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NWBC 2012

The international event, Nordic Wood Biorefinery Conference (NWBC), is the leading meeting forum for wood biorefinery professionals. The next event will be held in Helsinki in October, 2012. This conference is jointly organised by VTT and Innventia. The conference language will be English.

The organisers wish to invite all persons interested in wood-based biorefining to the NWBC 2012!

Please mark the dates in your calendars now: October 23-25, 2012!

The conference programme will consist of keynote lectures, invited and submitted papers, as well as poster presentations. In line with the previous NWBC conferences, the presentations will give a comprehensive overview of the recent progress in wood biorefining research and commercialisation.

The programme will cover the following main topics:

• Industrial wood biorefining projects, including pulp mill modifications
  
• Emerging new wood biorefineries and biorefinery products
  
• Key research programmes and projects
  
• Socio-economic aspects of wood biorefining
  
• Policy issues relevant to biorefining
  
• Market aspects
  

Call for papers is closed – note the important dates and deadlines

Deadline for abstract submissions: March 31, 2012 (papers) and May 15, 2012 (posters).

Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2012 (papers) and June 10, 2012 (posters).

Deadline for the proceedings texts: September 1, 2012.

See Call for papers for further details.

On-line registration is open. The deadline is October 10, 2012.

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The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design has designated Helsinki as the World Design Capital for 2012. In addition, New York Times has ranked Helsinki second (after Panama) in their recent travel article "The 45 Places to Go in 2012". 

Related events

The NWBC 2012 organisers also wish to mention another biorefinery-related event to be held in Finland in August 2012, EWLP 2012. This event is of more fundamental nature than the NWBC 2012 conference. An AEBIOM event in Brussels in June 2012 focuses on bioenergy production.