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- TECH4EFFECT final event highlights research impacts, provides informed dialogue on forest operations19. July 2021 - 12:25
- Towards Zero Pollution: TECH4EFFECT presented at the RTDS Green Week Partner Event on 8 June: 10:10 – 12:30.10. May 2021 - 16:18
- TECH4EFFECT Co-ordinator, Rasmus Astrup, presented at EUBCE event19. April 2021 - 15:17
- TECH4EFFECT presents drone mapping, T-winch at Norwegian Ministerial event14. October 2020 - 9:15
New publication out now! Productivity in Mechanizing Early Tending in Spruce Seedling Stands
Johanna Routa from TECH4EFFECT partner LUKE Finland and two of her colleagues – Yrjö Nuutinen and Antti Asikainen – recently published a study on a comparison of the productivity of mechanized tending with the Cutlink device to manual tending in spruce seedling stands in central Finland.
For this publication “Productivity in Mechanizing Early Tending in Spruce Seedling Stands” the productivity, fuel consumption and quality of seedling stands after pre-commercial thinning were measured.
You can find the full article on the website of the Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering (CROJFE) or as PDF on our website!
Routa J., Nuutinen Y. and A. Asikainen
Productivity in Mechanizing Early Tending in Spruce Seedling Stands
Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering (CROJFE), 2019
Volume 40, issue 1, pages 1-10
https://doi.org/10.5552/crojfe.2020.619
19-22 February 2020, Progetto Fuoco fair, Verona, Italy
On February 19-22 2020 Progetto Fuoco, the renowned fair in the sector of plants and equipment for the production of heat and energy from wood combustion, will be held in Verona/Italy. Stay in touch to find out more about TECH4EFFECT being represented at the fair!
Event report – Forestalia 2019
October 26th and 27th the “Forestalia” fair was held at the Piacenza Expo (Italy). On the 26th CONAIBO and CNR, the Italian Research Council, jointly organized a workshop for the Italian forestry sector titled “Forest mechanization in the new Millennium: progress and precision tools for the Italian forest enterprises“.
Introductions, presentations and a live demonstration
The workshop agenda included an introduction by representatives of the regional and national sector association, including the National President of the main national forest owners’ association, Mr. Caliari (for Federforeste), the National President of the largest farmer’s association, Mr. Coldiretti, and the local representative of another important farmer’s association, Dr. Comellini (for Confagricoltura).
This session was followed by the presentations on the situation of Italian forest enterprises highlighting some best practice examples by Marco Baldini, the President of Piacenza Loggers’ Association and a CONAIBO member, Alberto Cadei, the CONAIBO Technical Director, and Raffaele Spinelli (CNR IBE).
Last part of the meeting was specifically devoted to TECH4EFFECT, with a presentation by Raffaele Spinelli offering a general view of the TECH4EFFECT project and its main results so far, and by Giulio Cosola (CONAIBO) giving a live demonstration of the SILVISMART Efficiency Portal named “SILVISMART Portal – concept, how it works and utility for forest enterprises”. These presentations were followed by an interactive workshop showing the SILVISMART Portal with a Q & A session. The meeting was very well received and attended by more than 100 interested parties from the area.
Some impression of Forestalia 2019 ((c) G. Cosola (CONAIBO) & CNR).
Conclusions of the Q & A with regional foresters
After the debate with foresters at the Forestalia 2019, the following six important conclusions can be made:
Some more impressions of Forestalia 2019 ((c) G. Cosola (CONAIBO) & CNR).
Event report – TECH4EFFECT at FORMEC 2019
This year marks the 52th edition of the symposium ‘Forestry Mechanization’ or FORMEC as it is more commonly know which was held together with the 42th edition of the Council on Forest Engineering (COFE) in Sopron, Hungary from October 6th to 9th.
Impression from the FORMEC 2019 plenum ((c) J. L. Rodrigues/RTDS)
This year TECH4EFFECT had its’ own session which was held on Monday October 7th. It included following presentations:
FORMEC 2019 presentation by G. Erber et al. ((c) J. L. Rodrigues (RTDS).
On Tuesday October 8th our coordinator Rasmus Astrup/NIBIO held a keynote on the “Digitalization of Forest Harvesting: The potential for improved environmental and production efficiency”.
Rasmus Astrup/NIBIO held a keynote at FORMEC 2019 ((c) C. Kanzian.
Several posters on TECH4EFFECT were also presented on:
See the posters in this e-poster presentation!
It could not have been any better for TECH4EFFECT this year as 3 prizes were awarded to the consortium! What a great achievement – congratulations to
TECH4EFFECT won 3 prizes for presentations and at FORMEC 2019 ((c) C. Kanzian) – from left to right: Rasmus Astrup, Markus Konrad, Thomas Holzfeind and Marian Schönauer.
To get more information you can read up here on the full program of FORMEC 2019 and on the conference website you can access the conference proceeding abstracts.
Newsletter October 2019
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Publication: Winch-Assisted Forwarders on Steep Terrain under Real Working Conditions
Winch-assisted forwarders are more and more in use to extract wood on challenging terrain. In this BOKU study, the tensile force and the machine tilt of two winch-assisted forwarders were observed under real working conditions to assess safety risks.
Read about the results in this CROJFE publication, which is now available open access:
Read the abstract or download the full text!