Montreal, Quebec – March 10, 2020 – Following the tabling of the Quebec government’s 2020-2021 budget, Stéphane Renou, FPInnovations’ president & CEO, applauds the government’s commitment to fight climate change and its desire to build…
Roberta Roberts
Women in forestry hold a variety of roles throughout the industry’s many sectors and their contributions are numerous. Within the last several years, women have ascended to top management roles where their perspectives generate new…
FPInnovations scientists Wadood Hamad, Chuanwei Miao and former colleague Stephanie Beck, recently published an article in the U.S. science journal, “Industrial Biotechnology”, about advancements in the research and development of cellulose filaments (CFs) and cellulose…
A leading cause of injury to truck or machine operators is falling from machines when entering and exiting. In support of continuous improvement of safety standards and awareness among forest operations workers, Safer Advisory Foundation…
Canada is a winter nation resulting in Canadians spending millions of dollars each year to pay for necessary heat. With increasing heating costs and climate change becoming top of mind, communities are taking a more…
With funding from the Alberta Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, FPInnovations released a how-to energy guidebook for the design and construction of wood-frame and mass-timber buildings in Alberta before the province’s recent big announcement. Alberta…
Post-harvest forest residue surveys are crucial for assessing harvest efficiency; accounting for merchantable waste, marketable fiber for secondary use, or available bioenergy biomass; compliance of ecological objectives such as coarse woody debris or understanding carbon…
FPInnovations is partnering with the Canadian Woodlands Forum, Laval University and the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre in the organization of the September pre-DEMO 2020 Conference entitled “Digital Transformation in Forest Operations: A leap forward in…
Researchers and technicians in FPInnovations’ biomaterials group have used their know-how and ingenuity to redesign and upgrade a pilot-scale spinneret that is poised to allow for the design of innovative new manufactured fibres on a…