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Helping the Wood Products Industry Profit From the Next 10 Years
   
Resources
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The UMaine, Wood Science and Technology program emphasizes the importance
of natural resource Conservation. Wood Science and Technology is
the only field that provides an education for the proper use of
our country's most widely used natural resource.
http://woodscience.umaine.edu/
University of Maine is one of only 12 states with Wood Utilization
Research (WUR) Centers. Research has resulted in efforts ranging
from the development of new types of stronger wood structural composites
using underutilized wood species to the development of new ways
to prevent pollution and waste.
http://woodscience.umaine.edu/UMWUR/
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University of Massachusetts
Our research program focuses on the structural and physical performance
of engineered wood products, wood-based composites, and wood-frame
building systems. Researchers also investigate issues relating to
forest products marketing, economic development, and the efficient
use of resources.
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Virginia Tech University
The
Center for Forest Products Marketing and Management seeks to help
companies remain competitive through its marketing of products,
as well as its management of people and production. We conduct
marketing research for the industry and provide targeted marketing,
management and sales training for the forest products industry.
http://www.woodscience.vt.edu/cfpmm/
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University of Tennessee
Contributing over $21 billion to Tennessee’s economy, forestry
and forest products is a vital industry sector in the state. The
Forest Products Center was established with the mission of executing
a research, development, and demonstration program designed to ensure
the sustainable growth of this important industry. http://web.utk.edu/~tfpc
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The mission of the University of Minnesota’s
Forest Products Management Development Institute (FPMDI) is to increase
knowledge about wood products production and use, and associated
issues strategies, and technologies on the part of forest products
industry employees, key forest products consumer groups, and those
involved in shaping national and regional forest policy.
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Natural Resources Research Institute
University of Minnesota, Duluth
Our staff is committed to serving the Minnesota forest products
industry and companies across the Midwest region. Our programs are
designed to work with companies by evaluating their products, processes
and technologies to keep the forest products industry vibrant. We
are teaching companies to use lean manufacturing techniques to increase
profitability, and also are using nondestructive evaluation methods
for wood and timber products, including timber bridges in situ.
Check out our wood utilization section which focuses on generating
the new knowledge and technologies needed to maintain a vigorous,
competitive, domestic forest products industry based on sustainable
use of our forest resources. Additionally, our market oriented wood
products staff identifies and develops new products and processes,
with an emphasis in residues and waste stream composites.
http://www.nrri.umn.edu/default/nrri.asp?pageID=37
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Wood Science & Engineering at Oregon State University--a multidisciplinary
education, research and outreach program dedicated to fostering
intelligent and innovative use of renewable wood-based materials
and to keeping America competitive. http://woodscience.oregonstate.edu |
The Oregon Wood
Innovation Center website is the 'one-stop shop' for innovation
resources for Oregon wood products manufacturers. The site provides
information for entrepreneurs; tools to foster networking such
as on-line forums and a forest industry community; technical data
on Oregon wood species; case examples of innovative Oregon wood
products firms; an 'ask the expert' function with FAQ's; and more.
http://owic.oregonstate.edu/index.php
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WoodPro:The Pennsylvania Wood
Products Productivity Program
WoodPro was created to ensure that the wood products industries
of Pennsylvania receive optimal exposure to relevant, value-adding
resources of Penn State and from around the world. Our shared vision
at WoodPro is a Pennsylvania as the driving hub of a powerful and
world-recognized regional wood-products producing center, with Penn
State resources at the core.
http://woodpro.cas.psu.edu/
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The web
site provides information on the USDA Forest Service Northeastern
Area's Wood Education and Resource Center grants (in-progress
and up-coming opportunities), projects, workshops, activities
and press releases. The WERC includes offices, training facilities
and an operating rough mill. WERC's mission is to foster the interaction
and information exchange with the forest products industry to
enhance opportunities for sustained forest products production
in the eastern hardwood region (35 states).
http://www.na.fs.fed.us/werc/
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The work upon which this program is based was funded through a grant
awarded by the Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry, USDA Forest
Service. This institution is an equal opportunity provider. For more
information, contact: Dovetail Partners at 612-333-0430 or info@dovetailinc.org.
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