NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
““Yes, man can get used to living in the desert, but what feeds his soul is to live in a wooded place, in the forests!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
TreProX final presentation at AUI Campus
TreProX final presentation at AUI CampusAfter a more than 3 years life span the TreProX project will be concluded by the end of the year 2022. The final presentation took place at December 12th at the Keldnaholt Campus of AUI. The project members and work package...
Fifth day of the workshop: Small scale sawmill and tiny houses
The fifth and last day of the workshop started with a field trip to Petur. He has managing his own small scale company for 16 years and has been sawing throughout the years between 200 to 400 cubic meters per year. He presented his work procedures and shared his...
Fourth day of the workshop: Poplar standards and a log house
The day started off with a lecture of Dr Ólafur Eggertsson from the Icelandic Forest Service. He gave insight into his work with preparing Icelandic standards for Alaskan poplar. Various indicators have to be checked in order to fulfill the relevant standard criteria....
Third day of the workshop: Open air drying and a lot of practical work
The morning started off with a lecture about open air drying by Bent Jensen from Skovskolen.TreProX training courses are built up as practical training units. The courses combine theoretical instructions with practical exercises. Later today, the students were divided...
Second day of the work shop: Silviculture and the flying carpenters
TreProX workshops are designed to give practical experiences to the students. The motto is always to learn from the practitioners. Today was a field trip day to meet various experts. The students visited this morning the forests around Eldrupgård and the Løvenholm...
First day of the workshop: Poplar plantations and certification schemes
First day of the workshop has started with a field trip to the experienced forest researcher Palle who runs a poplar plantation close to Vejle.In the last 20 years he transformed farmland to a poplar plantation but on the same time he puts a lot of emphasis on...
TreProX workshop in Denmark started
Today, the student groups arrived to Jutland from Iceland, Sweden and Denmark. We are looking forward a busy week full of teaching and training. The workshop is hosted by Skoveskolen/University of Copenhagen.
TreProX on Swedish Radio
On Wednesday the 1st of June a reporter from the Swedish Radio (Sveriges radio) came to the forest and took interviews with some of the participants of the project. The interview is in Swedish but it can be listened to here:...
Another busy day in Sweden
Wednesday 1st of June Visit to Fredrik Gustafsson forest farm On the third day of the Swedish workshop the TreProX group met up with Dan Johansson and Fredrik Gustafsson at Fredrik‘s farm. Fredrik told the group about the farm, which is abou 1000 hectares, whereof the...
Day 2 of the TreProx workshop in Sweden
Tuesday 31st of May On the second day of the workshop the group went to JGA Sawmills which is a medium sized sawmill...
2nd workshop of the Erasmus+ project TreProX
The second workshop of the Erasmus+ project TreProX was held in Sweden in the week 30th of May to the 3rd of June. In total around 30 participants took part in the workshop and the participants were very pleased with the planning and execution of the workshop. On the...
Presentation of the first copies of the book Commercial Grading of Timber
On the 13th of November 2020 the minister of industry and innovation, Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir and the head of The Icelandic Centre for Research, Hallgrímur Jónasson, received the first copies of the book Commercial Grading of Timber. The book was...
Slides from all the lectures of the Workshop in Oct 2021 now accessable here on the webpage.
We have made all the slides from the lectures in the Workshop in Oct 2021 available here on the webpage. Now all participants can refresh the knowledge they gained at the workshop. Please go to https://treprox.eu/additional-materials/ to download. Nú eru allir...
Film showing the highlights of the TreProX project in Iceland
The TreProX project held a weeklong workshop on 10-16 October 2021. The subject was wood quality and standards of wood sorting as well as methods used in maximizing the quality of timber in growing forest stands. Members of the project are the Agricultural University...
The Erasmus project TreProX – Workshop in Iceland
The TreProX project held a weeklong workshop on 10.-16th of October. The subject was wood quality and standards of wood sorting as well as methods used in maximizing the quality of timber in forests while they are growing. Members of the project are The...
TreProx course on timber sorting
The last day of the Iceland visit was spent in Þjórsárdalur, an area where the Iceland Forest Services has planted and maintained a forest for almost 80 years. There the participants had practical excercises, under the guidance of Tomas Ivarsson, based on timber...
TreProx workshop on using the timber sorting guide
On Thursday Tomas Ivarsson, one of the editors of the book Commercial Grading of Timber - Grading Rules, gave the theoretical part of his workshop based on the book. The book is really a handbook and participants learned how to use the book as a guide to sorting...
Day three – visit to Mógilsá and Heiðmörk
After a very nice breakfast at Hvanneyri, the program of day three of the TreProX Icelandic workshop started formally at Mógilsá, the Iceland Forest Services Research Center. The Director of the center, Dr. Edda Sigurdís Oddsdóttir, began the program by telling the...
Day two of the TreProx workshop
On day two of the TreProX Iceland workshop Bent Jensen from Copenhagen University Forestry School talked about how planting and maintenance of forests directly affects timber quality. He gave quite a few examples of good and bad practices and the discussions that...
TreProx workshop in Iceland
The Icelandic workshop of the TreProX project started formally on Monday the 11th of October. There are 39 participants in the workshop, from Denmark, Sweden and Iceland. On the first day there were three lectures in the morning. Dr. Ólafur Eggertsson from the...
Swedish Wood homepage
One of our partners in the TreProx project is Swedish Wood. Their homepage is a trove of information about wood and it's uses. All of their publications is free for download from the homepage, a lot of the materials is in Swedish but the homepage also has an English...
First meeting with the participants in the project
The project group has invited people from different fields of the timber industry to participate in a trial run of the materials being produced by the project group. On October 20th 2020 all participants met on Teams to hear all about our project and get an...
The book Grading of Timber
The book Grading of Timber is now available translated into Icelandic. This translation is a product of our project. This book is originally published by Swedish Wood as a tool for grading timber in saw-mills and other production sites for timber. We hope this book...