Wit Ventures: Another Sarnia Research Park Success Story.

Friday 10 February 2017

Another Sarnia Research Park Success Story.

Photo by Zach Neal.

From Cathy Dobson, Sarnia Journal.

Professor Charles Xu is one satisfied customer.

Nearly five years after leasing space at the Western Sarnia-Lambton Research Park so his team could work on turning forestry waste into adhesives and insulation, the product is out of the lab and ready for a testing plant in Thunder Bay.

But before Xu relocated his staff of 10 Master’s and PhD students, the project spent about $500,000 in Sarnia and attracted a handful of new residents.

And while that initiative has moved on, Xu was so pleased with the park’s facilities and personnel he’s applying for a grant to work on another one to convert corn stalks or wheat straw.

“If we are successful in getting the funding we may be back to Sarnia this year,” he said.

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