Scrimber - a contribution to climate protection
Building products made of wood store around one ton of CO₂ per cubic meter, as whole trees - from trunk to crown - are processed into building products. Scrimber is the solution for completely dispensing with steel and concrete in building construction. This is an important contribution to climate protection.
Scrimber is being further developed by the Bern University of Applied Sciences and other research partners on the basis of developments in Australia in the 1970s and experience with bamboo. This will bring the new large-format and low-cost Scrimber product to market maturity.
It is planned to build an industrial pilot plant in the canton of Bern as well as in Meridian, USA. An industrial large-scale plant will follow later.
News & Events
Scrimber updates and innovations
We will keep you regularly informed about the development of Scrimber with news from research, site search for a production facility or financing.
Happy Holidays!
December 24, 2023The Scrimber team wishes you a merry Christmas and a happy new year 2024. We too will be enjoying the festive season with our families. We'll be back on January 8, 2024, with renewed energy and drive to continue advancing the Scrimber product and its technologies.
Vision for the old sawmill at Bern University of Applied Sciences
October 31, 2023The sawmill is history - what's next? The old sawmill at the Bern University of Applied Sciences has almost been forgotten, where courses became less frequent and were eventually discontinued altogether. Today, sawyers are trained and further educated directly in the modern sawmills. What will happen to the site of the old sawmill? We at Scrimber CSC have a visionary proposal that could seamlessly tie in with the unique idea of research and training at this location: the establishment of a scrimber research and competence center.
Commissioning of modular laboratory line
October 31, 2023Last Wednesday, 25th October, the IG Scrimber held an information meeting at the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Biel. On this occasion, we presented the first part of the Scrimber laboratory line, which is equipped with a modular pair of cylinders.
Welcome Manuel!
October 09, 2023We'd like to welcome Manuel Häberli to our team! From October, Manuel will be writing his thesis as a trainee in the field of pilot plant planning. We look forward to a fruitful collaboration!
Invitation to the IG Scrimber modular laboratory line information meeting
September 26, 2023We are pleased to invite you to the commissioning of the first part of our Scrimber laboratory facility on October 25, 2023 at the HESB in Biel. This innovative laboratory facility, equipped with a pair of modular rollers, will provide the basis for revolutionary developments in sustainable wood processing.
Scrimber at the Lucerne Forestry Fair
August 10, 2023The 26th International Forestry Fair will take place in Lucerne from August 24 to 27, 2023. We're part of the fair and look forward to seeing you in Hall 1, Stand B09.
Voices
Opinions from the professional world
"At 400 francs per cubic meter, Scrimber would be a brutal seller, and a price like that would probably make for a really big breakthrough."
S. Müller Holzbau AG, Wil SG
"Scrimber taps precisely into today's megatrends and our acute challenges: CO₂ sequestration, maximum wood recovery, and utilization of previously unusable wood assortments."
"Scrimber offers Forest owners a much-needed alternative to better utilize ancillary assortments use "
"The new timber construction product Scrimber uses the whole tree and thus stores a maximum amount of CO₂ in the long term in a natural and forest-friendly way - This is exactly what the climate needs today! "
Partner
Research and development partner
We are excited about working with our partners. Together with universities, business partners and many innovative minds, we are bringing Scrimber to market readiness and thus raising timber construction to a new level.
Our research partners
BFH AHB Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
At the Bern University of Applied Sciences, the following is being
within the framework of an Innosuisse research project under the direction of Prof. Dr.
Heiko Thömen, the industrial production of scrimber splinters and their
bonding into building products.
Minnesota University Duluth, USA
The University of Minnesota Natural Resources Research Institute is
an applied, integrated research organization. With NRRI, we evaluate the market
potential of scrimber for this region and also the suitability of regional wood
species for scrimber production.
Fraunhofer Institute WKI Germany
The
WKI has carried out in-depth research into scrimber production and has the appropriate
corresponding apparatus; cooperation is taking place in this area.
Wood
K plusWood Competence Center GmbH, Austria
The cooperation with Wood K promotes alternative wood cutting processes, in particular macrofiber production, as well as
macro fiber bonding.
Funding
Innosuisse
Innosuisse supports start-ups and other Swiss organizations in their R&D activities. Scrimber can count on the valuable support of Innosuisse.
Wyss Academy for Nature
The Wyss Academy for Nature at the University of Bern was founded to address the environmental crisis with a new approach. It supports new technologies such as Scrimber.
STI Foundation
The STI Foundation supports the development of companies in the Bern region.
It supports entrepreneurs in their individual, early development phase.
Timbatec Timber Structural Engineers
Timbatec is one of the leading timber construction engineering companies in Switzerland. Stefan Zöllig, the founder of Timbatec is the spiritual father of the TS3 technology and has initiated the various research projects for the further development of timber construction.
Timber Finance Initiative
The Timber Finance Initiative, founded in 2021, will become the Swiss competence center for Timber Investments. The Intiative strengthens the raw material wood to fight climate change and therefore supports Scrimber.
Timber Structures 3.0 AG
Timber Structures 3.0 AG offers a timber construction technology for large buildings with column grids of up to 8 x 8 meters and flexible floor slabs. The TS3 technology is the result of several research projects of Timbatec together with the Bern University of Applied Sciences and the ETH Zurich.
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