Scientific Service

          

The Institute provides following services:

  • Consultancy and training to industries on use of new raw materials, processing techniques, economic eco-friendly methods of wood processing and wood utilization

  • In situ advice on problems of factory processes and diagnostic analysis

  • Seasoning, preservative treatment, and sawing of wood on commercial basis

  • Wood identification, testing and quality control of timber and timber products


 

Testing Fee for Timber and Timber Products 

 

Payments :
 


             The payment should be made in advance in the form of Demand Draft payable to Establishment & Accounts Officer, Forest Products Division, Forest Research Institute, payable at Dehradun. The sample along with the requisite testing fee should be sent to:


The Head
Forest Products Division
Forest Research Institute
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) – 248 006 (India)

Phone: 0135 – 2759327
E-mail: kothiyalv@icfre.org


Other Scientific Services : 


             The following resources/ database available at the Institute are of great benefit to various  users of these scientific services:


  • Herbarium with 3.30 lakh plant specimens including carpological collection

  • Xylarium with 8, 500 Indian and 10, 500 foreign wood samples

  • Entomological reference collection with over 23,000 insect species

  • Culture collection of about 1000 isolates of forest fungi

  • Rules for testing seeds of over 80 tree species

  • Database on properties of over 400 timber species

  • Timber price survey of over 15 species in 12 markets

  • 76 volume tables and 26 yield tables

  • Germplasm collection of about 100 medicinal and aromatic plants

  • Arboretum (400 tree species), Bambusetum (30 Bamboo species) and botanical garden

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