Celluforce Builds Momentum Toward Commercial Production of Cellulose NanoCrystals

Celluforce Building Momentum Toward Commercial Production of Cellulose NanoCrystals 

Celluforce, Montreal, Que., Canada, a clean technology company, reports that it is seeing growing interest in its innovative green chemistry product called Cellulose NanoCrystals (CNC) and has recorded, over the first half of 2016, the largest CNC shipment volumes since the company's inception.  

"Over the past year, we have been actively developing several industry-specific applications featuring CelluForce NCCTM, a form of cellulose nanocrystals, which is produced in our Windsor plant. Three of these applications have now reached a high level of technical and commercial maturity and have been proven to provide cost benefits and sustained performance in the oil and gas, electronics, and plastics segments," said Sebastien Corbeil, president and CEO of CelluForce. "Our product development teams are extremely pleased to see CelluForce NCC now being used in full scale trials for final customer acceptance tests." 

With the current shipment volumes forecast, the company expects to deplete its CelluForce NCC inventory by mid-2017. The inventory depletion will pave the way for the company to start commercial production of CNC at its Windsor plant next year.

CelluForce notes that it has built a strong network of researchers with academic and industrial partners and continues to invest time and resources to develop, refine, and expand applications for CNC in key priority industrial markets. Beyond oil and gas, electronics, and plastics, some of these markets are adhesives, cement, paints and coatings, as well as personal and healthcare. 

Furthermore, as it progressively prepares for commercial production, CelluForce has revamped its digital platform and presence, with the underlying objective of developing a better understanding of its product, applications, and its innovative green technology capabilities. Its new brand image is meant to convey the innovative, versatile, and sustainable properties of CNC. 

CelluForce, whose shareholders are Domtar, FPInnovations, and Schlumberger, operates the world's largest CNC plant, capable of producing 300 metric tpy of CelluForce NCC, a high quality and dispersible form of CNC. More information is available online.