The past few months have been an exciting time for Maine’s forest products industry. On August 13, ND Paper hosted the grand reopening of the Old Town Mill. “We’ve been fortunate to have many forest industry stakeholders and fellow businesses in Maine offer their assistance and resources. This kind of collaborative environment has made developing…

Biobased Maine has just returned from San Francisco, where we joined other Maine stakeholders to promote Maine’s assets and emerging bioeconomy for investment at the annual Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference on Next-Gen Technologies and Markets (ABLC NEXT). ABLC NEXT is the premier national industry conference, consisting of seven conferences in one: The Advanced Biofuels Summit,…

Biobased Maine executive director Marina Bowie joined Sappi North America’s Donna Cassese and Tom Doak of Maine Woodland Owners on November 8 in Falmouth, Maine, for a FOR/Maine panel discussion on the current opportunities and challenges for Maine’s forest products industry, as part of the Land Conservation Assistance Network’s (LandCAN) event “May the Forests be…

While Maine and Finland are thousands of miles apart, our relative geographic locations and like climate mean that we can both boast enormous forest cover—Finland is about 80% forest, and Maine is 90% forest—and have therefore developed biomass-based industries in parallel. Our economic situations have also paralleled each other: As Finland began experiencing a decline…

Please join us in welcoming new Biobased Maine member True North Beauty! True North Beauty is a blossoming skincare and lifestyle brand with a mission of helping customers cultivate both the confidence and natural beauty that they carry within. Founded by Heather Lux in 2017 and based in northern Maine, True North is the only…