Forest Bioproducts Research Institute

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Bangor Metro Article on the interview with Dr. Hemant Pendse.

This opportunity to utilize biomass wood for polymers in leading consumer products is an important new strategic direction for our efforts at the University of Maine.” The Forest Bioproducts Research Institute (FBRI) is now active in two Sustainable Bioplastics projects in collaboration with consortia of private companies and academic collaborators to conduct joint research and […]

“This unique $250,000 pilot scale wood extraction facility was made possible by the NSF EPSCoR grant that helped us scale-up our technologies so business folks can get design data at industrially relevant scale of operations.” says Hemant Pendse, chair of UMaine’s Chemical and Biological Engineering Department and managing director of the university’s Forest Bioproducts Research Institute. […]

The University of Maine is part of a recently announced collaboration with New Hampshire-based Itaconix LLC, which has received a $1.8 million research grant from the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Agriculture through the Joint Biomass Research and Development Initiative.The award, announced at UNH, will fund efforts by Itaconix, in partnership with […]

ORONO, Maine – Reducing the country’s dependence on petroleum-based products has become a priority and it’s something that University of Maine analytical chemist Martin Lawoko works toward achieving every day as part of UMaine’s Forest Bioproducts Research Institute. Recently, he published a 68-page book about his research entitled “Lignin Carbohydrate Complexes in Softwood and Chemical […]

The “Forest Bioproducts Research Institute,” funded by the National Science Foundation, has a goal to “provide strategic programs and opportunities that will solidify and strengthen Maine’s R&D capacity and competitiveness in the area of forest bioproducts research.” For more information on the EPSCoR awards process go tohttp://umaine.edu/epscor/ 2007 EPSCoR Grant Partners Maine Center for Toxicology […]

With a three-year, $712,000 award from the U.S. Department of Energy, University of Maine chemical engineers Peter van Walsum and Clay Wheeler are conducting research to convert pulp mill and marine algae processing plant by-products into high-quality biofuel. Hardwood extract from the kraft pulping process and seaweed by-products from the extraction of carrageenan, a natural […]