Deliverable 6: List of ongoing experiments - Ctba
Deliverable 6: List of ongoing experiments - Ctba
Deliverable 6: List of ongoing experiments - Ctba
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3.3. Switzerland<br />
Institute Title Description / Remarks Annexe<br />
EMPA<br />
Study <strong>of</strong> extent, detection, cause and<br />
consequences <strong>of</strong> compression<br />
failures<br />
Collection and analysis <strong>of</strong> current<br />
experiences with different methods<br />
3.4. United kingdom<br />
Wood utilisation: wood properties, grading, early<br />
detection, modelling <strong>of</strong> damage mechanisms<br />
Log conservation, entomology, wood quality<br />
monitoring by ultrasonic<br />
Institute Title Description / Remarks Annexe<br />
UOP<br />
4. Patents<br />
Susceptibility <strong>of</strong> harvested<br />
s<strong>of</strong>twoods to infection by sapstaining<br />
fungi<br />
Susceptibility <strong>of</strong> 5 s<strong>of</strong>twood species to blue stain 17<br />
With regard to the patents, 2 patent applications were filed concerning logs conserved under<br />
oxygen exclusion (log piles wrapped in plastic sheets). One is French and the other is<br />
German.<br />
The German patent has been filed by the Forest Research Institute <strong>of</strong> Baden-Württemberg<br />
(FVA) and the Technical University <strong>of</strong> Dresden (TUD). It is an European Patent under the<br />
Publication-Number: 0946340. This latter was published in the paper 'Patentblatt',<br />
14.11.2001.<br />
The inventors are the following: Dr. Gerold Mahler, Kirchzarten<br />
Christoph Richter, Tharandt<br />
Dr. Martin Groß, Freiburg<br />
Andreas Weber, Tharandt<br />
Thomas Maier, Gundelfingen<br />
Jürgen, König, Tharandt<br />
Concerning the French pattern, the name <strong>of</strong> the French owner company, is STEP.<br />
Project Coordinator : CTBA, 10 avenue de Saint Mandé 75012 Paris, www.ctba.fr/stodafor/index.htm<br />
Project partners : FVA (D), KVL (DK), EMPA (CH), CBE (P), BFH (D), UPM (E), DLFRI ( DK), TTI (I), AFOCEL (F), TUD (D), BRE<br />
(UK), FMRE (A), ICSTM ( UK), UOP (UK), NISK (N)<br />
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