CircularWood

Circular economy in wood industry

Summary

This project aims at developing and testing an innovative industrial-scale process to produce high quality recycled wood chips. These wood chips will be produced from used Medium Density Fiberboard (MDF) and other non-hazardous wood waste, by sorting waste and isolating contaminants that cannot be introduced into particleboard manufacturing process. This will guarantee the adequate homogeneity and quality of the fiber compatible with the requirements for its use in most applications of MDF.

Main Activities

Research, Development & Innovation

Productive Investment

Contributes to PPS

Results

– new mapping services – land cover map for 2022, bi-monthly land use and land cover change maps, maps of vegetation cover in fuel management strips;

– new artificial intelligence (AI) models: stock classes (eucalyptus and maritime pine), estimated age classes (eucalyptus and maritime pine), post-fire landscape evolution, occurrence of pests (eucalyptus and maritime pine);

– rural fire risk warning and forecasting platform.

Coordination

Sonae Arauco

Participants

Ecociclo, IKEA, INESC TEC