Seminar
Tuesday 25 March 2025
Time | Topic | Presenter |
700 | Registration opens | |
0850-0900 | Seminar opens - Welcome & Housekeeping | |
0900-0930 | The Global Supply Demand Balance Trends for Logs | Rocky Goodnow, Director, Forest Economic Advisors, USA |
0930-1000 | The Global Supply Demand Balance Trends for Sawn Timber | Diego Benedetti, Economic Affairs Director, European Organisation of the Sawmill Industry (EOS) Brussels, Belgium |
1000-1020 | Overview of European wood-based panels market (particleboard, MDF, OSB, fibreboard, plywood) and impact on wood fibre | European Panel Federation speaker confirmed |
1020-1050 | Coffee Break | |
1050-1120 | Biomass Continued: Charcoal and Biofuels -- Implications for wood fibre demand - and Q&A | Juan Prados, Director General, Generadi, Spain |
1120-1150 | Torrefied Pellets and Carbonised Biomass: A future Coal Replacement for Power Generation and Steelmaking: The Role of Woody Biomass as a Raw Material. | Michael Wild, President International Biomass Torrefaction & Carbonisation Council (IBTC), Austria |
1150-1220 | The Global Supply Demand Balance Trends for Pulp & Impact on Wood Fiber Demand | Inkeri Nuutinen, Consultant, AFRY Management Consulting, Finland |
1220-1300 | Working Lunch - with luncheon presentation about the new Luxembourg Skypark Business Centre Mass Timber Construction Project | Luxembourge Skypark Builder, Skypark Builder |
1300-1330 | Where China goes, so does global wood products trade go: Predictions of China demand for softwood log and sawn timber - and both hardwood and softwood woodchip imports: 2025, 2029 and 2034 | Dennis Neilson, Director, DANA NZ Ltd, New Zealand |
1330-1400 | Mass Timber: The Key to a Sustainable Building Future - A Global Overview | |
1400-1430 | Seedlings to Solutions: Connecting the Dots Between the Timber Supply Chain and Mass Timber Buildings — A Forester and Developer's Perspective. A Case study. | Troy Harris, Director, Jamestown, USA |
1430 | Seminar ends | |
1415-1700 | Field Trip to Luxembourg Skypark Business Centre [subject to host approval] | |
Mass Timber Construction Project |