2024 SPONSORS
Your sponsorship ensures the 2024 SFI Annual Conference delivers important objectives along with dynamic speakers, invaluable networking opportunities, and sessions offering engaging discussions around collaborating for forests and communities.
Thank you to our 2024 Sponsors!
Become a sponsor! Check out our sponsorship opportunities.
DIAMOND SPONSORS
Canfor
Canfor
Canfor is a global leader in the manufacturing of sustainable forest products. We’ve built our reputation on the quality of our products, the reliability of our service and our embrace of innovation. Our company and dedicated employees demonstrate leading environmental practices and a commitment to the communities where we operate. We turn the fibre that enters our mills into lumber, pulp and green energy. Our lumber and pulp products are used every day around the world in innovative ways. We continue to look for new opportunities to be a leader in the supply of environmentally friendly, low-carbon solutions. Learn more: www.canfor.com.
Graphic Packaging International
Graphic Packaging International
Graphic Packaging International, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is committed to providing consumer packaging that makes a world of difference. We are a leading global manufacturer of sustainable, fiber-based packaging solutions for a wide variety food, beverage, foodservice and other consumer products companies. We also hold leading market positions in coated recycled paperboard, coated unbleached kraft paperboard and solid bleached sulfate paperboard. Additional information about Graphic Packaging, our business and our products is available at www.graphicpkg.com.
Weyerhaeuser
Weyerhaeuser
For more than a century, we’ve been growing trees and making forest products that improve lives in fundamental ways. We manage our millions of acres of forests on a continuous and fully sustainable cycle. We are responsible stewards of our land for multiple uses, including recreation, conservation, economic development and different forms of renewable energy. And the wood products we make are used to build homes where families are sheltered and raised.
We’re proud of what we do and how we do it, and we invite you to learn more: weyerhaeuser.com/
PLATINUM SPONSORS
drax
drax
Drax Group is a renewable energy company engaged in renewable power generation, the production of sustainable biomass and the sale of renewable electricity to businesses.
Drax operates a generation portfolio of sustainable biomass, hydro-electric and pumped hydro storage assets across four sites in England and Scotland. It is the UK’s largest source of renewable electricity. The company also operates a global bioenergy supply business with manufacturing facilities at 13 sites in the United States and Canada, producing compressed wood pellets for its own use and for customers in Europe and Asia.
Learn more: drax.com/
Resolute
Resolute
Resolute Forest Products is a global leader in the forest products industry with a diverse range of products, including market pulp, tissue, wood products and papers, which are marketed in over 60 countries. The company owns or operates some 40 facilities, as well as power generation assets, in the United States and Canada. Resolute has third-party certified 100% of its managed woodlands to internationally recognized sustainable forest management standards. Resolute has received regional, North American and global recognition for its leadership in corporate social responsibility and sustainable development, as well as for its business practices. Visit www.resolutefp.com for more information.
GOLD SPONSORS
Georgia Pacific
Georgia Pacific
Georgia Pacific strives to be a preferred partner and drive continuous improvement to create sustainable outcomes that benefit society. Our focus is to make progress daily, improving performance by living a principle of stewardship, embracing creative destruction, improving efficiencies, eliminating waste, finding new ways of meeting needs and driving conservation activities that leave more resources available to satisfy other needs in society. Learn more: gp.com/.
Huber Engineered Woods LLC
Huber Engineered Woods LLC
A tradition of strong, responsible building. Founded in 1883, the J.M. Huber Corporation has grown to be one of the largest family-owned companies in the U.S. We’re now a global company with approximately 4,000 employees in more than 20 countries, all of whom are guided by a spirit of creativity and innovation that transforms ideas into products that meet the challenges of an evolving world. And we do all this while honoring a commitment to the Huber Principles. Learn more: huberwood.com/.
NSF
NSF
NSF has been dedicated to protecting and improving global human health since 1944. As a global, independent organization, our standards team facilitates development of public health standards, and our service teams test, audit and certify products and services. The NSF mark assures consumers, retailers and regulators that certified products have been rigorously tested to comply with all standard requirements. Separately, we offer customized training and education, risk management and consulting solutions.
Our professional staff of engineers, microbiologists, toxicologists, chemists and public health experts provides services in 180 countries across all major industries. Our ISO/IEC 17025-accredited, state-of-the-art global laboratories provide a wide range of testing, certification and technical services as well as human health risk assessments. Learn more: https://www.nsf.org/.
West Fraser
West Fraser
West Fraser is a diversified wood products company with more than 60 facilities in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe. From responsibly sourced and sustainably managed forest resources, the Company produces lumber, engineered wood (OSB, LVL, MDF, plywood, particleboard), and other products including pulp, newsprint, wood chips, and renewable energy. West Fraser’s products are used in home construction, repair and remodeling, industrial applications, papers, tissue and box materials. Visit westfraser.com for more information.
WestRock
WestRock
Our purpose is to Innovate boldly. Package sustainably. At WestRock, we are using imagination and expertise to turn big challenges into real solutions.
We are materials scientists, packaging designers, mechanical engineers and manufacturing experts using leading science and technology to drive innovation in packaging.
By taking risks, learning from experience and thinking long term, we are emboldened to dream big about the future of packaging.
We sit at the intersection of innovation and sustainability – moving fiber-based packaging forward is our greatest opportunity. Because we know what’s right for the world is also right for business.
So, to our customers we say, “Bring us your greatest challenges.” Together, we will Innovate boldly. Package sustainably.
Learn more here: www.westrock.com/
SILVER SPONSORS
AAC Clyde Space
AAC Clyde Space
We specialise in small satellite technologies and services that enable businesses, governments and educational organisations to access high-quality, timely data from space. This data has a vast range of applications, from weather forecasting to precision farming to environmental monitoring. It is essential to improving our quality of life on Earth. Learn more: aac-clyde.space/.
Bureau Veritas
Bureau Veritas
Founded in 1828, Bureau Veritas is one of the world’s largest testing, inspection, and certification firms. The group provides independent third-party certification to SFI® standards. The process helps clients achieve legal compliance, mitigate risk, and contribute to global efforts to protect forests. Learn more: www.bvna.com/.
Eskuad
Esquad
At Eskuad, we aim to assist natural resources teams who lack access to conventional communication networks in saving valuable time and resources. We achieve this by offering unrestricted access to our platform anytime and anywhere, even while disconnected.
Life in the field has always been challenging. The remote locations, harsh climates, lack of connectivity, and the need to redo tasks can often leave you feeling isolated. Even in the office, making decisions, tracking progress, and locating your teams can be difficult, especially when they are in areas without internet access. The struggle to compile reports without timely information can quickly turn a good day into a bad one.
We understand that the technology to address these issues already exists. However, we also recognize that many tools are expensive and complicated, making them inaccessible to many. Learn more: eskuad.com
J.D. Irving
J.D. Irving
While much has changed in 140 years, our basic formula has not; a great team working together to find a better way, every day. It’s a tradition we’ve carried on for generations. Today, our employees continue to build JDI into a diverse group of performance driven enterprises. Our dedicated team uses the best practices to make the best products, enabling us to better serve our customers. Learn more: www.jdirving.com/en/.
Mercer International
Mercer International
Mercer International Inc. is a global forest products company operating in Germany, Canada, the United States, and Australia. Here, our modern facilities create natural, fibre-based products, including pulp; solid wood products like dimensional lumber, cross-laminated timber, and pallets; green energy and biofuels; and biomaterials and extractives. We are transforming biomass into bioproducts for a more sustainable world, with the understanding that we must earn the right to produce these bioproducts. Through third-party certifications, we can assure our customers and stakeholders that the fibre we source is from low-risk, sustainably-managed forests. Learn more: https://mercerint.com/.
NatureServe
NatureServe
For nearly 50 years, NatureServe has been the authoritative source for biodiversity data throughout North America. We work with 60+ network organizations and 1,000+ conservation scientists to collect, analyze, and deliver biodiversity knowledge that informs conservation action. In our 2022-2026 Strategic Plan, NatureServe commits to playing an even greater role in protecting biodiversity by providing the best available science, data, and technology to support biodiversity conservation. Learn more about the values that are core to NatureServe and how we are investing in our future: natureserve.org.
Rayonier
Rayonier
Rayonier (NYSE:RYN) is a leading timberland real estate investment trust with assets located in some of the most productive softwood timber growing regions in the United States and New Zealand. We own or lease under long-term agreements approximately 2.7 million acres of timberlands. We are More than trees because we recognize that our 90+ years of success in the timberland industry comes from our people, an empowering culture and the courage to constantly challenge “the way it’s always been done.” Get to know us at www.rayonier.com.
Resource Management Service LLC
Resource Management Service LLC
As a timber investment management organization (TIMO), forestry is in our DNA and our people are experts in every aspect of timberland investing, including: acquisition sourcing, transaction negotiation, due diligence, forest genetics, forest management, timber merchandising, land marketing, regulatory compliance, environmental stewardship, and wildlife management. Learn more at https://resourcemgt.com/.
SCS Global Services
SCS Global Services
SCS is an international leader in third-party certification, validation, and verification for environmental, sustainability, and food safety and quality performance claims. Learn more at www.scsglobalservices.com/.
Southeastern SFI Implementation Committees
Southeastern SICs
SFI Implementation Committees offer a forum to provide information or answer questions about local forestry operations and respond to questions or concerns about forestry practices on SFI-certified lands. These grassroots groups also extend their work into local initiatives supporting community outreach and education programs. Learn more: forests.org/sic
Sierra Pacific Industries
Sierra Pacific Industries
Sierra Pacific Industries is a third-generation, family-owned forest products company based in Anderson, California. SPI owns and manages more than 2.4 million acres of timberland in California, Oregon and Washington and is one of the largest U.S. lumber manufacturers. The company also produces millwork, windows and renewable energy. SPI is committed to managing its lands in a responsible and sustainable manner to protect the environment while providing quality wood products and renewable power for consumers. To SPI, sustainable forest management means more than just planting trees.
Harvesting trees is much different than it was 50 or 100 years ago – today we employ modern forest management practices that closely mimic natural forest events. Technology has dramatically improved, and with it, our ability to monitor forest conditions and minimize our impact on the environment. We have invested in state-of-the-art equipment to optimize every fiber of each tree, and we are a certified participant in the independent Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) to help ensure our forests are here for generations to come. The expertise of our professional foresters and natural resource specialists assures that wildlife habitat, water quality, and other forest values are protected.
Learn more: www.spi-ind.com.
BRONZE SPONSORS
Enviva
Enviva
Leading in sustainable wood bioenergy
We are the world’s largest producer of sustainable wood pellets, a renewable alternative to coal. Wood-based bioenergy is part of an
all-in renewables strategy to reduce carbon emissions and limit dependence on fossil fuels.
The world’s leading authority on climate science, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, explicitly recognizes bioenergy as a renewable energy source that is critical to our low-carbon future. The IPCC also concludes that sustainable forest management is critical to prevent forest conversion to non-forest uses.
We need bioenergy both to replace fossil fuels and to keep forests as forests.
Learn more: envivabiomass.com
International Paper
International Paper
We are proud to be one of the world’s leading producers of fiber-based products.
We create:
- Packaging products that protect and promote goods, enable worldwide commerce and keep consumers safe.
- Pulp for diapers, tissue and other personal hygiene products that promote health and wellness.
We are committed to strengthening our people and the communities where we live and work using all resources responsibly and efficiently, and ensuring our businesses are safe, successful and sustainable for generations to come.
Learn more: www.internationalpaper.com/.
Potlatch
Potlatch
PotlatchDeltic is a leading timberland owner and a top 10 manufacturer of lumber in the United States. We have a long legacy of excellence in timberland management and wood products manufacturing with operations in six states. PotlatchDeltic is committed to being a responsible corporate citizen and we manage our timberlands for future generations to come. Learn more: www.potlatchdeltic.com.
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
PwC’s Forest, paper and packaging practice provides guidance in such areas as US Alternative Fuel Mixture (“Black Liquor”) Credit, sustainability industry, supply chain management, downstream producers, distributors, building materials, housing market dynamics, pulp and fibre manufacture, and transportation costs.
Learn more: www.pwc.com/gx/en/industries/forest-paper-packaging.html.
ResourceWise
ResourceWise
For decades, our legacy brands have focused on one mission: to help our customers make exponentially better decisions by providing them with the most accurate data, analytics, and strategic consulting available in the market.
Learn more: resourcewise.com/
Timberland Investment Resources
Timberland Investment Resources
Timberland Investment Resources provides our clients with innovative, forest-based investment offerings that optimize long-term performance while contributing to community resilience and environmental sustainability. Learn more: tirllc.com
The Wolfstrata Group
The Wolfstrata Group
The WolfStrata Group is an IT solutions provider experienced at leveraging technology to digitally transform organizations. As a value-added reseller, we work with our partners to offer cutting-edge technology solutions and services. We help bridge the gap between where your organization is and where it wants to go, leveraging your team to jointly accomplish strategic goals. Learn more: wolfstrata.com/
CONSERVATION AND COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
American Bird Conservancy
American Bird Conservancy
American Bird Conservancy is dedicated to conserving wild birds and their habitats throughout the Americas. This mission has guided ABC throughout our history of more than 25 years. With an emphasis on achieving results and working in partnership, we take on the greatest problems facing birds today, innovating and building on rapid advancements in science to halt extinctions, manage and conserve habitats, eliminate threats and build capacity for bird conservation. ABC works with partners throughout the sustainable forest community to ensure that working forests work for birds and contribute to recovery of declining bird populations. Learn more: abcbirds.org/.
Arbor Day Foundation
Arbor Day Foundation
Inspiring people to plant, nurture,and celebrate trees. Since 1972 the Arbor Day Foundation has planted trees to take on some of the biggest environmental challenges of our time. Things like climate change, food insecurity, natural disasters, urban heat islands, and more. With a strong network of global partners, a science-based approach, and more than 50 years of planting trees all over the world, we’re just getting started. Learn more: arborday.org/.
The Climate Trust
The Climate Trust
As a nonprofit organization, The Climate Trust investments are driven by climate impact and put landowners first. We work alongside our partners to develop and fund projects that support grassland conservation, reforestation, and improved forest management strategies. Learn more: climatetrust.org.
International Society of Arboriculture
National Indian Carbon Coalition
NICC’s mission is to preserve tribal land ownership and reduce the effects of climate change by conserving the natural resources of tribal lands in order to minimize human-caused greenhouse gas emissions
Learn more: indiancarbon.org.
The Longleaf Alliance
The Longleaf Alliance
The Longleaf Alliance works throughout the range of longleaf pine to emphasize the ecological, economic, social, and historic importance of this once vast ecosystem. Since its inception, The Longleaf Alliance has used outreach, education, research, direct involvement, and hands-on experience to develop and provide the best available information and support in an unbiased manner to landowners, managers, policy makers, educators, and the public.
The Longleaf Alliance was established in 1995 by Rhett Johnson and Dean Gjerstad as interest in longleaf ecosystems and the longleaf pine tree itself was growing rapidly, but there was no outlet available for people to connect, learn, and share their efforts. The LLA was created with the express purpose of coordinating a partnership between private landowners, forest industries, state and federal agencies, conservation groups, researchers, and other enthusiasts interested in managing and restoring longleaf pine forests for their ecological and economic benefits.
Learn more: longleafalliance.org.
National Indian Carbon Coalition
International Society of Arboriculture
Through research, technology, and education, the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) promotes the professional practice of arboriculture and fosters a greater worldwide awareness of the benefits of trees.
ISA exists so that professionals, allied professionals, public officials, and consumers worldwide recognize the economic, environmental, and societal benefits and values of trees and their care at a cost that demonstrates the wise stewardship of resources.
Learn more: isa-arbor.com.
Trees Atlanta
Trees Atlanta
Trees Atlanta is a nonprofit community group that protects and improves Atlanta’s urban forest by planting, conserving, and educating.
Since its beginnings, Trees Atlanta’s goals have been to plant new trees, conserve existing trees, and educate the public on the many benefits of trees. Trees Atlanta has become one of the most widely-known and respected nonprofits locally, as well as nationally, for their work as stewards of our urban environment.
Learn more: treesatlanta.org.
Conference Registration Questions:
events@forests.org
SFI Questions:
Amy Tauzin
Manager, Events and Logistics
Tel: 202-765-3609
