Forest and wood innovation for the environmental sustainability.Forest management, innovative products and processes, to increase wood carbon storage.
The aim of the project is the innovation in the forest-wood supply chain, starting from forest
management, to timber harvesting, and to innovative low-impact productions. The entire project is
based on the reduction of direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions, in particular by means of
cableway logging operations, and to maximize the carbon storage function, deriving from clever
management of the forest and the production of low energy products, with a high carbon sink function.
The main experimental activities of the project will concern the forest management, with a specific
attention to the "total quality" of the silvicultural operations and of timber harvesting, by means of
some system based on the modern cableway logging machines. The study and experimentation of new products made with sawn timber, round timber and wood waste and bark, deriving from the first
woodworking operations, will be used for different types of products which will be studied to
characterize the carbon sink function and the mechanical and physical properties achieved.