News from the project

Ali Harlin, Research Professor at the Technical Research Centre of Finland VTT and member of the GRETE project consortium, shared his expertise on the textile industry in occasion of our…

April 2022 is marking an important milestone for the GRETE project consortium: month 36 of the 4-years-collaboration, precisely one year left to its conclusion. Coming together in a physical meeting…

On 7 April 2022 the Marcus Wallenberg Prize 2022 was awarded to Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen, part of the GRETE consortium with his team at University of Helsinki, and Professor Herbert…

We've already talked about ionic liquids and their application in the GRETE project in a previous article. This time, the work of our consortium member Prof. Ilkka Kilpeläinen and his…

Shortly before the end of the year the documents were signed and a new partner joined the GRETE consortium: BETA Technological Centre of the University of Vic in Spain. BETA…

December started with great news: the European Commission and the Bio-based Industries Consortium combined efforts to launch Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking: CBE JU is the legal and universal successor…

On October 20 and 21 the GRETE consortium gathered for its 6th meeting, again in online mode. Now, after more than two years of steady collaboration, the information exchange is settled and both, the structure and the modalities, are well implemented.

Earlier this year, the GRETE consortium reached one of its major milestones: the first batch of regenerated fibres from Kraft pulps have been produced.

The GRETE partners know: chemistry is behind everything and plays a fundamental role in almost any imaginable product or technology around us.

The GRETE consortium is working towards opening up wood pulp as a raw material for man-made cellulose fibres.