Forest Products Research and Development Institute

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Security Guard services for the FPRDI employees and properties..........Details

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Supply of laboratory equipment...Details

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Waterproofing of the rooftop of TDC Building, FPRDI...Details

Enzymes can help recycle paper

There is now a safer, more effective and cheaper way to remove ink from (and thus recycle) laser and xerographic printed paper– use enzymes, not chemicals..........Details

Improved bleaching and dyeing methods reach handicraft makers

The country’s handicraft exporters are learning a more effective way to bleach and dye their raw materials, thanks to a joint project of FPRDI and the Philippine Council for Industrial Energy Research and Development (PCIERD)...........Details

FPRDI assists Sorsogon’s furniture and handicraft makers

Help comes to Sorsogon’s furniture and handicrafts industres as FPRDI’s techno-transfer team met with 40 small-scale entrepreneurs in a techno-forum and dialogue held in Sorsogon City last November 15 to 17...........Details

Dr. M.A. Alipon attends US wood adhesives meet

Dr. Marina A. Alipon, Scientist I, enjoyed a rare chance to bond with some of the world’s bonding experts at the Wood Adhesives Conference 2005 held last November 2-4 in San Diego, California............Details

FPRDI helps sanitize wooden pallets

The FPRDI’s furnace-type lumber dryer (FTLD) is used primarily to dry wood so that the moisture content of wood products suits the importing country’s climate. Aside from this, the dryer may also be employed to kill, thru heat treatment, any fungi or insect pest present in raw wood, making it safe as a packaging material for the export market..........Details

Apayao folks train on almaciga resin harvesting

The men and women of Pudtol, Luna, Apayao were pleasantly surprised when they learned from FPRDI trainors that the ancient almaciga trees growing in their land do not just give them shade, wood and clean air............Details

Bamboo veneer lathe study places 3rd in national tilt

Engr. Belen B. Bisana (second from the left) receives a plaque for placing third (in the development category) in the National Symposium on Agriculture and Resources Research Development’s (NSARRD) contest for outstanding R&D papers with her study “Design and fabrication of a bamboo veneer lathe”............Details

FPRDI develops wood protectants from cashew nut shell

Did you know that the cashew tree produces not only tasty nuts but also a special liquid which is used in the manufacture of many industrial products?...........Details

ICT staff trains in Japan

Mr. Joel P. Santiago of the Information and Communication Technology Staff (ICTS) recently completed the five-month training course “Computer Web Application Specialist (Open Source) for e-Government Promotion” held at the Okinawa International Center in Japan...........Details

Kids learn about FPRDI’s waste-using technologies

How does FPRDI use waste materials to create useful products?

Fifty schoolchildren and teachers of the Southville International School and Colleges in Las Piñas City found out in a talk given by Dr. Erlinda L. Mari, Scientist I, during the launching of the school’s “Harmony of Man and Environment” program October 19............Details

Researchers attend international forestry congress

FPRDI chemist Jennifer P. Tamayo and Engr. Allan C. Manalo attended the 22nd International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) World Congress held recently in Brisbane, Australia...........Details

FPRDI joins EU almaciga resin project in Southern Mindanao

Foresters Arsenio B. Ella and Jason Moreno L. Santander, Jr. recently taught a group of Mandaya farmers in the mountains of Kagan, New Bataan, Compostela Valley the right way to tap resin from an almaciga (Agathis philippinensis Warb) tree........Details

Japanese firm saves millions thru correct wood drying

How important is the proper drying of wood to a wood-based export enterprise? It is so important that a Japanese company based in Rosario, Cavite has been able to save Php 166,500 a month (or Php 2 million a year!) since it learned from the FPRDI a better way to dry its raw materials...........Details

FPRDI develops the bamboo veneer lathe

Good news to businessmen who make table tops, panels, floor tiles and handicrafts using thin sheets (or veneer) of bamboo – you don’t have to import your materials forever. An affordable bamboo veneer lathe has been designed by the FPRDI.....Details

New books

Three new FPRDI books have just rolled off the press........Details

FPRDI bags top STARRDEC awards

FPRDI placed first in all three award categories of the 18th Regional Symposium on R&D Highlights of the Southern Tagalog Agriculture and Resources Research and Development Consortium (STARRDEC)........Details

Compostela Valley wood industry gets support

Southern Mindanao’s once thriving wood industry may soon be revived as FPRDI, Regions XI’s Department of Science and Technology, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Department of Trade and Industry, and the Mabini Industrial Tree Plantation Inc. (MITPI) recently joined hands to implement the Integrated Woodworking Development Project......Details

Dr. R. J. Cabangon wins PARRFI award

Dr. Rico J. Cabangon recently won the Philippine Agriculture and Resources Research Foundation, Inc. (PARRFI) R&D Award (research category) for his Ph.D. dissertation “Manual Strand Orientation as a Means of Improving the Strength Properties of Woodwool Cement Boards in the Philippines” (co-authored with the Australian National University’s Mr. Philip Evans and Mr. Ross Cunningham). The awarding ceremony was held during the Los Baños Science Community Foundation Inc.’s observance of the Science and Technology Week..... Details

New Ph.Ds honored

In celebration of the National Science and Technology Week (NSTW), the Science and Education Institute (SEI) recognized DOST’s new Ph.D. graduates in a program dubbed “DOST: In touch with excellence” held last July 15 at the Heritage Hotel in Pasay City.... Details

Dr. Francisco N. Tamolang (1916 –2005)

Dr. Francisco N. Tamolang, the man acknowledged as the “father of the Forest Products Research and Industries Development Commission” (FORPRIDECOM, now FPRDI), passed away due to cardiac arrest caused by prostate cancer last July 11. He was 89.... Details

Day care center using machine-graded lumber opens

The Batong Malake Multi-purpose Day Care Center, a building that showcases FPRDI’s machine-graded lumber (MGL) technology, was recently inaugurated in Los Baños, Laguna along with other new infrastructure..... Details

FPRDI opens wall testing facility

Makers of local prefabricated wall systems can now have their products tested at the country’s first state-of-the-art wall testing facility. Housed at FPRDI’s Structural Design and Engineering Section (SDES), the laboratory was inaugurated last July 1 during FPRDI’s 48th anniversary........ Details

FPRDI turns 48, inaugurates new laboratories

FPRDI recently marked its 48th birthday in a two-week celebration highlighted by the blessing of three new laboratories (for wall-testing, almaciga resin refining, binderless coco coir board production) and the mobile fold-away shelter.... Details

KEYNOTE ADDRESS FPRDI’s 48th Anniversary Celebration

HONORABLE FEDERICO A. LAXA, General Manager, National Housing Authority (NHA)

Allow me to congratulate all the officers and staff of the FPRDI on the occasion of its 48th Anniversary Celebration. I would like to commend the Institute for maintaining a very progressive group of highly skilled technical people devoted to the improvement of technology geared towards the efficient and economical utilization of our country’s forest resources.....Details

FPRDI has 3 new PhD and 2 MS graduates

FPRDI now has 13 PhDs and 41 MS degree holders with the addition of five graduates: Drs. Carlos M. Garcia, Emilia S. Visco and Ma. Cielto G. Siladan; and Ms. Ma. Salome R. Moran and Mr. Ryan Anniver Lapuz... Details

Two Issues of FPRDI Journal Out

Two issues of the FPRDI Journal, Volumes 26 and 27, recently rolled off the press and are now available to interested parties through the Institute’s library... Details

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EXPANSION of FPRDI Network (FPRDI Computer Networking and Internet Connectivity)... Details

FORESPI Position Paper on Log Ban
Forest, a Source of Life...
A Plead for Rationality by the Forest Scientific Community

The typhoon-triggered catastrophe that hit the provinces of Aurora and Quezon last December 2004 shocked the whole nation into realizing that forests need to be conserved for their environmental protection values. Practically the whole populace, including legislators and policy makers, became rabid conservationists overnight and now want to take the radical step of completely stopping forest harvesting activities, commonly known as ‘logging,’ in the entire country... Details

UN-CFC funds cococoir board project

Thanks to an $84,000-grant from the United Nations - Common Fund for Commodities (UN-CFC), the Department of Science and Technology’s Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) and the Netherlands’ Agro-technology and Food Innovations (A&F) can soon showcase the commercial viability of producing the cococoir board... Details

FPRDI studies ways to improve almaciga resin processing

Rural folks who collect and sell resin from the almaciga (Agathis philippinensis Warb.) tree can look forward to better days. FPRDI researchers are studying ways to refine the resin and use it to make high-value industrial products... Details

FPRDI-DOST designs system to grade imported lumber

The current national ban on logging has opened the door for contractors to rely more heavily on imported lumber for their construction needs. To assign quality of the lumber that will be coming in, the FPRDI-DOST has devised a grading method... Details

Training Course on Handmade Papermaking and Converting

The Forest Products Research and Development Institute (FPRDI) of the Department of Science the Technology (DOST), Forestry Campus, College, Laguna will conduct a four-day training course on Handmade Papermaking and Converting on March 28-31, 2005 at the Training and Demonstration Center, FPRDI. The Course is open to all interested hobbyists, teachers, housewives and students. The Course teaches participants the basics of handmade papermaking and provides ideas on the different novelty products that can be made from handmade paper... Details

S&T sector keeps up support for furniture and handicraft makers

Addressing the most pressing research and development needs of the country’s small and medium furniture and handicraft makers continues to be a priority of the S &T sector in 2005... Details