News
Versatile Wood Materials through Innovative Treatment
Author: Annabelle St-Pierre, Researcher at Innofibre For over a decade, Innofibre has been exploring the phosphorylation process of cellulose to impart various desirable properties such as flame resistance, super absorbency, and strong cation exchange...
Cellulose Foams, a New Ally to Support the Ecological Transition
Author : David Myja, Innofibre researcher Wood and its components, including cellulose fibers, are major assets in the ecological transitions taking place at this moment. Cellulose products are gradually replacing petroleum-based plastics, especially in the...
Innovation in Coating Preparation at Innofibre
Author: Julien Bley, Engineer, Researcher at Innofibre Decarbonizing various industrial sectors poses numerous challenges. In the packaging industry, replacing plastic with bio-sourced products can encounter obstacles when specific barrier properties are...
The Hidden Side of Cedar
By Mélanie Trudel, Researcher, Innofibre In Quebec, cedar is a conifer commonly used in landscaping. This tree, which can reach several meters in height, requires annual trimming. These cedar residues generate tons of biomass each year. Given the amount of...
Thermoforming : New Opportunities for Unwanted Fibers
Author : Éric Denoes, Researcher at Innofibre The textile industry generates large amounts of wastes, especially in the steps involved in the clothing manufacturing process, which leads to large quantities of unwanted textile remnants (scraps and offcut)....
Extrusion pulping, a solution for non-wood fibers processing
Author: Wendy Rodriguez Castellanos Cellulose packaging is booming. In recent years, we've seen the arrival - on the Quebec market - of cellulose packaging from other regions of the world. Most of this packaging is made from non-wood fibers such as bamboo or...
Corrugated Carbon is Making Waves
Author: Martin Dubé, Teacher and Researcher at Innofibre Packages made of corrugated cardboard occupy a very large part of our everyday lives, accounting for almost 40% of the industry’s cellulosic fibre packaging. Although this type of packaging is mainly used...
The challenges for cellulose packagings
Author :Benoit Bideau, Innofibre The packaging sector is a complex field that must meet diverse needs depending on the types of contents involved. The nature of these will shape the packaging itself and its properties. For example, computer equipment requires a...
Lignin: A Revenue Opportunity for the Paper Industry?
By Michel Labbé, researcher at Innofibre, and Mathieu Germain, teacher and researcher at Innofibre Despite its potential as an added-value product for pulp and paper mills, each year several thousand tons of lignin end up in the mills’ black liquor, which is a...
What the heck about hydrocyclones?
Author: Gaston Michaud, Research Engineer, Innofibre They are there, but we ignore them. We walk past them without a care in the world. Yet hydrocyclones are an integral part of most papermaking processes. They can be found, for example, in paper machine approach...
One type of packaging, many questions!
Author: Benoit Bideau, Researcher at Innofibre What do we mean by eco-friendly packaging? There is no simple answer to this question. Whether it be as a researcher, a business owner, or a consumer, one must develop a critical mindset and question and analyze...
Forests and fields for paper and cardboard
Author: Martin Dubé, teacher at Cégep de Trois-Rivières and researcher at Innofibre. In several regions of the world, the pulp and paper industry has always been closely associated with wood, forests and sawmills. However, there are many other sources of fiber...