New Forest Products

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New Forest Products

• 2008 Provincial Leadership Forum

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TOPIC SPONSOR

• Joan Elangovan was appointed Assistant Deputy
  Minister for Corporate Services in January 2007.
  Her portfolio includes planning, policy and
  legislation financial control and budget
  management organization development and
  information management and technology. Recently
  she has also become the executive lead for
  Value-Added Strategies.
• Joan joined the BC government in 1992. She worked
  in senior management positions in the social and
  economic development sectors, most recently, in
  the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of
  Attorney General. Prior to joining the BC public
  service, she worked for Ontario Hydro. Joan has
  a Master of Engineering degree from the
  University of Toronto.
• In her spare time, Joan enjoys reading, music and
  travel. Joan and her husband live in Victoria.

• Joan Elangovan, M.Eng.
• Assistant Deputy Minister
• Ministry of Forests and Range

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COMPETITIVE ISSUES

• John Talbot has over thirty years of managerial
  experience in manufacturing, principally in the
  Province of British Columbia, Canada. Recent
  operating experience has been primarily in the
  wood products sector. John has intimate and
  practical knowledge of structural and value added
  wood manufacturing productivity issues, raw
  material supply, and strategic business planning
  / implementation.
• John, formerly the Executive Director - Value
  Added manufacturing at the Crown Corporation of
  Forest Renewal BC, has had specific careers in
  labour relations and sales and marketing -
  developing / and implementing of export marketing
  programs.

• John Talbot
• Performance Management, Strategic Business
  Development
• FP Innovations

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ENGINEERED WOOD PRODUCTS

• Jean Cook is currently Research Manager of two
  departments Composite Products and Resource
  Characterisation.
• Jean holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from the
  University of Waterloo and joined Forintek in
  1984 specialising in risk analysis as applied
  to forest resource characterisation for value,
  product manufacturing process control and
  engineering properties of solid wood products.
• As part of the management team since 1990, Jean
  has enjoyed working in the multidisciplinary
  teams formed by the sector to resolve various
  technical trade and regulatory issues in
  international markets.
• She is currently the FPInnovations Board member
  of the Canadian Lumber Standards Accreditation
  Board and the Board member of the NSERC Strategic
  Network ForValueNet.

• Jean A. Cook, Ph.D.
• Manager Composite Products, Resource Group
• FP Innovations FORINTEK

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NEXT GENERATION PULP PAPERNANOCRYSTALLINE
CELLULOSEBIO-REFINING

• Gail Sherson is with FPInnovations Paprican
  Division where she is Director of the Vancouver
  Laboratory and Manager of the Fibre Supply and
  Quality Research Program.
• Gail is a graduate of the University of British
  Columbia with degrees in Chemical Engineering and
  Pulp and Paper Engineering. Gail joined Paprican
  almost three years ago, bringing extensive
  industrial experience with International Paper,
  Champion International, Nexfor, Fletcher
  Challenge and MacMillan Bloedel.

• Gail Sherson, M. Eng.
• Director, Vancouver Laboratory and Program
  Manager Fibre Supply and Quality
• FP Innovations PAPRICAN

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NEXT GENERATION BUILDING SYSTEMS

• Erol Karacabeyli is a Registered Professional
  Engineer in British Columbia, Canada, and has
  over twenty years experience in the timber
  engineering research field. Holding two Masters
  Degrees he is a well-known specialist on seismic
  performance of timber structures, duration of
  load effects on lumber, panel and engineered wood
  products, and connections.
• Erol is currently the Manager of the Building
  Systems Department in Western Laboratory of
  Forintek. Erol is an influential member in many
  national and international codes and standards
  committees whose mandates encompass the safety
  and reliability of wood structures.
• Erol made significant contributions in wood
  engineering field, and published his findings in
  over 70 publications.

• Erol Karacabeyli, P.Eng.
• Manager Building Systems
• FP Innovations FORINTEK

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Project Director

• Werner Hofstätter holds an Honours Commerce
  Degree, a CSC, and has more than 25 years of
  experience working and consulting with all sizes
  of private and public sector organizations. He is
  currently Project Director of Value-Added
  Strategies in Corporate Services.
• He has held a variety of senior management and
  consulting positions in some of Canadas largest
  organizations. He has worked with many industry
  sectors including transpor-tation, financial
  services, logistics and pulp paper.
• In addition to publishing several articles on
  Value-Based Management, he has lectured in
  Finance at Carleton University. He is also a
  certified commercial diver, a trained volunteer
  fire-fighter and level III first responder.

• Werner Hofstätter
• Project Director
• Corporate Services Division
• Ministry of Forests

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INNOVATIVE FOREST PRODUCTS

• MAXIMIZING VALUE FROM
• FOREST RESOURCES

it is a time for us to look to the future of
forestry. Maybe it looks a little different than
the forest industry that I remember as a kid and
the forest industry that I worked in the
1990s. Hon. Pat Bell, National Forest Day
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OBJECTIVE

1. Update you on some of the latest innovations in
   forest products and technologies
2. Generate discussion on what role, if any, the
   Government should play in creating an environment
   that encourages innovation and commercialization

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TODAYS AGENDA

• ENGINEERED WOOD PRODUCTS
• NEXT GENERATION BUILDING SOLUTIONS
• BIO-REFINING etc.
• COMPETITIVE ISSUES
• QUIZ, DISCUSSION and PRIZES

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Engineered Building Products

• What are they?

• Construction materials used for structural
  elements in buildings.
• Successful Engineered Products have
• demonstrated and reliable performance in service
  and
• are competitively priced
• Examples are steel, concrete and

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Structural grades of lumber panels that have
recognized engineering properties
2004
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The definition in the wood industry isEWP
Composite wood substitutes for solid wood
Better use of small and low grade logs (all
species)
Veneer Strip Lumber
Parallam
Oriented Strand Lumber
Laminated Veneer Lumber
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Typical Wood Composite Manufacturing Process
(Courtesy of SBA)
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Reliability and Cost Competitiveness Process
Interactions impact EWP Demand
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Solution Look inside the process
START WITH SENSOR TECHNOLOGY
Relate process parameters to end product
attributes

• Moisture Meters in Dryers and Forming Line

• Weight Scale in Forming Line

• Thickness Gauges in Finishing Line

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Innovate to both reduce costs and improve end
product attributes
On-line measurement of wood MC to reduce energy
costs and reduce plywood delamination
750,000 per mill, per year
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This poster provides several examples of other
substitutes for solid lumber, timbers and beams
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Novel concepts  open web studs 
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An EWP Success Story

• OSB has captured 85 of the North American new
  home sheathing markets from plywood.
• Why? It is now perceived by the NA home
  construction industry as a lower price product
  that performs as well as plywood in home
  sheathing.

It took 20 years for OSB to capture significant
market share from plywood in sheathing markets
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Cook Observation

• There is no shortage of new ideas for wood
  products and systems that COULD be used in
  construction
• Which have the potential to be perceived by the
  construction industry as viable substitutes for
  concrete and steel?

I believe these are the engineered wood
products that will attract sustained investment
to the sector
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From commodity productsto building solutions
Knowledge
Services
Lars Sandberg, Timwood
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Opportunity for Wood Non-Residential Buildings
Prince George Airport Courtesy of Equilibrium
Consulting
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US Non-Residential Buildings - Current and
Potential Market Share
Source WPC 2006
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Wood-Based Building Systems

• Best bets
• 6 Storey Light Wood Frame Construction (currently
  limited to 4)
• 6-10 Storey Heavy Frame Buildings with Concrete
  Core (new)
• Cross Laminated Timber Applications (new)
• Roof and Floor Applications
• Non-structural walls in Concrete Masonry
  Buildings
• Post Disaster/Low Cost Shelter

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First Best Bet 6 storey Light wood-frame
construction in Canada (currently limited to 4)

• BC Premieres support made a difference
• FPInnovations and CWC are supporting BC Building
  and Safety Policy Branch in pursuing regulatory
  changes to increase the limit on
  wood-construction from four to six storeys
• Validation by US/Japan/Canada earthquake
  simulation test (FII support) (NEESWood) of a
  6-storey wood-frame building (test specimen is
  built BC lumber)

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Second best bet 6-10 storey Heavy Frame
Buildings with Concrete Core

• Developing several design concepts for use of
  wood in mid-rise construction, including hybrid
  wood/concrete and wood/steel

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Second best bet 6 storey Heavy Frame Buildings
with Concrete Core

• Demonstration building in Quebec City
• Based on the objectives of Quebecs use of wood
  in the non-residential sector policy (May 2008)
• Has received go ahead from Régie du bâtiment
  pending a few modifications
• 60 000 ft2 in total
• Above ground structure combines concrete core and
  heavy glulam
• Below ground parking garage in
• reinforced concrete ( 53 parking spaces)
• Total Height 22.8 m
• Built under the NBCC 2005
• LEED GOLD
• Planned occupancy Fall 2009

Owner CSN FONDACTIONArchitect Gilles Huot,
GHA Atelier darchitectureStructural Engineer
Bureau dÉtudes Spécialisées inc.
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Third best bet Cross Laminated Timber
Massive wood plates, X-lam or Jumbo plywood
Murray Grove Building, London, GBWorld Tallest
Wood Building
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Cross Laminated Timber
Elevator shaft or stair case with CLT
Courtesy of KLH
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Fourth best bet Roof and Floor Applications
Richmond Speed Skating Oval
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Fourth best bet Roof and Floor Applications

• High Strength to weight ratio makes wood systems
  very suitable

Courtesy of CWC WoodWorks
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Fifth best bet Non-structural walls in Concrete
Masonry Buildings
Not common in North America
Stockholm 2004 Wood Walls in Concrete Building
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Sixth best bet Post-Disaster/Low Cost Shelter
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Recent disasters houses destroyed

• 2004 Tsunami 150,000 homes
• 2005 Pakistan earthquake 500,000 homes
• 2005 Hurricane Katrina 275,000 homes
• 2006 Indonesia earthquake 140,000 homes

Earthquake 2006 Java
Hurricane 2005 USA
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Wood Framing Proven Earthquake Performance
Hyogo-ken Nambu (Kobe) quake, 1995
Undamaged houses N. American framing
Post WWII House Collapsed
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Earthquake simulation test in USA(showing no
structural damage)
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CONCLUDING REMARKS

• Wood-based building systems offer a lot of
  potential in new applications
• FPInnovations launched an initiative
  Next Generation Building Solutions
• Funded largely by NRCan
• Multi-disciplinary collaborative research with
  design community
• A large component in wood-based composites
• Designed to play a major role in increasing use
  of wood in residential and non-residential
  construction

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Next Generation Building Solutions
Example FPInnovations Vancouver Laboratory

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Next Generation Pulps Papers

• Innovation technology that take full advantage
  of Canadas unique fibre characteristics

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Intelligent Paper Safety
Bio-reactive Paper Products

• Paper giving instant visible indication of
  pathogens.
• High speed manufacture coating or printing.

• SARS mask
• detect viral contamination
• deactivate the pathogen
• protect the user

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Advanced Bioproducts Nanocrystalline cellulose

• Smallest physical sub-unit of cellulose
• Crystallite dimensions, 200 nm long, 10 nm wide
• 8,000 times thinner than a human hair.
• FPInnovations Lab Process Production, 2 kg/week
• Ready for 1 tonne per day NCC demonstration plant

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Nanocrystalline Cellulose (NCC)
crystalline region
microfibril
amorphous region
acid hydrolysis H2SO4
TEM image of nanocrystals
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Nano-Crystalline Cellulose (NCC)
Nano-Crystalline Cellulose (NCC)
Opacity
Colour

Porosity
Stronger than Steel
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NCC in the Everyday World?
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The forest biorefinery

• An integrated set of processes
• Multiple products, a single site
• Solid wood, panels
• Pulp, paper
• Heat, power
• Transportation fuels
• Chemicals
• Maximize the value from each component of the
  feedstock

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Potential pathways to new products
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Main pathways to fuels and chemicals
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• Lignin
• Resins 400 per tonne of lignin
• Substitute for carbon black in tires 1000 per
  tonne?
• Carbon Fibres
• Hemicellulose
• Ethanol, lactic acid
• 300 per tonne of hemicellulose
• Fuel, plastic precursor
• Xylose, Xylitol (sugar substitute)
• Polymer precursors
• 700 per tonne

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Thermo-chemical processes

• Gasification
• Generates a combustible gas
• Burn to displace Bunker C or natural gas
• Synthesize hydrocarbon products
• Methanol
• Synthetic Diesel
• Leaders in this field Enerkem, Nexterra
• Pyrolysis
• Generates a combustible liquid
• Burn to displace Bunker C
• Extract chemicals, food products
• Resins, phenolics for board grades
• BBQ sauces, flavourings

• Both processes produce fuels or synthetic
  chemicals
• Both can operate on low value, mixed residues

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Boiler Replacement with a Gasifier at Kruger
Products in New Westminister
FPInnovations Partnership with Nexterra
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Optimize Current FutureProduct Streams
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The Real Measure of Environmental Impact
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The zero-carbon house?
29 tonnes of CO2 are captured in a typical house.
Offsets five years of driving the family car.
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Canadian Forest Products Industry
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DISCUSSION
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QUIZ
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FOREST PRODUCTS JEOPARDY
Engineered Wood Products
Building Systems
Bio-Refinering
Key Messages
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EWP Question 1

• What type of
• engineered wooden beams are capable of replacing
  steel beams?

Glulam, Parallel Strand Lumber, PSL or Parallam
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EWP Question 2

• What of plywood that has been replaced by OSB
  in new North American residential construction?

About 85
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EWP Question 3

• Which 2 continents
• use the majority
• of the worlds
• softwood sawn lumber?

North America and Europe
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EWP Question 4

• What percent
• of a typical EWP
• is resin?

Less than 10
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EWP Question 5

• What continent leads
• the world in EWP production for light-frame
  construction?

North America
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Building Systems Question 1

• Which wooden floor and wall panels have passed
  the 45 minute burn test?

X-Lam, Cross-Lam or Massive Plywood
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Building Systems Question 2

• How many stories tall
• will light wood, residential buildings soon be
  allowed?

Up to six stories
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Building Systems Question 3

• Approximately what
• percent of US non-residential construction could
  be wood-based?

More than 90 percent
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Building Systems Question 4

• In which city is the worlds tallest wooden
  building?

London, England
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Building Systems Question 5

• Approximately
• how many homes have been destroyed by natural
  disasters
• since 2004?

More than one million! ( 1,065,000 )
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Bio-Refining Question 1

• How many times thinner than a human hair is a
  Nanocrystalline cellulose particle?

8,000 times thinner than a human hair
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Bio-Refining Question 2

• From what
• process stream
• can lignin be extracted?

From the black liquor created in the chemical
pulp process
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Bio-Refining Question 3

• Name one of the
• products that can be manufactured using the
  lignin extracted from black-liquor?

Carbon fibres, Carbon Black, others
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Bio-Refining Question 4

• Who are the two leading companies in the field of
  gasification?

Nexterra And EnerKem
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Bio-Refining Question 5

• Name 3 types
• of fuel that can be
• derived in the
• bio-refining process?

Bio-ethanol, bio-diesel and syngas
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Key Messages Question 1

• What can you do to promote getting more value
  from the forest?

Group Discussion
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Key Messages Question 2

• Does anything you currently do make it harder for
  industry to extract more value from the forest?

Any other views?
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Key Messages Question 3

• Given what you have heard today - what role
  should the Ministry of Forests and Range
• play in fostering this industry?

Any other feedback?
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Key Messages Question 4

• What will you do
• differently or think differently as a result of
  todays presentations?

Group Discussion
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Key Messages Question 5

• What intrigued you the most from the
  presentations you heard today and why?

Anybody Else ?
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FOREST PRODUCTS JEOPARDY
Special Thanks To FP Innovations
Forintek Paprican