Deal on composite product development announced

Friday 10 Aug 2012

 
The Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio-Economy (CRIBE) in Canada is partnering with GreenCore Composites to develop a new green technology process that will allow wood fibre to be used in a number of new products for the packaging and building applications, such as pallets and various containers.

This new mixing process will be added to GreenCore’s existing NCell® technology allowing GreenCore to widen the type of products in which glass fibre and other compounds such as plastics can be replaced with wood fibre composite materials. This wood fibre composite has been successfully piloted in many applications, from automotive parts, to rigid containers, furniture, and industrial products.

GreenCore has already demonstrated that they are capable of replacing glass fibre reinforced compounds which are used in a wide variety of products but are extremely energy intensive to produce with wood fibre composites using their patented pending NCell® technology.

Wood modification, wood plastic composites, advancements in these technologies and a look at the impact that new Chinese technologies and the growth in these composite products is having on world markets and prices will be another focus for Australasian wood products companies in mid-October. Wood Innovations 2012 will open local producers’ eyes to an array of new solid wood, panels and composite products technologies that can be adopted.

Full details on the programmes can be seen on the event website, www.woodinnovationsevents.com



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