Small Firewood & Sawmill Business Workshop

The focus of this workshop is to assist small business owners find profitability and business success operating small firewood and sawmill businesses.

Firewood Processing and Small Sawmill Operations Are a Growing Segment of the US Forest Products Industry. The workshop is a one day educational
and networking event to provide the industry the latest knowledge on processing, kiln drying and marketing of firewood and lumber.

Topics Include:

•  Selling and marketing
•  Finding buyers
•  Purchasing requirements of buyers
•          Managing a firewood processing and sawmill business
•  Sourcing affordable logs
•  Equipment for sawing and splitting
•  Heating options for kilns
•  Firewood quarantines
•  Dry kiln equipment and methods
•  Other related products
•  Selling green and kiln dried split wood
•  Sawmill equipment
•  Urban logs as sources of log

For more information, see http://outreach.cnr.ncsu.edu/ncwood