Innovative Materials: Bio-Fiber Batts and Boards

This paper offers a short review of the historic development of bio-fiber building products, from macerated paper introduced in 1919 as a commercial insulation product in Canadian Prairies through the 2009 American production of cellulose fiber batts and blankets and European flexible and rigid wood-fiber thermal insulation boards. A small expansion from current research and design activities brings us a new world of bio-fiber thermal insulations, where different recycled and fresh fibers are mixed and bonded with advanced chemical technology to produce composites for several different construction and industrial applications.