Forest and wood industry in Austria setting up networks for marketing, information, co-operation and education using the example of proholz Tirol

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1 Forest and wood industry in Austria setting up networks for marketing, information, co-operation and education using the example of proholz Tirol Rüdiger Lex Riga, 30. September 2010

000 km2 Forest area: ~47 % Example state Tyrol:

2 Facts & Figures Austria: Capital: Vienna Inhabitants: 8,38 Mio Area: ~ km2 Forest area: ~47 % Example state Tyrol: Capital: Innsbruck Inhabitants: ~ Area: ~12,6 km2 Forest area: ~41 %

Facts & Figures Austria Forest area (ha) Timber stocks ca. 3,970.

harvest = 12 Million m³ annual growth Annual personal cunsumption of timber 0,68 m³ (1,05

3 Facts & Figures Austria Forest area (ha) Timber stocks ca. 3, ha (=47%) (EU25=34%) 325 m³/ha Annual forest increase 31 Million m³ growth - 19 Million m³ harvest = 12 Million m³ annual growth Annual personal cunsumption of timber 0,68 m³ (1,05 Finland, 0,68 Sweden, 0,66 Canada, 0,24 USA, 0,23 Japan) Employees in forest and timber industry (without timber trading) citizens

4 Facts & Figures Austria Companies in timber industries Annual production value of timber industries Logging approx ,29 Billions Euro 16,73 Mio m³ felled amounted Rate of export 70% Export surplus 3,08 Billions Euro

5 Facts & Figures Tyrol Forest area 41% Employees in forest and timber industry (without timber trading) Companies in timber industries Logging Gross value added of timber industries approx approx ,2 Mio. m³ felled amounted 492 Mio. Euro

7 Facts & Figures Development of timber construction in Tyrol Proportion of Timber construction (%) Single-family houses Mulit-family houses Conversion & expansion Public buildings Agricultural premises Industrial & commercial buildings Proportion of Timber construction in Tyrol

8 The goals of proholz are the greater use of the regional, sustainable and renewable resource timber and therefore the increase in added value in timber industry. These objectives are reached by: proholz An initiative to promote wood - Marketing und image-related activities regarding the general public - Provision of information and advice to experts and political decision makers - Creation and maintenance of platforms and networks - Promotion of local wood, wood materials, products and applications in export markets - Communication and development work for innovations in technology and architecture - Promotion of Education

9 proholz An initiative to promote wood Members of proholz: -association of the Austrian wood industry -the bodies of wood and building material trade -forest departments of the Austrian Chambers of Agriculture -Guild of carpenters -Guild of joiners -regional governments -further promoting members

10 Setting up networks in Austria proholz Austria (Federal organisation) 7 regional organisations Burgenland Upper Austria Lower Austria Styria Carinthia Salzburg Tyrol

11 Setting up networks using the example of proholz Tirol

13 Setting up networks between Science and Business Timber Engineering Unit (Prof. Michael Flach) Institute for Construction and Materials Science Facultiy of Civil Engineering University of Innsbruck

construction (concrete, timber), building

14 Setting up networks between Science and Business - Teaching: Architects, Structural Engineers - Research: e.g. solid timber construction, composite construction (concrete, timber), building physics, indoor air quality, - Support: e.g. quality control, blower door tests, thermography, product development / testing, feasibility studies, consulting, - Network: interdisciplinary thinking

15 between companies Setting up networks

16 Best practice Tyrolean carpentry at its very best! - A co-operation of 14 first-class carpentry enterprises - Founded Employees: ~500; turnover: ~520 Mio EUR - A network for marketing, research, training, co-operation, evaluation and control

17 Best practice

18 Best practice A co-operation of 13 high class Tyrolean joineries and cabinet makers Founded 2004 Employees: ~160; turnover: ~17 Mio EUR Core markets: Great Britain, (Russia,Ireland)

19 Best practice

20 Best practice

21 Setting up networks between Public, Science and Business Wood construction awards Wood on Tour Public relations

22 Thank you! Rüdiger Lex proholz Tirol Meinhardstraße 14, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria T: ; F:

EUROPEAN REGIONAL ECONOMIC FORUM May 31 June 2, Michael R. Azodanloo, Government of Styria Department 14 Economy and Innovation

EUROPEAN REGIONAL ECONOMIC FORUM May 31 June 2, 2007 Michael R. Azodanloo, Government of Styria Department 14 Economy and Innovation Linz Upper Austria Vienna Lower Austria St. Pölten Bregenz Vorarlberg