Honey Production from
Eucalyptus
The
Eucalyptus are able to have rich blossoming. The flowers
have many anthers, pollen and nectar. These flowers are very
much loved by honey bees, and they result in a delicious,
abundant and nutritive honey. For this reason, always we
have an Eucalyptus forest, we may have honey bee culture
associated with. There are many farmers who are used to have
partnerships with the forest based companies. The foresters
allow farmers to use the Eucalyptus flowers by cultivating
the bees, and they receive a certain amount of the produced
honey. This honey received by the forest companies is in
general used in social programs with the communities. This
makes the Eucalyptus forests more attractive and productive.
There are Eucalyptus species that yields many flowers, and
others fewer. It is relatively known that Eucalyptus
dunnii tress have few flowers and do not seed well in South America.
For this reason, these forests are not recommended for this
end-use. E.urograndis hybrid has in general many flowers,
but more in forests established with seedlings obtained from
seeds. The clones have flowers, but less than the more heterogeneous
forests obtained from seeds. Clonal forests have small canopies,
because they have been improved by genetics to be very efficient
in terms of photosynthesis. There are clones very productive
and with many flowers when they blossom, and others not as
good for this purpose. For this reason, the production of
flowers for honey bee cultivation is something to be upgraded
by forest breeding, and not discarded as it is being in most
of the forest improvements programs. The College of Agriculture
Luiz de Queiroz, from the University of Sao Paulo, has a
very wide program for developing non-wood products from Eucalyptus
plantation forests. The name of the program is TUME - Test
of Multiple Uses for Eucalyptus. You may visit the TUME websites
at:
http://www.tume.esalq.usp.br
http://www.gfmo.esalq.usp.br/projetos.htm
http://www.esalq.usp.br/destaques.php?id=116.
There are many sources of online information's about
the honey production from Eucalyptus forests. Some of them, we are
offering as euca-links to you:
http://www.agrobit.com/Info_tecnica/alternativos/apicultura/AL_000012ap.htm (Spanish)
http://www.culturaapicola.com.ar/apuntes/floraapicola/aptitud%20melifera%20del%20eucaliptus.pdf (Spanish)
http://www.inta.gov.ar/concordia/info/indices/tematica/cd-manual-prod-eucaliptos/25.pdf (Spanish)
http://www.sada.org.ar/Articulos/Tecnicos/polinizacion_eucaliptus.htm (Spanish)
http://www.remade.com.br/revista/materia.php?edicao=75&id=393 (Portuguese)
http://www.scielo.br/pdf/cta/v22n2/a07v22n2.pdf (Portuguese)
http://www.naturlink.pt/canais/Artigo.asp?iArtigo=139&iLingua=1 (Portuguese)
http://www.febraban.org.br/Arquivo/Servicos/Eventoscursos/Semark_atendbanc/palestras/
S%E9rgio%20Marnio%20Gandra%20Vaz.pdf (Portuguese)
http://www.iac.sp.gov.br/bragantia/volume/5901/1078.pdf (Portuguese)
http://www.bracelpa.org.br/br/social/pdfsocial05/03_cap2.pdf (Portuguese
and English)
http://www.aracruzcelulose.com/doc/pdf/publicacao_050423.pdf (Portuguese)
http://www.veracel.com.br/web/pt/outros/noticias0006.html (Portuguese)
http://sbrt.ibict.br/upload/sbrt233.pdf (Portuguese)
http://www.tume.esalq.usp.br/simp/arquivos/edimilsonbitti.pdf (Portuguese)
www.alpa.org.ve/ojs/include/getdoc.php?id=79&article=42&mode=pdf (Portuguese)
www.alpa.org.ve/ojs/include/getdoc.php?id=87&article=50&mode=pdf (Portuguese)
http://www.ipef.br/publicacoes/scientia/nr29/cap01.pdf (Portuguese)
http://calvados.c3sl.ufpr.br/ojs2/index.php/alimentos/article/view/1159/960 (Portuguese)
http://www.ial.sp.gov.br/publicacao/revista/2003/n1/63.pdf (English)
http://www.ial.sp.gov.br/publicacao/revista/2003/n1/64.pdf (English)
http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/enrc/inquiries/old/enrc/unff/report/util3-06.htm (English)
http://web.uniud.it/eurbee/Proceedings/quality%20control%20residues.pdf (English)
http://www.alimentosargentinos.gov.ar/miel_comisiones/COMISIONES/honey_book-Alberta_Canada.pdf (English)
http://www.coford.ie/iopen24/pub/pub/Reports/NWFP.pdf (English)
http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/invasive/publications/bees/pubs/honeybees-overview.pdf (English)

Genomics in Eucalyptus
Today, there is a huge effort
being placed by R&D in order to better know the Eucalyptus genome. After all,
the genes are highly responsible for the expression of the Eucalyptus
qualities. The knowledge of the Eucalyptus genetic code will allow
faster and more qualified forest trees and wood products improvements.
The identification of some selected genes will speed up the forest
genetic breeding. We have a lot of R&D in Eucalyptus genomics
in Brazil, South Africa, Portugal and Chile, among others. Surely,
many of these investigations are duplications by the scientists,
but the developments in genomics are being fast and in a productive
way. Genetic engineering is another tool being considered and investigated
by the universities and private R&D laboratories. Genetic engineering
should be developed in the correct speed, and with all details
for a very safe procedure. Mainly considering that the Eucalyptus
have a high potential for hybridization and gene transfer from
one species to another. In case of the Eucalyptus, the genes do
not respect the geographical frontiers, no matter they are limits
for farms, or countries. In Brazil, the partnerships between government
R&D agencies, private companies and universities have gained
room for developing the genomics of the Eucalyptus. The goal now
is to relate the gene sequences with the correct expressions of
trees, woods and wood products qualities. In the global scene,
several researchers in the world decided to create a consortium
of Eucalyptus genomics to exchange knowledge and experiences. The
idea came just after the IUFRO Eucalyptus Forest Genetics Meeting
which took place in Hobart/Australia, The consortium houses scientists
from several countries: Brazil, Australia, Japan, USA, Portugal,
Spain, France, South Africa, Belgium, etc.
To know more about genomics in the Eucalyptus,
please visit:
http://www.ieugc.up.ac.za (English)
http://www.ieugc.up.ac.za/founding_meeting.htm (English)
http://www.edpsciences.org/articles/forest/pdf/2002/05/23.pdf?access=ok (English)
http://www.ars-grin.gov (English)
http://www.ipef.br/melhoramento/genoma/english.asp (English)
http://www.funpecrp.com.br/gmr/year2004/vol3-3/gmr0109_full_text.htm (English)
http://www.nature.com/omics/subjects/genomesequenceandanalysis/index.html (English)
http://www.nature.com/omics/index.html (English)
http://dendrome.ucdavis.edu (English)
http://www.genesis.co.nz/Press_Releases/News_Article.php?id=38 (English)
http://www.ipef.br/melhoramento/genoma/pdfs/schmidt98.pdf (English)
http://www.cenargen.embrapa.br/laboratorios/LIMPP/PDFs/01.pdf (English)
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/nreos/forest/feop/Agenda2004/iufro_genetics2004 (English)
http://www.csir.co.za/plsql/ptl0002/PTL0002_PGE100_LOOSE_CONTENT?
LOOSE_PAGE_NO=7009843 (English)
http://www.csir.co.za/websource/ptl0002/pdf_files/nre/2006/forestry.pdf (English)
http://www.cenargen.embrapa.br/pre-melhoramento/Por/prog_por.htm (Portuguese)
http://www.cenargen.embrapa.br/palestras/21102006/21102006_001.pdf (Portuguese)
http://www.cenargen.embrapa.br/palestras/19102006/19102006_011.pdf (Portuguese)
http://www.cenargen.embrapa.br/publica/trabalhos/fn2004/arquivos/23110401.pdf (Portuguese)
http://www.cenargen.embrapa.br/publica/trabalhos/cot091.pdf (Portuguese)
http://www.cenargen.embrapa.br/palestras/18102006/18102006_002.pdf (Portuguese)
http://www.cenargen.embrapa.br/publica/trabalhos/cot121.pdf (Portuguese)
http://www.genmelhor.ufv.br (Portuguese)
http://www.ipef.br/melhoramento/genoma (Portuguese)
http://lcf.esalq.usp.br/lrgfb/arvores.pdf (Portuguese)
http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/11/11144/tde-08032006-141346 (Portuguese)
http://ftp.mct.gov.br/especial/genolyptus.htm (Portuguese)
http://ftp.mct.gov.br/especial/genolyptus3.htm (Portuguese)
http://ftp.mct.gov.br/especial/genolyptus4.htm (Portuguese)
http://ftp.mct.gov.br/especial/genolyptus5.htm (Portuguese)
http://www.lge.ibi.unicamp.br/eucalyptus (Portuguese)
http://www.ufv.br/dbg/bio240/GenolyptusGuilherme42102.htm (Portuguese)
http://inventabrasilnet.t5.com.br/heleuca.htm (Portuguese)
http://atlas.sct.embrapa.br/pdf/cct/v21/v21n1_11.pdf (Portuguese)
http://www.biotecnologia.com.br/biochat/viewchat.asp?id=7&data=06/10/2003 (Portuguese)
http://www.inta.gov.ar/ediciones/idia/forest/genetica12.pdf (Spanish)
http://www.inta.gov.ar/ediciones/idia/forest/genetica01.pdf (Spanish)
http://www.inta.gov.ar/bellavista/info/documentos/forestales/03%20-%20
Taller%20de%20Biotecn.%20Mejoram.%20Forest..pdf (Spanish)

Environmental
Impact Assessment Studies for Modern Pulp Fiberlines
Today,
it is becoming more often the availability of good and transparent
Environmental Impact Assessment Studies and Reports through
the web. The industrial companies want to have a better understanding
coming from the community. For this reason, the transparency
to the interested parties is one of the targets in the new
way to manage environment. As a result of this trend, we all
are able to know more and to better understand these environmental
and technological issues, mainly those related to impacts in
the physical, biological, social and economic segments. In
a recent Eucalyptus Newsletter (number 04), we have introduced
several environmental impact studies for the new mills being
or to be built in Uruguay (Botnia and ENCE). You may visit
this newsletter and find the reports to each of the mills,
and also the cumulative impact study report, since both mills
were originally supposed to be built very close one to another,
in Fray Bentos. Today, the situation in Uruguay has changed.
The Botnia mill is being built at the designed speed and in
the same location, but the ENCE mill will be relocated in the
place and with another size. A new environmental study surely
will be made to the new ENCE project. It is also important
to mention that the original cumulative impact study (December
2005) was made by Malcolm Pirnie & Pacific Consultants.
This report was submitted to a Canadian consultant company,
named Hatfield, to evaluate and to identify potential weaknesses
and opportunities for improvements. All this process was guided
by IFC - International Finance Corporation, a World Bank entity.
IFC had requests from both companies to finance part of the
total investment. Due to the Hatfield report, the first original
cumulative impact assessment was considered to be a draft.
After the report from Hatfield, a new Canadian company, EcoMetrix,
has been requested to review and to rewrite the cumulative
impact study. EcoMetrix has done this task with a group of
international and qualified consultants. The Hatfield report
and the final cumulative impact study by EcoMetrix are available
for downloads. All these reports are valuable source of information
to all people in the pulp and paper sector, for the great contribution
they are bringing for a better understanding of the environmental
impacts of a bleached kraft Eucalyptus pulp mill.
Let's cover all this in the following order:
Original
reports and cumulative impact assessment studies for the ENCE
and Botnia mills in Uruguay: visit the Eucalyptus Newsletter
number 04 and travel on the available euca-links about these
topics:
http://www.eucalyptus.com.br/newspt_may06.html#sete .
You
have the option to enter in the IFC website and to go the page
of the final cumulative impact report from EcoMetrix: http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/lac.nsf/Content/Uruguay_Pulp_Mills_CIS_Final .
It
is also valid to know in details the environmental impact report
from the Botnia mill (Orion project) at: http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/lac.nsf/Content/Uruguay_PulpMills_Background_Docs
Finally,
the draft report on cumulative impact assessment from December
2005, prepared by Malcom Pirnie and Pacific Consultants, the
basis for the other reports, is also available at the IFC website:
http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/lac.nsf/AttachmentsByTitle/Uruguay_PulpMills_Part1/$FILE/CIS_Part1_UruguayPulpMills.pdf
Report
from Hatfield Consultants, a study made by L.Wayne Dwernychuck
and Neil McCubbin:
http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/lac.nsf/AttachmentsByTitle/Uruguay_ExpertsReport_Oct06/
$FILE/Uruguay_ExpertsReport_Oct06_English.pdf (English)
http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/lac.nsf/AttachmentsByTitle/Uruguay_ExpertsReport_Oct06_Spanish/
$FILE/Uruguay_ExpertsReport_Oct06_Spanish.pdf (Spanishl)
Report
from the Canadian consulting company EcoMetrix, the final version
for the cumulative impact assessment study:
http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/lac.nsf/AttachmentsByTitle/Uruguay_CIS_Oct2006/
$FILE/Uruguay_CIS_Oct2006.pdf (English)
Another very famous and well-published undertaking
on Eucalyptus pulp manufacturing is known as the Gunns
Bell Bay project, a mill to be built in Tasmania/Australia. Gunns at Bell
Bay is claiming to be the greenest and the most technically advanced
pulp mill in the world. This is surely something that needs a careful
comparison to other very modern and sophisticated fiberlines, as
well. The new mill will be located in a region very attractive,
with natural beauties and tourist landscapes. For this reason,
very extensive studies are being made, to guarantee the construction
of a minimum impact mill, with the most modern and available technologies.
Know more about Gunns and its Bell Bay project:
http://www.gunnspulpmill.com.au (English)
http://www.gunnspulpmill.com.au/iis/default.htm (Draft
of the Environmental Impact Study, in English)
http://www.gunns.com.au/downloads/FMS_10_LR.pdf (English)
http://www.pulpmill.tas.gov.au/factsheets/TheFacts.pdf (English)
http://www.rpdc.tas.gov.au/projects_state_signif/pulp_mill/pm_docs/pm_index.htm (English)
http://www.rpdc.tas.gov.au/projects_state_signif/pulp_mill/pm_dwnl/Project_Scope_Revised_260805.pdf
(scope of the Bell Bay project, in English)

Environmental Legislation for Modern Pulp Fiberlines: a
Study Made Available by the Tasmania Government
The Bell Bay project from Gunns demanded a very
wide range of pre-feasibility studies. Australian authorities have
been very concerned about the potential impacts of the project.
At the same time, the Tasmanian authorities were favorable to the
project, as far as the mill could represent the best available
technology, and running according to the best environmental practices.
The process to evaluate all these issues was requested to be as
transparent as possible to all interested parties. To guarantee
this communication process, there are two websites available to
general public:
http://www.rpdc.tas.gov.au/projects_state_signif/pulp_mill/pm_docs/pm_whats_new.htm
and also http://www.pulpmill.tas.gov.au/index.htm
In
the studies, we may find good reports about the best environmental
practices for pulp making, best available technologies, comparisons
to other mills in the world, and surprisingly excellent reports
about environmental legislation applicable to similar mills in
a world basis. All these studies had the goal to provide knowledge
for the environmental guidelines to Gunns mill. The RPDC - Resource
Planning & Development Commission consists in an independent
commission that had the mission to coordinate these studies.
The commission decided to get the required information through
an international and well qualified group of experts on environmental
issues. The follow up of the generated documentation is very
open, and RPDC accepts contributions and comments from the interested
parties. The major part of the study has been requested to a
consulting company, Beca Amec, including the definitions of the
guidelines and environmental control standards to be fulfilled
by the new mill. Mr. Roberto Miotti, a good friend of mine, had
a significant contribution to these studies. These indispensable
studies are made available as online reports, vital to all pulp
and paper community. Something that nobody can miss.
The documentation on environmental legislation is unique, an excellent
comparison about pulp and paper mill controls, all over the world,
mainly in the leading environmental performance pulp mills. Please,
visit these recommended websites:
http://www.rpdc.tas.gov.au/BEKM/pages/bekm_final_report.htm (English)
http://www.rpdc.tas.gov.au/BEKM/pages/bekm.htm (English)
http://www.rpdc.tas.gov.au/BEKM/docs/Final_Report_Vol1.pdf (English)
http://www.rpdc.tas.gov.au/BEKM/docs/Final_Report_Vol2.pdf (English)
The scope for the studies on impact assessments
are also very good to be known by all interested people:
http://www.rpdc.tas.gov.au/projects_state_signif/pulp_mill/pm_docs/pm_reports_publications.htm (English)
http://www.rpdc.tas.gov.au/projects_state_signif/pulp_mill/pm_dwnl/
Report_on_Final_Scope_Guidelines_for_the_IIS.pdf (English)
http://www.rpdc.tas.gov.au/projects_state_signif/pulp_mill/pm_dwnl/Final_IIS_guidelines2.pdf (English)
http://www.rpdc.tas.gov.au/projects_state_signif/pulp_mill/pm_dwnl/Further_comment_24_10_05.pdf (English)
http://www.rpdc.tas.gov.au/projects_state_signif/pulp_mill/pm_dwnl/Draft_Guidelines_060405.pdf (English)
http://www.rpdc.tas.gov.au/projects_state_signif/pulp_mill/pm_dwnl/
Integrated_Assessment_Information_Brochure_130706.pdf (English)
Other
valuable reports and documents, all very rich on knowledge and
information have also been made available by RPDC, as below.
Another website specially designed by the Tasmanian authorities
has also the objective to inform the society about the project (http://www.pulpmill.tas.gov.au/index.htm):
a
selection of reports on the best available technologies, mainly
about the ECF and TCF bleaching sequences:
a study about the health of workers in bleached kraft pulp mills, both ECF
and TCF sequences
a
leaflet "preparing a world class pulp mill"
a
report from visits to China, Europe and Canada
reports
about the requirements to be fulfilled by companies in countries
that are adherent to the Stockholm Conference on Persistent
Organic Pollutants (POPs)
Literatures and Events
about the Eucalyptus
We are providing very good links on publications about the Eucalyptus,
which have been made available in the web. There are valuable
photos and texts. Have a look on them.
Literatures
Handbook "Plantio
de eucalipto na pequena propriedade rural" - Embrapa Florestas
- 2000
"Australia
forest profile: eucalyptus forests" – National Heritage
Trust - 2005
"Manual
para productores de eucaliptos en la Mesopotamia Argentina" -
INTA Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria , Concordia,
Argentina - 1995
"The
Hardy Eucalyptus page: how to grow an eucalyptus as an ornamental
plant"
"Proceedings
of the International Conference on Timber Plantation Development" -
FAO Forestry - 2002
"Development
of eucalyptus plantations: an overview" - FAO Forestry - 1995
"Producao
da silvicultura brasileira" - IBGE Instituto Brasileiro de
Geografia e Estatistica ( Portuguese)
Important events with speeches for downloading
Please, find valuable speeches in the selection of
events we have to you:
Course "Wet
end chemistry" - ATCP Chile 2006
"
I Simposio de tecnicas de plantio e manejo
de Eucalyptus para uso multiplo", an event by the TUME (Test
for Multiple Uses of Eucalyptus) and GELQ (Group of Studies Luiz
de Queiroz - www.gelq.com.br)
"
II Simposio Ibero-Americano de Eucalyptus globulus" - (videoconferences
available in Spanish , Portuguese or English)
CIADICYP's
- Congresos Ibero-Americanos de Investigadores de Celulosa y Papel
The CIADICYPs consist in a series of events that
occur in a two years basis. The main participants are university
professors, researchers from technical institutes and private industry,
suppliers and other interested people. Most of participants are from
Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Cuba, Uruguay,
Spain and Portugal, but we have people from other countries, too.
It is a rule to change the meeting location from one congress to
another, and till now, we had CIADICYPs in the following countries:
Argentina, Brazil, Spain and Chile. The main promoter of the CIADICYPs
is RIADICYP - Red Ibero Americana de Docencia y Investigacion en
Celulosa y Papel. This network has always the enthusiasm and the
leadership of professor Maria Cristina Area from Universidad Nacional
de Misiones, Argentina.

Technical
Mini Article by Celso Foelkel
Modern
Bleached Kraft Eucalyptus Pulp Fiberlines