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Portland Has It
The latest mill advancements will be on display at the Portland Wood Technology Clinic and Show in March. More than 500 companies supplying equipment, services and technologies to the wood processing industry will be featured at the 28th annual Wood Technology Clinic and Show, taking place March 15 to 17, 2000 at the Oregon Convention Centre in Portland. The event includes exhibitions, clinic sessions and tours of world class wood processing facilities and offers a comprehensive forum to explore the latest trends in the industry. The clinics will feature more than 65 technical sessions on wood processing, including lumber and panel manufacturing, drying, maintenance and early secondary processing, as well as topics ranging from advances in optimization to industry and market trends, management strategies and the Internet. The results of national forest product industry studies on the pulp and paper, solid wood and export segments of the market will be presented for the first time at this event. Seizing the High Ground in the sustainable forest debate will be the subject of keynote speaker Robert F. Legg, president and CEO of Temperate Forest Foundation.
The topic is timely, in view of projections that world population will double to 12 billion within the next century. The forest products industry has a vital role to play in building a sustainable society through the creation of sustainable forests. Newcomers to the world of wood processing can develop a fundamental knowledge of the industry by attending Back 2 Basics, followed by core clinics, on March 15. These sessions provide the basis for understanding the more complex subjects on days two and three. Other day one conference streams include several clinics on each of a number of topics including management, Internet technology, quality assurance and trends and technology.
| DOING BUSINESS ON THE NET |
| For companies wanting to tap into the Internet trend, one of the highlights will be the first ever conference on eBusiness as it relates to the forest products industry. The daylong seminar will be chaired by Dr. Rich Vlosky, associate professor in the forest products marketing program at Louisiana State University Agricultural Centre, and takes place Tuesday, March 14, a day before the Clinic and Show. Titled eBusiness: The Future is Now in the Forest Products Industry, the intensive seminar will give attendees a solid understanding of eBusiness opportunities in the industry. The eBusiness conference will address the whole spectrum of issues, from basic Internet technologies to strategic reasons to implement eBusiness. Speakers from IBM and Microsoft will give a glimpse into cutting edge technologies and applications, while representatives from companies such as Georgia Pacific and Plum Creek Timber Company will share how their companies are leveraging eBusiness. The results of national forest product industry studies on the pulp and paper, solid wood and export segments of the market will be presented for the first time at this event. |
On Thursday, March 16, the streams cover technology tuneup, scanning, drying, marketing and sawing. Hydraulics, engineered wood, maintenance and kilns, and moisture management are the clinic streams on Friday, March 17. The Portland Wood Technology Clinic and Show condenses months of applied research into a few days and enables participants to interact directly with the industry's top experts. For nearly 30 years, the event has seen the launch of new products to the marketplace.
| The Portland Wood Technology Clinic and Show condenses months of applied research into a few days and enables participants to intereact directly with the industry's top experts. |
This year the Clinic and Show is expected to attract more than 12,000 participants. The Wood Technology Clinic and Show events are produced by Miller Freeman Inc.'s Wood Technology Exposition Group, whose main goal is to open and expand opportunities for wood processors. More information is available by phoning 1-800-789-2223 or on the show's web site at www.woodwideweb.com
SHOW LINEUP |
The knowledge available at the Wood
Technology Clinic and Show is unmatched at any other event in the industry, with more than
100 hours of technical presentations available to attendees. Some examples include:
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| 76 Lubricants Company A1 Master Crane & Hoist Service Inc. AceCo Precision Manufacturing Acme Packaging Corp. Acrowood Corp. ACS Hydraulics Inc. Action Equipment Company, Inc. Adaptive Microsystems Advanced Recycling Equipment Inc Air Purification Systems Akhurst Machinery Inc. Alemite Corporation Allied Blowers & Sheet Metal Ltd. Aloha Machinery & Equipment Inc. American Buildings Co. American Lumber & Pallet American Saw & Manufacturing Co./Lenox American Wood Dryers Inc. Andritz Kone Wood Inc. Anson Industrial Mfg. (1989) Corp. APA - The Engineered Wood Assoc. Applied Industrial Technologies Apquip Company LLC Argo International Corp. Armstrong Manufacturing Company Arrow Speed Controls Ltd. Art Direct Atlas Cylinder( Division of Parker Hannifin Corp.) Atlas Systems, LLC Baker Products Baldor Electric Co. Balluff, Inc. Banner Engineering Corp. Barr-Mullin Inc. Baxter Air Engineering Inc. Beaver Heat Treating Beckwith & Kuffel Inc. BEP Engineering Bliss Industries, Inc. BMH AKI Dryers BM&M Screening Solutions Bosch Automation Technology Branom Instrument Company British Columbia Wood Specialties Group Brunner-Hildebrand Lumber Dry Kiln Buchanan Automation Inc. Buckman Laboratories Inc. Burton Saw & Supply CAE CAE/Newnes Machinery Ltd. California Saw & Knife Works CAM Technologies Inc. Camco Cutting Tools Ltd. Canadian Wood Products Magazine Can-Am Chains Carbide Alloys Inc. Carbide Processors, Inc. Carbotech, Inc. Carter Products Company, Inc. Cascade Controls Northwest Cascade Southern Saw Casey Industrial, Inc. C.C. Crow Publications, Inc. Chemco Water Technology Inc. Chevron Products Co. Clarke's International, Inc. Claussen-Allmark Industries International Inc. Cloverdale Paint Corp. Coastal Machinery Company Coe Manufacturing Company Columbia River Staple/Intertape Polymer Columbus McKinnon Corporation Con-Vey Keystone, Inc. Contechem Inc. CooperTools Corley Manufacturing Corvallis Tool Company CPC Equipment Inc. CRIQ-Optifor CRS Machine Sales CSI Carter-Sprague, Inc. Custom Dry Kiln Ltd. CWA Engineers Inc. Cyber Mill Supply D Stake Mill Inc. Dayne Hansen & Associates Inc. Decision Dynamics, Inc. Delmhorst Instrument Company Deloro Stellite Inc. Diacon Technologies Ltd. Digitron Electronics LLC Diversified Plastics Inc. Doucet Machineries Dryer Parts Warehouse Dural, a division of Multibond Inc. Eagle International Carbide Ecklund Industries, Inc. Electric Motor Management Elliott Bay Industries Eltomation Mineral Bonded Board Plants Emerson Power Transmission Esco Corporation Esterer WD Sawing Technology e-Wood.com Fabrene Inc. Falk Corporation Fastik Label & Supply Inc. FDM Felco Industries, Ltd. Fenner Industrial Drives Flare International Sawmill Systems Foote-Jones/Illinois Forano International Inc. FORES Inc. Forest Industry Network Forest People International Search Ltd. Forest Products Equipment Forest Products Machinery & Consulting Forest Products Society Franklin International Freedom Technologies Frost Engineering Service Co. Fry Controls, Inc. Fuel Efficiency LLC Gemofor, Inc. Global Tooling & Supply Globe Machine Manufacturing Company Goodyear Rubber and Supply Grasche USA, Inc. GreCon Dimter Inc.(NC) GreCon, Inc. (Oregon) |
H.S.D. Corporation
M. Sprague, Inc. |
Pacific Hoe Saw & Knife Co. Pacific Software Associates, Inc. Panel Equipment Sales, Inc. Paul Saws & Systems, A Division of Koch Ltd Paw-Taw-John Services Inc. Peerless Saw Company Pendu Manufacturing Inc. Perceptron Forest Products Division Petrochem Insulation, Inc. PG Mill Supplies Ltd. Piscattiquis County Development Council Platt Electric Porter Engineering Ltd. Precision Bolting / Superbolt Precision Machine & Manufacturing, Inc. Premier Gear & Machine Works, Inc. Process Sensors Corporation ProCon (Process Control Consultants) Progressive Solutions PSI - Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory Purakal Cylinders, Inc. R.A. Cook, Inc. Raute Wood Ltd. Rawlings Manufacturing, Inc. Redwood Electronics Corp. Redwood Plastics Corp. RENS Manufacturing Co. Inc. Rexnord Corp. Rockwell Automation Rockwell Automation - Dodge/Reliance Electric Rockwell Industries Ltd. Rogers Machinery Company, Inc. Roskamp Champion S.A.S. Fluid Power Inc. S.E.W. Eurodrive, Inc. Salem Equipment, Inc. Samuel Strapping Systems Sav-Air Masterplan for Compressed Air Systems Sawquip International, Inc. Saxlund International Schenck Pegasus Corp. Short Wood Systems Inc. Signode Packaging Systems SII Dry Kilns Simonds Industries Inc. Smithco Manufacturing. Inc. Softac Systems Ltd. SoftPLC Southern Engineering & Equipment Co. Southern Lumberman Spar-Tek Industries Inc. Specialty Constructors Inc. Specialty Polymers Inc., Adhesive Division Specialty Products/Alloys Inc. Spray Technologies Inc. (TDS Technologies) Spraying Systems Inc. LLCSRT Electronics Inc. Stapling Machines Company Steam Engineering Inc. Strapex Corporation Strom Industries, Inc. Stusser Electric Sullair Corporation Sumitomo Machinery Corp. Surround Technologies Inc. Sweed Machinery Inc. Talladega Machinery Sales Taurus Power and Controls, Inc. TAVA Technologies Taylor Machine Works, Inc. T.B. Wood's Incorporated Teco-Westinghouse Motor Company Telco USA The Ash Organization, Inc., dba Wershow-Ash-Lewis Co. The Barker Group The Ellison Company Timber Machine Technologies, Inc. Timber Processing Timberline Erectors, Inc. Timberline Magazine TK Systems Inc. Topcoat Inc. Totem Equipment Company Tradetec Computer Systems Ltd. Trienco Inc. Triple Crown Products Inc. Turck Inc., c/o Control Components NW U.C. Coatings Corp. U.S. Metal Works Inc. Ultimizers Inc./Precision Products Inc. Ultra Poly Ultrasonic Arrays, Inc. United Soybean Board c/o Omni Tech Intl. URS Electronics USNR Utility Composites Inc. Valon Kone Brunette Ltd. Ventek, Inc. Vibra-Pro Company Inc. Viking Chains Inc./Anson Industrial Vista Balloon Adventures Vogel Lubrication Vollmer of America Corp. VP Buildings, Inc. Wadkin North America Wagner Electronic Products Inc. Walker Brothers Walker Resurfacing Inc. Webster Industries Wellons Inc. West Salem Machinery Co. Westcoast Cylinders Inc. Westcon Inc. Western Pneumatics Inc. Western Roller Corp. Western Wood Products Westmark Industries, Inc. Whatcom Saw Supply Inc. Willamette Valley Co. Williams & White Machine Shop Inc. Wisconsin Knife Works Wood Component Manufacturers' Association Wood Products Machinery Co. Wood Technology Bookstore Wood Technology Magazine Wood-Mizer Products Wright Machine Tool Co. Inc. Ziegelmeyer Manufacturing Inc. |