Growth through Public/Private Partnership

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1 Growth through Public/Private Partnership Donna Cassese, SAPPI North America Overview of FOR Maine Jake Ward, University of Maine Growth By Leveraging Resources: How We Can Help You Peggy Daigle, Town of East Millinocket Growth Through Collaboration: How You Can Help Us April 5, 2018

2 FOR Maine (Forest Opportunity Roadmap) Strong Roots. Strong Growth. Strong Economy - How did we get started? - What are our goals? - What is our timeline?

3 Goal 1. Sustain Maine s existing forest products businesses Goal 2. Attract capital investments and develop greater economic prosperity in the forest products sector across the State for both existing and new businesses Goal 3. Support the revitalization of Maine s rural communities as places where people want to live, work and visit

4 Forest Industry and Community Priorities Industry Roadmap Global Market Analysis Emerging Technologies Wood Availability Workforce Mill Site Redevelopment Economic Development Transportation Wood Energy Stakeholder Analysis Goals and Strategies Implementation Plan Marketing Plan

5 Global Market Analysis and Benchmarking Hired Indufor, global market consultant: identify potential markets that best match Maine s forest and other resources with a focus on the utilization of softwood fiber and biomass quality chips. identify Maine s competitive advantages/disadvantages in the most promising markets

6 Phase I: Market analysis of long list of products 1 Sawn (structural) including: Laminated Timber Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) 2 Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) 3 Oriented Strand Lumber(OSL/OSB) 4 Medium Density Fiberboard (MDF) 5 White Pellets 6 Wood Plastic Composites (WPC) 7 Bio Plastic Composites (BPC) 8 Bio Char 9 Activated Carbon 10 Dissolving Pulp 11 Nano Cellulose 12 Polylactic Acid (PLA) 13 Lactic Acid and Succinic Acid 14 Furfurals incl HMF and FDCA 15 Levulinic acid 16 Lignin 17 Bio Crude / Pyrolysis Oil 18 Lignocellulosic Ethanol 19 Lignocellulosic Biobutanol incl Jet Fuel 20 Xylitol 6

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8 Timeline for Deliverables Wood fiber availability Phase 1 (February 2018) Phase 2 (2019) Transportation survey (December 2017) Wood energy report (March 2018) Global market analysis Long list of possible products (March 2018) Market analysis (April 2018) Benchmarking (June 2018) Emerging technologies vetting consultant (March 2018) Stakeholder analysis (April 2018) Preliminary roadmap report (September 2018)

9 Emerging Technologies Fit-to-Place In collaboration with Maine Technology Institute, developing an approach to assist with funding real-time due diligence and vetting of emerging technologies and opportunities for the industry and communities.

10 Emerging Technologies Outreach, Engagement, Attraction FOR Maine Delegation Conferences and site visits: Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference (ABLC) 2018 (February 28 March 2, Washington DC) World Bio Markets 18 (March 20-22, Amsterdam) BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology 18 (July 16 July 19, Philadelphia) Site visits to potential companies

11 Nanocellulose Pilot Plant at Process Development Center World-Class R&D Capabilities at

12 PEOPLE & FACILITIES > 35+ Faculty (CE, CH, ChBE, SBE, SFR, SOE, WFCB). > 100+ Research staff, technicians, engineers, graduate students, and scientists associated with nine nonacademic units/research programs (AMC, ASCC, CFRU, CRSF, FBRI, MCSPC, MS, PDC, PSSP). Extensive facilities (> 100,000 ft2 of laboratory space - including pilot scale facilities).

13 R&D SUPPORTING MAINE S FOREST ECONOMY THE FOREST RESOURCE PRODUCTS & PROCESSING ECONOMICS, MARKETS & SUSTAINABILITY TALENT WORKFORCE REAL WORLD EXPERIENCE FUNDED RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT & COMMERCIALIZATION USDA, USFS, NSF, DOE, DOD, EDA TECHNOLOGY PORTFOLIO, IP, LICENSING INDUSTRIAL CONTRACT RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TESTING, PROTOTYPING TALENT AND FACILITIES TO SUPPORT PROBLEM SOLVING PULP, PAPER, PACKAGING NANOCELLULOSE PRODUCTION & APPLICATIONS LUMBER & WOOD COMPOSITES BIOENERGY BIOFUELS BIOCHEMICALS WOOD SUGARS BIO-POLYMERS

14 Research Unit Organization Contact Information Advanced Manufacturing Center - John Belding, Director (john.belding@maine.edu) Advanced Structures & Composites Center - Habib Dagher, Director (hd@maine.edu) Cooperative Forest Research Unit - Brian Roth, Associate Director (brian.roth@maine.edu) Center for Research on Sustainable Forestry Aaron Weiskittel, Acting Director, aaron.weiskittel@maine.edu Forest Bioproducts Research Institute - Hemant Pendse, Director (hpendse@maine.edu) Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center - Jonathan Rubin, Director (jrubin@maine.edu) Mitchell Center - David Hart, Director (david.hart@maine.edu) Process Development Center Pros Bennet, Associate Director, pbennet@maine.edu Paper Surface Science Program - Doug Bousfield, Director (dbousfld@maine.edu)

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17 Industrial Towns 6 Communities in Maine with closed paper mills First time in over 100 years that a paper mill is not operating on the Penobscot River. What s happened? Lost Industrial Jobs, out migration of workforce. Out migration of families lost school enrollment and vacant homes. Drastic Mill Rate increases along with drastic service and municipal budget cuts. Some towns have struggled against declaration of bankruptcy. Trying to right size the community for the future.

18 What Lies Ahead? The mill site poses a problem and an opportunity to the Town. It s a historical industrial site with environmental issues, but is potentially the best site for industrial redevelopment or additional development for all mills, closed and operating.

19 The Town can be a helpful partner. Grants and assistance that lies in the municipal wheelhouse. To understand the market plan of the existing owner and to help with infrastructure improvements to assist and encourage development. In working with the FOR Maine and learning about the possible new opportunities, Towns will want to participate with this growth.

20 Public Private Partnership Communicate with your Town. Build a relationship with the Manager & Council/Board Trust that your goals will be the goals of the Town. It s a two-way street.