4th International Conference On
Advanced Engineered Wood & Hybrid Composites

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The 4th  International Conference on Advanced Engineered Wood and Hybrid Composites will be held July 6-10, 2008, at the Harborside Hotel and Marina, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA.

The upcoming conference will provide a focused venue for presenting and discussing the commercial, scientific, and engineering aspects of advanced engineered wood and hybrid composites. This International Conference provides a setting designed to create dialogue among industrial researchers, business development specialists, wood scientists, structural engineers, polymer scientists and materials researchers.

Conference sessions include:

  • Composites for Defense and Homeland Security

  • Adhesion and Panels

  • Trends in Green Building: Composite Materials. A half-day seminar offered by the Wood-Based Composites Center

  • Marine Composites: ONR-Next Navy Composites

  • Modeling

  • Wood Plastic Composites

  • Conventional and Hybrid Structural Wood Composites

Representatives from the following organizations and universities will be presenting at the conference:

  • APA - The Engineered Wood Association

  • American Composites Manufacturers Association

  • LP - Building Products

  • West Virginia University

  • USDA Forest Products Laboratory

  • University of Hamburg

  • Virginia Tech

  • Laval University

  • Forintek

  • Mississippi State University

  • Pallmann Industries

  • University of Tennessee

  • US Army Natick Soldier RD & E Center

  • Plum Creek Timber Co

  • Noble Environemntal Technologies

  • Hercules

  • University of Sao Paulo

  • National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  • Washington State University

Click here for a list of participants in the 3rd International Conference on Advanced Engineered Wood Composites.

Limited exhibit space is available. For more information.

Contact doreen.boutin@umit.maine.edu

 

Conference Chairs

Dr. Habib J. Dagher
 Director, The AEWC Center

Professor of Civil/Structural Engineering

 University of Maine

 

Dr. Doug Gardner
 Professor of Wood Science & Technology

University of Maine