Our goal in this line increases and improves the quality of raw material and wood properties, such as density, fiber content and chemical composition of the wood and pulp. It provides knowledge of the impact of soils and climate where the company operates, climate variations and water use, studies pests and diseases that reflects in the forest plantations, and other aspects that can affect the forestry business.

This line continuously improves and finds new uses of hardwood pulp (made from eucalyptus) and softwood (made from pine), and fluff pulp.

The main objective is to increase the quality of the paperboard, sack kraft, and kraftliner with the development of paper properties that can reduce the grammage of the papers, improving print quality and developing applications that provide new barriers properties for the paper surface as water, oxygen, water vapors, grease and oil resistence, for example.

The research focused on environmental issues, from climate change to reduce the use of inputs in the process, such as energy, water, steam, and chemicals. It has a greater focus on minimizing the impacts of the company's operations on the environment, contributing to sustainability.

Research on new forest-based technologies, such as the multiple uses of wood components (pulp, hemicelluloses, lignin, and extractives), develop new product and market possibilities for Klabin. The company has been investing in the biorefinery and product development based lignocelulosic components from wood as lignin, hemicelluloses, and pulp fiber application in their micro and nano fractions - microfibrillated cellulose, nanofibrillated cellulose and cellulose nanocrystals.