How a new bio-based glue can help IKEA reduce the climate footprint

IKEA uses wood more than any other material, and most of the wood used is composite that is kept together by glue which like all materials have an impact on climate change. The company is now introducing a new bio-based glue that can help reduce the climate footprint. We talked to Venla Hemmilä and Andreas Rangel Ahrens about innovation and sustainability ambitions.
Venla Hemmilä, Material & Technology Engineer for Adhesives at IKEA explains: “I’ve always been close to nature, and I’ve always been interested in it. I think my love for nature drives me to want to work with sustainability”.
As the world faced increasing environmental challenges, Venla got an internship at IKEA in 2011, where she spent a summer visiting various production facilities.