2014 IWCS
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014 NWBCC Poster Session and Reception |
| 8:00 – Noon | Wednesday, April 30, 2014 NWBCC Biofuel Co-Products Session: Value-added co-products across the supply chain Speakers: |
For more information visit the NWBCC website.
International Wood Composites Symposium
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| 8:00 am IWCS Registration opens | |
| 1:00 pm | Welcome: Robert Tichy, Karl Englund, Vikram Yadama, Washington State University, Symposium Committee |
| 1:10 pm | Distinguished Service Award |
KEYNOTE SESSION
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| 1:30 pm | Tom Julia, President, Composite Panel Association Market Forces and Regulatory Issues Facing the Composite Panel Industry |
| 2:15 pm | Ed Elias, President, APA – The Engineered Wood Association Entering an Age of Rediscovery |
SESSION I: Market Intelligence, Product Requirements
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| 3:30 pm | Bob Flynn, RISI Latin American Plantation Forest Resources and Development of the Composite Wood Panel Sector |
| 4:00 pm | Michael Zimmerman, Sauder Woodworking The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: MDF Mills and Laminating |
| 4:30 pm | Todd Luce, Lynden Door Dances with Elephants – The Life of a Wood Products Manufacturer in our Recovering Industry |
| 5:00 – 7:00 pm | Technical Forum Poster Session and Reception Browse through poster displays and talk with vendors. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres, wine and beer |
International Wood Composites Symposium
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| Symposium Check-in / Registration and Continental Breakfast begin at 7:00 am | |
SESSION II: Product and Process Innovation
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| 8:00 am | Chris Brandt, Weyerhaeuser Company The Role of Structural Composite Lumber in Mass Timber Construction |
| 8:30 am | Daniel Hindman, Virginia Tech Mechanical, Acoustic, and Fire Properties of Southern Pine Cross-Laminated Timber |
| 9:00 am | Tim Schallich, Columbia Forest Products Rotary Veneer Production from North America Hybrid Poplar Plantations |
| 9:30 am | Chunping Dai, FPInnovations Optimization of Veneer Drying Processes |
| 10:30 am | Todd Miller, Momentive Specialty Chemicals Enabling Technologies for Sustainable Composite Wood Products |
| 11:00 am | Tom Greten, Binos The Binos Scalper – Forming the Future |
| 11:30 am | Tomas Joscak, Dascanova GmbH 3-D Mat Modification for Continuous Wood-Based Panel Production |
SESSION III: Adhesives |
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| 1:00 pm | Chip Frazier, Wood-Based Composites Center, Virginia Tech Influence of Organic-fillers in Phenol-formaldehyde Wood Adhesion |
| 1:30 pm | Kaichang Li, Oregon State University A Blend of Natural Materials as a Superior Wood Adhesive |
| 2:00 pm | Michel Delmas, Université de Toulouse Biolignin™, a Renewable Raw Material for Wood Adhesives |
| 3:00 pm | Philip Humphrey, Adhesive Evaluation Systems, Inc. Micro-structural Adhesion in Bio-composite Materials during their Heated Consolidation |
| 3:30 pm | Paschalis Tsirogiannis, Chimar Hellas S.A. Use of Nanomaterials to Enhance the Hydrophobicity and Oleophobicity of Laminated Wood Based Panels |
| 4:00 pm | Luisa Carvalho, Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Portugal Recent Developments in the Performance of Formaldehyde Scavengers in Wood-Based Panels |
2014 Sponsors
Global leader in release agents, sealers, and primers that maximize productivity in the Wood Composite Industry.
A global leader in specialty chemicals and materials.
APA – The Engineered Wood Association
We create chemistry for a sustainable future.
Manufactures NIR and RF analyzers for engineered, composite and solid panel wood applications.
A National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, I/UCRC, providing fundamental research and education to the wood-based composites industry.
Moist Tech is a manufacturer of Near Infrared and Radio Frequency Moisture/Resin sensors for MDF,PB,OSB, Fiberboard, and BioMass products.
Spark Detection & Extinguishment, In-Line Quality Assurance Systems.
For more than three decades, Huntsman has been a consistent supplier of MDI-based resin binder solutions to the composite wood panel industry.
Bonding and surface solutions for commercial and residential building.
New in 2014 – Rail Shear Tester for web stock. Celebrating 40 years of grading & testing equipment for panels, composites, veneer & lumber.
Providing automatic Bar Coding, Ink Jet Grade Marking and Ink Jet Stenciling systems to lumber and panel mills for over 20 years.
Adhesion analysis and optimization for the biosciences, engineering composites, aerospace,and adhesive synthesis.