discover innovations – share knowledge
The Fireplace HUB represents additional added value for fireplace professionals. With daily changing expert symposiums, it is establishing itself as a valuable industry portal for knowledge transfer and networking.
Decision-makers from business and associations engage in dialogue with trade visitors. This presentation platform brings together industry and trade associations and creates space to work together on the future of the industry.
There are discussions, debates and presentations on ‘hot’ topics that are driving the industry, such as emission reduction, energy, particulate matter, craftsmanship, hybrid heat, security of supply and much more. The Fireplace HUB is a place where innovations & standards are presented, knowledge is shared and solutions are found. The HUB is an additional attraction for trade visitors and exhibitors alike.
The Fireplace HUB offers informative programme items every day during the trade fair and is free of charge for visitors.
statements from the industry
‘With the new edition of WOF, as a partner of the trade fair, we stand for innovative strength, safety and continuity for trade, craft and industry. In addition to sustainable and ecological heating solutions, the trade fair also offers holistic complete solutions for building heating, building technology and energy efficiency in the form of hybrid heating concepts. With the WOF, we combine tradition and innovation and, with the HUB, offer a central dialogue platform for the industry and for political discourse. Personal dialogue is at the heart of everything that happens. In this way, we all work together to ensure that our companies and consumers act in a more climate-friendly way. After all, modern fireplaces and innovative secondary measures help to reduce emissions from fossil fuels and further curb the greenhouse effect. We are all looking forward to an exciting time at the trade fair!’
‘There is a fiery debate about heating with wood. Modern fireplaces are in high demand and, in our view, indispensable for the energy and heating transition. The ‘WORLD OF FIREPLACES’ offers the GesamtVerband OfenBau and its members an ideal platform for innovative solutions and modern technologies, for a well-founded professional and technical exchange and a discourse on important future topics. Our fireplaces are the centre and meeting point for everyone who wants to stay in touch. We look forward to making contact with the participants in Leipzig. As an organisation representing the interests of the craft trades, industry and wholesale, the GVOB is committed to the ecological and economical thermal use of wood. As a strong voice of the industry – for the future of stove building.’
‘As regenerative and climate-friendly heat sources, wood-burning fireplaces avoid CO2 emissions and, with the fuels logs, pellets or wood chips, represent sensible alternatives to existing fossil heating systems or a supplement to an existing heating system. Modern biomass systems are low in pollutants and have an efficiency of over 90%. Boilers with condensing technology can achieve even higher efficiencies. We expect interesting presentations and discussions at WORLD OF FIREPLACES on the topics of climate protection, emission control and affordable heat energy. The operational and fire safety of heat generators must not be neglected either and will be a topic at the Fireplace HUB. The chimney sweep trade is in favour of a heating market that is open to all technologies and a climate-friendly energy mix that also makes sense from an economic point of view. We hope for a discussion at WORLD OF FIREPLACES that is as free of ideology as possible and will take part in the professional dialogue with manufacturers, associations, politicians and trade visitors on the subject of heat.’
‘Heat from wood is reliable and sustainable. Only if we use this technology without ideology as part of a sensible overall strategy will we as a society be able to master the major challenges of our time. The stove, whether an industrial fireplace or a handcrafted tiled stove, is part of an innovative heating concept that will continue to provide Germany with a secure supply in the coming years. We must stand up for this together and also find answers to the questions that politics and society put to us. The industry must present itself just as innovatively as our products are. We cordially invite you to be part of this movement.’
‘According to the state of the art, domestic wood firing systems with the lowest pollutant emissions are equipped with air control, operating data recording and exhaust gas cleaning such as catalytic converters and dust separators. Firewood consumption can also be reduced by combining it with other renewable energies.’
‘Only if combustion systems are constantly developed further and thus become more efficient and lower in emissions can they continue to make their important contribution as a renewable source of space heating in the future. To achieve this, combustion systems must become robust against operating errors. User training should play a central role alongside technical development.’