Setting the Industry Technology Agenda

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Setting the Industry Technology Agenda: The 2001 Forest, Wood and Paper Industry Technology Summit

Edited by Gerard Closset

Discover the innovative ideas proposed by Summit participants to meet the industry’s greatest challenges. This text provides a summary of the Forest Products Industry’s technology needs as identified by the participants of the 2001 Forest, Wood and Paper Industry Technology Summit. During this Summit, over 130 leading experts from industry, supplier and service providers, government, and academia worked to identify, define, and analyze gaps in current technology and knowledge and then propose bold, breakthrough approaches to fill those gaps and meet the greatest needs and priorities of the industry. The book presents a compendium of those critically important technology needs, prioritized and aligned with the new industry technology strategy, including:

  • sustainable forest productivity
  • recycling
  • process automation
  • fiber engineering
  • process improvement/breakthrough technologies
  • technologically advanced workforce
  • environmental performance
  • energy performance
  • new forest-based materials
  • wood products

    Reading this book is a must for anyone wishing to understand the needs and the direction of technology development for the industry. The book also features an Agenda 2020 retrospective and concludes with a discussion of the industry’s path forward. 2002. 210 pages, soft cover,

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    Purchase Setting the Industry Technology Standard and The World in 2015: Four Possible Scenarios together and save 20%.

    Product code: 0101R307
    ISBN: 0898523664
    Author: Closset, G.
    Format: Soft cover
    Pages: 210

    Member Price: $31.00

    Non-Member Price: $50.00

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