National Hardwood Magazine - June 2023

WHO’S WHO IN HARDWOOD

WHO’S WHO IN HARDWOOD PURCHASING ATTENTION: HARDWOOD PURCHASING AGENTS Do you purchase a minimum of 100,000 board feet of No. 1 Common and Better domestic Hardwoods annually for an enduser? If so, National Hardwood Magazine would like to feature you - FREE - in our Who’s Who in Hardwood Purchasing! Our news item will highlight your career and feature pertinent information about your company’s products and services. For more information email our Who’s Who Coordinator at whoswho@millerwoodtradepub.com. AHEC Continued from page 16 learn about the latest market developments. In 2023 we will host our first Greater China Convention since the COVID pandemic in Chengdu, an American Hardwood trade symposium with the UK and European Timber Trade Federations and are planning to co-host a Mexico Convention in partnership with IMEXFOR in the fall. Participation in these events are free of charge for AHEC members. •Trade Leads: AHEC distributes trade leads to all AHEC members. These trade leads are received through AHEC overseas offices from potential buyers at trade shows, conventions, networking, and trade missions. •AHEC U.S. Hardwood Exporter Brochure: This publication lists all AHEC members, including complete contact information as well as information on species and product lines. Approximately 20,000 brochures are distributed annually in response to inquiries received by the AHEC overseas offices, and at trade shows, seminars, and other AHEC activities abroad. •Market Intelligence/Statistical Reports: Every month, AHEC members receive market reports from AHEC overseas directors. Reports are based on the directors’ 100+ trade servicing visits with timber traders, manufacturers, architects and designers around the world, and provide cutting edge information on current market conditions and future opportunities, feedback from importers and end-users, and updates on the latest regional Hardwood events. AHEC also provides to U.S. Hardwood export statistics which are available by country and species, as well as access to import data from several of our major trading partners, which will allow your sales staff to not only track U.S. exports, but also keep track on what our competitors are exporting to major markets and what the U.S. is importing. •Online AHEC membership database: Complete contact and product line information for all AHEC members are catalogued in an online database, through which potential buyers can search for suppliers by region, species or product. The database is accessible via AHEC overseas websites that target foreign buyers and specifers. •Seminars: AHEC sponsors more than 30 seminars in 10-15 different countries per year. Offering another significant networking opportunity to all AHEC members, the seminars are designed to give overseas importers, specifiers and end users an increased understanding of the U.S. Hardwood resource, as well as technical information on grading, characteristics and applications of the major U.S. Hardwood species. Several of the more active AHEC members schedule their overseas sales trips to correspond with one or more of these events. •AHEC Publications: AHEC publishes a wide variety of publications in multiple languages that are available free of charge to AHEC members and have proven invaluable to sales staff. These publications include US Hardwood Species, Illustrated Guide to US Hardwood Lumber Grades, and US Hardwood Products as well as a range of publications that target architects, designers and specifiers. •High-res Photo Database: AHEC maintains high-resolution photo libraries of U.S. Hardwoods applications from around the world. Members are free to use these photographs in their own press and promotional materials such as websites and sales brochures. •Trade Shows: Every year, AHEC exhibits at more than 20 regional and national trade shows around the world, from events in the Middle East, India, Brazil and Vietnam to more established shows throughout Europe, Korea, Japan, China, and Mexico. AHEC members are always welcome to use the AHEC stand as a base of operations for attending these shows, and AHEC overseas staff can assist members with registration information and accommodations. •U.S. Hardwood Public Relations Campaign: Reaching more than 28 million people in 24 countries, AHEC’s worldwide public relations campaigns target overseas specifiers, consumers, and importers, promoting U.S. Hardwoods and Hardwood products. In a given year, more than 750 AHEC advertisements, press releases and feature articles highlighting the quality, variety and sustainability of the U.S. Hardwood resource are published in newspapers, magazines and trade journals worldwide. Several times per year, AHEC publishes membership lists in major overseas publications that target buyers and end users of Hardwood. AHEC maintains offices in Japan, Europe, Dubai, China, and Mexico, in addition to our Sterling, Virginia headquarters. If you would like additional information on our overseas promotional programs for U.S. Hardwoods, please contact Tripp Pryor at tpryor@ahec.org or by phone at 703/435-2900. Detailed information can also be found on our websites at www.ahec.org and www.americanhardwood.org. n nationalhardwoodmag.com “Quality Hardwood Lumber and Flooring” Quality Hardwood Lumber 24 Million ft. 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