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Yesterday, a group of visitors from the Institute of Chartered Foresters toured our lab, learned a lot about wood science and how wood properties are […]
Yesterday, a group of visitors from the Institute of Chartered Foresters toured our lab, learned a lot about wood science and how wood properties are […]
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Machine strength grading of structural timber in Europe is done mostly under a system called “machine control”. The machine settings are fixed based on large […]
Perhaps you arrived here from the article on pages 38-40 the December issue of Confor’s Forestry and Timber News (currently for members only). If so, […]
C16+ (pronounced C16 plus) is a strength class developed by us to get the most out of the real properties of home-grown spruce. It is […]
There is a proposed new version of EN14081-3 out for Enquiry, mostly to provide proper integration of the updated output control rules (compared to the […]
Yesterday I spoke at the “Green Drinks” organised by SEDA and AECB. (The other main speaker was Nick Marshall, coordinator of the Association of Scottish […]
The physical and mechanical properties of wood vary hugely – not just between species, but also within species, from forest to forest, between trees in […]
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 […]
EN 14081-4 “Timber structures. Strength graded structural timber with rectangular cross section. Machine grading. Grading machine settings for machine controlled systems” is the standard that […]
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