Coming Events DEMO and Conference Boast Biomass At both the pre-DEMO conference and the live logging event itself, biomass and biomass equipment will have a key role. By Scott Jamieson Organizers and planning committees for DEMO 2012 met in Quebec City late in Octo-ber to work on details of both the pre-DEMO conference and the live logging event itself. Planning for both events is well underway, and in both cases the emerging biomass sector looms large. pre-demo ConFerenCe The organizing committee met in Que-bec City near the Loews Le Concorde hotel to flesh out the program. Co-sponsored by the Canadian Woodlands Forum and the Canadian Institute of Forestry, with co-operation from the Quebec Order of Forest Engineers, it covers a wide rage of topics in concur-rent sessions over two days, September 18 and 19, 2012. The event features si-multaneous translation with sessions in both official languages. Biomass specific topics include: • Biomass harvesting: Machinery and technology for the harvest-ing, transformation, and hauling of biomass. • Sustainability: The effect of col-lecting biomass residuals on the forest ecosystem. Biomass markets: Existing and emerging markets for today’s products and tomorrow’s inno-vations. • Fibre chain logistics: Industrial case study on best practices for integrating biomass recovery in the forest sector chain. Conference registration will include a pass to the DEMO International 2012 live logging event. Look to Canadian Forest Industries and our new website www.woodbusiness.ca for more details as speakers are finalized. • ABOVE: Logging contractor Foresterie CHB Ltd. is building the landings for DEMO 2012. Here (from left), CHB’s Martin Picard, Solifor Group’s Marc Bergeron and the CWF’s Peter Robichaud watch the finishing touches being put on Tigercat’s landing. NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2011 16 Canadian BIOMASS
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