The two days preceding Expoforest, the largest dynamic forestry fair in the world, will be proportionate to the grandeur of the event. On the 7th and 8th of August, the Ribeirão Shopping Events Center, in Ribeirão Preto, will host the technical meetings of the Brazilian Forestry Week.

One of them is nothing less than the most traditional event in the sector in Brazil and one of the oldest in the world. The Wood Harvest and Transport Seminar reaches its 19th edition with a high-level program.

To open the XIX Seminar on Wood Harvesting and Transport, the first panel will have an expert in mechanization of forest harvesting systems in Brazil. Lonard Santos, director of Master Soluções Florestal, will be the moderator of the panel “World Overview on Timber Harvesting Systems”.

The first panel of the Wood Harvest and Transport Seminar will feature three presentations. The first will be: “Evolution and Development of Forestry Harvesting Systems in North America”, by PhD Chad Bolding, professor and Langdale Endowed Chair in Forest Business, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia (United States); and Joseph Conrad, IV, PhD, Associate Professor of Forest Operations, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia (United States). Then, Rodrigo Palazuelos, Senior Forest Operation Consultant at RP Forest will present “Overview of Different Harvesting Systems in Sloping Areas Used in South America”. And to close the panel content, Leif Nutto, Senior Consultant at Uniquee and Gero Becker, Professor Uni Freiburg and Senior Consultant Unique, will present on “Recent Developments in Timber Harvesting Systems in Europe and Scandinavia”.