Research & Development

RAIZ - Forest and Paper Research Institute is a private non-profit organization recognized as an Research and Technology Organization of the Portuguese Scientific and Technological System, which develops research, consulting, specialized services and training on forest, pulp and paper and forest-based bio refineries areas of expertise.
RAIZ was created in 1996 as an association and its associates currently are The Navigator Company, the University of Coimbra, the University of Aveiro and University of Lisbon (School of Agriculture).
RAIZ activity is mainly financed by The Navigator Company and other private entities and by national and European public funds for R&D. It has a competitive nature and it developed in a perspective of producing and transforming knowledge into products, technology and services, in order to optimize, in a cost/ benefit perspective, the competitive advantages of the forestry and industrial ranks of the pulp and paper industry and the Company’s, guaranteeing its business sustainability.
The operation is developed by a staff of 52 researchers and technicians, plus an average of 25 R&D fellows, currently divided into two sites (Quinta de São Francisco, Eixo / Aveiro, and Herdade de Espirra, Pegões), in close articulation with the operational branches (forestry and industry) and corporate areas of the Company, and involving a vast network of universities and R&D centers, both national and foreign.
Be recognized worldwide as a reference research centre, promoting sustainable development and the eucalypt forest-based bioeconomy.
NATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
The national research projects are developed in partnerships, mainly, with research centers at Portuguese universities, with RAIZ, The Navigator Company and other national companies.
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INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
The international research projects in which Navigator and RAIZ participates combine the joint efforts of diverse entities to accelerate and consolidate a bioeconomy based on eucalypt forest.
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RAIZ - Instituto de Investigação da Floresta e do Papel
Quinta de São Francisco
Rua José Estevão
3800-783 Eixo
Portugal
Telephone: 234 920 130
Email: raiz@thenavigatorcompany.com