Hanover, Germany. The availability of wooden as a uncooked materials is of central significance to the worldwide woodworking and wooden processing business, which can accumulate at LIGNA 2025 in Hanover from Would possibly 26 to 30. Reflecting this, the forestry phase of the arena’s main industry truthful will exhibit all sides of optimized bushes harvesting strategies. Fashionable large-scale forestry apparatus, cellular sawmills, sensible logistics, and protected shipping – as technical pioneers for the fabric and effort use of wooden – can be in center of attention, along the important efforts to maintain forests as a sustainable supply of uncooked fabrics for long term generations and to arrange them for long term demanding situations. As a platform for the digitalization of procedure chains within the forestry and bushes business, LIGNA 2025 additionally opens up get right of entry to to new enlargement markets.
The point of interest is on folks
“The more than a few varieties of woodland harm in recent times have left broad spaces that now want to be replanted,” says Stephanie Wagner, Head of LIGNA at Deutsche Messe. “At LIGNA, exhibitors will exhibit increase woodland stands which can be higher tailored to native prerequisites and the converting weather, and safe the long run provide of renewable, climate-friendly wooden for the business – with sustainably working woodland managers increasingly more the use of wooden as a resource-efficient uncooked materials. Individuals are on the middle of these types of efforts. This contains making sure optimum and, above all, protected operating prerequisites, in addition to honoring the particular dating folks have shared with forests for hundreds of years,” Wagner provides.
Pavilions 33 and 35: The central level of touch at LIGNA
Historically, pavilions 33 and 35 within the outside space below the Expo roof function the central assembly level at LIGNA 2025. That is the place all of the key avid gamers who convey the forestry exhibition space to lifestyles are positioned. In Pavilion 33, exhibitors come with the Forestry Coaching Middle of the Decrease Saxony State Forests (NFBz), the Affiliation of Forestry Contractors AfL Niedersachsen e. V., the German Wooded area Contractors Affiliation (DFUV), the Social Insurance coverage for Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture (SVLFG), the 3N Competence Middle for Renewable Sources and Bioeconomy (3N e.V.), the German Forestry Council, the Decrease Saxony Wooded area Homeowners Affiliation, PEFC – the arena’s greatest unbiased certification device for sustainable forestry – and the Decrease Saxony State Forests (NLF). Because the host in Pavilion 35, Wald und Holz NRW items a variety of subjects, that includes individuals such because the startup TechTinyHouse from Detmold, Aachen College of Implemented Sciences and the Aachen Middle for Wooden Building Analysis, Ostwestfalen-Lippe College of Implemented Sciences (TH OWL), and the College of Siegen.
Use of generation is essential and smart
This yr, Pavilion 33, the “Forestry Pavilion”, is devoted to the theme “Other people – Generation – Uncooked Fabrics”. “We wish to make it transparent that folks’s wishes, which will also be really well aligned with nature, come first,” says Dr. Maurice Strunk, Federal Managing Director of the German Wooded area Contractors Affiliation (DFUV) and Managing Director of AfL Niedersachsen e. V. “Our forests will inevitably alternate within the face of weather alternate. Thru energetic woodland control, we will be able to definitely enhance those processes and create actual added price for society. On the identical time, it can be crucial to make woodland paintings more secure, as dozens of folks nonetheless lose their lives yearly. Using generation is each essential and smart – serving to to reduce dangers on one hand and enabling us to fulfill the large problem of reforesting broad spaces at the different,” Strunk explains. The forestry scientist and his colleagues are dedicated to making sure that long term generations can depend on a sustainably produced, ecologically treasured, and climate-friendly uncooked materials. “We will be able to be atmosphere the path for this within the coming years. The identify ‘Other people – Generation – Uncooked Fabrics’ of the Forestry Pavilion displays all of those demanding situations,” Strunk concludes.
3 sturdy companions for the way forward for forestry
NFBz, AfL, and SVLFG are collectively organizing the Forestry Pavilion. The NFBz (Forestry Coaching Middle of the Decrease Saxony State Forests) is liable for the inter-company coaching of younger folks within the forestry occupation in addition to for complex coaching to grow to be grasp foresters. It additionally develops new operating strategies for sustainable woodland control. AfL Niedersachsen represents forestry carrier firms, a certified crew that no longer best carries out round 80 % of bushes harvesting throughout Germany but additionally handles the vast majority of planting and upkeep paintings in forests on behalf of woodland homeowners. “As a realistic spouse in Pavilion 33, AfL Niedersachsen goals to have interaction in discussion with political representatives at LIGNA 2025 to supply details about the business’s calls for and the essential steps to make sure forests are smartly supplied for the long run,” says Strunk. After all, SVLFG acts because the employers’ legal responsibility insurance coverage affiliation for personal carrier firms and likewise supplies social insurance coverage for personal woodland homeowners, operating to make woodland places of work more secure – specifically via its in depth prevention efforts.
Far flung-controlled wedges and cooling clothes give protection to forestry employees
In Pavilion 33, guests to LIGNA 2025 will be informed all about the most recent trends within the protected felling of broken timber, particularly deciduous timber similar to beech. New operating strategies and strategies for better coverage of forestry employees can be offered, similar to remote-controlled wedges, that are used to convey ready timber to the bottom from a distance and thus very safely the use of chainsaws and felling cuts. “It is because the best chance in forestry paintings comes from branches breaking off whilst the tree is falling,” explains Strunk. As numerous paintings can be required in open spaces within the woodland within the coming years to plant younger timber, stay them freed from grass and brambles and handle younger woodland stands, the focal point can be on solar coverage. “Pores and skin most cancers is likely one of the maximum commonplace occupational illnesses in forestry and is promoted by means of planting and upkeep measures in open spaces, which can now happen much more ceaselessly after the calamities,” explains Strunk and provides: ”The SVLFG will lift consciousness of the problem and be offering answers to extend pores and skin coverage. Cooling clothes may be an solution to make operating in open areas within the woodland extra bearable. Up to now, such leading edge clothes is hardly ever standard in forestry.”
Present strategies for stand established order
The NFBz Münchehof supplies data via illustrative demonstrations and movies about present strategies for stand established order, in addition to younger enlargement and cultivation care the use of battery generation. In forestry, stand established order refers back to the planting of recent tree stands on naked woodland land and open spaces. Since younger timber are specifically at risk of prime pageant from grasses, brambles, and ferns of their early years, clearing those competing crops is very important. Later, it turns into essential to control the composition of tree combinations by means of selectively doing away with particular person specimens. This guarantees that no unmarried tree species dominates, that specifically full of life crops handle excellent rising prerequisites, and {that a} wholesome aggregate of various tree species develops.
This essential paintings is increasingly more being performed with battery-powered equipment as an alternative of petrol-driven machines, and completely new strategies have additionally been evolved. For instance, the arduous activity of planting with spades is now partially eased via the usage of battery-powered drills. On the other hand, putting in the essential charging infrastructure for lithium-ion batteries, at the side of their garage and transportation, poses new demanding situations. Batteries provide a chance of lithium fires, that are tricky to extinguish. Due to this fact, occupational well being and protection should at all times be a key attention when introducing new paintings processes involving battery generation.
Answers for the round use of wooden as a uncooked materials
Only some meters away, in Pavilion 35, the Centre for Forestry and the Wooden Business of Wald und Holz NRW, along with the companions of the NRW joint pavilion, will provide present analysis effects on the usage of new hardwoods and softwoods, leading edge bushes building merchandise and methods, in addition to answers for the round use of wooden as a uncooked materials. This can be showcased within the context of a sustainable, forest-based bioeconomy below the guiding theme: “New Uncooked Subject material Foundation Wooden – Transformation of the Forestry and Wooden Cluster in NRW.”
“We’re taking a look ahead to exchanging concepts with business avid gamers at the converting uncooked materials foundation of wooden and new wooden programs at LIGNA 2025,” says Dr. Stefanie Wieland of Wald und Holz NRW, Centre for Forestry and the Trees Business. She additionally highlights different key subjects such because the digitalization of forestry and bushes business procedure chains, the dry garage of spruce calamity wooden, and the usage of fashionable wooden heating together with different renewable power assets.
New bushes building methods and wooden programs
Pavilion 35 may even exhibit new bushes building methods and wooden programs, similar to the usage of birch supporting buildings for cellular dwelling ideas, new hardwood and hybrid supporting buildings for multi-storey bushes building, and the usage of wooden in choice instrument applied sciences. Those inventions can be offered via corresponding mock-ups and system ideas.
Some other center of attention can be on material-saving and resource-efficient bushes building merchandise. The sensible demonstration “From Tree to Wooden Product” below the EXPO roof in entrance of the NRW pavilion will illustrate the technological houses and doable makes use of of “new deciduous and coniferous tree species in a converting weather”, together with birch, pink oak, candy chestnut, and more than a few varieties of fir.
Particular display “Practice the Trees” in Pavilion 35
Present and long term applied sciences for monitoring and tracing uncooked bushes alongside the availability chain – “from the status tree to the manufacturing facility front” – can be offered by means of the Kuratorium für Waldarbeit und Forsttechnik (KWF) and its venture companions in Pavilion 35.
“Traceability way recording all of the processes {that a} uncooked materials undergoes right through its provision,” explains venture supervisor Alexander Kaulen from the KWF. He provides: “In forestry, traceability serves to ensure the felony foundation of uncooked wooden from sustainable and climate-positive forestry practices, whilst additionally optimizing processes from a industry control standpoint. Technically, this comes to tracing the trail of the uncooked wooden from the status tree to the manufacturing facility front.”
With the particular display “Practice the Trees”, the KWF will exhibit historic, present, and leading edge forestry applied sciences for monitoring the waft of uncooked bushes. The virtual infrastructure wanted for long term implementation can be offered via 3 demonstrators: Trees Provide, Virtual Market, and Knowledge Trustee. Guests too can stay up for are living demonstrations, guided excursions, lectures, a video area, and more than a few shows.
Present subjects mentioned on the NRW level
The NRW Level in Pavilion 35 will function a really perfect platform for the alternate and dialogue of present subjects amongst avid gamers around the forestry and wooden price chain. Guests can enjoy discussions with decision-makers from the EU Parliament and business representatives at the forestry and wooden sector’s contribution to a sustainable financial and weather coverage in Europe.
Additionally featured are shows on round methods for the wooden business and mechanical engineering, in addition to the EFI Bioregions Discussion board highlighting present start-up projects from throughout Eu areas. Different highlights of the NRW Level come with the Wooded area Homeowners’ Day and the presentation of suggestions and proposed measures for the transformation of the forestry and bushes business in NRW.
Festive award rite and exciting forwarder championships
On LIGNA-Wednesday, the Qualifizierungsfonds-Forstwirtschaft e. V. will provide the “Hans-Jürgen-Narjes Prize” right through a festive forestry night time in Pavilion 33. The award can be given to an individual, introduced in a while earlier than LIGNA, who has made exceptional contributions to coaching and extra training in non-public forestry carrier firms. Following the award rite, Deutsche Messe AG, along with the Arbeitsgemeinschaft forstwirtschaftlicher Lohnunternehmer (AfL) Niedersachsen e. V. and the Deutscher Forstunternehmer-Verband (DFUV), cordially invitations attendees to a networking tournament providing a very good alternative for socializing {and professional} alternate.
“Some other spotlight for AfL Niedersachsen is the Forwarder Championship, a certified pageant happening on Ascension Day at the open-air grounds east of Pavilion 33,” declares Maurice Strunk. AfL Niedersachsen has been organizing forwarder championships at LIGNA for 30 years. On pageant day, greater than a dozen drivers from throughout Germany will compete towards one any other.
“They should grasp two disciplines the use of broad forestry machines, referred to as forwarders,” explains Strunk. “Along with velocity, a prime level of precision is very important. Simplest the most productive performers in every self-discipline will advance to the following spherical, culminating within the ultimate to decide the entire winner.” The contest begins early within the morning and can conclude with the award rite at roughly 4:00 p.m.
About LIGNA
The sector’s main industry truthful for the woodworking and wooden processing business is collectively arranged by means of Deutsche Messe and VDMA Woodworking Equipment in Hannover, and is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in 2025. It showcases all the vary of services and products for the main and secondary industries – equipment, machines and methods for customized and mass manufacturing, floor generation, wood-based panel manufacturing, sawmill generation, power from wooden, system parts and automation generation, in addition to machines and methods for forestry. Additional data on LIGNA is to be had at www.ligna.de
