Roots for further growth
“Roots for Further Growth” is a document prepared by the Forest and Timber Technologies Industry Leadership Group (ILG), and sets out a strategy and action […]
Research
Grade in Britain revisited
This blog post follows on from our first Grade in Britain blog post, back in April 2016. Much of that is still relevant, but we […]
How not to be twisted
This is a guest post by Mike Jarvis, Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Chemistry at Glasgow University and one of the original architects of […]
VERAM Roadmap 2050
************* Edit 17/4/2018: the VERAM roadmap is now launched. Read it here. ************* The VERAM project is producing a Roadmap for European Raw Materials in […]
Carnegie Trust’s Caledonian PhD Scholarship Scheme 2018/19
The Carnegie Trust is again running the Caledonian PhD Scholarship Scheme. Each University has a maximum number of applications they are allowed to put forward to […]
CSIC innovation challenge funding
“Advanced Timber Products Innovation Challenge” The Forestry Commission Scotland (FCS) and the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) are jointly offering support to companies who have an […]
Moisture in Sitka spruce trees and logs (PhD thesis)
Congratulations to Mike Yerbury who graduated with a PhD. The thesis contains commercially valuable information so is embargoed for a period – but you can […]
Drying and distortion of spruce wood (PhD thesis)
Congratulations to Jas Canavan on graduating with a PhD. His thesis (” The effects of drying on the dimensional stability of spruce wood”) is available to […]
Citius, Rigidius, Fortius
Today, 20th July, is Gregor Mendel‘s birthday*. And we are excited to see the new research developments in tree breeding and genomics – and the […]
“Wood Props” announced
We are delighted to be partner in the WoodProps project – which aims to maximise the value and use of Irish timber as their forests double production in […]