SEREX's mission is to develop solutions and sustainable practices to support innovation and technology transfer for companies involved in forest product processing to enable them to forge a solid foothold in future markets.
SEREX offers services in the wood processing, sustainable chemicals, renewable energy and eco-construction sectors. Its team of competent and dynamic professionals is supported by cutting-edge laboratory equipment. Its primary areas of activity are:
- processing of wood and other forest products
- chemical bioproducts from forest biomass
- biomass energy and thermochemical conversion
- performance tests of wood and derived materials
- bio-based building materials
- monitoring energy efficiency and air quality of buildings.
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Patrick Dallain
General Manager
418 629-2288, ext. 222
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Papa Niokhor Diouf
Scientific Director
418 629-2288, ext. 230
25, rue Armand-Sinclair, porte 5 Amqui G5J 1K3 418 629-2288
General Expertises
- Circular economy
- Construction
- Design
- Ecology and biodiversity
- Forestry
- Future resources
- Renewable energies
- Sustainable chemistry
- Sustainable development
Specific expertises
- Eco-construction
- Renewable energies
- Sustainable chemistry
- Wood processing
Areas of intervention
- Architecture
- Bioproducts
- Biotechnology
- Chemical industry
- Chemistry and green chemistry
- Composites
- Construction
- Environment
- Future resources
- Materials and advanced materials
- Northern climate
- Renewable energies
- Wood processing
Examples of applications
- Development and application of treatment products with low environmental impact (preservation, fireproofing, densification)
- Development of bio-based adhesives for the panel and engineered wood industry
- Development of engineered wood products (structural and appearance)
- Development of extraction processes adapted to Québec species
- Development of thermal and acoustic insulation made from lignocellulosic fibers for buildings
- Packaging and characterization of sawn co-products for energy applications
Equipments
- Burn test bench (logs, pellets)
- Chemistry and microbiology laboratories
- Heat treatment and impregnation units
- Laboratory of analysis of the building envelope (thermal and acoustic)
- Panel and composite manufacturing laboratory
- Pyrolysis unit
- Quality control laboratory (mechanical properties, dimensional stability)
- Wood dryer and prototyping equipment