TP&EE Workshops Offer Big Bang For The Buck
“It’s the best deal you’ll ever get on workshops exclusive to lumber and plywood manufacturing,” says Rich Donnell, show director of the Timber Processing & Energy Expo (TP&EE), which will be held October 15-17, 2014 at the Portland Exposition Center in Portland, Ore.
Donnell, who is also the editor-in-chief of Timber Processing and Panel World magazines, says 36 industry professionals will deliver presentations during the Lumber Manufacturing Workshop on Thursday, October 16, and the Veneer & Plywood Manufacturing and Engineered Lumber Workshop on Wednesday, October 15. Both workshops will be held in the meeting rooms above the expo floor in Hall D.
“One registration fee of $75 gets you admission to both workshops, or which ever parts of the workshops you want to attend,” Donnell says. “You also get admission to the expo floor for three days and a ‘beer and brat ticket.’ You really can’t beat this deal, considering the valuable information that will be presented.”
The Lumber Manufacturing Workshop on Thursday, October 16, will include three interactive presentations on saw filing & sawing performance; seven presentations on scanning & optimization; and nine presentations on sawmill operations and quality control.
The Veneer & Plywood Workshop on Wednesday, October 15, will include sessions on challenges faced by veneer based producers; achieving successes at a modern green veneer production operation; several sessions on peeling, drying and grading technology developments; and a panel discussion on meeting customer needs.
An afternoon session will cover developments and technologies in Cross Laminated Timber.
Candidate for governor of Oregon, House Rep. Dennis Richardson will lead off the Veneer & Plywood Workshop with a talk on critical issues for the northwest forest products industry.
Speakers Announced For Lumber Manufacturing Workshop During TP&EE In Portland
Organizers of the 2014 Timber Processing & Energy Expo, which will be held October 15-17 at the Portland Exposition Center in Portland, Ore., have announced the list of speakers and presentations for the Lumber Manufacturing Workshop, which will be held Thursday October 16 at the Expo Center.
The Lumber Manufacturing Workshop will include 17 presentations under three categories: Saw Filing & Sawing Performance; Scanning & Optimization; and Sawmill Operations & Quality Control.
The cost of the Lumber Manufacturing Workshop is only $75, and includes three-day admittance to the expo floor and a “beer and brat” ticket.
TP&EE hosted 162 exhibitor companies and more than 1,000 attendees from 115 forest products companies and 200 specific mill site operations in 2012. The Workshop Day attracted more than 200 in 2012.
TP&EE is hosted by Timber Processing, Panel World and Wood Bioenergy magazines.
In addition to the Lumber Manufacturing Workshop, a Veneer-Based Manufacturing Workshop will be held on Wednesday, October 15 at the Portland Expo Center. The lineup for the Veneer-Based Manufacturing Workshop will be announced soon.
Following is the list of presenters for the Lumber Manufacturing Workshop on October 16. Specific presentation times will be announced later.
Saw Filing & Sawing Performance
An Interactive Session on Small Diameter Saw Design and Optimization
—Norm Brown, WUSA Sales Manager; Dave Purinton, North American Sales Manager, Simonds International
Saw Shop/Filing Room Safety, Automation & Saw Guides
—Allen Hewitt, Sales Manager; Justin Williams, CEO; Williams & White Equipment
Improve Recovery with Optical Precision Alignment
—Thomas Strenge, Technical Services Business Unit Manager; Steve Addington, Precision Alignment Specialist, Brunson Instrument
Scanning & Optimization
Latest Advancements in Grade Optimization and Quality Control Tools
—Ofer Heyman, Director of Operations; Christopher Rollins, Scanner Specialist, Lucidyne Technologies, Inc.
Selecting Appropriate Scan Heads: What Every Sawmill Needs to Consider
—Joey Nelson, President, JoeScan
Revolutionary Grade Optimization in the Bucking and Sawing Process
— Norvin Laudon, CTO, MiCROTEC North America
Linear Lumber Grading Scanner
—Jean Berube, President, VAB Solutions
Full Log Load Scanning and Measurement
—Mario Angel, Regional Manager, Woodtech-North America
Optimization: From Green End To Planer Mill
—Gale Miller, Southeastern Sales Manager, Autolog
Sawmill Operations & Quality Control
Understanding Key Criteria Impacting on Sawing, Positioning, Feeding and Scanning Accuracies
—Joe Shields, Machinery Support Technician, USNR
Characteristics of Top Performing Wood Products Operations
—Bryan Beck, Senior Consultant, The Beck Group
Keep It Going with Better Motion Control Tools
—Peter Nachtwey, President, Delta Computer Systems, Inc.
Lumber Quality Control: Executing and Improving Your Size Control Program
—Terry Brown, Director, Lumber Quality Institute; Nick Barrett, Partner, SiCam System
Optimize Your Production Plan…Optimize Your Optimizers
—Brad Turner, Principal; Alex Rapoport, Principal, HALCO Software Systems Ltd.
Processing Strategies for Maximum Added Value
—Norbert Ott, Sales Engineer, Linck
Proactive Drivers of Quality Control
—Andrew Smith, Director, Trajectre LLC
Supervisor Performance at the Highest Levels
—Robert Landau, Director of Operations, Pöyry Management Consulting
The cost of the Lumber Manufacturing Workshop is only $75, and includes three-day admittance to the expo floor and a “beer and brat” ticket.
Those not wishing to attend the workshop can register for free to walk the show floor, or pay $15 to walk the floor and also receive a “beer and brat” ticket.
NEW PORTLAND SHOW WILL INCLUDE WORKSHOP MORNING
Hatton-Brown Expositions LLC, producer of the new Timber Processing & Energy Expo to be held October 17-19, 2012 at the Portland Exposition Center in Portland, Ore., has announced that “Workshop Morning” will be held on Thursday, October 18.
Hatton-Brown Expositions is an affiliate of Hatton-Brown Publishers, Inc., which oversees Timber Processing, Panel World and Wood Bioenergy magazines.
Workshop Morning will include three separate sessions, each running from 9 a.m. until noon. The topics are: Sawmill Scanning & Optimization, Veneer Lathes & Dryers, and Wood Energy Systems. The topics relate to the show’s three main areas of focus: lumber production, veneer and panel production, and wood-to-energy.
Each session will include five presentations from industry experts in those respective fields. Hatton-Brown Expositions invites presentation proposals, including a paragraph summary, to be sent to Show Director Rich Donnell at rich@hattonbrown.com.
Further details, including Workshop Morning registration costs, will be forthcoming.
New Portland Event Picks Up The Pace
Organizers of the new Timber Processing & Energy Expo report that the event booth space is 60% sold out as of March 1, 2012. TP&EE will be held October 17-19 at the Portland Exposition Center in Portland, Ore.
Hatton-Brown Publishers, Inc. is affiliated with Hatton-Brown Expositions, the show producer. Hatton-Brown publishes several wood products industry magazines, including Timber Processing, Wood Bioenergy, Timber Harvesting and Southern Loggin’ Times. It is also affiliated with Panel World magazine. “We’re still seven months away,” comments event Co-Chairman Rich Donnell, who is also the Editor-in-Chief at Hatton-Brown Publishers, Inc. “The show is almost selling itself, which indicates to me that companies are anxious to experience a new venue in the Northwest.”
The Portland Expo Center is conveniently located off Interstate 5 between downtown Portland and Vancouver, Washington. It’s only minutes from the Portland International Airport and has immediate access to the Max Light Rail.
TP&EE is scheduled for Hall D, which encompasses 72,000 sq. ft., more than half of which will be sold as booth space, along with an abundance of outdoor space. The overall Exposition Center sits on 60 acres and includes five halls with 330,000 sq. ft. The facility hosts more than 100 events annually, attracting in excess of 500,000 attendees.
Machinery and supplier exhibitors will cater to an attendee base of primary producers of lumber, veneer/plywood and engineered wood products as well as wood-to-energy producers.
The previous Portland show under a different ownership simply ran its course, Donnell says. “It was a great show for many, many years. But I believe the machinery community and the mill community are looking for a new event that is organized and operated by people who are hands-on with the wood products industry. In fact, people have been asking us for years to do this.”
Hatton-Brown Publishers, Inc. is no stranger to “show business.” It is affiliated with the biennial Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo and Bioenergy Fuels & Products Conference & Expo held in Atlanta. It also conducts in-woods logging expos throughout the South.
“We’re making this event a little more cost reasonable for the exhibitors,” Donnell adds, though I believe what the exhibitors really want to see is an enthusiastic attendee base. We’re now beginning our promotion efforts to the wood products companies and personnel. Many of them had quit coming to the Portland show because they weren’t getting enough out of it.”
Donnell says the new location should be an attraction to attendees. “It’s very open, very accessible, plenty of on-site parking.”
Donnell adds that these same potential attendees are the readers of Timber Processing, Panel World and Wood Bioenergy magazines. “They know us. They know we’ll give this show 110% with them in mind.”