Scientific Service

          

The Institute provides following services:

  • Consultancy and training to industries on use of new raw materials, processing techniques, economic eco-friendly methods of wood processing and wood utilization

  • In situ advice on problems of factory processes and diagnostic analysis

  • Seasoning, preservative treatment, and sawing of wood on commercial basis

  • Wood identification, testing and quality control of timber and timber products


 

Testing Fee for Timber and Timber Products : 

S. No.

Test of the Sample

Testing Fees
1

Plywood as per IS:303, IS: 710, IS:4990 etc., ( Moisture, glue shear     Strength in three conditions and tensile strength.


Rs. 4000 per sample
2 Block board as per IS:1659. Rs. 4000 per sample
3

Particle board( plain, veneered & laminated), fibreboard, insulation board MDF board etc. as per relevent standard ( excluding thermal conductivity, dielectric constant, sound absorption etc.)

 Rs. 4000 per sample
4 Bamboo mat/ Board Rs. 3000 per sample
5 Modified Wood Rs. 4000 per sample
6

Testing of wood adhesive.

(a) Performance of UF, PF, and Polyvinyl  acetate adhesive.

(b) Purity of Phenol/ formalin 

  

Rs. 5000 per sample

Rs. 2000 per sample
7

Physical tests viz., Moisture content specific gravity, weight, water absorption, swelling etc., of wood and wood products.

 Rs. 750 per specimen
8

Physical properties viz., Sound absorption, thermal conductivity, dielectric constant of wood  and wood products.

 Rs. 1500 per specimen
9

Mechanical tests viz., Bending, compression, tension, hardness, shear, nail and screw withdrawal resistance etc., of wood and wood products.

 Rs. 750 per specimen
10 Packing cases and tea chests.  Rs. 1000 per piece
11

Panel door as per IS:1003 (excluding identification of species, checking of chemical treatment, moisture content etc.).

 Rs. 6000 per door
12 Flush door as per IS:2202 and IS:2191. Rs.  6000 per door
13 Type tests on doors as per IS:4020. Rs.  6000 per door
14 Preservative treatment

Rs. 15 per cft  (cost of chemical)
15

Chemical analysis of wood preservative (other than creosote).

 Rs.  1500
16

Chemical analysis of crosote/creosote treated wood.

 Rs. 2000
17

Determination of penetration and retention of preservative in the treated wood.

 Rs. 1500
18

Testing of wood preservatives/fire retardants  (Toxicity/ performance).

a)  Screening tests (leaching & filter paper
b)  Termite mound tests.
c)  Laboratory tests against fungus
d)  Accelerated field tests
e)  Flamability tests
f)  Ignitibility tests
g)  Flame penetration tests

Rs. 3000
Rs. 9000
Rs. 6000
Rs. 9000
Rs. 1500
Rs. 1500
Rs. 1500
19 Moisture content testing Rs. 600 per sample
20

Steam heated kiln blue print & specification

 Rs. 500 per blue print
21 Solar kiln blue prints & specification     

Rs. 1000 per blue print.
22 Seasoning of timber

25% increase over the exiting rates according   to species
23 Testing of joint Rs. 1000
24 Testing of truss Rs. 5000
25 Building/structure per blue print Rs. 1000

         

Payments :
 


             The payment should be made in advance in the form of Demand Draft payable to Establishment & Accounts Officer, Forest Products Division, Forest Research Institute, payable at Dehradun. The sample along with the requisite testing fee should be sent to:


The Head
Forest Products Division
Forest Research Institute
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) – 248 006 (India)
Phone: 0135 – 2759327
E-mail: kothiyalv@icfre.org


Other Scientific Services : 


             The following resources/ database available at the Institute are of great benefit to various  users of these scientific services:


  • Herbarium with 3.30 lakh plant specimens including carpological collection

  • Xylarium with 8, 500 Indian and 10, 500 foreign wood samples

  • Entomological reference collection with over 23,000 insect species

  • Culture collection of about 1000 isolates of forest fungi

  • Rules for testing seeds of over 80 tree species

  • Database on properties of over 400 timber species

  • Timber price survey of over 15 species in 12 markets

  • 76 volume tables and 26 yield tables

  • Germplasm collection of about 100 medicinal and aromatic plants

  • Arboretum (400 tree species), Bambusetum (30 Bamboo species) and botanical garden

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