adding value with forest engineering innovations

Adding Value with Forest Engineering Innovations

Michael Ansell, Director Forestry Commission Business Units

Forestry Civil Engineering

Mechanical Engineering Services

Plant & Seed Supply

Renewable Energy

350 staff

£40 million turnover

2

ROUNDWOOD TIMBER VALUE CHAIN

PlantNursery

GroundPrep

PlantingRestocking

TransportInfrastructureHarvesting

3

Bedlifter

Nurseries

4

Disc Trencher/Continuous Mounding

Ground Prep

5

Strombach Scarifier

Ground Prep

6

Automated Planting

Bracke Planter

7

Valmet Eco

Automated Planting

8

Timberjack/Valmet

Harvesting

9

El Forest

Forwarders

10

Steep Ground Harvesting

Steep Ground Working

11

Tilting Frame Harvester/Ponsse

Harvesting and Steep Ground

12

Survey Vehicle

Infrastructure

13

RUTT (Roads under Timber Transport

Infrastructure

14

LGPV/CTi

Transport

15

Salcey Walkway/North Woods Mountainbike Trail

Recreation

16

Map of Wildlife Video Monitoring Sites

Wildlife Video Monitoring

17

Troup Head

Wildlife Video Monitoring

18

Stress Laminated Bridge

Stress Laminated Timber Bridges

19

Arran Golf Club Bridge

Stress Laminated Timber Bridges

20

Windfarm/Hydro

Renewable Energy

21

Farr Windfarm Infrastructure

Windfarm Civil Engineering

22

Gleann A’Chaolais

Hydro Potential

23

Biofuels and Oil

24

The Future