International Wood Composites Symposium
Day 1: Wednesday, April 11, 2012

 PLENARY SESSION: Future Demands for Woody Biomass

8:00 am

Welcome: Vikram Yadama and Robert Tichy, Washington State University, Symposium Committee Co-Chairs

Moderator: Robert Tichy, Washington State University

8:10 am

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Mike Jostrom, Director of Renewable Resources, Plum Creek Timber Company
Resolving feedstock conflicts between traditional and emerging industries

8:40 am

Laurel Harmon, Vice President-Government Relations, LanzaTech Inc.
International policy development for biofuels and bioenergy industries

9:10 am

Dwight Anderson, Bioconversion Lead, Catchlight Energy, LLC 
Value chain development in the emerging biofuel industry

10:00 am

Jamie Barbour, Program Manager, Focused Science Delivery and Goods, Services, and Values Programs, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station
Opportunities from Forest Service biomass policy and management approaches

10:30 am

Bruce Lippke, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington College of Environment
Environmental impacts and policy conflicts between biofuels and engineered wood products

11:00 am

Christopher Wright, Manager, Idaho National Laboratory Biofuels & Renewable Energy Technologies
Expanding our thinking of woody feedstock supply systems for bioenergy production

11:30 am

Michael Wolcott, Professor; Director, Institute for Sustainable Design, and Principal Director, NARA project, Washington State University
Woody biomass supply chain dynamics for integrated technologies — NARA project

Biofuels and Bioenergy: New products, markets, and processes   

Composites: New products, markets, and processes 

Moderator: Lincoln Ferris, NewWood Manufacturing

Moderator: Chris Leffel, Trinity Innovations Inc.

1:00 pm

Dave Sjoding, Energy Program Coordinator, Washington State University Energy Program 
Bioenergy policies

Geoff Rhodes, President, Geoff Rhodes Associates, United Kingdom 
Learning and innovation go hand in hand

1:30 pm

Tom Miles, President, T.R. Miles Technical Consultants 
Securing and handling biomass feedstocks

William Mitchell, Vice President, The Beck Group
Lessons learned from benchmarking studies of composite industries

2:00 pm

John Crouch, Director of Public Affairs, Pellet Fuels Institute and HPBA
Biomass supply and markets for the pellet fuel industry

John Bowser, President/CEO, NewWood Manufacturing
Securing a reliable, long-term supply of recycled biomass for manufacturing: A case study of NewWood Manufacturing

3:00 pm

Michael Rushton, COO, Lignol Innovations Inc., Canada
Lignol’s flexible biorefinery technology

Karl Englund, Asst. Research Professor and Extension Specialist, Composite Materials and Engineering, Washington State University
Pyrolytic Lignins as a Thermoplastic Resin for Wood Composites

3:30 pm

Christian Roy, President, Pyrovac Inc., Canada
What future for biomass pyrolysis?

Patrick Govang, President and CEO, e2e Materials
Re-thinking the commodity supply model to create sustainable value

4:00

Rachael Jamison, Energy/Climate Policy Specialist, Washington State Department of Natural ResourcesEnsuring sustainability in the emerging forest biomass market: DNR’s proactive approach

Mathias Fischer, Sales Director, GreCon, Germany 
Preventive fire and explosion protection with effective spark detection and extinguishment

4:30–6:30 pm

Technical Forum Poster Session: Browse through poster displays and talk with vendors.

Reception during Technical Forum: Complimentary wine and beer, hearty hors d’oeuvres

Day 2: Thursday, April 12, 2012

PLENARY SESSION: Redefining Your Biomass Supply

Moderator: TJ Rosengarth, Northwest Hardwoods

8:00 am

William Mitchell, Vice President, The Beck Group
Fiber supply for bioenergy (co-gen)

8:30 am

Bruce Summers, Harvesting and Product Sales Manager , GreenWood Resources, Inc.
Hybrid poplar: A tree for all reasons

9:00 am

Terry Gillis, General Manager , Recovery 1
Accessing wood in our municipal solid waste streams

9:30 am

Jim Dooley, CTO ,Forest Concepts LLC 
Beneficiation of chipped and shredded woody biomass

10:30 am

Donald Bisson, Vice President, Government and Industry Affairs, Composite Panel Association
The Federal biomass debate and the importance of wood products manufacturing to the US economy

10:50 am

PANEL DISCUSSION: Biomass logistics and utilization
Bill Hermann, CEO , Hermann Brothers Logging and Construction
Woody biomass harvesting and transportation

Han-Sup Han, Professor , Humboldt State University 
Collection and transportation of forest residuals for energy production

Ed Tolan, Purchasing Executive , Nippon Paper Industries
Biomass utilization for bioenergy

Biofuels and Bioenergy: Pretreatment and Conversion Strategies 

Composites: Advances in Technology

Moderator: Linda Beltz, Weyerhaeuser

Moderator: Karl Englund, Washington State University

1:00 pm

Tom Amidon, Professor & Director of ESPRI, SUNY-ESF
Autocatalytic pretreatment of woody biomass for extraction of hemicelluloses for biofuels and biopolymers

Tomas Joscak, Dascanova GmbH, Austria 
Three-dimensional rearrangement of the wood-based panel density in one press process

1:30 pm

Joel Howard, CEO, Applied Biorefinery Sciences LLCEconomic advantages of ABS Process™ Biorefinery Technology for wood fuel pellets and composites: Answers and Questions.

David Harmon, Lab & NA Wood Fiber Technical Manager
Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc.
Low formaldehyde emission challenges in composite wood products

2:00 pm

Tom Elder, Research Technologist, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research StationGasification of woody biomass as a route to energy and fuels

Tony Ferrante, Sales and Service Manager, Columbia Forest Products
Commercialization of a new protein-based adhesive system

3:00 pm

Vicky Putsche, Sr. Process Engineer, Commercial & Public Affairs, Gevo, Inc. 
Biobutanol: Fueling the Next Generation Biorefinery

Michael Rushton, COO, Lignol Innovations Inc.Use of HP-L™ Lignin as an ingredient in wood composite adhesives

3:30

Richard Berry, VP and Chief Technology Officer, CelluForce, Inc. Canada
Nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) from wood for high-value downstream products

Ray Roberts, Consultant Physicist, RJ Roberts Consulting
Core blending efficiency improvements achieved in continuous pressing of particleboard

4:00 pm

Muhammad Moniruzzaman, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Material and Energy Science, Okayama University, Japan
Ionic liquids in pretreatment of woody biomass: An efficient approach for cellulose separation

Ning Yan, Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Canada 
Bark biorefinery: conversion of bark residue to bark based PF adhesives and PU foams

Global leader in release agents, sealers, and primers that maximize productivity
in the Wood Composite Industry.

Panel quality scanning systems for
PB, MDF, HB, OSB, OSL, Plywood, and LVL.

Global leader in the production of MDI-based resin binders for Particleboard, MDF and OSB.

Manufactures NIR and RF analyzers for engineered, 
composite and solid panel wood applications.

Online Process and Laboratory moisture instrumentation using NIR and RF technologies.

Equipment for panel testing (PS1 & PS2), veneer grading (green and dry), stress grading, and other laboratory testing.

Spark Detection & Extinguishment and
Quality Assurance Systems.