This paper is based on environmental and public health problems that make it necessary to consider firewood as a "blessing" or a "curse". Deforestation, deflation and increased air pollution associated with high levels of firewood usage are mainly characteristic of developing countries. In these...

Several studies have investigated natural-based insulation materials, including bark. The physical and mechanical properties of the bark panels are worse than those of wood panels. The aims of this study were to manufacture an insulation panel from Pannónia poplar bark and investigate the...

Poplars represent high economic value. The aim of the present study was to initiate a research methodology that at first identifies candidate genes encoding enzymes with wood property phenotypic traits, towards the aim of developing a genomics-based breeding technology. As a first step, primer...

The aim of the research is to detect correlations between the heat treatment of wood at different durations and some of its physical properties and thermal conductivity. During the experiments, spruce (Picea abies), Pannonia poplar (Populus × euramericana cv. Pannonia) and rubber wood (Hevea...

Black locust wood was steamed to create colours similar to those of dark exotic species. A wide range of brown shades can be created by steaming black locust. It was found that these colour tones give the same feeling as the dark exotic species, regardless if these colours match those of any exotic ...

Approximately 300-400 million cubic meters of bark are produced each year during wood processing. Most of this, however, remains unused or burned. The structure and composition of the bark are special, and differs from the wood, which features a number of utilization possibilities. Agriculture,...

The following report summarizes the results of a study which examined the level of transparency among state-owned forestry companies. Overall, it was discovered that value of forestry companies are around country average. The information content of forest company websites can be assigned to two...

In the last decades, natural disturbances have caused increasing damages in European forests. In 2014, catastrophic ice damage (the worst in 50 years) occurred in the Börzsöny Mts., Hungary. In our study, we made a quantitative description and comparison of ice disturbance events of the last 20...

Nowadays forest plantations have a growing role in wood production. The area of SRF plantations is growing in Europe, but there is only little information about how traditional forestry interventions, like thinning affects yield in the first couple of years after establishment on short and midi...

The University of West Hungary won a Hungarian Scientific Research Fund tender, titled "Complex analysis of the physico-mechanical and surface-physical properties of wood with low density" (identification number: K116-216), to asses and investigate the Hungarian poplar stands with special emphasis...