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At present, more steel is being used in the wind energy industry than in shipbuilding. The 20% forecast annual growth in the wind energy industry will further increase steel consumption. Using timber to construct towers for wind energy plants can noticeably reduce steel consumption. Using our timber tower for a 100m high tower can save approximately 300 tons of sheet steel, the production of which requires enormous amounts of energy and releases harmful CO2. And there is more: our TimberTower ties up approx. 400 tons of CO2, thus protecting our environment and the planet's resources. In a special way, forests and timber are closely linked with mankind's technical and cultural development. The important forest ecosystem is an essential foundation, providing a habitat for animals and plants. Furthermore, the forest offers the sustainable raw material, construction material and energy source that is wood. Germany possesses an area of 11.1 million hectares of forest. This is around 30% of the total economic area. The stock of wood in our forests amounts to approx. 3.4 billion m³. Nowadays, every second a quantity of wood with the volume of a die with 1.56m long sides is being cultivated in our forests. The wood in the forest's trees tie up 5.5 billion tons of CO2, which is the equivalent of the emissions from about 440 million return flights from Germany to Australia. In Germany alone, an average of over twelve m³ of wood per hectare of forest land grows every year. According to the National Forest Inventory, this figure is greater than 95 million m³ per year in the former East German states. This means that over 120 million cubic meters of wood is grown every year in Germany. The potential timber that could be used is lower than this figure, as not all the wood is usable. Reasons for this include the growth of younger trees, protected status, or the inaccessibility of some forest areas.

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