7:30 AM

Breakfast (Included with Registration)

8:30 AM

Welcome and Plenary Sessions

• Mike Burnard | Adhesion and Wood: Insights from a Bibliometric Analysis of Published Literature

• Joseph Jakes & Nayomi Plaza | Using Advanced Tools to Accelerate Wood Adhesive Development

10:00 AM

Break

10:30 AM

Plenary Sessions

• Charles Markessini | Adhesive Systems used in the European, Asian, and African Particleboard, MDF, and OSB Industries

• Manfred Dunky | Challenges of Bio-based Materials from an Industrial Perspective

1:30 PM

Concurrent Sessions

Progress in Established Adhesives I

Moderator: Manfred Dunky

• Paschalis Tsirogiannis | High-Performance Formaldehyde-Based Adhesives: How Was the Progress Achieved?

• Byung-Dae Park | An Old Adhesive, But New Story on Urea-Formaldehyde Resins in Wood Bonding

• Minjeong Kim | Effects of Molecular Weight of Urea-Formaldehyde Resins on Wettability and Adhesion of Wood Surface, Interphase, and Plywood

• Luisa Hora de Carvalho | Impact of Urea-Formaldehyde Synthesis Parameters on Resin and Particleboard Properties

• Simon Aicher | Strength and Duration of Load Behavior of Butt Bonded Spruce Boards

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Novel Resins I

Moderator: Mojgan Nejad

• Konrad Kwiecien | PUFJ and FRPU Innovative Polyurethane Bonding Systems for Wood Envelopes in Nearly Zero Energy Buildings

• Ning Yan | Novel Flame-Retardant Formaldehyde-Free Wood Adhesive Platform Technology Using Vanillin as the Starting Material

• William Chirdon | Wood Adhesives from Algal Proteins

• Charles R. Frihart | Ovalbumin: A Protein With Very Desirable Characteristics of a Wood Adhesives

• Lightning Round: Student Presentations Overview | Come hear students give a one-minute summary of their poster or oral presentation.

3:40 PM

Concurrent Sessions

Progress in Established Adhesives II

Moderator: Byung-Dae Park

• Tunga Salthammer | The Impact of Aldehydes and Organic Acids on Indoor Air Quality

• Ryan A Gray | Rheology and Biopolymer Interactions in Phenolic Resin Formulations-Shear History Effects

• Kyleigh Rhodes | Dynamic Rheology to Quantify Pre-Press Green-Strength (Tack)

• Johannes Konnerth | Influence of Moisture on Mechanical Properties of Flexible Melamine-Urea-Formaldehyde Adhesives for Structural Application

• Seongsu Park | Converting Crystalline of Low-Molar-Ratio Urea-Formaldehyde Resins into Amorphous Ones with Bio-Based Dialdehyde Cellulose

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Novel Resins II

• Hendrikus (Erik) W.G. van Herwijnen | Strategies for Converting Renewable Resources for Implementation n Industrial Composite Board Production

• Wilfried Sailer-Kronlachner | Development of an In-Situ Approach Towards Sustainable, Carbohydrate-Based Adhesives

• Catherine Rosenfield | Effect of Hydroxymethylfurfural on the Cure Speed in Fructose-Based Adhesives for Interior Particleboards

• Charles R. Frihart | Naval Stores an Overlooked Raw Material as a Bio-Based Adhesive

7:00 PM

Dinner On Your Own 

7:30 AM

Breakfast (Included with Registration)

8:30 AM

Welcome and Plenary Sessions

• Lisa Podesto | Mass Timber Opportunities: Through the Eyes of a Developer/General Contractor

• Greeley Beck | Adhesive Systems – For Future Structural and Non-Structural Wood Applications

10:05 AM

Break With Exhibitors

10:35 AM

Concurrent Sessions

Adhesives in Mass Timber Manufacturing I

Moderator: Jinlan Ju

• Lech Muszynski | Global CLT industry in 2021: Binder Selections

• Jinlan Ju | CLT Research and Market Development in China

• Hui Li | Adhesive Cure Kinetics for CLT Manufacturing Part I:
  Employment of DMA and DSC Techniques to Characterize Cure Behavior of 1-Component Polyurethane (1C-PUR) Adhesives

• Jinlan Ju | Adhesive Curing Kinetics for CLT Manufacturing Part II:
  Determination of Process Parameters of 1C-PUR Adhesive for CLT Manufacturing

• Ruben Jerves  | Towards Durable Wood-Strand Composite Mass Timber Panels

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Protein-Based Adhesives

Moderators: Chuck Frihart & Connie Howe

• Charles R. Frihart | Oilseed Protein Adhesives: Aggregation, Flocculation, Cohesion, and Coalescence

• Chris Hunt | Does Denaturation Really Expose Protein Reactive Groups

• Osei Asibe Asafu-Adjaye | Soy Flour Substitution in pMDI Resin for Composite Panel Applications

• Almut Wiltner | Strategies to Use Protein-Based Material from Insects (Hermetia illucens) in Resin Formulations

• Jonathan J. Wilker | Biomimetic and Sustainably Sourced Adhesives for Bonding Wood

1:45 PM

Concurrent Sessions

Adhesives in Mass Timber Manufacturing II

Moderator: Hui Li

• Trine Viljugrein | Adhesive Systems Optimized for Cross Laminated Timber

• John Nairn | Effect of Environmental Stresses on Cracking and Delamination in Cross Laminated Timber and Role of the Adhesives in Those Failure Modes

• Karl-Christian Mahnert | Initial Study on Bonding Performance of Fire-Retardant Spruce Lamellae in Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) Elements

• Simon Aicher | Testing and Classification of High Temperature and Fire Robustness of Structural Wood Adhesives

• Lech Muszynski | Integrity of Melamine Formaldehyde Bonds in Ponderosa Pine Cross-Laminated Timber - Isolating Adhesive Compatibility Effect

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Lignin in Adhesives I

Moderator: Robert Narron

• Charles R. Frihart | Use of Lignin and Tannin in Epoxy Adhesives

• Sandro Stucki | Using Biopolymers to Improve the Moisture Stability of Linear Friction Welded Wood

• Sara Yazdi | Lignin Thermochemistry for Novel Composite Properties

• Milan Sernek | Characterisation of Bio-based Adhesives by an Automated Bonding Evaluation System

• Anti Rohumaa | Eliminating the Sources of Variability in Small Scale Adhesive Bond Testing

Structure and Properties in Adhesive Systems I

Moderator: Joseph Jakes

• Gordian Stapf | New Heat and Fire Resistant 1c PUR Adhesives

• Gustavo Leon | Improve the pMDI Performance in Wood Composite Panel by Using Catalyst in the Adhesive Systems

• Arkadiusz Kwiecien | Rigid and Flexible Polyurethane Adhesives in Aspect of Their Application in Timber Structures - Experimental Tests and Numerical Modeling

• Karl-Christian Mahnert  | Long Time Durability of Adhesive Joints in Glulam Beams After Exposure to Nordic Climate

• Anita Tran | Temperature and Moisture Dependent Rheological Cure Characterization of Wood Adhesive

Lignin in Adhesives II

Moderator: Milan Sernek

• Robert Narron | Technical Lignin Materials in Commercial Resins: A Review of Main Benefits and Technical Challenges

• Heidi Suomela-Uotila | Lignin Based Binders: Heading for Mainstream

• Mojgan Nejad | Lignin-Based, Formaldehyde-Free Wood Adhesives

• Scott Renneckar | Uniform and Functionalized Softwood Kraft Lignin for Adhesive Technologies

• Peter Lingenfelter | Significant Industrial Use of Lignin in Phenolic Resins

6:15 PM

Dinner On Your Own 

7:00 AM

Breakfast (Included with Registration)

8:00 AM

Concurrent Sessions

Structure and Properties of Adhesive Systems II

Moderator: Trine Viljugrein

• Tomas Pipiska | Utilization of the Less Know Wood Species in the Strandboards

• Joseph Marcinko | Characterizing The Molecular Interactions of Latex Wood Adhesives Containing an Engineered Polysaccharide Polymer Additive

• Christopher Hunt | Soy Adhesive Mechanical Properties Driving Wet Product Performance

Adhesive Characterization​

Moderator: Kim Tutin

• Mark Cashman | Carbon Isotope Ratios: Providing Insight Towards Formaldehyde Emission Source

• Mario Beyer | Melamine Quantification in Amino Resins

• Lech Muszynski | An Indirect Method for Detecting Adhesive Performance in CLT Subjected to Fire Performance Tests Based on ASTM E119 Furnace Temperature Signal Analysis

9:20 AM

Break With Exhibitors