Bundesministerin Ilse Aigner besuchte am 30. August 2011 das vTI in Hamburg, um sich über aktuelle Probleme beim Handel mit Tropenhölzern zu informieren. Fragen der Holzartenbestimmung, der Herkunftskontrolle und der Einschleppung von Holzschädlingen standen dabei im Mittelpunkt. Rund 30 Medienvertreter begleiteten die Ministerin.

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• Wood has experienced a multifaceted renaissance within the 21^st century. It has remained  indispensable as basic material, for construction and as a fuel. Wood is renewable, it acts as a carbon sink and constitutes a requested source for biobased high-valued products.
• Our scientists do research all around a sustainable use of wood and its components. Our aim is a responsible, efficient, and forward-looking application of wood.
• The results of our work provide both a basis for decision-making aids for politics and support consumer protection as well as economy.

"City of the future" - efficient material and energetic use of bioresources

The BERBION Symposium "The city of the future" will be held on August 24th - 25th 2011 at the vTI-Institute of Wood Technology and Wood Biology in Hamburg-Bergedorf. Lectures will be given concerning strategies for the efficient material and energetic use of municipal bioresources. The variety of cross-cutting topics is addressed to experts from the fields of scientific research, practice and public administration.

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Das WDR Morgenmagazin zu Gast im vTI/Institut für Holztechnologie und Holzbiologie

Video 1 "Leichte Holzwerkstoffe"

Video 2 "Holzschädlinge"

• The vTI Institute Wood Technology and Wood Biology closely cooperates with the activity fields mechanical- and chemical technology as well as wood biology of the Wood Science Centre of  the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences of Hamburg University. The study course “Wood Science and Technology” is jointly conducted by both units.
• This study course is supported by the promoter organisations “Bund Deutscher Holzwirte”  and „Gesellschaft der Förderer und Freunde des Zentrums Holzwirtschaft an der Universität Hamburg“.

• A new assortment of traded timbers, called "wood out of reservoirs" has hit the headlines of international wood market in the last years. It is known that in some reservoirs extensive volumes of timbers are stocked, which is hermetically sealed since decades. The development of new techniques offers the ability to open up and harvest these volumes. There are already the first contingents of timbers from the Brokopondomeer barrier lake (Surinam) commercially available. This wood is solicited as timber with unmodified wood properties.
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