The International Conference on Timber Engineering, known as WCTE, is an international benchmark event that aims to disseminate the latest knowledge generated from the research of world experts from the private and academic sectors in timber engineering. This event will be held in Santiago de Chile from 9 to 12 August 2021.

The Cesefor Foundation, a partner of the SustForest Plus project, will participate in WCTE with a paper on the effects of resination on the physical and mechanical properties of Pinus pinaster subsp Mesogeensis.

It has been studied whether there are significant differences between Pinus pinaster wood subjected to resination and Pinus pinaster wood that has not been subjected to resination. Specifically, on the mechanical properties of bending strength, modulus of elasticity and density.

The importance of this study is motivated by the viability of this resinated wood for its structural use, in the same way that non-resinated wood is used. In the same way, if there were significant differences between one and the other, it would open a new field of industrial uses of resinated wood, which would appreciate more certain mechanical properties.

In the future, this study could allow the inclusion of resinated Pinus pinaster wood in the current structural wood regulations, i.e., once the tree has been resinated, its wood could be used to generate beams or elements that form part of wooden structures. Not having this study would exclude this wood for structural use.