Since 1988, a group of wood products companies have been organized in an Industrial Consortium called the North Carolina State University Forest Biotechnology Industrial Associates Program.
Members contribute annual dues and meet once a year to evaluate progress.
Industrial Consortium members are entitled to use, for their own purposes, all research results made available to members by the Forest Biotechnology Group. Members have specific rights to patented technology that they may choose to license or develop. Our program has a successful track record of highly leveraged sustainable funding through federal and state competitive grants and this Industrial Consortium. The result has been a high quality program firmly committed to advanced, fundamental research, but also directed to the long term needs of the wood and forest products industry. There are currently 11 domestic and international companies which are members of the consortium.