Wood science & Technology Lab

Wood science & Technology Lab

Wood Science and Technology Laboratory is attached to the Wood Science and Technology Division, and it is the only one of its kind with an R&D orientation in Wood Science and Technology in the state.

The laboratory was established in 1980 and had facilities for Wood Preservation, Wood Seasoning, Wood Anatomy and Timber Identification, Wood Quality Assessments, Wood Utilization, Bamboo and Rattan Processing, Bamboo House, Rubberwood processing, Charcoal and Activated Carbon, etc.

The lab is equipped with Sledge Microtome, Leica Image Analysis system, Olympus Dual-view Microscope, Nikon Trinocular Polarized and Fluorescence microscope, Universal Testing Machine, FT-NIR spectroscopy, UV-VIS Spectrophotometer, Refrigerated Centrifuge, Automated Soxtec Extraction System, Homogenizer etc.