Transforming our economy with renewable resources

Transforming our economy with renewable resources

Friday 12 Jul 2024

The demand for converting forestry fibre to renewable resources to replace fossil fuel based products is growing every year.

A popular industry conference – Residues2Revenues brings users together with technology developers and leaders in championing change for renewable products and energy sources from the forest and wood products sectors.

The rapid development of new carbon neutral energy options, improved to reduce emissions to decarbonize our wider New Zealand economy all have been major drivers to the change and rapid adoption we’re now seeing. Fonterra and other major energy users have already moved to use more wood energy.

The very latest technologies and results from up and down the country will be showcased in Rotorua, New Zealand on 30-31 July 2024.

One keynote speaker championing change throughout New Zealand is Sir Ian Taylor. He has worked closely with the NZ Product Accelerator on using forestry renewables to help move our economy onto a more sustainable footing.

Sir Ian Taylor is a polished and entertaining speaker. He is also involved in some major national initiatives. One of them is a Mātauranga programme for school students around the country – showing them that a better future for them is almost certainly going to be based around applying new technology. One of the keys to achieving the establishment of a new multi-billion dollar Industry for bio-materials from wood is getting the talent to run it all. Sir Ian has a vision for bringing the talent of young New Zealanders together with renewable forest resources to bring positive change to our economy.

Who else is speaking at Residues2Revenues 2024?

Steve Wilson, Chairman, New Zealand Product Accelerator on the Potential Value of bioproducts from New Zealand forests.
Mark Pettit, Mitsui Bussan Woodchips Oceania on the Clean Fuel Revolutionaries pursuing our Plantation Biomass Resource.
Jacob Kohn, Futurity Bio-Ventures on pioneering New Zealand’s first advanced biorefinery to turn wood by-products into high value chemicals.
Oliver Foster, CarbonScape on biographite for localised battery supply chains from the ground up
Sam Gordon, Sustainability Manager, Air New Zealand on Accelerating sustainable aviation fuels and the role of woody biomass.

THE WIDE (Wood Industry & Education Trust) supports development and education in the forestry and wood sectors, through scholarships and grants. They kindly sponsor a few places to each of our events - although they're generally sought after and snapped up on a first-come / first-served basis.

We’d be delighted to offer these to any of your colleagues, interested in attending this event - on a first-come, first-served basis (by contacting FIEA directly) - as long as they fit the following criteria:

Under the age of 35
Have not yet registered for Residues2Revenues 2024
Have not previously received a complimentary WIDE Trust place to any past FIEA / Innovatek events.

For the full conference programme & special rates, see website details at www.woodresidues.events.

Source: FIEA

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