Montreal Welcomes NAWLA Regional Meeting

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The North American Wholesale Lumber Association (NAWLA) recently held a regional meeting in conjunction with the Montreal Wood Convention at the Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. The afternoon regional meeting featured a presentation by a 3-person panel of speakers followed by a Q&A session. The speakers included Bart Bender, of Interfor, Fred Lebel, of Groupe Lebel and Khara Jullilen, of Specialty Building Products. Attendees of the regional meeting enjoyed networking opportunities following the speakers’ presentations.

The next NAWLA regional meeting is scheduled for Aug. 17 at 7 Vines Vineyard in Dellwood, MN.
Learn more at www.nawla.org.

Montreal Welcomes NAWLA Regional Meeting 1
Stèphane Romprè, Technologies Boralife Inc., Quebec City, QC; Marty Simhoni, Alpa Lumber Mills/King City Lumber Mills, King City, ON; Sven Gustavsson, Montrèal Wood Convention, Quebec City, QC; Nicolas Aubert, Jones Transitaire International, Montreal, QC; and Michael Sadler, Alpa Lumber Mills/King City Lumber Mills
Montreal Welcomes NAWLA Regional Meeting 2
Michel Auclair, Stella-Jones Corp., Saint-Laurent, QC; Brian Cohen, Phoenix Forest Products Inc., Toronto, ON; and Bob Seldon, Falcon Lumber Ltd., Toronto, ON
Montreal Welcomes NAWLA Regional Meeting 3
Christophe Garnier, PRODESA, Paris, France; Britton Harper, PRODESA, Cumming, GA; and Stephane Laurin and Sebastien Lefebvre, Wellons Canada, Sainte-Julie, QC
Montreal Welcomes NAWLA Regional Meeting 4
Harp Dhillon, Lumber X Resources Corp., Vancouver, BC; Andy Wood, The Teal-Jones Group, Vancouver, BC; and Harold Sheepwash, Kevin Sheepwash and Corey Sheepwash, Trans Canada Forest Products Inc., Henryville, QC
Montreal Welcomes NAWLA Regional Meeting 5
Kyle Little, Sherwood Lumber Company, Melville, NY; Michael Wisnefski, STX Traders, Chicago, IL; and Denis Cote, Interfor, Montreal, QC
Montreal Welcomes NAWLA Regional Meeting 6
Carlo Cioppi, Interfor, Montreal, QC; Bart Bender, Interfor, Vancouver, BC; and Vincent Bègin-Hètu and Loick Lemay, Interfor, Montreal, QC
Montreal Welcomes NAWLA Regional Meeting 7
Stephen Blackadder and Ian Smith, Falcon Lumber Ltd., Toronto, ON; Terry Drake, Lavern Heideman & Sons Ltd., Eganville, ON; Martin Conroy, Canadian Wood Products, Quebec City, QC; and Karl Seger, Falcon Lumber Ltd.
Montreal Welcomes NAWLA Regional Meeting 8
Mario Ehlers and Olli Mannisto, Ilim Nordic Timber GmbH & Co. KG, Wismar, Germany; and Ilane Slimani, Canadian Wood Products, Montreal, QC
Montreal Welcomes NAWLA Regional Meeting 9
Andrew Dingman, TECHWOOD, Fort Pierce, FL; Pino Pucci, Tolko Marketing & Sales Ltd., Vernon, BC; Graeme Shepherd, Western Integrated Ltd., Burnaby, BC; and Terry Miller, The Softwood Forest Products Buyer, Memphis, TN
Montreal Welcomes NAWLA Regional Meeting 10
Denis Rousseau, FPInnovations, Quebec City, QC; Marc Cloutier and Jessy Ross, JAMEC Inc., Normandin, QC; and Paul O’Dowd, Quebec Forest Industry Council, Quebec City, QC
Montreal Welcomes NAWLA Regional Meeting 11
Denis Rousseau, FPInnovations, Quebec City, QC; Jacques Loubert, BID Group Technologies Ltd., Mirabel, QC; Daniel Larouche, FABMEC Inc., Saguenay, QC; and Mario Tremblay, BID Group Technologies Ltd.
Montreal Welcomes NAWLA Regional Meeting 12
Sam Lewis, Pineridge Paper & Packaging LLC, Miami, FL; Donna Whitaker, Interfor, Peachtree City, GA; and Keilan Sofos, Christopher Sofos and Anthony Sofos, Pineridge Paper & Packaging LLC, Miami, FL
Montreal Welcomes NAWLA Regional Meeting 13
Dominic Beauchamps, Goodfellow Inc., Delson, QC; Mark Sutherland, Richmond Plywood Corporation Ltd., Vancouver, BC; and Steve Lavallèe, Goodfellow Inc., Quebec City, QC
Montreal Welcomes NAWLA Regional Meeting 14
Jerry Fell, Tri-State Forest Products Inc., Fredericksburg, MI; Rob Latham, Tri-State Forest Products Inc., Lawrenceburg, KY; Holden Melia, DMSi Software, Omaha, NE; Jordan Lynch, DMSi Software, Phoenix, AZ; Anthony Muck, DMSi Software, Omaha, NE
Montreal Welcomes NAWLA Regional Meeting 15
Francis Richard, Veronique Petit, Maxim Filion, Albert Renaud, Robert Filion and Joe Hanas, Nordic, Montreal, QC

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