It is known that fish oils have been used as a wood preservative for centuries and have proven successful. However, much of the knowledge has been lost. With an increased emphasis on going back to older times and raw materials and better knowledge, a layer is created to utilize fish oils, which now fall into the waste category, for significantly increased value, but production and product development problems must be solved before going any further.
A new project is approx. to start at Matís in collaboration with the innovation company Magla ehf. with financial support from the AVS fund. The aim of the project is to develop a product from fish oils for use as part of wood protection, but production processes need to be determined to change dirty crude oil and which fish oil into valuable wood oil. The total funding of the project is seven million.
The project manager is Ásbjörn Jónsson and in addition to him Heiða Pálmadóttir and the staff of Matís' laboratory are participants in the project. The project starts in November 2017 and ends in November 2018.