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Lucidyne and Microtec

12 2020
Together a Scanning Solutions PowerhouseMicrotec’s recent acquisition of Lucidyne has created a global lumber scanning powerhouse. Worldwide, Microtec has demonstrated success across a range of scanning solutions, and Lucidyne’s GradeScan is the gold standard for lineal scanning in North America. Gr...

Two new Scanners ordered at once

12 2020
For the Lauterbach site, the Pfeifer Group ordered two board scanners in transverse transport of the type Goldeneye 900 from Microtec. Only at the beginning of the year, a scanner of this type was installed at the Pfeifer site in Kundl.In the summer of 2021, the Pfeifer Group will receive two Golden...

Microtec's solutions in Finland

12 2020
FinScan now sells, installs and maintains Microtec’s scanning solutions in Finland and Eastern Europe“We have joined forces in order to provide at best the Eastern European market with high-quality scanning and software solutions,” says Frank Jöst, CEO of Microtec. “Together with the Finnish FinScan...

'Bridge'

10 2020
A painting that says more than thousand words!For the occasion of Microtec's 40th anniversary and to celebrate our successful 10 years' partnership, System TM sent us a very special gift. A painting, which symbolizes that more than ever it is important to build bridges rather than close boarders. In...

3rd place at the Green Mobility Award

09 2020
Sustainability and Innovation go hand in hand at Microtec!Also this year the South Tyrolean Mobility Award honors outstanding projects for sustainable mobility. Thanks to the e-bike initiative 'Microtec goes Green', we succeeded this year to reach the third place out of 24 submitted projects!For yea...

IT'S SHOW TIME!

09 2020
Just one step before the unveiling!For 40 years, Microtec has brought exciting innovation to the market, combining research, science, and creativity to set the tone for a technological future.In the last few months, we have faced particular challenges that allowed us to consolidate our position as a...

Frank Jöst takes over the position of CEO

08 2020
Frank Jöst replaces Federico Giudiceandrea as CEO at Microtec.Frank, who has now been with the company for 20 years, has been responsible for the day-to-day business of the company for over ten years and has also been Co-Managing Director since 2016."As always, the customer and his needs have been a...

Sawmill 4.0 becomes digital reality in Sweden's largest pine sawmill

08 2020
The Swedish group SCA relies again on the innovative technologies of Microtec.The largest project in the company's history to date was achieved in the course of several orders. Scanners from Microtec are now being used at all production stages of the SCA Bollstabruck sawmill."We are very pleased wit...

Learning by doing at Microtec

07 2020
Particularly in these uncertain times, it is important to us to give young people the opportunity to gain their first professional experience within our company and offer them an insight into day-to-day working life.Therefore, we are pleased to welcome 20 interns at Microtec who will spend their sum...

E-bikes for our employees

05 2020
We did it again! With May more than 50 employees in Brixen and Mestre were equipped with an e-bike from Papin Sport for the upcoming months.Since the beginning of the reconstruction work in 2019, very few parking spaces have been available for the employees. Therefore we started to look for an alter...

Microtec Acquires Lucidyne

04 2020
In a move that creates the largest wood products scanning company in the world, Microtec has acquired Lucidyne Technologies, Inc.Microtec has been delivering technologically advanced scanning and optimization systems for 40 years, and is the premier scanning company across Europe. Lucidyne has been ...

Covid-19 Package of Measures

03 2020
Covid-19 presents us all with unprecedented challenges!The health of our employees and our customers is our top priority. We have therefore taken extensive safety measures in order to continue our work in the best possible way. These are constantly reviewed, communicated and adjusted daily to the re...

40 Years of Microtec, 40 Years of Innovation

03 2020
High-Tech for the Wood IndustryWhether in Europe, North America, Asia or New Zealand, Microtec has been setting the standards in the wood industry all over the world since 1980.For exactly 40 years now, the Brixen-based company has been implementing technologically unique scanner and optimization so...

E-bikes instead of cars...

10 2019
...a pilot project with potential for success!During this year's conference on "Cycling and Economy" our Managing Director Frank Jöst showed what we do for our employees so that they can reach their workplace by bicycle and thus make an active contribution to a better climate.In addition, the 'Bicyc...

...et le gagnant est?

10 2019
Le plus ancien système de mesurage de bois rond!Au cours des derniers mois, Microtec a « traqué » le mesureur de bois rond le plus anciens encore en service. Après la fin de notre concours, nous sommes heureux d'annoncer le gagnant de notre tirage au sort.Le gagnant est la société Holzwerke Weinzier...

It is always worth taking a look

08 2019
'It’s always worth taking a look' - that is what the 14 interns think about spending their summer at Microtec. For many of them it is already their second or third experience in the company, because they have learned to appreciate their colleagues and simply enjoy their work.Whether in Administratio...

Microtec goes Green

07 2019
Microtec is pushing forward with the transformation into the electric future of the company by investing in e-bikes for its employees. With this ‘green solution,’ we want to achieve mainly three main objectives: easying journeys between home and the workplace, offering a fun way to exercise more, an...

Auf der Suche nach der ältesten Rundholzmessanlage

07 2019
Microtec macht Jagd auf die ältesten noch im Einsatz stehenden Rundholzmessanlagen!Haben Sie das älteste bei Microtec erworbene Rundholzmessanlage noch im Einsatz? Dann nehmen Sie jetzt an unserem Gewinnspiel teil und gewinnen Sie einen Gutschein im Wert von 10.000€ für den Ankauf eines neuen Messge...

Nov 25, Microtec received a recognition award

11 2018
Microtec - an innovative and winning companyIt feels great to have our team's hard work and dedication awarded by the Consulate of Bolzano of the "Maestri del Lavoro" (lit. Masters of Labour)!On the 25th of November, in occasion of the 71st Autumn Fair, the “Maestri del Lavoro” of the province of Bo...

Sawmillers love ice hockey! So do we! #teamplayer

09 2018
We share the passion for the sport and are proud of the South Tyrolean ice hockey team actually playing in the Champions Hockey League.What a Bolzano!HCB Südtirol Alperia has presented a successful start in the new season of Champions Hockey League. The reigning champion of Erste Bank Eishockey Liga...

Fiskarheden buys CT Log solution

01 2018
It has always been a sawmiller's dream to be capable of seeing inside logs before they are sawn, explains Olle Larsson, CEO of Swedish sawmilling company Fiskarheden. Why so? Logs are a natural raw material whose properties may vary a great deal. To make the best use of this resource, it is, therefo...

CERN Superconductor Hackathon with Microtec

09 2017
South Tyrolean enterprise doing research with CERN scientists on solutions for fruit scanners with superconductor technologyIn the framework of the project “Identification of application fields for superconductor technology” and the corresponding “CERN Superconductor Hackathon“, South Tyrolean enter...

Paul Durst Award 2017

09 2017
At the seat of the University of Padova in Brixen, young scientists are awarded for special merits in research in the field of Bioengineering. Every year in September, Microtec and the association "Friends of the University of Padua" make this special award available, in memory of one of the founder...

Summer of trainees at Microtec

08 2017
Summertime has always been the time of the trainees at Microtec. Also this year. Overall 8 youngsters have meet and came with us in recent months. In this time they have gained insights into the various departments of Microtec. From our point of view the trainees have always been an investment in th...

Microtec CEO new president of South Tyrolean Enterpreneurs Association

06 2017
On Tuesday, June 7, Microtec's CEO Federico Giudiceandrea was elected president of the South Tyrolean Enterpreneurs Association. In the course of the plenary assembly of the association, Dott. Ing. Federico Giudiceandrea has been elected unanimously to head the association Unternehmerverband Südtiro...

Piveteau Scierie signs sales contract for CT Log at Ligna

05 2017
The French sawmilling company decided to upgrade its log yard with a Microtec CT Log Industrial Computed Tomography Scanner and signed the official sales contract today at the Microtec booth at Ligna Piveteau Scierie with its production site based in Sainte Florence and long-term customer of Microte...

Peter C. Matthews, father of scattering, passed away

04 2017
Microtec regrets the sad announcement that Peter Charles Matthews, one of the fathers of the tracheid effect, passed away last Saturday, aged 74, following a short illness.  Peter C. Matthews and Berry G. Wilson discovered the grain deviation effect that laser light has on wood. Their collaboratio...

New certificates for strength grading of T classes according to EN 14081

03 2017
Microtec got new approvals for its machine settings for strength grading according to EN 14081 (Europe).In order to establish uniform rules for the visual and machine strength grading of European larch, Douglas fir and Scots pine boards, the Association of Austrian Wood Processing (WKO) launched the...

Norra Timber buys CT Log

03 2017
Norra decided to fit their sawmill in Sävar also with a Microtec CT Log, in order to further increase the value of each log - at an infeed speed of 180 meters per minute. At every sawmill, the dream has always been to be able to see inside the log before it is sawn. Why? Because saw logs are a biolo...

VMK Sweden approves Logeye for grading in Sweden

03 2017
Microtec's customers are allowed to grade logs according to the Swedish requirements. The Logeye technology gives all the information needed for an objective, reliable and fair assessment of the log price - independently if the logs are in bark, debarked, frozen or with snow on the surface. The VMK ...

Microtec Open Day

01 2017
On January 13th, 2017 Microtec presents its first Open Day in Mestre, Venice, and everybody is welcome.  Visitors may discover our working spaces, our scanners and optimization systems in action and meet up with our excellent team of software engineers. Microtec introduces the first edition of Micro...

Stereoscopic camera revolutionizes log measurement on trucks

11 2016
Linköping, Sweden. The Swedish startup company Cind AB has developed a product for precise 3D measurement of stacks on log trucks and has delivered a pilot plant toTrätåg. The system is based on stereoscopic technology developed by Sweden´s fighter aircraft manufacturer Saab AB. The Cind system accu...

SIAM publishes CT scanner article of Giudiceandrea, Katsevich & Ursella

11 2016
SIAM News, the newsjournal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics is considered on of the most important journals in its field.It's current issue features the article "A Reconstruction Algorithm is a Key Enabling Technology for a New Ultrafast CT-Scanner" written by Federico Giudicean...

2016 Marcus Wallenberg Prize to Federico Giudiceandrea

10 2016
CT scanner for whole tree logs receives scientific award The Marcus Wallenberg Prize 2016 is awarded to Alexander Katsevich and Microtec CEO Federico Giudiceandrea for the development of the CT Log 360° Scanner. The prize winners will receive their diploma from the hands of His Majesty the King of S...

Logeye: certified scaling for trade in North America

10 2016
Microtec installs first government certified legal-for-trade log scanner in North America The first log scanner in North America to be certified by government for trade has recently been installed in a Canadian sawmill, and is being used for log scaling and payment. Microtec Logeye is the first scan...

July 7-8 40th anniversary of VEH

07 2016
40th Anniversary of the Association of the European Planing Industries (VEH) "Microtec offers first-class scanning solutions for planer mills" states Christian Ebner from Microtec "especially our Goldeneye Multi-Sensor Quality Scanners series." Mr. Ebner will be representing Microtec at the VEH even...

July 1st, Weihenstephaner Forsttag 2016 with Speaker Dr. Andreas Rais

06 2016
Die Douglasie – Warum lieben wir sie? Warum fürchten wir sie? Wie können wir mit ihr leben? Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of applied sciences The Weihenstephaner Forsttag 2016 focusses on fast-growing tree species Douglas-fir in all its facets. Andreas Rais from Microtec, Brixen, wil...

New Microtec office in Venice

09 2015
On September 30th, 2015 the newly acquired Microtec office building in Venice has been inaugurated. The office will now serve as new quarters of the engineering team in Venice. Political representatives, Microtec partners, and friends attended the inauguration ceremony.“Buying the former city librar...

Paul Durst Award

09 2015
At the seat of the University of Padova in Brixen, young scientists are awarded for special merits in research in the field of Bioengineering. Every year in September, Microtec and the association "Friends of the University of Padua" make this special award available, in memory of one of the founder...

Optimized strength grading of spruce from northern Europe

05 2015
Technology: Microtec’s grading machines perform many combinations to grade in strength classes. This means that the output is an essential increase of yield. Since October of 2014 there are available optimized machine settings for all grading machines to grade spruce from northern Europe. Spruce (Pi...

Ten Oaks: New Scanner for chop optimization

03 2015
The plant of Ten Oaks hardwood flooring company is situated in Stuart, Virginia in the beautiful foothills of Blue Ridge Mountains where they source the finest Appalachian hardwood. Now in its fourth generation, the family owned company holds extensive experience in forest products and provides fami...

First accreditation for machine grading of hardwood

01 2015
Microtec is the first producer in Europe to be allowed to grade chestnut by all its stress grading machines according to EN 14081. We are officially certified to grade with the following grading machines: Viscan, Viscan Compact, Viscan-portable (with and without scale) chestnut (castanea sativa) gro...

Paper of international Conference in Rogow

12 2014
Forestry and Wood Technology N° 82, 2013: 31-38 (Ann. WULS – SGGW, For. And Wood Technol. 82, 2013) Abstract: Modulus of elasticity tension/bending ratio of polish grown pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and spruce (Picea abies Karst.) timber. A representative sample of Pine and Spruce grown in Poland of t...

ADI Design Award for Goldeneye

12 2014
Microtec and the design studio MM Design in Bozen, are proud to receive one of the most prestigious Italian Design Awards, the ADI Design Index. The prize goes to the Multi Sensor Quality Scanner Goldeneye 300. This scanner has been developed for application in high-speed sawmills. Goldeneye Multi-S...

Optimized T-Classes for glued laminated timber

09 2014
With the publication in the Official Journal of the European Union 2014/C 259/1 on 8.8.2014 the new harmonized standard EN 14080:2013 for glued laminated timber and glued solid timber is applicable with Microtec machine grading systems. Already in March 2014 Microtec got the approval for optimized m...

Optimized Strength Grading Classes

09 2013
Microtec sorting machines grade accroding to new UE standard for glued laminated lumber. Starting on June 26th, 2013, the new European Standard EN 14080:2013 is available. The grading of the lamellas for glued laminated timber occurs on basis of the three specific properties: tensile strength, E-mod...

Microtec gets strength grading accreditation for black pine from France

08 2013
France accepts and officializes new machine settings according to the Standard EN 14081.Microtec is the first machine manufacturer, enabled to grade dried and green European black pine from France according to EN 14081. During the last session of the European standard settings association CEN/TC124/...

Microtec CEO Federico Giudiceandrea was awarded with the 2013 Schweighofer price

06 2013
Dott. Ing. Federico Giudiceandrea from Microtec, Italy was awarded with the 2013 Schweighofer price for his outstanding lifetime work. For over 30 years, Giudiceandrea has been a driving force behind groundbreaking new developments in electronic measurement and control systems for the wood processin...

Accreditation for strength grading of larch

05 2012
BOIS-LAB is a transnational project supported by the provinces of Turin, Italy, and Savoy, France, and partially financed by the French-Italian cooperation program ALCOTRA 2007-2013.Microtec’s project partners are Agroselviter, a department of the University of Turin, the region Piedmont and the res...

Strength grading settings for EN 14081-4

04 2012
A paper to shed light on the machine strength grading of sawn wood in Poland and in Europe has been published in the “Annals of Warsaw University of Life Sciences”. The authors of the acknowledged paper are Dr. Krzosek, ordinary professor of the faculty for wood technology at the University of Life ...

M3 Scan inline moisture meter is best in class

07 2011
Martin Nilsson compared three in line moisture meters in his master thesis at the LTU (Luleå University of Technology). 45 identical pieces of wood were available for the calibration of the three moisture meters. The test consisted in assigning to moisture thresholds for 20 boards for each quality c...

Fully automated and certified strength grading

05 2011
According to the European Standard for strength grading EN 14081-1, the machine strength grading is carried out in two steps: 1) The grading by machine and 2) The visual inspection of the additional features of the wood. Starting today, Microtec solutions for strength grading, such as Viscan and Gol...

European Standard 14081 compulsory from 01/01/2012

05 2011
Europe is anticipating the introduction of EN-14081, the European Norm regulating strength grading across Europe. Starting January 1st, 2012 all construction wood has to be graded and sorted according to the new European regulation. Also, on this date the corresponding National Standards are going t...

Standards AS/NZS 1748 - AS/NZS 4490

03 2011
• AS/NZS 1748.1.:2011 Timber – Solid – Stress-graded for structural purposes, General requirements • AS/NZS 1748.2:2011 Timber – Solid – Stress-graded for structural purposes, Qualification of grading method • AS/NZS 4490:2011 Timber – Solid – Stress-graded for structural purposes – Verification of ...

ALSC Admission for Stress Grading

03 2011
Since November 12th, 2009, further 2 stress grading solutions of Microtec have been officially accredited by ALSC (the American Lumber Standard Committee). Starting immediately Microtec can offer its worldwide-acknowledged laser interferometer solutions, Viscan and Viscan Plus, for accurate MOE/MOR ...

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