Services

Craig Rawlings, president and CEO of Forest Business Network, has provided top-tier technical assistance to forest businesses for over 10 years.

As a recognized, leading expert in the use of under-utilized timber and woody biomass, Forest Business Network offers a variety of services to help forest product businesses maintain competitive, cost-saving efficiencies, and develop winning strategies to position themselves for long-term growth.


Business Assistance

We specialize in assistance with financial and marketing plans to sawmills, loggers, woody biomass energy producers, and other forest-related businesses. We also offer business planning, financial projections, assistance with financing strategies, feasibility studies, and management assistance.

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Grants

We’ve helped numerous companies acquire a total of over $2.5 million in forest and biomass-related grants to grow their businesses. We offer both grant writing and grant submission services and have considerable insight and a strong track record in building and submitting winning grant proposals.

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Custom Reports

We specialize in and have many years experience writing technical whitepapers and custom reports for the forest products industry. Our reports have allowed clients to leverage additional sources of grant funding and conventional financing.

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NARA

FBN is a proud media partner with the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance, which aims to address the urgent national need for a domestic biofuel alternative for U.S. commercial and military air fleets by creating a viable aviation biofuel industry in the Pacific Northwest.
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ShadeFund

FBN proudly works as a field and media partner with the ShadeFund, a loan program launched by The Conservation Fund and the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, that helps sustainable forest product companies get much-needed funds. If you’re a sustainable forest products business, learn how you can get access to capital by clicking the link below.
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Small Wood Conference

Craig Rawlings, CEO of Forest Business Network, works on the steering committee for this conference each year. He moderates a panel at each conference. The objective of this conference is to provide state-of-the-art information on small-tree utilization and to foster peer-to-peer learning.
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Seeley Lake Woodstove Change-Out Program

FBN not only helped with the grant application for the program, but we’re also on the initiative’s team. The Change-Out aims to replace more than 100 old, inefficient woodstoves in the Seeley Lake, Montana community with new pellet stoves and EPA-certified woodstoves by December 2013.
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“The Forest Business Network has become the lifeline for the timber industry by providing a clearing house of timely information. Craig Rawlings provided Mineral Community Hospital excellent advice regarding our selection of a woody biomass heating system for our hospital facility.”
- George Bailey, Director of Business Development, Mineral Community Hospital