Michigan Biomaterials
Conference
October 3, 2013
Linc Cannon
Director, Forest Resources and Taxation
Oregon Forest Industries Council
Who is OFIC?
A member-funded trade association representing more
than 50 Oregon forestland owners and forest products
manufacturing-related firms. Its members own more than
90% of Oregon's private large-owner forestland base.
OFIC coordinates advocacy on behalf of its members to:
•  Maintain a positive, stable business operating
environment for Oregon's forest products community
and encourage long-term investments in healthy forests.
•  Ensure a reliable timber supply from Oregon's public
and private forestlands.
•  Promote stewardship and sustainable management to
maintain productivity and protect environmental values
on all of Oregon's forestlands.
OFIC Staff & Committees
•  President
•  Board of Directors
•  Operations Committee
•  General Counsel & Director, Government Affairs
•  Government Affairs Committee
•  Director, Water Policy & Forest Regulation
•  Forest Management Policy Committee
•  State Lands Committee
•  Director, Forest Resources & Taxation
•  Forest Taxation Committee
•  Manufacturers Committee
•  Director, Forest Protection & Security
•  Office Manager
Okay.
So who is
OFRI?
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Created in 1991,the Oregon Forest Resources Institute (OFRI) provides objective
information about responsible forest management and encourages environmentally
sound forest practices through training and other educational programs. OFRI is funded
by the FPHT, has a professional staff and is governed by a Board of Directors."
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Key OFRI Programs
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Classroom programs and field activities for K-12 students •
Professional development and curriculum support for teachers •
Tours demonstrating modern forest practices •
Conferences, publications and scientific research on forest topics •
Workshops that help landowners manage according to best practices •
Displays, interpretive program and tours at the Rediscovery Forest •
Speakers Bureau presentations to community groups •
Online resources relating to Oregon's forests and forest management"
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Television, radio and newspaper communications OSU College of Forestry (COF)
•  Department of Forest Engineering, Resources
and Management
•  Forest Engineering
•  Forest Engineering/Civil Engineering
•  Forestry
•  Department of Forest Ecosystems & Society
•  Natural Resources
•  Recreation Resource Management
•  Tourism & Outdoor Leadership
•  Department of Wood Science & Engineering
•  Renewable Materials
OSU Connections
•  Capital Construction Projects
•  Richardson Hall
•  Prospective Peavy Hall Renovation (wood showcase)
•  Hallie Ford Center (and many others)
•  College of Forestry (COF) --
1,100 students, looking to grow to 2,000
•  Endowments
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College of Forestry Dean
Professor of Silviculture
Chair in Teaching Excellence
Professor of Forest Management
Professor of Forest Engineering
Chair in Wood Science and Forest Products
Chair in Private and Family Forestry
Chair in Forest Operations Management
•  Scholarships
•  Training and Co-ops
•  Starker Lectures
OSU Connections
•  Forest Research Lab ($0.84/MBF FPHT)
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Research Co-ops
Fish & Wildlife in Managed Forests
Wood Innovation Center
Research Projects
•  Forest Engineering, Resources & Management
•  Professional Forestry Program ($0.10/MBF FPHT)
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Harvesting Instructor
Forest Management Faculty
Field Camp Support
Co-op Education Manger
•  Wood Science and Engineering
•  Renewable Materials
•  Develop & Expand Markets for Manufactured Wood Products
•  Five Endowed Scholarships (in the works?)
•  New Lab Facilities (proposed)
CORRIM Voting Members
Steve Kelly, President, & Execu=ve Commi?ee Leonard Johnson, Vice President Forest Management, & Execu=ve Commi?ee Ivan Eas=n, Vice President Marke=ng & Green Building, & Execu=ve Commi?ee Adam Taylor, North Carolina State University (NC State) University of Idaho (U. Idaho) University of Washington (UW) Vice President Outreach Educa=on, Secretary Treasurer, & Execu=ve Commi?ee University of Tennessee (UT) Steve Zylkowski Gary L. Heroux Jennifer O’Connor Phillip Steele Paul Smith (alt.Jim Finley) Eva Haviarova Susan E. Anagnost Stephen Shaler Pat Huelman Dan Hindman (alt.Paul Winistorfer) Kevin Cheung Chadwick Oliver Richard Vlosky Temporarily Vacant Temporarily Vacant APA -­‐ The Engineered Wood Associa=on Composite Panel Associa=on Research Founda=on FP Innova=ons -­‐ Canada Mississippi State University Pennsylvania State Univeristy (PSU) Purdue University State University of NY (SUNY) University of Maine (UME) University of Minnesota (U. Minn) Virginia Tech University (VPI) Western Wood Products Associa=on (WWPA) Yale University (Yale) Louisiana State University Oregon State University (OSU) Washington State University Green Building!!
•  Wood First
•  Governor’s Executive Order 12-16
•  Pilot Projects
•  Assessment of Forest & Green Building Certification
Standards
•  Market Development
•  LEED v4 Appeal
•  Forest Certification
•  WoodWorks
•  Portland Wood Solutions Fairs in 2013 & 2014
•  Oregon Forest Cluster Working Group
Bioenergy, Biofuels & Biochemicals
Carbon Neutral!!! (??)
Eligible Feedstocks?
Market Disruptions?
•  Governor’s 10-year Energy Action Plan
•  Oregon Forest Biomass Working Group
•  Cogeneration
•  Thermal Energy
•  Research
•  Pellets & Bricks (Malhuer Lumber & Bear Mtn Forest Products)
•  Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA)
•  Woody Biomass to Jet Fuel
•  Zeachem
•  Cellulosic Ethanol
THANK YOU! L.R. Schimleck & Kaichang Li Wood
Science & Engineering, OSU
Linc Cannon, OFIC
Wood Science & Engineering Department
Meeting needs for renewable "green” materials, energy alternatives,
innovation and economic growth
 Science, technology, engineering, and business practices
 Global competitiveness of US businesses
Forest Engineering, Resources & Management
Department
Forest management and conservation for socially desired benefits
 Forest productivity, resilience and adaptability
 Forest engineering and operations
 Forests and water
Forest Ecosystems & Society Department
Forest ecosystems and human communities
 Forest ecosystem function at multiple scales
 Forests and climate
 Forests and biodiversity
 Forests and people
Products Harvest Tax Rates (per 1000 board feet)
Period of Time
2009 Forest Products Harvest
Tax Distribution
Tax Rate
1/1/2004
1/1/2005
1/1/2006
1/1/2007
1/1/2008
1/1/2009
1/1/2010
1/1/2011
thru
thru
thru
thru
thru
thru
thru
thru
12/31/2004
12/31/2005
12/31/2006
12/31/2007
12/31/2008
12/31/2009
12/31/2010
12/31/2011
1/1/2012
thru
12/31/2012
1/1/2013​
​thru
​12/31/2013
$2.95
$2.85
$2.61
$2.61
$3.5806
$3.8956
$3.5750
$3.5750
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$3.6841
​$3.6841
http://www.oregon.gov/ODF/STATE_FORESTS/FRP/Charts.shtml
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Educators’ Day brings together the
forest products industry with the
presidents of OSU and U of O, the
Chancellor of the Oregon University
system and the Dean and department
heads of the OSU College of Forestry.
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Purpose – to allow for frank and open
discussion of the issues and challenges
affecting higher education and the
Oregon forest products industry
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Why change?
What changed?
What are we doing now?
What about the future?
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Problem
 not enough students or graduates
 employer frustration
 Provost mandate—change or die
BS Graduates from 2001-2011
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Analysis
 focus groups
 national workshop
 students/employers
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2002
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Conclusions
 Need to rebrand major and career path
 Employer needs are changing……
 Need to revise curriculum and skill sets of graduates
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Actions
 Rebranded degree program as RENEWABLE
MATERIALS
 Created new curriculum and launched Fall 2010
 Developed marketing/communications plan and
implemented aggressively
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Major re-investment by the College,
Department, and Faculty
 100s of hours of personnel time invested in new
curriculum
 $40,000+ in promotion so far
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Reduced emphasis on manufacturing
technologies
Expanded coverage to other plant-based
renewable materials.
Focus on: building materials, consumer goods,
bioenergy and some industrial chemicals
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New courses:
 Renewable building construction and LCA
 Bioenergy and environmental impacts
 Global trade in renewable materials
 Professionalism, writing, communications
 Added innovation content to marketing course
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Two options:
 Marketing and Management (includes B&E Minor)
 Science & Engineering
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Increased scheduling flexibility
Increased “global” orientation
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Out with the old
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In with the new
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Videos
 Faculty
 Student
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Web page
Facebook
LinkedIn
YouTube
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Forecast
Total OSU Enrollment
35,000
140
30,000
120
25,000
100
20,000
80
15,000
60
10,000
40
5,000
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OSU
WSE
Total WSE Enrollment
40,000
2012/2013 – 2 of every 3 students involved
with research/testing
 FRA to help with student supervision
 BoV support for student projects
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Hybrid poplar properties
Biomass heat values
Bio-char market assessment
Treated wood use in gardens
Red mold in lumber
Steam distillation products from forest biomass
Bamboo Glulam
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All students involved in industry based
internships
Increasingly companies are viewing
internships as an opportunity to
assess RM students for future
employment
Major effort to link with industry to
provide opportunities for as many
students as possible
Crucial as student body increases
OWIC Innovation Days
Job Fair
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Educating the workforce for the
future “green” economy
Our graduates are in high demand
Our education and research
missions have important impacts on
Oregon
 Improved quality of life for citizens
 Innovative utilization of biobased
materials
 Improved built environments
Green Chemistry Research on
Bio-based Materials
Kaichang Li
Department of Wood Science and Engineering
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Materials Science Programs
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331
Biomaterials Conference, October 3, 2013
Wood Adhesives
Commonly used wood adhesives
Phenol-formaldehyde resin
Urea-formaldehyde resin
Issues related to wood adhesives
Emission of carcinogenic formaldehyde
Petroleum-based
Ideal wood adhesives
Based on renewable biomaterials
Environmentally friendly
Cost-competitive to UF resin
Mussels Stick
adopted from http://www.accessexcellence.org/WN/SUA11/collagen997.html
Soy protein
The soybean consists of about 40%
protein, 21% fat, 34% carbohydrate, and
4.9% ash.
Glutamic acid and aspartic acid
account for about 1/3 of amino acids in
soy protein
Formaldehyde-free Soy-based
Adhesives
 The first patent of the soy-PAE adhesives was
filed in 2002 and issued in 2006
 The first plywood plant was fully converted to use
a soy-based adhesive in late 2004
 19 plywood/particleboard plants used our
adhesive
 Over 100 million pounds of the toxic UF resins
were replaced every year.
 Hundreds of millions of wood-based composite
panels bonded with our adhesive are produced
every year in the US.
Economic Impacts
 Foreign competitors took over 60% of the US woodbased composite panels market in 1990s. The
market share of the US-made panels has been
stabilized and started to grow since 2005. US-made
panels are now exported to other countries.
 In the decorative plywood business alone, over 4000
people in the US (over 400 people in Oregon) in 2011
directly benefited from our formaldehyde-free
adhesive technology.
 Our adhesive represents the biggest new use of soy
flour outside of food applications. Soybean farmers
and soybean processors greatly benefit from our
research.
Environmental and Social Impacts
 The replacement of the toxic UF resin with the soy-based
adhesive reduces the emission of hazardous air pollutants from
each plywood plant by up to 90%.
 Prompted the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to pass a
regulation for setting formaldehyde emission limits on woodbased products used and sold in California in April 2007 (the
main reason for stabilizing the market share of the US-made
panels).
 A national regulation of “formaldehyde standards for
composite wood products act” was signed into law on July 7,
2010 by President Obama.
 Our adhesive technology has dramatically improved indoor air
quality in our working and living environments. Many people
who are allergic to formaldehyde can now use wood-based
composite panel products in their home and offices.
Dream Wood Adhesive
 Magnesium oxide (MgO) + soy flour
 A patent was filed in 2010
 The full conversion of the first plywood plant
to use this adhesive started in June 2013.
MgO:
 Natural product from magnesite ores or sea
water, very abundant
 Use in cement such as Portland cement,
 Use as antacid for relieving heartburn and sore
stomach, as magnesium supplement, and as a
short-term laxative
Scientific Impacts
 Six patents issued and one pending for
formaldehyde-free wood adhesives
 23 refereed journal publications related to
formaldehyde-free wood adhesives
 Developed new adhesive systems and new adhesion
mechanisms
 Have trained 16 graduate students, 9
postdocs/research assistants and 6 visiting scholars
Pressure sensitive adhesives (PSAs)
from renewable materials
 Uses of PSAs
Labels, post-it notes, stamp, package tapes
Issues: petrochemical-based, toxic organic
solvents
 We have recently developed new PSAs
from vegetable oils: less expensive,
simple and green process, no organic
solvents needed, and 100% renewable
materials
 Four patents have been filed
Styrene-free Unsaturated Polyester
resins from renewable materials
 Existing unsaturated
polyester resins
Used for boats, sink/shower
tubs, automobiles, airplanes,
water-cooling towers…
Issues: petrochemical-based,
about 60% carcinogenic styrene
 Recent breakthrough:
renewable-material-based
replacement of styrene
 Challenges: no funding
sources