Laboratories and pilot plants
Wood Science & Technology Laboratory
Infrastructure for basic and applied research on wood and fibre (ultra)structure, properties and advanced wood and fibre biomaterials and products.
Fibres & Wood Composites
Our group works with fundamental and practical questions related to environmentally friendly composites made from sustainable wood and other plant fibers, secondary raw materials, and industrial fibrous side streams
Biomass Technology Center
BTC is a pilot plant for research, development, innovation, and education on the processing and pretreatment of biomass and by-products from bio-based industries.
Research
More coherent Swedish policy needed for restoration of peatlands
The new EU Nature Restoration Law can be an important tool to form a coherent strategy on peatland restoration. A new SLU study shows that todays policies and regulations is fragmented and sometimes contradictory – something that makes it difficult to reach Swedish climate and conservation goals.
Research groups
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Wood Science and Wood Technology
The group of Wood Science and Wood Technology conducts research and education on wood materials and products. -
Biomass Technology and Chemistry
The research at Biomass Technology and Chemistry (BTK) focus on the characterization and refining of biomass to different types of biofuels and other bio-based products. -
Forest operations
Forest Technology focus on the organization and implementation of forest management and processes for industrial raw materials supply, as well as applied methods and technology for this. This includes regeneration, silviculture aspects and harvesting operations management and raw material logistics. -
Business Administration
The research focus covers the wood based value chain as part of a sustainable bio-economy. Our research includes both product and service production with a triple bottom line understanding in a context of global competition. -
Forest policy
Our research in forest policy focuses on institutions, property rights and policies to govern forest resources and to guide decision making towards a sustainable bio-based economy. -
Forest Economics
Forest economics studies the management of forests with the aim of achieving the greatest sustainable benefits to society. Forests produce a multitude of benefits ranging from extractive (e.g. timber) and non-extractive (e.g. recreation, carbon sequestration) uses to non-use values. -
Forest Resource Economics
Our Resource Economics research is centred around two broad areas: the economics of renewable energy, and understanding decision-making processes related to resource and environmental questions.
Research education
With us you will have coworkers from all over the world studying different subjects. Our work cover the entire forest value chain from advanced technology in forest establishment and harvesting to processed products, including knowledge on how these contribute to a sustainable society and a strong bioeconomy.
Research projects
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BioGlue: Competence Centre for Bio-based Adhesives
The vision of BioGlue is to become a worldleading research environment will be accomplished through development of paradigm-shifting knowledge on bio-based adhesives in three research areas: raw materials and formulations, aspects of adhesives, and end-use requirements and sustainability. -
Northern Traffic Lights
Northern Traffic Lights - a digital pan-Nordic platform for road trafficability enabling resilient supply to green industries in a changing climate. -
OptiForValue
Optimising forest operations for sustainable forest management & high-value applications - OptiForValue. -
Climate-adaptive management in Non-Industrial Private Forest Ownership: Decision-making, Policy Options, and Welfare to Advance the Swedish Bioeconomy
This project evaluates optimal adaptation strategies among Swedish non-industrial private forest owners (NIPFOs). -
KnockOnWood
Wooden multi-story construction (WMC) has strong potential to satisfy diverse housing needs of urban consumers, enhance promotion of climate-wise construction within municipalities, and boost competitiveness of the companies in the forestry-wood value-chains. -
NordicForestry
The Interreg Aurora funded project NordicForestry aims to explore and provide options of young forest management methods and technologies that meet the forest owners perceptions and objectives. -
WoodReconstruct
The project will investigate how wood can be used effectively for repairs, temporary housing, and long-term sustainable rebuilding in war-torn Ukraine. It will also strengthen Swedish preparedness within wood building. -
Sustainable Nutrients
Developing sustainable nutrient management practices in the Gulf of Bothnia. -
WaVes
The WaVes (Smart Innovative Biotechnology from Arctic Plant-Derived Waxes and NanoBiomaterials) project aims to harness Arctic spruce and berry waxes, along with plant-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs), by extracting them from natural sources. -
Fish farming in the North
The project aims to investigate if and how rainbow trout and Arctic charr can be farmed sustainably in hydropower dams in northern Sweden from a biological, ecological, social and economical perspective. -
CEforestry
The project CEforestry establishes cooperation among researchers, SMEs and large companies to support industrial symbiosis using forestry biomass residues in a more efficient way. -
Forest biodiversity credits: Advancing societal goals across managed Swedish forests in a global context
This project aims to assess the prospects of financially compensating private landowners for more biodiverse Swedish forests. -
Urban forest and recreation
The increasing number of residents in Swedish cities has resulted in an increasing use of land for city development. The need to provide recreation to citizens has gradually been increasing, causing nearby forests to play an important role as a space for recreation and social interactions. -
Gender equality and climate resilience of West African cacao-dependent households
The purpose of our research is to assess whether improvements in gender equality conditions support enhanced climate resilience of cacao farming-dependent households. -
Have REDD+ conservation interventions prevented degradation and associated carbon emissions in Argentina’s Atlantic forests?
Empirical evaluations of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) interventions have been largely limited to their capacity to reduce deforestation, but neglected avoided degradation (REDD’s second ‘D’). -
Climate off-farm rippled impacts on wellbeing and behavioral resilience: cocoa value-added chains in West Africa
Climate change has direct impacts on farming. These impacts ripple off-farm to also affect the wellbeing of non-farming individuals and families whose livelihoods depend on harvested yields and their co-products. -
AfricanYouth4Forests
The project "AfricanYouth4Forests" (AY4F) represents a dynamic intersection between Africa's forest resources and its young population. -
Fair business development for Non-Timber Forest Products based on local knowledge. Tamarindus in Kenya.
Non Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) provide food and income in combination with carbon storage and forest conservation. However, the market development of such species must be sustainable and benefit local producers.