Dear friends, I wish all of you a happy and prosperous New Year 2012. May your hearts be filled with joy, love and peace in the new year even as you experience abundant expansion in all your areas of occupation.
Best Regards
George Muthike
Senior Research Scientist
Forest Products Research Centre
Kenya Forestry Research Institute
P. O. Box 64636 - 00620
Mobil Plaza, Nairobi
Tel: +254 722 345 405/733 736 828
Email: muthikegm@yahoo.com/muthikegm@gmail.com
Dear colleague,
Warm wishes for a joyous holiday season!
I hope you an excellent new year 2012. May the New Year bring you happiness, prosperity and peace. I also wish you and your family all the best for the new year to come!
with my best regards
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Assoc. Prof. Süleyman KORKUT
Duzce University, Faculty of Foresty
Department of Forest Industry Engineering
Division of Wood Mechanic and Technology
81620 Beciyorukler Campus, Duzce-Turkey
Faculty Phone: +90 (380) 5421137 ext. 3306
Faculty Fax: +90 (380) 5421136
GSM: +90 (532) 5868876
suleymankorkut(a)hotmail.com, suleymankorkut(a)duzce.edu.tr
http://akademikpersonel.duzce.edu.tr/suleymankorkut/
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Dear Colleagues:
COST is currently inviting researchers to submit proposals on green
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the forest sector. A
Green Engineering Camp (GEC) that will take place in Plitvice National Park,
Croatia, 2-6 July 2012, http://www.cost.eu/events/gec, where outstanding
proposals will be presented. The GEC's main aim is to collect and award
innovative ideas using Green ICT in real-life applications, especially
related to current and future challenges in the European forest sector. It
will encourage intelligent use and development of ICT to increase
environmental efficiency in forests, forestry, forest industries, logistics
etc.
This is an excellent initiative, but it relies entirely on a sufficient
number of proposals. Examples of possible subject areas can be found in the
Call for Ideas at <http://www.cost.eu/download/CallforIdeas>
http://www.cost.eu/download/CallforIdeas.
You are invited to submit proposals and/or distribute the call text widely,
not only to foresters and forest institutions but also to ICT and others.
Best regards
IUFRO Headquarters
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International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)
IUFRO Headquarters - Secretariat
Mariabrunn (BFW), Hauptstrasse 7 │ A-1140 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: +43-1-877 0151-0 │ Fax: +43-1-877 0151-50
Website: <http://www.iufro.org/> http://www.iufro.org │ Email:
<mailto:office@office@iufro.org> office(a)iufro.org
2011 - International Year of Forests
Dear Colleagues:
The 30th General Assembly of ICSU was concluded last week in Rome.
Additional Press Releases were issued by the ICSU Secretariat at the
conclusion of the final session, one of them containing detailed information
about the new President of ICSU:
Nobel Prize winning scientist is new President of ICSU:
http://www.icsu.org/general-assembly/press-room/press-releases/Press%20Relea
se%20Presidency.pdf/view
Responsibilities of scientists underlined by scientific community:
http://www.icsu.org/general-assembly/press-room/press-releases/Press%20Relea
se%20Universality.pdf/view
You are welcome to forward these press releases to your contacts.
Best regards
Brigitte Burger
IUFRO Headquarters
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Headquarters.
Dear Colleagues,
ICSU is currently holding its 30th General Assembly in Rome, Italy, in which
IUFRO is represented by Deputy Executive Director Michael Kleine.
Two press releases were issued at the conclusion of yesterday's session of
the 30th General Assembly:
- Research solutions for sustainability in a rapidly changing world:
http://www.icsu.org/general-assembly/press-room/press-releases/Press%20relea
se%20ESSI.pdf/view
- New Global science initiative on Urban Health:
http://www.icsu.org/general-assembly/press-room/press-releases/Press%20Relea
se%20Urban%20Health.pdf/view
You are welcome to forward these press releases to your contacts.
Best regards
Brigitte Burger
IUFRO Headquarters
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Headquarters.
IUFRO D5 Conference 2012 - 3rd Announcement
Call for proposals | abstracts
Dear Colleagues and friends,
Next year, from July 8 to 13 2012, the IUFRO Division 5 Conference FORESTS
& FOREST PRODUCTS will take place in Lisbon, Portugal.
TECHNICAL SESSIONS
The proposed sessions are already online and OPEN FOR MORE PROPOSALS (
<http://www.iufro2012.org/nm_quemsomos.php?id=38> find more).
TOPICS ( <http://www.iufro2012.org/nm_quemsomos.php?id=61> find more)
Contributions are invited that relate to the following topics:
Wood Quality | Physiomechanical Properties of Wood | Wood-based materials
and their Applications | Wood Processing | Wood Protection | Composites
and Reconstituted Products | Pulp & Paper | Properties and Utilization of
Plantation Woods | Energy and Chemicals from Forest Biomass | Forest
Products Marketing | Non-wood Forest Products | Forest Products Education
| Wood Culture | The Role of Wood in a Sustainable Society | Cork: the
ultimate sustainable forestry practice
Instructions and submissions, please click here
<http://www.iufro2012.org/nm_quemsomos.php?id=37> .
DEADLINES
Technical Sessions proposals - October 31st 2011.
Submission of abstracts November 14th 2011
IUFRO, along with the Technical University of Lisbon/ ISA invites you to
take an active part in this important event through submitting more
proposals / abstracts that surely will enrich the ambitious program. The
2012 D5 Conference hopes to address some of the major issues concerning
<http://www.iufro.org/typo3conf/ext/tcdirectmail/web/tclick.php?l=aHR0cDovL3
d3dy5pdWZybzIwMTIub3JnL25tX3F1ZW1zb21vcy5waHA/aWQ9NjM=> FORESTS AND FOREST
PRODUCTS now and into the future with keynote talks and technical sessions.
It would be greatly appreciated, if you can forward this information to your
colleagues, friends, students, or anyone who may be interested in the
conference.
Looking forward to receiving your contributions.
Best regards
Pekka Saranpää (Finland)
Conference Chair
Jamie Barbour (USA)
Conference Co-Chair
Helena Pereira (Portugal)
Local Organising Committee Chair
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Dear all,
The International Research Group on Wood Protection (www.irg-wp.com)
in cooperation with IUFRO 5.03 will have ts 43rd Annual Meeting in
Kuala Lumpur, 6-10 May 2010. For details of this announcement, please
follow the link below. You can also access the conference website
http://irg43.my
Please be informed that the conference is posted in our IUFRO Calendar of
Meetings, http://www.iufro.org/events/calendar/, it is therefore in the
activities pages of your Unit,
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-5/50000/50300/activities/.
It is in our RSS feed, http://www.iufro.org/events/rss/, and will be in
GFIS, the Global Forest Information Service, http://www.gfis.net/.
The conference will also be announced in one of the next issues of our
electronic newsletter IUFRO News.
Please help to circulate this conference announcement to your
colleagues. I like to urge especially officers of 5.03.xx WP's (as
well as from other areas in D5) to consider planning for this
conference (paper/poster offers) that brings together the world's
recognised wood protection scientists under one roof to deliberate on
new finding in this research area. This scientific conference is held
annually arond the world since 1969 and will be held in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, for the first time.
Cheers,
Andrew
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Andrew H.H. Wong, D.Phil
Coordinator, IUFRO D5 (Forest Products), www.iufro.org
Email: awong.unimas(a)gmail.com
ahhwong(a)frst.unimas.my
Fax: +6082-583160
Tel: +6082-582936
Mobile: +6017 3992509
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas)
Faculty of Resource Science & Technology
94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak
Malaysia
2011 INBAR Bamboo Industrial Tour
18-24 November 2011, Zhejiang, China
The objective of the annual bamboo study tours is to share the experience of
Chinese bamboo development and to promote bamboo development in other
countries.
The bamboo study tours have attracted many attentions; hence we will
organize the 2011 Bamboo Industrial Tour to China 18-24 November for 7 days
to visit Zhejiang province(5 days classroom training are planned but it will
be arranged if there are enough people interested in it). The cost in China
is 1200$/person covering accommodation, food, transportation and entrance
tickets in China between 18-24 November. Participants should cover their
international flights and the domestic flights to and from Hangzhou as well
as travel insurance and visa fee.
Here, you can read the <http://world-bamboo.blogspot.com/> reports of 2005,
2007, 2008 and 2009 bamboo tours and see some
<http://s261.photobucket.com/albums/ii63/bamboo-photo/> photos of the tours.
The itinerary will be available soon and below is the draft for the
visiting. All participants should arrive in Hangzhou airport on 18 November
and depart from Hangzhou airport on 24 November.
In Zhejiang we will visit some leading bamboo flooring manufacturers like
DASSO (who produced bamboo fire-proof ceiling in Madrid international
airport, which won 2006 Sterlinz prize. DASSO is producing bamboo veneer for
70,000 BMW cars' interior decoration and 40m long bamboo wind turbine blade
manufacturer), producer of strand woven bamboo lumber and floor),
Shengbang(bamboo concrete form and firber board), Xieqiang(bamboo curtain
and mat); Kangxing bamboo shoot processing company, Shenshi Bio-product
company(bamboo extract like flavonoid, bamboo beer), Wenzhao, the biggest
bamboo charcoal company(charcoal and vinegar) and the only
<http://www.8185075.com/china/news_views.asp?newsid=289> China Bamboo
Charcoal Museum in the world, some primitive processing workshops(bamboo
strips) on community level, Huachun bamboo furniture company, Jitai bamboo
processing machine company and Anji bamboo product market(hundreds bamboo
products including bamboo clothes). We will also visit the biggest bamboo
botanic garden in the world, <http://www.cnbamboo.cn/YQJG.asp> Anji Bamboo
Garden, which has more than 300 bamboo species plus two giant pandas, and
Chinese Bamboo Museum in this garden; High-yield bamboo plantation, bamboo
film production base (
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crouching_Tiger,_Hidden_Dragon> Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Banquet_(2006_film)> Banquet) and
eco-tourism sites, ornamental bamboo nursery. We will visit some bamboo
research institutions like Zhejiang Agro-Forestry University (visiting
bamboo products showroom, bamboo charcoal, bamboo tissue culture lab). We
try to dialogues with local politicians and experts on bamboo sector
policies and technology, which encourage the enterprisers to invest in other
bamboo production countries like Africa and Asia and America etc. We may
help participants find suitable bamboo processing machine manufacturers
(strand woven bamboo, bamboo floor, charcoal briquette and so on).
Tentative schedule
18 Nov. arrive in Hangzhou
19 Nov. Hangzhou city-Suichang county of Zhejiang province
20 Nov. Suichang county-Lin'an county
21 Nov. Lin'an county-Anji county
22-23 Nov. in Anji county
24 Nov. departure from Hangzhou
25-30 Nov. classroom training
Day 1 bamboo cultivation and stand management
Day 2 bamboo treatment and floor
Day 3 bamboo veneer
Day 4 strand woven bamboo production and its use
Day 5 bamboo charcoal
Day 6 departure from Hangzhou airport of Zhejiang province
Please download the registration form and payment form here
<http://www.inbar.int/Admin/ewebeditor6/uploadfile/20100126181813730.doc>
2011 tour form and payment.doc .
For more information, please contact:
Ms Li Xin and Dr. Fu Jinhe, INBAR
E-mail: <mailto:xli@inbar.int> xli(a)inbar.int and <mailto:jfu@inbar.int>
jfu(a)inbar.int
More details of the Previous tours
In cooperation with the International Center for Research on Agro-Forestry
(ICRAF), INBAR organized <http://oldsite.inbar.int/news.asp?vpid=15> 2005
Bamboo Study Tour in Zhejiang province of China from 10th-16th May, 2005. 20
participants form 7 countries (Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, U.S.A,
Vietnam and Thailand) joined the study tour and witnessed the achievements
of Chinese bamboo development over the last 30 years.
At the request of UNIDO, INBAR organized a
<http://world-bamboo.blogspot.com/> 2007 bamboo study tour from 15-24 April
in Zhejiang and Sichuang provinces of China. There were 18 participants from
Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Australia, Malaysia, India and Netherlands,
including Mr. Ahmed Nassir, the State Minister of Ethiopian Ministry of
Agriculture, the Director General of Ethiopia Federal Micro and Small
Enterprises Development Agency, the Permanent Secretary of Kenya, Ministry
of Environment and Natural Resource, the Director of Kenya Forest Research
Institute and Dr. Coosje Hoogendoorn, Director General of INBAR.
>From 3-7 Nov, 2007, INBAR organized a bamboo tour in Zhejiang province for 4
ministers of INBAR member countries, CFC official and diplomats.
INBAR's <http://world-bamboo.blogspot.com/> 2008 Bamboo Tour had 14
participants from Australia, Ethiopia, Laos, Mexico, Kenya, Uganda, and the
USA. The director of Kenya Forest Service joined the tour.
22 participants from 11 countries (Brazil, Britain, Canada, Ethiopia, Ghana,
India, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, the Philippines and the U.S.A.) joined the
<http://www.inbar.int/show.asp?BoardID=98&NewsID=529> 2009 Bamboo Tour.
The bamboo tour from 19-29 May 2010 attracted 27 participants from 12
countries, among which there was a Thai group consisting 11 members, and the
remainder from Indonesia, the Philippines, Mexico, Colombia, Jamaica,
Belize, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, France, Mauritius. The 10-day trip
covered 6 cities/counties - Shanghai, An'ji County, Lin'an County, Suichang
County, Hangzhou city in Zhejiang Province, Chengdu in Sichuan Province.
In 2011, INBAR's Bamboo Tour ran from 19 to 30 June. 26 people from 10
countries participated in this tour, including Ethiopia, Malaysia, Brazil,
German, South Africa, USA, Cameron, Britain, Vietnam, China, from different
organizations and companies related to bamboo. The tour group visited
Hangzhou, Suichang, Lin'an, Anji, Qingshen, Chengdu and finally Xi'an and
exchanged different bamboo experiences with local companies and families,
from cultivation to various bamboo products production.
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Headquarters
LAST CALL FOR PAPERS (Extended deadline : September, 10th 2011)
The WOODCHEM 2011 ( <http://www.woodchem.fr/> www.woodchem.fr) Congress is
an international scientific conference which provides an excellent
opportunity for discussion and exchange of knowledge between scientists,
engineers, industrials and other specialists having an interest in topics
related to Chemical and Biochemical valorization of wood and the
corresponding biomass.
WOODCHEM 2011 will take place in Strasbourg, France on December 1st and 2nd,
2011. The congress is organized by both the University of Strasbourg and the
French Fibers Innovative Cluster.
WOODCHEM 2011 will cover a wide range of topics related to wood valorization
and wood-based products and will provide an opportunity for scientists,
engineers, technology developers, practitioners, policy makers and
government officials to showcase leading-edge technology for future
sustainable large scaled wood-based industries. Our organization and
technical committees are dedicated to the organization of a rewarding
congress for all participants.
It is our pleasure to invite authors to contribute with oral communications
and posters related to the topics covered by the congress and to participate
in WOODCHEM 2011.
Topics of the congress
The Woodchem® 2011 conference will focus on the biochemical and chemical
valorization of wood and its by products.
We expect technical science contributions on the following topics :
· clean extraction processes
· biorefinery towards green materials and processes
· market applications
The program is as follows:
December, 1st 2011
Session 1 Wood biomass and biorefinery
Session 2 Biochemical modification processes for the biomass
Session 3 Chemical modification processes for the biomass
December, 2nd 2011
The 2nd day is dedicated to market applications:
Session 4 Chemical industries (Building blocks)
Session 5 Healthcare and Hygiene
Session 6 Transportation / automotive
Session 7 Building and housing
Keynote Speakers
- Jack SADDLER (Canada)
- Michael O DONOHUE (France)
- Roger ROWELL (USA)
- Serge TRETJAK (France)
Call for papers
We invite authors to contribute with original papers related to the topics
covered by Woodchem® 2011 for presentation at the congress. The submitted
abstracts and full papers will be subject to peer review. Papers accepted
for oral presentation will be given 20 minutes presentation time.
Abstracts
Authors should carefully read the instructions on the internet site here
Deadlines for abstracts extended to September, 10th 2011
Acceptance communicated no later than September, 30 th 2011
Abstracts must be submitted to the following address:
pascale.bridou(a)wanadoo.fr
Full paper
Once the abstract is accepted the selected authors can submit a full paper
for publication in the Cellulose Chemistry and Technology Journal, with
which an agreement has been made for the edition of a selection of papers in
full format.
Specific guidelines are available on the website here
The deadline for the full paper will be published on the website.
Please do not hesitate to get back to us should you need any further
information:
WOODCHEM® Secretariat :
Pôle de Compétitivité Fibres (« the French Fibers Innovative Cluster »)
27 rue Philippe Séguin
F-88000 Epinal
Contact person:
Agnès Szabo
E-mail: agnes.szabo(a)polefibres.fr
www.woodchem.fr <http://www.woodchem.fr/>
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