ABSTRACT
The forest biorenery concept has attracted widespread interest recently as the forest sector looks for new products and processes to improve the returns on wood consumed and capital invested. Much work has been focused on kraft mills, but opportunities are also needed for mechanical pulp mills. In the last few years, a huge number of potential approaches have been proposed, and there is now a need for some structure in the search for solutions. A large number of presentations and articles have described high-level [1-5] or detailed potential projects [6]. This chapter tries to summarize briey the rst 18 months of effort, from April 2007 to September 2008, in the so-called Transformative Technologies program carried out by FPInnovations with funding from Natural Resources Canada and the Canadian forest sector. Questions remain, and while the detailed scientic and engineering results are still to be conrmed, the high-level objectives presented here are not likely to change much as the work progresses.
