SWST Newsletter June 2008.pdf - Society of Wood Science and ...

CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED ENGINEEREDWOOD & HYBRID COMPOSITESThe 4th International Conference on Advanced Engineered Wood & Hybrid Composites, July 6-10, 2008, in Bar Harbor, Maine, offers a comprehensive program covering major fields ofadvanced engineered wood & hybrids composites against the backdrop of one of the world'spremier summer resorts.In addition to sessions on adhesion and panels, composites for defense and homeland security,marine composites, modeling, wood and natural fiber plastic composites, and structural woodcomposites, a special half-day workshop is being offered in partnership with the Wood-BasedComposites Center. This workshop - Trends in Green Building: Composite Materials - includespresentations on: the role of life cycle assessment in sustainable construction, trends in the greenbuilding movement, implications of green building on engineered wood, and the social footprintof current wood adhesive technologies.Conference chairs are Doug Gardner, Professor of Wood Science and Technology, and HabibDagher, Director, The AEWC Center. Keynote speakers are Tom Williamson of APA - TheEngineered Wood Association and Josef Eberhardsteiner of the Institute for Mechanics ofMaterials and Structures, Vienna. The conference will also feature a business lunch with a talk"The State of the Composites Industry" by John Busel, Director of the Composites GrowthInitiative, American Composites Manufacturers Association.For more information about the conference or to register, go tohttp://www.aewc.umaine.edu/conference/BIOCOMPATIBLE ADHESION TECHNOLOGIESOur client, a global medical device company, invites proposals for technologies or methods thatwill facilitate the adhesion of a known adhesive to wet cortical bone surfaces, and/or noveladhesion technologies. NineSigma has identified you as a party with the potential to respond tothis request, or as a contact who might know of someone with expertise in this area.This invitation is not a complete description of the project. More information is available in theRequest for Proposal (RFP) document online at http://www.ninesigma.com/mx/50734-1. Allresponders MUST use the required Response Template to submit Proposal Abstracts by the finalsubmission date of June 20, 2008.If after reviewing the full RFP document you are interested in submitting a proposal or wouldlike more information, please contact me by email and reference RFP# 50734-1 in the subjectline.