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  2006 Technical Workshop
         
             
 
Monday, April 10, 2006: Red Lion Hotel on Fifth Avenue, Lopez Room (Fifth floor)
7:30 am - 5:00 pm Technical Workshop and Symposium Registration Emerald Ballroom Foyer
Third Floor
7:30 am Continental Breakfast
Hosted by WMEL and WSU Extension
Lopez Room
Technical Workshop – Advances in Resin Technology & Pressing
Moderator: Vikram Yadama, Washington State University
Time
Speaker
Presentation Title
Status
8:45 am Vikram Yadama
Symposium Co-Chair
Washington State University
USA
Opening remarks
9:00 am Kaichang Li
Associate Professor
Oregon State University
USA

Alternate resin technology
cnfrmd
9:40 am Chip Frazier
Professor
Virginia Tech
USA
Multiphase thermosets: Blends of PF and pMDI
cnfrmd
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am Mike Malmberg
Accounts Manager , Western Wood Fiber
Hexion Specialty Chemicals
USA
MDF production with urea formaldehyde resins: An overview
cnfrmd
11:20 am Bruce M. Broline
Research Manager, North America
Dynea
USA

Richard Adams
Group Leader, Phenolic Resins
Dynea
CANADA
A practical overview of resin systems for OSB
cnfrmd
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm Niels Meyer
Graduate Research Assistant
Heiko Thoemen
Assistant Professor
University of Hamburg
GERMANY

Steve Kirincic
Research Officer
Bruce Mallas
Research Technologist
Alberta Research Council
CANADA
Pressing pressure and mat thickness in continuous MDF presses: A direct measurement method and evaluation of the effects on panel properties
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1:40 pm Fred Kamke
JELD-WEN Professor
Oregon State University
USA
The physics of hot-pressing: Principles of heat and mass transfer and its implications on resin curing
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2:20 pm Trajan Sandweg
Manager, Sales & Product Management
Gregor Bernardy
Manager, MES & Industrial IT
Siempelkamp GmbH & Co.
GERMANY
Optimization of pressing process through statistical tools
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3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm Jochem Berns
RTD Manager, Process Technology
Metso Panelboard GmbH
GERMANY
The panel pressing process
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4:10-5:00 pm Vikram Yadama
Symposium Co-chair
Washington State University
USA
Workshop summary, Q&A

 

 

 
 
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