Fibre-Gen Instruments Limited

Fibre-gen’s HITMAN tools are the acknowledged gold standard in nondestructive forest wood segregation technologies optimizing returns to forest owners, timber harvesting companies and wood processing industries around the world. Fibre-gen designs, manufactures and markets award winning wood grading tools and provides consultation and expertise which allow the non-destructive measurement of wood stiffness throughout the timber supply chain. “There is huge waste in buying, freighting and processing logs into structural lumber or engineered wood products, only to find the end products fail to meet strength criteria.” The HITMAN PH330 harvester head acoustic tool is an automated, real-time, wood quality measurement tool for harvesting operations. Its ability to automatically scan and measure the stiffness of a tree stem prior to making a critical log length cutting decision on a processor head is a world first. This system uses scientifically proven and patented acoustic technology to test wood stiffness progressively up a tree stem prior to making log cutting decisions. Fibre-gen is committed to maximizing wood quality yields from forests and enabling its clients to significantly improve their business returns through the ongoing development, support and application of advanced sonic technology for measuring wood quality.