According to Ali Harlin, a research professor at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the availability of wood as a raw material for industry is already a problem in Finland. "You can send a thank-you note for that to the Kremlin. We have drifted into a situation where we have a significant shortage of wood, above all in southeast Finland," says Harlin. The first industrial victim of the wood shortage was the Sunila pulp mill in Kotka. The Finnish forestry products firm Stora Enso announced in early September that the mill is to close by the ...
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