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New Forest Products
2008 Provincial Leadership Forum


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TOPIC SPONSOR
Joan Elangovan was appointed Assistant Deputy
Minister for Corporate Services in January 2007.
Her portfolio includes planning, policy and
legislation; financial control and budget
management; organization development; and
information management and technology. Recently
she has also become the executive lead for ValueAdded Strategies.

Joan Elangovan, M.Eng.
Assistant Deputy Minister
Ministry of Forests and Range

Joan joined the BC government in 1992. She
worked in senior management positions in the
social and economic development sectors, most
recently, in the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry
of Attorney General. Prior to joining the BC public
service, she worked for Ontario Hydro. Joan has a
Master of Engineering degree from the University of
Toronto.
In her spare time, Joan enjoys reading, music and
travel. Joan and her husband live in Victoria.
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COMPETITIVE ISSUES

John Talbot
Performance Management, Strategic
Business Development
FP Innovations

John Talbot has over thirty years of
managerial experience in manufacturing,
principally in the Province of British
Columbia, Canada. Recent operating
experience has been primarily in the wood
products sector. John has intimate and
practical knowledge of structural and value
added wood manufacturing productivity
issues, raw material supply, and strategic
business planning / implementation.
John, formerly the Executive Director - Value
Added manufacturing at the Crown
Corporation of Forest Renewal BC, has had
specific careers in labour relations and sales
and marketing - developing / and
implementing of export marketing programs.

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ENGINEERED WOOD PRODUCTS

Jean A. Cook, Ph.D.
Manager Composite Products,
Resource Group
FP Innovations FORINTEK

Jean Cook is currently Research Manager
of two departments: Composite Products
and Resource Characterisation.
Jean holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from the
University of Waterloo and joined Forintek in
1984 specialising in risk analysis – as
applied to forest resource characterisation
for value, product manufacturing process
control and engineering properties of solid
wood products.
As part of the management team since
1990, Jean has enjoyed working in the
multidisciplinary teams formed by the sector
to resolve various technical trade and
regulatory issues in international markets.
She is currently the FPInnovations Board
member of the Canadian Lumber Standards
Accreditation Board and the Board member
of the NSERC Strategic Network:
ForValueNet.

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NEXT GENERATION PULP & PAPER
NANOCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE
BIO-REFINING
Gail Sherson is with FPInnovations’
Paprican Division where she is Director
of the Vancouver Laboratory and
Manager of the Fibre Supply and
Quality Research Program.
Gail is a graduate of the University of
British Columbia with degrees in
Chemical Engineering and Pulp and
Paper Engineering. Gail joined
Paprican almost three years ago,
bringing extensive industrial experience
Gail Sherson, M. Eng.
with International Paper, Champion
Director, Vancouver Laboratory and
Program Manager Fibre Supply and Quality International, Nexfor, Fletcher
Challenge and MacMillan Bloedel.
FP Innovations PAPRICAN

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NEXT GENERATION BUILDING SYSTEMS
Erol Karacabeyli is a Registered
Professional Engineer in British Columbia,
Canada, and has over twenty years
experience in the timber engineering
research field. Holding two Masters
Degrees he is a well-known specialist on
seismic performance of timber structures,
duration of load effects on lumber, panel and
engineered wood products, and
connections.

Erol Karacabeyli, P.Eng.
Manager Building Systems
FP Innovations FORINTEK

Erol is currently the Manager of the Building
Systems Department in Western Laboratory
of Forintek. Erol is an influential member in
many national and international codes and
standards committees whose mandates
encompass the safety and reliability of wood
structures.
Erol made significant contributions in wood
engineering field, and published his findings
in over 70 publications.

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Project Director

Werner Hofstätter
Project Director
Corporate Services Division
Ministry of Forests

Werner Hofstätter holds an Honours
Commerce Degree, a CSC, and has more
than 25 years of experience working and
consulting with all sizes of private and public
sector organizations. He is currently Project
Director of Value-Added Strategies in
Corporate Services.
He has held a variety of senior management
and consulting positions in some of Canada’s
largest organizations. He has worked with
many industry sectors including transportation, financial services, logistics and pulp &
paper.
In addition to publishing several articles on
“Value-Based Management”, he has lectured
in Finance at Carleton University. He is also a
certified commercial diver, a trained volunteer
fire-fighter and level III first responder.

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INNOVATIVE FOREST PRODUCTS
MAXIMIZING VALUE FROM
FOREST RESOURCES
“…it is a time for us to look to the future of forestry.
Maybe it looks a little different than the forest industry
that I remember as a kid and the forest industry that I
worked in the 1990’s.”
Hon. Pat Bell, National Forest Day

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OBJECTIVE
1. Update you on some of the latest
innovations in forest products and
technologies
2. Generate discussion on what role, if
any, the Government should play in
creating an environment that
encourages innovation and
commercialization
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TODAY’S AGENDA
1. ENGINEERED WOOD
PRODUCTS
2. NEXT GENERATION BUILDING
SOLUTIONS
3. BIO-REFINING etc.
4. COMPETITIVE ISSUES
• QUIZ, DISCUSSION and
PRIZES

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Engineered Building Products
What are they?
Construction materials used for
structural elements in buildings.

Successful Engineered Products have
(1)demonstrated and reliable
performance in service and
(2)are competitively priced
Examples are steel, concrete and…
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Structural grades of lumber & panels that have
recognized engineering properties

2004

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The definition in the wood industry is:
EWP = Composite wood substitutes for solid wood
Better use of small and low
grade logs (all species)
Veneer Strip Lumber
Parallam™

Oriented Strand Lumber

Laminated
Veneer Lumber

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Typical Wood Composite
Manufacturing Process

Stranding

Drying

Very high
Temperature used
(150 – 350 0C)

Mat forming

Resin blending

Little resin used
(<10%)

Hot pressing*

Heat
(*Courtesy of SBA)
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(up to 220 0C)
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Reliability and Cost Competitiveness
Process Interactions impact EWP Demand

ALBERTA
RESEARCH
COUNCIL

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Solution: Look inside
the process
… START WITH
SENSOR
TECHNOLOGY…

Relate process parameters
to end product attributes
• Moisture Meters in Dryers and Forming Line
• Weight Scale in Forming Line
• Thickness Gauges in Finishing Line
ALBERTA
RESEARCH
COUNCIL

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Innovate to both reduce costs
and improve end product attributes
On-line
measurement of
wood MC to
reduce energy
costs and
reduce plywood
delamination
$750,000 per mill,
per year

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This poster provides several examples of other
substitutes for solid lumber, timbers and beams

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Novel concepts – « open web studs »
P

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An EWP Success Story
OSB has captured 85% of the North American new home
sheathing markets from plywood.

Why? It is now perceived by the NA home construction
industry as a lower price product that performs as well as
plywood in home sheathing.
It took 20+ years for OSB to capture significant market
share from plywood in sheathing markets

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Cook Observation
There is no shortage of new ideas for wood products and
systems that COULD be used in construction
Which have the potential to be perceived by the
construction industry as viable substitutes for concrete and
steel?
I believe these are the “engineered wood products” that will
attract sustained investment to the sector

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From commodity products
to building solutions
Knowledge

Services

Conception &
engineering

Solutions
Integrated
Systems
Roofs

Systems

Walls

Flooring

Support the design team

Indoor / Outdoor Systems

Components

Commodity
products

Lars Sandberg, Timwood

LVL
PSL

Lumber

Paneling &
Siding

Plywood

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Engineering &
Process development

Fencing &
Decking

OSB

Production &
Distribution

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Opportunity for Wood: Non-Residential Buildings

Prince George Airport
Courtesy of Equilibrium Consulting

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US Non-Residential Buildings Current and Potential Market Share
100%
90%
80%

Additional
that could
be wood

70%
60%
50%

74%

Currently are
wood-frame

40%
49%

30%
20%
10%
0%

19%
% of buildings

8%
% of area

Source: WPC 2006
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Wood-Based Building Systems
• Best bets
• 6 Storey Light Wood Frame Construction
(currently limited to 4)
• 6-10 Storey Heavy Frame Buildings with
Concrete Core (new)
• Cross Laminated Timber Applications (new)
• Roof and Floor Applications
• Non-structural walls in Concrete & Masonry
Buildings
• Post Disaster/Low Cost Shelter
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First Best Bet: 6 storey Light wood-frame
construction in Canada (currently limited to 4)
•

BC Premiere’s support made a
difference

•

FPInnovations and CWC are
supporting BC Building and Safety
Policy Branch in pursuing regulatory
changes to increase the limit on
wood-construction from four to six
storeys

•

Validation by US/Japan/Canada
earthquake simulation test (FII
support) (NEESWood) of a 6-storey
wood-frame building (test specimen
is built BC lumber)

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Second best bet: 6-10 storey Heavy Frame
Buildings with Concrete Core
●

Developing several design concepts for use of wood in
mid-rise construction, including hybrid wood/concrete and
wood/steel

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Second best bet: 6 storey Heavy
Frame Buildings with Concrete Core
Demonstration building in Quebec City;
•
•
•
•
•

Based on the objectives of Quebec’s use of wood in the non-residential sector policy (May 2008)
Has received go ahead from Régie du bâtiment pending a few modifications
60 000 ft2 in total
Above ground structure combines concrete core and heavy glulam
Below ground parking garage in
reinforced concrete ( 53 parking spaces)
• Total Height; 22.8 m
• Built under the NBCC 2005
• LEED GOLD
• Planned occupancy Fall 2009

Owner:
CSN FONDACTION
Architect: Gilles Huot, GHA Atelier d’architecture
Structural Engineer: Bureau d’Études Spécialisées inc.

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Third best bet:
Cross Laminated Timber

Massive wood plates, X-lam or Jumbo plywood

Murray Grove Building, London, GB
World Tallest Wood Building
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Cross Laminated Timber
Elevator shaft or stair
case with CLT

Courtesy of KLH
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Fourth best bet:
Roof and Floor Applications

Richmond Speed Skating Oval

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Fourth best bet:
Roof and Floor Applications
• High Strength to weight ratio
makes wood systems very
suitable

Courtesy of CWC WoodWorks

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Fifth best bet: Non-structural walls in Concrete &
Masonry Buildings
Not common in North America

Stockholm 2004 Wood Walls
in Concrete Building

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Sixth best bet: Post-Disaster/Low Cost Shelter


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Recent disasters – houses destroyed
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•
•
•

2004 Tsunami
2005 Pakistan earthquake
2005 Hurricane Katrina
2006 Indonesia earthquake

Earthquake
2006 Java

150,000 homes
500,000 homes
275,000 homes
140,000 homes

Hurricane
2005 USA

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Wood Framing – Proven
Earthquake Performance
Hyogo-ken Nambu (Kobe) quake, 1995

Undamaged houses –
N. American framing

Post WWII House
Collapsed

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Earthquake simulation test in USA
(showing no structural damage)

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CONCLUDING REMARKS
• Wood-based building systems offer a lot of
potential in new applications
• FPInnovations launched an initiative
“Next Generation Building Solutions”
• Funded largely by NRCan
• Multi-disciplinary collaborative research with design
community
• A large component in wood-based composites
• Designed to play a major role in increasing use of
wood in residential and non-residential construction

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Next Generation Building Solutions
Example: FPInnovations Vancouver Laboratory

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Next Generation Pulps & Papers
 Innovation & technology that
take full advantage of
Canada’s unique fibre
characteristics

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Intelligent Paper: Safety
Bio-reactive
Paper Products
1. Paper giving instant visible
indication of pathogens.
2. High speed manufacture:
coating or printing.

Sentinel Project
University Partnerships

SARS mask:
 detect viral contamination
 deactivate the pathogen
 protect the user

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Advanced Bioproducts –
Nanocrystalline cellulose
• Smallest physical sub-unit of
cellulose
• Crystallite dimensions, 200 nm
long, 10 nm wide
• 8,000 times thinner than a
human hair.
• FPInnovations Lab Process:
Production, 2 kg/week
• Ready for 1 tonne per day NCC
demonstration plant

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Nanocrystalline Cellulose (NCC)
crystalline region
microfibril :
amorphous region

acid hydrolysis
H2SO4

TEM image of nanocrystals
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Nano-Crystalline Cellulose (NCC)
Colour

Porosity

Opacity

Stronger than Steel

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NCC in the Everyday World?

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The forest biorefinery:
• An integrated set of processes
• Multiple products, a single site:
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Solid wood, panels
Pulp, paper
Heat, power
Transportation fuels
Chemicals

• Maximize the value from each
component of the feedstock

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Potential pathways to new products
Residues

Chips

Pulp
mill

Bark,
sludge

Gasification,
pyrolysis

Synthesis
products

Sludge,
effluent

(Bio) chemical
processes

Novel
products

Cellulose

Conventional
processes

Pulp,
Paper

Lignin

Hemicellulose

Chemical
processes

Novel
products

Chemical
processes

Polymers

Fermentation
processes

Ethanol,
others

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XXX

Main pathways to fuels and chemicals
• Lignin
• Resins: $400+ per tonne of lignin
• Substitute for carbon black in tires: $1000+ per tonne?
• Carbon Fibres

• Hemicellulose
• Ethanol, lactic acid:
• $300 per tonne of hemicellulose
• Fuel, plastic precursor

• Xylose, Xylitol (sugar substitute)
• Polymer precursors:
• $700+ per tonne

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Thermo-chemical processes
• Gasification
• Generates a combustible gas
• Burn to displace Bunker C or natural gas
• Synthesize hydrocarbon products
• Methanol
• Synthetic Diesel

• Leaders in this field: Enerkem, Nexterra

• Pyrolysis
• Generates a combustible liquid
• Burn to displace Bunker C
• Extract chemicals, food products
• Resins, phenolics for board grades
• BBQ sauces, flavourings

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Both processes
produce fuels or
synthetic chemicals
Both can operate
on low value, mixed
residues
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Boiler Replacement with a Gasifier at
Kruger Products in New Westminister
FPInnovations Partnership with
Nexterra

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Optimize Current & Future
Product Streams
New
launches

Profitability

Stop and Fix
Maturity

Decline
Growth

Introduction

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Time

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The Real Measure of Environmental Impact

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The zero-carbon house?
29 tonnes
of CO2 are
captured in
a typical
house.
Offsets five
years of
driving the
family car.

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ROCE for Canadian Producers %

Canadian Forest Products Industry

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DISCUSSION

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QUIZ
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Engineered
Wood
Products

Building
Systems

Bio-Refinering

Key
Messages

X
TWO
X
THREE
X
FOUR
X
FIVE
X

X
TWO
X
THREE
X
FOUR
X
FIVE
X

X
TWO
X
THREE
X
FOUR
X
FIVE
X

X
TWO
X
THREE
X
FOUR
X
FIVE
X

ONE

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EWP – Question #1

What type of
Glulam, Parallel
Strand
engineered
wooden
beams
are capable
replacing
Lumber,
PSL orofParallam®
steel beams?
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EWP – Question #2

What % of plywood that
has been replaced by OSB
About
85%
in new North American
residential construction?
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EWP – Question #3

Which 2 continents
North
use
theAmerica
majority
ofand
theEurope
world’s
softwood sawn lumber?
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EWP – Question #4

What percent
Less
than 10%
of a
typical
EWP
is resin?
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EWP – Question #5

What continent leads
North
the world
in EWP
production
for light-frame
America
construction?
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Building Systems – Question #1

X-Lam,
Cross-Lam
Which
wooden
floor and
wall panelsorhave passed
the“Massive
45 minute
burn
test?
Plywood”
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Building Systems – Question #2

How many stories tall
will light wood, residential
Up
to
six
stories
buildings soon be
allowed?
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Building Systems – Question #3

Approximately what
percent
of
US
nonMore
than
residential
90 percent
construction
could be
wood-based?
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Building Systems – Question #4

In which city is the world’s
London,
England
tallest
wooden
building?

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Building Systems – Question #5

Approximately
how many
Morehomes
than have
been destroyed
by
natural
one million!
disasters
( 1,065,000 )
since 2004?
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Bio-Refining – Question #1

How many
times
thinner
8,000 times
than a human hair is a
thinner thancellulose
a
Nanocrystalline
particle?
human
hair
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Bio-Refining – Question #2

From what
From
the
black
liquor
process stream
created
in
the
chemical
can lignin be
pulp
process
extracted?
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Bio-Refining – Question #3

Name one of the
Carbonthat
fibres,
products
can be
manufactured
using the
“Carbon Black”,
lignin extracted
from
others
black-liquor?
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Bio-Refining – Question #4

Who are the two
Nexterra
leading companies
And
in the field of
EnerKem
gasification?
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Bio-Refining – Question #5

Name 3 types
Bio-ethanol,
of fuel that can be
bio-diesel
and
derived in the
syngas
bio-refining process?
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Key Messages – Question #1

What can you do to
promote
getting more
Group Discussion
value from the forest?
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Key Messages – Question #2

Does anything you
currently do make it
Any
other
harder for industry to
extract views?
more value from
the forest?
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Key Messages – Question #3

Given what you have heard
today - what
role should the
Any other
Ministryfeedback?
of Forests and Range
play in fostering this industry?

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Key Messages – Question #4

What will you do
differently or think
Group
Discussion
differently as a result of
today’s presentations?
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Key Messages – Question #5

What intrigued you the
Anybody
most
from the
presentations
Else ?you heard
today and why?
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Special Thanks To:

FP Innovations
Forintek
Paprican

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