Representatives of the Wood Technology Institute (Wojciech Cichy, PhD (Eng), Asst. Prof. Andrzej Fojutowski, PhD (Eng)), who are members of COST Action E31 Management Committee, participated in the conference.
Primary thematic areas touched upon at the conference were:
- market facets of post-use wood,
- characteristics and standardization of post-use wood,
- strategic activities towards increasing the amount of recovered wood,
- issues of designing wood products for a sustainable development.
22 plenary paper were presented at the conference, including those prepared by the ITD representatives – Wojciech Cichy, PhD (Eng) and Magdalena Czajka, MSc (Eng)entitled: „Properties of bio-fuels from post-use wood designed for co-firing with coal”.