🌳 From wooden bikes to cars: Wood's untapped potential

Jens Isbak

Welcome to this week's newsletter 👋🏻

This week, we're exploring the surprising world of high-performance wood with researcher Maximilian Pramreiter.

We also share insights into Japan's ancient timber culture that still influences modern construction, and highlight useful improvements to Forsler's task management features.

💬 In this week's issue we'll cover:

Foresting Tomorrow #22: Max Pramreiter on wood in automotive applications 🌱
Feature story: From bike frames to car parts: Exploring wood's untapped potential 📊
Success story: Japan's centuries-old timber tradition offers lessons for modern construction 🏯
Product update: Filter and find tasks easily across properties 🔍
Further reading: Sources and insights 🤓

Let's dive in! 🌳
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🎙️ Podcast episode 22: When wood meets automotive engineering

This week, we talked with Max Pramreiter, senior scientist at BOKU University and host of the WoodCAST podcast. From a teenage fascination with wooden bike frames to pioneering research in high-performance applications, Max shares how engineered wood can replace metal in cars with remarkable results.

We explore innovative veneer techniques, how climate change is affecting traditional wood resources, and why future research must focus on whole-tree utilisation and combining different wood species.

🌳 Listen to the latest episode of Foresting Tomorrow here 🌳
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📊 From bike frames to car parts: Exploring wood's untapped potential

While wood has been used for centuries, modern engineering is pushing this traditional material into surprising new territories.

Our article explores how Max Pramreiter's fascination with a wooden bike frame inspired his research into automotive applications, creating components that match the performance of conventional materials while weighing significantly less.

📄 Read the full article here
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🏯 Japan's timber tradition offers lessons for modern construction

With wooden buildings that have withstood earthquakes for over 1,300 years, Japan demonstrates how wood can achieve far more than our imagination often allows.

From the ancient Horyuji Temple – constructed without a single nail in the seventh century – to plans for a 1,148-foot wooden skyscraper in Tokyo, their timber heritage reminds us that innovative wood applications are both our past and our future.

Learn more about Japan's remarkable timber tradition here 🏯
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🔍 Product update: Filter and find tasks easily

News: 14th of March 2025 | Version 2.10.7

Finding exactly the right tasks you need – even across multiple properties – just got much easier. Our latest update allows you to sort and filter tasks with precision, helping you generate exactly the overview you need.

For example, you can now see which harvesting tasks are in progress, then refine by responsible person and time period. Task summaries are displayed in the project board, where you can easily navigate to view task-specific maps.