MuD SALIX AFS

Find­ings from the ar­eas of wil­low breed­ing and cul­ti­va­tion, the plan­n­ing and estab­lish­ment of AFS, the op­ti­mi­sa­tion of the agri­cul­tu­r­al pro­cess chain from har­vest­ing to dry­ing and pro­cess­ing the wil­low rods, the ex­trac­tion of sal­i­cy­lates from the wil­low bark and the util­i­sa­tion of wil­low wood as end­less solid wood thread and wil­low wood tex­tile for use in con­struc­tion and prod­uct de­sign are be­ing com­bined and put in­to prac­tice for the first time. At 4 lo­ca­tions with dif­fer­ent soil and cli­mat­ic con­di­tions, the find­ings are to be im­ple­ment­ed for the first time as a mod­el in or­der to de­mon­s­trate the plant cul­ti­va­tion, eco­log­i­cal, eco­nom­ic, ma­te­rial and labour ma­n­age­ment po­ten­tial of this sys­tem along the en­tire val­ue chain. The gap be­tween re­search and prac­tice will be closed and prac­ti­cal so­lu­tions will be im­ple­ment­ed that will serve as a blueprint for other lo­ca­tions. The prac­ti­cal re­sults and ex­pe­ri­ences are pro­cessed and publi­cised in an ap­pli­ca­tion-ori­ent­ed and ef­fec­tive man­n­er. Cont­in­u­ous public re­la­tions work guar­an­tees a trans­par­ent pre­sen­ta­tion of the pro­ject and ac­tive con­sul­ta­tion with all stake­hold­ers along the en­tire val­ue chain. Prac­ti­cal­ly rel­e­vant find­ings are com­mu­ni­cat­ed through the broad net­work of pro­ject part­n­ers. Ex­per­i­men­tal plots are be­ing cre­at­ed at the fol­low­ing lo­ca­tions:

BAU KUNST ERFIN­D­EN leads the con­sor­ti­um.

Speak­er: Prof Heike Kluss­mann

Pro­ject ma­n­age­ment: St­ef­fi Sil­ber­mann, st­ef­fi.sil­ber­man­n@asl.uni-kas­sel.de

The MuD SAL­IX AFS is di­vid­ed in­to the fol­low­ing 5 sub-pro­jects:

• TV 1: 2222HV048A | Ti­tle: De­vel­op­ment of a plant mo­d­ule for the pro­duc­tion of wil­low threads and eco­nom­ic and eco­log­i­cal in­vesti­ga­tion of AFS | Uni­ver­si­ty of Kas­sel (Re­search Plat­form BAU KUNST ERFIN­D­EN FB06, FG Tren­nende und Fü­gende Fer­ti­gungsver­fahren FB15, Fachge­bi­et Ökol­o­gisch­er Land- und Pflanzen­bau FB11, Lehrs­tuhl Be­trieb­swirtschaft FB11)

• TV 2: 2222HV048B | Ti­tle: Pro­cess­ing wil­low thread in­to se­mi-fin­ished tex­tile prod­ucts | Hof Uni­ver­si­ty of Ap­plied Sci­ences (In­sti­tute of Ma­te­rials Sci­ence)

• TV 3: 2222HV048C | Ti­tle: Agri­cul­tu­r­al pro­cess chain/wil­low bark util­i­sa­tion | Leib­niz In­sti­tute for Agri­cul­tu­r­al En­gi­neer­ing and Bioe­con­o­my e.V.

• TV 4: 2222HV048D | Ti­tle: Se­lec­tion and pro­p­a­ga­tion of wil­low types and ma­n­age­ment of the AFS Gotts­büren | Den­dro­quant GmbH

• TV 5: 2222HV048E | Ti­tle: De­vel­op­ment of a pro­to­type for in­dus­trial wil­low fi­bre pro­duc­tion | Hein­rich Ku­per GmbH

The MuD SAL­IX AFS is part of the na­tion­wide mod­el and de­mon­s­tra­tion net­work for agro­forestry in Ger­many MODE­MA of DE­FAF e.V. (https://agro­forst-in­fo.de/mode­ma)

The MuD SAL­IX AFS is fund­ed by the Agen­cy for Re­ne­w­able Re­sources (FNR) of the Fed­er­al Min­istry of Food and Agri­cul­ture (BMEL).