Nov 13, 02:06 PM
DelTech Manufacturing Inc. is pleased to announce the commitment of R&D to a large economic diversification project involving multiple institutions. DelTech is in partnership with the University of Northern British Columbia, the College of New Caledonia, Western Economic Diversification and the Northern Development Initiative Trust in developing new technology to address critical process issues in the Forest Industry. The project duration is approximately one year, and started in the summer of 2008.
This project will ultimately make use of the unique properties of terahertz waves, based on new and emerging technology, and provide opportunities to see through wood and composite wood products probing physical properties and fibre structure. The technology will be applied in the forest products industry to increase mill efficiencies, with a first prototype expected to target the Oriented Strand Board industry. The technology is similar in many ways to X-ray technologies, but does not have the associated health risks that X-ray technologies carry, and has superior inherent imaging capabilities for wood fibre.
Pictured are Dian Wang (left), who is working on the project after recently graduating from UBC’s electrical engineering program, and Dr. Matt Reid (right), Phd in Electrical Engineering and professor at UNBC.
