This session examines the basic areas of leadership that will be necessary for your company or organization to succeed as the forest products industry recovers from one of the worst setbacks in recent history. Learn the key assessments that must be conducted, how to quantify the results, and the steps necessary to improve your team so it can help take your operations to the next level.

Jeff Franklin (bio) and Peter de Leeuw (bio)

Yield Strategies

Many edger optimizers that appear to be running “ok” are actually falling far short of their profit potential. Why? What is the potential magnitude of the hidden opportunity? How can you improve recovery and grade yield at your edger, without sacrificing product quality. This session examines the most common hidden but correctable issues that may be keeping you from getting all that is possible.

This session presents the results of temperature and moisture gradient measurements taken while a kiln is in operation drying various lumber products under different operating conditions. Results are interpreted through a themodynamic modeling process to predict how the variables in continuous kiln drying impact production and lumber grade associated characteristics.