Twenty–seventh Annual

North American Forest Products Conference

October 3 – 5, 2012 | The Park Plaza, Boston, MA USA

2009 Program

Monday September 14, 2009

  • 6:00 - 7:30 PM

    Pre-registration and Welcome Reception

Tuesday September 15, 2009

  • 7:30 - 8:30 AM

    Registration

SESSION I

Chairperson:
Will Mies, Editorial Director, North American News, PPI Pulp & Paper Week, RISI

  • 8:30 - 8:35 AM

    Welcoming Remarks

    Conference Chair:
    Will Mies, Editorial Director, North American News, PPI Pulp & Paper Week, RISI

  • 8:35 - 8:45 AM

    Presentation to the North American CEO of the Year Award to Doyle R. Simons, Chairmand and Chief Executive Officer, Temple-Inland, Inc.

    Presented by:
    Will Mies, Editorial Director, North American News, PPI Pulp & Paper Week, RISI

  • 8:45 - 9:05 AM

    Keynote Speech

    Doyle R. Simons, Chairmand and Chief Executive Officer, Temple-Inland, Inc.

  • 9:05 - 9:15 AM

    Keynote Questions & Answers

    Doyle R. Simons, Chairmand and Chief Executive Officer, Temple-Inland, Inc.

  • 9:15 - 9:45 AM

    The Economic Meltdown: One Year Later. What needs to happen to make the forest products industry stroner?

    Mark Connelly, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst, Sterne Agee

  • 9:45 - 10:10 AM

    Role of China: Is a recovery starting and will it be sustainable

    David Hesketh, Managing Director, CellMark Asia Pte. Ltd., Singapore

  • 10:10 - 10:20 AM

    Questions & Answers

  • 10:20 - 10:45 AM

    Coffee Break

  • 10:45 - 11:10 AM

    Wood Products and Housing: Have we hit bottom and when will Recovery Begin?

    Lynn Michaelis, President, Strategic Economic Anaylsis

  • 11:10 - 11:35 AM

    Electronic Media and Newspapers: How to work best together

    Bo Sacks, President, Precision Media Group

  • 11:35 AM - 12:00 PM

    Packaging Dynamics and the Trend to Lighter Weight Grades

    Sarilee Norton, President, Norton Associates

  • 12:00 - 12:10 PM

    Questions & Answers

  • 12:10 - 1:45 PM

    Networking Lunch

SESSION II: Cost Competitiveness and Alternative Energy Solutions

Chairperson:
Drew Miller, Senior News Editor, PPI Pulp & Paper Week, RISI

  • 1:45 - 2:10 PM

    Global Competitiveness: Virgin vs. Recycled Fiber

    Mike Jones, Director, Cost Benchmarking (Packaging and Tissue), RISI

  • 2:10 - 2:35 PM

    The Wood Biomass Industry: A Strengthening Cross-current in North America's Woodbaskets

    William R. Perritt, Executive Editor, Wood Biomass Market Report, RISI

  • 2:35 - 2:40 PM

    Questions & Answers

  • 2:40 - 3:40 PM

    Panel Discussion - Green Energy Subsidies: The Good and the Bad

    Moderator: Rod Young, Chairman, RISI
    Panelists:
    Mark Suwyn, Executive Chairman, NewPage
    Mark Wilde, Managing Direcotr, Deutshe Bank
    Avrim Lazar, President and CEO, Forest Products Association of Canada

  • 3:40 - 4:10 PM

    Coffee Break

  • 4:10 - 5:30 PM

    CEO/Executive Panel

    Moderator: Geogre Staphos, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch
    Panelists:
    Mark Suwyn, Executive Chairman, NewPage
    Steve Klinger, President, Smurfit-Stone Container
    Randy Nebel, President, Longview Fibre Paper & Packaging
    Gordon Jones, President and CEO, Clearwater Paper

  • 6:00 - 8:00 PM

    Cocktail Reception

Wednesday September 16, 2010

  • 7:30 - 8:30 AM

    Registration

RISI Market Outlook, 2010 - 2011
Session III: Macroeconomics and Timber

  • 8:30 - 9:20 AM

    Macroeconomic Outlook

    Scott Howard, Senior Economist, Macroeconomics, RISI

  • 9:20 - 9:50 AM

    North American Timber

    Peter Barynin, Principal Timber Economist, RISI

  • 9:50 - 10:25 AM

    International Timber

    Bob Flynn, Director, International Timber, RISI

  • 10:25 - 10:30 AM

    Questions & Answers

  • 10:30 - 10:55 AM

    Coffee Break

RISI Market Outlook, 2010 - 2011
Session IV: Wood Products

  • 10:55 - 11:25 AM

    End-user Markets

    Bob Berg, Principal Economist, Lumber Forecasting Service, RISI

  • 11:25 - 11:50 AM

    North American Lumber

    Bob Berg, Principal Economist, Lumber Forecasting Service, RISI

  • 11:50 AM - 12:15 PM

    North American Nonstructural Panels

    Bernard Fuller, Principal Economist, Wood Panels Forecasting Service, RISI

  • 12:15 - 12:40 PM

    North American Structural Panels

    Bernard Fuller, Principal Economist, Wood Panels Forecasting Service, RISI

  • 12:40 - 12:50 PM

    Questions & Answers

  • 12:50 - 2:15 PM

    Networking Lunch

  • 12:50 - 2:15 PM

    Lunch Breakout Session:
    How Current Markets Condition are Impacting a Mill's Cost Structure

    Presented by:
    Surya Raina, Vice President of Mill Intelligence, RISI
    Mike Jones, Director, Cost Benchmarking, (Packaging and Tissue), RISI

  • 2:15 - 3:00 PM

    North American Engineered Wood Products

    Bernard Fuller, Principal Economist, Wood Panels Forecasting Service, RISI

  • 3:00 - 3:25 PM

    Wood Products Benchmarking

    Jesse Neese, Senior Product Manager, Wood Products Benchmarking, RISI

  • 3:25 - 3:45 PM

    Questions & Answers

RISI Market Outlook, 2010 - 2011
Session V: Pulp & Paper

Chairperson: Kurt Schaefer, Vice President, Fiber, RISI

  • 10:55 - 11:35 PM

    Market Pulp

    Kurt Schaefer, Vice President, Fiber, RISI

  • 11:35 AM - 12:15 PM

    Recovered Paper

    Rod Young, Chairman, RISI

  • 12:15 - 12:40 PM

    Tissue Market

    Esko Uutela, Principal, Tissue, RISI

  • 12:40 - 12:50 PM

    Questions & Answers

  • 12:50 - 2:15 PM

    Networking Lunch

  • 12:50 - 2:15 PM

    Lunch Breakout Session:
    How Current Markets Condition are Impacting a Mill's Cost Structure

    Presented by:
    Surya Raina, Vice President of Mill Intelligence, RISI
    Mike Jones, Director, Cost Benchmarking, (Packaging and Tissue), RISI

  • 2:15 - 3:00 PM

    World Packaging

    Ken Waghorne, Vice President, North American Packaging, RISI

  • 3:00 - 3:25 PM

    Asia Graphic Paper Exports

    Sandy Lu, Economist, RISI

  • 3:25 - 3:50 PM

    World Newsprint

    Derek Mahlberg, Economist, Graphic Papers, RISI

  • 3:50 - 4:40 PM

    World Printing and Writing

    John Maine, Vice President, Graphic Papers, RISI

  • 4:40 - 4:50 PM

    Questions & Answers

  • 4:50 PM

    Close of Conference