Grants and Contributions:

Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year. (2017-2018 to 2018-2019)

Towel products is a rapidly growing and strategic market where Canadian industries play a major role inx000D
providing raw materials, manufacturing and developing new technologies that add value to the products. Forx000D
2016, the towel products represented $1.7 Billion in revenue for the Canadian industries and the growthx000D
projections are 1.5% for 2017. Despite the fact that these products have been produced and commercialized forx000D
many decades, our understanding of how towel properties are linked to the manufacturing process and itsx000D
microstructure is still very limited. Therefore, fundamental understanding of the towel products that will bex000D
obtained with this project will lead to the elimination of costly trial-and-error process optimization and increasex000D
the competitiveness of Canadian tissue industry.x000D
The proposed research engagement with FPInnovattions, Canada is on understanding mechanics of paper towelx000D
products using a combination of modeling techniques and experiments on commercial products. This proposalx000D
is intended to form a basis for long term research program on mechanics of towel products with FPI andx000D
possible other paper manufacturers from Canada. Successful completion of this ENGAGE research with FPIx000D
Canada is expected to lead to a long term research program in untangling the complexities of the towelx000D
products and making the underlying science and technology available to Canadian industries in the competitivex000D
market of towel products.