Stora Enso takes advantage of
open innovation, resulting in
new production line
A declining newsprint market requires Stora Enso to find new innovative business opportunities to make use of resources and capacity of their production sites. We coach Stora Enso in a joint effort to take advantage of open innovation, resulting in the development of a new production line.
Challenge
- Newspaper paper-market disappearing 5-6% per year
- Huge raw material supply & infra- structure assets getting redundant
- New business crucial for survival
Approach
- Curated Open Innovation events
- >100 companies engaged in open workshops and co-creation processes
- + a large number of Entrepreneurs & Students
- Lean startup approach for rapid evaluation of innovative ideas
Results
- >300 ideas generated
- 3 ideas verified and prototyped
- New bio-based composite-material ”Durasense” developed
- New production line with capacity of 15 000 tons/year inaugurated June 2017
Client
- Stora Enso – Hylte Mill – largest newspaper mill globally in 2012
- 50% of capacity reduced in 2013 due to decreasing demand
”We really managed to build both new hope and new business in Hylte”
– Kenneth Olsson, Mill Manager Hylte
