While at an event in Germany, we’ve had the opportunity to talk with UPM biochemicals, a German company heavily associated with the Finnish forestry industry. The company takes excess products which would otherwise be burnt and converts this biomatter into usable products including rubber-like polymers, polyester, and coolants primarily for the automotive industry. Replacing drivetrains in the shift from internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs) is a significant part of the equation to reducing transport emissions, but it isn’t the entire story. Fossil fuel and particularly oil companies refer to the need for products like coolants and various polymers as mainstays to justify the continued extraction and refinement of oil, saying there simply isn’t an alternative to…