Aspen (Populus tremula L.) represents an important resource in France as far as standing wood is concerned. It often remains used for the manufacturing of pulpwood and fuelwood because no physico-chemical properties have been established. To date, PANIBOIS has used this species for manufacturing...

Forest biomass is a sustainable source of renewable energy and a valuable alternative to finite fossil fuels. However, its overharvesting may lead to soil nutrient depletion and threaten future stand productivity, as well as affect the habitat for biodiversity. This paper provides quantitative data ...

In the ambition of a transition from fossil carbon use, forestry residues are attracting considerable attention as a feedstock for the future bioeconomy. However, there is a limited spatially-explicit understanding of their availability. In the present study, this gap has been bridged by developing ...

The construction industry is one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions. In view of resource scarcity, climate change, and rapid global population growth, the industry faces the urgent challenge of a sustainable transition. The renaissance of timber as a renewable, carbon-neutral...

This paper investigates aggregate productivity dynamics of the French forest product industry based on firm-level data from 1994 to 2016. The main objectives of the paper are to investigate aggregate productivity growth in the industry, while taking market entry and exit into account. Further,...

Although biomass depends as much on volume as on density, in the case of trees, only the volume of the stem and the density at breast height have been studied quite extensively. The rare existing works and our preliminary analyses showed that, according to the species, the density could vary...

Renewable energy in 2020 accounted for 67% of total primary energy consumption in the European Union. Countries with a high production of renewable energy are Germany, Spain, Denmark, France. Renewable energy sources are the energy of the sun, wind, water, biomass. Most of the production of...

This paper discusses the diameter and volume of softwood at harvest in France. The paper describes the sawmilling of average and large diameter timber, as well as the supply and demand for sawnwood in the country. Finally, the paper also explores the manufacture and utilization of wood pulp and...

This paper describes how the indicators of the forest market and the selling price of timber confirm the improvement of the situation of the forest-wood sector in France, despite some tension in the markets. These are favourable price indicators for wood harvesting in private forests.

Guayule (Parthenium argentatum Gray) is a semi-arid shrub, native from the Chihuahan desert. This plant produces polyisoprene and resin. Polyisoprene is the main focal point of many researches, from structure to properties. Today, some processes are used to extract polyisoprene under its dry form,...