Award for scrimber
29.12.2022
The Office for Forests and Natural Hazards of the Canton of Bern launched the innovation competition "Ideas Pool KliWa" and awarded prizes to particularly promising projects for a climate-smart forest of the future. Scrimber, a spin-off of Timbatec, won the first prize. Here you can find exciting reports from the Berner Zeitung and the trade press.
The innovation competition "Ideas Pool KliWa" was launched to make visible and promote the wealth of ideas and innovative strength of the industry. After all, the forest ecosystem is facing major changes and challenges in the face of climate change, and new ideas are needed to solve them. Scrimber won the first prize.
Government Councillor Christoph Ammann and Co-Director Anja Simma with the happy winners at the award ceremony of the Innovation competition "Ideas Pool KliWa". Pictures: Office of Forests and Natural Hazards
The award is enormously important for Scrimber. Besides the proud prize money
of Fr. 50'000.- the canton supports us in the implementation of a pilot plant. Equally
important is the proof that Scrimber is widely recognized as a groundbreaking
technology for a climate-friendly forest. By awarding Scrimber the prize, the broad-based jury of experts from the timber industry and government showed how important the technology is for the modern timber industry and for a climate-friendly construction sector.
The prize money will help us to complete the many exciting tasks until a first scrimber plant can be built.
What is Scrimber?
Scrimber is a process that converts low-grade wood assortments into building products. It involves rolling wood into fiber strands and converting them into raw boards for cross-laminated timber panels and other building products.
Rolling logs
Tree trunks are passed through several pairs of rollers and thus shredded into individual wood chips. The fiber strands remain intact.
Glueing chaff
The wooden chaffs are dried and enriched with glue. The use of a bio-based adhesive is aimed for.
Production of raw plates
The chaff is pressed into Scrimber CSC raw slabs in a continuous press.
Production
Building products
Glulam and cross laminated timber manufacturers process the Scrimber raw boards into finished building products.
Replacement for reinforced concrete
Scrimber can be used to create columns, beams and slabs for load-bearing areas. They replace reinforced concrete.
The first building products are expected to be launched in 2026. They will play an important role in the decarbonization of the construction industry. Further information on www.scrimber.com
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