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COST ACTION E22: Environmental optimisation of wood protection<br />

Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária - Estação Florestal Nacional/ Departamento<br />

de Tecnologia dos Produtos Florestais<br />

Dr. Dario Reimão<br />

E-mail: dario.reimao@mail.telepac.pt<br />

Web: http://www.efn.net.novis.pt<br />

Research themes<br />

• Traditional wood preservatives<br />

• Specifying durability requirements<br />

• Field performance using soil<br />

• Risk assessment<br />

• Remediation<br />

• Wood wastes and treated wood<br />

• Application of modified wood<br />

Ongoing research projects<br />

• Characterisation of pinewood quality (Pinus pinaster) under different growth<br />

conditions and silviculture towards an optimisation of final sawmill outputs<br />

(Portuguese Program – PAMAF, 1997-2000)<br />

• Oak stand quality evaluation and the technological wood improvement (Portuguese<br />

Program – PRAXIS-XXI, 1998-2000)<br />

• Upgrading (stabilization, preservation and others) of various European wood species<br />

as a result of an axial impregnation process (wood + plus) (European Program<br />

– INNOVATION, 1999-2000)<br />

• Quality technological valorisation of home-grown wood species (Portuguese Program<br />

– PIDDAC, 1999-2001)<br />

• Study of the remediation of impregnated wood waste, in view of the recovery of<br />

the preservative products and the recycling of the wood (Portuguese Program –<br />

Agência de Inovação, 2000-2001; Industrial partner: CARMO Lda.)<br />

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