News & Press
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Events
FPS-SWST Announce Joint Convention
Join us June 15-20 in Fort Collins, Colorado for the 2025 FPS-SWST Joint Convention! For the first time in many, many year...
Member News
Auburn, U.S. Air Force Developing Mass Timber Military Housing Prototypes
Auburn University engineers are working with the U.S. Air Force to redesign deployable military housing using mass timber,...
Great Lakes Mass Timber Collaborative Awarded Wood Innovation Grant
A new U.S. Forest Service wood innovation grant will enable Dovetail Partners, MassTimber@MSU (Michigan State University),...
Call For Papers: PTF BPI 2026
The 2026 Processing Technologies for the Forest and Bio-Products Industries (PTF BPI) will be held November 10-11, 2026, o...
U.S. Forest Service Announces New Funding Opportunities
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service has announced up to $95 million in competitive grant funding through i...
Timber Processing Names Steve Swanson 2026 Person Of Year
Longtime Northwest forest products executive Steve Swanson, CEO of Swanson Group based in Roseburg, Ore., was named Timber...
Texas A&M Carol Loopstra Retires After 31 Years
After 31 years of research and teaching at Texas A&M University, Carol Loopstra, Ph.D., associate professor in the Dep...