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• Pacific Timber Engineering Conference headed for Brisbane

  The Future Timber Hub is preparing to host its fifth Pacific Timber Engineering Conference (PTEC). Between 10 and 12 July, PTEC 2019 will provide a forum for interested parties to share the l... Read More

• Paper based device can detect ricin, other biological threats

  As researchers around the world develop cheap paper devices to detect health threats including the Ebola virus and malaria, biological threats appear to be the next target. U.S. researchers ar... Read More

• Paper poised to fill new gaps as insulation

  Wood has long been the material of choice for framing, walls, and floors, but designers often fall back on conventional foam insulation to keep the heat in and the elements out. New research f... Read More

• Paper-based bacteria-powered battery

  Researchers at Binghamton University in New York have developed paper-based, bacteria-powered fuel cells, essentially creating low-cost, portable, disposable batteries for use in remote areas.... Read More

• Pine bark substance could be potent melanoma drug

  A substance that comes from pine bark is a potential source for a new treatment of melanoma, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. Current melanoma drugs targeting single p... Read More

• Plant cell ‘glue’ could hold key to wooden skyscrapers

  Molecules 10,000 times narrower than a human hair could hold the key to the construction of wooden skyscrapers and more energy-efficient paper production, according to research published in th... Read More

• Plastic made from pine needles

  Pinene – the natural chemical behind the ‘Christmas smell’ of pine trees – has been used by researchers to develop a renewable plastic. Traditionally a waste product from the paper indust... Read More

• Poor machine design encourages unsafe behaviour

  Many of forestry’s hazards are due to the handling of large trees and large machinery in rough terrain and remote areas and these come with the job. Some hazards however, result from machine d... Read More

• Portable tools for assessing the bearing capacity of forest roads compared

  Forest roads provide access to logging sites and enable transportation of timber from forest to mills. Efficient forest management and forest industry are impossible without a proper forest ro... Read More

• Precision forestry: a revolution in the woods

  This report by Harsh Choudhry and Glen O’Kelly for McKinsey & Company looks at which advanced technologies for forest management are most promising, and how forestry companies can start th... Read More

• Predict forestry climate change with the click of a mouse thanks to new tool

  Forest managers will be able to gauge the likely effect of climate change on growing conditions in their specific areas with a new interactive online tool developed by the CSIRO with funding f... Read More

• Predict forestry climate change with the click of a mouse thanks to new tool

  Forest managers will be able to gauge the likely effect of climate change on growing conditions in their specific areas with a new interactive online tool developed by the CSIRO with funding f... Read More

• Predictive software to identify indicators of deforestation risk from satellites imagery

  Monitoring global deforestation can be a tedious process of analysing individual satellite images from a handful of government spacecraft and trying to infer trends from relatively blurry pixe... Read More

• Prefab building makes for sustainable homes of all sizes

  Prefab building techniques are being used to develop sustainable dwelling places at both ends of the size scale. As the market becomes increasingly mindful of environmental issues, prefabricat... Read More

• Printed wood to be “global turning point” for sustainable manufacturing

  FWPA has an ongoing project which uses 3D printing to produce timber panels composed of forestry waste– and by- products. Interest in this technology is growing and cellulose has been found to... Read More

• Probiotics – a key to help trees clean polluted sites

  A research project has tested the ability of probiotics to boost the speed and effectiveness with which trees capture, remove and degrade pollutants from the soil. Researchers from the Univer... Read More

• Productivity rises in multi-storey mass timber construction

  A team of Australian researchers has been working to measure the onsite installation productivity of Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) in multi-storey building projects, demonstrating the significa... Read More

• Project launched to 3D print houses with cellulose

  While the construction industry today depends a great deal on the use of wood and wood products, researchers in Sweden may be able to change the entire landscape of construction via a unique 3... Read More

• Project looking at Virtual Reality (VR) for forestry yield estimates draws international attention

  What if forestry yield estimates could be calculated sitting in front of a computer using Virtual Reality (VR) technology, rather than going out into the field? A FWPA funded project looking i... Read More

• Prototype of hybrid technology chipper

  Comminuting ,the size reduction of wood biomass from its initial form into fine particles, is an important element of forest fuel supply procurement, improves transport economy and is essentia... Read More