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Henry Spelter
Henry Spelter has joined Forest Economic Advisors LLC, the premier source for North American wood products and timber analysis and information, as a Partner responsible for Bioenergy and Wood Products. Henry is the lead analyst for FEA’s Wood Biomass Forecast Service publications and he also authors FEA’s Lumber Markets – Status & Trends monthly publication.
Henry’s career has spanned three decades at the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, WI where he was responsible for analysis of the lumber and panel industries. He authored over 100 reports covering developments in wood products markets including a series of benchmark studies profiling the softwood lumber and structural panel sectors. He also developed an extensive model of North American lumber demand as well as collaborating on a comprehensive analysis that examined the competitiveness of the U.S. forest products industry. More recently he co-authored an influential report entitled “North America’s Wood Pellet Sector”, which profiled the pellet industry and broke down capacity on a mill-by-mill basis. For six years he authored a continuing series of monthly commentaries on the wood products markets.
Henry began his career as a forestry assistant in the Cook County (Illinois) Forest Preserves after which he spent four years with the consulting firm Data Resources Inc in Lexington, MA where he was manager of the forest products FORSIM service.
Henry has wide consulting experience including assignments with the Pacific Northwest National Forests, the Commerce Department, the International Trade Representative’s office as well as many U.S. and Canadian forest products firms.