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The appointment received more than 100 demonstrations, courses, a contest of technological innovation and near of a veintena of conferences

More than 5.000 visitors go through the second edition of Galiforestry 2012

Editorial Interempresas02/07/2012

2 July 2012

The II Forestry Monograph International for the South of Europe, Galiforestry 2012, organised by the Feira International of Galicia in the mountain and installations of the Centre of Learning and Experimentation Agroforestryal of Sergude (Boqueixón), closed the past 30 June his second edition with an upper influx to the 5.000 visitors, revalidating like this the figures of assistance of the past edition. Between these registered professionals from Germany, United Kingdom, Venezuela, Brazil and EE UU.

A total of 93 signatures expositoras of 15 countries (Germany, Austria, Canada, EE UU, Slovenia, Spain, Finland, France, Holland, Israel, Italy, Liechtenstein, Portugal, United Kingdom and Sweden), formed part of the area expositiva of this contest, inaugurated by the secretary xeral do Half Rural and Mountains of the Xunta de Galicia, Tomás Fernández-Couto Juanas, the one who visited again the fair the last day, beside the conselleira do Half Rural and do Mar, Rosa Quintana Carballo.

These companies, many of which situate between the most important in forestry exploitation and aprovechamiento of the biomass, showed to the visitors, between other machines, autocargadores, procesadoras, astilladora, rajadoras, crushers, cranes, multitaladores, telescopic machines, desbrozadoras, saws, stump cutters, tow and forestry tractors, systems to detect fires, dryers of biomass and all type of spare parts and accessories. In total showed more than 200 machines and hundreds of pieces by an upper value to the 10 millóns of euros.

Like this, Galiforestry, one of the three only contests of the Peninsula centred in the forestry field that chose the mountain like place of celebration to give answer to the needs and demands of the sector, converted during three days a real place of work in an effective centre of forestry business and in an attractor trucks shop window of innovations, in addition to in an interesting space for the put in common and the analysis of the sector through his program of activities. All this permitó to Galiforestry, according to the organisation, explain again in this second edition with the satisfaction of the display units, with the high quality of the visitors and also the one of the own visitors.

More than 100 demonstrations and near of 20 conferences

Of parallel form to the exhibition celebrated an attractor trucks program of activities headed to professional. Between them they had a place stood out the more than 100 demonstrations of machinery that realised of form continued and in the cuales could see all type of forestry works realised by the exposed machines, as I demolish, desembosque, astillado, processed, triturado, desbroce, rajado wooden, load and download or detection of fires.

Also had an important paper the technical days, which received near of a veintena of conferences of big interest for the sector and that celebrated during the two first days. Through 20 experts, these conferences treated subjects of big interest for the sector. Like this, in his transcurso spoke of the weight of the forestry sector in Galicia, which invoiceed 1.700 million euros the past year, and of his present and future, indicating that in ten years the wooden volume in the Community increased in almost 60 million m³ by the densificación of the arboreal masses.

Also the forestry certification in Galicia was the central subject of a day that tackled the systems FSC and PEFC and in which the experts pleaded for the certification like garante of a forestry management manager, sustainable and with value added. It was inaugurated by the secretary xeral do Half Rural and do Mountain, the one who stood out the bets of future of the Xunta de Galicia in this matter and underlined in this sense the Law of Mountains of Galicia, which tackles of clear form and detailed the sustainable forestry management and the certification, being this an aim prioritario in the public lines of forestry and compulsory help in the mountains under contract of public management with the Administration.

Tackled besides the sustainable use of the territory, the revalorización of the multiple use of the mountain like indicator of the quality of life and of the sustainable rural development, the planning and management of the Natural Spaces Protected, the industries of first transformation of the wood like source of renewable resources, and also the hygiene in the handle of forestry machinery. With regard to this last subject gave to know that 75% of the forestry accidents are caused direct or indirectly by motosierras. Vicente Tame Fuentefría, responsible of the company Learning and Forestry Learning (Entrefor), entity that carried out this day, was the one who gave to know this data. Likewise, it stood out that 50% of the mortal accidents in the mountain produce during the tala, which considers the critical point of the aprovechamiento forestry.

By this reason, this engineer agronomist and technician in prevention of labour risks, considers that it is very important that the people that work with manual forestry machinery receive a suitable learning respect to his use, to recess these figures. In this sense, during the day given in Galiforestry 2012, spoke to the assistants on the employment of the motosierra, the desbrozadora and the tráctel (tool to vary the fall of the trees).

During the contest also carried out courses of learning centred in the prevention of risks and hygiene in the use of forestry machinery. With a length of 4 hours and composed by three phases (notions, simulations and real practices), formed to near of 50 people.

The technological innovation mark the way

In accordance with the bet of Galiforestry by the innovation in the forestry sector, the monograph received the second edition of his Contest of Technological Innovation, in which it resulted winning a new automatic system of precocious detection of fires in his more initial phase, whose rapidity is due to that it creates his own source of light, with some characteristics that allow him recognise it as its own when it receives it again like consequence of the impact in a column of smoke. The jury awarded him the galardón to this inoovación of the company coruñesa Integrates “by his tecnologia original and by his stood out character emprendedor”.

Automatic system of precocious detection of fires awarded with the first prize in the Contest of Technological Innovation.

Also they were merecedores of quotation the team of desbroce irradiate commando Energreen, of the Catalan company Energreen, that can work in slopes and difficult zones until a maximum angle of 55º, “by his contribution to the hygiene in the work, to the prevention of labour risks and to the accessibility to surroundings dificultosos” and the forestry range electroportátil of Pellenc, with autonomous battery of ion-lithium and broadcast zero common for all the tools, “by his innovative character for the compatibility and environingingmental hygiene”.

The Contest of Technological Innovation rewarded also to the team of desbroce irradiate commando Energreen (izq.), and to the forestry range electroportátil of Pellenc (dcha.).

They presented a total of 11 pertaining innovations to companies of diverse points of Spain and Italy and to signatures of five countries, which were evaluated by a jury formed by seven experts that represented to other so many institutions.