2024年4月16日,全球著名的建材跨国公司-加拿大林产品公司 (简称加福,Canfor)董事长Don Kayne 先生和执行副总裁David Calabrigo先生一行三人莅临我院参观交流,这是加福公司高层第三次来我院访问交流。期间,我院院长、国际木材科学院院士王建和(Brad Wang)博士,营销副总阎新宇(Frank Yan)和运营副总王飞飞等热情接待了来宾,并带来宾们参观了我院中试实验基地,中试生产线,样品室,加福公司木材在我院承接项目中的实际应用场景。此后,在会议室进行了座谈交流,我院向来宾们介绍了公司的新产品/新技术的研发和应用情况,并现场参观了我院开发的超低能耗CLT混合结构示范建筑小区及木结构乡村振兴示范基地。来宾们对我院取得的研究成果,特别是在建材新产品开发和市场推广应用方面的努力表示高度的赞赏,表示要与我院在加材供应,SPF和南方松 CLT,竹木复合CLT和加材户外新产品开发和市场推广应用等方面进行全面的合作。双方商定,我院和加福公司实质性的战略合作协议将于今年下半年在温哥华正式签订。
加福(Canfor)公司是高价值低碳林产品的全球领导者,产品包括规格锯材、特种木材、工程木制品、纸浆和纸张、木屑颗粒和绿色能源。总部位于加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华市,在加拿大、美国和欧洲的多元化运营平台上拥有超过55家工厂。公司拥有瑞典最大的私有锯木厂Vida AB 70%的股份,还拥有Canfor Pulp Products Inc. 54.8%的股份,Canfor Pulp Products Inc.是全球最大的北方漂白针叶木浆生产商之一,也是高性能牛皮纸的领先生产商。加福(Canfor)股票在多伦多证券交易所交易,代码为CFP。加福(Canfor)的产品从2000年开始进入中国市场,在过去的二十多年时间里供应了超过1000万立方米的规格木材制品(需要10万公顷森林提供)到中国,为保护中国的森林资源以及减少碳排放方面做出了贡献。加福(Canfor)曾出资最早在中国创办了木结构培训学校(与上海同济大学及上海应用技术学院合作),促进了中国现代木结构建筑技术的发展。中国市场是加福(Canfor)公司主要的亚洲战略市场,加福(Canfor)公司的意图是在“一个亚洲”战略下,把中国作为亚洲的核心关键国家一起发展,并为中国的可持续发展做出贡献,减少二氧化碳排放,进而实现全球可持续发展。
Canfor is a global leader in high-value, low-carbon forest products, including specification boards, specialty woods, engineered wood products, pulp and paper, wood pellets and green energy. Headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the company operates more than 55 facilities across a diversified operating platform in Canada, the United States and Europe. The company owns 70 percent of Vida AB, Sweden's largest privately owned sawmill, and 54.8 percent of Canfor Pulp Products Inc. Is one of the world's largest producers of northern bleached coniferous wood pulp and a leading producer of high performance kraft paper. Canfor shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol CFP.
Canfor's products have entered the Chinese market since 2000, and over the past two decades has supplied more than 10 million cubic meters of specification wood products (which require 100,000 hectares of forest) to China, contributing to the conservation of China's forest resources and the reduction of carbon emissions.
Canfor funded the first timber construction training school in China (in cooperation with Shanghai Tongji University and Shanghai Institute of Technology), which promoted the development of modern timber construction technology in China.
The Chinese market is a major strategic market in Asia. Canfor's intention is to develop together with China as a key core country in Asia under the "One Asia" strategy, and make contributions to China's development, reduce carbon dioxide emissions, and thus achieve global sustainable development.