TY  - GEN
T1  - Commercialisation of cereal straw based structural panels in North America
A1  - Wasylciw, Wayne
LA  - English
PB  - Forest Research Institute Malaysia
YR  - 2015
UL  - http://discoverylib.upm.edu.my/discovery/Record/oai:http:--agris.upm.edu.my:0-8639
AB  - Alberta Research Councils Forest Products Business Unit(ARC), has developed a variety of non-wood based panel technologies over the last seven years.  The most innovative and commercially promising of these technologies is a product coined by ARC as "Oriented Split Straw Board"  or "OSSB".  As the name implies, a board with structural properties equivalent to "OSSB" can be produced by splitting, gluing, orienting and hot-pressing cereal straw in a similar fashion as is done to make OSB.  OSSB technology was developed nearly six years ago however, it is only now that it is being introduced commercially.  Entreprenuers both inside and outside North America have secured licenses from ARC commercialise this technology.  This paper will discuss ARD`s OSSB technology and how structural panels can be made from straw.  The discussion will then turn to the challenges involved in commercialising this technology and some of the technical challenges encountered in coverting the technology into practice in an actual production facility.
KW  - MARKETING
KW  - CEREALS
KW  - STRAW
KW  - NONWOOD FOREST PRODUCTS
KW  - RICE STRAW
KW  - NORTH AMERICA
KW  - COMMERCIALISATION
KW  - CEREALE
KW  - PAILLE
KW  - PRODUIT FORESTIER NON LIGNEUX
KW  - PAILLE DE RIZ
KW  - AMERIQUE DU NORD
KW  - MERCADEO
KW  - CEREALES
KW  - PAJA
KW  - PRODUCTOS FORESTALES NO LENOSOS
KW  - PAJA DE ARROZ
ER  -