Technology Roadmap: Lumber and Value-Added Wood Products
Acknowledgements

The preparation of this report has been made possible by the contributions of many individuals, and Forintek Canada Corp., which was responsible for the project, wishes to acknowledge their support, particularly the members of the Steering Committee, whose advice and suggestions have been most valuable.

Forintek Canada Corp.

Project Leader

• Yves Lévesque, Manager, Lumber Manufacturing Department, Eastern Division

Engineered Wood Products Specialists

• Jean Cook, Manager, Building Systems, Western Division
• Erol Karacabeyli, Manager, Wood Engineering, Western Division
• Louis Poliquin, Manager, Building Systems & Wood Engineering, Eastern Division
• Richard Desjardins
• Lin Hu
• Conroy Lum
• Jim Mehaffey
• Les Richardson
• Hisa Takeda
• Yvon Tardif
• Constance Thivierge

Lumber Manufacturing Specialists

• Howard Gribble, Manager, Lumber Manufacturing, Western Division
• Pierre Bédard
• Yvon Corneau
• Nicol Drouin
• Alain Gingras
• Derek Goudie
• Pierre Goulet
• François Grondin
• Alan Kostiuk
• Benoît Laganière
• François Léger
• Jean McDonald
• Laszlo Orbay
• John Taylor

Market Specialists

• Chris Gaston
• Dave Fell

Resource Assessment Specialists

• Gilles Chauret
• Ian Hartley
• Ahmed Koubaa
• Gerry Middleton
• Tony Zhang

Value-added Products Specialists

• Robert Beauregard, Manager, Value-added, Eastern Division
• Ron Nielson, Manager, Secondary Manufacturing, Western Division
• Irenée Banville
• Les Jozsa
• Jeff Kidlark
• Marcel Lefebvre
• Torsten Lihra
• Elias Mucha
• Yves Ngangué
• Caroline Verreault
• Derek Williams

Wood Drying Specialists

• Luiz Oliveira
• Marc Savard
• Carl Tremblay

Wood Durability and Protection Specialists

• Tony Byrne
• Manon Gignac
• Paul Morris
• Dian-Qing Yang

Library and Information Specialists

• Barbara Holder, Western Division
• Deirdre Moore, Eastern Division

Members of the Forintek Technical Advisory Committee on Lumber Manufacturing Technology.

Industry Associations

• Diana Blenkhorn — Maritime Lumber Bureau (MLB)
• John Brink — BC Council of Value-Added Wood Processors
• Bob Demulder — Alberta Forest Products Association (AFPA)
• Ken Glover — Forest Industry Suppliers Association of Alberta (FISAA)
• Ian Harvey — BC Wood Specialties Group
• Gilles Jeanrie — Quebec Lumber Manufacturers' Association (QLMA)
• Fred Nott — Wood Products Group (New Brunswick)
• Ontario Lumber Manufacturers' Association (OLMA)
• Canadian Lumbermen's Association (CLA)
• Council of Forest Industries (COFI)
• Quebec Wood Export Bureau (Q-WEB)

Softwood Lumber Manufacturers

• Tim Beaulieu — Fraser Papers Inc., Plaster Rock, New Brunswick
• Wayne Hemsley — Sundance Forest Industries Ltd., Alberta
• Art Lemay — Westmark Products Ltd., Alberta
• William Love — Tembec Inc., Ontario
• Toomas Ruberg — Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd., British Columbia
• Gilbert Tardif — Maibec Inc., Quebec
• William Tropper — Tembec Inc., Ontario
• Cliff Tuttle — Pope & Talbot Ltd., Oregon, United States

Hardwood Lumber Manufacturers

• Alain Bossé — Groupe Savoie, Saint-Quentin, New Brunswick
• Jean-Claude Savoie — Groupe Savoie, Saint-Quentin, New Brunswick
• Engineered Wood Products Manufacturers
• Kent Fargey — Western Archrib, Edmonton, Alberta
• Neil Miller — Alberta Spruce Industries Ltd., Alberta
• Mel Stratechuk — Jager Industries Inc., Alberta

Appearance Wood Products Manufacturers

• Neil Miller — Alberta Spruce Industries Ltd., Alberta
• Guy Rancourt — Sovebec, Charny, Quebec
• Hans Schmidt — Canadian Wood Products Agency, Alberta
• Gilbert Tardif — Maibec Inc., Quebec

Preservative Treated Wood Products

• Nigel Banks — Hickson Building Products, British Columbia

Remanufacturing

• John Brink — Brink Forest products Ltd., British Columbia
• Terry LaLonde — Kyahwood Forest Products, British Columbia
• Patrick Olivier — Brink Forest Products Ltd., British Columbia

Consultants

• Jean Benoît — Consultants J. Benoît, Quebec
• Peter Garrahan — Peter Garrahan & Associates, Ontario
• Jean-Claude Havard — Magan'da Services, Ontario
• Roger Keery — RHK Consulting, British Columbia
• Kelvin Mak — KPMG, Alberta
• Ron Macdonald — Technology Brokers Inc., Alberta
• Michel Van Thiegen, Quebec.
• John White — J.F. White & Associates, New Brunswick

Equipment Suppliers

• Norm Beattie — EDEM (Optimil)
• Gilles Côté — Maxitour, Quebec
• Gunther Eckert — Porter Engineering
• Bill LeGentil — Optimil Machinery
• André Nadeau — Autolog Inc., Quebec
• Gabriel Payant — Comact Optimisation, Quebec
• Dan Smith — Porter Engineering, British Columbia

Educational and Research Institutions

• Daniel Comeau — Woodworking Centre of Excellence, Campbellton, New Brunswick
• Ed Kuefler - Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Edmonton, Alberta
• Tom Mannes — Centre for Advanced Wood Processing, Vancouver, British Columbia
• Paul Roberts — Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Edmonton, Alberta
• Michel Sivret — Woodworking Centre of Excellence, Campbellton, New Brunswick
• Rob Wellwood — Alberta Research Council, Edmonton, Alberta

Government of Canada

• Jeff Serveau — Industry Canada^*
• Jim Farrell — Natural Resources Canada (Canadian Forest Service)
• Robert Jones — Natural Resources Canada (Canadian Forest Service)
• Russ Bohning — Natural Resources Canada (Canadian Forest Service)
• Jim McBeth — National Research Council, Vancouver, British Columbia
• Walter Cool — National Research Council of Canada, IRAP, Edmonton, Alberta
• Denis Méthot — National Research Council of Canada, IRAP, Sainte-Foy, Quebec
• Don Giles — National Research Council of Canada, IRAP, Vancouver, British Columbia

Government of Alberta

• John Leurdyke — Alberta Economic Development
• Ray Luchkow — Alberta Resource Development (Panels and Engineered Wood)
• Paul Short — Alberta Resource Development (Lumber Sector)
• Ted Szabo — Alberta Innovation and Science^*

Government of British Columbia

• Mark Shepherd — Forest Renewal BC^*
• John Talbot — Forest Renewal BC^*

Government of New Brunswick

• Jim Richard — Economic Development, Tourism and Culture^*

Government of Ontario

• Steve Banducci — Ministry of Natural Resources^*

Government of Quebec

• France Brulotte — Ministry of Natural Resources
• Pierre Marineau — Ministry of Natural Resources
• Clément Turcotte — Ministry of Natural Resources^*

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^* Members of the Steering Committee