in chemical and process engineering. Specialized in process development and biorefining.

 

Martti Pekkanen

Leading Expert

Dr. in chemical engineering. Specialized in process modeling and conceptual design.

 

Antti Tikkanen

Senior Project Engineer, biorefining

MSc. in pulping technology. Specialized in pulp mill process engineering with the emphasis on chemical recovery and energy processes..

 

Lauri Hauru

Senior Expert, Regenerated Cellulose

D.Sc. (Tech.) in biorefining, M.Sc. in organic chemistry.
Specialized in ionic liquid-assisted processing of biomass, textile fiber spinning, textile recycling and chemical process development.

Tiina Skogberg

Management Assistant

 

CONTACT

 

firstname.lastname@scitech.fi

Eric Enqvist, CEO

Phone: +358 40 593 5770

www.scitech.fi