Partnership Opportunites with FPL

Working together to solve conservation issues while creating economic opportunities

Partner with Credible, Unbiased Experts

A partnership with the Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) helps your research advance by tapping into the expertise of our research personnel, providing access to our extensive laboratory facilities and equipment, and creating opportunities for patent and licensing agreements.

Our researchers have a history of successful partnerships, and they welcome the opportunity to collaborate with industry, academia, trade associations, non-government organizations, and federal, state, and local government agencies to convert research into usable information and technology.

Collaborating with FPL can provide many benefits to partnering organizations:

• Flexible partnership agreements tailored to the partner’s needs, such as confidentiality and licensing rights
• Experts in many disciplines work together in one location at a world-class facility
• Stable source of funding allows for long-term research projects that may be high-risk but also have potential for a high return on investment
• Customer-focused commitment to technology transfer converts research findings into products or processes that can be of use to society
• Innovative team approach to problem solving produces results

Established in 1910, FPL serves the public as the Nation’s leading wood research institute. FPL is recognized nationally and internationally as an unbiased technical authority on wood science and use. Our mission is to promote healthy forests and forest-based economies through the efficient, sustainable use of wood.