Why HMA?
Working together to shape the hardwood industry for future generations
Set the record
straight
Add your financial support to HMA’s Education/Promotion Campaign and help us ‘set the record straight’ about American Hardwoods.
Our material choice selections have long-term effects on the livability of planet Earth. Specifiers and building professionals need to be knowledgeable about their options. Help extend our reach deeper into the Design/Build Community by sponsoring a Sponsored by the Hardwood Manufacturers Association, The American Hardwood Information Center, www.HardwoodInfo.com, is the authoritative resource for consumers and building professionals seeking factual information about American Hardwoods. Many informative and creative tools – videos, reference sheets, brochures – are available there. Your support will help us keep the website content ‘fresh.’
The American Hardwoods promotional campaign was developed to give the hardwood industry a unified identity and to elevate American Hardwoods as the building and remodeling material of choice. To inspire a renewed preference for American Hardwood products, it is vital that the entire industry be involved and show support.
Click here to find the tools needed to promote your company’s involvement in the campaign, including logo, brand usage guidelines, sell sheets, a backgrounder on the campaign and more.
Your financial contribution to the American Hardwood Promotion Program will assist in many ways.
Contact Ian Faight to get on board!
www.HMAmembers.org is the HMA’s online resource where members and industry friends can register for meetings, catch up on missed meeting presentations, stay updated on Industry News & More, even browse HMA’s monthly newsletter, The Link.
Members can also log into a “secure” area that features:
- an interactive Equipment Center to inform about the latest and greatest sawmilling products
- a Bulletin Board to post concerns and questions facing members in their operations
- a Blog to promote conversation with industry professionals on key topics affecting their business
Increase Your
ROI
An Online Resource for our Members and Industry Friends
It’s Networking
at its Best
Membership in the Hardwood Manufacturers Association includes many Benefits – National and Regional Meetings, Facility Tours, Special Reports & Surveys, Industry Updates – but first and foremost, it provides a significant connection to a unique forest products industry brain trust, a collective wisdom, that is shared openly, freely and with great enthusiasm. It is networking at its best and perhaps the greatest benefit of membership in the Association.
Our Association also conducts an education/promotion campaign extolling the beauty, environmental preference and lasting value of American Hardwood products. In support of that effort and as a service of the HMA, the American Hardwood Information Center, www.HardwoodInfo.com, is the authoritative resource for consumers and building professionals seeking factual information about American Hardwoods. Many informative and creative tools are available there to assist in setting the record straight about American Hardwoods.
Information exchange and networking take center stage at HMA’s National Conference & Expo.
This annual, two-day Conference features speakers, workshops and roundtables on national and global economics, manufacturing and market trends, innovation and issues of strategic significance to the hardwood industry.
Industry suppliers present and display the newest technology throughout the Conference & Expo. Receptions and meal venues provide opportunities for member-to-member socializing, networking, information and idea exchanges.
Learn by Touring at HMA’s Regional Meetings.
Conducted in the spring and fall, these compact educational events deliver maximum value in minimal time. Tour sawmills, concentration yards and secondary manufacturing facilities and see the latest technology at work; witness working solutions to common problems; exchange information with seasoned counterparts; then benefit from presentations on industry issues, forest resource topics or hardwood market updates.