Lignin 2014 - Meeting on biosynthesis and utilization of lignin
Thursday, July 31, 2014 - 20:11

A conference on lignin biosynthesis and utilization will occur at the Umea Plant Centre in Umea Sweden August 24 - 28, 2014. Further information is available at the conference web site.

More recognition for Prof Philip Jessop
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 20:43

Prof Philip Jessop, last year honoured with an Eni Award from Italian oil and gas producer Eni, has recently had his work honoured closer to home by being nominated as one of the Globe and Mail’s “Innovators at Work”.

Congratulations to Prof Jessop for this well-earned recognition of his work.

Canada's first lignin plant
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 20:37

Canada’s first commercial lignin plant is under construction at the West Fraser Timber kraft pulp mill in Hinton, AB.

The plant will use the Lignoforce Technology developed by FPInnovations, one of Lignoworks industrial partners. More information about the project is available from West Fraser's press release announcing the project.

FIBRE 2014 annual conference
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 20:24

Lignoworks is one of five forestry-related NSERC Strategic Networks that make up FIBRE – Forest Innovation by Research and Education. In order to encourage networking across the networks and with the wider forestry community, FIBRE held its second annual meeting May 12 – 15 on the campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Graduate students and post-doctoral fellows are at the heart of FIBRE’s activities and the conference began with a student-organized session on job search skills.

Lignoworks goes to Sweden again
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 20:15

For the second year, a Lignoworks graduate student is among five students from the FIBRE network who will participate in the student symposium that accompanies the annual Wallenberg Prize Symposium in Stockholm, Sweden in September. The Wallenberg Prize recognizes scientific and technical achievements that have had significant impact on the global forest industry and is the forest industry’s most prestigious award.

The students were selected by a competitive process. Each network nominated two students, who made oral presentations on their work at the FIBRE annual meeting in Vancouver. The final five were chosen by a panel of judges.