SIGCA Operational Group: Forest management systems in forests producing quality wood
- Type Operational group
- Execution 2018 -2020
- Assigned Budget 538.000,01 €
- Scope Supraautonómico
- Autonomous community Asturias, Principado de; Castilla y León; Galicia; País Vasco
- Main source of financing PEPAC 2014-2020
- Project website https://www.sigcamaderadecalidad.info
Description
SIGCA promotes increased competitiveness in the maritime pine forestry and industrial sectors by developing tools that optimize their production capacity for quality wood.
Objectives
- Improve maritime pine forestry by developing forestry standards that incorporate wood quality as a criterion.
- Empower managers and appraisers with innovative tools for assessing and classifying forest resources.
- Implement industry-validated classification technologies and standards for the various products in the forestry-industry value chain.
- Improve wood traceability throughout the forestry-industry value chain.
Results
- Quantitative inventory and acquisition of a representative sample of maritime pine stands nationwide, allowing for analysis of the influence of forestry on wood quality.
- Tools for assigning technological quality and for calculating and classifying wood volumes based on the morphological characteristics of standing trees.
- Standardization of technological qualities. Development of the first mechanical classification system based on acoustic techniques. Qualitative inventory of maritime pine stands and development of a SiGCa quality certification.
- Tool for marking and tracing wood.
Contact information
- Coordinator/entity name: AGRESTA
- Coordinator/entity email: agresta@agresta.org
Collaborators
- Confederación de Organizaciones de Selvicultores de España (COSE)
- Consejería de Desarrollo rural y Recursos naturales. Principado de Asturias
- Dirección General del Medio Natural. Consejería de Medio Rural, Pesca y Alimentación. Gobierno de Cantabria
- Dirección General del Medio Rural de la Junta de Castilla y León
Beneficiaries
- Agresta S.Coop.
- Fundación Centro de Servicios y Promoción Forestal y de su Industria de Castilla y León (CESEFOR)
- Fora Forest Technologies S.L.L.
- Fundación Centro Tecnológico Forestal y de la Madera (CETEMAS)
- Madera Plus Calidad Forestal S.L.
- Fundación Hazi Fundazioa
- Exfopino S.L.
Outsourced
- Universidad de Lleida (UDL)
- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
- Universidad de Valladolid (UVA)
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