{"id":440,"date":"2016-01-12T11:43:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T11:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/cwst\/?p=440"},"modified":"2016-01-14T10:07:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T10:07:57","slug":"alternative-minor-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/cwst\/alternative-minor-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Update &#8211; Minor Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work is progressing in our project looking at the properties of several different &#8220;minor&#8221; species grown in Scotland. During the early part of 2015 Forest Research managed to locate stands and extract logs of three species;\u00a0Serbian spruce (<em>Picea omorika<\/em>), Pacific silver fir (<em>Abies amabilis<\/em>) and \u00a0Japanese incense cedar (<em>Cryptomeria Japonica<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/cwst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/01\/2015-06-23-15.41.26.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-443\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/cwst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/01\/2015-06-23-15.41.26-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"2015-06-23 15.41.26\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>12 logs each of <em>Picea omorika<\/em> and <em>Cryptomeria<\/em> <em>Japonica<\/em>, and 11 logs of <em>Abies amabilis<\/em>\u00a0have now been processed into battens using a mobile sawmill which was hired in specifically for this project. The battens of\u00a0<em>Picea omorika<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Abies amabilis\u00a0<\/em>have been kiln dried and have moved to the Napier facility for testing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/cwst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/01\/2015-11-11-13.57.54.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-444\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/cwst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/01\/2015-11-11-13.57.54-170x300.jpg\" alt=\"2015-11-11 13.57.54\" width=\"170\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the later part of 2015 Forest Research located stands\u00a0of Grand fir (<em>Abies grandis<\/em>) and European silver fir (<em>Abies alba<\/em>) and logs from these have now been delivered to NRS awaiting processing into battens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Work is progressing in our project looking at the properties of several different &#8220;minor&#8221; species grown in Scotland. 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