Newsletter - Events

The SFPA Annual Meeting will be held in Nashville, TN, from October 19-21, 2022. We’re very excited to be meeting face-to-face again for the first time since 2019! We’re also looking forward to exploring Nashville ahead of EXPO 2023. SECURE PAYMENT PORTAL

This week’s edition of Southern Forest Products Association Lumber Shorts  explores the Carrefour International du Bois Trade Show, Indiawood 2022 and AIA Conference on Architecture 2022 (A’22) in Chicago, IL. These events are important to the SFPA organization and beneficial to SFPA members. Take a look inside each of these events and look for future events to come.     […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 1, 2022 Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Expo Accepting Applications for Exhibit Space New Orleans, LA – The Southern Forest Products Association (SFPA) is pleased to announce that reservations for exhibit space is now open for the 37th Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Exposition (EXPO) in Nashville, Tennessee, August 23-25, 2023 […]

The stage is set. 2023 will mark a new tour for the successful Forest Products Machinery & Equipment EXPO, bringing the show for the first time ever to Nashville, TN. The Music City Center is Nashville’s convention center located in the heart of downtown. The facility has the technology and equipment to ensure all needs […]

Auburn University has recently announced that the international CLT conference “The Sustainable Future of CLT in the South: Grow, Design, Build” will be held April 27 – 29, 2022, in Auburn, Alabama. This premier event is the first of its kind to be held in the Southern United States. Renowned experts in forestry, building sciences, […]

After a successful show in August of this year, SFPA Staff and the EXPO Advisory Committee are already hard at work planning the Forest Products Machinery and Equipment Exposition (EXPO) 2023. The first order of business? Determining where the show will take place. The planning and execution of EXPO is truly a labor of love […]

The Southern Forest Products Association (SFPA) Board of Directors elected its 2021 slate of officers during its annual meeting which took place virtually on December 9, 2020.  They are Chairman Craig Forbes of Weyerhaeuser Company; Vice Chair Will Lampe of Lampe & Malphrus Lumber Company; and Treasurer Mark Richardson of The Westervelt Company. The Board […]

On December 8, SFPA held the first-ever SFPA Summit. The Summit marks a new expansion to SFPA’s annual fall meetings, which have traditionally been only available to SFPA members. Registration for the SFPA Summit was free and open to the public, presenting an opportunity for everybody involved in forest products to gain insights and advice […]

The 2020 SLMA and SFPA Spring Meeting (March 25-27) in New Orleans has been canceled.  The decision did not come quickly or easily, as our tendencies are to continue business as usual.  However, after careful deliberation, we have decided to err on the side of caution due to the spread of the Coronavirus. SFPA and […]

SFPA Fall Committee Meetings were held on October 16 in San Antonio, immediately prior to the NAWLA Traders Market. The Expo Advisory Committee reviewed the Exhibitor and Attendee Surveys from the 2019 Expo and discussed the need to increase visitor attendance at the show.  The dates for the 2021 show will keep the same pattern, […]