The iVTH

The iVTH was founded in 1946 as "Verein für Technische Holzfragen" on the initiative of Dr. Wilhelm Klauditz, the former director of the correspondent institute, subsequent the Fraunhofer-Institut für Holzforschung.
The iVTH is an association of companies and personalities which promotes research and development in the field of wood and other renewable raw materials.

Our missions are:

• Evaluation and support of research and development works
• Assignment of research missions with actual objectives
• Implementation of research results
• Organising scientific events
• Award of the Wilhelm-Klauditz-Prize for Wood Research and Environmental Protection

The iVTH provides advice for its members and informs them regularly and free of charge about actual research results of the Fraunhofer-Institut für Holzforschung, Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut, and other research bodies. Short reports from current research projects are for our members exclusive.

iVTH is member of

• German Federation of Industrial Research Associations - AiF e. V., Köln - AiF, Köln
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• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., München
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• Österreichische Gesellschaft für Holzforschung (ÖGH), Wien
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• Adhesive Technology Board - GAK
  Adhesive Technology Board
• Hardwood Research Interest Group - IGLHF
  Hardwood Research Interest Group
• Verein zur Förderung der Normung im Bereich Holzwirtschaft und Möbel e. V. (VFNHM)