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New members IRG welcomes the following new members. READ INFORMATION Ron Cockcroft Award 2007 For those who intend to apply for a RCA to attend IRG 38 in the USA it is now time to start preparing the application. Please note that the deadline is 15 December 2006. Applications received after that date will not be considered. Read Conditions for the Ron Cockcroft Award IRG Travel Awards Ms Eylem Dizman Tomak, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey has recently completed a short term scientific mission under the IRG Travel Awards scheme at The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Her work was focused on textile auxiliaries as wood protection agents. Regulatory News New Zealand: United front being made against methyl bromide The formation of a stakeholder group aimed at protecting forestry exports represents a major step towards phasing out the use of methyl bromide as a quarantine treatment. (From Friday Offcuts – 20 October 2006.) Read more here Business News Australia: New technology enhances wood stability Technology developed by Ensis scientists has been purchased by Titan Wood Limited, a United Kingdom-based company that leads the field in the commercial production of acetylated wood. Titan Wood, a wholly owned subsidiary of UK environmental science and technology company, Accsys Technologies PLC, specialises in the development of new wood technologies. The company is on track to begin commercial production of its branded acetylated wood, "Accoya", later this year. The acetylation technology has been developed by Ensis scientist Kourosh Nasheri and technician Gavin Durbin. This technology will initially be tested in Titan Wood's large scale pilot plant in the Netherlands over the coming months, with the aim of adopting it for use in their new full scale facility. Wood acetylation is a process which increases the amount of "acetyl" molecules in wood, thereby modifying its physical properties. The process protects wood from rot by making it inedible to most micro-organisms and insects without making it toxic to humans. It also greatly improves the wood's dimensional stability, reducing its tendency to swell and shrink and making it less prone to cracking. (From Friday Offcuts – 13 October 2006.) Read more here Australia / New Zealand: Timber treatment technology updates available In mid September a two-yearly technology update, Timber Preservation 2006, was run for timber treatment companies. Around 190 participated in the FIEA series. The programme provided an update on challenges and opportunities being faced by the industry along with an overview of emerging product and process technologies. Information supplied by US, Australian and New Zealand presenters will be essential for future planning by the Australasian wood preservation industry. (From Friday Offcuts – 06 October 2006.) Read more here USA: Rohm and Haas Wood Biocides and Rockwood's CSI Subsidiary to form joint venture Rohm and Haas Company and Chemical Specialties, Inc. (CSI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Rockwood Holdings, Inc., today announced their plans to form a joint venture company to provide an extensive range of advanced wood treatment technologies and services to the global wood treatment industry. The new company will bring together the wood biocides business of Rohm and Haas and the wood protection chemicals business of CSI. The joint venture will substantially strengthen the new company's product development programs, marketing, sales and comprehensive services to the wood treatment market. Read more here Scientific News Termite breakthrough in Australia The Australian Government Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries (DPIF) research indicates that untreated wood at a termite infested site increases the need for higher concentrations of preventative chemicals in treated wood at the same site. (From Friday Offcuts – 27 October 2006.) Read more here New publications Environmental Impacts of Treated Wood Edited by Timothy G Townsend and Helena Solo-Gabriele, 2006, CRC Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, London, New York. The book provides a timely compilation of perspectives necessary for making informed, conscientious decisions in the production, use and disposal of treated woods that will minimize the environmental impact and human exposure risks associated with treated wood products today. Concentrate or dilute contaminants? Strategies for Swedish wood waste is the title of a recent Swedish doctoral thesis (Joakim Krook, Linköping University, Dissertation No 1047, ISBN 91-85643-84-X). The thesis deals with management strategies for Swedish wood waste. There is a special focus on separation strategies and in what way such measures influence environmental aspects like the presence of heavy metals in the waste. Incentives and capacity to influence wood waste management are analysed, emphasising the importance of driving forces such as governmental regulation and market interactions. People in the News IRG Secretariat News IRG 38 reminder Please mark 20-24 May 2007 in your diary for the 38th Annual Meeting of IRG in Jackson, Wyoming, USA. As potential themes for special sessions at the next meeting, the following were discussed in the Scientific Programme Committee (SPC) in Tromsø:
Please note that the deadline for contributions of full papers and poster abstracts is 15 March 2007. IRG 38 Call for papers !!!!!! Special Session on "Coatings and aesthetics for wood surface protection" Section 3: Wood Protecting Chemicals. Submission for oral and poster presentations at the 38-th IRG Symposium in Jackson Lake, Wyoming, USA, on May 20-24, 2007, are requested for the special session on surface wood protection, part of Section 3: Wood Protecting Chemicals. The suggested topics expected to be covered in the scientific papers submitted for this session should be as follow:
Vice chair of Section 3 New postal address to the IRG Secretariat Please note that the new postal address of the IRG Secretariat is:
Box 5609 SE-114 86 Stockholm Sweden Visiting and express/courir mail address: Drottning Kristinas väg 67 SE-114 28 Stockholm Sweden Invoicing 2007 Invoices for 2007 will be distributed towards the end of the year. Any Member or Sponsor who, for whatever reason, needs to pay the 2007 dues before 31 December 2006, should contact the Secretariat. Sponsor the IRG e-Newsletter! IRG regular sponsors and members' institutes are kindly invited to sponsor the production of the IRG e-Newsletter in order to cover the costs involved for production of the same. The IRG e-Newsletter is scheduled for six issues per year, and for each issue a sponsor is welcome. The fee for sponsoring the e-Newsletter is USD 275 (SEK 2.100) in 2006. The e-Newsletter sponsor will then get the company/institute logo on the front page and a link to the company/institute website. For sponsoring the fifth 2006 issue of the e-Newsletter, Arch UK is kindly acknowledged. Please contact the IRG Secretariat, if you are interested in sponsoring the e-Newsletter. Legal Information Read legal information here Editorial If you have information related to wood protection being of general interest for Regular Members, Student Members or IRG Sponsors, please email to the NiB editor with the name of the web page and the URL.  |
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Click the logo to visit the e-Newsletter sponsor! Updated: Events SP Trätek Annual Meeting on Wood Preservation (09 - 10 November 2006, Borås, Sweden) Wood Science and Technology in 2100 Conference (13 - 16 November 2006, Melbourne, Australia) 3rd International Fire Ecology and Management Congress (13 - 17 November 2006, San Diego, CA, USA) FTP Forest-Based Sector Technology Platform conference (22 - 23 November 2006, Lahti, Finland) RIPMA 2006 Congreso Iberoamericano de Protección de la Madera (04 - 07 December 2006, Mérida, Venezuela) COST Action E37 Meeting (04 - 05 December 2006, Berlin, Germany) SETAC Europe, 13th LCA Case Studies Symposium (7 - 8 December 2006, Stuttgart, Germany) International Conference "Environment: Survival and Sustainability" (19 - 24 February 2007, Nicosia, Northern Cyprus) European Pellets Conference 2007 (28 February 2007, Wels, Austria ) Wood Fibre Polymer Composites International Symposium (26 - 27 March 2007, Bordeaux, France) 3rd Conference of COST Action E31: Management of Recovered Wood - Reaching a Higher Technical, Economic and Environmental Standard in Europe (02 – 04 May 2007, Klagenfurt, Austria) International Research Group on Wood Protection, 38 Annual Conference (20 - 24 May 2007, Jackson Lake, WY, USA) International Conference 'Wood Science and Engineering in the third Millennium' (20 - 22 June 2007, Brasov, Romania) 3rd International Conference on Life Cycle Management (27 - 29 August 2007, Zürich, CH) 5th International Woodcoatings Congress (17 - 18 October 2007, Prague, Czech Republic) IUFRO All Division 5 Conference (29 October - 02 November 2007, Taipei City, Taiwan) 11th International Conference on Durability of Building Materials and Components - “Globality” and “Locality” in Durability (11 - 14 May 2008, Istanbul, Turkey) COST Actions 
The Procedures Manual The IRG Procedures Manual ia a "handbook" for IRG Members and Sponsors. It has the following contents:
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