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.
Deadwood Innovations is transforming low-quality forest residue waste and damaged timber into low-emission, commercially viable wood products.
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.
