Wood
Overview of the sector
  • Close to 1 million hectares of woodland
  • Wooded area about 30.6%
  • A €2 billion turnover
  • 15,000 jobs in 2,800 businesses
Aprovalbois 2006


Maxime VERMEULEN
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Main organisations


    • FCBA – Technological Institute for Forest, Cellulose, Wood construction and Furniture. The FCBA is competent in all aspects of forestry. The expertise shown at Charrey is particularly developed around the poplar, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), forestry management, resource studies, training and certification. For further information, click here.
    • ARIST (Burgundy Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry): technological monitoring of the wood trade
    • LaBoMaP – ENSAM ParisTech (National Engineering School) in Cluny: Burgundy Laboratory for Materials and Processes, reputed for its research work in the transformation, machining and mechanical characteristics of wood.
    • Laboratoire LE2I of the University of Burgundy has a research team at the IUT (Technological Institute) in Le Creusot, working on industrial computerisation and artificial vision for detection of singularities in wood.
    • Innovation within companies, Drywood process: wood drying process by micro-wave technique.

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