Seminar
Global Wood Products Supply and Demand Trends Seminar
Tuesday 25 March 2025
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
| 0730 | Registration opens | |
| 0850-0900 | Seminar opens - Welcome & Housekeeping | Dennis Neilson, Director, DANA NZ, New Zealand |
| 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 | The European Wood-Based Panels market | Orifjon Abidov , Senior Economist, European Panel Federation, Belgium |
| 1020-1050 | Coffee Break | |
| 1050-1120 | The growing role of biomass in white woodpellets and in biofuels manufacture and use - implications for wood fibre demand | 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 | Leila Lopes, Real Estate Development Manager, Skypark Business Center, Luxembourg and Sandrine Trapp, Environmental Manager, Skypark Business Center, Luxembourg |
| 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 (or an alternative title to suit) | Charline Lefèvre, Project Engineer, Ney & Partners WOW, Belgium |
| 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 |
| 1430-1450 | What an India Free Trade Agreement could do to expand European Trade in Wood Products and investments in wood industry in India | Jacob Mannothra, Managing Director, Zindia Forestry Ltd., New Zealand |
| 1450 | Seminar ends | |
| 1500-1700 | Field Trip to Luxembourg Skypark Business Centre |