Forest Products Working Group Meeting Next Month

The inaugural Forest Products Working Group meeting for founding members is quickly approaching! The meeting will take place on October 6 in Boston and is focused on detailed discussion and strategic planning for the group’s first project. Members that are attending the meeting should expect to receive the draft meeting agenda next week, and additional meeting materials will be provided closer to the meeting date. We are looking forward to welcoming the founding members to Boston and kicking off work with this group. Please contact us with any inquiries related to the meeting or if you’d like more information about the Forest Products Working Group.

EPAT Development

We are in the process of developing preliminary plans for the next version of EPAT with a focus on enhancing the user interface of the tool. Based on feedback from current EPAT users, our goal for the update will be to make the tool even more accessible and easier to use. GreenBlue’s award winning in-house web design and development team is in the process of mapping out proposed changes. These changes will be presented to interested participants, who will then have the opportunity to provide feedback. Anyone interested in participating in the feedback process should contact Theron Jourdan via e-mail or at 434.817.1424 ext. 320.

We have also spent much of the past few months validating EPAT industry average data. EPAT is the only publicly available tool in the marketplace today that provides users with actual mill data that is evaluated according to industry averages. As data is ultimately what drives EPAT, this due diligence has been helpful in continuing to strengthen the tool and building a foundation for EPAT to expand in the future.