The Swedish Forest Industries Federation’s Product Committee for Pulp and Paper aims at strengthening the competitiveness of the Swedish forest industry by asserting all types of wood fiber based materials as climate friendly, resource efficient and safe, promoting a high level of cost-effective recycling of paper and preventing that discriminatory measures are introduced against wood fiber based products, both with regard to existing and novel products.Strategic tasks include guiding and proactively responding to legislation, strategies and roadmaps, as well as mandated and voluntary tools at both EU and national levels.Areas in scope: Circular economy – Environmental Footprints – Product Safety – Recycling of Paper and Fiber based Packaging – Standardization.

FSCN – Fibre Science and Communication Network is a multi-disciplinary research centre at Mid Sweden University. FSCN carries out research that supports the development of forest-based industries and new opportunities for forest-based biomaterials. The research is developed in close collaboration with the Swedish forest industry and their suppliers, as well as other materials, chemicals, transport and energy sectors. The aim is to increase industry profitability by improving resource and process efficiency and to support the development of new bio-based products in different sectors. The underlying goal for all of the research is increased resource efficiency, environmental friendliness and circularity in the industrial ecosystem of the region.FSCN was established in 1999. It has grown from the initial four professors to today´s 13 full-time professors and 26 graduate students. In all, the staff consists of 80 researchers.FSCN and the neighbouring research centre Sensible Things that Communicate (STC) together constitute the research environment Transformative Technologies. Our shared goal is to support the transformation of the industrial ecosystem through bioeconomy and digitalisation. Transformative Technologies is responsible for one third of all research at Mid Sweden University.

NSG's ambition is to identify strategic industrial R&D needs that are manifested in a Research Agenda for the forest-based sector and to support the implementation of this agenda by seeking and advocating private and public funding at national level. NSG also provides content and support to the European technology platform FTP (Forest-based Sector Technology Platform).Operations within NSG-Sweden are conducted within three reference groups with representatives from society, industry, institutes and academia. The three groups are Forest and Forest raw materials; Pulp, Paper and Biorefinery, as well as Wood processes and wood products.

Forest Products Industry research in the Northern countries is in a phase of shifting its focus towards the direction of biorefinery/biomaterials, while at the same time trying to maintain links with shorter term research issues, to which the industry could reap faster benefits. The objective of the VINN Excellence Centre BiMaC Innovation is to become an internationally leading biomaterials science centre, spearheading the development of new renewable and sustainable materials based on wood fibres and other renewable polymers, increasing the competitiveness of the industry and contributing to innovations in the forest products sector.The Centre will promote sustainable growth in society through efficient use of wood-based resources. In collaboration with the industrial partners, there is a focus on hitherto unsolved industrial problems, which are expected to be key issues for sustainable industrial growth.The current research programme is composed of two "Demonstrator Line Projects" (DLPs). A demonstrator is a device or object to perform a demonstration of a material or functionality. Every DLP contains a number of activities named "Work Packages" (WPs). A DLP in turn always consists of two or more scientific "Competence Areas", which are actively involved in the DLP, thereby securing cross-disciplinary interactions.

- Research Director - Packaging & Consumerboards Business Segment Liquid Packaging Ambient from 2004 to 2010- Research Director - Packaging Boards - Stora Enso Research from 2001 to 2003 (head of R&D units in Sweden and Finland).- Research Director - Paper and Fiber Physics with STORA and later Stora Enso from 1997 to 2000 (head of R&D units in Sweden, Finland and Germany).

Research Manager Paper and Fiber Physics 1995-1997Research Manager Wood Raw Materials 1992-1995