Lineo™ by Stora Enso, a renewable replacement for oil-based phenolic materials, has been awarded ‘Bio-Based Product of the Year’ at the Bio-Based World News Innovation Awards 2018.

Shortlisted alongside products from Clean Plus Inc. and The Chemours Co., the judges recognized the potential of Lineo, made from versatile wood-based raw material lignin. Lineo can be used in a range of applications where fossil-based materials are currently used.

Markus Mannström, EVP of the Stora Enso Biomaterials division, said that "we are delighted that Lineo by Stora Enso has been recognized as an innovative, important bio-based product. Made from lignin, an abundant product and one of the main building blocks of a tree, Lineo is a step towards replacing fossil-based products with renewable solutions. As we say at Stora Enso, ‘everything made from fossil-based materials today, can be made from a tree tomorrow’ and it is wonderful that this is being appreciated by key industry representatives."

Officially launched earlier this year, Lineo by Stora Enso is a renewable, wood-based replacement for oil-based phenolic materials which are used in resins for plywood, oriented strand board (OSB), laminated veneer lumber (LVL), paper lamination, and insulation material. Stora Enso has been industrially producing lignin since 2015 at its Sunila Mill in Finland. Sunila’s capacity is 50 000 metric ton per year, making Stora Enso the largest kraft lignin producer in the world.

Part of the bioeconomy, Stora Enso is a provider of renewable solutions in packaging, biomaterials, wooden constructions,  and paper globally.The company has some 26 000 employees in more thanr 30 countries. Its sales in 2017 were EUR 10 billion.