A gift-in-kind from Forest Grove Lumber to the Faculty of Forestry’s Department of Wood Science is key to ongoing applied research into the physics of heating and drying wood. The donation of an Alpha RF Test Oven is being used to explore faster ways of drying wood as well as environmentally friendly methods for pasteurizing logs, timber and lumber for international trade. This research is high priority for both the local and international forest communities as current chemical-based methods will be banned as of 2013.
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