Uusi Puu — New Wood Competition 2023

The entries will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

1. 3D printing in the manufacture of wood composite products – 3DStep
2. Folded protection for e-commerce – Fold project, VTT and Aalto University
3. Completely plastic-free toy packaging – Paptic and Fischertechnik
4. Fancy and easy to recycle paperboard packaging for chocolates – Metsä Board and Kultasuklaa
5. Application for tracing the origin of wood – SilvaTrace
6. Wooden honeycomb packaging – Korpikuusikon Hunaja
7. Waste-reducing wood-based food packaging – Woodly (2nd in public vote)
8. Saturating kraft paper suitable for lignin-based resin – MM Kotkamills (3rd prize)
9. Extra-durable birch formwork panel – Metsä Wood
10. Application of Biochar in Environmental Construction – GRK Finland ja Carbon Balance Finland (1st prize)
11. Wood-based packaging for wood-fibre cutlery – Pyroll Packaging Group and Nature Line Cutlery
12. Fully fibre-based pastry packaging – UPM Specialty Papers and Fazer (2nd prize and 1st in public vote)
13. Wood panel with embedded intelligence – Koskisen (3rd in public vote)

• Wood-based solutions can be existing products, methods or processes. An existing product/method/process may also refer to a solution that is commercially feasible but not necessarily yet on the market.
• Concrete solutions compete in the competition, not people or companies. One solution can involve several companies, individuals or teams.
• Five megatrends are in special focus in the competition: resource scarcity, consumer awareness, urbanisation, demographic change and digitalisation. The solution may also respond to one or more megatrends. More detailed descriptions of the megatrends can be found on the Uusi puu website.
• The solutions may have participated in previous Uusi puu competitions.
• The competition does not apply to solutions concerning printing or writing paper or bioenergy.

• 26 October 2022: Opening of the competition at the parliament’s New Wood exhibition
• 26 October 2022 – 15 Janruary 2023: submission of proposals
  
• January 2023: Project steering group confirms the competition candidates
• February 2023: Competition jury evaluates the candidates and interviews the finalists. The competitors and finalists will be presented on February 16th at the New Wood exhibition organized at Finnish Forest Industries’ Winter Seminar.
• 1-31 March 2023: All competition candidates will be presented on the New Wood social media channels and the public can vote for their favorite on the New Wood website.
• 20 April 2023: Announcement of the winners of the competition and public vote and the jury panel at the Puunjalostusinsinöörit Spring Seminar at Kalastajatorppa. The top three in the competition will be awarded with videos published on the New Wood website and social media.