Session

C Sustainable Forestry

C1 Mobilisation and Supply of Wood

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Date: 09/09/2009
Time: 14:30 - 16:00
Location: EG Nord

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Language: German

For Germany, market-oriented and ecologically efficient forestry in close cooperation with a competitive timber industry presents a significant economic factor. Wood production still is the most valuable revenue from forests. Thus optimisation of value chains ranging from timber production to the wood working industry including required logistics and information technologies is of major importance.

Session Moderation

Kleinschmit von Lengefeld, Andreas
Forest-based Sector Technology Platform, Brüssel, Belgium
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Presentations

Becker, Gero
MatchWood, EFORWOOD (6. EU-Forschungsrahmenprogramm), Germany
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Merforth, Carsten
Rettenmeier Holding AG, Wilburgstetten, Germany
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Sauter, Udo
Starkholz, Woodvalue (ERA-NET Woodwisdom-Net), Germany
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Scheller, Michael
HolzCluster Nord, AFORS (KMUinnovativ), Germany

Session Results

Research priority areas for the foreseeable future

• Sustainable development of the forest-based sector and the improvement, management optimization and supply of the resource wood.
• In the future where does the resource wood come from and what is the price? Are there going to be local markets for the supply?
• Regions will not be able to cover the demand. What is the development of the international markets?
• Where do we get price information for increasing investments in forest ownership and the processing industry?

Necessary framework conditions to foster sustainable innovation

• Integration of all stakeholders (contractors, consumers, political decision makers)
• Development of new cooperations
• Special features of industrial locations and regions need to be profited from (e.g. Cluster Initiatives), support of existing SME structures since this is the economical backbone of rural areas (i.e. trans-cultural cooperation to meet the everyone’s requirements).
• Since years supporting measures of the Länder and the Federation are forcing the forest conversion to increase the ratio of deciduous tree species. This in the future will lead to a different amount of round wood. New measures und instruments are demanded to support the processing of arising assortments.

Other important issues or topics discussed during the session

• In the future forests should be serving as a “forest warehouse”.
• Integration of different disciplines and information technologies among the value-added chain (early simulation of forest uses as a decision support system in silviculture)
• Think global – act local: Knowledge on regional, national and international markets is of high importance to operate successfully (all stakeholders).
• Interface optimization very important in optimizing logistics (e.g. harvesting conditions in the long-term will lead to the supply of small wood because of the prevention from damage to the stand)
• Optimization of logistics and internal processes (solutions among the entire logistic chain).

Organisation

Andreas Werntze
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Tel.: 0341 / 235 18 16
Fax: 0341 / 235 1384
E-Mail: andreas.werntze@ufz.de