Organizers:
The Latvian Peat Producers’ Association (the Latvian National Committee of the International Peat society) is pleased to invite peat industry professionals, researchers, government stakeholders and students to the International Peat Technology Symposium organized with the participation of Baltic Peat Producers’ Forum and in collaboration with the International Peat Society.
Date:
August 25-29, 2014
Venue:
Radisson Blue Hotel Latvia conference center (Riga, Latvia)
INTERNATIONAL PEAT TECHNOLOGY SYMPOSIUM
25 - 29 August 2014
Riga, Latvia
The International Peat Technology Symposium is the first international event of such a large scale to be dedicated to all most relevant issues and aspects of peat production technologies and the useof peat products for various economic purposes.
Topics:
The Symposiumis devoted to Peat in the 21st Century: its effective and efficient production and high quality processing with an aim to maximize peat resources utilization, as well as working out clear-cut plans for re-naturalization and sustainable management of cut-overpeatland areas.
Authors are invited to submit either their abstract Sand/or papers related to:
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Peatland survey
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Planning (construction) of peat production areas
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Peatland restoration in practice
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Peat harvesting technologies
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Social, Environmental and Economical viewpoints in the production and use of Energy Peat
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Horticultural peat and its effective use
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Horticultural peat: equipment for its processing
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Responsible peat production and use
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IT Solutions and communication in peat industry (covering weather, stock pile measurement, GPS etc)
Topics are still open! Your suggestions would be welcome.
Why should you apply and take part?
Further to its session content, the Symposium will be a networking event providing a unique opportunity to meet your fellow professionals from all the relevant fields of the peat industry, those who shaped its past, and keep shaping its present. And, most importantly, you will be able to establish contacts with those people who will have to determine its future.
It is also noteworthy that simultaneous interpretation from English into Russian and from Russian into English will be provided during all the sessions and seminars of the Symposium.
We would greatly appreciate it if you communicate information about the Symposium to all interested parties.
Goals:
Our ambition is to provide an ideal platform for peat professionals to share their experience and gain new knowledge on a vast range of relevant topics, such as:
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modern peatland survey methods and planning of peat production areas
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responsible and sustainable use of peat resources
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state-of-the-art technologies of peatland preparation for peat deposits development (peat harvesting)
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more efficient methods of peat production
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usage of most advanced technologies for peat products processing and packaging
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recultivation options for cut-overpeatland areas (restoration, rehabilitation and after-use)
In recent years peat industry professionals have met at various international events having little to do withpeat production and processing as such. So, despite their participation in the said meetings, peat producers and peat product manufacturers have been seeking answers to their specific peat industry related questions elsewhere.
However, with the number of participants attending the Baltic Peat Producers’ Forum growing steadily - from a few dozen people in 2000, when the Forum was first held, to 260 professionals convening in 2013 -it has become obvious that the peat industry needs a large-scale international event of its own.
The idea how to organize our present Symposium began to take shape during one of our last Forums, and just as in the case of the Forum, its organizers are driven by the necessity to enable all peat industry stakeholders to come together for an open and productive discussion on the most relevant and urgent issues they are faced with in their everyday work.
Peat has been harvested by people since time immemorial, and for a lot of countries peat production has contributed significantly to their economic growth and prosperity. In spite of the fact that peat used in agriculture and as fuel for energy production purposes helps to cater for the most basic of the human needs (such as food and warmth) people have only extracted and consumed as little as approx 1% of the world peat resources. And that is exactly why we are going to discuss most efficient and sustainable ways of peat production and processing, so that it can be used by the humankind as long as possible.
People engaged in the peat industry often follow in the footsteps of their ancestors being the seventh generation of professional peat producers. And we would like to believe such a family tradition will be preserved and handed down to the eighth and the ninth, and the tenth generation.
We would also like to believe that those who have joined the the peat industry to become the very first generation of peat producers in their family, are able to find hope and inspiration in this work.