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Results from a degradation experiment with beech, English oak and black locust

Thünen Institute of Wood Research represents current fields of research at the IUFRO World Congress

This year's conference of the International Research Group on Wood Protection took place in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 2024, four presentations from the field of wood protection were from Hamburg.

Gesa Weber with four People from the the RCA-Committee

Outcome of a comparative study with wood from Ghana

In 2021, a treasure turned up at the Thünen Institute of Wood Research: a collection of insects from the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection had been stored unnoticed in the cellar for years. Now a book has been published with stories about historical personalities, places and special objects…

In einem Holzkasten sind verschiedene Schmetterlinge in Reihen auf Nadeln gesteckt.

Every four years, when the Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany and the DBU invite people to the "Woche der Umwelt", an independent jury selects the exhibitors - and Wood Anatomy was there!

Responsable fungi and ways of prevention

Interview on the topic of alternatives to sulfuryl difluoride with Prof. Dr. Andreas Krause on the program “Klimazeit” on Tagesschau24

Prof. Dr. Krause in an interview with the presenter of the ARD Klimazeit program

In Dresden, the results of a comparison of heat treatments were presented that could be an alternative to the fumigation of export logs with sulfuryl fluoride (SF).

The publication describes how the annotated data set was generated and the first machine learning systems were trained.

Poplar vessel elements with an enlarged section

Critical assessment of suitability for durability classification

A structural analysis of xylem and phloem

Paper: packaging material with a great future - online seminar on May 14 with Thünen participation

Students visited research facility

Above-ground durability testing with the Bundle method

Representation of a test stand for durability testing of wood samples using the bundle method

The ZDF documentary sheds light on global supply chains and explores ways to make trade routes transparent and secure. Contributions from the Thünen Institutes for Wood Research and Forest Genetics (Thünen Competence Centre of Competence on the Origin of Timber) regarding the identification of wood…

The action day is a great opportunity for young people to get to know different professional fields at the research institution and gain an initial insight into the world of work.

Assessment and classification on the basis of different decay tests

Investigation of the isolated influence of particle size on the mechanical properties of single-layer particleboards with homogenous density profile and adjusted surface-specific adhesive amount