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FPS
Registration is ongoing for the 2019 Bio Fiber-Polymer Composites Symposium, which will take place Sept. 4 and 5, 2019, in Madison, Wisconsin. Abstract submission deadline is Friday, April 19.
The symposium provides a forum for experts from scientific, technical, and industrial communication to exchange and disseminate information on the latest advances and future opportunities for fiber-polymer composites. Presentations covering wood fibers, natural fibers and nanocellulose composites will be featured.
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FPS
The 12th International Conference on Wood Adhesives will be held Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2020 at the Portland Hilton Downtown hotel in Portland, Oregon. This is one year earlier than originally planned, based on the strong interest and activity in bio-based adhesives. The International Conference on Wood Adhesives is the premier technical conference on advances in adhesion of wood and biomass. Industry representatives were the majority of the 241 attendees in 2017, evenly split between the US and the rest of the world.
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Korean Society of Wood Science and Technology
The Korean Society of Wood Science and Technology will hold BIOCOMP2020: The 15th Pacific Rim Bio-Based Composite Symposium from Oct. 14-17, 2020, in Korea.
A video of the BIOCOMP2018: The 14th Pacific Rim Bio-Based Composite Symposium can be viewed here.
Mainebiz
A new initiative that encourages colleges and universities to build with wood and find innovative ways to do it will boost Maine's forest products industry, those involved say.
The initiative by the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities and U.S. Forest Service offers grants to colleges and universities that look at ways to build with wood.
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Decorative Hardwoods Association
2018 was a year marked by uncertainty and turbulence of trade dispute between U.S. and China, but thanks in part to a strong start of the year the markets still combine for the second-best year ever in hardwood consumption. The overall value of hardwood exports to SEA & GRCH market was $2.256 billion, down 7.7% compared to 2017 but up 16.6% while comparing to 2016. The SEA & GRCH markets accounted for 58.7% of all global exports in 2018. Exports value to Greater China market was $1.893 billion, down 10.4% (YoY) while SEA markets set record and grew at 9.6% to $363.8 million.
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Michigan State University
Michigan State University's future STEM Teaching and Learning Facility will be the first in Michigan to use an innovative wood product, rather than concrete and/or steel, for its load-bearing structure.
Known as mass timber, this framing style uses large solid or engineered wood. The $100 million facility will be constructed of glue-laminated wooden columns and cross-laminated timber, or CLT, a relatively new product for the floors and ceilings.
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Wood Design & Building
The modest Midwestern city of Des Moines, Iowa, sits nestled among cornfields that are the agricultural engine for much of the country. Opposite the business district, separated by the Des Moines River, is an area known as the East Village, where factories and warehouses that once thrived are being repurposed into restaurants, businesses and housing, after an era of decline due to suburban migration. Here, a one-minute walk from the city’s historic City Hall, the first modern mass timber building in Iowa is due to be completed in April 2019 – also becoming the first dowel laminated timber (DLT) office structure in North America.
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Swinerton
Demand for building with mass timber structural systems is increasing throughout the country. While Charlotte and other cities in the Southeast are not yet on the list of places with mass timber buildings, Swinerton's team of mass timber experts see the emerging trend as a viable option for construction in the Southeast.
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The National Law Review
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to propose a rule that would classify as carbon neutral power produced from the combustion of forest biomass. If eventually adopted, such a rule would begin to provide clarity to an issue that has been plagued by uncertainty for nearly 10 years.
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Prince George Citizen
Smoke plumes are rising from the backcountry all around Prince George. They are the telltale signs of spring in the forest industry, the annual burn-off of wood waste from winter logging, but the bioenergy sector is fuming over this old way of scorching the leftovers.
Every one of those debris piles is burning jobs that Prince George workers could have had, and burning money foreign countries were lined up to invest in the local economy, said John Stirling, president of Pacific Bioenergy (PacBio).
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