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LUMBER PROCESSING NEWS
JoeScan appoints Vice President of Engineering
JoeScan, Inc., a market leader in
3-D laser scanning technology,
has announced the appointment
of Jason Farmer as vice president
of engineering. In his new role,
Farmer will manage engineering,
oversee product development and
contribute to strategic direction.
“The market for JoeScan’s
products is strong,” says Joey
Nelson, president and founder
of JoeScan. “The company has
grown considerably over the past
few years. Jason brings a wealth
of engineering and management
experience to our team that will
help accelerate JoeScan’s growth.”
Farmer started his career at
Aculight (now Lockheed Martin
Aculight), where he led numerous
technology development programs
in solid state lasers and nonlinear
optics. The success of these
programs led him to cofound a
spin-out company, nLight, with
colleagues from Aculight. At
nLight, Farmer held a series of
technical and management roles
in R&D, product development and
business unit management. He
was instrumental in helping the
company raise venture capital from
leading firms and growing the
company to over 400 employees.
“JoeScan has a great core
technology and a strong team,”
says Farmer. “I am excited to
work with them to enhance and
accelerate JoeScan’s product
roadmap.”
Farmer received his B.S. in
Physics from the UCSB and his
M.S. in Astrophysical, Planetary
and Atmospheric Sciences from
the CU B oulder. He has co-chaired
technical conferences, been a
principal investigator on numerous
government programs, authored
Jason Farmer
technical papers and is an inventor
on over 20 patents.
Confor organizes forestry and timber conference
Stuart Goodall,
Confor CEO
The opportunity for Scottish
forestry to provide more low-
carbon housing is the central
theme for the latest in Confor’s
popular policy conferences in
Scotland.
Forestry in Scotland: From
Trees to Timber Homes will include
a range of businesses, industry
experts and a keynote address
from Cabinet Secretary for Rural
Economy, Fergus Ewing, as well as
a political panel.
The conference, to be held at
the Royal Society of Edinburgh
in George Street, on Wednesday
September 27, is sponsored by
Wood for Good.
Christiane Lellig, Campaign
Director of Wood for Good, will lead
the second session of the event,
which focuses on the practical
opportunities of building with
Scottish timber. Neil Sutherland
of Makar Homes will also speak
during this session.
This will be preceded by a
session setting the context for the
event, with Fergus Ewing followed
by speakers including Confor
CEO Stuart Goodall and Robert
Hairstans of Edinburgh Napier
University.
The event will end with a
political panel, with confirmed
participants already including Peter
Chapman MSP (Conservative),
Rhoda Grant MSP (Labour) and
Mike Rumbles MSP (Lib Dem).
Stuart Goodall, Confor CEO,
said: “Scotland has an ambition
to use more wood in buildings
and to expand its forestry sector.
This conference pulls those
strands together, exploring how
we can lock up carbon and create
attractive, high quality buildings
all at a time when governments are
thinking about the future of rural
areas, post-Brexit”
Heinola to supply new
chamber kilns to Moelven
Notnäs AB in Sweden
This kiln order is already the
second from Moelven to Heinola
within one year. These six new
chamber kilns type HCH from
Heinola Sawmill Machinery Inc.
have annual capacity of ca. 40,000
cubic metres.
The drying kilns can be used for
drying of pine and spruce timber
with thicknesses of 32–75 mm
from sawn green timber to the final
moisture of 8–18%.
The new chamber kilns will be
taken into production in the first
half of year 2018.
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