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German Centre for Forest Work and Technology (KWF)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Board of Trustees of Forest and Forestry Technology (KWF) has the task to encourage the economic efficiency and earnings performance of the German forestry. In essence, this is done by improving the forest technology as well as by the development, testing and verification of work equipment and their proper application. All this with special attention to work safety, ergonomics and environmental impact
Activities
- Research Support
Coordinated projects
- Collaborative project: Development and evaluation of logistics chains using debarking harvester cutting heads. Subproject 2: Conception and evaluation of the logistics chain
- Collaborative project: Digital Supply Chain Management in Central Europe, standardization of digital data exchange along the wood supply chain
- Collaborative project: Intelligent Timber: RFID in Roundwood Logistics – Subproject 6
- Collaborative project: minimize nutrient removal at wood harvesting - through the use of debarking harvester cutting heads. Subproject 2: Technical evaluation and process concepts
- Collaborative project: Optimization of the wood supply chain through analysis, evaluation and further development of timber measurement and logistics processes in the round wood trade
Involved in research projects
- Development and evaluation of best practice procedures for timber harvesting in forests showing high nature conservation significance; subproject 2: Work procedures & test design
- Methods for trunk application of plant extracts for environmentally friendly control of forest insects forest
- Processing improvment in forest production chains by currently up-to-date information logistics and consistent use of harvesting data
- Ressource conservation by grossly delimbed energy round logs
Contact
German Centre for Forest Work and Technology
(KWF)
Spremberger Straße 1
64823 Groß-Umstadt
Hesse
Germany
Phone: (+49) 06078-785-0
Fax: +49 (0)6078 - 785 - 39
Email: info(@)kwf-online.de