Wood Quality Research: SWP Technical Reports 

The NZDFI is a partner in the Forest Growers Research  Specialty Wood Products Research Partnership (SWP).

This is a seven year (2015-2022) government/industry partnership which is managing research into specialty species. Any significant progress in SWP-funded research is reported via Technical Reports, which are all freely available.

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 2023)
• 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)