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Registration is ongoing for the 2019 Bio Fiber-Polymer Composites Symposium, which will take place Sept. 4 and 5, 2019, in Madison, Wisconsin. 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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The 21st International Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation (NDTE) of Wood Symposium will be held in Freiburg, Germany, Sept. 24-27, 2019.
This symposium will be hosted by the ForestResearch Institute Baden-Württemberg (FVA) and is co-sponsored by the USDAForest Service ProductsLaboratory (FPL), the ForestProducts Society (FPS) and the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO). The conference will be held at Katholische Akademie Freiburg, which is situated close to the city center of Freiburg.
This Symposium is a forum for those involved in nondestructive testing and evaluation of wood, wood-based products and structures. It will bring together the international nondestructive testing and evaluation research community, users of various nondestructive testing technologies, equipment development and manufacturing professionals, representatives from various government agencies, and other groups to share research findings and new nondestructive testing products and technologies.
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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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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
An unusual proposed downtown Milwaukee office building has been redesigned, a move that will save money and help the development proceed.The seven-story, 42,000-square-foot office building would be the first Milwaukee office building with a frame that uses mass timber — a new technology that creates posts, beams and other components from sheets of wood pressed together.
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Canadian Forest Industries
China's imports of U.S. forest products fell by 430 million dollars in the first four months of 2019. The U.S. market share fell by 35%, while Canadian and Russian exporters have increased their shares since 2018, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison via Woodworking Network
The world's wood products — all the paper, lumber, furniture and more — offset less than 1 percent of annual global carbon emissions by locking away carbon in woody forms, according to new research.
An analysis across 180 countries found that global wood products offset 335 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2015, 71 million tons of which were unaccounted for under current United Nations standards. Wood product carbon sequestration could rise more than 100 million tons by 2030, depending on the level of global economic growth.
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The Hill
With the impacts of a warming planet becoming more apparent every day, climate change is taking center stage in the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Most of the candidates have articulated commitments or released plans to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions through legislation, administrative actions, international diplomacy and other initiatives.
Yet, the candidates have spent almost no time on one of America's best weapons against climate change — forests.
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San Antonio Express-News
On June 24, for the first time in Texas, Texas A&M Forest Service successfully merchandised, marketed and sold 224 acres of timber for the USDA Forest Service. This timber sale marks a successful step forward in the first phase of a larger Good Neighbor Authority project meant to nurture healthier, more resilient forests in Texas.
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The Wall Street Journal (Subscription required)
As contractors rush to cut down trees so that this community decimated by a wildfire last year doesn't burn again, they’re creating a fresh problem: piles of timber everywhere. The stacks are visible throughout the charred remains of Paradise. One of the biggest sits along Skyway Road on the outskirts of town, where contractors working for utility PG&E Corp. have stacked more than 3,000 logs over the past month, according to a worker.
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Canadian Biomass
People, businesses and communities across Canada looking for cheaper, more reliable and environmentally friendly heating options should be taking a closer look at wood fuel, says a national supplier of wood heating systems.
Biothermic, an Ontario-based company with two locations supplying modern wood heating systems across Canada, has built Ontario's first wood fuel facility for processing and storing wood chips — a major step forward in helping make low-carbon, low-cost energy a reality in Canada.
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Cecobois
You will never again see the service stations in the same way after discovering this Danish project. On the E20 highway in the city of Fredericia, electric car drivers can reload their vehicles in a wooden loading station while relaxing in the nearby amenities.
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