Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to mention that we sent a slide deck to you. I will refer to it. I won't go through each slide, but I will refer to them, because some pictures are worth a thousand words. FPInnovations was born in that era of 2008 from the merger of four res

Natural Resources committee  In the case of those two premieres, what the federal government is doing is rather a premiere in Canada, whereby they accept the fact of going in to finance pre-commercial testing facilities. In the case of the nanocellulose with Domtar in Windsor, they facilitate about 50% of th

Natural Resources committee  Our competitors are Finland and Sweden. When it comes to bioproducts, FPInnovations is ranked first or second compared with those two countries. In terms of wood construction, our performance is lower than that of European countries, especially Austria. So we need to increase o

Natural Resources committee  I would say that the lack of Canadian equipment manufacturers is to blame when it comes to logging operations. That's the biggest problem. We have lost a lot of ground, both in terms of sawmills and machinery. That's one of the biggest challenges we face. In the area of wood pro

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. One of the issues with wood pellets in Canada, especially in Quebec and Ontario, is their cost. That high cost makes competition difficult. However, as long as European countries are subsidizing wood pellet production, it will only be profitable for those with lower w

Natural Resources committee  It will be announced in the next few days.

Natural Resources committee  That is complete. It was used at the Vancouver Olympics, and it won a world green-building architecture prize.

Natural Resources committee  Yes. We have a program with a few provinces and some of the industry looking at what we call “intelligent inventory”. One of the issues that the industry and the provincial governments have is the imprecision of inventory, and as a result, how much it is worth or how much less i

Natural Resources committee  One of the big things, as I was mentioning, is intelligent inventory, so that we know what we are harvesting and that we can choose the right tree to go to the right sawmill for the right product. That's obviously the logistical transportation aspect. On the transportation aspec

Natural Resources committee  On the policy aspect, I think the area where we're very fortunate, especially with some of the provinces, B.C. and Alberta, is the willingness to try different technology, like road safety and road construction. Those are policies. It is the same thing with Transport Canada accep

Natural Resources committee  In the case of the NCC plant, which is a joint venture of Domtar and FPInnovations, we are the only one in the world capable of producing a tonne of NCC a day. Yesterday there was an announcement of SDTC investing $4 million into the new product. The new product is going to be u

Natural Resources committee  In the case of NCC they are located in Windsor, in the Eastern Townships, which is about 150 kilometres out of Montreal.

Natural Resources committee  In the case of fire, three weeks ago the testing of cross laminated timber was done in a mechanical room at the NRC facility in Ottawa. A large representation from the Canadian firefighting associations was present. I just confirm what we are seeing, what David was saying. They a

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the invitation. I am very pleased to be here. We have circulated a document with pictures, and since a picture is worth a thousand words, I think it will promote discussion. I will start by saying who we are, what we are doing, and what is the impact on climate

Natural Resources committee  Within the research aspect, what we have been doing is putting value added to the pulp side especially. I'll give you three examples. We have a joint venture with Domtar for producing nanocrystalline cellulose. This is the only company in the world that produces this. It is used