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Workshop: New Profitable Business Strategies That Pay for Valued-Added Wood Products Manufacturers - Cabinets, Furniture, Millwork
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Location: WERC facility, Princeton, WV
This workshop is for small woodshops that are looking for new profitable business strategies that will lead to business success in the current challenging economic times. For additional information, contact Harry Watt at 704-880-5034, or click here.
Sponsors include North Carolina State University, Woodshop News, and WERC.
Workshop: Profitably Drying Small
Quantities of Lumber
Wednesday & Thursday, November 9 & 10, 2011
Location: WERC facility, Princeton, WV
This workshop is intended for portable sawmill owners, specialty lumber producers, cabinet shops, and woodworking shops that wish to learn how to effectively dry their lumber. For additional information, contact Harry Watt at 704-880-5034, or click here.
Sponsors include North Carolina State University, Woodshop News, and WERC.
Webinar: Regional Perspectives on
Biomass Energy: The West
Thursday, November 10, 2011
(4:00 pm ET/1:00 pm PT)
This webinar is the second of a three-part mini-series highlighting biomass heating in different regions of the country. Log-on and hear from three speakers as they provide a current overview of biomass heating in the West, discuss barriers and opportunities for market development and examine successful policies that promote biomass use in the West. Advanced registration is required, click here to sign-up.
Sponsors include the Biomass Thermal Energy Council and WERC.
Workshop: Upholstery Frame Workshop
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Location: Hickory, NC
This workshop is for designers and makers of upholstery furniture frames. The primary activity is a tour of a veneer and plywood manufacturer (Moncure Plywood Company south of Raleigh) that is supplying the type of plywood used to manufacture upholstery furniture frames. Plant tour participants will watch soft hardwoods such as sweet gum and yellow-poplar be peeled, veneer dried, and then processed into the dried veneers that get glue and are then pressed into plywood. This factory makes seven thicknesses of plywood that is primarily used to make furniture frames. For additional information, contact Harry Watt at 704-880-5034, or click here.
Sponsors include North Carolina State University and WERC.
Workshop: Municipal Managers Urban Timber Harvesting for Hardwood Lumber Utilization and Recovery (M2UTiH2LzR) Training
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Location: Rantoul Recreation Building, 100 East Flessner Avenue, Rantoul, IL
This 1-day training session for municipal forest managers will show how to obtain the highest possible use for the wood generated from urban and suburban tree removals. This training deals with management issues, including removal contracts and other considerations, lumber quality, and markets for logs and lumber. A morning of classroom instruction is followed by hands-on afternoon sessions covering log and standing tree grading, whole log removals, sawmill demonstrations, milling information, and insight into the lumber produced by urban trees.
6.75 CEUs are available for arborists. Lunch will be provided. A free copy of the CD, Lumber from Hardwood Trees, is included with registration. Register online
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Registration closes November 25, 2011.
For additional information, contact Carrie Tauscher, Illinois EAB Wood Utilization Team Administrator, at 630-719-5646 or visit www.illinoisurbanwood.org.
Sponsors include the Illinois Emerald Ash Borer Wood Utilization Team, Purdue University, USDA APHIS and PPQ, Illinois Department of Agriculture, Illinois Department of Natural Resources, University of Illinois Extension, Illinois Arborist Association, and the Village of Rantoul.
Workshop: Leadership Conference for Promoting Locally Made US Wood Products
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Location: WERC facility, Princeton, WV
This conference is a networking and educational event to lay the foundation for a local wood movement to promote the use of U.S. hardwoods by U.S. manufacturers. For additional information, contact Harry Watt at 704-880-5034, or click here.
Sponsors include North Carolina State University, Woodshop News, and WERC.
Workshop: Small Sawmill Business Strategies and Hands-On Demonstrations
Tuesday, April 5, 2012
Location: WERC facility, Princeton, WV
This workshop focuses on small sawmills and lumber drying operations that use gas, diesel engines, and single-phase electric power. Equipment vendors are invited to set up exhibits and offer demonstrations. Classroom lectures cover equipment currently available for small sawmill and lumber drying operations, how to saw for improving hardwood lumber grades, basics of the hardwood lumber grading system, lumber drying basics, heating a kiln with a stick wood water stove, profitable business and marketing strategies, and how to make value-added products beyond green and kiln-dried lumber.
For additional information, contact Harry Watt at 704-880-5034, or click here.
Sponsors include North Carolina State University, Woodshop News, and WERC.
Workshop: New Technologies for Value-Added Wood Products Manufacturers - Cabinets, Furniture, Millwork
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Location: WERC facility, Princeton, WV
Staying on top of technology can keep a business competitive. Technology is continually advancing, and it is useful to get out of the shop and look at what new options may fit your business. Changes also occur in materials. This workshop will discuss both innovations in equipment as well as software and materials.
For additional information, contact Harry Watt at 704-880-5034, or click here.
Sponsors include North Carolina State University, Woodshop News, and WERC.
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