The mission of Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry (LSIWC) is the development of knowledge-based, environment-friendly low-waste technologies for obtaining competitive materials and products from wood and other types of plant biomass for sustainable utilization of natural resources for economic, social and ecological benefits.
The LSIWC research themes’ priorities embrace practically all fields related to the utilization of wood and lignocellulose biomass and are based on interdisciplinary theoretical wood and lignocellulosic materials studies on the molecular and nano-level.
The scientific staff of LSIWC involve 20 Leading researhers, 32 Researchers and 20 Research assistants, of them - 37 PhD and 11 PhD students