Collaboration was the key word heard by more than 250 attendees of the Pellet Fuels Institute annual conference held July 29-30 in Asheville, N.C. Keynote speaker Carlton Owen, president and CEO of the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, urged all participants in the forest products industries to support each other's causes, be they working in pellets, pulp and paper or other sectors.