Welcome to the largest forestry fair in Northern Europe!
At the forestry fair SkogsElmia forest owners, entrepreneurs, forest officials and machine & service suppliers meet during a few intense, but entertaining days to share opinions and try out news, prepare investment decisions and make interesting connections. SkogsElmia will of course be arranged in the forest, just like the Elmia Wood show.
The largest differences between the two fairs are that SkogsElmia is focused on the Nordic market and on machinery, technology and services for forest owners, such as reforestation, forest management and financing. Last SkogsElmia attracted 33,500 visitors and more than 300 exhibitors.
To facilitate your visit to SkogsElmia 2011 as a member of the trade press or the blogosphere, we are offering bus transfers between Jönköping and the fair grounds, free entrance to the fair and access to a well-equipped press centre, where you can also have a snack. If you wish assistance with booking of accommodation, please tick that box on the web form.
Travel and accommodation tips to Jönköping are also found on the SkogsElmia website.
Please fill in the accreditation form as soon as possible. The last date for pre-accreditation is 18 May, but if you wish assistance with booking of accommodation we need your accreditation form no later than 20 April.
Attached to this invitation you will find a press release describing SkogsElmia, first launched in February. Full information on the fair, the exhibitors, press releases, press accreditation form, travel and accommodation services and more is available on: www.skogselmia.se
For more information contact Veronika Albert, tel: +46 36 15 22 34, e-mail: veronika.albert@elmia.se or
Project Manager Per Jonsson, tel +46 36 15 21 93, e-mail: per.jonsson@elmia.se.
Warm welcome to Sweden and the forests south of Jönköping!
Elmia AB
Veronika Albert
PR and Marketing, SkogsElmia
There is a forestry fair arranged by Elmia every two years, always in the early summer on odd years. Perhaps you attended the world’s largest forestry fair Elmia Wood in 2009. In 2011 we are happy to present the Nordic fair SkogsElmia.
PRESS RELEASE, Elmia AB, February 2011
SkogsElmia 26-28 May 2011:
SkogsElmia in Sweden will be the biggest forest trade fair in the world this year
SkogsElmia, to be held on 26-28 May 2011 in Jönköping, Sweden will be the biggest forest trade fair in the world this year. The fair is expected to be just as big as the previous time it was held, in 2007, when it attracted 33 500 visitors and more than 300 exhibitors. This high level of interest is due to the strong demand for forest raw material, both from industry and as bioenergy.
“More forest buyers will be exhibiting than previously,” says Per Jonsson, project manager for SkogsElmia.
In addition, the structure of Nordic forestry is changing. Greater removals of biofuel necessitate different machinery and favour small-scale technology, which is one of SkogsElmia’s strong points.
Great need for investment
“This year’s SkogsElmia is also well placed from the geographical point of view. Sweden is the single largest market for forest machinery in Europe, and the southern half of Sweden accounts for more than 65% of the felling that takes place in the country, and with a high level of demand there is a great need for investment,” says Jonsson.
SkogsElmia is a sister event to the international Elmia Wood fair which is held every four years. Both trade fairs take place in the same area, in the forests south of Jönköping. SkogsElmia is targeted at the Nordic market, in other words Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark, with exhibitors also coming from Germany and other countries around the Baltic Sea.
Eero Lukkarinen is head of marketing at Kesla, a listed Finnish company that manufactures harvester heads, timber loading cranes, equipment for chipping and multi-stem handling and logging trailers.
“We do not have a forest fair in Finland in 2011 at which we can present the latest innovations. Sweden is an important market for us, in addition to which the fair attracts visitors from Finland,” he says.
The contractors are coming
Kesla anticipates a high level of attendance by Finnish contractors and their employees.
“After a winter of hard work in the forest the contractors take their staff with them on a trip to Sweden, to meet suppliers and see the latest developments in the industry,” says Lukkarinen.
Kesla will be presenting several improvements in its various product areas, and there may even be a completely new product that has never previously been shown. Kesla is unwilling to reveal what it is until nearer the time of the fair.
“Other exhibitors take the same view as Kesla and are aware that visitors, both forest owners and contractors, come to Elmia every other year regardless of which fair it is. When the industry people are here, they want to be here too so they can meet them,” says Jonsson.
Breakthrough for mini-forwarders
Small-scale technology plays a more prominent role at SkogsElmia than at Elmia Wood. As a result of increased removal of biofuel and other management methods, it is also becoming increasingly significant for professional forestry.
Interest in mini-forwarders has increased, for example. On 26-28 May there will be a general muster of the leading manufacturers at SkogsElmia. Exhibitors include Alstor, Loglander, WoodTiger, Malwa, Vimek, Scorpion and Terri.
World premiere for new machine manufacturer
A new product of international class will also be presented in the area of larger machinery. This is the T-Bear harvester which has been developed by the forest machinery contractor Torbjörn Ericsson. It contains several pioneering design features, including variable track width. The concept incorporates a revolutionary design which will be given its world premiere at the fair.
SkogsElmia will be held on the same site as Elmia Wood 2009, out in the forest south of Jönköping, with the same extensive services for exhibitors and visitors. The previous SkogsElmia in 2007 attracted nearly 34 000 visitors. There are likely to be just as many this time, making SkogsElmia the biggest forest fair in the world in 2011.
Photographs and captions:
T-Bear is a machine with many ingenious features. Using an “ambulance model” slide bar, the engine hood can be opened with one hand. The harvester will be given its world premiere at SkogsElmia 2011.
Photo: Elmia
SkogsElmia will bring together forest owners, contractors, forest officials and suppliers of machinery and services for forestry for a few intensive days. Photo: Lars Kroon.
“The SkogsElmia is like a three day festival for forestry. We know that many of our visitors appreicate to meet colleagues and see what’s new”, says Per Jonsson, project manager for SkogsElmia 26 - 28 May. Photo: Elmia
Per Jonsson, Project manager
Phone: 46 36 15 21 93
E-mail: per.jonsson@elmia.se
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