Wood Technology Research: SWP Technical Reports 

The NZDFI was a partner in the Forest Growers Research  Specialty Wood Products Research Partnership (SWP). This seven year (2015-2022) government/industry partnership managed research into specialty species, and NZDFI's wood quality research team was able to make substantial progress thanks to the SWP.

NZDFI wood quality research is led by Associate Professor Clemens Altaner. Full details of on-going wood-quality research can be found in our six-monthly Project Updates.

2023 Reports

• Assessment of  E. globoidea heartwood at Avery (Ghildiyahl and Altaner 20223)
• Machinability of 28-year-old Eucalyptus globoidea wood (Scown and Altaner 2023)

2022 Reports

• Genetic variation in collapse and other wood properties of E. quadrangulata at mid-rotation age (Ghildiyahl and Altaner 2022)
• Assessment of NZDFI's 2011 E. quadrangulata breeding populations (Sharma and Altaner 2022)

2021 Reports

• Assessment of E. globoidea heartwood at Ngauma (Sharma and Altaner 2021)
• Assessment of E. globoidea heartwood at Avery (Ghildiyal and Altaner, 2021)
• Feasibility trials - peeling posts from durable eucalypt logs (Boczniewicz, Millen and Altaner 2021)
• Assessing heartwood in E. bosistoana cores from NIR hyperimages  (Altaner, 2021)

2020 Reports

• Heartwood in E. bosistoana (Altaner and Sharma 2020)
• Assessment of E. globoidea wood properties at Atkinson (Nguyen et al 2020)
• Value of veneer, wood fibre and posts from improved E. bosistoana (Altaner 2020)
• Wooden posts - a review (Altaner 2020)

2019 

• Minimising growth strain in eucalypts to transform processing (Altaner 2019)
• Heartwood in E. bosistoana (2009 plantings) (Altaner and Sharma 2019)
• Sapwood depth tool - proof of concept (Nursultanov and Heffernan 2019)

2018 

• Heartwood in E. bosistoana (2010 plantings ) (Sharma and Altaner 2018)
• Prediction of E. globoidea heartwood content using NIR spectroscopy (Kuwabara 2018)

2017 

• Quantifying compounds in heartwood extractives of durable eucalypts (Shroettke et al 2017)
• Potential for growing and processing durable eucalypts in New Zealand (Poole et al 2017)
• Performance of naturally durable posts in Marlborough vineyards (Millen and Altaner 2017)
• Modelling growth of Eucalyptus species on NZ dryland micro-sites (Selakin et al 2017)

2016 

• Heartwood formation in young E. bosistoana (Mishra et al 2016)
• Identification of issues and opportunities for LVL from NZ eucalypts (Riley 2016)
• Measuring growth strain by IR spectrocopy (Gue and Altaner 2016)

Growth modelling reports

• Preliminary juvenile height yield models for three durable eucalypts species by integrating site specific factors (Salekin et al 2020)
• Hybrid growth models for E. globoidea and E. bosistoana (Salekin 2019)