During the Congress, representatives of business, scientific community, government and trade unions discussed the state of the domestic market of lumber and biofuels, problems of bioenergy development in small communities in Russia, the possibility of energy saving in industries by recycling waste as well as the opening of new promising markets abroad.
The Head of the University strategic project «Development of biodegradable packaging production at the enterprises of pulp and paper industry, the transition from plastic to 2030», professor Eduard Akim delivered a report on the problems of biofuel production and consumption in Russia in the transition to technological independence, in which he gave an overview of the current state of the market of pellets and briquettes. Alexander Pekarets, Associate Professor at the Technology Department of SUITD, general director of LLC «Forest Technological Company» shared the experience in processing wood waste into charcoal briquettes at his own enterprise using an innovative technology and spoke about the prospects of the use of the resulting products.
— Vigorous discussions were caused by another topical report of Olesya Fedorova,
In addition, at the Congress were presented the results of the University work on the program of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia «Priority 2030», in which the scientists of St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design are developing biofuels from wood waste. As a reminder, the scientific team of SUITD proposed a solution to the problem of recycling wood waste from forest enterprises by producing solid biofuel in the form of briquettes. This business model will allow companies to create new