FPAC Announces 2023 Award Recipients

Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is proud to announce the winners of the 2023 Chisholm Awards for Innovation in Forestry, a national competition that recognizes youth leadership and innovative research developments in the field of forestry.

The Chisholm Awards showcase the game-changing ideas, practices, processes, and

ATTACHMENTS technologies young researchers are developing that have the potential to strengthen the forest sector and help Canada meet its net-zero goals – either in the forest, at production fa-

FAE Introduces New FAE BL4/SSL Forestry Mulcher For Skid Steers

FAE introduces the new BL4/SSL forestry mulcher for skid steers, featuring Bite Limiter and Sonic technologies.

cilities, along the supply chain, or via product innovation.

2023 Chisholm Awards for Innovation in Forestry Recipients

Adrien Gaudelas holds a Master’s Degree in WoodBased Materials Engineering and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Laval University. Passionate about biobased materials from an early age, Adrien is a French engineer from the Graduate School of Wood and

Designed to offer the highest productivity, durability, visibility and ease of maintenance for the operator, the BL4/SSL features the most powerful bite limiter system currently available in the market, complete with the new, ultra-high performing BL MAX blade. This head delivers high productivity and unmatched shredding capacity in vegetation management and is ideal where the agility and compactness of a skid steer is required.

The BL4/SSL is available in VT version and with FAE’s exclusive Sonic technology, which optimizes performance by up to 30% and offers easy calibration, setting and monitoring through a dedicated FAE App for smartphones.

Main applications for the new BL4/SSL include heavy vegetation management in woods and forests, roadside and railway vegetation maintenance, canals, rivers and pond overgrowth cleanup, wildlife habitat protection & food plots, orchard & vineyards maintenance and restoration, maintenance of commercial and residential green areas, parks, trails and green recreational areas.

The details:

• Available in 2 working widths: 62” and 72”

• 12” shredding diameter

• Bite limiter technology with BL MAX blade

• Available in VT and Sonic versions. SP

Source: FAE

Biobased Materials in Nantes, France. Through his various experiences, he has acquired diverse skills from wood supply in the forest to secondary processing of the wood industry. Adrien has committed on a doctoral project that aims to examine the potential application of corrugated wood-based panels in building envelopes to use forest resources more efficiently, propose higher valueadded products for the wood construction industry, and improve the environmental performance of buildings.

“I am very pleased and honoured to receive the FPAC

2023 Chisholm Award for Innovation in Forestry. This award is a recognition of the work I do, in synergy with my colleagues at the Industrial Research Chair on Eco-responsible Wood Construction (CIRCERB), to decarbonize construction. Moreover, I am convinced that increasing the added value of forest products is important to reduce future pressure on the resource and to help sustain the economic growth of the industry, from the forest to the buildings.” –Adrien Gaudelas

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