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TP&EE Sets 2024 Show Dates

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Hatton-Brown Expositions LLC announces that the next Timber Processing and Energy Expo (TP&EE) will be held September 25-27, 2024 at the Portland Exposition Center in Portland, Ore. The 2024 show will be the sixth biennial TP&EE to be produced since 2012 by Hatton-Brown Expositions, LLC, an affiliate of Hatton-Brown Publishers, Inc. and of Timber Processing, Panel World and Wood Bioenergy magazines. All of the TP&EEs have been held at the Portland Exposition Center. (The 2020 event was canceled due to the pandemic.)

More than 1,200 representatives of 112 wood products producer companies and hundreds of individual lumber, veneer, plywood, engineered wood products and wood pellet mills registered for the 2022 TP&EE. They viewed 170 exhibitor companies who displayed their equipment and technologies in a sold-out Hall E.

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While the show has traditionally emphasized lumber manufacturing, the 2022 event revealed increasing attendance from the veneer, plywood and EWP industries. And since the 2022 show, several announcements have emerged indicating a growing wood biomass industry in the Northwest, including several planned wood pellet facilities. This means that the 2024 event should truly live up to its Timber Processing & Energy Expo billing! Meanwhile several lumber and plywood mill expansion projects are in the works, such as Sierra Pacific Industries in Eugene, Ore. and Roseburg at Coquille, Ore. and Riddle, Ore.

“We realize that the city of Portland continues to receive negative publicity for various reasons, but in the end the Portland Expo Center remains the best site because of its spacious equipment staging and move-in capacities—compared to other facilities we’ve looked at—as well as its centralized location for the Northwest forest products industry,” comments Show Director Rich Donnell. “The Portland Expo Center, after coming through the pandemic, is again filled with events all during the year. And just across the Columbia River only a few miles north from the show site is the ever-bustling city of Vancouver, Wash., where more exhibitors are hosting hospitality events after the show.”

The 2024 first stage of the TP&EE exhibitor space renewal program has begun. For exhibitor information, contact Jessica Johnson: jessica@hattonbrown.com.

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Panel Industry Checks Into TP&EE

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While traditionally known as a sawmill show, the recent Timber Processing & Energy Expo experienced a healthy turnout from producer companies that also participate in the structural panel and engineered wood products sector, including the likes of ATCO Wood Products, Boise Cascade, Coastland Wood Industries, Columbia Forest Products, Freres Engineered Wood Products, Georgia-Pacific, Hood Industries, Hunt Forest Products, Murphy Company, Pacific Veneer, Pacific Wood Laminates, PotlatchDeltic, Rainier Veneer, Rosboro, Roseburg Forest Products, SmartLam North America, and Weyerhaeuser, to name a few.

The event, held September 28-30 at the Portland Expo Center in Portland, Ore., featured 170 exhibitors, 1,225 (non-exhibitor) registered attendees and another 900 exhibitor personnel. Produced by Hatton-Brown Expositions, an affiliate of Panel World magazine, the every-other-year event was last held in 2018, due to the pandemic canceling the show in 2020. It marked the fifth TP&EE since its inception in 2012.

“It has been the million-dollar question for the Portland show as long as I can remember: Should the structural panel industry receive equal billing as the sawmill industry?” comments Rich Donnell, Show Director and Editor-in-Chief of Panel World. “We have never promoted it that way, and certainly there was far more sawmill influence at this TP&EE, but given some of the comments we’ve received since the show, we’ll definitely need to look at it moving forward.”

More than 110 wood producer companies sent representatives to the event. Several TP&EE exhibitors, such Altec, Westmill, MDI, Samuel, Signode, Taihei Machinery and USNR, do considerable business in panel and EWP.

In addition to the exhibits on the show floor, one feature of the event that both panel and lumber segments enjoyed was the conference, From Forest to Frame: Mass Timber Developments, which featured 10 speakers, and which was followed the next day by a Mass Timber Tour of Freres Engineered Woods in Lyons, Ore. and TallWood Institute in Corvallis, Ore.

The conference included a panel discussion on Tracking and Transparency in the Forestry Supply Chain, moderated by Evan Schmidt, outreach and education manager, TallWood Design Institute. Also, Iain Macdonald, director of Tallwood, spoke on The Oregon Mass Timber Coalition—Connecting Oregon’s Forests to Mass Timber Manufacturing; Jeanelle Leafblad, senior director, WoodWorks, addressed Growing Market Demand for Wood Products; Allan Czinger senior account manager, USNR, spoke on Optimizing Sawmills for Mass Timber Production; Russ Vaagen, founder and CEO, Vaagen Timbers, talked about Mass Timber: From Early Adopter to Mainstream Buildings; and Derek Ratchford, CEO, SmartLam, addressed U.S. South Mass Timber Growth.

The next TP&EE is scheduled for September 25-27, 2024.

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PORTLAND, Oregon – More than 110 wood producer companies, representing hundreds of mill operations, sent personnel to the Timber Processing & Energy Expo held September 28-30 at the Portland Exposition Center. More than 1,200 (non-exhibitor) attendees from 35 states and 15 countries registered for the event. They combed the aisles of 170 exhibitor companies, who were represented by more than 900 exhibitor personnel.

The event has always been heavier to the Northwest wood products industry, and was so again, especially since companies in other regions of the country might have been hesitant to send personnel coming out of the pandemic. “But there was still an okay showing from sawmillers in the Southern U.S.,” comments Rich Donnell, show director.

Donnell adds that the total attendee numbers were on par with the 2018 event, which isn’t bad considering the pandemic (which canceled the 2020 event) and taking into account some contraction of the Northwest wood products industry in the past four years.

“Four years ago was a long time ago, with all that has transpired since then,” Donnell adds. “Walking throughout the show floor I sensed a measure of relief and enthusiasm from people who were happy to be out and returning to this event. TP&EE provided a gauge of normalcy.”

Though lumber markets, housing starts and interest rates weren’t the be-all end-all they were in 2021, many sawmillers had equipment upgrades on their mind. A survey of a sampling of the exhibitors conducted following the event revealed that more than 80% of exhibitors either had confirmed an order or indicated it was possible that discussions at TP&EE will contribute toward receiving an order. Many exhibitors also reported they had accumulated some good leads for down the road.

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Nearly 94% of the exhibitors surveyed said they were satisfied or very satisfied with the quality of attendees, and more than 70% were pleased with total attendance in general.

“We will continue to survey the exhibitors but the ‘early returns’ look good,” Donnell said. “We’re very appreciative of their commitment to the event, a commitment that really lasted four years since the last show. We all know everybody can conduct business virtually, but our industry still has a sense of community that lends itself to socializing and doing business in person.”

Many wood producer companies showed their support for the show and the industry by sending lots of personnel. For example, Sierra Pacific Industries registered more than 100 and Hampton Lumber registered more than 150.

The Portland show has always been for mill personnel as well as for executive management, Donnell adds. “I just think it’s totally cool looking down the aisles and seeing somebody from nearly every conceivable position in a sawmill operation wearing the logo of their company on the back of their jacket. I know they may not be the ultimate decisionmaker, but what they have to say trickles heavily back to the decision-makers. And I thought they were totally engaged with most of the exhibitors.”

TP&EE formed alliances with several “Preferred Partners” for assistance in promoting the event. One of those was the Western Wood Products Assn., and it was obvious WWPA’s participation proved beneficial in bringing in sawmillers. “There are several associations throughout the country that we need to tie into TP&EE and I believe the example of WWPA puts us on the right path in that regard,” Donnell says, adding several wood industry publications also did a great job in promoting TP&EE.

Highlight of the first day was the presentation by Timber Processing magazine of its 34th annual Person of the Year award to Eric Schooler, recently retired CEO of Collins and well known Northwest lumberman. (See page 26 for full coverage of the presentation.)

TP&EE also hosted two one-day conferences. One was entitled “Sawmill Productivity & Efficiency,” which featured 10 speakers addressing current and future sawmilling.

“During the past 15 years many changes have taken place in lumber manufacturing methods. These have been in response to worldwide changes in the character and value of the raw material, rising costs, shifting human resources, and new conversion concepts,” commented Chris Brown, VP at Mid-South Engineering, during his talk “Simplicity Is the Ultimate Sophistication.”

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Brown pointed to the evolution of sawmill size: 1977, 54.66MMBF; 1997, 133.04MMBF; 2007, 180.42MMBF; 2015 to present, average greenfield production per mill, 285MMBF.

Current challenges include labor, lead times and capital costs, and lack of simplicity, he said, pointing to control systems and design complexity. Though the human resource is less content to do manual labor, he is more mobile and better educated, Brown added.

Terry Brown, longtime director of the Lumber Quality Institute, spoke on the evolvement of quality control leadership, and looking to the future said AI technologies and system-wide integration will change the role of QC to monitoring systems and calibrating primarily, which will leave more time for drying and planer evaluation and other areas, along with some continued role to watch the process and diagnose problems.

Brown said you can have the latest, greatest greenfield sawmill but without management commitment to excellence, listening to their people, and committing to world class maintenance and support, significant dollars are lost.

He injected a quote from legendary lumberman Buford Price: “It is management’s responsibility to provide a process that works. It is the employee’s responsibility to cause that process to perform.”

Vaughn Emmerson, engineering manager with Sierra Pacific Industries, spoke on minimizing downtime during shutdown and equipment installation. “Get into the details,” Emmerson said. “Break down each process into tasks and jobs.”

He stressed organization, including staging in the order that equipment will be used and keeping a map of equipment staging with numbers and colors identification.

Emmerson recommended building and testing offline as much as possible. “It helps get the bulk of the problems and hang ups out of the way, and gives proper time to trouble shoot,” he said.

Training the crew before installation is crucial as well, for sake of familiarity with equipment: post drawings in the breakroom, have operators visit another facility and even operate equipment at another facility. And have mill electricians wire up new equipment with contractors.

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Mike Zojonc, plant manager at Gilchrist Forest Products in Oregon, and a longtime sawmiller, spoke on what makes a successful project. He should know, having led many project efforts at several companies and currently leading a massive upgrade program at Neiman-Gilchrist, including at last count 43 projects.

Zojonc first emphasized project safety. “One injury can ruin an otherwise good project,” he said, and pointed to the importance of developing a safety plan, daily safety meetings, daily safety inspections.

As to a project, he said it’s important to determine what it is really trying to accomplish— whether production increase, grade recovery, altering product mix, replacing older equipment, reducing staffing, etc.

He asked several questions: What’s the impact on upstream and downstream? What’s the seasonal weather factor? What about the spare parts supply chain? Can surge capacity be added? Can you get additional employees?

Zojonc said planning cannot be over-done or over-emphasized. Include an acceptance test in the contract, and know how you are going to measure success, he said. A post project meeting should address what went right and what could have been better.

Other speakers included Phil Johnson of Johnson Consulting, who addressed the use of used equipment in sawmill construction and upgrades; Sam Pope, Western Sales Manager, USNR, speaking on the well-planned project and techniques to deliver ROI; Kevin Collins, director at Strategic Energy Group, on maximizing productivity, operating efficiency and energy applications; Simon Potvin, president of the Wood Processing Div., BID Group, on his company’s emphasis on Artificial Intelligence and robotics, and the importance of overcoming the “knowledge gap” brought on by new technologies and systems versus inexperienced labor and BID’s establishment of a Global Learning Center; Norvin Laudon, director of MiCROTEC, on absolute SMART streamlining of the sawmill process based on incoming log scanning values and real-time machinery adaptabililty; and Justin Price, Co-CEO, Evergreen Engineering, on the implementation of Digital-Twin interoperability and advance technology adoption toward future-proofing your operations.

A second conference was entitled “From Forest to Frame: Mass Timber Developments.” Allan Czinger, senior account manager, USNR, spoke on “Optimizing Sawmills for Mass Timber Production” and noted that even if the projections for growth is half of what is forecasted, CLT and mass timber will consume a volume of lumber that is too big to be ignored, and that sawmills will need to optimize their overall manufacturing process to take advantage.

And there’s plenty of potential, Czinger said, citing CLT manufacturing wood fiber residual at 20-30% compared to 30-40% dimension lumber manufacturing, and based on optimization study results of multiple log sizes, CLT products show a 6% average recovery increase.

Other speakers included Evan Schmidt, outreach and education manager at TallWood Design Institute, who moderated a discussion involving several experts on tracking and transparency in the forest supply chain; Iain Macdonald, director of TallWood, on the Oregon Mass Timber Coalition and connecting Oregon’s forest to mass timber manufacturing and affordable modular housing; Janelle Leafblad, senior director, WoodWorks, on the growing market demand for wood products; Russ Vaagen, CEO of Vaagen Timbers, on his company’s early role in mass timber development and mass timber now moving into mainstream construction with a solid environmental message supporting it; and Derek Ratchford, CEO of SmartLam, on mass timber growth in the U.S. South, including the company’s recent announcement that it will build a glulam plant adjacent its CLT plant in Dothan, Ala., and also expand production of CLT in Dothan and at its CLT facility in Columbia Falls, Mont.

The next TP&EE is scheduled for September 25-27, 2024.

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The Timber Processing & Energy Expo Runs WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28-30, 2022, at the Portland Exposition Center.

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Following a pandemic-induced cancellation in 2020, the biennial Timber Processing & Energy Expo returns September 28-30 to the Portland Exposition Center in Portland, Ore. Hatton-Brown Expositions, an affiliate of Timber Processing magazine, has hosted the event since 2010.

“It’s hard to believe it has been four years since TP&EE was held, and what a strange trip it has been,” comments Rich Donnell, TP&EE Show Director and Editor-in-Chief of Timber Processing. “The important thing is that we’re back face-to-face. ‘Virtual’ is okay, but it’s not like being there.”

About 170 equipment and technology exhibitors will be located in Hall E at the Expo Center. The event caters primarily to the primary lumber manufacturing industry, but also has a significant engineered wood products and primary panel manufacturing participation.

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Following a pandemic-induced cancellation in 2020, the biennial Timber Processing & Energy Expo returns September 28-30 to the Portland Exposition Center in Portland, Ore. Hatton-Brown Expositions, an affiliate of Timber Processing magazine, has hosted the event since 2010.

“It’s hard to believe it has been four years since TP&EE was held, and what a strange trip it has been,” comments Rich Donnell, TP&EE Show Director and Editor-in-Chief of Timber Processing. “The important thing is that we’re back face-to-face. ‘Virtual’ is okay, but it’s not like being there.”

About 170 equipment and technology exhibitors will be located in Hall E at the Expo Center. The event caters primarily to the primary lumber manufacturing industry, but also has a significant engineered wood products and primary panel manufacturing participation.

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Following a pandemic-induced cancellation in 2020, the biennial Timber Processing & Energy Expo returns September 28-30 to the Portland Exposition Center in Portland, Ore. Hatton-Brown Expositions, an affiliate of Timber Processing magazine, has hosted the event since 2010.

“It’s hard to believe it has been four years since TP&EE was held, and what a strange trip it has been,” comments Rich Donnell, TP&EE Show Director and Editor-in-Chief of Timber Processing. “The important thing is that we’re back face-to-face. ‘Virtual’ is okay, but it’s not like being there.”

About 170 equipment and technology exhibitors will be located in Hall E at the Expo Center. The event caters primarily to the primary lumber manufacturing industry, but also has a significant engineered wood products and primary panel manufacturing participation.

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“We’re seeing some new and enhanced technologies from the exhibitors according to their promotions,” Donnell comments. “I think the timing is right for the mills to be placing orders. They’ve been running hard for the past two years, since not long after the pandemic, as lumber and panel prices set historical records and housing starts shot up. Prices and the housing markets have calmed down some, and this is a good time for the mills to replenish their machinery. They have the capital resources to do so. And there’s also a new wave of data and optimization intelligence technology that has come on, and it’s a good time to implement or update those in the mill operations.”

Timber Processing conducted a capital expenditure survey in the spring that showed more than half of the softwood lumber companies responding to the survey plan to spend at least $1 million in 2022-2023 at each of their mills, including 6% planning to spend more than $20 million and 15% spending $10-20 million. The survey asked lumbermen to select which equipment they’re buying and lumber handling forklifts, dry kilns, sorters, stackers, log scanning/optimization, downstream sawing, fire prevention, downstream scanning/optimization, log merchandising, and filing room equipment all scored high, along with expenditure for maintenance-related items.

The survey also revealed that 14% of the responding companies plan to build a new sawmill in the near future, and 14% are giving it consideration.

“Those are impressive numbers that should impact the activity at the Portland show,” Donnell says.

PERSON OF THE YEAR

During the first afternoon at 3 p.m., Wednesday, September 28, Timber Processing will host its Person of the Year ceremony, and present the magazine’s 34th annual Person of the Year plaque to Eric Schooler, CEO of Collins and longtime Northwest lumberman who worked many years at Hampton Lumber and Collins.

“Eric is the classic Northwest lumberman,” Donnell says. “His career has spanned from traditional lumber manufacturing to today’s modern version. Everybody I have ever heard talk about Eric’s leadership and innovation can’t say enough good things about him.”

CONFERENCES

During TP&EE, two day-long conferences will be held. On Wednesday, September 28, “From Forest to Frame: Mass Timber Developments” will feature multiple speakers on the exciting developments in this sector, which continues to have growing impact and potential on lumber producer markets.

On Thursday, September 29, “Sawmill Productivity & Efficiency” will feature 10 speakers divided into two sessions, one entitled “Sawmill of the Future: The Future Is Now,” and the other “Project Planning and Implementation: Bring It On.”

Registration to walk the show is free prior to September 28; cost for each conference is $115. Go to: www.timberprocessingandenergyexpo.com

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