This Event was held at Serena hotel Nairobi on the 28th of June 2022 hosted by Gatsby Africa. Representatives from the forestry sector, furniture industry, and government institutions from Kenya and Uganda were in attendance. The event was organized into various sessions representing sections of the wood value chain from […]
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The Project What you can see in the picture below is an artistic demonstration of what fast-growing timber can be used for, right behind two of our amazing colleagues. This construction was built by Fairventures Worldwide in 2019, as a first showcase of just one application of the so-called “Glulam” […]
The second Fairventures Lightwood Competition at PIKA in Semarang is finished. In an internal competition, Students from the PIKA are designing in a group a sideboard from the first sketch to the final product. In total eleven groups consisting of three students from the PIKA Akademia Interior Design and one […]
Together with the PIKA Academy in Semarang, Indonesia, the second lightwood competition for students (FLC.2) has begun. This year the best sideboards made of lightwood will be chosen, which the students are designing and building themselves in groups. PIKA Academy students submitted a total of 11 sideboards during the last two months. […]
Fairventures is a NGO based in Stuttgart (Germany) which is engaged in reforestation in Kalimantan. Together with local partners Fairventures helps farmers to grow Lightwood species like Sengon and Jabon. To include all stakeholders along the value chain of Lightwood Fairventures is organizing events like the ILCF or is collaborating […]