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FPS
Submit your nomination for the Forest Products Society Annual Excellence Awards at the 74th International Convention. These awards celebrate leaders and innovators in the forestry industry. FPS members are encouraged to nominate outstanding contributors someone or encourage colleagues to do so.
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FPS
Abstracts submissions are now open for the 6th Biennial International Conference for Process Technologies for the Forest & Biobased Products Industries. PTF BPI 2020 will be hosted in St. Simons Island, GA, USA Nov. 9-11
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Anthropocene
The United Nations predicts the world's urban population will increase by 2.3 billion by 2050. And that means a building boom is ahead, because all of those new urban dwellers will need places to live and work.
Today's favored building materials — cement and steel — result in a lot of carbon emissions. If current trends continue, emissions from manufacturing building materials will total 4.4 gigatons of carbon dioxide by 2050. If living standards and therefore dwelling sizes increase, the total could be up to 19 gigatons.
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Millionacres
The residential housing market has long been one of the main drivers of demand for wood products. However, that's beginning to change as developers seek out more environmentally friendly alternatives to the concrete and steel typically used in commercial construction. That's increasingly leading them to turn toward wood. Not only is it a renewable resource, but the process of harvesting timber and turning it into a usable wood product is also less carbon-intensive than producing concrete and steel, which are responsible for 18% and 24%, respectively, of all industrial emissions.
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Woodworking Network
Alberta is the first Canadian province to allow 12-story wooden buildings province-wide. The allowance raises the wood building height limit from six to 12 stories. "The government of Alberta is to be commended for taking action to promote Alberta jobs and support local business," said Paul Whittaker, president and CEO of the Alberta Forest Products Association (AFPA). "By becoming a leader in wood construction, we are adding value to our resources right here. We are also creating public spaces and homes that Albertans will cherish for generations."
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Laser Focus World
Researchers at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (Espoo, Finland) have created a wood-based optical fiber that transmits light in the 500 to 1400 nm spectral range, with an attenuation of 6.3 dB/cm at 1300 nm. Optical fiber made of cellulose is best suited for sensors that benefit from the biodegradability of the material, say the researchers.
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