{"id":702,"date":"2009-11-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-268\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:10","slug":"innovation-anthology-268","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2009\/11\/17\/innovation-anthology-268\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #268:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 268.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nOSB or oriented strand board was first invented by the Alberta Research Council.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNow the Council has introduced a new generation of panelboard called OSSB.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOnly this time instead of using wood chips, the structural board is manufactured from wheat straw.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWayne Wasylciw is the technical director of the ARC\u2019s forest products business unit.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nWAYNE WASYLCIW: <\/b><em>Well unfortunately straw is a tube, not a strand when it\u2019s made by mother nature.  So  if you try to take a tube and apply a resin to all the surfaces and then try to form it into a panel, well you\u2019re only getting resin on half the strand, because when you press it together, of course, the inside of the tube doesn\u2019t get any resin.  We\u2019ve developed the technology here to split the straw tube, make the straw tube as long as possible.  We can put it through the same processes as we do with wood OSB in the manufacturing process.   We can take the material, run it through the same blending machines, run it through the same mat forming devices, run it through the same press with similar resins.  And we\u2019ve got a product that\u2019s equivalent and in some cases superior to to wood based OSB. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWayne Wasylciw says a Dutch company has licensed the   wheat straw technology to build the first OSSB plant in China.\n <\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nThanks today to the <b>Alberta Research Council.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLearn more at InnovationAnthology.com<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arc.ab.ca\">Alberta Research Council<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEstablished as the first provincial research organization in Canada, the Alberta Research Council is 85 years old. The Alberta Research Council (ARC) develops and commercializes technologies to give customers a competitive advantage. A leader in innovation, ARC provides solutions globally to the energy, life sciences, agriculture, environment, forestry and manufacturing sectors.<br \/>\nARC performs about five per cent of the roughly $1.5 billion in R&amp;D done in Alberta each year, and generates revenues of approximately $84 million per year.  ARC operates from five sites across the province in Edmonton, Calgary, Vegreville and Devon and employs more than 600 highly-skilled people.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In January 2010, under the new Alberta Innovation Framework, the Alberta Research Council was restructured and incorporated into the new provincial agency  Alberta Innovates Technology Futures.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/ARC2006_logo_with_-0004_12050.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02009-11-17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OSB or oriented strand board was first invented by the <b>Alberta Research Council.<\/b>  Now the Council has introduced a new generation of panelboard called<b> OSSB. <\/b>Only this time instead of using wood chips, the structural board is manufactured from <b>wheat straw. <\/b> ARC&#8217;s forest products specialist <b>Wayne Wasylciw<\/b> explains. <em>(Alberta Research Council).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,9,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alberta-research-council","category-environment","category-forests","category-technology","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/268wayne_wasylciw.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4586,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/4586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}