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NEWS | 2017 HIGHLIGHTS


GLOBAL NEWS


GLOBAL DEMAND DRIVES GERMAN FURNITURE INDUSTRY GROWTH


At interzum the Association of German Furniture Industries (VDM) reported that in 2016, the German timber industry increased turnover by 2.4 per cent. In total, goods worth €35 billion were transacted. The sawmill industry increased its turnover by 2.9 per cent, followed by manufacturers of parquet boards with a growth of 4.2 per cent, the


manufacturers of wood packaging with a growth of 5.1 per cent and the manufacturers of building elements were up 8 per cent. The wood-based materials industry recorded a slight decline in sales of 0.8 per cent. The German wood industry currently employs 149,872 workers and employees in 939 mainly medium-sized enterprises.


VDID'S NEWCOMERS


Enjoy your interzum World Review of the 2017 exhibition. interzum takes place every two years, with the next event taking place at Cologne’s Koelnmesse from May 21-24, 2019. Koelnmesse’s joint venture CIFM


with in China, CIFM/


interzum guangzhou will take place from March 28-31, 2018. Be sure to mark both the dates in your diary. | interzum.com


At an awards ceremony on May 16, the winners of the Association of German Industrial Designers (VDID) Newcomers’ Awards were announced. Sponsored


by organisers Koelnmesse,


and held every two years in association with interzum, the awards recognise


outstanding project work from product/industrial design courses and offer the designers the support they need to start their professional careers. Pictured left to right at the ceremomy are Iris Laubstein (VDID), Peter Otto


Vosding (Honoured), David Gebka (Honoured), Timo Heinen (Honoured), Julian Sommer (Winner), David Wojcik (Winner), Thomas Theling (Winner), Thorben Wieck (Winner), Katharina C. Hamma (Chief Operating Offi cer, Koelnmesse), Stefan Eckstein (VDID President). For full details of all the winning entrants turn to pages 40-43. | vdid.de


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