Reference number : 172-2018-2019-Q3-916401, amendment number : , agreement type : C, recipient legal name : La Crete Sawmills Ltd., recipient country : CA, recipient province : AB, recipient city : La Crete|La Crete, recipient postal code : T0H 2H0, program name english : Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms, program name french : Programme d’aide à la recherche industrielle – Contributions aux entreprises, program purpose english : The purpose of IRAP Contributions to Firms is to support research, development, adoption and/or adaptation of innovative or technology-driven new or improved products, services or processes in Canada up to their commercialization, program purpose french : Le PARI, par le biais des Contributions aux entreprises, vise à appuyer la recherche, le développement, l’adaptation et/ou l’adoption au Canada de produits, de services ou de processus novateurs ou axés sur des technologies nouvelles ou améliorées, et ce jusqu’à leur commercialisation, agreement title english : Development of a system to convert waste bark into useful energy, agreement title french : Développement d'un système permettant de convertir les déchets d'écorce en énergie utile, agreement number : 916401, agreement value : 50000.0, agreement start date : 2018-12-01, agreement end date : 2019-06-30, description english : La Crete Sawmills is putting a new process in place to convert bark, which represents a significant waste stream, into useful energy.

This is a process improvement project by placing a technologically advanced a leading-edge biomass burner (high efficiency) into Sawmills production.

The new burner is 20MM BTU and it will allow them to use bark as fuel. Bark is traditionally waste material because of its high moisture content., description french : Développement d'un système permettant de convertir les déchets d'écorce en énergie utile, expected results english : The purpose of IRAP Contributions to Firms is to support research, development, adoption and/or adaptation of innovative or technology-driven new or improved products, services or processes in Canada up to their commercialization, expected results french : Le PARI, par le biais des Contributions aux entreprises, vise à appuyer la recherche, le développement, l’adaptation et/ou l’adoption au Canada de produits, de services ou de processus novateurs ou axés sur des technologies nouvelles ou améliorées, et ce jusqu’à leur commercialisation, additional information english : nan, additional information french : nan, owner organization : nrc-cnrc, owner organization title : National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada