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How Finnish forests could replace global cotton supply

08/12/2016
How Finnish forests could replace global cotton supply

The meteoric rise of Finnish start-up bio-yarn producer Spinnova culminated in an invitation to the presidential palace in Helsinki in early December. Spinnova launched in the university city of Jyväskylä in central Finland in 2015. Using a technique originally developed by the Nordic country’s VTT technical research centre, it has established a...

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