Wood Innovations for 2012

Wood Innovations 2012 is a new technology program being set-up with a wide cross section of Australian and New Zealand companies to address concerns regarding regaining a competitive advantage. “It’s a new initiative and it’s been a long time coming” says Brent Apthorp, Director of the industry grouping, the Forest Industry Engineering Association (FIEA). Source: Timberbiz
For more than 13 years FIEA has been working with wood producers to design and run a wide range of technology events in Australia and New Zealand.
The focus has been more on step change – in profiling new tools and technologies that can be adopted by local companies to improve their processing and manufacturing operations. Wood Innovations 2012 has a different focus.
“It’s designed to provide a global insight into new innovations, new wood products and new business systems that can be employed to attract future investment and to increase their international competitiveness” said Mr Apthorp.
“The very latest in new and emerging technologies – in solid wood, panel products, bio-materials, wood finishing systems, wood modification technologies, building materials and construction systems that potentially can be picked up by local companies – will be the event’s focus.
“We’ve also identified leading R&D organisations undertaking groundbreaking research in each of these areas – who have or are in the process of commercialising these new products”.
Presentations are planned from leading researchers and technology providers from Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Germany, Finland, Austria, the US and Canada.
The program runs in Melbourne on 10-11 October and again in New Zealand on 16-17 October. Full details are at www.woodinnovationsevents.com