Upcycling Wood Waste – Innovations, Partnerships, and Strategic Assessment

Client success details

FutureBridge experts helped the client identify suitable collaboration partners for technology licensing or business partners to establish a production plant in the target geography. The goal was to enhance waste valorization by upcycling wood waste into valuable products. It facilitated a deeper understanding of the key techno-economic determinants across different technological pathways. The study addressed several vital business inquiries, such as:

Amid growing sustainability trends, transforming wood waste into functional products is gaining traction. Identifying the ideal technological pathway and securing the right partnership is pivotal for such ventures.

What are the breakthrough technologies emphasizing nutrient recovery, energy efficiency, and monitoring/control in water treatment? Who stands out among startups in this technological domain, and which among them present partnership opportunities for the client? Through a review of recent IP and patent filings over the last seven years, what innovative concepts have surfaced across industries?

What we covered:

• Innovation Over a Decade: Detailed scan of innovation trends over the previous ten years, pinpointing origins across various geographies, including EU, US, Canada, among others.
• IP Landscape: Profiling proprietary IP stakeholders, bifurcating them into corporate entities, academic research institutes, and individual patent filers.
• Technological Breakdown: Exploring distinct upcycled product production technologies and their classification into primary categories such as thermochemical, biochemical, among others.
• Competitive Intelligence: A granular understanding of players producing upcycled products from wood feedstocks, especially within regions of interest, and conducting a techno-economic assessment to underline prime partnership prospects.
• Geo-technological Insights: A panoramic view of the technology landscape shifts across countries, emphasizing wood waste upcycling, and presenting a cohesive report on technology maturity stages.

What we delivered:

• Foresight on changing technology landscape for different countries in upcycled products from wood waste.
• Technology maturity levels of all wood waste to upcycled products conversion technologies.
• Key wood-based feedstock and valuable end-products in upcycling process.
• Suitable players for technology licensing, offering advisory insights.

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