The Pacific Northwest

Fostering Global Leadership in Mass Timber

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Join the PNW Mass Timber Tech Hub

The PNW Tech Hub is expanding and we'd love your participation.

We are the country's only Tech Hub dedicated to growing the mass timber industry. Our Hub now includes Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Join us in scaling mass timber by becoming a member of the Tech Hub today. It's free and easy.

Membership is open to organizations, agencies, educational institutions, and nonprofit partners in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana across the full forest products and mass timber value chain — from forest management, harvest, and milling to design, manufacturing, and construction. This includes those providing products, services, innovation, or infrastructure that strengthen the regional mass timber and wood products ecosystem. Members share a commitment to working collaboratively to expand sustainable wood use, strengthen the regional mass timber industry, and position it for global competitiveness.

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Our Purpose

Key Goals

Create a nexus for communication and collective action

Serve as a conduit to convene and connect firms from across the region.

Improve forestry efficiency, training, and safety

Build an open-source digital infrastructure platform to modernize forest business
practices.

Improve training options and promote careers to a new generation of
diverse workers

Expand workforce training programs to attract, develop, and retain a skilled forestry, manufacturing and construction workforce.

Streamline access to innovation support services

Leverage the R&D and testing expertise and facilities that our university labs can provide to accelerate new product development.

Connect firms with investors and capital

Bring new sources of investment capital to manufacturers and real estate projects.

Streamline pathways to new product certification

Address industry barriers to product certification to create efficiency.

Support expansion of prefabricated housing

Document lessons learned through prototyping, testing, and implementing on-the-ground housing pilots to support the use of prefabricated housing.

Generate robust data to build investor confidence

Organize open-source technical data on advanced materials, annual market scans, and financial performance data.

Align with state and federal policies and philanthropy

Identify policy and regulatory barriers and opportunities and advocate for change.

Expand fiber supply

Expand provision of small-diameter fiber from national forests while supporting tribal partners and increasing supply chain transparency.

The Pacific Northwest

Fostering Global Leadership in Mass Timber

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Our Purpose

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