News

• Multiple use

  15.05.2025

  Saunas and sauna bathing – are they the secret of the happiest country in the world?  Eurovision Song Contest overtaken by sauna craze

  For the eighth time in a row, Finland was ranked by the UN World Happiness Report as the happiest country in the world. Finns believe that happiness is increased by their sauna culture and their close relationship to forests.

• Circular bioeconomy

  08.05.2025

  Opinion: Competitive edge and strategic autonomy for all of Europe from forest bioeconomy

• 30.04.2025

  Professor Hubert Hasenauer: ’A wooden house makes a better carbon storage than the forest’

• 24.04.2025

  Wood innovator Petro Lahtinen: ’Our technology has a good potential to revolutionize the entire cosmetics sector’

• 10.04.2025

  If two products are the same, will you pay more for the one in a showier package? The answer is ’Yes’

• Climate Change

  28.03.2025

  EU’s emissions trading system criticized by Olli Rehn: ’Leads to inequality between Member States’

• Circular bioeconomy

  13.03.2025

  Minimum cost of Ukraine’s reconstruction is EUR 500 thousand million – experts have messages to EU decision-makers

• Innovations

  06.03.2025

  Will wood-based garments be defined as eco-friendly? Metsä Spring has a request to EU

• Biodiversity and Conservation

  13.02.2025

  New information relieves fears of links between conservation sites and bark beetle damage

• Biodiversity and Conservation

  06.02.2025

  Professor Annamari Laurén: Restoration of peatlands will contribute to warming of climate for at least a hundred years