TOPWOOD Wood Industry Conference

One objective of the TOPWOOD project is to produce, develop and disseminate information, tools and models about the benefit of early assessment of wood properties for better associating the forest resource with the industry needs.

Together with ARBOCENTRE (http://www.arbocentre.asso.fr/), TOPWOOD organized a WOOD INDUSTRY conference near Vierzon, France, on the 22 of June 2017. During this conference, the TOPWOOD participants demonstrated several innovative field tools to 30 participants from the wood industry, as well as public and private forest managers and actors of the forest-wood chain development.

Photo: Esther Merlo from MADERA PLUS demonstrates the acoustic method for the measurement of standing tree mechanical properties

Following the demonstrations, three TOPWOOD participants presented the objectives, activities and preliminary results of the TOPWOOD project regarding this task.

Photo: Esther Merlo from MADERA PLUS presents to the Forest Managers and Wood Industry the benefits