Environmental protection and the fight against climate change have become essential elements to be taken into account for the management of all activities and also a key opportunity for the wood sector. Each player will have to show proof. Wood and environment: the up and coming sector! Nadia Boeglin ENSTIB Engineer, Class 1992 ADEME president’s [...]

After a preparation in biology in Montpellier for entrance to French engineering schools, I began the training at ENSTIB. I then discovered a region, a town and a big family. I had the opportunity to assert my appetite for challenge, an essential driving force leading to satisfaction, through a professional approach of the training provided [...]

Wood material, old as time, is an up and coming material. I have learned to get to know it in every aspect at the ENSTIB. In this School I have developed my project management and leadership abilities. It is a great pleasure for me to be part of this big ENSTIB family and to enable [...]

On February 6th 2009, I was officially awarded the Thèse de la Région Lorraine First Prize at the Moselle area local council for my thesis on “linear wood welding: study and understanding of the physico-chemical modifications and development of an innovative assembly technology”. I would really like to thank all those who have contributed significantly [...]

I am from the North of France and the reason why I came to Epinal was that the ENSTIB trains wood engineers. It was at the heart of the environmental concerns that were arising back then. But I really understood what being an engineer was all about when I arrived at the School. I now [...]

Denis Courcol has lived in Corrèze for a short while. This former automobile engineer has switched to a new field, that of wood, owing to the construction of a house back in 1985. He then changed job and created “Climax Bois” in the same breath. He now builds houses which are virtually energy-autonomous, with natural [...]

Sylviane Piquerez was given the AAUL (Association des Amis des Universités Lorraines) prize “Enterprise Higher Education” on Friday May 29th for her 3rd- year internship project on EC marking within the SIAT-BRAUN sawmill. She now works as a production engineer in this company. Sylviane Piquerez ENSTIB engineer, Class 2008 Production Engineer, Siat-Braun sawmill.

The courses I have attended at the ENSTIB have played important part in my professional life. Not only has this training met my expectations as far as its contents, in constant relation with the industrial world, are concerned but it has also allowed me to move in an environment where human relationships are meaningful. These [...]