US Patent Issued to Stora Enso on April 29 for "Method for dewatering a web comprising microfibrillated celluose and a film produced from the dewatered web" (Finnish, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,752, issued on April 29, was assigned to Stora Enso OYJ (Helsinki).

"Method for dewatering a web comprising microfibrillated celluose and a film produced from the dewatered web" was invented by Isto Heiskanen (Imatra, Finland), Kaj Backfolk (Lappeenranta, Finland), Jukka Kankkunen (Imatra, Finland), Anna Kauppi (Lappeenranta, Finland), Mikael Hjerpe (Karlstad, Sweden) and Juha Korvenniemi (Orineimi, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for dewatering a web comprising microfibrillated cellulose, wherein the method comprises the steps of: providing a suspension comprising between 50 wt-% to 10...