OptiCept Technologies has entered an agreement with the Chilean forestry company CMPC. Cuttings will now be boosted with nutrients using a unique vacuum impregnation technology called OptiBoost.
The OptiBoost technology is a symbiosis of two technologies. Vacuum impregnation and nanotechnology. Cuttings are impregnated with a functionalized nutrient solution based on the third generation of patented nanotechnology. The process is executed in a small vacuum chamber that can manage up to 15,000 cuttings per hour.
The OptiBoost vacuum impregnation (VI) is done to improve the rooting and growth of cuttings and thereby decrease losses of eucalyptus and tropical clone cuttings propagation.
During a couple of weeks this spring, the Chilean company – CMPC evaluated the technologies’ effect in their nursery – as a result, they now entered a long-term partnership with OptiCept Technologies.
The parties have entered into a commercial agreement for OptiBoost for cuttings that run over 6 years. The focus in 2024 is on the treatment of high-yielding cuttings and on developing the concept together with CMPC towards their annual production of 20 million cuttings.
CMPC is one of the world’s largest pulp and paper companies. The company has 17,000 employees and is a listed company with a turnover of approx. 6.5 billion Euros in 2021. The business includes Forestry, pulp, paper, and paper products. The company plants around 20 million cuttings annually.
CMPC is the first commercial agreement signed, besides this, several other forest companies are currently evaluating the method in South America, South Africa, and China. Now the company is aiming to go to market and says they have a lot of interest around the globe.
OptiCepts ambition is to help forestry companies transition from seed propagation to cuttings.
“We not only help the industry to increase yield and get more plants out from nursery – but also, we add a quality step. We ensure that 100% of cuttings are filled with nutrition, giving optimal conditions for new plants. Forestry companies often face significant losses with unrooted cuttings, particularly the best clones. With the OptiBoost method, we add a quality step needed to ensure optimal conditions for new plants”.
– Thomas Lundqvist, CEO, OptiCept Technologies
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Los números hablan por sí solos: los esquejes de eucalipto tratados con la tecnología OptiCept muestran un aumento promedio de la tasa de enraizamiento de al menos el 77 % por cliente.
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