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The Entrepreneurial Expertise Center in pavilion 33 had a strong focus on IT solutions designed to optimize linkages in the timber supply chain. There was NavLog, which provides enhanced forest track navigation data, the ELDATdata exchange format, and the QS-Harvester quality assurance system for log harvesters. The special forestry displays in pavilions 33 (Expertise Center) and 34 (Hot Innovations) were organized by the German Forestry Council (KWF) and Deutsche Messe.
The floor of the NavLog stand in Pavilion 33 was an oversized aerial photograph overlaid with standardized data on classified forest tracks. The display - the firstever demonstration of NavLog's online database in live mode - was very well received, with many visitors taking up the offer to test NavLog's data via a trial membership.
There was a Valmet harvester simulator, where visitors could fell a test log, digitally measure it, and feed the data into the simulator unit. In Pavilion 34, the German Forestry Council demonstrated ideas for developing new business areas and growing and optimizing existing ones. These included bioenergy solutions, alternative drive technologies and solutions for reducing harvester tire damage to forest floors.
The KWF's offering was very popular with the upcoming generation of forestry professionals, with around ten groups of school and tertiary students turning to the KWF for careers information on every day of the fair. The premiere of the "Careers in the Forestry & Wood Industries" was an instant success.
Among the big crowd-pleasers was the live demonstration of the KWF testing system for combined log sawing and splitting machines. This involved recently KWF-certified manufacturers putting their machines through their paces in front of Pavilion 33. The KWF had planned only 4 demonstrations per day, but had to switch to a continuous demonstration format in response to visitor demand. For the KFW, this is clear evidence of continued strong interest in bioenergy.

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SRC stands for "Short Rotation Coppice." Usually, SRCs consists of fast-growing tree species that are planted on farmland to produce wood fiber for use as a material or as energy biomass. These types of plantations are growing in importance as competing alternative uses for wood drive up demand for this renewable but limited natural re-source. The main emphasis at all three pavilions P32, P34, P35) is on providing information on the planning, estab-lishment and management of SRCs as well as on variety and seed stock selection.

The information offering will include findings from the following cooperative research projects:
- Proloc - Determination and modeling of interactions between poplar and willow clones and local agrofor-estry planting sites (Hessenrohstoffe, HeRo, P34)
- Fastwood - Breeding programs for fast-growing tree species used as a renewable resource in short rotation coppices (Nordwestdeutsche Forstliche Versuchsanstalt, NWFVA, P32/34)
In addition, the pavilions will be staffed by experts who will be happy to advise visitors on the silvicultural man-agement of short rotation coppices - the cycle from planting through to harvesting and regrowth (HeRO, P34) - and on marketing the new poplar variety, Matrix (NWFVA and HeRo, P34).
Wald-Agentur Münster GmbH at Pavilion 35 will also provide expert advice and downstream support - from the initial concept development stage through to the marketing stage. The company also provides assessment services and develops management and mobilization concepts for potential dendromass sources (e.g. wood fiber from farm-ing and landscaping operations). Its offering at the fair is rounded off by information on pre-forest establishment using a mix of poplar and target species, for instance in windthrow sites or in new forest establishment areas.

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The KWF/DMAG Hot Innovations Pavilion will explore the latest key trends from all parts of the forestry sector. Visitors to the Pavilion can look forward to a broad range of exhibits. A team of experts will also be on hand to answer visitors' more detailed questions. In addition, there will be four guided tours of the Pavilion and the adjoining open-air site on each day of the fair. The tours will briefly explain the individual developments and how they fit into the wider industry context. There will also be live demonstrations of some of the exhibits.
Keynote themes this year include bioenergy, personal protective equipment, safety measures during firewood production, tools and equipment. The bioenergy-themed exhibits include transport systems for bioenergy products, harvesting machines for energy forests and quality grading systems for solid wood fuel. There will also be analysis of the current state of development and future prospects of short rotation coppices, plus discussion on climate protection and carbon footprint issues. Another display at the Pavilion will examine the typical risks and hazards associated with operating combination log cutting and splitting machines and propose appropriate risk management strategies. The displays of chainsaws, tools and personal protective equipment will have a strong focus on the all-important issues of safety and ergonomics.

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Sustainable Forestry and Wood-Based Industries as Key Contributors to Intelligent and Integrative Growth in Europe

The forestry and wood sector is seeking answers to the challenges of climate change - and strategies for maintaining and strengthening its own ability to compete in the marketplace. Now there are plans to position wood as one of the most important renewable resources and to derive greater value from our forests. These are the aims of the EU innovation and research project "IN2WOOD", which was launched at the start of the year. 13 project partners from six European forest regions - Styria (Austria), North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany), South Tyrol (Italy), Banska Bystrica (Slovakia), Grisons (Switzerland) and the Carpathians (Ukraine) - have formed an alliance to develop a strategic action plan for innovation processes in the timber-based sector. And they will be promoting their endeavours at LIGNA HANNOVER, widely acknowledged as the world's most important platform for the forestry and timber industries. International knowledge transfer and networking between exhibitors and visitors create an ideal environment for innovative projects to succeed. The broad aims of the action plan and a series of pilot schemes that IN2WOOD intends to roll out by the time the project ends in June 2012 have already been clearly formulated:
-Increasing timber production through the development of new forestry management systems
-Strengthening technical innovation systems for the sustainable and energy-efficient utilization of wood
-Promoting greater awareness of the role of wood as a versatile and contemporary construction material and fuel source, and dispelling misconceptions about wood
-Improving the efficiency of logistical systems.

More information at www.ligna.de/en/in2wood

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Solid biogenic fuels are mainly used in megawatt-scale cogeneration plants, the construction of which has soared since Germany's Renewable Energy Act (EEG) was passed in 2000. Since then, reserves of the preferred type of waste wood (Classes A2 - A4, as defined by the German Waste Wood Directive (AltholzVO) have been depleted. The 2009 amendment to the EEG has resulted in a re-focus on natural biomass fuels and innovative technologies.
The consistent and predictable heat requirements of district heating networks, industry and small-scale manufacturing favor the establishment of wood-fired cogeneration plants that use classic steam turbine and increasingly also ORC technology. Key fuel sources are waste wood from forestry, landscaping and sawmilling operations.
The conference will provide an overview of the current state of development and areas of application of wood-based cogeneration technologies and present concrete case studies of some of the available systems. It is targeted at industry and manufacturing operations, both within and outside the wood processing sector, operators and planners of wood-fired cogeneration plants and energy utilities.

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Despite healthy order books and a booming market for forest products, the forestry contracting sector still needs to resolve a number of key threats to its future. These include the challenges of succession management, ever-increasing regulatory requirements and market expectations and the shortage of qualified personnel. In a series of short presentations, expert speakers will propose possible solutions and then discuss these with the attending industry professionals.

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The conference of the forestry and wood industries, to be held on 1 June 2011 at LIGNA HANNOVER, is also looking to the future. In cooperation with Deutsche Messe, the Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Consumer Protection and State Development is staging a conference on "Strategies for sustainable forestry and timber management in Germany and Europe". The primary aim of this conference is for the forestry and timber industries to agree a common stance in the current public debate on the supply of raw materials, energy supply and climate protection. The wood, forestry and timber industries are all affected by these topics to varying degrees. Leading figures from the industry associations will be chairing the conference. Approximately 250 representatives from politics, the forestry and timber industries, associations and media are expected to attend. The event is part of the "International Year of Forests 2011" initiative, which is under the patronage of Germany's Federal President Christian Wulff.

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Flying chips, knife-sharp axes and powerful machine saws - the STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® SERIES appears at LIGNA HANNOVER. Germany's top timbersports athletes will be in action on all days of the fair.
On Thursday June 2nd, athletes will battle for the LIGNACup of the STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® SERIES. They compete in six disciplines: Springboard, Underhand Chop and Standing Block Chop are traditional axe competitions; Single Buck, STIHL Stock Saw (customary machine saw) and Hot Saw (up to 80 HP tuned machine saw) demand sawing skills.
On all other fair days the timbersports athletes demonstrate their skills with axe and saw at spectacular show events several times a day. Visitors as well can prove their talent here with a two meters pit saw. The STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® SERIES is an international timbersports championships series. Its roots are in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the USA. To find the best among them lumberjacks always organized woodcutting competitions on a local basis. Over time these showdowns evolved to professional championships on a high athletic level. By now the SERIES is established as the top level of timbersports. Championships are taking place on national and international level. In Europe the STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® SERIES was launched in 2001, national championships are held regularly in several countries. Since 2005 the world's best timbersports athletes have been competing at the STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® World Championships.

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The Twittwoch brings experts of the economic sector wood trading and specialists of the Web 2.0 together. Main focus at this is on Twitter, Social Media and the internet presence of the company's.
We are looking forward to see you at 5 o'clock pm at the stand of Bundesverbandes der Säge- und Holzindustrie Deutschland (Hall 27, Stand D62).
The Twittwoch established in other branches should create relations between company's and specialists in the area of internet-marketing and the social media's, like Facebook, Twitter. The common interchange will be a gain for company's who grow there internet presence and for company's who will get started with the internet.

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A commitment to lightweight construction is a commitment to harness future potential. The objective of the Lightweight Construction Association (igeL e.V. - Interessengemeinschaft Leichtbau) is to spread the concept of lightweight construction among the general public. Supported by The Faculty of Production and Economics at the University of Applied Sciences, the Trade Associations of the Wood and Furniture Industry as well as by numerous companies from industry and the craft business sector, igeL is a cooperation network embracing enterprises involved throughout the entire value added chain and invites all companies dedicated to lightweight construction to work on joint solutions for the design and production of lightweight furniture.
The special exhibit "lightweight.network" staged at LIGNA HANNOVER 2011 is a presentation of companies from every stage of processing. Located in hall 24, the focus is on the final product, the piece of lightweight furniture - the connection between machinery and component supplier. Lightweight construction offers a range of advantages compared to the classical construction, starting with lower cost of raw materials and improved energy efficiency in production, as well as significant reductions in the costs of logistics. The "lightweight.network" presents production technologies of dedicated companies and gives a broad overview on the combined innovative force of lightweight know-how.
Participating companies deliver individually produced components to the central "Plaza" platform in hall 24, enabling interested visitors to follow live the manufacturing and assembly of a piece of furniture - the work shop at the trade fair presenting the interaction and connection of machine manufacturers and component suppliers. The special exhibit is closely connected to the parallel "Think Light - International Conference on Lightweight Panels", taking place on May 31 to June 1, and will be part of the Guided Tours.

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Although lightweight technologies have already been an established component of the wood and furniture industries for the past several years now, they have recently been becoming an increasing synonym for the innovative power of these industries. For the first time the "Think Light - International Conference on Lightweight Panels" will be organized by Technical Conference Management, Dr. Kurt Fischer KG, Austria, and will take place on the second and third day of LIGNA HANNOVER 2011.
"Powered by LIGNA" LIGNA HANNOVER forms the ideal platform for the new conference. The goal is to offer a broad overview of state-of-the-art light wood composites technology. It will highlight new trends in furniture design made possible by developments in modern lightweight construction - be it fittings or lighting: emotional features are the future. Further topics discussed by international experts will be how to manufacture and process, as well as how to market and commercialize lightweight products, not to mention issues of engineering standards, physical features and ecobalance. The program will also include analyses of target markets, buying motivation and consumer acceptance of lightweight products.
The conference language will be English. Throughout the conference you can benefit from a maximum of interaction with LIGNA HANNOVER, and guided tours will tie presentation and exhibitor areas on site into the conference topics discussed.

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The Association of Lower Saxon Carpenters (VNZ) within the German Timber Construction Federation (Holzbau Deutschland) will be running a group pavilion in Hall 17 themed around building with wood.
The pavilion will feature displays by carpentry firms and suppliers from the construction industry.

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Formerly known as "Bundesverband Holz und Kunststoff (BHKH)", the German Association of Carpentry and Joinery has re-branded as "Tischler Schreiner Deutschland" and will running a pavilion at Stand A33 in Hall 17.
The Association will be running a mix of lectures and presentations on the broad range of services offered by its members plus the various initiatives it runs in support of its members. One of the keynote themes is CE conformity marking, which will be mandatory for all windows and exterior doors sold in Europe from 2010 on. The "fenster marke tischler / schreiner" initiative will be running a stand at the pavilion dedicated to affordable CE marking systems for cabinetmakers and carpenters.
Another highlight at the German Association of Carpentry and Joinery pavilion is a special workshop where visitors to the fair will be able to watch two young apprentices as they train for WorldSkills London 2011. In addition, a group of woodwork students from a number of German vocational schools will be commemorating the International Year of Forests with a display themed "Möbelbaum" ("Furniture Tree"). Look out for stunning, original creations.
The German Association of Carpentry and Joinery's program also features special activities, including an aptitude test for young people considering careers in cabinetmaking and joinery.
One of the traditional highlights of the Association's program is the awards ceremony for the national-level winners of Germany's Form & Function competition for journeyman's pieces (qualifying projects) by final-year joinery and cabinetmaking apprentices. The build-up to the ceremony includes an exhibition of pieces by the regional winners.

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The German Timber Construction Award is conferred for buildings and building components primarily made of wood, wood-based materials or other renewable resources. Its main aim is to promote the use and further development of environmentally-friendly and sustainable building materials to help conserve precious resources.
This competition sponsored by the Association of German Master Carpenters (BDZ) is open to architects, structural engineers, owner-builders, and timber construction firms.

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This year, for the second time, the German Association of Carpentry and Joinery (Tischler Schreiner Deutschland) and Deutsche Messe AG will be awarding the Prize for Service to the Joinery and Cabinetmaking Trades.
Germany's joiners and cabinetmakers were given until 31 December 2010 to vote for those firms who they thought provided the best level of service to their trades. A shortlist of ten nominees has now been finalized, and the overall winner will be selected from among their number by an expert jury.
Here are the nominees:

- Burger Holzzentrum / Karl Burger GmbH & Co. KG
- Enno Roggemann GmbH & Co. KG
- Festool / TTS Tooltechnics GmbH
- Häfele GmbH & Co. KG
- Hasenkopf GmbH & Co. KG
- Klöpferholz GmbH & Co. KG
- OPO Oeschger GmbH
- Ostermann GmbH
- TopaTeam AG
- ZEG Stuttgart

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The Carbon Bank is an international climate protection project represented by the Landesbeirat Holz NRW (Advisory board for timber of North Rhine-Westphalia) since 2009. The Carbon Bank currently operates in Germany and Switzerland. The Allianz Landesbeiräte Holz is the project's official representative in Germany, while the Verband für geprüfte Qualitätshäuser adopts the same role in Switzerland. The project aims to use PR activities on the subject of carbon binding to highlight the valuable contribution that forestry and wood make to climate protection. The goal is to get politics and business to recognize the role this process plays in climate protection.
For this purpose, a database is used to document the quality and quantity of the reduction in the atmospheric greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) brought about by the buildings and services of the forestry and wood industries.
Since May 2010, the Carbon Bank has had a dedicated forest for research. An area of around 5 hectares is located in the temperate climate zone in close proximity to one of the weather stations of Deutscher Wetterdienst (German Meteorological Service) on the Kahler Asten mountain, North Rhine-Westphalia. A wooded area of around 7 hectares in the tropical climate zone in Iloilo in the Philippines was added in July 2010.
The project achieved its first step on the path to success in March 2011, when Switzerland revised its CO2 law to create a legal foundation for the sink effect of wooden constructions on CO2.

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Lecture event on "Heating with wood" The program on the open-air site will be accompanied by specialist forums in Pavilion 32 and the Convention Center. For instance, a lecture event organized by Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag and the Chamber of Agriculture on 31 May 2011 in P32 (First Floor) will examine the topic of "Heating with wood". As well as the current situation and innovations on show at LIGNA HANNOVER, the discussion here will include silvicultural issues relating to the production of firewood, the state of the art as egards energy generation from wood and the cultivation of fastgrowing trees on arable land in so-called short-rotation plantations.

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The United Nations have declared 2011 the International Year of Forests. The German state of Lower Saxony sees the IYC campaign as an opportunity to profile forests as fascinating natural habitats and the forestry and wood industry as an important part of the economy.
Lower Saxony is Germany's second-largest federal state in terms of land area. It is home to a number of climatically and geographically diverse natural regions, ranging from the Kaufungen Forest in the South, to the central Harz mountains and Luneburg Heath regions, to the East Frisian-Oldenburg Geest region in the northwest. Pines predominate in the plains, beech in the Weser Uplands, and spruce in the Harz mountains.
The forests of Lower Saxony constitute Germany's best-preserved, large-scale wildlife habitat, home to a rich array of flora and fauna. They protect and filter the region's drinking water; prevent soil erosion; help maintain a well-balanced climate; provide a natural buffer against noise and visual pollution; are important leisure and recreation areas; and produce wood.
Lower Saxony's forests currently produce wood at a faster rate than it is harvested. The state thus has good timber reserves. Demand for wood is, however, rising, owing to an ever-increasing variety of wood uses. While this is desirable, the primary focus must always be to place the various aspects of this kind of multifunctional forest management on a sound ecological footing. This necessitates greater R&D into and promotion of efficiency in wood utilization. Making optimal use of our renewable wood resources also means achieving an optimal interplay between the competing uses of forests, namely for the production of wood materials, energy and heating.
Discover the Lower Saxony forestry industry's innovative technologies, latest R&D projects and public education activities in Pavilion 32.

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Under the tagline "NRW - Making more out of wood", twenty companies and organizations from the North Rhine-Westphalia Forestry and Wood cluster will gather under the EXPO roof in Pavilion P35 to showcase their products and services relating to the use of wood, an environment-friendly material for tomorrow.

These include sawmill machinery as well as products and services in the area of innovative timber construction, the "CO2 bank", which documents CO2 reduction using wood, GIS-based timber harvesting and transport logistics, plus technology for utilizing wood as a fuel. Also exhibiting at the shared stand in the NRW Pavilion will be universities from North Rhine-Westphalia that offer forestry courses, as well as project partners of the EU's IN2WOOD initiative, an association of 13 partners from six forested regions of Europe.

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The displays on the open-air site will be supplemented by a program of forums and conferences taking place in Pavilion 33 or the Congress Center. A series of lectures on the theme of "Energy from wood", organized by agricultural publisher DLV and the Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture, will be given on 31 May 2011 on the First Floor of Pavilion 33. In addition to the overall state of the technology and the many innovations to be seen at LIGNA HANNOVER, the topics covered will include silvicultural aspects of fi rewood production, the latest technical developments in converting wood into electric power, and the cultivation of fast-growing tree varieties on farmland, or so called short-rotation plantations.

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Short-rotation coppices are plantations cultivated for biomass on agricultural land. They are permanent crops in the sense that they can remain viable for several decades. During this period, they are harvested multiple times at set intervals, with the trees re-sprouting from the roots and stumps after each harvest. SRC cultivation is a very extensive form of cultivation and one that contributes significantly to maintaining soil integrity. There are currently about 5,000 hectares of short-rotation coppices in Germany, most of them planted and cultivated for research purposes. SRC forestry has experienced steady and sustained growth in Germany over the past ten years, with more and more land being put into commercial scale cultivation. This two-hour forum will give a brief overview of the various aspects of short rotation coppicing, taking in past experiences, relevant cultivation objectives, options for using the wood for energy production and raw materials, and other areas of innovation. The forum will comprise a series of brief papers, which will be followed by a panel discussion, during which the views of the floor will be gauged and a consensus statement formulated.

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Wood is not only our oldest functional material, it is also our most important renewable resource. This is especially true in Germany. One third of Germany's land area is under forest cover, and the country uses around 70 million m³ of wood from sustainably managed forests per year. Thanks to its excellent technical and ecological properties, wood is a material that is suitable for use in the most diverse of applications. Whether it's used for structural purposes or for panel products, the unique natural resource that is wood harbors enormous innovative potential. And there's also another key benefit: when trees grow they remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and, depending on how their timber is used, can store it for very long periods of time. Wood used for material purposes therefore also doubles as a carbon sink.
One of the key applications of wood, especially of softwood, is in the building and construction industry. The development of some highly innovative products has provided a strong boost to wood-based construction in recent years. High-tech timber products, such as glue-laminated beams and cross-laminated timber, have paved the way for multi-storey timber buildings that comply with all relevant safety standards. Low-energy residential building designs have become the standard in the timber construction sector. The wood-based insulation materials used in such buildings feature particularly high thermal insulation values.
Because wood consists of around 50% carbon, the chemical industry is increasingly using it as a substitute for fossil carbon sources, such as gas, oil or coal. Cellulose from wood is the basic raw material used to make paper or viscose fabrics. Key tree species that are used for cellulose production are spruce, pine, beech and poplar.

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To date, the wood-energy company DEHO (Deutsche Holzenergie Nord GmbH) has been contracted to supply heating to the Beuchte bioenergy village (64 households), to the Braunschweig Waldorf School, and to the Sophie-Scholl comprehensive school in Wennigsen. In each case, contracts between DEHO and local forest owners and farmers assure a long-term supply of wood chip fuel. These contracts are mirrored by long-term heating supply contracts between DEHO and its customers. This benefits both sides: DEHO's customers benefit from long-term heat supply security, and local landowners gain a reliable, local market for their smallwood that will pay attractive rates on a sustained basis. Energy forest cultivation on farmland Vast tracks of farmland in Germany currently lie fallow, owing to their unfavorable shape, remote location or heterogeneous soil quality. At the same time, there are forecasts of dire future smallwood shortages. Against this background, German company Agraligna GmbH has developed a system for putting marginal farmland to more profitable use through the establishment of short-rotation energy coppices. From its home bases in Beuchte and Vollenschier, Agraligna develops innovative silvicultural regimes that are tailored to the unique situation of each planting site. The Beuchte bioenergy village's local-area heat supply In 2008, a wood chip-fired heating plant and a local area heating network were established at the Beuchte bioenergy village. To date, around 50% of the local households have been connected to the network. Since the land belonging to the Beuchte manor estate on which the village is sited consists predominantly of lightly wooded farmland, the heating plant's wood chip fuel has been largely sourced from nearby forestry operations. In 2009, 14 hectares of the Beuchte estate were planted with fast-growing poplar trees.

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Wood is one of our most important natural resources. Traditionally used for building, furnishing and the like, it has in recent years also come to be used as biomass for energy production, which, in principle, is a good thing. The problem in Germany is that ad hoc government subsidies are resulting in the wholesale direct burning of an increasing volume of timber which has taken years and years of expert forest cultivation to grow. This is expected to cause severe supply problems in the wood industry and deprive future generations of value and employment in the skilled wood-based trades and industry.
How can we coordinate wood use in a way that benefits the woodworking and wood energy sectors equally? Can the value chain be structured so that wood is always used in a way that generates maximum value? How do we ensure that wood is systematically utilized in a cascade that starts with the multiple use of wood, proceeds to recycling and reprocessing and then - and only then - to consumption as wood scrap and waste wood for power, heating and fuel production? This, according to the research, is the most effective and sensible approach available.

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Racing belt sanders around wooden tracks is a highly popular pastime in the USA. The offbeat competition made its German debut at LIGNA.
Vocational academy students, college teams and tradeshow visitors raced belt sanders in pairs down a 50 foot-long track. Prizes are awarded for the best times and the most appealing designs. The event is organized by Deutsche Messe in conjunction with the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences and the German Engineering Federation (VDMA).

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10 exhibitors reveal their novelties in live demos and stand their ground in front of a critical audience of professionals. Moreover a large number of videos on LIGNA highlights is to be seen. The entire program will be shown via webcast at machines-for-wood.com/ligna.

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"Wonders in Wood" showcase to feature exquisitely crafted creations in wood
This year, Hall 17 will once again be wholly dedicated to Wonders in Wood, a special presentation comprising a sales exhibition and gallery-only displays. The sales exhibition will feature the works of around 20 craftsmen and artists who were selected from a large pool of applicants. These works can be purchased by interested collectors.
The themed gallery-only displays will be supplied by wood sculpture students from the FE College of Design and Technology Flensburg, who have been invited to exhibit their works at LIGNA as part of an initiative to foster emerging talent in the fields of sculpture and carpentry.
The Wonders in Wood sales exhibition and themed displays can be seen on each day of LIGNA HANNOVER 2011 (30 May to 3 June), from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
FE College of Design and Technology Flensburg
The displays in the gallery-only area have been specially put together for this year's Wonders in Wood presentation by students from the FE College of Design and Technology Flensburg. They give some insight into the projects the students and instructors have been working on recently.
In addition, this year, for the very first time, the College's second-year wood sculpture students will be taking part in the all-new LIGNA Young at Art emerging talent competition.
The Young at Art award was initiated by Deutsche Messe and is supported by Michael Weinig and Wemhöner Surface Technologies. The media partner for the award is the trade journal Exakt, which is published by DRW-Verlag.
The theme for the 2011 Young at Art award is "Growth." The works produced by the participating students will be on show at Wonders in Wood.
Artists, artisans, faculty members and students from the FE College of Design and Technology Flensburg will be at LIGNA for the duration of Wonders in Wood and look forward to expert dialogue with visitors.

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For the first time in LIGNA's history, Wonders in Wood will include a "Young at Art" emerging talent competition for students. In 2011, this competition will be open to the wood sculpture students from the FE College of Design and Technology, Flensburg.
"Young at Art" was initiated by Deutsche Messe AG. The media partner for the award is the trade journal "Exakt", which is published by DRW-Verlag.
The purpose of the competition is to give the Wonders in Wood presentation an even stronger emphasis on the artistic use of wood materials and to provide more targeted support for young artists and craftspeople specializing in the wood medium.

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The main fair novelties and trends of the sectors furniture, construction elements (windows, doors, flooring) and timber prefabricated houses will be presented by experts of the wood and furniture industry at the Novelty Symposium at the LIGNA 2011. Machine manufacturing, surface technology as well as assembling, handling and logistics will be considered.
The exhibits presented must represent an industry specific novelty and not just an exhibitor specific novelty. The novelty must be on the market not more than two years, i.e. it was not presented at the last LIGNA. Highly topical developments of the woodworking sector will be commented in short and compact presentations.

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Every two years, Lower Saxony's top forwarder and harvester drivers gather at LIGNA HANNOVER to compete in the state crane driving championships. The contest is staged on the southern open-air site at the Hannover showgrounds and tests the drivers in a range of disciplines. In the qualifying round, each driver has a maximum of ten minutes to stack blocks of wood into a tower using their crane. Only the best 16 drivers advance to the Championship competition. In each Championship round, two drivers go head-to-head on identical forwarders. They are required to navigate a specially designed course, loading their machines with logs along the way. The winner is the one who reaches the finish line first with the lowest time penalty. Each winner advances to the next round. The competition proceeds in this way through various rounds, quarter finals and semi finals to the final. The overall winner and runner-up automatically qualify for Germany's national championships. Always exciting and entertaining, the Lower Saxony Crane Driving Championships are a fantastic day out - for drivers and spectators alike. See you there!