I-PAN stands for INNOVATIVE POPLAR LOW DENSITY STRUCTURAL PANEL and its main objective is the design of a breakthrough wood-based lightweight panel, adopting recycled material for about 50% of its volume and 50% poplar wood. To this end, a novel manufacturing process has been designed and innovation to existing resins has been defined in order […]

The IPAN project will be presented at the Final Conference “POPLAR: AN ENDLESS RESOURCE?” which will be held on 30 September at the “State High School “Leardi” in Casale Monferrato in the morning, followed by a visit to the production facility in the afternoon and the technical conference on the project. The conference is for […]

We are glad to inform you that the the papar “Improving OSB wood panel production by vision-based systems for granulometric estimation” will be published soon! Below all references: Authors:Ruggero Donida Labati, Angelo Genovese, Enrique Muñoz, Vincenzo Piuri,Fabio Scotti, Gianluca Sforza – Università degli Studi di Milano. Conference: RTSI 2015 – Research and Technologies for Society and Industry. Turin, 16-18 […]

Save the date in your Agenda: the Final conference will be held on Wednesday 30th September, at Casale Monferrato (AL).

I-PAN consortium is glad to inform you that the Final Conference to explain all activities and results of the project will be held next September, 28th! Save the date!

CHIMAR promoted the activities and achievements of I-PAN project to its stand visitors, at LIGNA fair, Hannover, Germany (11-15/5/2015, Hall 27 Stand G61/1). Representatives from wood-based panel industries all over the world, field institutions, equipment manufacturers and the press discussed with CHIMAR on I-PAN results. LIGNA is the world’s most important event for the timber, forestry, […]

The IMAL-PAL group, world leaders in the supply and manufacture of equipment for the production of wood based panels, will be giving an update on the progress of the European projects which IMAL has been awarded: “HPRS” and “GREENJOIST” which are two LIFE+ projects and “I-PAN”, a project belonging to the FP7 Programme, at 12.00 […]

Ciaotech srl is partner of BIO-MIMETIC project, which is generating a new class of novel bio-derived polymers for application in household products via extraction of natural compounds from renewable resources. BIO-MIMETIC is now in the third year of activities, several results have obtained: Lignin has been extracted from a range of plant sources, enzymes transforming […]

I-PAN project will be presented during the conference “Carbon Wood Storage? Yes Thanks!” to ECOMONDO, the 18th International Trade Fair of Material & Energy Recovery and Sustainable Development, which will be held in Rimini (Italy) from 5th to 8th November 2014. I-PAN will be explained by the Project Coordinator Ing. Lauro Zoffoli and Dr. Enrico […]

ECSC and UMIL attended the IEEE World Congress 2014 on Computational Intelligence held in Beeijing (China) on July 6-11 and disseminated I-PAN project through the participants to the congress. For more information please visit: http://www.ieee-wcci2014.org/