WiN woodworking INTERNATIONAL 2022/1
WiN - woodworking INTERNATIONAL is the international magazine for the woodworking industry. We report on all aspects of woodworking from board materials, wood treatment to machines, tools and technical know-how, from timber engineering supplies to the latest developments in technologies and markets.
WiN - woodworking INTERNATIONAL is the international magazine for the woodworking industry. We report on all aspects of woodworking from board materials, wood treatment to machines, tools and technical know-how, from timber engineering supplies to the latest developments in technologies and markets.
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EVENTS<br />
Conference topics create link to LIGNA 2023<br />
After its cancellation in autumn 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 1st Rosenheim LIGNA.Conference is now being launched in<br />
summer <strong>2022</strong>. The organizer of the LIGNA, the world’s leading trade fair for the wood industry, Hannover-based Deutsche Messe, and the<br />
Rosenheim Technical University of Applied Sciences (TH Rosenheim) are teaming up to welcome you to Rosenheim on 1 and 2 June.<br />
This event will continue the successful tradition<br />
of LIGNA conferences dedicated to providing<br />
information on the <strong>woodworking</strong> and wood<br />
processing industry, including the latest trends<br />
and topics, in the “non-LIGNA”, i.e. even-numbered<br />
years. As this year’s first highlight, it provides<br />
the industry with an opportunity to share<br />
ideas and network on-site. Registrations for<br />
conference attendance can now be made online,<br />
with 1 May as the registration deadline.<br />
The two-day conference will be held on the<br />
campus of TH Rosenheim. And for good reason:<br />
the university is considered an educational institution<br />
for highly qualified young professionals<br />
and is especially well-known for its Faculty of<br />
Wood Technology and Construction. In 22 excellently<br />
equipped laboratories, world-renowned<br />
engineers are trained in the majors of Wood<br />
Technology, Wood Building and Construction,<br />
Interior Engineering and Civil Engineering, focus<br />
timber construction. This educational portfolio<br />
is rounded off by further qualification programs<br />
for members of the wood industry.<br />
“After the LIGNA.Innovation Network online<br />
format, which took place in September<br />
2021, we are now offering a highlight with the<br />
1st Rosenheim LIGNA.Conference, which will provide<br />
the international wood industry with the opportunity<br />
for personal exchange and networking<br />
once again, after many months of social distancing<br />
including lockdowns, curfews, online events<br />
and remote video conferences,” says Stephanie<br />
Wagner, the new Head of LIGNA at Deutsche<br />
Messe in Hannover. “We chose TH Rosenheim as<br />
the venue because we can combine theory with a<br />
practical approach directly on site.”<br />
“We are pleased to be able to stage this conference<br />
in Rosenheim together with LIGNA,” adds<br />
Prof. Andreas Heinzmann from TH Rosenheim.<br />
“It is important to us that by holding the LIGNA.<br />
Conference on campus, there will be a close interaction<br />
between the speakers, attendees, presenters<br />
and demonstrators and students alike. This<br />
time, the LIGNA.Conference will not be held in a<br />
classic conference setting, but in the university’s<br />
own lecture halls and laboratories.”<br />
Conference takes up themes from LIGNA 2023<br />
The contents of the 1st Rosenheim LIGNA.<br />
Conference will address the topics of digitization,<br />
prefab building and bioeconomy in line<br />
with the thematic approach of LIGNA 2023<br />
as well as those of its exhibitors and visitors.<br />
Renowned speakers from the business community,<br />
including the companies Binderholz, nobilia-Werke,<br />
UPM and WeberHaus, will provide insights<br />
and outlooks into future developments in<br />
<strong>woodworking</strong> and wood processing in three key<br />
topic areas. These speakers will explain what<br />
drives and motivates companies and deliver<br />
user reports from the field.<br />
In addition to the presentations in two lecture<br />
auditoriums, the event will be supplemented<br />
by breakout sessions and live demonstrations<br />
via table tops in the university laboratories,<br />
providing an opportunity to delve<br />
further into the topics, as suppliers such Biesse,<br />
Homag, Microtec, SCM, Siempelkamp, Wandres<br />
and Weinig as well as Holzbau.Tech, Hundegger,<br />
imos, J. Schmalz, Leuco and Weinmann will<br />
present their machines and solutions and provide<br />
information about their products. All presentations<br />
held in the auditorium will be simultaneously<br />
translated into English.<br />
The 1st Rosenheim LIGNA.Conference is<br />
aimed primarily at technical managers from the<br />
<strong>woodworking</strong> crafts, the wood industry, wood<br />
construction and the furniture industry, both<br />
from Germany and neighboring countries.<br />
www.ligna.de<br />
Great demand for innovative concepts<br />
Planned as a hybrid event, implemented as an online event – and still a complete success: at IMA Schelling’s Open House 2021, many<br />
customers were convinced by the new ideas and product innovations. This is now reflected in the current sales of the innovative concepts.<br />
Due to the incidences at the time, it was<br />
decided not to hold the Open House 2021 as<br />
a hybrid event as planned, but to present the<br />
ideas, concepts and new products purely digitally.<br />
Thus, the virtual guests, who were connected<br />
from all over the world, gained insights<br />
into the future software landscape aimi as well<br />
as the presentation of the innovative cutting<br />
concepts, among other things. Another highlight<br />
was the exclusive live demonstration of<br />
the new IMAGIC L1 drilling machine for batch<br />
size 1 production.<br />
More than 250 companies took part of the<br />
five days to inform themselves about the new<br />
products. How successful and convincing the<br />
online presentation of the machines and concepts<br />
was is now reflected in the enquiries and<br />
sales: IMA Schelling has received several orders<br />
for the innovative machine concept for<br />
high-performance cutting – the first line will<br />
be delivered to a French customer at the beginning<br />
of 2023. This customer has ordered three<br />
high-performance lines at the same time, and<br />
two further systems have been purchased by<br />
German customers. The new insertion system<br />
for edge processing presented in May is also<br />
in demand. The internal contour milling unit<br />
(I-KFA) was also ordered – both for new machines<br />
and for retrofits. In addition, the first<br />
system of the new automated saw-robot concept<br />
will go to an interior fitter specialising in<br />
fire protection requirements and will be installed<br />
at the end of <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
For IMA Schelling, these are positive signs<br />
and confirmation of the right strategy in this<br />
time of crisis: the company with its 1,620 employees<br />
worldwide has restructured its business<br />
areas and invested, among other things,<br />
in IT and digitalisation tools as well as new<br />
processing machines for its own production,<br />
opened new sales and service branches<br />
in Sweden and Lithuania and pushed ahead<br />
with the further development of its product<br />
portfolio. Accordingly, the company is looking<br />
ahead to the next few years with confidence<br />
and with many orders that extend far<br />
beyond <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
www.imaschelling.com<br />
No. 1 • March <strong>2022</strong><br />
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