Together with its gold sponsor, Ta Chou Industry, TIWF 2024 is presented as a key face-to-face business and industry platform for showcasing and discussing the latest woodworking and furniture production technology, solutions, materials, trends and sustainability impacting Thailand, and its surrounding Southeast Asian region—all under one roof.
Hosted by Thailand’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, TIWF 2024 also has the support of Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK).
In addition, the show has been endorsed by 19 international woodworking media from 10 countries, and 34 related industry organisations and trade associations from nine countries, underscoring its importance as a truly international woodworking and furniture production event that facilitates trade and knowledge exchanges.
To date, the exhibition has received confirmations from over 190 exhibiting companies from 19 countries, including seven national exhibitor country pavilions from Thailand, China, Germany, Italy, US, France and Taiwan.
Over 350 exhibiting brands will be present to welcome over 4,000 attending delegates and trade buyers, coming from across the entire spectrum of the Southeast Asian and international woodworking and furniture production industry sectors.
This three-day international trade exhibition offers exhibitors and attendees with the platform to drive business growth and seek new business opportunities through many of its business activities such as business matching program, networking, technology demonstrations and product presentations.
In addition, TIWF 2024 aims to bring together industry experts, investors, and entrepreneurs to its series of conferences and seminars, to discuss and share global trends, opportunities and challenges in creating and investing in innovative sectors within the woodworking and furniture production industries.
This series of conferences includes a Leadership Forum, touching on topics such as ‘Opportunities and Overcoming Challenges in the Thai Furniture Industry’, ‘Evolving Trends in Global Demand for Wood Raw Materials’, ‘Economic Forest Resource Management’, ‘Innovations and Future Opportunities in Thai Woodworking and Furniture Industry’.
At the same time, working with its knowledge partner, Lanna Thai Plywood, TIWF 2024 will conduct a series of carpentry skill masterclasses and DIY workshops, with vocational institutes and woodworking professionals, touching on class subjects such as woodworking and furniture productions, skill upgrades in machinery and tool operations, designs and concepts, and materials and methodology.
Thailand’s furniture market is driven by rapid urbanisation and rising disposable income. There are well over 2,600 furniture producers in Thailand, with wooden furniture accounting for 70 percent of all furniture that are produced for exports.
According to Thai Furniture Association, Thailand aims to become Southeast Asian’s production and supply hub for furniture productions and supply of wooden components and raw materials.
Thailand’s well established sawmill industry is actively engaged in the production of lumbers and wooden products. For example, in 2022, the production volume of eucalyptus wood is estimated to be about 78,000 tonnes, accounting for the highest production volume among timber products, followed by teak wood.
In 2022, the value of Thailand’s fibreboard exports amounted to THB 29.5 billion, followed by wood in chips and particles, amounting to 4.4 billion kg. Thailand also imported considerable volumes of pulpwood and wood charcoals.
