International Wood Composites Symposium

International Wood Composites Symposium
in collaboration with
Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA)
present

Managing the Woody Biomass Supply Chain -
Impact on Your Business

April 11-13, 2012
Red Lion Hotel on Fifth Avenue
Seattle, Washington

OVERVIEW
This year's International Wood Composites Symposium, in collaboration with the Northwest Advanced Renewable Alliance (NARA), offers an industry-driven forum for producers, suppliers, and researchers to focus on competing demands and opportunities in the woody biomass supply chain that impact business success.

Listen to resource managers, regulators, harvesters, recyclers, primary and secondary manufacturers in both wood and wood-based composite products and biofuel/bioenergy industries discuss the latest developments in their fields. Understand the impact this rapidly evolving Woody Biomass Supply Chain has on your business.

Wednesday & Thursday:
Keynote speakers, presentations, networking reception, Technical Forum poster session, and vendor displays.
AGENDA SESSIONS:
Future demands for woody biomass
Composites: New products, markets, and processes
Biofuels and bioenergy: New products, markets, and processes
Redefining your biomass supply
Composites: Resin technology
Biofuels and bioenergy: pretreatment and conversion strategies

Friday:
Optional field trips
Tour Option #1: To zHome and Seattle Steam
Fee includes bus transportation from Red Lion to zHomes in Issaquah and return trip to Seattle Steam. Box lunch included. Minimum 15 participants required for tour to take place.

Tour Option #2: To NewWood Manufacturing
Fee includes bus transportation from Red Lion to the manufacturing plant in Elma, WA (2-hour drive) and return to Red Lion. Box lunch included. Minimum 15 participants required for tour to take place.


Organizing Committee:
Robert Tichy, Washington State University
Vikram Yadama, Washington State University
Randy Brooks, University of Idaho
Scott Leavengood, Oregon State University
Craig Rawlings, Forest Business Network
Eini Lowell, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station

Karl Englund, Washington State University


Symposium Organizing Sponsors

WSU Extension logo
Forest Business Network
OSU logo
U of Idaho
United State Forest Service logo PNW logo
             
             

 

 

 

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Organizing Sponsors:

WSU Extension logo

Forest Business Network logo

OSU logo

U of Idaho

United State Forest Service logo PNW logo

Business Sponsors:
(as of 1/26/2012)

PLATINUM:

Chem-Trend logo


SILVER:

GreCon logo

Process Sensors logo

Metriguard logo

Moist Tech logo

EWS logo

Huntsman logo

 

Be a Business Sponsor.
Increase your company's visibility during the Symposium. For more information and to reserve your sponsorship contact:
vyadama@wsu.edu
englund@wsu.edu
tichy@wsu.edu
or call:
Suzanne Hamada or
Wanda Terry, 509-335-2262

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

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Contact: Vik Yadama, Phone 509-335-2262, Fax 509-335-5077, Questions on logistics: Joy Thompson, CDPE, Phone 509-335-4194