Development of new technologies for the pulp and paper industry

由于新兴的电子商务和来自巴西、印度尼西亚和中国等国家日益激烈的竞争，加拿大纸浆和造纸工业正面临挑战，这些国家依赖廉价的劳动力成本和/或原材料。为了保持健康和竞争力，该行业需要在开发新的增值产品和/或改进制造工艺方面进行创新。倪永浩博士目前的提案解决了这些需求。在过去的24年里，他建立了一个广泛的研究项目，用于纸浆和造纸工业的新技术/产品的开发，其中包括对现有制造工艺/产品的改进和新工艺/产品。在本次申请中，他将继续原有的研究计划，重点研究两个方面，即：1)高导电性纸的研制、表征及其在纸天线和射频识别（RFID）中的应用；

The Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry is facing challenges due to emerging e-commerce and increasing competition from countries such as Brazil, Indonesia and China, which rely on inexpensive labour costs and/or raw material. To remain healthy and competitive, the industry needs innovations in the development of new value-added products and/or of improved manufacturing processes. The present proposal by Dr. Yonghao Ni addresses these needs. He has established an extensive research program in the past 24 years on the development of new technologies/ products for the pulp and paper industry, which includes both the improvements in the present manufacturing processes/ products and novel processes/ products. In this application, he will continue the same research program and focus on two aspects, namely: 1) development and characterization of high electro-conductivity paper and its application for paper antenna and its application in the radio-frequency identification (RFID);