ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,293, issued on Sept. 22.
"Process and system for manufacturing a fibreboard from waste materials" was invented by Rod Fountain (Bookham, Great Britain) and Robert Langley (Princes Risborough, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a process of manufacturing a fibreboard from a waste material, for example from a corrugated waste material, wherein the process comprises: refining in a range of 5 to 30 percent of the waste material into micro-fibrillated cellulose (MFC), using a mechanical micro-fibrillation process; pulping in a range of 70 to 95 percent of the waste material with water to obtain a waste pulp; ...