Forest Bioproducts Research Institute

In three decades at the University of Maine, Hemant Pendse has consistently applied creativity and innovation in numerous research initiatives that have led to significant economic development opportunities for Maine and for industry. His energetic and effective leadership has been instrumental in these interdisciplinary research accomplishments. Pendse is the founding director of the Forest Bioproducts […]

  Dr. Pendse received the University of Maine Pulp and Paper Foundation’s Genco Award, 2012.   This annual award  recognizes a UMaine employee who supports the pulp and paper industry through research, innovative student recruitment, or teaching that inspires current engineering students. The award bears the name of its first recipient—long-time UMaine chemical engineering professor Joseph […]

         Technology Research Center (TRC) The University of Maine’s Forest Bioproducts Research Institute’s new Technology Research Center (TRC) validates, demonstrates, and helps commercialize developing fuel, chemical and advanced material technologies from forest bioproducts at an industrially relevant scale. It  provides wood suppliers and wood users the opportunity to collaborate with each other and with University […]

Student Success Stories – Lucas Ramos Contact: Meg Haskell, (207) 581-3766 Lucas Ramos is a long way from home. The 21-year-old chemical engineering student hails from Santos, Brazil, a metropolitan area with a population of about 1.5 million, located about an hour southeast of Sao Paolo. At the University of Maine, Ramos is on a […]

Collaborations-with-Chile

$150,000 Federal grant to create a new comprehensive data base

Raymond Obituary 11-15-11

The University of Maine’s Forest Bioproducts Research Institute is building a pilot-scale plant for manufacturing cellulose nanofibrils (CNF), a wood-based reinforcing material that is increasingly of interest to researchers worldwide looking for super-strong materials that could replicate synthetic plastics. The pilot plant, which is being funded by a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Forest […]

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FBRI’s research on the revolutionary and simple two steps  process  for turning wood into biofuel by Associate Professor Clay Wheeler was the subject of a REUTERS report. Biorefining Magazine The research is covered extensively by many media.  For detail stories please go to the following websites: Pakistan Today Portland TV station WMTW (Channel 8) Oil Price […]