Dr. James Dooley, Chief Technology Officer of Forest Concepts, was the co-author of two of the three articles featured on the cover of the January 2013 issue of Biofuels, a leading peer reviewed science and engineering journal published in the U.K. The special focus issue on advanced feedstocks for advanced biofuels included ten articles and …
Forest Concepts, LLC, a small business in Auburn, Washington granted a license today to Mountain Pine Manufacturing, Inc., of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, for the exclusive right to manufacture, distribute and sell Engineered Wood-based Mulch within a five state area. Mountain Pine Manufacturing will be producing the engineered mulch from the tremendous supply of Beetle-Kill Pine …
Forest Concepts, LLC, a small business in Auburn, Washington was notified today that it was awarded an SBIR research grant in the highly competitive $11 million DOE program announced by U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman. Innovative research and technology grants up to $150,000 were given to approximately 70 small businesses out of a …
Forest Concepts has completed its USDA NIFA Small Business Innovative Research funded chipped and shredded biomass reprocessing project. The technologies developed during this project enables forest products industry professionals to reprocess low quality feedstocks into higher quality feedstocks to meet their wood fiber needs. See the final report of our presentation for more details.
Chief Technology Office Jim Dooley was among a select few non-DOE employees featured in a two-day workshop on biomass feedstock preprocessing at the Idaho National Laboratory August 23-24, 2011 and on a globally broadcast webinar “Transforming Biomass into Feedstock” on August 30, 2011. Dr. Dooley’s presentation covered our novel approach to production of woody biomass …
Today Forest Concepts received notice from the U.S. Patent Office of the issuance of the following patents: U.S. Patent No. 7,987,776, issue date August 2, 2011, entitled ENGINEERED WOODY BIOMASS BALING SYSTEM U.S. Patent No. 7,987,777, issue date August 2, 2011, entitled ENGINEERED TALL GRASS BIOMASS BALING SYSTEM Baling of hay and other agricultural crops …
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Scientists and engineers at the University of Washington’s biofuels and bioproducts laboratory in the School of Forest Resources are partnering with Forest Concepts, LLC, a bioenergy feedstock technology developer in Auburn, Washington, to evaluate the biochemical conversion efficiency of a new kind of woody biomass feedstock particle. The $80,000 grant to the UW is a …
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Forest Concepts, LLC announces their receipt of the formal notice of award from Walter M. Polansky, DOE SBIR/STTR Program Director, for Grant #10605905 supported by the Department of Energy Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and commencing in August 2010 for “Optimization and Low Energy Production of Woody Biomass Particles” (Phase II). Forest Concepts is …
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The USDA Small Business Innovation Research program awarded Forest Concepts with a two year $350,000 Phase II contract to advance the development of their technologies for reprocessing hog fuel and other chipped woody biomass to create clean streams of wood fiber and bark, while removing dirt, rock and other contaminants. The cost and yield of …
Today Forest Concepts LLC announced a minority equity investment in the company by Mountain West Helicopters LLC, Alpine, Utah. Bryan Burr, president and owner of Mountain West Helicopters, stated, “Over the past two years, Forest Concepts’ patented WoodStraw Erosion Control Mulch (ECM) has become an important treatment applied for erosion prevention on critical and sensitive …
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