At the festive inauguration on January 21, many guests from the industry and different national bodies were gathered to listen to Jouko Karvinen, CEO of Stora Enso, Hans-Peter Sollinger, President of Voith Paper, Charlotte Brogren, Direcor General of Vinnova (The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems), and Gunnar Svedberg, Managing Director of Innventia, giving their point of view on challenges and opportunities for the pulp and paper industry.“Many of these challenges concern the need of new processes with reduced energy and raw material utilization. Several new concepts will now be tested and verified in full scale, says Professor Daniel Söderberg, Innventia.In order to facilitate the process of bridging the gap between new ideas and industrial implementation, Innventia and the Royal Institute of Technology are establishing a new innovation center called CAPPI (Center for Advanced Process end Product Innovation). This center is being realized thanks to a grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. One of the steps in this establishment is an extension of the pilot facilities at Innventia.