What’s known about home grown?
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, […]
Norway spruce
What is C16+?
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 […]
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 […]
Event – minor conifers in Ireland
The National Forestry Conference for Ireland will be on the theme of minor conifers (“an appraisal of the silvicultural and marketing potential of coniferous alternatives […]
Research note – minor conifer species
Forestry Commission has published a research note with a summary of the basic wood properties information that David Gil-Moreno obtained in his PhD project. You […]
Grade in Britain
For a more up-to-date post on properties see Grade in Britain revisited. Introduction We looked at British spruce in a previous post. It is, for […]
What is “British spruce”?
It is quite common for species with similar timber properties to be lumped into a commercial “species combination” for trade (the species are not differentiated – […]
Report on extractive content of Scottish roundwood
Steven Adams conducted a review of what has been published so far on extractive content of the main commercial softwood species in Scotland (namely Sitka […]
David Gil-Moreno presents his research in Brazil
PhD student, David Gil-Moreno presented some of his research at the 19th International Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation of Wood Symposium, in Rio de Janeiro. The paper […]
Work begins on alternative conifer species
David Gil-Moreno has begun his PhD research into the commercial potential of western hemlock, noble fir, western red cedar and Norway spruce for the UK […]