Eucalyptus timber: not just pulpwood

Complementary industrial lines with Eucalyptus wood in Northern Spain
Or how Eucalyptus globulus yields sawn timber, veneer, laminated wood, MDF board and furniture besides high quality cellulosic pulp

Gustavo Iglesias Trabado
GIT Forestry Consulting - Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal - www.git-forestry.com

EUCALYPTOLOGICS

Northern Spain, with a climate similar to Tasmania, shares also part of its landscape

Sourcing with Northern Portugal the majority of all Eucalyptus timber produced in Iberia

And the uses of Eucalyptus wood produced here are as diverse as the trees are


Photography of applied uses for Eucalyptus lumber courtesy of CIS-Madera. (Centro de Innovación y Servicios Tecnológicos de la Madera de Galicia)


Useful Links & Literature on Eucalyptus wood uses in Galicia

• EUROGLOBULUS: Manual de la Madera de Eucalipto Blanco / Eucalyptus globulus Timber Manual

• Nuevas aplicaciones de la madera de eucalipto / New industrial lines with eucalypt timber [PDF, in Spanish]

• Producción de Madera de Sierra de Alta Calidad con Eucalyptus globulus / Production of high quality Eucalyptus globulus lumber for sawmilling [PDF, in Spanish]

• Sistemas de Aserrado adecuados para Eucalyptus globulus Europeos afectados por tensiones de crecimiento / Saw-milling Systems for European Eucalyptus globulus affected by growth stresses [PDF, in Spanish]

• Una propuesta industrial de secado de madera de Eucalipto blanco (Eucalyptus globulus) de Galicia / An industrial proposal for Eucalyptus globulus wood kiln drying [PDF, in Spanish]

• Tecnologías de Secado de la Madera de Eucalipto/Eucalyptus Wood Drying Technologies

• Get "Eucalyptus: wood applications" catalogue for free! detailing finished works that use Eucalyptus globulus sawn timber, architectural wood based boards, furniture and structural elements for indoor and outdoor design. (PDF)

Not just Eucalyptus...

See also a very nice publication by CIS-Madeira on the most common type of timber grown in Northern Spain, the Maritime Pine (Pinus pinaster ssp. atlantica), and its industrial aplications.

ATLANWOOD - Industrial Aplications of Pinus pinaster

Other interesting links...

One to prevent our friend Fernando Sepliarsky, author of a nice paper entitled "Nuevos usos industriales de la madera de Eucalyptus globulus" [PDF] from asking again "so where is the Tasmanian Oak?" and finding no answer

TASMANIAN OAK: Roble de Tasmania in Galicia (NW Spain)

One to illustrate that the key concept of variability in Eucalyptus affects also the several types of eucalypt timber produced using cold hardy frost tolerant species in the Highlands of Northwestern Spain. Not everything is E. globulus.

Cold hardy Eucalyptus timber production in Galicia (NW Spain)


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