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Brazilian forestry firm pays €5 million for 18% of Spinnova

07/07/2017

Finnish start-up bio-yarn producer Spinnova has entered into a new, long-term partnership with Fibria, a Brazilian forestry company and producer of eucalyptus pulp from planted forests. 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...

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