International Timberlands and Alternative Real Estate Asset Investment Conference

London, UK
7 to 8 October 2014

DANA 2- day International Timberlands and Alternative Real Estate Asset Investment conference, preceded by a pre-conference field trip on 6 October. The conference will be DANA's second in London after a highly successful inaugural conference in October 2013.

Presentations will cover timberland investing from both investors and fund managers viewpoints, with regional presentations on opportunities in UK, Western and Eastern Europe, North, Central and Latin America, Australia and New Zealand Africa and Africa and Asia. A series of panels will provide information on alternative real estate asset investments such as agriculture, commercial and residential real estate, hotels etc.

A pre- conference field trip on Sunday October 5 and Monday 6 October has been organised: On Sunday to visit commercial plantation forestry operations on the estate of the Duke Of Buccleugh; and on Monday to the major new biomass energy generation plant owned by E.oN, and to UK's largest sawmill owned by James Jones at Lockerbie in southern Scotland. However, places will be limited, so those wanting to register their interest in this field trip should notify Pamela Richards as soon as possible.

Appita 2014 Fibre Value Chain Conference and Expo

Rotorua, New Zealand
15 to 17 October 2014

Appita 2014 Fibre Value Chain Conference and Expo is being co-located with both the Advanced Biofuels Research Network (ABRN) Symposium, and the Bioenergy Association of New Zealand (BANZ) Conference.

7th International Wood Fibre Trade Conference

Santiago, Chile
3 to 4 November 2014

DANA - WRI - Pike and Co joint International Wood Fibre Trade Conference and a 2 1/2- day field trip on 5 - 7 November. This will be the 7th in a series of highly successful conferences around the world on international wood fibre (woodchips and wood pellet) trade and associated topics such as global wood pulp demand trends and shipping issues. The field trip next year is shaping up to be the best one ever organised; with a day at Arauco's huge log merchandising, plywood, sawmill, pulp, and biomass energy complex at Nueva Aldea; a one day visit to a variety of CMPCs radiata pine, Eucalyptus globulus and Eucalyptus nitens plantations and its huge tree nursery-tree improvement centre (the largest in Latin America); and then visits to woodchip export ports.

Forest Products and Timberland Investment Conference

New York, USA
11 to 12 February 2014

This event will be a two day conference organised jointly by DANA & Boston USA based RISI. The first day will feature a CEO from a major North American forest products producer, followed by each of the RISI economists discussing the outlook in North America for the particular product they follow (housing, lumber, wood panels, biomass, pulp, paper, packaging, etc.).

Comments form participants:

"Thanks for your note and it was my pleasure to present at the conference. A number of people followed up with me after the presentation, so I think it was some good exposure for us" - Major North American Fund Manager. 

"I think the conference kept a very high quality. I was impressed with the across the board crisp presentations from the first day. Things that I valued as well was the active use of moderators, making sessions a bit interactive, introducing the speakers, and managing overall time keeping. I also think the time for networking breaks were reasonable!" - Major European Timberland Fund Manager/Investor Adviser. 

"Bob: Great job organizing and executing the conference with Dennis!" - Major North American Timberland Fund Manager. 

"I enjoyed the conference ....... and I had a good opportunity to do some networking and learned some interesting things as well. A tip of the hat to you and Dennis in pulling off a successful conference; it was head and shoulders better than some [other meetings]." - Major Timberland Fund Manager.

"I was glad to be there and enjoyed the time with the group. .... I also think your conference was a success...." - Major Timberland Fund Manager.

DANA Australian Forest Industry Sector Conference

Melbourne, Australia
7 to 8 August 2014

DANA 2- day Australian plantation forest and wood products trading follows the successful 2013 event, and will have presentations on the state of the Australian tree plantation industry and its trading environment, log production and exports, SW and HW woodchip export trends to major markets and the future outlook; the sawn timber industry production and direction (including import competition), the potential for wood panel expansion, the domestic pulp and paper sectors and global pulp demand outlook, wood pellet potential; and more. A number of high profile international speakers will attend.

DANA New Zealand Forest Industry Sector Conference

Rotorua, New Zealand
11 to 12 August 2014

DANA 2 day New Zealand forest industry sector conference with field trip. This event follows on immediately after the related Melbourne Australia event, and will have presentations on the state of the New Zealand tree plantation industry and New Zealand's place in the global demand for institutional forest investment and why, its trading environment (and new interest from Chinese investors), and the direction of world's largest softwood sawlog export industry (and growing), the state of the somewhat troubled sawmilling industry and initiatives to improve it, Australia as an existing and future sawn timber market for New Zealand, the state of the wood panel industry and potential for expansion, pulp and paper sectors, wood pellet potential, cannon forestry and more.

Several high profile international speakers will attend. Regional economic development agencies will present cases as to why wood processors should consider investment in their region; and political Party forestry spokespeople will give their take on the sector, and how they intend managing it post- the (probably early) 2014 NZ General Election.

International Timberlands and Agriland Investment Conference

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
25 to 26 August 2014

DANA 2- day International Timberlands investment conference followed by a 1- day field trip to Curitiba on 27 August. The focus will be on Brazil, (especially) but also on other Latin and Central American country opportunities for native and plantation forestry investment. Almost all topics and speakers now confirmed, as are details of the field trip: to Arauco's plantation forest operations and also to the Berneke sawmill. Very strong interest received recently from a number of potential presenters / and sponsors means that DANA is looking to extend the conference time until the very end of Day 2.

DANA Myanmar Conference and Field Trip

Myanmar, Asia
17 November 2014

DEFERRED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Please kindly note that this one day conference and two day field trip in mid-November will need to be deferred due to organizational reasons. DANA will, later in 2014 or in 2015, determine after consultation with Myanmar authorities the best time to hold this meeting. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.

DANA 1- day timberland and wood products investment conference in Yangon, Myanmar Monday 17 November, with a two day field trip on 18 and 19 November to visit forestry sites, mills, harvesting, and sawn timber export operations. Myanmar is super-rapidly emerging from many decades of political and commercial obscurity. Strategically located between the super powers of China and India, it is ideally located to produce food or wood fibre for domestic use or to export to its neighbours. There are now regular announcements about foreign direct investment expansion, including into wood products. By November, the impact of the April 2014 ban on log exports from Myanmar (the home of, and the largest exporter globally, of teak) will have been identified. Several foreign owners have recently been given licences to build wood processing facilities in Myanmar; and we expect major areas of land suitable for tree plantation projects to open up shortly for commercial plantation investment.

DANA Kiev, Ukraine Conference and Field Trip

Kiev, Ukraine
17 to 19 March 2014

DEFERRED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Unfortunately due to the present unfolding situation in Kiev and now elsewhere in Ukraine is not conducive to holding this event within the next few months. We will announce new dates in due course.

DANA 1- day timberland, agriland and wood products investment conference in Kiev, Ukraine on Monday 17 March, with two, one day field trip on 18 and 19 March to visit forest and agri sites, mills, harvesting, log, and biomass export operations.