The Industrial Research Chair on Environment & Biotechnology (CRIEB) of UQTR Foundation is dedicated to local communities' development and revitalization through environmental and biorefining innovations. The CRIEB is mainly looking to develop and integrate environmental biotechnologies and low cost bioproducts for pulp & paper sectors or other sectors present in local communities.

The CRIEB looks forward to reduce the environmental impacts of industries by using beneficially their wastewaters and residues to get as much as possible value added products for in-house or on-site uses or for local uses or markets. Pulp and paper knowledge and technologies, as well as industrial microbiology fundamentals, are used to achieve crucial objectives in each of its projects.

CRIEB projects are “ fully integrated projects ” closely linked to the needs of its industrial partners and potential local users. More precisely, the CRIEB focuses on diversifying products of forest, agricultural and pulp & paper sectors and on production of 2nd and 3rd generation biofuels or other specific microbial products as biocontrol agents or industrial enzymes. The CRIEB and its collaborators have a recognized “ COMMUNITY SCALE BIOREFINERY ” approach, well adapted to the realities of Canadian local communities and focusing on in-house, on-site or local uses of coproducts, locally available residues, local expertises and local infrastructures.

Social, economic and environmental sustainability guides all technological and scientific decisions in CRIEB projects. The CRIEB is known to collaborate closely with College Centers for Technological Transfer (CCTT) in Quebec and local professional schools or institutions and to regroup key players in each projects.