Does the industrial collaborator intend to market the raw biomass or process it into a value-added product?
Generating high-quality employment in eastern Canada is of great interest to both the regional and federal governments. Biomass harvesting is a valuable source of income for rural, seasonally employed people. High-end employment (chemists, process engineers) accrues at the value-added post-harvest stage of Taxus biomass drying and processing. The infrastructure exists in eastern Canada to completely process, semi-synthesize, and purify paclitaxel to pharmaceutical grade, reportedly at competitive prices. Nonetheless, the expressed intention of one potential industrial collaborator was to send all biomass overseas for all further processing. While it may make business sense to process offshore, it becomes more difficult to find a good fit with such a company. They also risk complicating their biomass supply strategy, as several provincial governments are in the midst of legislating restrictions on transporting unprocessed biomass harvested on Crown land outside the province where it was
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