Cluster representatives actively participate in the professional meetings of various institutional, private and NGO organizers, where they give presentations on the activities of the Cluster or participate in panel discussions. Symposium on Textile Science and the Economy in 2015 The event was held at the Faculty of Textile Technology in Zagreb, and was entitled Functional Materials,

2nd International Conference “DAY WINDOW 2015” was held on 25.03.2015 in Zagreb in the Congress Center of Hotel Antunovic. The meeting brought together over 190 participants, mostly producers of construction products (profiles, windows and doors, blinds and shutters, hinges, steel reinforcing elements, accessories for installation, etc.), architects and designers. This conference is a central professional gathering on windows in the

Press conference in Lokve October 9th 2014, in the company Lokve Ltd. The conference was held to mark the launch of major initiatives to enhance energy efficiency at the national level (programs of the Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund) and in consequence of an increase in investments in projects of energy production from wood. There was also discussion

Press conference in Cakovec October 3rd 2014, Pana Ltd. A conference was held on the occasion of the announcement of export results of wood processing sector and of the participation of domestic companies at the AMBIENTA fair. It was very well attended by the media accredited in the North-West Croatia. Export results of the wood processing sector in the

The Croatian Wood Cluster in cooperation with the Local Development Agency PINS organized a two-day business tour to Brussels for several entrepreneurs from the area of Gorski Kotar. The tour was funded by the project ˝Internationalization of SMEs˝ within the program ˝Poduzetnički impuls 2014” with the support of the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Crafts. The aim of the tour was

A Thematic Conference in the field of Energy From Wood is launched in Zagreb In Zagreb, on December 3rd, 2014 the 5th International Energy Conference was organized. The participants were government officials, a number of interested companies and experts from the country and abroad. The conference was held in cooperation with the Croatian Wood Cluster, the Association of Producers of Pellets, Biomass,

A successful cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has resulted in the idea of presenting the potentials of a typical region famous for its wood processing to the diplomats accredited in Croatia. The chosen was Virovitica-Podravina county. They visited the companies Tvin, Ciprijanovic and Pan Parket, ending with a wine tasting in the agricultural company Orahovica. The visit

The Ministry of Economy of Poland organized a study tour for Croatian entrepreneurs to the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (Poland) in order to promote trade cooperation among Polish and Croatian companies related to furniture sector. Six interested furniture producers, traders and representatives of the leading sectoral clusters, the Vukovar-Srijem County Wood Cluster and the Croatian Wood Cluster, attended this tour. During the six-day

Cluster started the organization of Sawmill Congress The 5th Congress of Sawmill Industry was organized on 29.10.2014 in Slavonski Brod, under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture. The congress achieved important results in better valorisation of primary wood processing in the SEE countries. The minister Tihomir Jakovina, who emphasized the important statistical indicators that classify the forest-based industries in the leading

The three conferences were full of contents and well visited. They included the topics on biomass and renewable energy sources serving local communities, as well as the use of wood in construction and the future of forestry and wood processing sector. The conferences fully met the expectations, and the topic of biomass was particularly interesting, primarily because of the Croatian and