Ensis’ award winning SilviScan® technology has been installed at a leading Canadian research and technology institute in Quebec City to deliver state-of-the-art wood and fibre analysis on a global scale.
Ensis scientist and inventor of the SilviScan system, Dr Rob Evans, says the cutting-edge technology was commissioned in time for the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada’s (Paprican’s) official launch of EvaluTree – Canada's service provider for the technology.
“SilviScan will enable EvaluTree to work within the global network of wood quality experts, including Australia and Europe,” Dr Evans says.
SilviScan offers a fast, cost-effective and non-destructive wood analysis service for forest growers and users.
It can help determine the optimum and most valuable end-use of a wide range of wood types and can predict paper properties or the strength of sawn timber from tree structure, all from an easily prepared tree core sample.
The SilviScan technology will be used in conjunction with a suite of technologies including the most advanced confocal microscopy, environmental scanning electron microscopes, advanced FT infrared and Raman spectrometers and laser-induced breakdown spectrometry.
Dr Evans says Ensis is working in partnership with Paprican to improve our understanding of wood fibres, which will bring increased value to the forest and forest products industry.
Ensis, is a world leader in forest and forest industries, a science collaboration between CSIRO in Australia and Scion in New Zealand.
EvaluTree is an initiative of Paprican – a leading not-for-profit research and technology institute, and a division of the newly-formed FP Innovations.
Further Information:
Rob Evans, Ensis 03 9545 2367
0407 922 274 (mob)