Wood Residuals

Wood residuals are a by-product of a number of industries that utilize wood, from logging to sawmills to secondary producers of wood products. These may be "in forest" - remains after logging or clearing, or industrial residuals - byproduct from mills or other wood producers such as flooring, furniture, etc. MIFBI recognizes the challenges of managing wood residuals and appeciates all beneficial outlets, encouraging the producers to utilize the optimal outlet that meets their respective needs.

In alignment with our mission, MIFBI focuses our work with academia, industry, government, and non-governmernal organizations internationally to catalyze the development and commercialization of technologies and products that capitalize on the long-term carbon storage capacity of wood.

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Past Events:

• Green Gold: Wood Residuals Summit 2025

• Wood Residuals Roundtable at the Michigan Society of American Foresters Meeting (Marquette, MI, October 2024)
• Wood Residual Use in Long-Lived Products to Enhance C Storage (Helsinki, Finland, May 2023)
• Lignin Production & Application: Expanding Transnational Collaboration (virtual, March 2023) 
• Fostering Wood Recycling in Michigan Workshop (2018)

A team of Michigan-based stakeholders meets to identify and facilitate opportunties for short-term solutions to the wood residuals challenge.  This group addresses in-woods as well as mill residuals.  If interested in joining the working group, please contact institute@mifbi.org. 

Also, the next Wood Residuals Summit is in the early planning stages for 2027. We are working on securing a venue - this time on the west side of the state - and we expect to announce a date shortly.

Upcoming Project:

In collaboration with colleagues across Michigan and the Lakes Region, we look forward to building a consortium to accelerate product and market development for wood residuals. Intended to be structured as a cross-sector membership organization focused on our shared priorities, we are working to launch SOURCE (“Strategic Optimization of Underutilized Resources for Circular Economy”).

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