Here you find links and interesting information on forestry, wood, and wood working machinery. See our special topic below: How to make best use of wood waste?

Forestry, Forest Industries and Timber Markets (Video: International Year of the Forests 2011)

• Literature related to forest research collected in the reference library of the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) can be retrieved in the free on-line literature database of IUFRO. In addition, the IUFRO-website is providing a lot of technical papers and series.
• FAO - Forestry: The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations is providing information on forestry problems, country profiles, statistics (e.g. annual data on production, import / export and consumption of forest products (FAOSTAT-Forestry), the Unasylva-journal, etc. in six different languagues.
• Similarly the ITTO (International Tropical Timber Organisation) website is a rich source of information especially on tropical forestry and wood use as well.
• The UNECE/FAO Forestry & Timber Section has served as a trusted source of information, data and analysis about the forest sector in the UNECE region for more than 60 years. Its Forest Products Annual Market Review provides general and statistical information on forest products markets and related policies in the UN Economic Commission for Europe region (Europe, North America and the Commonwealth of Independent States).
• The World Forest Institute (Portland, Oregon) is offering some "Free Publications" on "Special Reports" and "Market Briefs" on a number of important timber producing countries: Argentina, Australia, Chile, Russia, Taiwan, United States, Uruguay
• The latest facts and figures on forestry and forest industries in New Zealand are published on the website of the Forest Owners Asssciation.
• Forestry Innovation Investment (FII) is the Government of British Columbia’s market development agency for forest products.Information on their key markets (United States, China, Japan, South Korea, European Union, Canada, and a number of emerging markets, including India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Middle East. Research summaries are available for anyone to download; however, you will have to login with your password to download the full reports. The full reports are only available to B.C. companies, trade associations and research institutions.)

• With the help of WoodWiki.eu you can search for scientific and technical publications regarding timber, timber construction, timber usage, forestry or pulp.
• Wood Density Data Base
• A non-commercial site focusing on color-correct pictures of exotic and domestic woods
• New Zealand plantation grown exotic and indigenous timber species
• Canadian Timber Species Fact Sheets
• Wood versus Steel
• Building green with wood
• WoodWorks provides resources that allow engineers, architects, general contractors, developers and others to build non-residential structures out of wood more easily and at less cost.
• Lumber Shrinkage Estimator
• BC Wood is offering information on "Understanding CNC Routers" (part 1 and part 2)
• The Woodworking Machinery Sector in VDMA website is providing an access to German machinery and tool manufacturers by product and by companies name.
• An Overview on B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D.-programmes on Wood Science and Technology in Germany

Conversion of inch, (Hoppus) feet etc. to cubic meter

• Handy formulae and conversions
• Dictionary of Units of Measurement

Special topic: How to make best use of wood waste?

• Use of small timber and wood residues
• Nice ideas to make valuable products from small pieces of wood

The IUFRO World Series Vol 27 "Asia and the Pacific Forest Products Workshop" (2009) comprises some articles on wood waste:

• Liquefaction Technique of Woody Biomass Waste and Application for Bio-Based Wood Adhesives (Shinichiro Tohmura, p.23)
• Design and Development of Sawdust Burner for Kiln Seasoning of Timber (D K L K Senadheera and H S Amarasekera, p. 26)
• Wood Waste Utilization for Wood Composite Industries in Malaysia (Rahim Sudin, p.35)
• The Possibility of Utilizing Sawdust Wastes as A High Quality Activated Sawdust Charcoal (Gustan Pari, A. and Han Roliadi, p.38)

More information will be added!