On the 30th September 2024, the awarding ceremony of the winners of the exhibition-competition «100 Innovations of Young Scientists» took place. The winner’s diploma was awarded to Andrei Glushakov, Deputy Head of the Laboratory of the Physico-Technical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, for the development of technology for producing cast blades for harvester heads of forestry equipment and research of materials for their production in order to achieve optimal properties.

Together with his colleagues he developed the technology of producing cast knives for the harvester head, which perform not only gripping and holding the cut tree, but also tree limb cutting. Experimental samples of knives have already been produced, and now are tested at pilot sites in forestry farms together with harvester head of JSC «AMKODOR». In parallel, the laboratory is working on increasing the strength of these parts by experimenting with the alloy composition and heat treatment technology.

The plans of PHTI NAS of Belarus and JSC «AMKODOR» are to implement a scientific and technical project focused on reducing the cost and improving the quality of the developed blades, which in the perspective will replace imported harvester blades used in forestry machinery in Belarus.