Justin Price Becomes 75th President of Forest Products Society
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Evergreen Engineering® Co-CEO Justin Price will serve as president of the Forest Products Society for the 2022-23 term. Price takes over this month from Terry Liles of Commerce, Georgia, Director of Raw Materials for Huber Engineered Woods.
Price, who has been a principal owner of Evergreen since 2012, has spent his career specializing in engineering for the wood products, renewable power generation, and chemical industries. Before becoming Co-CEO, he led Evergreen’s Major Projects Division and functioned as the owner’s engineer for a major wood pellet producer as they designed and procured financing for export-scale wood pelletizing facilities in the American southeast.
Evergreen is an engineering consulting company with offices in Eugene, Oregon; Atlanta, Georgia; and Everett, Washington. The firm provides innovative industrial engineering, design, consulting, and construction solutions for a variety of industries.
Prior to joining Evergreen, Price was the Northwest Regional Engineering Manager for a privately held wood products company where he evaluated, designed, and executed manufacturing process upgrades at multiple operating facilities. He was involved in corporatewide campaigns to incorporate new technologies.
A 2013 participant of the NREL Executive Leadership Institute, Price also holds a patent for the design for a unique wood chip screening machine with a stepped deck.
Price’s FPS presidency is unique: His father, Eddie Price, served as the organization’s president in 1996-97.
The Forest Products Society was founded in 1947 to provide an information network for all segments of the forest products industry. Membership is open to all interested individuals and organizations. It mission is to contribute to global stewardship by encouraging the social, economic, and environmentally sustainable use of wood and other renewable cellulosic materials.
Society members represent a broad range of professional interests including private and public research and development, industrial management and production, marketing, education, government, engineering and consulting. The Society convenes technical conferences, produces several journals including the peer-reviewed Forest Products Journal, and publishes books on topics of relevance to the forest products industry.
The Forest Products Society also functions as the distributor for the technical publications of the American Wood Council, which constitutes an invaluable information resource on wood construction for engineers, architects, builders and building code regulators. Topics include engineering data, state-of-the-art design technologies and construction standards.
