NBForest - Use of wood

The Building of a Value-Based Chain - from Chile to Sweden

Chelsey Jo Huisman — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:15:07 +0000

Blog

10.11.2015

Blog post written by Frida Magnusson, recently graduated from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, MSc in Environmental Economics and Management. Frida can be reached via frida.c.magnusson@gmail.com

Chemical Suppliers' Perspectives and Impact on Innovation in the Wood Treating Industry

Alex — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 09:14:07 +0000

Facts & Reviews

26.09.2014

This new article explores how chemical companies perceive innovation in the wood treating industry and how they feel that they impact innovation among wood treating firms. Findings indicate that chemical company managers view the wood treating industry as conservative and not particularly innovative. Also, retailers seem to play a hampering and directing role regarding innovation in the industry.

Read article HERE

NEW REPORT: Wood preservation with chemicals

Alex — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 13:10:11 +0000

News

01.09.2014

This new report highlights the Best Available Techniques (BAT) in wood preservation with chemicals in the Nordic countries. The Nordic wood preserving industry produces around 2.1 million m3 of impregnated wood per year, which is about one third of the total supply of pressure-treated wood in Europe. This report describes the present status of the used technologies, their emissions and impacts on the environment and technologies that can be considered BAT.

The Forest Products Annual Market Review 2012-2013 out now!

Alex — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:50:18 +0000

News

29.01.2014

The Forest Products Annual Market Review for the years 2012-2013 it now out!

This review offers analyises markets across the UNECE region: North America, Europe, the Russian Federation and the Central Asian republics.

It covers the range of products from the forest to the final end-user: from roundwood and primary processed products to value-added and innovative wood products.

Download report HERE

Open vacancy: Assistant Professor, Wood Materials Science

Alex — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 11:32:31 +0000

News

04.12.2013

Assistant Professor, Wood Materials Science, School of Forest Sciences, Joensuu Campus, deadline 2 Jan 2014 at 5 pm

The Assistant Professor position is research-oriented. The field of research and teaching is wood materials science. The field of teaching and research includes the characterisation of wood material properties, the development of new ways of using wood, and the testing of novel and innovative ways of using wood, especially from the viewpoint of commercial applicability.

What should we do with our storm-damaged forests? Researchers at Harvard say: Nothing

Alex — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 09:23:57 +0000

Facts & Reviews

26.11.2013

After intense weather conditions such as powerful winds, heavy snowfalls or ice storms, large numbers of fallen or damaged trees, sometimes entire forests, are often the result. On such occasions, landowners, municipalities, and state agencies are faced with important financial and environmental decisions. And the question arises: What to do with the trees damaged by natural disasters?

Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management in Europe. The CI-SFM Project

Alex — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:07:31 +0000

Facts & Reviews

22.11.2013

One way of promoting the sustainable management of our forests is through the powerful tool/concept of Criteria and Indicators (C&I).

The movement started in 1992 in Rio, at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNECD).Ever since, several different international processes and initiatives have developed criteria and indicators as a policy instruments to evaluate and report progress towards sustainable forest management.

Insect-killed trees for Bioenergy

Alex — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:17:18 +0000

Facts & Reviews

21.11.2013

A consortium of academic, industry and government representatives was awarded US$10 million by the USDA for a research project focusing on transforming insect damaged trees in the Rocky mountains into feedstock for bioenergy.

The NEW EU Forest Strategy

Alex — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:14:54 +0000

Facts & Reviews

20.11.2013

The new EU Forest Strategy was adopted on the 20th September 2013 to respond to new challenges facing forests and the forest sector. The Strategy is a response to the increasing demands put on forests and to significant societal and political changes.

The EU contains 5 % of the world's forests which are faced with multiple pressures, and face new social, economic and ecological challenges but also opportunities.

Hence, important developments of the EU Forest Strategy include:

From Metla Bulletin: "Baltic countries rely on wood products industry"

nbforest — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:04:56 +0000

News

25.10.2013

The forestry industry is one of the most important industrial production sectors in the Baltic countries. A lively and growing wood products industry and the share of exported industrial roundwood are common features for all three Baltic countries – Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Finland, for example, is one of the key areas of exported roundwood for the Baltic countries.