F2FP | From Forest To Finished Products Event Overview

A Conference by Industry People for Industry People

• 100% technology transfer, education, and training
• In-depth coverage of critical issues
• Multiple concurrent tracks
  • Forest/forestry, logging equipment
  • Saw milling, solid sawn lumber, beams
  • Panels, engineered lumber
  • Value-added products: furniture, cabinets, doors and windows, components, engineered/solid flooring, architectural woodwork
• CFEs, CLEs, and CEUs available

EXPO Exhibits

• More than 50 indoor exhibits and 10 outdoor exhibits (interactive)

Workshops

• Bio-fiber initiatives
• Forest land ownership and profit optimization on existing land by Forisk, Inc.
• Water quality
• Resins and adhesives, moderated by Dr. Terry Sellers (SelTech)
• Optimizing sawmill operations, with emphasis on management planning, sawing/saws, and drying, organized by Dr. Gene Wengert

Custom Plant Tours and On-Site Seminars

In-Forest Logging Bio-Fiber Demo

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Bio-Energy Symposium

The symposium and Conference Expo will provide the latest technology, process and economics info on all topics concerning biomass research, development & implementation. Featuring presentations from the very best in the industry. Download PDF

Live Demo

Plum Creek site demo dubbed a “must see” by Southern Loggin’ Times and Timber Harvesting. A world class live bio-harvesting, handling, baling, chipping/grinding demo. The largest such conference and demo ever in U.S. Download PDF

$15 Ticket

Please present this ticket at the registration booth to obtain your badge.
Live In-Woods Demo Ticket Plum Creek Forest Land November 16-17, 2008
It does not provide access to conference sessions or conference food functions.

Attendee Registration

Pre-register for the 2008 F2FP Conference and Expo by downloading the following PDF.

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• Final Show Program
• Exhibitor Resource Package
• Exhibitor Registration Form
• BioEnergy Symposium
• Plum Creek Live Demo
• Call For Papers
• Attendee Registration Form
• Free Live Demo Ticket

November 16

Seminars on Plum Creek Forest Land

November 17 • Specialization Day

Seminars on Plum Creek Forest Land

• Weyerhaeuser-Parallam, Anthony Forest Products, Yancey Brothers — Caterpillar Equipment (all day)
• UGA Bio-Fiber Conversion Pilot Plant (AM and PM)

BMPs and Forested Water Resources

• Frank Green, Georgia Forestry Commission
• Rhett Jackson, UGA Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
• John Godbee, F&W Forestry Services, Inc.

Forest Investment and Profit Optimization of Existing Forestland

• Brooks Mendell, Forisk, Inc.

Resins and Adhesives

• Terry Sellers, Seltech
• Chung-Yun Hse, USDA Forest Service
• Kaichang Li, Oregon State University

Bio-Fiber Energy Symposia

• Nathan McClure, Georgia Forestry Commission
• Daniel Cassidy, USDA CSREES
• Ben Jackson, UGA Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
• Bill Pennington, Processes Unlimited International, Inc.
• Ken Muehlenfeld, Forest Product Development Center, Auburn University
• Ross Harding, Vice President, Herty Foundation
• Randy Queen, General Motors
• Dale Threadgill, UGA Biological and Agricultural Engineering
• Ron Barmore, Range Fuels
• Gene Zebley, Hurst Boilers
• Steve Taylor, Auburn University
• Devon Dartnell, Georgia Forestry Commission
• Greg Davidson, BFS
• Greg Alles, Bliss Industries
• Jon Mayner, Evergreen Engineering

• Gene Wengert, The Wood Doctor’s Rx, LLC
• Mike Steele, Perforex/Poyry
• Julian Beckwith, UGA (retired)
• Dennis Hanlon, Forestry Systems, Inc.
• Joseph Chang, Louisiana State University
• Mark White (invited), White and Co.

• Jim Ewing, Director of Recruitment & Existing Industry, Georgia Dept. of Economic Development, Commerce Division
• Karl Brohammer, Director, Georgia Tech

Advanced Wood Products Lab (AWPL) Crate & Barrel Design Competition and Finished Products Exhibit
Reception and Exhibits

November 18 • Conference

Global Overview of Fiber Demand

• Bill Miller, F&W Forestry Services, Inc.
• John Carpenter, President of Caterpillar Forest Products
• D.K. Knight, Principal, Hatton-Brown Publishers
• John Pait, Senior Vice President, Cellfor
• Marshall Jacobson, Manager, Plum Creek

Forest Developments — Carbon Credits

• Josh Love, Georgia Forestry Commission
• TBA, Assigning Value to the Resource
• John Godbee, F&W Forestry Services, Inc.

Forestry Issues — Wood Quality

• Digges Morgan, Southern Forest Products Association
• Bryant Beadles, Balfour Lumber Co.
• TBA, Modeling Wood Quality

Sawmilling and Lumber Developments

• Karl Brohammer, AWPL, Georgia Tech
• Wesley Langdale, Langdale Corp.
• Kerlin Drake (invited), Anthony Forest Products
• Mark Smith, National Director, WoodLinksUSA

• Dick Baldwin, Oak Creek Investments
• Tony Pugel, Louisiana Pacific
• Brian Wommack, Weyerhaeuser

Pine to Energy to Emissions

• Hon. Dave Garman, Former Under Secretary of Energy
• Ross Harding, Vice President, Herty Foundation
• Greg Heck, Principal Research Engineer, Southern Co.
• Barbara Wells, President and CEO, ArborGen

Forest Developments — Finance/ROI

• Brooks Mendell, Forisk, Inc.
• Rocky Goodnow, RISI
• Phil Dougherty, ArborGen

Forestry Issues — Inventory Systems

• Darian Yawn, Landmark Systems
• David Evans (invited), Mississippi State University
• Russell Bozeman, Haglof Inc.

Sawmilling and Lumber Developments

• Mike Steele, Perforex/Poyry
• Jay Galloway, Tolleson Lumber
• Bryant Beadles, Balfour Lumber

Panels Engineered Lumber Value Added

• Jim Davis, Davis & Associates
• Hongfan Li, ChinaWood
• Robert Nurre, Midway United
• David Williams, D.H. Williams and Associates

• Ben Jackson, UGA Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources

• Brad Southern, Vice President, Louisiana Pacific

November 19 • Conference

• Rick Davis, Vice President/CFO, Landmark Systems
• Richard Schroeder, Director of Bio-Resources Management, University of Florida
• Bob Rummer, Project Leader — Forest Operations, USDA Forest Service

Forest Issues (Business and Production Issues Facing Loggers Today

• Tommy Carroll, Southeastern Wood Producers Association
• Herb Decours, Davis-Garvin Insurance
• Ezell Castleberry (invited), American Loggers Council

Forest Developments (Certification)

• Fred Cubbage, North Carolina State University
• Bill Hubbard, Southern Regional Extension Forestry
• John Godbee, F&W Forestry Services, Inc.

Sawmilling and Lumber Developments

• Mark Craig, Giben
• Joseph Chang, Louisiana State University

Panels Engineered Lumber Value Added

• Steve Winistorfer, TECO
• Tim Young, University of Tennessee
• Chris Andrews, Shaw Solid Flooring

• Ken Muehlenfeld, Forest Product Development Center, Auburn University
• Joseph James, James and Associates
• Ron Barmore, Range Fuels
• Greg Alles, Bliss Industries
• Randy Queen, General Motors