Issue 2

Short summary Wood is the most important sustainable mass raw material available. As wood has always been a traditional material used in everyday life, we do not immediately realise its importance for the future. It was the target of the symposium „Wood – Raw Material and Source of Energy for the Future“,  which was organised within the International BOKU Congress „Life and Survival –Strategies for the Future“, to point out the future importance of wood. The present issue 2 of LIGNOVISIONEN summarises this symposium, where the potential of wood was demonstrated and selected innovative developments were discussed.


Contents with downlodas
Section 1: Wood as a raw material
Challenge wood:
Biosythesis, aw material awareness and cultural heritage von Rupert Wimmer
The Wood Resources in Europe –
Availability – Trade Flows – Value Added von Peter Schwarzbauer
From wood to high-tech fibres:
The scientific program of the Christian-Doppler-Laboratory "Pulp Reactivity" von Paul Kosma, Antje Potthast, Thomas Rosenau, Thomas Röder, Thomas Lange, Elena Berger-Nicoletti, Jürgen Röhrling, Jürgen Sartori, Immanuel Adorjan, Andreas Hofinger
Wood Chemistry –
for a better understanding of the biomaterial von Barbara Hinterstoisser, Barbara Stefke, Manfred Schwanninger
Section 2: Material Wood
Wood – material of superlatives.
Technologies and wood applications at the limits of the material von Alfred Teischinger
Wood – an optimized material von Stefanie Tschegg
The utilisation of wood processing waste material in the wood based panel industry von András Winkler
New dimensions of timber-construction Karlheinz Hollinsky
Life cycle Assessment –
A Method to Quantify Environmental Impacts of Materials and Products von Bernhard Zimmer
Section 3: Wood as energy resource
Wood as a energy carrier von Johann Fischer
How much wood is heated in the households of Vorarlberg? von Martin Reis
The supply emissions of wood pellets –
today and in the future von Werner Pölz
Wood combustion –
alternative to fossil energy resources von Hermann Hofbauer
Present and perspectives of utilisation of wood
for energy in Hungary von B. Marosvölgyi, A. Kürtösi, R. Tamás
Section 4: appendix
Humanism today von Alfred Teischinger
Lehre – Information – Wissen – Bildung von Alfred Teischinger
The curriculum of Wood Technology
at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna Alfred Teischinger
List of Authors