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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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