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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Indonesia has achieved a positive trend of export growth in a variety of products and services in the global market for the past few years. To keep on improving national export performance, the Ministry of Trade has been proactive in inviting and bringing in buyers and investors for a direct […]
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” […]
New economic opportunities in Central Kalimantan through reforestation and processing of lightwood timber Wednesday, 27th January 202114.00 – 16.30 JAKARTA TIME 08.00 – 11.30 CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIMEZoom Link Fairventures Worldwide is happy to announce that after an implementation period of 5 years the project “Restoration of degraded land with native tree […]
Mechanical and physical properties of timber can vary greatly from species to species. But they can also vary greatly within one species itself. Especially fast-growing plantation timber, such as Sengon, which has a high degree of juvenile timber, has a great range of properties (Please also see the article on […]
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how we selected local, fast-growing wood species. These species should have potential in the field of agroforestry as well as potential as timber for use as a building material. To achieve this objective, two sets of criteria have been put in place, […]
In order to increase product innovation in the Indonesian lightwood processing industry, the relevant stakeholders along the value chain need to understand the importance of sorting and grading of the lightwood. A crucial aspect is to understand that fast-growing plantation wood with a short cutting cycle, contains large portions of […]
Lightwood is an incredible material which has huge potential for the future. Indonesia is the leading country worldwide in producing and exporting plywood and blockboards from lightwood. Fast growing lightwood is abundantly available. To benefit from this potential, the timber industry has to explore possibilities beyond classical commodities. This is […]
Construction of the new 84-meter, 24-storey high ‘HoHo Tower‘ in Vienna, Austria – set to be the world’s tallest timber building – has been underway for over a year now. Around 76 percent of the structure will be constructed from wood. Hoho Wien will house a hotel, apartments, a restaurant, […]
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. […]