ABDC and its partners are committed to providing clients with scientific and engineering services related to the design, scale-up and development of fibre processing to drive the biomaterial economy. ABDC facilitates the transition from concept to commercialization, and provides an integrated approach to innovation and the realization of opportunities.
ABDC provides clients with fibre processing facilities to enable businesses to begin changing the biomaterial economy. Processing forestry and agricultural fibres into biomass is a pursuit the ABDC fosters. With the capacity to process a wide variety of wood and agri-fibre at the pilot-plant level, the ABDC facilitates industry development by integrating and implementing the provinces expertise towards development of the biomaterial industry.
ABDC, working with Van Dommele, purchased and commissioned a Van Dommele system that has the capacity to process bast fibres such as flax, hemp or kenaf. A bast fibre plant is composed of a wooden core surrounded by fibres. The processing unit separates the wooden core from the fibres and prepares both for further treatment. At the end of the Van Dommele line, the fibres are ready to be processed into insulation material, structural or non-structural boards (automotive and furniture industry), or composites (in combination with or replacing glass fibres). The wooden core can be applied as stable bedding for horses or as construction material. The installation of this system exemplifies the work of ABDC to propel the biomaterial industry in Alberta to new heights and make Alberta the centre for fibre processing in North America. The Van Dommele fibre processing system is located in Vegreville at Tech Futures, an ABDC partner.
ABDC is hosting a crop walk in Vegreville on July 27, 2011. Contact Ruth DeSantis at 403-948-8516 to find out more information about this and other events.
ABDC is a Government of Alberta initiative supported by partners Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures and Sustainable Resource Development.
Contact:
Ruth DeSantis
403-948-8516
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www.Albertabiomaterials.ca
