12th HARDWOOD

The organizing committee of the 12th Hardwood Conference would be pleased to receive high quality abstracts on all subjects concerned with hardwoods. The conference will feature key-note speakers, technical and poster presentations on various topics with special emphasis on hardwoods, including:

• Hardwood resources and assessment
• Hardwood forest management: challenges and opportunities
• Hardwood: stemwood characteristic, their manipulation and interrelation to wood properties
• Hardwood structure and properties
• Plantation wood
• Regulation of Timber Trade
• New aspects of the hardwood processing chain
• Drying, modification & functionalization
• Machining & Manufacturing
• Durability, biodegradation and preservation
• Hardwood in composites and engineered materials
• New hardwood product approaches
• Product design and marketing initiatives
• Role and place of hardwoods in the circular economy

    Etc.

Deadline for abstract submission is 13 March 2026. 

Two full-paper publication options are open for the participants.

• Option one is to publish in the Conference proceedings, which will be submitted for evaluation in the Web of Science database. Proceedings of 8-9-10-11th Hardwood Conferences are already accepted and indexed by the database. Please find more information at the conference website.

Submission deadline: 30 April 2026 

• Option two for full paper publication is to publish in a Special Issue of the journal Forests (MDPI, Q1, IF: 2.5). APC has to be covered by the authors.

Submission deadline: 30 September 2026

More details at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/BUGT086E64

Conference proceedings will be submitted for evaluation in the Web of Science database. Proceedings of 8-9-10-11th Hardwood Conferences are already accepted and indexed by the database.

Keynote speakers and presentations at the conference:

• Joris van Acker (Ghent University): Hardwood Products from Fast-Growing Trees
• Holger Militz (University of Göttingen): After Decades of Research in Wood Modification: Current Realities and Future Perspectives
• Christian Hansmann (Wood K Plus): Redefining the limits of Hardwood: From Advanced Manufacturing to Space
• Attila Borovics (University of Sopron): Recommendations for adaptive forest management, especially for hardwood species in Hungarian perspective

Registration for the event is now open, please use the online tool available at the following link: https://indico.uni-sopron.hu/e/hardwoodconference2026

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