La Crete Sawmills Ltd.

$50,000.00 CAD

≈ 8 months of average Canadian pay
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2018-2019
Agreement period
December 1, 2018 – October 31, 2019
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2018-2019-Q3-916401

Published purpose

La Crete Sawmills is putting a new process in place to convert bark, which represents a significant waste stream, into useful energy. This is a process improvement project by placing a technologically advanced a leading-edge biomass burner (high efficiency) into Sawmills production. The new burner is 20MM BTU and it will allow them to use bark as fuel. Bark is traditionally waste material because of its high moisture content.

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