These activities are oriented in the following areas:

Chemical treatment of wood with special focus on technology of pulp

• sulphate and alkaline batch cooking

• utilization of spent sulphite liqueur

• chemistry of cellulose and hemicellulose

• ultra-filtration of eluates

• pulp washing

• photochemical bleaching

Papermaking  technology

• pulp beating and refining

• drainage

• formation of paper web

• moulded fibre products

Paper treatment

• relationship between printing process and the paper quality

• rheology and temperature influences upon behaviour of glues and coating compositions

Papermaking and the environment

• recycling

• white water recirculation

• treatment of waste paper

Paper science

• cellulose chemistry

• paper chemistry

• wet-end chemistry

• surface chemistry in paper-making

• water in paper-making 

• fillers in paper-making