Wooden courier
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| description | Trade journal and online platform for the wood value chain |
| Area of Expertise | Market developments in the industry, new products, processing technologies, data visualization |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Österreichischer Agrarverlag, Druck und Verlags Gesellschaft mbH Nfg.KG (Austria) |
| Headquarters | Vienna |
| First edition | 1946/1952 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly |
| Editor-in-chief | Gerd Ebner |
| editor | Österreichischer Agrarverlag, Sturzgasse 1a, 1140 Vienna, Austria |
| Web link | holzkurier.com |
The Holzkurier is an independent, weekly trade journal that covers the topics of the wood value chain - from forestry and wood industry to furniture production, paper and biomass industry. The Holzkurier articles have also been available online since 2002.
The content includes market events in the industry, sales and price developments, new products, processing technologies, company portraits, technology reports, trade fair reports and personal details. An essential component is also statistical data (wood purchase and sales prices, production quantities, import and export quantities) that are collected or collected and then processed in tables and infographics.
The magazine is published weekly by the Österreichischer Agrarverlag , based in Vienna, with a different focus. The publisher stated the gross reach in October 2018 as 35,000.
history
On October 8, 1952, the first edition of Holz-Kurier appeared under Karl Graber in the Austrian Agricultural Publishing House. The magazine was intended to provide market information and was distributed to all subscribers to “Austria's Forest and Wood Industry”. This magazine, founded in 1946 and published biweekly until then, was continued as a monthly magazine. Grabner had been a permanent employee in the publishing house's forestry and timber sector since 1950 and recognized that there was a great demand for international market and price information as well as news about expiring management measures in the timber industry in post-war Austria. He also succeeded in maintaining and re-establishing journalistic contact with neighboring countries - above all in the countries behind the “Iron Curtain” at the time.
Kurt Gadenz was in charge of the paper from 1954 to 1994. The economy of that time was shaped by the desire to quickly dismantle existing trade restrictions. However, the paper and furniture industries feared for their raw material if the customs barriers were to go up, Gadenz recalled. Contacts with Italy, for example with the timber merchant Roberto Tengg, were intensified. In 1987, under the direction of Gadenz, the magazine was redesigned.
Another change to the layout took place in 1998 under the next editor-in-chief Rainer Eder. He also brought the Holzkurier onto the Internet: After initial collaborations in 1996, from 2001 onwards, daily updated timber news and market information were available in German, English and Italian at www.timber-online.net.
Gerd Ebner has been in charge of the editorial team since 2002. Under him, internationalization was pushed forward. The number of editors grew steadily. In 2008 and 2015 the layout was updated again, and in 2017 the online presence was completely revised: timber-online.net became holzkurier.com. Since 2014, Holzkurier has been publishing quarterly wood specials on the main topics of floors, windows, panels and cross-laminated timber together with its sister magazines HolzDesign and Holzbau austria. The data visualization Datacube is a unique selling point of the online platform holzkurier.com. This online tool enables the data collected, some of which go back to 1972, to be visualized. The editorial team regularly conducts economic surveys for the Spaten sawmills, forestry companies and timber construction companies and collects data if there are no official statistics.
Lettering
Cover 1946
Cover 1952
Cover 1956
Cover 1974
Cover 1987
Cover 1998
Cover 2008
Cover 2015
Editors-in-chief
- 1946–1954: Karl Graber
- 1954–1994: Kurt Gadenz
- 1994-2002: Rainer Eder
- since 2002: Gerd Ebner
distribution
The German-language specialist journal is mainly read in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Northern Italy. It is primarily aimed at executives in the wood processing industry and the sawmill industry as well as the wood and building materials trade, wood construction, carpenters, furniture management, forestry, all woodworking, supplying industries, wood machine and biomass industries.
The daily wood news of the platform holzkurier.com in German appears in English on timber-online.net and in Italian on timber-online.it. In addition to the print version and the online news, the content is accessible via an e-paper version or an app.
Timber industry data infographics
Example of the holzkurier.com Datacube
Market analysis of the timber industry
Holzkurier - example report
Media data - reach
Web links
- Holzkurier: holzkurier.com
- Holzkurier English: timber-online.net
- Holzkurier Italian: timber-online.it
- Media data Holzkurier 2019
- Austrian Agricultural Publishing House : av-medien.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Media data Holzkurier 2019. Holzkurier / Österreichischer Agrarverlag, accessed on February 24, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c holzkurier.com. Holzkurier / Österreichischer Agrarverlag, February 24, 2019, accessed on February 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Clemens Kraus: Reader and user analysis of the media Holzkurier and www.timber-online.net, diploma thesis / master thesis, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences . Vienna 2004.
- ↑ a b Austria's wood industry - A look back at the last 60 years . In: Alfred Teischinger (Ed.): Lignovisionen . tape 6 . University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna 2005 ( boku.ac.at ).
- ↑ a b English page of the Holzkurier. Holzkurier / Österreichischer Agrarverlag, accessed on February 24, 2019 (English).
- ↑ a b Italian page of the Holzkurier. Holzkurier / Österreichischer Agrarverlag, accessed on February 24, 2019 (Italian).