Similar to the extension services provided by many universities, the FPL's Technology Marketing Unit (TMU) provides a broad scope of expertise in wood products utilization and marketing, technology transfer, and technical assistance. The TMU is part of the U.S. Forest Service's State & Private Forestry.

The TMU's mission is to promote the efficient, sustainable use of wood by transferring technologies developed by the FPL, other Forest Service research stations, universities, and other Federal laboratories. The TMU works in collaboration with many different partners, particularly the Forest Service's Research and Development staff, and state forestry agencies to identify opportunities for working with local governments, private landowners, rural communities, and forest industries. The TMU supports the national and international mission of the Forest Service in forest products utilization by ensuring ready adoption of forest-based material technologies to many small, rural forest product businesses. The breadth of their work includes forest products conservation, processing, manufacturing efficiency, marketing, recycling, and bioenergy. The technical assistance they provide includes publications, technical assistance visits, conferences, workshops, meetings, and just simply meeting with customers face to face or via phone. The TMU also manages and awards over $5 million each year in grants dedicated to helping improve the utilization of woody biomass removed from forest restoration projects.

According to TMU Program Manager Sue LeVan-Green, "The fun thing about working for the TMU is variety. No day is ever the same. We work with a wide range of customers, most of them rural small business owners or entrepreneuers, and their issues are all very different. Many times they don't know who to turn to for assistance. People who have worked with us find us to be very customer service oriented. To help promote rural, sustainable, forest based businesses, we focus on problem solving, facilitation, and networking."