International Convention of Society of Wood Science and Technology
Research Status
Complete
Notes
June 23-27, 2014, Zvolen, Slovakia, p.761-768
Summary
The mission of the Hardwood Scanning Center at Purdue University is to increase the
global competitiveness of the United States hardwood industry and to conserve the
hardwood resource by development of manufacturing technologies which will enable
hardwood industry to “see inside a tree” and use this information to make better
processing decisions.
The Hardwood Scanning Center partnered with Microtek, GmbH of Italy in the
development of an industrial grade log CT scanner. World’s first three industrial CT log
scanners have been installed in last 12 months in mills around the world and we will
briefly discuss their application. The Hardwood Scanning Center also developed
visualization and optimization software for the hardwood veneer and sawmill operations.
This presentation will provide an overview of state-of-the-art in CT scanning of logs.
