Shifting Seasons College of Menominee Nation June 7, Steve Milauskas, Director

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1 Shifting Seasons College of Menominee Nation June 7, 2012 Steve Milauskas, Director

2 WERC States - Eastern Hardwoods 162 Million Acres are in the Eastern Hardwood Forest Type 93% total Eastern forest = private + other public 83% total Eastern forest = private only

3 Wood Education and Resource Center Main Office, Training Annex, Shop and Rough Mill

4 WERC s Mission Enhance opportunities for sustained forest products production in the eastern hardwood forest region of the United States, by fostering interaction and information exchange with the forest products industry

5 WERC s Primary Goals Improve knowledge, skills, and capacity of workforce and management Increase communication, cooperation, and collaborative problem solving Improve efficiency in manufacturing and utilization Promote sustainable use of woody biomass for energy and products Promote local and regional wood products business and employment by leasing gov. owned facilities & equipment.

6 WERC s Mission & Goals Audience: Primary Hardwood Manufacturing Industry (sawmills and related businesses) Secondary Hardwood Manufacturing Industry (furniture, kitchen cabinets, flooring, pallets, moulding, architectural woodworking, etc.) Entrepreneurs, Small wood businesses, Woody biomass businesses, Arborists

7 WERC Cluster Facilities offices, training, manufacturing Public / Private Partnerships Work force - labor Forest Resources WERC Infrastructure Training Research Technology Transfer Investment Capital

8 WERC Promotes: Tech transfer that is: practical, applied, creative and useful Shorter-term projects with immediate industry impacts Innovation & problem solving Regional economic development

9 WERC Capacity Training & manufacturing facilities Technical assistance Grants opportunity Current & past biomass projects Dedicated staff

10 WERC s Competitive Grant Program One key to implementing mission and goals Funded and partnered on a wide array of projects WERC has funded 185 projects in 26 states since 2005 ($11.5 million), not including biomass conversion feasibility studies. Grants Budget approx. $1 million last five years Overall WERC budget down 65% since FY2008

11 WERC FY 2011 Grant Awards Project Org. State Award Direction 1 Reinventing Hardwood Markets NCSU NC 78,149 WERC 2 Educational Outreach Business skills NCSU NC 28,975 WERC 3 Vacuum Ash Treatments for Pests VA Tech. VA 50,993 WERC 4 Hardwood Processing Efficiency WVU WV 69,968 WERC 5 Thermowood Forum UMN MN 10,140 WERC 6 Black Ash Basket Marketing ME Indian Alliance ME 70,000 WERC 7 Multi-State Boiler Assessment SE MI RC&D MI 70,000 WO 8 Renewable Heating Job Corps Glacierland RC&D WI 70,000 WO 9 Wood Fired Heating & Cooling DC Council Of Gov. DC 350,000 WO 10 Wood Systems-User Group Needs No. Country RC&D NH 41,900 WO 11 Biofuels Workshop NCSU NC 23,435 WO/WERC 12 Green Product Innovations WVU WV 62,475 WO/WERC 13 PA 2011 TPO Survey PA BOF PA 91,425 WO/CARP 14 Mechanized Biomass Harvesters MO Forest Fndn. MO 35,800 WO/WERC 15 Sustainable Energy-Bldg. Profess. BTEC DC 70,064 WO/WERC 16 Community Biomass Assmt. Tools NY Farm Viability I. NY 39,892 WO/WERC

12 Funded WERC Projects Log & lumber scanning Use of underutilized species Plastic/wood composites Lean Manufacturing research & training Marketing handbooks & training Log bucking training China Import / export conference

13 Funded WERC Project Examples Utilization of ash infested with emerald ash borer

14 Emerald Ash Borer Invasion

15 Firewood sanitation issues reducing the threat of spreading invasive species Heat Sterilization of Ash Firewood for Thermal Eradication of EAB Heat Treatment of Firewood Meeting Phytosanitary Requirements erc/finalrpts/07-dg- 114.pdf

16 Funded WERC Projects Wood Manufacturing Skill Standards, Evaluations, & Credentials Industry-approved standards for the woodworking profession Skill standards developed by Woodwork Career Alliance as a means to support the woodworking industry in preparing productive workers Many partners and volunteers involved to bring this effort to reality via Woodwork Career Alliance of North America ( Architectural Woodwork Institute FS grantee Madison Area Tech. College Monona Grove H.S. Madison West H.S. Monroe H.S. DeLeers Millwork Wisconsin Built Burger Boat

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20 Wood Energy Technical Assistance Preliminary feasibility assessments Schools, hospitals, commercial buildings, industrial buildings Sullivan County School District Elementary and High School Complex March 9, 2010

21 Funded WERC Projects Establishing Long-Term Fuel Supply Agreements for Wood Energy Facilities - Empire State Forest Products Assoc. - insight on establishing long-term supply agreements for wood energy facilities. - Two business models identified: * Diesel Fuel Adjustment * Financing of Biomass Prod. Equip.

22 Funded WERC Projects Using Industrial Clusters to Build an Urban Wood Utilization Program: A Twin City Case Study - St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN - Summarize wood utilization activities ble-forestry/pdr-steve-bratkovichp/urban-woodutilization-and-industrial-cl

23 District Energy St. Paul/Minneapolis District heating 185 buildings & 300 homes District cooling 95 buildings 90 megawatts clean wood chips

24 Funded WERC Projects Indiana Forest Products Community - On-line industry directory - orestproducts.com/

25 Ash urban wood utilization Webinars Energy cost impacts on hardwood manufacturing Mineral stain in red oak Community wood reclaimation Vacuum steam treatment of wood pallets Life cycle inventory tools Mechanized processing of urban trees Making wood pallets Carbon storage in wood products Computer technologies in furniture making Biomass utilization seminars - many in the last year

26 Other Items of Interest Urban Forest Products Alliance Linkedin Group Quarterly webcasts on ash-urban wood utilization (July 10, 2012) WERC Update Newsletter Manufacturing and Marketing Lumber and Related Products Using Thin-Kerf Sawmills by Dan Cassens, Purdue University

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28 Funded WERC Projects Project information location- WERC web site:

29 Where are we?

30 Reasons for Change

31 ALL 2002 EMPLOYEES, THOUSANDS USDA FOREST SERVICE US DOL BLS EMPLOYMENT Industry: Wood products NAICS Code: 321 Productivity The wood product manufacturing subsector consists of these industry groups: Sawmills and Wood Preservation: NAICS 3211 Veneer, Plywood, and Engineered Wood Product Manufacturing: NAICS 3212 Other Wood Product Manufacturing: NAICS 3219

32 NAICS Code: 337 Data Type: ALL EMPLOYEES, THOUSANDS USDA FOREST SERVICE US DOL BLS EMPLOYMENT Industry: Furniture and related products NAICS Code: 337 The furniture and related product manufacturing subsector consists of these industry groups: Household and Institutional Furniture and Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturing: NAICS 3371 Office Furniture (including Fixtures) Manufacturing: NAICS 3372 Other Furniture Related Product Manufacturing: NAICS 3379

33 US DOL BLS EMPLOYMENT Industry: Paper and paper products NAICS Code: 322 Productivity Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Mills: NAICS 3221 Converted Paper Product Manufacturing: NAICS 3222

34 US DOL BLS EMPLOYMENT Industry: Forestry & Logging NAICS Code: 113

35 Re-shoring, Expansion, Start-up Furniture Expos featuring Made in USA. (Las Vegas, Highpoint, Lancaster, PA) Lincolnton Furniture, NC. 55 employees to 180. Stanley Furniture, NC. $4 M upgrade. Vaughan Basset, VA. $8M purchase & upgrade, 630 employees. Kimball Hospitality, IN. new mfc. La-Z-Boy added 3 new US production lines. To replace off-shore. Ashley furniture, NC. New $80M facility to employ 1, st quarter exports of hardwood lumber up 8.6% over Hancock Lumber, ME. 25% production to export, no layoffs at 3 mills.

36 Implications Wood industry jobs recovery? Re-shoring? Productivity trend implications? Employment vs. competitiveness Sustainable forest management-wood industrycultural & socio economic trends Skilled labor availability? Less participation in workforce with high unemployment. Federal & state budgets - intense funds competition Training & education focus is shifting

37 Training & Education Challenges: Industry & organizations must see value Attracting people to on-site training Funding expenses Relevance in a perceived shrinking industry Opportunities: Increased emphasis on webinars Training in conjunction with other events Technology transfer through web-sites Education through partnerships

38 Training & Education Training is now much more than teaching a worker how to operate a machine

39 Training & Education Mass customization Lean manufacturing & productivity Community support branding, certification, local jobs, sustainable forestry Value-added-products and marketing Lifetime skills development worker through mgt. Strategic alliances industry, gov t, communities, NGO s Creativity & innovation = the future Education + raw material + creativity + people + skills + capital + government policies +???? = potential success.

40 WERC Roles including biomass Technical assistance wood processing & biomass Facilitator roles Information clearinghouse / web-site Leadership on cutting edge and current issues in wood utilization & marketing invasives, urban, green, jobs, etc. Industry re-shoring new opportunities & workforce needs woodworking Career Alliance Hardwood check-off program Local/regional economic development Integrated program efforts across landscapes.

41 WERC - Looking Ahead Continue 35 state hardwood industry focus Focus on hardwood industry sustainability Enhanced woody biomass utilization role Wood Energy Assistance Program Economic dev. efforts (local / regional / 35 states) Workshops & webinars on site & other locations Partnerships internal & external Competitive Grants Program?

42 For more information contact: Steve Milauskas, Director