Pine Tapping

Pine tapping - Resinagem de pinus - Resinación de pino - Gemmage

Index to “Pine Tapping” related posts in my blog:

• Videos of pine tapping from Brazil and China.
  I made these videos to show and compare the diferent tools used and ways of cutting a streak.
• Videos of pine tapping and rosin production some time ago in Spain. Very good historic material!

Index to “Pine Tapping” pictures I took in diferent places of the world:

• Pinus elliottii, Anxi, Jiangxi Province, China. [3-jul-2008] These pine trees are tapped from June to end of October each year. To cut the daily streak it is used a knife with a V form (the same one used to tap the rubber tree).
• Pinus pinaster, Coca, Spain. [4-feb-1998] During the “1er Simposio de Aprovechamiento de Resinas Naturales” hold in Segovia, we visited Coca where we learned how the pine trees were tapped using the Hugues method.

Index to “Pine Tapping” related websites:

• AR Eldorado Indústria e Comércio de Produtos para Resinagem Ltda. Manufacture and commercialization of chemical stimulants and tools for pine tapping. Consulting services for crude gum production.
• areldorado.com. A site with market information about “Pine Chemicals”.