DEUTSCH ITALIANO

Programme

October 29th

Study Tour
12:00 pm    Come Together GRAND HOTEL
12:30 pm    Bus transfer to Tulln www.diegartentulln.at
01:15 pm    Short presentation and tour over the „Garden“ Tulln Center
03:00 pm    Bus transfer to Frischeis/Logistik Commerce Center www.frischeis.at
03:30 pm    Company visit „Frischeis“
afterwards  Bus transfer to City Center GRAND HOTEL


Gala Dinner (Grand Hotel)
07:00 pm  -  open end

October 30th - Conference Day

(Grand Hotel,  08:30 am - 05:30 pm)

08:30 - 09:00   Start   Opening and Welcome:

René Maechler  (FRA / EOS Hardwood President)

Gerhard Mannsberger  (AUT / Sektionschef Lebensministerium)


Developments and Trends within the Hardwood Markets:

09:00 - 9:30   René Maechler(FRA / EOS Hardwood President)
              An analyse of the european hardwood-market from the point of a
              french market participant

09:30 - 10:00   Ed K. Pepke (FAO Timber Section)
              The European Hardwood market: actual development and outlook for 2009/2010  

10:00 - 10:30   Steffen Rathke (GER / EHEC)
              The German Hardwood Industry: ways to manage the crisis

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10:30 - 11:00   PAUSE

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11:00 - 11:30   Ralf Pollmeier (GER / Pollmeier Holzindustrie)
              Hardwood sawmilling industry: Review of the past - Conclusions for the future"


Research & Development:

11:30 - 12:00 Michael Gautschi (CH / Bundesamt für Umwelt)
              "Woodstock": the constructional usage of beech

12:00 - 12:30 Alfred Teischinger (AUT / BOKU Wien)
              Demand and selected examples for hardwood research

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12:30 am - 01:30 pm   LUNCH BREAK

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01:30 - 02:00   Walter Peter (AUT / Lenzing)
              European Beech - a valuable ressource for natural fibres

02:00 - 02:30   Thorsten Leicht (GER / Pöyry Consulting)
              Manage the Crisis


Trends in Innovation & Design:

02:30 - 03:00   Endre Varga (BEL / FEP)
              FEP’s "Real Wood Project" – a pan-european initiative to grow the parquet cake

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03:00 - 03:30   PAUSE

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03:30 - 04:00   Peter Hamberger (GER / Haro)
              Latest parquet trends and their influence on hardwood saw milling industry

04:00 - 04:30   Georg Emprechtinger (AUT / TEAM 7)
              Archaic Nature - Wood meets Zeitgeist

04:30 - 05:00   Werner Stix (AUT / Frischeis)
              Wood. Is the original threatened by the copy?

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afterwards     "Heurigen"    

30. Oktober - For participants´ partners (09:00 am - 05:30 pm)

We will visit famous sights of Vienna.

09:30   Depature from Grand Hotel –

Round trip Belvedere – Ring – city-walk with Imperial Palace

12:15 – 13:45   Lunch break Café Mozart

14:30  Visit of the Palace Schönbrunn

16:00   Strudelshow in Schönbrunn with Coffee and oven-fresh Apfelstrudel

Afterwards return to the Hotel


"Get-together"

We invite all participants including partners to a typical Austian "Heurigen" at the end of the conference day.

Your Programme for download

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