InTechFibres enables mutualising fundamental to applied research efforts around essential themes common to lignocellulosic materials , their derivatives, their production and their use.

Description of InTechFibres competencies:

• Forestry management and wood logistics, including woodyard management

• Intra and inter-tree variability of wood and pulp quality for softwoods and hardwoods

• Wood-Process and Process-Pulp relationships in terms of wood and pulp quality

• Pulping and bleaching processes (chemical, semi-chemical, high-yield processes)

• Panelboard processes (particles and fibres-based panelboards, insulating products)

• Lignocellulosic materials (wood and annual plants), fibres, pulp and panels characterisation

• Impact of wood species mixes in the manufacture of fibres

• Development of processes based on new technologies (bivis, ozone, biotechnologies, )

• Understanding of fibre separation mechanisms from wood matrix in different processes

• Fractionation and cleaning of fibres

• Impact of processes on the environment

• Extraction of molecules from lignocellulosics (green chemistry): hemicelluloses, bioactive molecules, lignin,

• Functionalization/grafting onto lignocellulosic fibres in aqueous medium

• Manufacture of micro- and nano-objects from lignocellulosic materials

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