A discussion of tropical timbers used by the Berlin piano maker J.C. Schleip between 1816 and 1850. His use of Calamus for hammer shanks is thought to be the earliest instance of a forest product from Southeast Asia/the Pacific Rim being used in a western musical instrument.

Abstracts are presented of 13 papers and 4 posters to be presented at the IAWA symposium held during the XVIth International Botanical Congress.

Investment requirements and operating costs were assessed for the commercial production of methanol, ethanol, furfural and phenolics. The costs were compared with those for processes using conventional raw materials.

Details are given of the wood quality of plants native to the western Mediterranean coastal land of Egypt. The dominant species are Thymelaea hirsuta, Gymnocarpos decandrum, Anabasis articulata, Lycium arabicum, Ononis vaginalis, Retama raetam, Artemisia monosperma and Atriplex halimus.

Three-ply boards of meranti merah [Shorea sp.] were manufactured using a UF resin to which had been added the laboratory-synthesized latent hardners: epichlorohydrin-urea (ECH-U), epichlorohydrin-melamine (ECH-M), urea (U), and melamine (M), the conventional hardener ammonium chloride, and a latent ...

The consequences of wood structural changes within annual rings of fast grown Castanea sativa and Pseudotsuga menziesii were analysed on a laboratory micro-lathe. Wood structure was characterized by X-ray micro densitometric radial profiles and related to the following cutting parameters: cutting...