VTT Bioruukki pilot centre

VTT Bioruukki pilot centre is an innovation platform for new bio-based products and circular economy solutions. It offers unique expertise and piloting capabilities all under one roof. In the laboratories and pilot plant, customer organisations of any size can develop and scale up innovations and processes, accelerating their innovation cycles.

Bioruukki is one of Europe’s largest open access pilot facilities, with a unique combination of pilot-scale process development units and R&D services. Customers looking for recycled raw materials or new business opportunities through scale-up can test different solutions and generate data to support investment decision-making.

Our areas of expertise include thermochemical conversions, industrial chemistry, hydrometallurgy, biomass processing and biomaterials. With all the necessary modelling and piloting capability under one roof, VTT Bioruukki delivers optimal solutions from initial development to end products.

Thermochemical conversions

Pilot platform for gasification process development
Thermal liquefaction test facilities
Lab – to bench scale facilities of slow pyrolysis

Industrial chemistry

Process chemistry multi-purpose pilot plant
Lab- to bench scale facilities for CO₂ utilisation
High-pressure automatised catalytic conversions

Biomass processing and biomaterials

Biomass processing
Cellulose textile fibre spinning pilot
Cellulose film and surface coating pilots

Hydrometallurgy

Infrastructure for batch experiments and continuous piloting
Tailored process flow sheet for piloting
Infrastructure for leaching, precipitation, solvent exchange and ion exchange

We provide infrastructure for:

Low carbon energy solutions
Efficient biomass refining
Developing new bio-products
- Packaging materials
- Textiles
- Other bio-based materials and chemicals
Recycling and waste utilisation
Sustainable chemicals
Metals recovery