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Mater Engineering has provided professional consulting services and marketing research for over 55 years. With our roots in finding technical solutions for problems in the Forest Industry, we have expanded our services to include most aspects of forest industry engineering, traditional and non-traditional forest products marketing, industrial engineering, and specialty public works engineering. Please follow any of the links below to find out more about Mater Engineering, Ltd. or about any publications available from our office.

Information on Dr. Jean Mater's Latest Books
Other Publications Available From Mater Engineering, Ltd.

Presentations Available On the Web
Mater Engineering personnel speak at conferences and to private and public groups throughout the world. The following are a few of the recent reports and presentations which have been publicly made available:
COIC; Executive Summary - Markets and Processing Options for Small Diameter Trees
(Prepared for Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council, July 2002. For full report see COICs Website at http://www.coic.org/copwrr)
Estrategias para el Mercadeo de Productos de Madera:
Lineamientos del Negocio (Spanish Only)
(Presented By Catherine Mater in Bogot, Columbia, March 2002)
Presentation Part 1 (2,074 KB)

Presentation w/o Pictures (1,161 KB)
(All Presentation are in Adobe Acrobat PDF Format. If you do not have a copy, a free downloadable of Adobe Reader is available from http://www.adobe.com/)

Catherine Mater, Senior Fellow, Pinchot Institute for Conservation
Catherine Mater, President, Mater Engineering, also serves as a Senior Fellow to the Pinchot Institute for Conservation based in Washington, DC. As a Senior fellow she provides expertise on a wide range of Pinchot Institute projects based upon her extensive experience in assisting in the development of new engineering technologies and marketing strategies for secondary wood products and special forest products for both domestic and international markets. Most recently, she has assisted softwood and hardwood product manufacturers and producer associations across the United States in identifying markets for sustainably harvested green certified wood products, and has served as the project manager for all certification pilot projects conducted on public forestlands in the United States. Working with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Catherine has co-authored a series of textbook case studies documenting the commercial viability of sustainable forest practices throughout the world. As part of her work she has managed several projects for the Pinchot Institute related to conservation and certification. Reports on some of these projects can be viewed on the Pinchot Institute Web Sight on the following links:

Pinchot Institute Releases On-the-Ground Evaluation and
Comparison of the Forest Stewardship Council and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative

Senior Fellow Catherine Mater Presents on Certification at Montreal Conference

Publications Available From Mater Engineering, Ltd.
In addition to the books by Dr. Jean Mater, Mater, Engineering, Ltd. has made available numerous studies and publications which have been developed for many of our governmental clients. These studies include Special Forest Products Projects and Value-Added Wood Products Reports.