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SCHEDULE
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1
Pre-Conference Workshop: Introduction to Wood Materials and Adhesives
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Live Event Only
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Speakers:
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Adam Taylor, PhD | University of Tennessee Center for Renewable Carbon
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Robert Breyer, PhD | Georgia-Pacific Chemicals
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Pre-Conference Workshop: Design of Experiments for Rapid Innovation
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Live or Virtual Options Available
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Speaker:
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Timothy Young, PhD | University of Tennessee Center for Renewable Carbon
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2
7:30 AM
8:15 AM
8:25 AM
9:05 AM
9:25 AM
9:45 AM
10:05 AM
10:30 AM
10:50 AM
11:10 AM
11:30 AM
1:30 PM
Registration and Exhibit Hall Opens
Opening Remarks, Recognition of Sponsors and Welcome
Keynote 1 – Kurt Koch, VP of Product Engineering and Quality, Huber Engineered Wood
Keynote 2 – Wendy Owens, Founder and CEO, Hexas Biomass, LLC
Keynote 3 – Harold Arnold, President, Fram Renewable Fuels, LLC
Break with Exhibitors
Plenary 1 – Matt Holt, Director of Quality, Roseburg Forest Products, ‘How Data Science is changing the Forest Products Industry
Plenary 2 – Charles Gale, Strategic Business Analyst, SmartLam North America
Plenary 3 – Bob Breyer, GP Chemicals, ‘The Future of the Forest Products Industry and How Can You Help us Get There’
Open Questions and Discussion
Concurrent Session 1: Wood Adhesives and Material Science I
Moderator: Rubin Smulsky, Mississippi State University
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David Harper, University of Tennessee – ‘Enhancing nature’s surfaces: using informed computational models to improve the function and performance of biobased materials’
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Brian Via, Auburn University – ‘Soy Flour substituted pMDI for Wood Composites’
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Bryant Gonzalez, SOI Chem, - ‘Soy Adhesives for the Future’
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Abiodun Aalawode, Auburn University – ‘Performance of different fillers in methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) resin’
Concurrent Session 2: Structural Wood Materials
Moderator: Adam Taylor, University of Tennessee
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Steve Winistorfer, PFS TECO - ‘General process of testing and certifying CLT’
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Mustafa N. KAYA, Mississippi State University – ‘Hygrothermal behavior of cross-laminated timber panels partially submerged in water’
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Guangmei Cao Anderson, Mississippi State University - ‘Fitting Statistical Distribution Models to MOE and MOR in Mill-Run Red Pine and Spruce Lumber Populations’
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Frank C. Owens, Mississippi State University – ‘Some Problems with Lower-tail Fitting in Modeling Strength Distributions of Lumber’
Concurrent Session 3: Data Science and AI
Moderator: Tim Young, University of Tennessee
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Ed Sobek, Global Plasma Solutions – ‘Reducing SARS-CoV-2 virus air and surface contamination using ionization technologies’
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Terry Liles, Huber Engineered Woods – ‘Application of EVOP in Wood Products Industry’
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Anton Astner, University of Tennessee – ‘Component yield maximization of organosolv fractionated softwood combines with rapid prediction of lignin thermal properties’
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Chloe Ericksen, University of Tennessee – ‘Interfacing ‘R’ software with JMP for machine learning and AI’
3:30 PM
Concurrent Session 4:Wood Adhesives and Material Science II
Moderator: Terry Liles, Huber Engineered Woods
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Siqun Wang, University of Tennessee – ‘Optimizing Wood Composite Processing and Properties Via Press Control Strategies’
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Sudip Chowdhury, The Willamette Valley Company – ‘Commodity to Value-Added Proposition: Engineered Waxes for Enhanced Panel Performance and Improved Safety’
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Joseph Marcinko, Polymer Synergies – ‘Solid State Deuterium NMR Used to Study the Mobility of Water in Wood and Its Influence on Moisture Cure Adhesives’
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Mark Gagnon, Penn State University – ‘Pressurized Radio Frequency Heating of Wood to Meet ISPM-15 Requirements’
Concurrent Session 5: Innovation in Sustainable Biomaterials and Processes
Moderator: Ronald Gonzales, North Carolina State University
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Kim Tutin, Captis Aire, Atlanta, Georgia – ‘Industrial Air Pollution Control Technology for Wood Processing Enables Operators to Sell Valuable Bioproducts, Sell Carbon Offsets, and Significantly Reduce Operating Costs as it Cleans the Air’
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R.A. Breyer, GP Chemicals – ‘Why We Should Transform Plywood Bond Performance Testing’
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Rubin Shmulsky, Mississippi State University - ‘Development of access mat software for efficient specification, safe deployment, and environmental protection’
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Scott Leavengood, Oregon State University – ‘Teaching lean manufacturing principles via remote instruction’
Concurrent Session 6: Innovation in Value Added Products
Moderator: Brian Via, Auburn University
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Laya Khademibami, Mississippi State University - ‘Abrasion resistance and hardness assessment of five U.S. Hardwoods’
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Levente Denes, West Virginia University - ‘Chair Development Based On Body Pressure Distribution – a Research Effort’
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Danijela Domljan, University of Zagreb, Croatia - ‘School furniture design – a comparison in primary schools in Croatia, Czech Republic and the USA’
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Richard Baldwin, Oak Creek Investments – ‘Keeping Structural and decorative wood products relevant: development of alternative products, fibers, and processes’
5:30 PM
6:30 PM
Cocktails by the Ocean
Banquet
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3
8:30 AM
10:30 AM
Industry News
Moderator: Fred Kurpiel
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Matt Holt, Roseburg Forest Products – The new laminated veneer lumber (LVL) in Chester, SC
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Egger Wood Products, – The new MDF mill at Lexington, NC
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Huber Engineered Woods, LLC – The new OSB mill at Cohasset, MN
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Roy O. Martin – The new mill at Corrigan, TX
Concurrent Session 7: Industry Trends
Moderator: Rubin Smulsky, Mississippi State University
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Ronald Gonzales, North Carolina State University – ‘How Global Megatrends will Shape the Forest Product Industry in the Next 10 Years’
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Don Hodges, University of Tennessee – ‘A new MS-Forestry Curriculum at The University of Tennessee with a unique focus in data science’
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Dick Baldwin, Oak Creek Investments – ‘Wood Utilization and Carbon Accounting within a Forest Based Circular Bioeconomy’
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Richard Poindexter, Search North America - ‘Wood Products Employment Trends & How To Keep Your Employees Engaged’
Concurrent 'Virtual' EU Session 1
Moderator: Tim Young, University of Tennessee
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Klaus Richter, Technical University of Munich, Germany – ‘Forest-based bioeconomy in Germany: current status and recommended action’
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Alexander Petutschnigg, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Kuchl Austria – ‘Test device for multispectral analysis of roundwood end faces’
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Martin Reigler, BOKU University, Vienna Austria – TBD
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Stefan Kain, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences – ‘Smart wood materials from additive manufacturing’
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Fernão Magalhães, LEPABE - University of Porto, Portugal – ‘New cork-acrylic composite foam coating’
Concurrent 'Virtual' EU Session 2
Moderator: Terry Liles, Huber Engineered Woods
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Rupert Wimmer, BOKU University, Austria – ‘Smart materials, magnetic wood and air cleaning’
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Nathan Koelli, University of Applied Sciences and Arts TH OWL, Germany – ‘Densification and press-drying of wet oil palm lumber’
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Csilla Csiha, Sopron University, Sopron, Hungary – ‘The relevance of wood moisture content when measuring contact angle’
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Mehieddine Derbas, Wood K Plus, Vienna Austria – ‘Tool wear identification by monitoring acoustic emissions during wood milling’
Concurrent 'Virtual' EU Session 3
Moderator: Bob Breyer, GP Chemicals
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Eugenia Tudor, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Kuchl Austria – ‘Biomimicry of bark-based composites in a circular economy’
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Sergej Medved, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia – ‘Wood-based panels and water: Love and hate relationship’
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Sergej Medved, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia – ‘Alternative resin system with liquefied wood for particleboard’
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Alan Antonović, University of Zagreb, Croatia – 'Liquifued wood as a catalyst for melanine-urea-formaldehyde resin polycondensation in particleboard production'
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Jorge Santos, LEPABE - University of Porto, Portugal – ‘Exterior grade particleboards 100% biobased, made from by-products of the food-packaging industry’
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