Product Development Services for Manufacturers
CAWP helps wood products manufacturers of all types and sizes to develop new products. We have a large team of technical specialists and an advanced 10,000 square-foot manufacturing lab that features...
View ArticleManagement Skills Training for the Wood Products Industry
CAWP offers a set of affordable online management skills training courses on: Quality Management & Control; Sales & Marketing; Business Finance & Investment Evaluation; Production Planning;...
View ArticleOutside the Box Meetup Group promotes New Opportunities & Partnerships
In October 2012 CAWP launched a business networking group called Outside the Box to encourage creative thinking about new product opportunities in value-added wood products and building systems. Each...
View ArticleDesigning with Wood Program – Technical Mentoring for Designers
CAWP offers a technical mentoring service for industrial designers and other creative people who want to know more about the specifics of working in the wood products industry. We hope to answer some...
View ArticleFurniture Finishing: the Canadian Approach
This article by Phil Evans, from the Department of Wood Science at UBC, explains the development of a new suite of courses aimed at the wood finishing industry. It originally appeared in Wood Focus,...
View ArticleBecoming the Better Job: Canadian Companies gaining an Edge through Training
This article first appeared in the March 2013 edition of Woodworking magazine , and is reproduced here with the kind permission of the publisher. When I set out last year to investigate how our wood...
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3D Printing with Wood at CAWP
The latest piece of new equipment to arrive at CAWP is a 3D printer known as a Lulzbot TAZ 2.0. We have acquired the machine to start investigating what is possible with this technology. We’re...
View ArticleBritish Columbia Timber Building Tour
The Centre for Advanced Wood Processing (CAWP) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in collaboration with the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) is pleased to announce the British...
View ArticleThe Wood Innovation Group – TWIG
The Wood Innovation Group (TWIG) initially started in 2015 as an in-person meetup gathering under the name “Outside The Box Meetup Group”. In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, TWIG emerged as a...
View ArticleMagee Secondary School Design Challenge
In a unique collaboration, the Centre for Advanced Wood Processing (CAWP) at UBC partnered with Magee Secondary School’s Design + Fabrication Program to present students with an exciting challenge:...
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