Carbon Management

TI’Oh upgrader

THE PROBLEM

Across the country, and particularly in BC, natural disturbances have severely impacted forest health. The availability of healthy, high-quality saw logs for primary lumber production has steadily declined for decades. The current state involves selling the resulting lower-quality lumber at low prices and utilizing residues in processes that generate substantial emissions intense processes.

However, there is a significant opportunity to achieve cost reduction and higher values, while simultaneously mitigating emissions, through Deadwood Innovation’s fiber upgrading process.

THE SOLUTION

Deadwood has partnered with Nak’azdli Development Corporation to reclaim timber that has been damaged by mountain pine beetle, spruce beetle, underutilized species, and wildfire. This timber will be transformed into commercially available value-added engineered wood products using a patent pending thermo-chemical process.  

Deadwood’s proprietary technology modifies the characteristics of the wood fibre, converting the raw material from low-quality waste and low-value lumber, into a high-value finished product with enhanced strength, stability, and hardness.

This is a first-to-market process globally that offers a low-emission, economically viable alternative for managing and utilizing forest residues while delivering positive social, economic, and environmental benefits, particularly to Indigenous communities.  

PROJECT STATUS
Active
PROJECT CATEGORY
Carbon Management
FUNDING RECIPIENT
Deadwood Innovations
CICE FUNDING AMOUNT
$1,000,000
PROJECT VALUE
$32,864,000
  • "Safely and effectively developing an industrial hard-tech from the shop, to a pilot, to commercial demo is very capital intense. The flexible and non-dilutive funding from CICE is an essential growth enabler in our path to commercialization. We can maintain a core focus on de-risking the commercial techno-economics and strengthen our academic partnership, without compromising our Indigenous partner values or precious resources."
    Owen Miller, President of Deadwood Innovations VISIT DEADWOOD INNOVATIONS