Montreal – February 4, 2­­­­­019 — Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) and FPInnovations signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on January 13, at the Transportation Research Board annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

From February 4 to 7, Montréal will be hosting Paperweek Canada 2019 and Biofor International 2019.

Most of us have done it at one point—leave a take-out restaurant or café with our order in a plastic bag or in a polystyrene (PS) foam container, but times are changing and more consumers are willing to adapt their habits in the interest of protecting the environment.

FPInnovations is currently supporting the first industrial implementation of the continuous precision drying technology.

The complexities of bleach plant chemistry sometimes lead to severe bleachability issues and increased costs.

History was made as FPInnovations' transportation division PIT Group, Transport Canada, Auburn University, and Minimax Express Transportation collaborated to perform Canada's first ever on-road commercial vehicle platoon trial.

FPInnovations attended the 13th annual Vancouver Island Safety Conference held in Nanaimo, British Columbia on September 29, 2018.

With the upswing in the construction sector in Canada and the United States, the supply of chips produced by Quebec sawmills is greater than the demand, creating large surpluses in various regions of the province.

FPInnovations is proud to announce the adherence of a new Bioproducts member, BillerudKorsnäs, which invests into research and development in advanced packaging.

FPInnovations was very proud to welcome a record number of participants to its Pulp, Paper and Bioproducts course at its Pointe-Claire headquarters.

Fibre-supply operations are an increasingly key aspect of the forest industry and the recent signing of a collaborative partnership between FPInnovations and University of British Columbia associate professor in the department of forest resources management, Dominik Roeser,...

When a super-calendered paper used for high-quality colour printing developed a skipped dot issue, the company using the paper at one of their mills turned to FPInnovations to determine the cause of the problem and develop a solution.

The first International Lignin Conference, organized by PAPTAC, in partnership with FPInnovations, West Fraser – Hinton Pulp and Alberta Innovates, was held September 18-20, 2018 at the Alberta Innovates/InnoTech Alberta facilities in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Scierie Bois d'Or aims to develop the market for red pine in Abitibi-Témiscamingue

FPInnovations has completed another successful Near-Neutral Brightening (NNB) technology application at a kraft mill in Pennsylvania. This latest implementation marks the sixth application of FPInnovations' patented bleaching process in pulp and paper mills across North America.

The second edition of the WOODRISE World Congress on mid- and high-rise wood buildings will be held in Canada, in historic Quebec City, from September 30 to October 3, 2019.

FPInnovations is pleased to announce the renewal of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Forest Growers Research (FGR) of New Zealand to widen the scope of their information exchange in the area of steep slope harvesting,...

As consumers, we can appreciate the softness of tissue products that are increasingly available on the market such as ultra-soft bath and facial tissues.

Networking is an investment in business development and a recently published paper on tensile force monitoring in steep slope harvesting jointly written by FPInnovations' steep slope initiative (SSI) scientists and researchers at an Italian university exemplifies that golden rule.

FPInnovations' paper and consumer products group is leading research to quantify base tissue sheet variations and the presence of defects, then relate them to converting efficiency, with an eye to minimizing defects in the tissue making process.

Images of the accumulation of plastic waste adversely impacting the environment, wildlife and humans have gone viral across media. The message is clear: change is necessary.