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Mass Timber Conference 2023 celebrates reconnection

 Monday, April 10, 2023

It’s officially a wrap on the 2023 International Mass Timber Conference. What a blast the industry had, celebrating an epic scale that could be a dream of way back in 2015 when it all started conceptualizing the conference. When the final bell rung last wednesday the show had hosted over 3,000 attendees and guests with a record check-in rate.

The industry could be once again a part of the energy next year by joining from March 26–28, 2024, in Portland, Oregon.

The Mass Timber Conference attracted professionals from across the forest, manufacturing, design, development, and construction industries. The International Mass Timber Conference is the largest gathering of mass timber experts in the world, focusing on the entire industry supply chain. This is the 7th annual event in Portland, Oregon, USA.

Participants explored cross-laminated timber (CLT), nail-laminated timber, glulam, mass plywood panels, dowel-laminated timber, and laminated veneer lumber; and the opportunities and obstacles in global design, construction, development, manufacturing, and more.

The mass timber panel industry, most prominently exemplified by cross-laminated timber (CLT), is a new phenomenon. It integrates elements of mass timber design, manufacturing technologies, and construction and has not followed typical commodity-oriented forest products industry models. In fact, it would be difficult to point to an adequate precedent. Organic development of the global mass timber industry over the last 25 years has produced substantial diversity in manufacturing processes, levels of automation, scales of operation, and products and services options, as well as in market strategies and modes of interaction with its extensive supply chain. Existing global mass timber operations offer a living laboratory that provides an understanding of both the current state of the industry and its trajectory and future development. Especially important are insights in how newly emerging markets may develop.

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