Sponsored by International Wood Culture Society (IWCS) and CIDE-2012 Organizing Committee, under the support of China National Forest Products Industry Association and China Building and Decoration Association, the 2012 Global Wooden Door Forum was held in China International Exhibition Center New Hall, Beijing, China on 22nd February, 2012. The event was organized by Beijing WSJ United Strategy For Exhibition Co., Ltd. and Beijing Zhongzhuang Weijia Strategy for Strategy for Exhibition Co., Ltd. With more than one hundred delegates from Serbia, Italy, Japan and China, the occasion was international in scope and character. Invited speakers and participants were representatives of science, education, culture, art, and business fields.

The Forum was chaired by Professor Zhao Guangjie, vice president of the International Wood Culture Society. The guest speakers gave the audiences their wonderful presentation around the four topics of the forum: (1) Regional market demand situation, (2) Sustainable development of wooden door Resources, (3) The quality, standard and technical innovation and (4) Historical background and artistic value. Professor Lou Qingxi, from the college of Architecture, Tsinghua University, gave the keynote speech of the Wooden Door Culture of Ancient Chinese Architecture. He pointed out that such as the tombs, temples and gardens, all the buildings composed of a door series of ancient Chinese architectural. Mr. Akira Nonaka, Chairman of Japan Exterior Wooden Door Association, gave an excellent presentation in the title of “What We Learned from the Earthquake on March 11th, 2011”. Mr. Antonio Frattari, Professor of Architecture and Civil Engineering University of Trento, Italy, gave an overview of Development of the Wooden Doors in Italy and the Current Situation. Mr. Branko Glavonjic, Leading Expert of Forest Product Market in Serbia, Chairman of the Timber Committee UNECE/FAO, Professor of Forestry Belgrade State University Republic of Serbia, introduced the Current Situation and Development of the Demand in the South Eastern Europe Market of Wooden Interior Doors. Mr. Michele Chemolli, Chief Executive of San.Co. Costruzioni Tecnologiche S.p.A. and Mr. Hubertus Flototto, Managing Director of Sauerlander Spanplatten GmbH & Co.KG Zur Schefferei shared their experience on Fire Rated Wooden Doors and The Development of Door Core and Its Sustainability.

CIDE 2012 -11th China International Door Industry Exhibition opened on the same day with the forum at Beijing International Exhibition Center (New Hall). With the scale of 110,000 square meters, 1000 exhibitors, 6,000 booths, the exhibition brings together the enterprises and manufacturers of wooden door manufacture, woodworking machinery, panels, wood paint, veneer, metal locks and so on. International Wood Culture Society lead the foreign delegates visited the exhibition.

A door is the entrance to a building as well as the threshold of civilization. Following the progress of human civilization and the development of social science technology, the wooden door industry originated from a home-made and hand-made basis using pure solid wood to a gradual switch of mechanized production using wood and wood-based panels. Due to the change to mechanized production, the industry has established an industrial standardization for production, storage and transportation, marketing, installation and after sales service. China is the world’s largest wooden door consumer market and production center with a production growth rate of more than 20% on average annually. Thus, wooden doors play an increasingly important role in the high-quality residential culture while simultaneously increasing a higher standard of quality and requirement of wooden doors.