The judging panel for the competition, which awards innovation in forestry, wood technology and wood products, said that since its launch in 2004, the initiative had made good progress in improving the co-operation within the woodworking sector, with Dr Jozef Rettenmeier, who presented the award to European Confederation of Woodworking Industries (CEI-BOIS) chairman Mikael Eliasson and secretary-general Filip de Jaeger, adding that Roadmap 2010 was important for the future development of the European wood sector.
Following the Schweighofer success, Mr de Jaeger told TTJ that CEI-Bois was pleased with the way the initiative was going. “We have created greater co-operation and communication across Europe at a national level,” he said.
“Now we [European woodworking industries] have the same aims, targets and goals.”
Other winners at the Schweighofer Prize included Professor Matti Kairi, for the development of Kerto LVL; the Transnational Internet Information Platform, which established waldwissen.net; Professor Holger Militz and Dr Andreas Krause, for their work in developing polymer-based wood products; scientists from Kompetenzzentrum Holz and Agrolinz Melamine International, for their work on creating Hiperwood; and Professor Anders Grönlund, Dr Stig Grundberg and Dr Johan Oja, for developing the Industrial X-Ray Log Scanner.
