GERMANY- The 19th Jowat Symposium for the Wood and Furniture Industry has provided comprehensive expertise for guests from the wood and furniture industry. This year, the established trade event centered on the topics of future viability and sustainability.

To discuss relevant industry topics, more than 120 participants convened at Jowat’s headquarters in Detmold for the well-known trade event.

The symposium featured a series of presentations to shed light on the most different aspects of sustainability: the impact of changing raw material markets and disturbed supply chains on the risk management of an enterprise, strategies for building an efficient circular economy particularly in the chemical industry, the potential of bio-based raw materials, and possible paths towards more sustainable adhesive bonding processes.

The presentations were followed by a panel discussion, in which experts from the subsupplier industries, external industry advisors and representatives of wood-based material, waste disposal and recycling associations discussed the importance of a functioning circular economy for sustainable industrial processes. Dr. Christian Terfloth, managing director at Jowat SE, emphasized that circular flows are the cornerstone of sustainable management and can only be established if there is an open exchange between all players along the process chain.

The conference was rounded off with many ideas coming from processor experiences and with new solutions from the Jowat adhesive portfolio. Participants also highly value the Jowat Symposium for the wide breadth of information and the networking platform it provides.