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Energy Reduction in Mechanical Pulping

December 17, 2018

Collaboration Case Study: Energy Reduction in Mechanical Pulping Overview The Advanced Fibre Processing Lab is collaborating with fourteen pulp and paper industry partners and NSERC CRD to develop a 5-year, $4 million program to reduce total pulp and paper energy consumption by at least 20%. High energy costs and strong competition have forced many pulp […]

: Patrick Pan receives the 2017 Wood Award first place prize from Prof. David DeVallance, President of the Forest Products Society, at their 71st Annual Convention in Starkville, MS, USA, on June 27, 2017.

Patrick Pan wins Forest Products Society 2017 Wood Award First Place Prize

July 25, 2017

  Patrick Pan, a Master of Applied Science student in the Renewable Resources Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was presented with the 2017 Wood Award first place prize by the Forest Products Society at their 71st Annual Convention in Starkville, Mississippi, which ran from June 26-28, 2017. The award, which includes a presentation […]

UBC MECH researchers plumb the secrets of tissue paper

UBC MECH researchers plumb the secrets of tissue paper

August 30, 2016

  Canada’s tissue manufacturers are now much closer to producing the perfect paper, thanks to new UBC research. A team working with UBC mechanical engineering professors Sheldon Green and Srikanth Phani have created what is likely the first complete mathematical model of creping, the crinkling process that helps make tissue paper soft and resilient. “The […]

Marcus Wallengberg Foundation Invites Mechanical Engineering Student to Sweden

October 31, 2013

Mechanica Engineering Graduate student and Pulp and Paper Centre researcher Ata Sina has been selected to attend the Marcus Wallenberg Award Ceremony, Symposium and Session for Young Researchers. The prestigious Marcus Wallenberg Prize is meant to recognize, encourage and simulate pathbreaking scientific achievements which contribute significantly to broadening knowledge and to technical development within the […]

James Olson, Director of the Pulp and Paper Centre

FPInnovations grants fellowship to UBC professor developing bio-economy strategy for BC

October 30, 2013

  FPInnovations has awarded the FPInnovations Professorship in Pulp and Paper Engineering to Professor James Olson, director of the Pulp and Paper Centre (PPC) at the University of British Columbia, for his leadership in helping to position British Columbia’s pulp and paper sector to prosper in the emerging bio-economy. Olson is working closely with industry […]

Pulp industry energy research gets $2.7M in funding

Pulp industry energy research gets $2.7M in funding

September 24, 2013

The University of British Columbia’s Pulp and Paper Centre (PPC) has received $2.7 million to reduce energy and greenhouse gas emissions of one of B.C.’s largest industries by 50 per cent before 2020. James Olson of UBC’s Pulp and Paper Centre, which received a $2.7 million grant. Photo: Don Erhardt The grant, funded by the […]