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Cost E53 > Activities > Conferences / WG Meetings > Conference in Warsaw

Conference in Warsaw

Topic: Conference COST Action E53 "Quality Control for Wood and Wood Products" in Warsaw, Poland
Location: “Kyriad Prestige Hotel”, 2 Towarowa St., Warsaw
Date: 15^th – 17^th October 2007

Conference programme

Monday, 15^th October 2007

Time	Theme
11:00 – 13:00	Registration
13:00 – 13:10	Welcome and Opening
13:10 - 13:45	Development of scanning and grading for wood raw material and wood products
13:10 - 13:45	Rolf Birkeland (Norway)
13:45 - 14:20	~~Total Quality Management in practice of IKEA as customer for wood products~~
13:45 - 14:20	~~IKEA (Poland)~~ *
14:20 - 14:50	Development of quality management systems in Polish wood industry
14:20 - 14:50	Jan Baginski, Lukasz Babuska, Marcin Klimczewski (Poland)
14:50 - 15:10	Coffee
15:10 - 15:40	~~Quality management in industrial practice IKEA / Swedwood sawmill in Wielbark~~
15:10 - 15:40	~~IKEA (Poland)~~ *
15:40 - 16:10	Aspect of timber quality in the UK
15:40 - 16:10	Tim Reynolds (United Kingdom)
16:10 - 16:40	Quality assessment of old-growth Scots pine stands in Poland
16:10 - 16:40	Stefan Tarasiuk, Grzegorz Jednoralski, Krzysztof Krajewski (Poland)
16:40 - 17:00	Wood and wood products quality evaluation in Slovakia
16:40 - 17:00	Rastislav Lagana, Stanislav Kurjatko, Alena Rohanová, Ján Dubovský, Anna Šuriková (Slowakia)
17:00 - 18:00	WG1 - Meeting (minutes)
	WG2 - Meeting (minutes)
	WG3 - Meeting (minutes)
18:15 -	After presentations and WG-meetings dinner

* been cancelled

Tuesday, 16^th October 2007

Session One - Session Chair: Charlotte Bengtsson

Time	Theme
8:30 – 8:50	Timber grading machine using multivariate parameters based on ultrasonic and density measurements
8:30 – 8:50	Jean-Luc Sandoz, Yann Benoit (Switzerland)
8:50 – 9:10	Pre-grading of sawn timber in green condition
8:50 – 9:10	Helene Unterwieser, Gerhard Schickhofer (Austria)
9:10 – 9:30	Variation in yield of strength graded timber due to board origin
9:10 – 9:30	Audun Øvrum (Norway)
9:30 – 9:45	Evaluation of the French oak for a structural use
9:30 – 9:45	Jean Denis Lanvin, Didier Reuling (France)
9:45 – 10:00	Bending strength and stiffness of aspen sawn timber
9:45 – 10:00	Harald Säll, Bo Källsner, Anders Olsson (Sweden)
10:00 –10:15	Approach for an efficient control of grading machine settings
10:00 –10:15	Markus K. Sandomeer, Jochen Köhler (Switzerland)
10:15 – 10:30	Coffee

Session Two - Session Chair: Arto Usenius

Time	Theme
10:30 – 10:50	Improved log sorting combining X-ray and 3D scanning - a preliminary study
10:30 – 10:50	Johan Skog, Johan Oja (Sweden)
10:50 – 11:10	Fingerprint traceability of sawn products using x-ray log scanning and sawn timber surface scanning
10:50 – 11:10	Jens Flodin, Johan Oja, Anders Grönlund (Sweden)
11:10 – 11:30	Bark Measurements with X-Ray Technology
11:10 – 11:30	Rafael Baumgartner, Franka Brüchert, Jörg Staudenmaier, Udo Hans Sauter (Germany)
11:30 – 11:45	Variables affecting the performance of British grown Sitka spruce
11:30 – 11:45	Tim Reynolds (United Kingdom)
11:45 – 12:00	Indisputable key - a research and demonstration project aiming at an improved quality through traceability systems
11:45 – 12:00	Anders Lycken, Jarl-Gunnar Salin (Sweden)
12:00 – 12:15	Timber Grader MTG
12:00 – 12:15	Pieter Rozema (The Netherlands)
12:15 – 13:30	Lunch

Session Three - Session Chair: Johannes Welling

Time	Theme
13:30 – 13:50	MC based or time based drying schedules? Calculation of the influence on the final MC variation
13:30 – 13:50	Jarl-Gunnar Salin (Sweden)
13:50 – 14:10	Measurement of moisture content profiles in coated and uncoated Scots Pine using Magnetic Resonance Imaging
13:50 – 14:10	Jan Ekstedt, Aders Rosenkilde, Stéhpane Hameury, Magdalena Sterley, Henrik Bergling (Sweden)
14:10 – 14:30	Development of twist on boards of Norway spruce during kiln drying
14:10 – 14:30	Aleš Straže, Robert Kliger, Marie Johansson, Željko Gorišek (Slovenia / Sweden)
14:30 – 14:45	Effects of heat treatment of small clearwood samples on equilibrium moisture content and deformation
14:30 – 14:45	Björn Källander, Piere Landel (Sweden / France)
14:45 – 15:00	Influence of drying technique and process conditions on the drying quality of beech wood (Fagus silvatica L.)
14:45 – 15:00	Željko Gorišek, Aleš Straže (Slovenia)
15:00 – 15:15	Dimensional and shape quality control. Modern equipment
15:00 – 15:15	Camelia Boieriu, Luminita Brenci (Romania)
15:15 – 15:30	Coffee

Session Four - Session Chair: Robert Kliger

Time	Theme
15:30 – 15:50	Modeling the properties of strength graded timber material
15:30 – 15:50	Jochen Köhler, Markus K. Sandomeer (Switzerland)
15:50 – 16:10	Relevance of wind-induced compression failures regarding bending strength and stiffness of Spruce structural timber
15:50 – 16:10	Martin Arnold, René Steiger (Switzerland)
16:10 – 16:20	Visual grading in flooring sector in Greece
16:10 – 16:20	Michalis Skarvelis, Antonios Papadopoulos (Greece)
16:20– 16:30	Mass customized production and design processes for the parquet flooring industry
16:20– 16:30	Hans Häuslmayer, Manfred Gronalt, Alfred Teischinger (Austria)
16:30– 16:40	Online wood industries database
16:30– 16:40	Lászlo Szalai, János Boros, Ákos Bausz (Hungary)
16:40– 16:50	Tensile proof loadings to assure quality of finger-jointed structural timber
16:40– 16:50	Georg Jeitler, Gerhard Schickhofer (Austria)
16:50 – 17:00	Ultrasonic prediction of mechanical properties of wood in standing trees
16:50 – 17:00	Witold Dzbenski, Tomasz Wiktorski (Poland)
17:00 – 17:10	Assessment of early stage fungal decay of wood by FT-NIR spectroscopy
17:00 – 17:10	Karin Fackler, Barbara Hinterstoisser, Manfred Schwanninger, Cornelia Gradinger, Ewald Srebotnik, Kurt Messner (Austria)
19:00 -	Conference dinner

Wednesday, 17^th October 2007

Time	Theme
8:00 – 8:45	MC Meeting (minutes)
9:00 – 19:00	- Excursion to new Swedwood Sawmill in Wielbark
	or
	- Visiting laboratories located at Faculty of Wood Technology and contact with research team.

The scientific programme:

Session on Quality Management and Control (in the forest, Total Quality Management, quality control in practice IKEA/Swedwood, customer’s requirements, comparing the performance of different building materials, architecture and aesthetic aspects of timber quality).

Session on the latest advances in scanning technology

Session on the MC and distortion

Session on the latest advances in grading

All presentations ; Conference programme

Photos from Warsaw / Conference