New Collaboration in Sustainable Electronics and Energy Storage
AB Karl Hedin Bio Innovation has joined the Digital Cellulose Center (DCC) as an industrial partner. The collaboration creates new opportunities to explore how tailored lignin and other wood-derived materials can contribute to the development of sustainable...
Invited talk at BioEco Valley Summit
AB Karl Hedin Bio Innovation was invited to present its biomass fractionation technology and the applications enabled by tailored lignin at the BioEco Valley Summit 2026, held in Karlstad on 16–17 June. The summit brought together researchers, startups and industrial...
Strengthening Our Network in the Forest Bioeconomy
AB Karl Hedin Bio Innovation has joined Paper Province, a cluster of over 100 companies within forest-based bioeconomy. The membership strengthens our opportunities to build new collaborations and contribute to the development of bio-based materials with the forest as...
Maxim Galkin Presents Tailor-Made Lignin at Treesearch Progress
Maxim Galkin, representing AB Karl Hedin Bio Innovation and Uppsala University, was invited to speak at Treesearch Progress 2026, taking place at Vildmarkshotellet in Kolmården on April 14–15, 2026. Treesearch Progress brings together researchers, industry...
Tailored Lignin for Efficient Dye Removal
The publication, titled “Tailoring Biomass-Derived Organosolv Lignin Derivatives for High-Capacity Adsorption of Rhodamine B” and published in ChemSusChem, explores how structurally engineered lignin can be used as an efficient and renewable adsorbent material...
From Wood to Conductive Carbon
We’re excited to share our study in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, showing how lignin from wood can be transformed into highly conductive, graphene-like carbon and used in a working micro-supercapacitor - a small device that stores and releases...
Johan Gising elected Vice Chairman of the Board of FibRe
Johan Gising, CEO of AB Karl Hedin Bio Innovation, has been elected Vice Chairman of the Board of FibRe, a Vinnova Competence Centre dedicated to developing lignocellulose-based thermoformable materials that can replace fossil-derived alternatives. FibRe brings...
AB Karl Hedin Bio Innovation at “Lignin to X – Challenges and Potential”
Johan Gising, was invited as a speaker and panel member at Lignin Workshop 2025: “Lignin to X – Challenges and Potential”, hosted by Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland, on 20–21 August 2025. The workshop brought together researchers, industrial representatives...
Maxim Galkin presents the benefits of tailor-made lignin at SCS2025
Maxim Galkin, CTO of AB Karl Hedin Bio Innovation, was invited to give a talk about “Stabilization strategies to tailor-made lignin for materials” at SCS2025 – the 3rd National Meeting of the Swedish Chemical Society, held in Västerås on 16–18 June 2025. The meeting...
AB Karl Hedin Bio Innovation at Green Chemistry 2025
Johan Gising and Maxim Galkin participated in the Nobel Forum Satellite Event: Green Chemistry for Sustainable Materials 2025, held in Uppsala on May 19, 2025, presenting work on biomass fractionation, tailored lignin and its potential in advanced material...
AB Karl Hedin Bio Innovation joins FibRe Phase II
AB Karl Hedin Bio Innovation has joined Phase II of FibRe, the Vinnova Competence Centre for lignocellulose-based thermoformable materials. FibRe brings together Chalmers University of Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Chalmers Industriteknik and 21...
From Sawdust to 3D-Printing
Our study in ACS Applied Polymer Materials shows how lignin produced using our fractionation technology can be incorporated at high levels into PLA and extruded into filaments for 3D printing. Lignin is one of the main components of wood and an abundant renewable...
Invited speaker at Treesearch Progress 2024
Johan Gising, CEO of AB Karl Hedin Bio Innovation, was invited to speak at Treesearch Progress 2024, held at Vildmarkshotellet in Kolmården on October 9–10, 2024. Treesearch Progress brings together researchers, industry representatives and invited guests to present...