Maine’s Forest Bioproducts Advanced Manufacturing Tech Hub
THE FUTURE IS WOOD
Advanced forest-derived bioproducts offer powerful opportunities
Opportunities for Made in America solutions to displace plastics, sequester carbon in buildings, and replace harmful synthetics that result in good quality jobs, revitalized communities, and a cleaner world.
The world’s first ever 3D-printed house made from recycled forest products, from the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center.
The future is wood
Decarbonizing and detoxifying consumer and industrial products is the next frontier in the fight against climate change. Wood derivatives are the most promising climate solutions to displace fossil fuel-based materials in many manufactured goods, with significant market opportunities in displacing petroleum-based conventional building products, plastic packaging, and harmful synthetic additives.
A center of advanced product innovation
Maine’s Forest Bioproducts Advanced Manufacturing Technology Hub is home to researchers, workers, and firms that together offer the world a powerful technological capability in which it has generations of global leadership: extracting biological building blocks from forests, manipulating them for use, and manufacturing environmentally sustainable products from those components. The region is concentrated along Maine’s Route 95/295 innovation corridor between Portland and Orono, with close links to expansive forests and heritage manufacturing sites in rural Maine and northern New England.
On the world stage
Our consortium partners share a vision that Maine’s Forest Bioproducts Advanced Manufacturing Technology Hub will be the nationwide region of choice for firms developing, manufacturing, and selling innovative, climate-forward products derived from forests and other natural sources.
Maine by the numbers
• Largest contiguous privately owned working forest in the U.S.
• 30K+ skilled workers in Maine’s wood supply chain
• #1 global public supplier of cellulose nanofiber
Scaling tech, firms, and talent
The Tech Hub’s implementation strategy involves investments in technology commercialization, business development, and talent pipelines that propel a dense cluster of innovators, founders, talent, manufacturers, and markets competitive with any region in the world.
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Technology commercialization
- Research and development collaborations and pilot-scale manufacturing capabilities for forest bioproducts at University of Maine
- Innovation funding, SBIR/STTR support, and entrepreneur technical assistance from Maine Technology Institute
- Technical studies, wood supply analysis, and other reports on Maine’s forest sector produced by FOR/Maine
Business attraction and development
- Site selection, financial incentives, and marketing assistance from Maine DECD’s Office of Business Development
- International business support from Maine International Trade Center
- Business funding opportunities from public and nonprofit programs via Maine Funding Network, developed by FAME
- Entreprenuer programs at the University of Maine and Northeastern University’s Roux Institute
Talent pipelines
- Career pathways in Maine’s forest sector developed by FOR/Maine
- Jobs, apprenticeships, and training opportunities via Maine DOL’s Maine Job Link
- Workforce training and credential programs through Maine’s Community College System
Partners
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Maine's Tech Hub is led by the Maine Technology Institute in partnership with the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future and the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development.