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  • Tem-Ta80 Information Day

    Tem-Ta80 Information Day

    Tem-Ta80 coordinators organized the information day for the project partners and representatives of other wood-related TEM-TA projects from the University of Tartu. The event took place in the Institute of Physics on the 14th November, 2025. Tem-Ta124 project representative Dr. Rait Kivi attended the meeting and introduced the current state and perspectives of project with…

  • 23rd Baltic Polymer Symposium 

    23rd Baltic Polymer Symposium 

    Senior staff members of the Tem-Ta124 project Dr. Rait Kivi and Dr. Nastassia Shtaida presented the intermediate results of the project on the 23rd Baltic Polymer Symposium that was held in Tallinn on 1-3 October, 2025. This year, the symposium was organized by the TalTech Wood Valorisation HUB and placed a distinctive focus on the contribution…

  • Tem-Ta Autumn Seminar

    Tem-Ta Autumn Seminar

    The TemTa autumn seminar took place on 23 September 2025 at the Mercure Tallinn Hotel. The event brought together lead investigators and key researchers from TemTa wood-related projects, members of the expert committee, ETAG representatives, and partners from industry. In addition, representatives of industrial companies interested in future collaboration and product development with researchers attended…

  • Meeting with Gelatex Technologies OÜ

    Ilona Faustova, Rainis Venta and Karol Piotr Szuba-Jablonski visited Gelatex Technologies OÜ in Tallinn on the 7th of February 2025. Company’s CEO Märt-Erik Martens showed the facilities and explained the technological foundation of Gelatex. The potential collaboration possibilities were discussed that could benefit both our research group and the Gelatex. For example, the future outcomes of the…

  • The Institute of Bioengineering has been established at the University of Tartu

    The Institute of Bioengineering has been established at the University of Tartu

    On 1 January, the Institute of Bioengineering was established at the University of Tartu, with Professor Mart Loog serving as Acting Director. The institute is part of the Faculty of Science and Technology, with premises located in Chemicum (Ravila 14a) and in the building at Nooruse 1. The Institute of Bioengineering was founded with the…

  • Cooperation with industry: Dr. Rait Kivi will work at Imavere demo plant for wood-based bio-materials as part of the collaboration between our laboratory and Graanul Biotech

    Cooperation with industry: Dr. Rait Kivi will work at Imavere demo plant for wood-based bio-materials as part of the collaboration between our laboratory and Graanul Biotech

    Dr. Rait Kivi from ECB Wood Chemistry and Bioprocessing Laboratory has started a part-time job at Graanul Biotech OÜ wood sugar pilot factory located at Imavere, Estonia. The cooperation aims to optimize the production and refining of wood sugars. Training specialists with work experience in both the research laboratory and the industrial environment is very…

  • Prof. Mart Loog along with prof. Jaan Kers and architect Sille Pihlak discussed the future of wood biotech industry in Estonia and worldwide

    Prof. Mart Loog along with prof. Jaan Kers and architect Sille Pihlak discussed the future of wood biotech industry in Estonia and worldwide

    Prof. Mart Loog, prof. Jaan Kers and architect Sille Pihlak discussed wood biotech industry perspectives and challenges on Vikerraadio station. They brought different examples what wood biotech industry may provide to society, discussed how to produce high value compound from convetional wood industry waste products, and how synthetic biology will help to minimise the carbon…