The NOHEVA Forest Bioeconomy Research Infrastructure is in the heart of RDI activities of the South Savo, with excellent facilities for high-quality and ambitious R&D along forest bioeconomy value chain being exceptionally important in the region. The RI is an essential part of The Noheva Technology Park at Savonlinna. The NOHEVA RI has five research platforms belonging to Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) and South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (Xamk): The Vegetative Propagation Technology Platform, The Special Greenhouses, and The Punkaharju Research & Virtual Park (Luke), and The Industrial Wood Construction Laboratory and The Fiber Laboratory (Xamk). The RI offers unique facilities for multidisciplinary forest research, with emphasis on vegetative propagation and dissemination of science-based information, together with bioproduct and process technology research with emphasis on chemical forest industries and wood material and wood building research.

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