US Patent Issued to Stora Enso on July 29 for "Process for production of film or coating comprising cellulosic nanomaterial" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,582, issued on July 29, was assigned to Stora Enso OYJ (Helsinki).

"Process for production of film or coating comprising cellulosic nanomaterial" was invented by Kaj Backfolk (Villmanstrand, Finland), Isto Heiskanen (Imatra, Finland) and Jukka Kankkunen (Imatra, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a process for manufacturing a film or coating comprising high amounts of cellulosic nanomaterial. According to the present invention, a screen printing press, such as a rotary screen press, is used to create a film or coating comprising cellulosic nanomaterial. One benefit of the present process is th...