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Wood resource monitoring - material and energetic demand for wood
Project
Project code: TI-WF-08-PID471
Contract period: 01.01.2007
- 30.11.2017
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
Keywords: wood, production and ressources demand, monitoring
Wood is one of the most important renewable resources in Germany. But who uses this resource? How is the supply of the different assortments? Available statistics do show considerable gaps of information. In the year 1999 the project “location of the timber industry” was started. It is actually continued in a broader framework with the title “resource monitoring”. It aims at identifying production capacities and raw material demand of the wood processing industry in Germany ((saw mills, panel mills, pulp mills). Furthermore all other areas of the sources and the uses of the raw material of wood (recovered wood, urban wood, short rotation coppice (SRC), biomass power and heating plants, BTL, chemical raw material, private households) are monitored regularly. The conducted surveys also allow the description of regional wood flows for most market segments. All resource flows are included in a wood raw material balance sheet, which meanwhile is calculated back to the year 1987.
Within the last round of the wood resource monitoring for the year 2010 we conducted studies of the different market sectors. The studies are listed below. The results show a volume of 135 million m³ of the wood resource balance. One half is used for material and the other half for energetic purposes. Largest volumes were used by saw mills (37.3 million m³) and by private households (33.9 million m³).
Section overview
Subjects
- Forestry
- Renewable Resources
Framework programme
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics (TI-IW)
