Conference Program
Welcome Party of the 11th European Wood-based Panel Symposium 2018 | Photo: P. Lux, Hamburg
Wednesday, 12 October 2022
17:00 Registration
19:30 Welcome Party in the Grand Foyer of the Grand Elysée Hotel Hamburg at the invitation of EPF, iVTH and companies from the industry
Thursday, 13 October 2022
7:30 Registration
8:30 - 17:45 Presentations in the large conference room of the Grand Elysée Hotel
| Session I | Keynotes | Chair: Clive Pinnington (EPF) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | Bo Kasal and Kris Wijnendaele |
Fraunhofer WKI / European Panel Federation EPF | Welcome and Opening |
| 8:45 | Michael Pollmann | Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg | Greetings |
| 9:00 | Martin Brettenthaler | Chairman of EPF / CEO Swiss Krono Group (CH) | Global development of the Wood-based Panel Industry with special regard to the Russia-Ukraine-Conflict |
| 9:30 | Edi Snaidero | Chairman of the European Furniture Industries Confederation EFIC | Current and future developments in the furniture industry and collaboration with wood-based panels suppliers |
| 10:00 | Jori Ringman | General Director of the Confederation of European Paper Industries CEPI | Three ways we can mitigate climate change; how to grow this climate impact of the forest-based industries? |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| Session II | Product Flows | Chair: Harald Schwab (Fraunhofer WKI) | ||
| 11:15 | Martin Langen | B+L Marktdaten, Bonn (D) | European Construction Industry in Change - Outlook for New Construction and Renovation until 2024 |
| 12:00 | Matthias Dieter | Thünen-Institut für Waldwirtschaft, Hamburg (D) | Wood Market Analysis |
| 12:30 | Goran Schmidt | AFRY Management Consulting (Deutschland) GmbH (D) | More sustainability, but fewer raw materials - how the panel industry can cope with changing sourcing conditions and new regulations |
| 13:00 | Uwe Kies | InnovaWood (BE) | Towards EU Green Deal and Circular Economy goals though an innovative research, industry and trade union partnership: the Wood4Bauhaus Alliance |
13:30 Lunch Break
| Session III | Material | Chair: Dirk Berthold (Fraunhofer WKI) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 15:00 | David Türp | BASF SE, Ludwigshafen (D) | BASF´s contribution to sustainability in wood based panels |
| 15:30 | Manfred Dunky | Xylo Technologies AG, Niederteufen (CH) | Chemistry in Wood-based panels: actual situation, achievements, and challenges |
| 16:00 | Fabian Meinker | Hywax GmbH, Hamburg (D) | Hydrophobic agents in the wood-based panel industry - wax dispersions as hydrophobic agents |
| 16:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| Session IV | Process Technology | Chair: Alen Bukvić (Hywax) | ||
| 17:15 | Emma Pates | Metalube, Manchester (UK) | Evaluating chain and belt oil lubricants; the relevance of test data from lab to field |
| 17:45 | Yves-Marc Schade | Stela Laxhuber, Massing (D) | New technology in panel board production: Low-temperature belt dryer for PB or OSB drying |
| 18:15 | Allessandro Guercio | Turboden SpA, Brescia (I) | Application of Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) and Industrial Heat Pump for energy efficiency and CO2 reduction in WBP industry |
From 19:30 Evening reception at the invitation of Hywax GmbH
20:00 Welcome Speech
Friday, 14 October 2022
8:30 Registration
9:00 - 14:00 Presentations in the large conference room of the Grand Elysée Hotel
| Session V | Requirements | Chair: Rainer Marutzky (iVTH) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Tunga Salthammer | Fraunhofer WKI, Braunschweig (D) | A critical review of the TVOC value |
| 9:30 | Manuel Fleisch | Fagus-GreCon, Alfeld (D) | How Laser Spectroscopy Can Make an Innovative Contribution to Optimizing HCHO Emission Testing in Factory Production Control |
| 10:00 | Bettina Meyer | Fraunhofer WKI, Braunschweig (D) | WKI calculation model 2.0 - Formaldehyde emission of particleboards |
| 10:30 | Rainer Marutzky | Internationaler Verein für technische Holzfragen e.V. iVTH, Braunschweig (D) | National and European Requirements for VOC Emissions from Construction Products: Current State of Art for Wood-based Panels |
| 11:00 | Carsten Aßhoff / Tobias Krenn / Christopher Pöhler |
Fraunhofer WKI, Braunschweig (D) | 3 x Doctoral Thesis (3 x 5 min) |
| 11:15 | Coffee Break and Poster Session | ||
| Session VI | Developments | Chair: Kris Wijnendaele (EPF) | ||
| 12:00 | Heiko Thömen | Wood Composite Simulations GmbH, Evilard (CH) | The State-of-the-art of Computer Simulations in the Wood-based Panel Industry |
| 12:30 | Peter Nilges | APOS GmbH, Wedel (D) | 3 new systems for process monitoring in wood-based materials production using continuous spectroscopic inline measurement |
| 13:00 | Martin Direske | Institut für Holztechnologie IHD Dresden (D) | Combination of convection and microwave drying to increase the drying and energy efficiency of cement-bonded particleboard (CBPB) |
| 13:30 | Martin Benfer | Karlsruher Institut für Technologie KIT (D) | Towards intelligent and sovereign use of data – Optimising wood-based panel production via data exchange along the supply chain |
| 14:00 | Bo Kasal and Kris Wijnendaele | Fraunhofer WKI / EPF | Closing words |
2.30 p.m. End of the symposium and lunch at the hotel or packed lunch according to choice.
(Subject to change without prior notice.)
The presentations will be simultaneously translated into German and English.
The conference participants will be provided with the presentation transparencies as well as the abstracts in English together with the conference documentation.