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52 International Symposium on Forestry Mechanization, 06 - 10 October 2019, Sopron | Forchtenstein (Hungary | Austria)

The call for abstracts for the symposium 2019 will start early in January 2019. Stay tuned and watch your inbox.

A position as full professor of forest operations specializing on logistics is open at SLU in Umeå, Sweden. The final date for application is 13 January 2019. More information is available at https://www.slu.se/

The 52 edition of the FORMEC symposium will be held in conjunction with the 42 edition of the Council on Forest Engineering (COFE). This is the first time for a COFE meeting taking place in Europe. 2020 will also be joint meeting COFE/FORMEC, but this time it will take place in Oregon (USA).

  • 06 Oct 2019: Arrival and Ice-Breaker
  • 07 Oct 2019: Technical Meeting
  • 08 Oct 2019: Technical Meeting
  • 09 Oct 2019: Field trip to AUSTROFOMA demonstration in Forchtenstein (Austria)
  • 10 Oct 2019: Departure

We are on the news in Finland!

A short summary about the FORMEC 2018 appeared in Finnish. A PDF version of the article can be downloaded her: Ammattilehti_26.pdf

The 51st Edition of the annual International Symposium on Forest Mechanisation FORMEC 2018 has been held at the Forestry Faculty E.T.S.I. Montes, Forestal y del Medio Natural belonging to the Technical University of Madrid (U.P.M.) in September. The motto of this edition included originally the wildfires topic: “Improved Forest Mechanisation: Mobilizing natural resources and preventing wildfires”, a relevant issue in Mediterranean Countries.

51 Anniversary of the International Symposium on Forestry Mechanization: "Improved Forest Mechanisation: Mobilizing natural resources and preventing wildfires" Madrid, Spain 24-28 September 2018