Research Creating Manufacturing Opportunities
In 2016, APPTI published a set of technology roadmaps focused on energy, natural resource efficiency and new bio-based products. Support from its member companies, a grant from the National Institute of Science and Technology, and cooperation with its university partners and affiliates made it possible. Following the completion of the roadmaps, APPTI member companies and partners have provided funding for 13 projects that together with other sources has totaled $3.75 million.
In addition, the Department of Energy has funded approximately $3MM in SBIR grants to small businesses for various projects to address topics from our Cellulose Nanomaterials roadmap. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Tennessee, and the University of Maine (UMaine) have been granted $20 million in U.S. federal funding to create bio-based 3D material for large-scale additive manufacturing. Many of the technical challenges being addressed in this program were called out in the Nanocellulose Roadmap and subsequent APPTI sponsored workshop.
Finally, DOE has also funded projects valued at $3.5 million for paper drying efficiency improvement at the Center for Advanced Research in Drying and $2.8 million for drying research and development at the University of Minnesota.
In total, since 2016, over $30 million in public and private funds have been or are being spent to address the challenges identified in the roadmaps.
For further information on each initiative, click the links below:
Net Zero Road Map
Black Liquor Concentration
Next-Generation Pulping
Delivering a Drier Sheet to the paper machine Dryer Section
Reuse of Process Effluents
Cellulosic Nanomaterials
Packaging Testing
In addition, the Department of Energy has funded approximately $3MM in SBIR grants to small businesses for various projects to address topics from our Cellulose Nanomaterials roadmap. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Tennessee, and the University of Maine (UMaine) have been granted $20 million in U.S. federal funding to create bio-based 3D material for large-scale additive manufacturing. Many of the technical challenges being addressed in this program were called out in the Nanocellulose Roadmap and subsequent APPTI sponsored workshop.
Finally, DOE has also funded projects valued at $3.5 million for paper drying efficiency improvement at the Center for Advanced Research in Drying and $2.8 million for drying research and development at the University of Minnesota.
In total, since 2016, over $30 million in public and private funds have been or are being spent to address the challenges identified in the roadmaps.
For further information on each initiative, click the links below:
Net Zero Road Map
Black Liquor Concentration
Next-Generation Pulping
Delivering a Drier Sheet to the paper machine Dryer Section
Reuse of Process Effluents
Cellulosic Nanomaterials
Packaging Testing