FINLAND — Metsä Group’s demo plant for a new lignin product has started up in Äänekoski, Finland. The plant uses lignin extracted from the bioproduct mill’s production process as its raw material and it has a nameplate capacity of two tons of a new type of lignin product per day. The plant was built in cooperation with the equipment supplier ANDRITZ. Dow, a leading materials science company, is a key partner. Metsä Group’s new lignin products are called Metsä LigO™. According to Ismo Nousiainen, CEO of Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, the company aims to use the wood raw material, including side streams of pulp production, as efficiently as possible to generate the greatest possible added value. …”The purpose of the new demo plant is to ensure the functionality of the lignin product’s production process, as well as the product’s characteristics and suitability for the market.”