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Mr Otto Kivi is working in business development at Stora Enso, a leading Global bio materials company from Scandinavia. Otto Kivi has over 20 years of experience in international sales and business development and currently he is focusing commercializing Stora Enso’s bio-based active anode material Lignode.
"Batteries from trees - sustainable and local active anode material"
Imortant part of battery is active anode material and today almost all anode materials are graphite materials, coming from open mines or from petroleum coke. Furthermore, most of the anode materials are processed in China which makes Europe strongly dependent on a Chinese dominated supply chain. Stora Enso has created and is ready to scale a tree based solution which is a side-stream from European packaging supply chain – Lignin. Lignin offers aminimal environmental impact, is independent from global production solutions, and offers unique product properties - enabling the fast-growing battery business to become more sustainable. Something made from trees.