ForestWorks! Wood Innovators Conference a Success

Biobased Maine participated in the Wood Innovators Conference in Hiram, Maine this part Saturday October 22. The conference, organized by ForestWorks!, included a panel on advanced biobased products made from wood fiber. Biobased Maine’s Executive Director, Charlotte Mace, spoke on the panel, which was moderated by Dana Doran, Executive Director of the Professional Logging Contractors of Maine. Other panelists included Phil Pastore, of GlobEco Maine, who exhibited the DuraFresh Cloths made from wood fiber, Nadir Yildirim of Revolution Research who exhibited the Arbolate eco-friendly foam board insulation made from wood fiber, and Mehdi Tajvidi, a researcher at the University of Maine who has made an innovative particle board using Maine wood fiber and nanocellulose that is FREE of urea formaldehyde. See photos of the event here. Read Portland Press Herald coverage of the event here.

Photo credits: Sam Dolgin-Gardner