Conference Program

Wednesday, 9 October 2024

17:00 Registration

19:30 Welcome Party in the Grand Foyer of the Grand Elysée Hotel Hamburg at the invitation of the exhibitors/sponsors.

Thursday, 10 October 2024

7:30 Registration

8:30 - 18:00 Presentations in the large conference room of the Grand Elysée Hotel

Session I | Market
8:30 - 10:40

Chair: Clive Pinnington (EPF)

Kris Wijnendaele European Panel Federation ........................................................................ Welcome and Opening

Kris Wijnendaele

Start: 8:30
Welcome and Opening

Kris Wijnendaele
European Panel Federation
Raoul Klingner Fraunhofer WKI ........................................................................ Welcome and Opening

Raoul Klingner

Start: 8:30
Welcome and Opening

Raoul Klingner
Fraunhofer WKI
Philipp Sprockhoff European Panel Federation ........................................................................ Overview of the situation of the European wood-based panel industry

Philipp Sprockhoff

Start: 9:00
Overview of the situation of the European wood-based panel industry

Philipp Sprockhoff
European Panel Federation
managing board
Thomas Walther AFRY Management Consulting GmbH ........................................................................ Wood-based panel industry structure – what are the trends?

Thomas Walther

Start: 9:30
Wood-based panel industry structure – what are the trends?

Thomas Walther
AFRY Management Consulting GmbH
David Svensson IKEA Supply Services (Sweden) AB ........................................................................ How IKEA sees the future demands on wood-based panels, both from a commercial and sustainability aspect

David Svensson

Start: 10:00
How IKEA sees the future demands on
wood-based panels, both from
a commercial and sustainability aspect

David Svensson
IKEA Supply Services (Sweden) AB
Max Roggemann Enno Roggemann GmbH & Co. KG ........................................................................ Wishes of the timber trade to the wood-based material industry

Max Roggemann

Start: 10:20
Wishes of the timber trade to
the wood-based material industry

Max Roggemann
Enno Roggemann GmbH & Co. KG

10:40 Coffee Break

Session II | Resources
11:30 - 12:30

Chair: Raoul Klingner (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft)

Dirk Notz Universität Hamburg ........................................................................ Of ice and wood: a climate-change perspective

Dirk Notz

Start: 11:25
Of ice and wood:
a climate-change perspective

Dirk Notz
Universität Hamburg

Abstract
Chihiro Kayo Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology ........................................................................ Carbon stocks of particle-board and fiberboard over the past 70 years in Japan

Chihiro Kayo

Start: 11:45
Carbon stocks of particle-board and fiberboard over the past 70 years in Japan

Chihiro Kayo
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Abstract
Marco Mäbert IHD Institut für Holztechnologie Dresden gGmbH ........................................................................ Solid wood waste and post-consumer fibreboards as raw material alternatives for the MDF production

Marco Mäbert

Start: 12:15
Solid wood waste and post-consumer fibreboards as raw material alternatives for the MDF production

Marco Mäbert
IHD Institut für Holztechnologie Dresden gGmbH

Abstract

12:30 Lunch Break

Session III | Artificial Intelligence
14:00 - 15:30

Chair: Alen Bukvić (Hywax GmbH)

Daniel Schwartze | Jürgen Woll Dieffenbacher GmbH ........................................................................ Artificial intelligence: Transforming the wood-based panel industry - Illuminating opportunities, challenges and perspectives

Daniel Schwartze | Jürgen Woll

Start: 14:15
Artificial intelligence: Transforming the wood-based panel industry - Illuminating opportunities, challenges and
perspectives

Daniel Schwartze | Jürgen Woll
Dieffenbacher GmbH
Haidin Rashid Amin | Adrien Hitz AHX.ai LTD ........................................................................ Real-time AI engine to fully automate wood panel manufacturing

Haidin Rashid Amin | Adrien Hitz

Start: 14:45
Real-time AI engine to fully automate wood panel manufacturing

Haidin Rashid Amin
AHX.ai LTD

Adrien Hitz
AHX.ai LTD

Abstract
Gregor Bernardy | Oren Yahav Siempelkamp Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH | Smartech Manewfacturing™ Technologies ........................................................................ Autonomous wood-based panel line based on AI and ML – from vision to reality

Gregor Bernardy | Oren Yahav

Start: 15:15
Autonomous wood-based panel line based on AI and ML – from vision to reality

Gregor Bernardy
Siempelkamp Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH

Oren Yahav
Smartech Manewfacturing™ Technologies

Abstract

15:30 Coffee Break

Session IV | Recycling
16:15 - 17:45

Chair: Dirk Berthold (Fraunhofer WKI)

Clemens Seidl Andritz AG ........................................................................ Building a flexible MDF-Plant - Advanced tools and equipment to analyze and adjust

Clemens Seidl

Start: 16:30
Building a flexible MDF-Plant - Advanced tools and equipment to analyze and adjust

Clemens Seidl
Andritz AG

Abstract
Luca Ballarin PAL S.r.l. ........................................................................ MDF Recycling – the commercial reality

Luca Ballarin

Start: 17:00
MDF Recycling – the commercial reality

Luca Ballarin
PAL S.r.l.

Abstract
Mark Irle École Supérieure du Bois ........................................................................ A study of the presence of fibreboard in recovered wood in France

Mark Irle

Start: 17:30
A study of the presence of fibreboard in recovered wood in France

Mark Irle
École Supérieure du Bois

19:00 Evening reception at the invitation of Hywax GmbH
19:30 Welcome Speech

Friday, 11 October 2024

8:30 Registration

9:00 - 14:00 Presentations in the large conference room of the Grand Elysée Hotel

Session V | Resins
9:00 - 11:00

Chair: Kris Wijnendaele (EPF)

Andreja Kutnar InnoRenew CoE | University of Primorska ........................................................................ Fire retardants in wood based panels - compatibility of materials

Andreja Kutnar

Start: 9:00
Fire retardants in wood based panels – compatibility of materials

Andreja Kutnar
InnoRenew CoE | University of Primorska

Abstract
Fabian Meinker Hywax GmbH ........................................................................ Hydrophobic agents for the production of particle boards with bio-based binder

Fabian Meinker

Start: 9:30
Hydrophobic agents for the production of particle boards with bio-based binder

Fabian Meinker
Hywax GmbH
Markus Jonsson Sunds Fibertech AB ........................................................................ A new way of MDF gluing – an internal resin injection system using the concentric flow principle

Markus Jonsson

Start: 10:00
A new way of MDF gluing – an internal resin injection system using the concentric flow principle

Markus Jonsson
Sunds Fibertech AB

Abstract
Christin Koch | Steven Eschig University of Kassel | Fraunhofer WKI ........................................................................ Bio-based, switchable adhesives for reshapable wood-wood composites

Christin Koch | Steven Eschig

Start: 10:30
Bio-based, switchable adhesives for reshapable wood-wood composites

Christin Koch
University of Kassel

Steven Eschig
Fraunhofer WKI

Abstract

11:00 Coffee Break and Poster Session

Session VI | Developments
12:00 - 14:15

Chair: Harald Schwab (Fraunhofer WKI)

Ralph Lunkwitz BASF SE ........................................................................ BASF approach to sustainable amino resins

Ralph Lunkwitz

Start: 12:00
BASF approach to sustainable amino resins

Ralph Lunkwitz
BASF SE

Abstract
Bettina Meyer | Sandro Ciroi Fraunhofer WKI | CATAS SPA ........................................................................ 10 important facts you should know about the new European formaldehyde requirements (“REACH”)

Bettina Meyer | Sandro Ciroi

Start: 12:30
10 important facts you should know about the new European formaldehyde requirements (“REACH”)

Bettina Meyer
Fraunhoer WKI

Sandro Ciroi
CATAS SPA

Abstract
Manuel Fleisch Fagus-Grecon Greten GmbH & Co. KG ........................................................................ Online measurement of formaldehyde emission utilizing in situ-laser spectroscopy

Manuel Fleisch

Start: 13:00
Online measurement of formaldehyde emission utilizing in situ-laser spectroscopy

Manuel Fleisch
Fagus-Grecon Greten GmbH & Co. KG

Abstract
Moira Burnett Fraunhofer WKI ........................................................................ Impregnation and bonding of hybrid wood-based materials in automotive body shell

Moira Burnett

Start: 13:30
Impregnation and bonding of hybrid wood-based materials in automotive body shell

Moira Burnett
Fraunhofer WKI

Abstract
Kris Wijnendaele European Panel Federation ........................................................................ Closing words

Kris Wijnendaele

Start: 14:00
Closing words

Kris Wijnendaele
European Panel Federation
Raoul Klingner Fraunhofer WKI ........................................................................ Closing words

Raoul Klingner

Start: 14:00
Closing words

Raoul Klingner
Fraunhofer WKI

14:15 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.