Top 10 Top Stories of 2020 so far

From Finland comes the largest single corporate investment we’ve seen in years, so no surprise that this one came in at #4 most popular top story so far this year — UPM is taking  it’s “next transformative growth step” and is investing in a biorefinery at Leuna, Germany to convert solid wood into next generation biochemicals: bio-monoethylene glycol, lignin-based renewable functional fillers, bio-monopropylene glycol and industrial sugars.

UPM will invest €550 million ($611 million) in the industrial scale biorefinery  The total annual capacity of the biorefinery will be 220,000 tonnes. The facility is scheduled to start up by the end of 2022.

More on the story here.