Scrimber at the Forestry Fair in Lucerne
21.08.2023
Successful exhibition days at the forestry fair in Lucerne. Our start-up Scrimber had many exciting conversations with wood-loving trade fair visitors. The feedback on the technology and the arguments for Scrimber are convincing. Many thanks for the great interest and the numerous visits.
We all know that we emit far too much fossil CO₂. To compensate for this, we try to recapture and store some of it with complex technologies and expensive machines. The forest does the same. Unlike the machines, however, it does so silently and free of charge. Do you know how much CO₂ a tree absorbs during its growth and stores in its branches, trunk and root system? Up to twenty tonnes! That is roughly equivalent to the CO₂ emissions of 150,000 car kilometres. The Swiss forest thus relieves our air of ten million tonnes of CO₂ every year. But have we made good use of the benefits of the forest so far? After all, when a tree burns or rots, the same amount is released again.
Absorbing CO₂ and turning it into building products
Scrimber is a new way to produce building products from CO₂ bound in trees. Whole trees are rolled and processed into building products - each cubic metre of scrimber therefore contains one tonne of CO₂. When used in buildings, the greenhouse gas remains bound in the long term. Buildings and cities thus become CO₂ reservoirs. This is an important contribution to climate protection.
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In this brochure (only in German) you will find exciting background information on Scrimber, insights into the ongoing research and an outlook on how large-scale Scrimber plants will be produced in Switzerland in the future.
Scrimber is being further developed by the Bern University of Applied Sciences and other research partners on the basis of developments in Australia in the 1970s and experience with bamboo. This will bring new large-format and low-cost Scrimber panels to market maturity.
It is planned to build an industrial pilot plant in the canton of Bern and probably in Meridian, Mississippi (USA). Later, a large-scale industrial plant will follow. In this issue, we offer insights into the development of Scrimber and give an outlook on the first building products.