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his spring I had the opportunity to hop across the pond, and visit Ireland for the first time. An avid Ed Sheeran fan (yeah, I know, but I’m a woman in my earlythirties, what do you expect?), I was very excited to visit the countryside he sings about in a few of his tunes. I had my picture made as I kissed the famous Blarney Stone, though it remains to be determined if I got a mystical gift of eloquence said to be bestowed upon those who kiss it.

I’m going to pull the curtain back on Panel World a bit. One of the key ingredients to our boots-on-the-ground reporting is actually getting PW reporters into our featured mills. I’ve been on countless airplanes, subways, ferries and logged more miles in a car than most people do in a lifetime traveling to production plants. It’s part of the job. However, when I was making my arrangements for Ireland, it didn’t occur to me that Ireland follows the U.K. system of driving. The steering wheel is on the right side of the vehicle, and cars drive on the left side of the road. Motorway signs are both in Irish (Gaelic) and English. Every “intersection” is a roundabout.

No big deal, obviously, because I’ve been driving since I was 15 years old.

Except, it was a complete nightmare when you’re doing it by yourself jet lagged and lost. I am happy to report I was (basically) episode free, though the car I rented looked exactly like a bubble—the only car Hertz had on the lot that was an automatic—and made me cry in frustration more times than I want to admit. I am really proud of myself for (basically) successfully driving on the wrong side of the car and the wrong side of the road for more than 750 miles. But I got lost. A lot.

And the getting lost part made it somewhat difficult to get this PW reporter to the actual production plant. As you’ll read in the feature on OSB manufacturer Medite Smartply, the port of Waterford is just a few hundred meters

from the plant’s weighbridge. I can attest to it because I tried to cross the port’s weighbridge initially before ending up at Smartply’s office.

When I arrived embarrassingly tardy to meet with Jim McCann, Operations Director of Medite Smartply, he laughed off my driving troubles, poured me a coffee, handed me a cookie and we settled in.

While discussing the history of Smartply, naturally attention turned to McCann: a 20-year OSB veteran first with Smartply while under the tutelage of Louisiana-Pacific and now with Smartply under Coillte’s ownership.

But what perked up my attention was McCann’s four years in the early ’90s with a viscose manufacturer in Saraland, Ala.—just 150 miles from my home, and about 4,240 miles from where we were standing. As a fine mist settled over the log yard and an unseasonably cold wind whipped around, McCann and I bemoaned Alabama humidity and the inability to play tennis after 12-noon from April to September. The two climates could not be more opposite.

And yet, McCann with his Irish accent, who understood perfectly what “y’all” meant, told me he was glad to see Smartply grace the pages of Panel World—a welcomed reconnection for him to North American panel manufacturing. As McCann stated about Smartply’s OSB export markets, sure the world can feel like a big place, but it really is a small one, too.

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(Founded as P l y w o o d & P a n e l in 1960—Our 491st consecutive issue) VOLUME 59 NO. 4

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SUPPLY LINES CombiLift Factory

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CLIPPINGS Ted Freres PELICE 2018 Lively Discussions

TAKING STOCK The Irish Way

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PANELWORKS Classified Advertising

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EVENTS TP&EE Portland

UPDATE More CLT Matter

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CORRIGAN OSB Grand Opening

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COVER: SmartPly OSB in Ireland has invested heavily in its OSB operation from the former through to the finishing end.

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KATERRA BUYS MICHAEL GREEN

Construction company Katerra has acquired Vancouver, BC-based Michael Green Architecture Inc. (MGA), a leading North American proponent for mass timber design and construction. Katerra, valued at $3 billion after launching as a public company in 2015, received $865 million in venture capital funding earlier this year.

MGA has designed a number of mass timber buildings, including Vancouver’s Wood Innovation and Design Centre, a multistory mixed use project in Minneapolis and the new Oregon State University School of Forestry complex now under construction, and is involved in various phases of mass timber projects around the world. While MGA handles a variety of projects using traditional materials and construction, founder Michael Green has been a big promoter of mass timber design and products used in building construction.

Industry observers say the move should help spread the use of mass timber design, products and construction techniques. Katerra is pursuing a vertically integrated strategy of providing design, building products and construction services as a turnkey option. Company officials believe controlling all phases of a project, along with mass timber benefits, will greatly reduce construction costs.

“We think we can drop the cost of construction by 30% by just retooling and thinking about the way buildings work and the process of making them,” Green said in one of the news reports of the deal. Currently, Katerra claims up to $1.3 billion worth of upcoming “booked” construction projects.

Based in Menlo Park, Calif., Katerra is building a CLT plant in Spokane, Wash. that covers 250,000 sq. ft. and is expected to start up later this year. The company operates a building components manufacturing plant in Phoenix, Ariz.

In March, Katerra released a statement saying it would eventually operate up to

six manufacturing facilities, including truss and panel plants, and possibly an additional Eastern U.S. CLT plant.

Michael Green will remain the CEO and President of MGA, a Katerra company.

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CHUNK OF EAST TEXAS TIMBERLAND SOLD

A joint venture of timberland and institutional investors is acquiring 1.1 million acres of east Texas timberlands for $1.39 billion.

CatchMark Timber Trust, Inc., BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group, Highland Capital Management, Medley Management Inc., and a major Canadian institutional investor that’s not identified are purchasing the property as sold by Campbell Global on behalf of institutional owners of the property. The transaction is expected to be completed soon.

CatchMark Timber Trust, Inc., a publicly-traded REIT headquartered in Atlanta and which invested $227.5 million

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in this acquisition, reports it will more than triple the number of acres under its control and management to 1.6 million.

According to CatchMark Timber, the acquired timberland has an attractive site index and features a rapidly accelerating inventory profile, projected to grow from a current 2.8 million tons of annual harvest volume to more than 5 million tons by 2028.

The timberlands are located near three of the top five U.S. homebuilding markets: Austin, Dallas, and Houston, and figure into compelling wood supply and building products supply chain fundamentals.

The acquisition is one of the largest U.S. timberland transactions since the 2007 sale of 1.55 million acres, which included the acreage in this new acquisition, by Temple-Inland to the ownership now selling it.

The new ownership will form under a new joint venture company named TexMark Timber Treasury (Triple T Timberlands). John Rasor, CatchMark’s

current Chief Operating Officer, will transition to serve as President of the new company.

The transaction was structured for corporate, tax and other purposes as a sale by Campbell Global, on behalf of its clients.

USNR NAMES NEW PRESIDENT

USNR announced the promotions of four long-time USNR and Mid-South Engineering employees, including the naming of Dale Brown as President of USNR. USNR Chairman and CEO George Van Hoomissen comments, “USNR has grown dramatically over the last several years, both organically and via the acquisitions of Söderhamn Eriksson, Ventek, and most recently Mid-South Engineering. These promotions will allow us to better manage our larger, more complex business and to continue to deliver the excellent products and services that our customers expect.”

Brown is responsible for overseeing all day-to-day operations of USNR. A graduate of the business program at Linfield College, he began his professional career when he joined USNR as an accounting clerk in 1986. Since that time, Brown has been promoted numerous times, progressively gaining greater responsibilities within the company and, along the way, developing experience and expertise across all the major functions of the business.

“Dale’s dedication to USNR’s employees and customers has earned him widespread respect throughout the industry, and his many years of excellent work have demonstrated clearly that he has the necessary knowledge, skills and judgment to successfully lead USNR,” according to a USNR statement.

Eric Brousseau is named Vice President—Manufacturing. He is responsible for overseeing USNR’s global manufacturing operations. For the past 13 years, Brousseau has been the General Manager of USNR’s Plessisville operations

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where he has driven a program of continuous innovation and process improvement.

Chuck Van Horn is now Vice President—Capital Projects. He’ll continue to be responsible for overseeing USNR’s capital machinery projects, but now as a Vice President as he continues to play an important role in USNR’s management organization.

Mark Culpepper becomes Vice President—Turnkey Projects. Along with a team of project managers that he will direct, Culpepper is responsible for managing all turnkey projects for USNR, coming into this role after more than 32 years at Mid-South Engineering, most recently as Vice President. Over the course of his career with Mid-South Engineering, he served as project manager for more than 25 greenfield and major brownfield sawmill projects, in addition to managing hundreds of other industrial projects involving LVL, plywood, structural wood products, and other industries outside of wood products.

APA ANNOUNCES SAFETY WINNERS APA—The Engineered Wood Assn. announced the winners of its 2017 Safety and Health Awards, a program that encourages and recognizes safety and operational excellence in the North American structural panel and engineered wood industry.

Smartlam, LLC and LP won Safest Company Awards in their respective categories. Smartlam, LLC, which produces cross-laminated timber at its facility in Columbia Falls, Mont., won its award in the category for companies with three or fewer mills. The company posted a 4.19 Weighted Incident Rate (WIR) for 2017.

LP, a producer of engineered wood products in the U.S., Canada and South America, earned top honors among companies with four or more mills, with a 2017 average WIR of 3.16.

The Innovation in Safety Award went to two winners: Boise Cascade Co. of

Medford, Ore. for the Equipment-Based Innovation Award, and Boise Cascade Co. of Oakdale, La. for the Jeff Wagner Process-Based Innovation Award.

At Boise’s Medford operation, Chris Lawrence, Region Safety Manager, submitted an innovation inspired by an ongoing safety concern due to veneer and debris becoming airborne on the strip tray belts rather than following the decline of the waterfall belts. The Belt Hold Down was designed to keep the veneer on the waterfall belts. It functions automatically and has a manual option for lockout and maintenance.

The innovation has effectively eliminated the hazard of veneer and debris flying off of the affected tray.

Boise Cascade reports that the improvements were apparent at once; the number of near misses, first aid only, and debris in eye incidents have been reduced.

At Boise’s Oakdale operation, The Splinter Reduction Video submitted

by Roger Goss, Safety Coordinator,

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was introduced in an effort to decrease the severity of splinter injuries by teaching proper pulling techniques at the dryer grader position. If an employee is observed pulling incorrectly, the employee is not only corrected, but is then required to view the training video to refresh and enforce proper pulling techniques. Since its implementation in August 2015, data has shown a decrease in the number of splinter injuries A total of 10 facilities representing six APA member companies—Boise Cascade Co., LP, Louisiana-Pacific Canada Ltd., Norbord, RoyOMartin, Smartlam, LLC—earned awards in the Annual Safety and Health Honor Roll, 3-Year Safety Award and/or Safety Improvement Award categories.

Twelve mills—including eight LP operations, three from Norbord, and a Tolko Industries facility—achieved a zero incident rate for the year and thus were named to the Incident Free Honor Society.

ONLINE TP&EE REGISTRATION IS FREE Organizers of the 2018 Timber Processing & Energy Expo (TP&EE) announce that free online registration is now open for the big machinery event to be held October 17-19 at the Portland Exposition Center in Portland, Ore. Approximately 190 exhibitors will display equipment and technologies catered to the structural veneer, plywood, mass timber, engineered wood products and lumber industries. Held every other year, this is the fourth TP&EE hosted by Panel World and Timber Processing magazines, and produced by HattonBrown Expositions LLC. Personnel from wood products companies and mills registering online receive free admission to all three days of TP&EE. (Walk-up fee is $20 per day.) Those with equipment companies who are not exhibiting are required to pay a fee.The 2016 TP&EE attracted 1,600 non-exhibitor personnel, representing 110 wood products producer companies and hundreds of individual mill operations. “There is tremendous action in the plywood and lumber industries right now, and we anticipate this TP&EE will be the busiest yet as mills continue to take advantage of excellent building products markets and wood products prices,” comments Show Director Rich Donnell.

Register at www.timberprocessingandenergyexpo.com

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MEDITE SMARTPLY INVESTS BIG IN NEW TECHNOLOGY Smartply Europe OSB goes to a continuous press line and new finishing end with a fast-paced project timeline.

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BY JESSICA JOHNSON

WATERFORD, Ireland rom darkness into light,” Smartply Europe Ltd. Operations Director Jim McCann says in an Irish brogue as he explains the company’s 59 million Euro investment in its oriented strandboard (OSB) plant in the coastal city of Waterford. The recent upgrade has dramatically improved board quality and provided Smartply with a greater presence in its markets.

The Smartply facility was originally set up in 1995 as a joint venture between Louisiana-Pacific and Coillte, the Irish state forestry board. In 2002 LP withdrew from the business, allowing Coillte to takeover full ownership.

Smartply had been using a conventional, “old-school,” 14-opening multidaylight press that was nearing the end of its life. The press was installed in 1995 when the facility was originally constructed. Since then, market competition has increased considerably in Europe and Smartply saw an opportunity to manufacture an OSB panel that was flatter, smoother and of superior thickness uniformity. It was necessary to invest in new “state-of-the-art” technology to achieve this.

McCann says the Smartply multi-daylight press was geared to imperial dimension panel sizes—a problem when a large part of Smartply’s customer base works in metric sizes. The European market was also demanding precise thickness tolerances and a high degree of panel uniformity.

The technology they settled on was the continuous press, yielding a very aesthetically pleasing panel. “Not only is the panel now more uniform with consistent product qualities, it also looks nice,” he remarks, “which is appealing to the endcustomer.”

The Smartply investment included a new forming line, a 45 m long ContiRoll continuous press from Siempelkamp, and new cooling and stacking line, and a new cut-to-size and packaging line. The project called for a 10,000 square meter extension to the existing factory building as well.

The upstream processes from flaking to drying to blending and the related wet ESPs were performing well and were retained, with the new project beginning at the physical connections for material transfer into the new forming line.

Pre-engineering work started in 2012 and the Coillte Board gave the project final approval in the second quarter of 2014.

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Panels are cooled for 30 minutes in rotary coolers provided by Siempelkamp.

The 45 m long ContiRoll from Siempelkamp has brought Smartply from the dark ages into enlightenment, Operations Director Jim McCann says.

Opposite page, panels are stacked in 4 m tall packs using an automated system.

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The Siempelkamp forming line begins the 59 million Euro renewal project.

The Smartply team, supported by several Irish engineering and construction firms, along with the main equipment suppliers, took just 17 months from the ground breaking on November 17, 2014 to first board production on April 6, 2016. The final performance acceptance testing followed in August 2016. Particularly impressive was that the Smartply team was still running the old press and only shut down the operation for two and a half weeks to integrate the new equipment and control systems with the existing mill.

Since startup, Smartply has continued to ramp-up production levels in line with the equipment capacity.

Project Manager Seamus Ryan

CONSTRUCTION McCann says Smartply couldn’t afford to be out of the OSB market for a long period of time and it was important to minimize the downtime between shutting down the old mill and starting up the new equipment. “We had to get the process control right, and we did.”

Not only did the team meet the startup schedule, they came in well under the project budget. “Control of cost was a big deal for us. We kept a very tight grip on cost,” he adds.

McCann says the team was able to control costs in two main ways: by using their own Smartply people for project engineering and automation, which made communications more effective: “We contracted out a lot of other functions but not that. We ensured it was done right and done the way we wanted it.” The other key to success for McCann was making extensive use of 3D modeling software.

Everything was modeled in 3D first,

Operations Director Jim McCann

Technical Manager Michael Nichol

before drawings were approved, to make sure there would be no problems or surprises once the structural steel arrived. This largely eliminated costly corrects that would have had to have been done once the steel was inside the building and it was discovered that structures were colliding. Whenever the 3D modeling suggested that the team needed to make changes, McCann says the communication was excellent and by using in-house engineers they were able to quickly get together and sort out the problem.

With the existing forming and press line still in operation, and ongoing construction, storage space was a premium on the 24 hectare site. The team worked with a local steel supplier, conveniently

located nearby, with a large storage yard. So that’s where it was all staged and brought to the plant as needed.

Smartply team members weren’t only involved in the project engineering. Process operators and maintenance technicians were also involved, providing assistance to construction and pre-commissioning. McCann notes that by working punch lists, operators were able to gain valuable knowledge of the machines before startup, helping to make a smooth transition.

“At the end of the day,” he says, “I was struggling to find things we would have done differently.”

NEW TECH Smartply was drawn to the Siempelkamp ContiRoll continuous press for a number of reasons—but it really got down to much better control compared to the old press. “We joke about going from darkness into light, but it really is like moving from the dark ages into enlightenment. We had a dimly-lit old plant and then we built this new plant that’s bright and shiny and well ordered, producing a product that is bright and shiny and well ordered,” McCann says.

Flakes are compressed in 55 different

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The recent upgrade has dramatically upgraded Smartply’s board quality.

frames, utilizing 350 individual hydraulic cylinders, over the length of the 45 m long press. The hydraulic pressure is controlled automatically by a PLC program. “We wanted precision control, and this is what we got,” McCann says.

The 55 frames are broken up into five zones, each supported by a separate thermal oil loop, in which Smartply varies the oil pressure and temperature.

Coming out of the press, Smartply uses the SicoScan real-time process measurement system to continuously measure thickness across the width of the board. The boards also pass ultra sonic detection for imperfections like blows. If panels are out of tolerance for thickness or blows, the reject panels are automatically diverted to a large board breaker that hogs the panels for fuel.

Smartly manufactures a wide range of panel sizes and thicknesses.

Predictive maintenance analysis is very important at Smartply. The new investment included continuous measurement of vibration and temperature of key items of equipment, such as the thermal oil pumps. This allows Smartply engineers to analyze trends to monitor how the equipment is performing and to allow planned interventions when alarm conditions are detected.

MILL FLOW Three meter length pine and spruce logs, all certified under FSC and PEFC, with diameters ranging from 3 in. to a maximum of 12 in. are trucked in from Coillte owned harvesting tracts. Once unloaded, logs are put into the yard

where Smartply has a storage capacity of about four week’s production (40,000 m3).

Logs enter the production process when fed into two parallel drum debarkers. Once debarked (with bark burned in a thermal oil heater system for the press), logs are conveyed to two parallel Carmanah (Kadant) disc flakers. Flakes are dried in four rotating drum dryers, operating in parallel, heated by sawdust burned in wood suspension burners, directly in front of each dryer.

Flakes are dried down from a moisture content of 50-60% to approximately 4%. The dryers were originally supplied by U.S. company MEC. After drying, flakes are pneumatically conveyed to screening.

All sawdust from screening is recycled back to the burners for the dryers.

Once flakes pass screening, resin is added in three blenders before entering the forming line, which lays down a bottom layer, two core layers and top layer onto a moving belt. The flake is transported as a continuous mat to the continuous press. Coming out of the press, the pressed OSB is cross sawn into 7.5 m long master panels, and edge trimmed down to typically 2.5 m wide.

The master panels enter two sets of rotary coolers.

After cooling for about 30 minutes, boards go into master panel storage.

Master panels are stacked to make 4 m tall packs, then an automatic shuttle car puts them in storage. Location and board dimensions are tracked electronically so the shuttle car can accurately feed the ensuing cut-to-size line when needed.

Master panels are picked based on specific customer orders. The master panel storage area allows the press line to run continuously uninterrupted while the cut-to-size line changes between different customer orders.

The cut-to-size and packaging line was supplied by the German company Anthon, who sub-contracted to Siempelkamp, the main project equipment supplier. Two sets of saws cut panels to the desired finished dimensions of length and width.

The production process is finished with an Anthon packaging line where packs of panels are automatically stenciled and strapped.

Rolling stock is a mix of Hyster, Volvo and Irish-made CombiLift, which handles Smartply’s large panel products up to 2.8 m wide and 7.5 m long.

Fuel recovery and environmental abatement is extremely important, and represented a significant portion of the investment. Scheuch of Austria provided a press fume scrubber, bag filters and pneumatic conveying for dust containment and collection. All wood dust is recovered for heat energy production on site.

EMPLOYEES Smartply employs 160, including administrative and support staff, and operates four shifts, operating 24/7.

There are operators specific to certain pieces of equipment. Each shift also has a shift coordinator, who is the senior person on site outside of normal day time working hours.

At Smartply health and safety is very important. Smartply operates a Lock out/Tag out system for all interventions with live equipment. Lock out is taken very seriously and the company has a zero tolerance policy if anyone is discovered to have willingly violated it. “It started when LP operated the facility,” McCann admits, “and we’ve carried it on, continuously improving our safe systems of work.” All equipment at SmartPly is safety-guarded to the European Machinery directive standards (CE Standard).

As another safeguard, the plant makes extensive use of automatic spark detection and explosion suppression technology, particularly in plant areas where wood dust is present.

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ATLANTA, Ga. ore than 400 personnel involved in the OSB, plywood, engineered wood products and composite board segments of the wood products industry participated in the sixth Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE) held April 13-14 at the Omni Hotel at CNN Center.

The event, hosted by Panel World magazine and Georgia Research Institute, featured 38 speakers and 94 technology exhibitor companies in the Grand Ballroom North. (The number of exhibitors was a record for the event.)

“It was the most well-rounded attendance PELICE has ever had,” comments Rich Donnell, co-chairman and editor-in-chief of Panel World. Donnell said participants came from 34 states and DC, six provinces in Canada, and from nine countries other than the U.S. and Canada.

First day keynoters Roy O. Martin III of RoyOMartin, Jim Salchenberg of

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PELICE 2018 EMPHASIZES NEW MILL PROJECTS, MASS TIMBER DEVELOPMENTS The structural and non-structural panel communities came together for two days in Atlanta, Georgia.

Roseburg Forest Products, and Erik Christensen and Norm Voss of Swiss Krono USA set the tone for the conference with presentations on new plant projects—RoyOMartin’s newly started up OSB plant in Corrigan, Texas; Roseburg’s LVL plant under construction in Chester, SC; and Swiss Krono’s HDF plant looking at a late-year startup in Barnwell, SC. Martin, president and CEO Alexandria, La.-based RoyOMartin, first gave a short history of the company and expounded on the company’s guiding principles under the acronym R.I.C.H.E.S. (Respect-Integrity-Commitment-HonestExcellent-Stewardship).

Martin noted the company’s segments that include plywood, lumber (timbers) and OSB manufacturing, FSC-certified timberlands, oil and gas exploration and production, and investments—all “natural resource-based companies” that thrive on good people.

He showed how the company has expanded its timberland holdings in three

Roy O. Martin III kicked off PELICE 2018 with a review of company history and an update on the new OSB plant.

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Swiss Krono CEO Erik Christensen

generations since its founding in 1923, now at 550,000 FSC-certified acres in Louisiana, and more than 1,700 acres recently added to the portfolio in Polk County, Texas, site of the new Corrigan OSB, L.L.C. venture.

“Whoever said ‘money doesn’t grow on trees’ never owned timberland,” Martin commented, adding that RoyOMartin has a forestry department that’s “second to none.”

But while timberland may be the largest part of the company, “Our most important resource is people,” Martin said, citing the company’s major employee health care initiative dating to 2011 including a patient-centered medical clinic for RoyOMartin employees and eligible dependents located in

Swiss Krono’s Norm Voss focused on new Barnwell facility.

Alexandria.

Martin then showed footage of the new OSB facility in Corrigan, Texas, which is about 100 miles northeast of Houston. As Martin spoke, the mill was only 10 days away from making its first press-load of OSB with a 14-opening Dieffenbacher unit, marking about three years since construction began on the $280 million operation with more than 800MMSF of annual production capacity.

He referred to the Corrigan location as “deep East Texas” and close to the fastest growing markets in the U.S. Martin also addressed the housing market and said that despite some negative stereotypes, “I’m excited about the millennial generation. They are the biggest demographic in history moving

Roseburg’s Jim Salchenberg addressed the new LVL plant.

into prime home buying age and I’m excited about the future.”

He referred to a survey that, contrary to some observation, indicates home ownership remains a priority for millennials.

Martin spent some time talking about cross-laminated timber and mass timber construction. “I believe we’re on the start of a great new building boom and a renaissance of wood in construction,” he said. He pointed to pre-fabrication of parts, less requirements for foundation loads, excellent fire rating, precise engineered connectors, erection time savings and positive environmental attributes as making CLT and glulam a viable alternative to tall concrete and steel structures.

Economist Roger Tutterow said the recovery still has some steam.

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PELICE sessions were well-attended.

Jim Salchenberg, Roseburg Forest Products Director of Engineering Services and Chester Engineering Wood Project Director at Roseburg’s new LVL plant project in Chester, SC, spoke about the privately owned company’s current manufacturing base, which includes engineered wood (LVL and I-joist) operations in Oregon as well as multiple plywood and composite board plants, and a large sawmill, all product lines ranking in the top five in North America In moving South and building Roseburg’s first greenfield plant in the east, Salchenberg cited the region’s potential market growth, business-friendly environment, logistics advantage—and projections for more than 50% of U.S. housing starts in the South the next four years, as well as Roseburg’s established brand and sales program.

As for picking Chester, Roseburg evaluated 72 different criteria points for each of 34 potential sites. The plant will occupy a 400,000 sq. ft. building on a 200acre site. Equipment installation begins late this year with startup in late 2019.

He added that the 65 m Dieffenbacher continuous press going in at Chester is the highest capacity LVL press in the world. The plant will employ dual Raute layup lines, and USNR is supplying much of the additional equipment for LVL handling, sawing and packaging.

“Our team development is already a little ahead of schedule,” he said.

“We’re on time with construction currently under way.”

Swiss Krono USA President and CEO Erik Christensen and U.S. Project Manager for Capital Expansion Norm Voss gave a combined presentation on the company’s new MDF/HDF plant and additional laminate flooring line in Barnwell, SC. Christensen profiled the overall $1.85

billion company, which operates 10 plants in eight countries, with sales in 121 countries. He pointed to several major capital projects the company has going on worldwide, including a particleboard facility in Russia, and OSB expansion in Hungary and of course the $275 million project in South Carolina.

Christensen noted the Barnwell site was chosen for its location in an abundant wood basket, a solid regional work force, access to two interstate highways and local water, rail and power infrastructure.

Voss, who served as president and CEO of the company from 2000-2012 and guided its expansion into North America, gave a detailed run-down of the new plant’s equipment and process systems, suppliers and capacities.

280,000 m3 annually, with the primary product 6-12 mm laminate flooring core material, but also large volumes of 4-8 mm engineered hardwood flooring core and THDF for millwork. A fourth laminate flooring profiling line is already operational.

The new mill will procure treelength SYP logs as well as debarked chips.

Siempelkamp is providing the forming and pressing line including a 30.5 m (101 ft.) continuous press. The mill will operate a Steinemann 10 head sander.

Voss mentioned lessons the company has learned in European operations that have been applied to the U.S. He added that current technology is way beyond what he’s seen in the past.

“The biggest change is the control ability, using feedback loops that are much more automated and integrated,” Voss said. “You can make adjustments now that were just not possible years ago.”

MASS TIMBER Just as Roy O. Martin III addressed it in part of his keynote talk, the topic of mass timber construction was on everybody’s lips.

Bob Glowinski, President and CEO of the American Wood Council (AWC), detailed ongoing efforts to gain more recognition and approval for CLT and other mass timber products and building techniques in U.S. building codes.

Currently, builders can use wood for

PELICE attendees came from far and wide, including from left, Hans deVisser, Al Blakey, Doug Pauze and Dave Powers from Coastland Wood Industries in British Columbia.

Before this current expansion, the company had been running three laminate flooring profiling lines, three quick cycle laminating lines and two paper treating lines at the 342 acre site.

The new HDF line will produce

buildings up to six stories, Glowinski said. And while that covers most U.S. buildings, being able to use primarily wood construction in buildings up to 12 stories high would make wood available for more than 90% of all construction.

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mass timber construction is completely different than traditional stick frame homebuilding. “We really need to differentiate mass timber as being different,” Glowinski said, adding that the best mass timber prospects are in commercial and institutional building, not homebuilding.

Left to right, Rich Baldwin and Dick Baldwin Drawing perhaps the biggest crowd for Gaining code acceptance for mass a non-keynote session, the Mass Plywood timber products for such building Panel & Cross Laminated Timber session heights would open up between three featured presentations from Mass Plyand five billion BF annually in new wood Panel pioneer Tyler Freres, execumarket opportunities, Glowinski said. tive vice president of Freres Lumber, AWC is aiming for the 2021 update which recently started up the world’s first edition of the U.S. Building Code to see mass plywood panel plant in Lyons, Ore. mass timber products and construction in the Northwest U.S., and representatypes fully incorporated and approved tives from IB X-Lam USA, which is for buildings up to 18 stories. building a CLT plant in the Southeast Right now, any buildings higher than U.S. in Dothan, Ala. six stories means special permitting and Freres detailed how he and other higher lead times for CLT projects in the U.S., Glowinski added. He pointed to the five-year “Tall Wood Project” led by the AWC, Softwood Lumber Board and U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities that initially aimed to have at least 12 story mass timber buildings allowed by code by 2021.

However, during initial talks with regulators, CLT advocates proposed up to 18 stories to see how officials would react and the objections they might have—and regulators surprisingly agreed to work with it. “So now we’re going for 18 (stories) by ’21 instead of 12,” Glowinski said.

Code work includes working with the International Building Council that deScott Springer spoke about IPCO. velops model U.S. building codes that have been adopted to varying degrees in all 50 states. The codes are revised company executives believed that strucevery three years, including 2018 and tural composite lumber-based mass tim2021. ber panels (MPP) are a more efficient Gaining acceptance means preparing and stronger mass timber building proda technical case for CLT products that uct than traditional CLT. Benefits, he includes all structural and fire testing said, include better log utilization than and working with state and local buildlumber, veneer that’s traditionally dried ing and fire code officials. This includes to less than CLT’s 11% maximum satisfying the requirements of up to moisture content requirement, and more 8,000 jurisdictions or agencies, 350 precise engineering to meet specific code chapters and potentially 21,000 ofbuilding applications. ficials across the country.

In a testament to how quickly indeKey to the effort is gaining support pendent companies can make a decision from local building and fire code offiand employ capital, Freres noted the cials and making sure they understand company produced its first testing con-

cept panels in April 2015, filed patents in October 2015, had built a test facility

by February 2017 and started up the actual MPP plant in December 2017.

Explaining the manufacturing process, Freres said the panels are made of 4x48.5 ft. “plates” of structural composite lumber, with cross-plies built into the panel per its design requirements. A 6 in. thick panel can contain up to 54 veneer plies, each individually graded with engineering values developed for a specific application, he said.

Several times, Freres referred to an advantage he believes MPP has over lumber-based CLT in that’s it’s not married to the odd-layer requirement like CLT and can be more efficiently engineered for specific values and applications.

Freres also reviewed the history of the 96-year-old company. It was a sawmill business for many years, before beginning veneer production in the early 1960s. It purchased bankrupt North Santiam Plywood in 1983 to move into finished product markets, and installed a boiler and cogeneration facility in 2007.

Today Freres is one of the largest independent veneer producers on the West Coast, with 400MMSF of veneer production with two veneer plants, as well as 200MMSF of plywood production, while employing 450. The company has invested more than $130 million into its facilities in the past dozen years.

Freres explained the properties of the MPP product coming out of the new plant, and noted the plant is fully operational at five press loads per shift, or 6000 cubic feet per shift. The plant encompasses four acres under roof, and operates four bridge gantry cranes, in addition to a scarf line up to 60 ft. in length and a 48.5 ft. press.

Steve Lieberman, senior product engineer, and Karl Aicher, operations manager, both with International Beam X-Lam, spoke on the company’s CLT plant in Alabama that’s scheduled to start up later this year—the world’s first southern yellow pine CLT operation.

Lieberman noted the company already produces pre-fab I-joists, LVL and glulam. IB X-Lam has also fostered an advisory partnership with experienced European CLT producer KLH to smooth the company’s growth curve through the project.

Lieberman debunked five CLT myths one by one, then noted how the product not only performs just as good as concrete or steel in tall structures but also

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DHA’s Kip Howlett

Fraunhofer’s Bo Kasal

Biele’s Paul Gavin

greatly reduces labor and associated construction costs.

Fast assembly is a main benefit of CLT, Lieberman said, adding that panel construction allows JIT delivery to the job site, with panel application and assembly sequence determined in a planning phase. Panels are delivered, lifted by crane and set immediately. This requires less storage on the job site and means a smaller footprint.

Using platform construction, once a floor is finished, electricians and others can move right in, reducing overall construction time. Mass timber construction is also quieter.

Lieberman said that outputs of up to 8,000 sq. ft./day can be achieved with a two- to eight-person crew and one or two crane operators. He showed a comparison of a CLT-constructed Candlewood Suites four-story motel at Redstone Arsenal in north Alabama, detailing the CLT costs vs. traditional building processes.

The project required 44% fewer manhours than traditional stick-frame construction, had a 75% faster structural production rate and overall 37% shorter structural duration than traditional. As an added bonus for the lumber industry, the CLT building used 14% more wood than a traditional building style would have used.

Lieberman noted that X-Lam USA will be producing panels up to 10x52 ft. and up to 12 in. thick, in up to nine layers of lumber in lengths of 8 and 16 ft., from .8 to 3 in. thick, and from 3.35 in. to 12 in. wide.

The plant will make a floor-ceiling panel with longitudinal top layer and a wall panel with top transverse layer.

Panel appearance will be available in an aesthetic grade, industrial grade and

hidden grade.

X-Lam USA’s Aicher said the mill will produce up to 100,000 m3 of CLT annually, and also include a glulam operation.

He said the Dothan site was chosen because Alabama is a business- and timber-friendly state, and the physical facility—a former, spacious GE electric motor plant—is ideal for the handling needs of CLT and future expansion.

The location includes rail access, plus direct access to three major federal highways, plus less than 30 miles to I10 and less than 100 miles to I-85 and I65 in Montgomery. Access to ports in Mobile and Jacksonville is good, and more than 75% of the U.S. population is within a two-day haul of the facility.

The building is 227,000 sq. ft., including a main office and plant office on 36 acres. The interior of the building features extensive width between pillars to make handling 52 ft. panels feasible,

and the layout and design leave room for a second CLT line.

Sales and marketing are done out of IB X-Lam’s Sarasota, Fla. office, and the company already has distribution agreements in 30 states and four Canadian provinces.

Hexion’s North American Business Director for Performance Adhesives Scott McIntyre’s presentation on the role of adhesives in new mass timber product development noted the importance of ensuring performance during the process.

He described the necessary attributes of mass timber adhesives and some of the methodologies used. “Most people have no idea the amount of engineering that goes into developing methodologies and testing for strength, fire resistance, overall safety,” he said.

As an example he cited strength in shear structural adhesive testing that includes testing blocks laminated together under dry conditions; wet and fully saturated with vacuum pressure; soaked and frozen to -34°C; saltwater soaked and frozen to -57°C; nine cycles of boil, dry and freeze; and elevated temperature exposure up to 220°C for 10 minutes.

When producing laminated products, “The glue line has to be stronger than the wood itself, and it can never be the weak link no matter if it’s wet or dry, hot or cold or any combination of conditions that damage the wood substrate,” McIntyre said.

He noted four suitable mass timber resins: melamine formaldehyde, onecomponent polyurethane, emulsion polymer isocyanate, and phenol resorcinol formaldehyde. Each has distinct usage and performance trade-offs—and a CLT producer’s choice of resin type has a significant impact on plant design,

Dieffenbacher’s Hauke Jeske

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McIntyre said.

Claiming that high-performance wood adhesives are “CLT-enabling technology,” McIntyre noted that wood building products are the only ones that are “100% solar-powered, 100% recyclable and 100% sustainable. CLT is a great sustainability story.”

SUPPLIER KEYNOTES During the Supplier Keynote Session, Hexion Inc. Global Vice President David Jones also addressed the growth of MPP and CLT, and pointed to Hexion’s new MF adhesive, offering minimal waste, high heat/fire resistance, excellent manufacturing productivity and green certification.

Jones also spoke on the continued mass influx of population into urban living, and continued design trends toward more open rooms, a natural for engineered wood products.

On the composite board side, he pointed to new capacity coming on-line in North America, and said faster curing resins are called for and that every new line will commission with amino resin technology.

Jones said Hexion as part of its product development is focused on fire life safety, faster processing and increased durability.

Looking internationally, Jone said particleboard and MDF are leading the growth in Central and South America markets, while OSB and composite board industry is growing in Russia, supported by an excellent supply of wood, though maintaining some business cultural differences.

Jones closed by addressing the sustainability and energy efficiency of

wood, as well as carbon sequestration, noting that 45 million tons of CO2 a year are sequestered just by Hexion’s global customers. One ton of timber used equals one time of CO2 saved, he said.

Also in the Supplier Keynote Session, Hauke Jeske, Area Sales Manager North America in the Business Unit Wood for Dieffenbacher, addressed developments in digitalization and automation.

He noted that while major investments in complete composite board plants is now picking up in North America, for many years the industry was fairly stagnant. The rest of the world, however, was very active, especially in China, Southeast Asia and also Mexico, India, Turkey. What has come along with those new investments, Jeske said, is state-of-the-art electronics, automation and opportunities due to digitalization. He cited increasing digital communication through smart devices.

Major automation has occurred in the forming area and spreading in sequence, he cited as an example, resulting in raw material and resin savings, faster product change, less downtime. Another area is in the continuous production of products through automated product change. “All process parameters correspond with the correct recipe right from the start of a new production.” He referred to the collection of data in a cloud based system.

global network of more than 35 sales and service offices, with head office and steel belt production in Sweden and a production hub in Totowa, New Jersey.

The company continues to provide highest quality press belt solutions with ample service support technologies.

Tyler Freres

IB X-Lam’s Steve Lieberman

Scott Springer, regional product specialist, spoke about IPCO, the new name for the company formerly known as Sandvik Process Systems through the acquisition by FAM, which is owned by Wallenberg Foundation. The steel belt specialist will now have a long-term sustainable approach built on well-funded research and innovation support.

But as for daily operations, “nothing has changed,” Springer said, citing a

jobs market: “Seven years ago the story was ‘Where are the jobs?’ Now, it’s ‘Where are the workers?’”

Tutterow also said he believes there will be two more interest rate hikes this year.

Addressing tax reform, Tutterow noted that corporate tax rates are cut from 35% to 21%, which changes the value of loss carrying forward but lowers the cost of capital; he said individual

ECONOMY Second-day keynote speaker Roger Tutterow, Professor of Economics, Director of the Econometrics Center, Dept. of Economics at the Miles J. College of Business, Kennesaw State University, delivered an economic outlook presentation of business indicators.

The current overall better economic environment and relative comeback in manufacturing activity is being led by lower labor and energy costs, Tutterow said.

“Labor costs in Asia and other developing countries are rising, so there’s not a big a gap with the U.S. as before,” he added.

And while gas prices have gone on a 50 cents/gal. tear almost to the day he made the statement, Tutterow said a big factor in lower energy costs, especially in manufacturing, is increased automation, plus more efficient technology in general.

On the labor front, Tutterow said there’s been a complete change in the

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rate have lowered in some brackets; standard deduction is increased, but exemption disappears and limits on sales and local tax and other preferred items will more than offset for some. Also, the Affordable Care Act individual mandate disappears.

INTERNATIONAL

tion, and at least 90% of panels are consumed domestically for manufacturing and construction.

Based on best available data, Baldwin said China possibly has 800 MDF mills, 1,400 particleboard and 5,000 plywood mills, though low volume compared to U.S. and Europe.

The OSB industry in China is at an early stage, Baldwin noted, pointing to

Four speakers participated in the International Developments session.

Bob Flynn, director, International Tinber, for RISI, spoke on the outlook for global raw material supplies for China. He said over the past 20 years, China’s need for imported wood has grown 14% annually, with the pulp and paper sector accounting for half. Since 2000 imports of softwood logs have grown 11% and softwood lumber imports have increased 26%. However, RISI projects Chinese softwood log imports will decline 21% over the next decade, but softwood lumber imports will inAWC’s Bob Glowinski crease 28%.

The biggest surprise in U.S. log shipments to China has been a surge in southern yellow pine, Flynn said, which accounted for 22% of the total in 2017, and had jumped to more than 37% early in 2018. Traditional strong log exporters to China such as New Zealand and Australia may be hampered somewhat moving forward, due to demand from other markets and internal developments.

Flynn said China is increasingly importing eucalyptus sawlogs to produce core veneer for plywood.

Flynn said over the past 15 years Stela’s Yves-Marc Schade China’s imports of logs and lumber have grown at an astonishing rate, both hardwood and softwood species, but four modern plants with continuous while the import demand in China will presses. “Now is the time for North remain high, growth in the flow of raw American producers to prepare for dematerials to China has reached a peak. velopment of the Chinese OSB indusFuture growth will be limited by a try,” he said. more mature economy in China with Baldwin said China may be apless wasteful construction, limited and proaching a limit on wood panel prodecreasing supplies of timber available duction using domestic and imported for export to China, government restriclogs, though other sources of fiber could tions on trade, and growing demand in become available. Environmental concompeting markets. cerns will become more important as Rich Baldwin, vice president and chief China becomes wealthier, he added. investment officer of Oak Creek InvestDr. Bohumil Kasal of the Fraunhofer ments, relayed some of his data on China Institute for Wood Research spoke on reand the global market. Baldwin said in cent advances in the development of 2016 China accounted for nearly 74% of wood- and cellulose-based materials. Kip global plywood production and 60% of Howlett, president of Decorative HardMDF/HDF production, and 28% of partiwoods Assn., talked about the prospects cleboard production, but only 2% of and realities of fair trade with China.

OSB production. He said China produces Numerous technical sessions focused more than half of global panel producon a vast range of subjects, including ply-

wood de-watering press technology (Biele); low temperature belt dryer technology (Stela); x-ray technology in panel production (EWS); optimized forming technology (GreCon); direct to substrate digital printing (NAPC); bark and waste wood combustion systems (PDI); thermal oil versus steam technologies (Sugimat); furnace and boiler efficiency control (Atlantic Combustion); IB testing in plywood versus lap shear (G-P Chemicals); new RESI-BOOST adhesive technology (G-P Chemicals); fire protection at the former and sander (Flamex); spark detection awareness and controls (GreCon); maximum RTO environmental control uptime at the dryer (B&W Megtec); wet ESP and RTO refurbishment instead of replacement, (NESTEC); wastewater systems, (FRC Systems).

Bijan Shams, president of Cogent Industrial Technologies, spoke about managing large capital projects, focusing much of his talk on the Norbord OSB plant in Inverness, Scotland, for which Cogent has done considerable consultation.

Shams provided considerable detail on project elements and project management structure. “Sweat the small stuff,” Shams said. Proper planning, task definition, multiple scheduling, good site coordination, weekly meetings are all crucial, he added. “Think of installation as a moving assembly line with just-in-time concept.

Try to avoid double handling during installation.” And, he concluded, “Pledge loyalty to the project.”

Producer companies came out in force to attend the sessions and talk to exhibitors. Representatives from the following companies were on hand: Arauco, Bioestibas, ATCO Wood Products, Coastal Forest Industries, Coastland Wood Industries, Freres Lumber, Georgia-Pacific, Hood Industries, Huber Engineered Woods, Hunt Forest Products, IB X-Lam, Louisiana-Pacific, Norbord, North American Plywood Corp., Pacific WoodTech, Parr Lumber, Proteca Group, Rayonier, Republic Elite, Roseburg Forest Products, Scotch Plywood, RoyOMartin, Shaw Industries, Swiss Krono, Tolko Industries, Truax Veneer and Weyerhaeuser.

PELICE celebrated 10 years since the first PELICE in 2008 with a mimosa brunch on the closing day.

The next PELICE will be held March 12-13, 2020 again at the Omni Hotel at PW CNN Center in Atlanta.

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BY RICH DONNELL

GRAND OPENING HELD AT NEW CORRIGAN OSB FACILITY

Annual production is expected to top 800MMSF.

CORRIGAN, Texas he first greenfield OSB plant to be built in the U.S. since 2007 has started up in Corrigan, Texas. Corrigan OSB, L.L.C, a subsidiary of RoyOMartin, celebrated on May 30 with a grand-opening ceremony. (RoyOMartin was also the company that started up an OSB plant in Oakdale, La. in 2007.)

“Over the past two and half years, the construction team has coordinated hundreds of vendors, contractors and maintenance team members to build a worldclass OSB mill,” stated Terry Secrest, RoyOMartin vice president of OSB and corporate safety director, who added that the Corrigan OSB plant production team trained at the RoyOMartin Oakdale facility, contributing to a safe and successful startup at Corrigan.

RoyOMartin selected the Corrigan site in February 2015. Construction began in July 2015. The first press load came through on April 24, 2018.

Secrest noted that the company spent more than $280 million on the plant, which will produce more than 800MMSF annually.

A crowd of dignitaries, community partners, employees and others gathered on a warm day to hear remarks and also took a guided tour of the plant.

The Corrigan facility is situated on 158 acres and has brought in 165 direct jobs and six times more in indirect positions.

Secrest cited some fascinating construction statistics to the crowd: they moved 1.2 million cubic yards of dirt; poured 281 million lbs. of concrete; brought in 115 truckoads of steel; laid enough electrical cable to stretch from Corrigan, Texas to Portland, Oregon; and installed six miles of safety handrail throughout the plant.

He also noted the mill will procure 1.2 million tons of southern yellow pine annually, or 42,000 truckloads; and will require 202 million lbs. of resin/glue.

He added that the mill’s annual production of roofing and sheathing could build 65,000 average U.S. homes per year.

Secrest recognized many RoyOMartin personnel for their participation in the project, including Adrian Schoonover, vice president of engineering, and Steve Wilson, director of construction.

Roy O. Martin III, CEO and President of Alexandria, La.-based Roy-

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OMartin, referred to the special day as a 14-year journey, recalling an initial visit to the Corrigan area. He said it appealed to him from the outset, including the work ethic, values and family atmosphere of the community. “I told them I would come back,” he said. “I did come back.”

Martin added, “The foundation of everything we do is people. We grow people to be the best they can be in a world-class facility.”

Martin also referenced the fortuitous state of the Texas housing market. “Survey after survey is naming VP of OSB Terry Secrest Chairman Jonathan Martin Texas municipalities—led by Dal- CEO Roy O. Martin III las—as the hottest in the country for homebuyers,” he said. “Obviously this Corrigan OSB personnel led several In addition to the Corrigan OSB opcreates demand, and Corrigan OSB will groups on a tour of the plant, and at eration and the OSB plant in Oakdale, be just down the road to meet it.” the close of the festivities everybody RoyOMartin operates a plywood RoyOMartin Chairman Jonathan received a plaque that encompassed a plant and timbers mill in Chopin, La. Martin gave thanks for the spiritual piece of the first OSB produced at and owns more than 550,000 acres of guidance over the project and recalled PW Corrigan. timberland. that some early scribblings on a napkin set the project in motion.

Several officials spoke, including James White, state House of Representative for District 19, which includes Polk County; County Judge Sydney Murphy; and Corrigan Mayor Johnna Gibson.

Left to right, Corrigan OSB Production Manager Michelle Driscoll; Polk County Judge Sydney Murphy; RoyOMartin Exec14-opening press system is gearing up for hot markets. utive Vice President & COO Scott Poole

The mill will procure more than 1.2 million tons of pulpwood annually.

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IWF PREVIEW EDITOR’S NOTE: The following companies submitted these editorial profiles and photos with regard to their participation at IWF Atlanta, scheduled August 22-25 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Ga.

BAUMER The future is colorful: especially with digital printing getting more and more important in the wood based panel industry. To make sure that the print results are as perfect as you want them to be, Baumer Inspection will show its state-of-the-art digital printing inspection system—ColourBrain DoD (Drop On Demand).

The future is flawless: Baumer Inspection will also display the ColourBrain Edge inspection system, which detects all flaws that can happen during the production of furniture edges. That way you know that all pieces that leave your plant have the high quality you want them to have.

The future is real: EIR (Embossed In Register) is another way to make it even harder to distinguish between a real wood surface and a melamine surface. But there are a lot of factors that have to be perfect to get a great result out of the press. With the newly developed ColourBrain EIR module, Baumer can help you to get everything set Baumer ColourBrain MFC 4.0 inspection system up exactly the way you need, to get those real looking results.

The future is Baumer: In modern production sites you can’t have your eyes everywhere. There are too many things to watch and to control. Doesn’t matter if it’s the ColourBrain Flooring in your laminate flooring line, the ColourBrain Panel MFC 4.0 after your short cycle press or the raw board sander, or the ColourBrain Deco system in your foil or paper printing line. With a fully automated vision inspection system, ColourBrain in combination with Baumer’s statistic and classification tools Q-live and Q-brain, you have the full focus on the things that matter: quality, efficacy and precision.

Building C, Booth 926

BIELE Biele is a European company providing state-of-the art turnkey projects for several domains related to the woodworking industry including their own manufactured hydraulic presses.

Biele has consolidated its presence in North America, installing manufacturing lines for leading companies in various sectors and increasing the work team and capacity of its subsidiary Biele USA in Atlanta, Ga., opened in 2015.

Biele is organized for developing, manufacturing, installing and commissioning at the customer’s site production lines with a high level of technical complexity, but always from a customized and innovative perspective.

Biele provides turnkey projects for the wood industry 4.0.

For panel manufacturers, Biele will show the latest innovations related to the pressing operations for plywood, HPL and EIR technology.

In plywood, Biele’s main expertise starts after the drying operation up to the final packaging of the line, including layup lines, prepress and multi-opening presses, trimming and packaging. Also before the dryer, Dewatering Presses have been proven as a big saving in energy consumption as the drying time is minimized.

For furniture manufacturers, Biele will show latest generation lines in high speed feeding and stacking (up to 30 cycles/min), automatic outsorting and insorting systems, and automated packing lines, organized in a modular way in order to fit with the customer’s requirements.

Regarding the door industry, Biele manufactures turnkey lines, both for residential doors and architectural doors, where every door can be different from the next one (batch size 1).

Biele is also building turnkey press lines for manufacturing lightboard panels using different types of glues for the bonding operation, such as PVAC and PUR. Also, using 4.0 Industry concepts, Biele provides a higher control of the processes by means of a bigger volume of processed information. These technologies can be adapted to each customer’s expectations and requirements.

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COMBILIFT If you need to move long and bulky loads safely and save space and improve productivity while doing so, then materials handling specialist Combilift has just the right piece of equipment for your requirements. With load capacities from 2,200 lbs. to 220,000 lbs., Combilift’s product range encompasses pedestrian stacker trucks, multidirectional forklifts, two directional and multidirectional sideloaders; and for extreme out of gauge loads the company offers straddle carriers and mobile gantries.

Designed and manufactured in the company’s brand new factory in Ireland, each Combilift is tailor-made to meet the specific demands of each customer. Whether you handle extreme lengths of engineered timber, timber frames, palletized goods or a mix of merchants’ products, Combilift will deliver a machine that is totally suited to your operation.

Two very popular models used in the timber sector are the Space saving, safer handling solutions from Combilift C10,000 XL and the Combi-CB. The XL range was developed for heavy duty operation in tough working environments—in sawmills for example, and includes features such as an extra roomy cab, generous ground clearance, easy operation on rough, muddy or snowy ground conditions, and of course the usual advantages of Combilift’s multidirectional forklifts such as excellent maneuverability when moving long loads around a site.

The Combi-CB—the first forklift to combine multidirectional capability with counterbalance design, is available with lift capacities from 5,000 lbs. to 8,000 lbs., with a choice of diesel, LPG or electric power options. It is perfect for operations that need to handle mixed loads such as pallets and longer lengths such as packs of timber. With very compact dimensions, this versatile machine can also work inside containers for easy stuffing and destuffing.

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DAUBERT CHEMICAL How would you define the “right adhesive” for your manufactured product? l You expect it to perform.

Daubert Chemical formulated Daubond PUR to work with the wide range of substrates offered today, to deliver the highest strength available for most any assembly or repair task. Lamination of intricate profiles and details will stay put. l You expect it to apply well.

As a single-component reactive polyurethane adhesive available in hot melt and liquid formulations, Daubond PUR goes on easily in just one step. What’s more, you’ll enjoy a wide range of processing capabilities that will allow peak efficiency. Daubert offers standard and custom formulations. l You expect ongoing support.

Daubert Daubon PUR for flexibility, strength If the adhesive fails, you’re in for trouble. If it’s not cost-effective to apply or is difficult to clean up, you’ve got headaches that cut into profits. Just as Daubond PUR has redefined what “the right adhesive” means for countless manufactured products, Daubert Chemical as a company is setting the standard in PUR support. l Daubert will be there at startup and stick with you every step of the way.

—Windows, doors and laminate boards —Bonding of thin edges and intricate patterns —Postforming —Wrapping —Applied molding —Surface bonding and lamination —Engineered floors —Assembly bonding Stick with the proven leader. Visit Daubert Chemical to learn more.

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DIEFFENBACHER Dieffenbacher manufactures turnkey production lines for wood-based panels, including particleboard, MDF, THDF, OSB, OSL and LVL. Companies around the world rely on Dieffenbacher to plan and equip their new manufacturing plants and to modernize and automate their existing plants to improve productivity.

Dieffenbacher Customer Support LLC in Alpharetta, Georgia, USA and Dieffenbacher North America Inc. in Windsor, Ontario, Canada are a strong team of more than 80 members serving North American customers.

Dieffenbacher North America (DNA) manufactures many parts used on Dieffenbacher continuous and multi-opening press lines. This proximity to customers can reduce by weeks the time it takes to get a manufactured part delivered in North America and is especially important for Canadian customers because it also reduces the cost of importing and customs clearance.

The teams of Dieffenbacher Customer Support (top) and DieffenWith its new facility providing 75% more warehouse space bacher North America (bottom) than the previous location, Dieffenbacher Customer Support (DCS) has 100,000 spare parts ready for immediate delivery at any time. Since December 2017, 98% of all in-stock parts have been shipped in two days or less.

Aside from spare parts, DCS supports North American customers with its Customer Support Specialists concept. The three customer support specialists have the expertise customers need, while their frequent on-site visits ensure customers have in-person access to that expertise along with parts and services.

For plant modernizations, the DCS Team identifies improvement opportunities and provides clear ROI analyses. One example is heating platens. DNA has state-of-the-art manufacturing and machining equipment specifically for heating platen work so that DCS can easily provide customers with new heating platens or refurbishments.

DCS recently expanded its team with a specialist for energy systems, dryers and process reviews, a spare parts coordinator and two new service engineers. Additionally, there now is one customer support specialist who is responsible for Dieffenbacher’s Mexican customers. With these measures, DCS and DNA are better prepared to support North and Central America.

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ELECTRONIC WOOD SYSTEMS Electronic Wood Systems introduces its flagship device for mat inspection in a panel line.

EWS offers a complete range of quality inspection systems for the panel manufacturing industry; and its spark extinguishing systems are also widely used in the industry.

At the Atlanta show, the company will focus on its new flagship device, EcoScan NEO, for mat inspection in the forming line. This innovative x-ray system was developed in cooperation with Siempelkamp and represents one complete system with independent Xray devices for individual tasks, comprising: —high-precision weight/area measurement by self-adjusting “flying” measuring heads and —intelligent foreign body detection across the board by selflearning algorithm.

“Thanks to our cooperation with Siempelkamp, this innovation is based on practice-oriented solutions for engineered wood products Electronic Wood Systems EcoScan NEO installed in OSB proand on applied research,” says Konrad Solbrig, Head of Technolo- duction line. gy, Wood-based Composites at EWS. The plant of the future will be fully automated, with minimized operator interaction. Hence modern X-ray measuring systems are self-adjusting, based on recipe information, to provide consistently high measuring precision along a wide production range.

Ultimately, the application of such capable measuring systems facilitates material savings and paves the way to the fourth industrial (r)evolution Industrie 4.0 in wood-based composite production.

The management, technology and application team members of Electronic Wood Systems, Germany, with its associated partner EWS North America LLC, Beaverton, Oregon, look forward to welcoming industry staff and technical personnel.

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HYMMEN Hymmen is dedicated to engineer and build machines and lines for excellent surfaces. The company’s experts are looking forward to presenting the latest innovative technologies, trends and developments, where you will see multiple fields of application opened up by Hymmen technologies Whether it’s the newly developed high-gloss technology in the double belt press sector, the Calander Coating Inert (CCI) or industrial digital printing—Hymmen technologies have cornered the market for surface finishing. One of the key innovations is the independent digital printing system for up to 3 mm-thick edge banding material.

In addition, the Digital Lacquer Embossing (DLE) is Hymmen’s response to a clear customer need for the look and feel of a surface to match. For this innovation the European patent was recently granted.

With this technology a transparent liquid medium is printed into a layer of non-cured core lacquer. It is done by InkJet, using the proven technology of the Hymmen JUPITER digital printing lines. Physical and chemical reactions cause the deep and unique structures, which are in-register (EIR) with the printed décor.

This technology encompasses all of the commercial and technical benefits of the established digital single pass printing by Hymmen: flexibility, small changeover times and individualization. With a width from 70 mm up to 2,100 mm the technology can be Product samples of Digital Lacquer Emintegrated into exiting process chains easily. By only using a small amount of the struc- bossing (DLE) by Hymmen turing medium all proven features like hardness, bonding, resistance and chemical reliability of the core lacquer are assured. Last but not least certainly it is possible to create structures that are embossed in register (EIR) to the decor of the surface—no matter if printed digitally or analog.

See and feel for yourself the wide range of potential applications for end products made from Hymmen equipment. The Hymmen team looks forward to discussing your individual requirements over a cup of coffee. It will be possible to demonstrate interesting details with product samples and extensive media support.

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IMAL-PAL GROUP The IMAL-PAL group, together with Globus, is a leading and flexible manufacturer of equipment and engineering for plants and complete lines, with an extensive reference list for a growing number of applications for the production of OSB, MDF, particleboard, wood fiber insulation board, pressed pallets, pallet blocks and special production lines for pellets.

PAL will present the HD Oscillating Screen with low friction hydrostatic suspension system to support the screening box.

The continued focus on innovation and development has led to the creation of the “new cleaning tower,” able to remove all pollutants from the Imal-Pal mat steam injection Dynastream press material, exploiting height and gravity in order to reduce the number of conveyors required to convey the material from one machine to the other.

The new evolution of Cyclops type “all in one,” is an optical selector based on NIR technology detection and ejection by air compressed nozzles; this version is integrated with the metal detector and blower; it is utilized to clean the wood flow from all kinds of pollutants such as plastic, rubber, foam, stone and metal.

IMAL will present its core technology, the Hi-Jet resination system, for existing and new particleboard, MDF and OSB lines, which can reduce resin addition by as much as 20%.

The latest evolution of the Dynasteam, the mat steam injection system, is installed on more than 90 production lines, and with which it is possible to increase production by up to 30%.

The group has also installed a number of the FBC200 (Full Bond/Blister Classifier) worldwide, with more in the pipeline. This device is the only system in the world that can detect blisters or blown areas over the entire surface of the board.

Globus will present the Sharpening Room, an automatic knife sharpening system for knife ring flakers, equipped with a six axis robot that is able to carry out all the sharpening operations. Three such systems have already been supplied in Europe, Australia and North America and the Sharpening Room is set to revolutionize flake production utilizing knife ring flakers as it not only controls sharpening operations and automatic knife regulation, but also the quality of the flakes produced in relation to the power utilized and an advanced incorporated system for monitoring the wear of the knife ring components.

It will also be possible to see the largest drum chipper in the world, capable of producing 160 t/h B.D. and which is to be supplied to an Australian particleboard plant.

Twenty-plus units of the latest version of the knife ring flaker, the SRC14.690-EVO4, have been supplied over the last six months, virtually halfway to the 50 unit target set for one year.

Panel Alliance has been created by IMAL, PAL, GLOBUS, VYNCKE, TRASMEC and RECALOR, each an expert in its own core business, to form a team that can supply all the technology required for particleboard, MDF and OSB production lines.

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KUPER Kuper will present the newly developed KUPER FLI 1000 veneer splicing machine at the booth of its distribution partner, Stiles Machinery Inc. In addition, you will experience the new KUPER FSH veneer saw in action.

The Kuper FLI 1000, the bestseller of the wide range of Kuper veneer splicing machines, combines innovation and proven technology. The result of the new Kuper FLI 1000 is a proven heat supply method, simultaneous application of contact pressure and precise guidance of the valuable material, connected with an intelligent energy management. The insensitive control panel, which can also be easily operated with gloves, displays all parameters and considerably reduces the machine startup time. The innovative glue application system ensures precise glue application to each veneer thickness. The performance range of the machine is additionally extended by an optionally available compact cooling unit, which prolongs the glue pot life essentially or by the option pack- Kuper FLI 1000 high efficiency veneer splicing machine ets for processing micro and thick veneers.

The veneer saw Kuper FSH is the first choice for highly precise parallel veneer cutting of any veneer thickness. The saw carriage is guided by a precise linear guide. The operator initiates the feed manually, ensuring that a precise cutting result can be achieved for any veneer quality.

An optional planing unit can be used to further improve the quality of the cut. The pressure bar is held down pneumatically on two sides, making it possible to position even wavy veneer packages with great precision. The optionally available parallel fence is equipped with a magnetic measuring system. The parallel measurement is set and indicated on a display.

The Kuper FSH distinguishes itself by the great flexibility for cutting any veneer thickness. This makes the veneer saw FSH the ideal complement for the veneer splicer Kuper FLI 1000 mm with an optional micro and thick veneer package. Veneers with a thickness of 0.25-5.0 mm can be processed without any difficulty.

Kuper offers customers comprehensive, individual and professional advice and services which are related to the customers’ needs. You are welcome to visit the booth of distribution partner Stiles Machinery Inc. and use the opportunity for a personal encounter.

Building B, Stiles Machinery Booth 5035, 5053

USNR USNR’s CLT press was accepted as an entry in the IWF Challenger’s Award contest. Its unique modular design was instrumental in the development of the North American CLT market. USNR is also exhibiting optimization solutions for the secondary chop and rip market, the veneer and panel industry, and hardwood lumber manufacturing.

USNR offers an extensive line of integrated systems to manufacture lumber, plywood, panels, engineered wood products, finger-jointed components, and shop and molding components. As a single-source supplier for complete wood processing facilities, USNR offers state-of-the-art machinery, drying systems, control systems, and automation for sawmills, planer mills, CLT plants, plywood, veneer, OSB, LVL, and other engineered wood manufacturing plants.

USNR’s AddVantage Chop & Rip Saw Optimizer scans USNR cross-laminated timber press boards in the secondary rough mill and optimizes for highestvalue recovery, delivering higher production, greater performance and more profit to combat rising wood costs with better rip/cut decisions and reduced labor dependence.

USNR also manufactures complete panel and plywood machinery lines including Coe brand lathes, computerized chargers, core drives, tray systems, dryers, stacking systems, layup lines and presses. With the addition of Ventek’s veneer scanning, grading and handling solutions, USNR now offers tightly integrated mechanical and optimization solutions for the plywood industry.

USNR also supplies machinery for beam lamination, fingerjointing and presses for the composite board industry.

USNR is the clear leader for optimized hardwood lumber applications. MillExpert Hardwood Optimizers combine dense 3D scan data with the power of today’s high-speed computers to get the most value from every piece.

For more than 100 years USNR has manufactured lumber drying systems including aluminum/steel framed dry kilns, Kiln Boss computerized controls, steam/direct fired kilns, green burners, pre-dryers, and kiln trucks. ` Committed to superior customer service, USNR offers OEM parts, training, and 24/7 support around the globe.

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WEMHÖNER Wemhöner is exhibiting a 3D VARIOPRESS system.

This press line is designed to produce furniture components on a thermal-plastic foil base such as PVC and PET with and without membrane.

Technology, quality, innovation—this is Wemhöner for more than 90 years.

Designed and built by Wemhöner: —Melamine short-cycle press lines —Wemhöner MasterLine—Lacquering, Direct and Digital printing lines —3D VARIOPRESS equipment with and without membrane —Coating and surface laminating equipment —Lightweight panel equipment —Throughfeed press lines in single- and multi-daylight automation Wemhöner Variopress for production of furniture elements —Special press plants, customized systems —Laboratory presses —Handling systems —Logistics concepts Building B, Stiles Machinery Booth 5035

GRECON High-speed modern production means that companies need real-time up-to-the millisecond information about their manufacturing processes performance. Automation and data exchange, termed industry 4.0 or “smart factory,” will allow operators to control production safely and efficiently. GreCon measuring systems are being integrated into customer production lines to “talk” with the factory’s control and monitoring systems.

Mat forming is one of the most important elements for continuous production quality of wood-based panels. The FORMATOR constantly regulates material distribution of the mat. The FORMATOR reduces material fluctuations.

The control process is based on detection of material fluctuations in the mat forming line before the press. Measuring data automatically feeds to an upstream mat-forming tool, segmented scalper. This regulates the material distribution immediately by specific activation of rollers that eliminate local fluctuations by lifting and lowering. This GreCon FORMATOR optimizes panel board mats through weight per control process implements a specified target profile of the unit area measurements. mass per unit area across the width of the mat. l Integration of the GreCon spark detection system in the customer’s machine control is also possible via PROFINET. With this leading Ethernet standard for automation, GreCon offers two standardized field bus connections besides POWERLINE to record and evaluate all conditions of the system at a central point. Event data of the safety equipment can be easily connected with data of the process control. New detailed analysis options to optimize the production system with respect to a safe operation become possible.

These examples show why interlinked “smart factory” systems are becoming the standard and are quickly replacing standalone systems.

Fagus GreCon, Inc. is the new North American headquarters located in Charlotte, NC. Warehouse and production facilities have moved to Charlotte, while the Tigard, Ore. office continues to support sales and service from the West Coast. Meet the people of the new Fagus GreCon, Inc. during IWF. Building C, Booth 2266

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ROO GLUE Roo Glue, based in Woodburn, Ore. and makers of innovative adhesive technologies, will be exhibiting and discussing its products for the following applications: —Edge gluing (RF and cold clamp) —Fingerjointing —HPL to particleboard —General assembly —Curved plywood —Engineered flooring/plywood —Paper and packaging —Panel-to-frame —Veneer splicing Roo Glue is a dynamic, family-owned manufacturer of water-based adhesives for the woodworking and industrial wood products industries. As a division of Specialty Polymers, Inc., Roo Glue products are formulated based on the latest adhesive polymer technology developed in-house. Its diverse product line is truly technology-driven.

Roo Glue provides solutions through its family of adhesives.

Roo Glue products are designed to meet the most demanding needs from customers around the world, and Roo Glue employees are committed to providing the best customer service in the industry. With a fully equipped wood glue testing lab and manufacturing sites on the East and West coasts, Roo Glue is ready to provide solutions for any wood adhesive needs.

No solution is one size fits all. That’s why Roo offers the capability to develop customized adhesive products suited to specific environmental conditions, usage trends, and equipment requirements. Its greatest strength is developing individualized solutions to help its customers make better products and grow their business. The chemists at Roo Glue and Specialty Polymers have more than 60 years of experience in the wood adhesive industry and can deliver the right solution for your unique application.

Just ask Roo Glue customers why they choose Roo Glue. They’ll tell you that they keep coming back for the friendly service, knowledgeable sales team, and excellent technical support. No matter what size company, from industrial giant to small business, Roo Glue is committed to building a relationship that is focused on providing the best service and support in the industry.

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SIEMPELKAMP Siempelkamp, the German machine manufacturer, unveils its technological innovations for the production of MDF and particleboard made of rice straw and other annual plants at IWF 2018 in Atlanta. Climate-neutral boards with a positive CO2 balance can be produced using rice straw, a waste product from the rice harvest. As a result, Siempelkamp is positioning itself globally as a technological driver in the use of annual plants for the production of MDF and particleboard.

MDF, OSB and particleboard made from annual plants consist of 100% annually renewable resources which, as they are a natural waste product, do not compete with food production. In addition, it is possible to produce MDF and particleboard made of rice straw that equals the general material properties of wood-based panels and offer a chance to occupying product niches where special characteristics are in demand.

Siempelkamp emphasizes rice straw board A core element of wood-based panel plants is the ContiRoll continuous press, and continuous pressing. which has been in successful use around the world for many decades in the production of MDF, OSB and particleboard. The ninth generation of the press has been included in the Siempelkamp product portfolio since last year. The ContiRoll reaches a speed of 2500 mm/sec, enabling the achievement of high capacities during the production of thin MDF. In order to be able to exploit the production speeds of ContiRoll without any loss during final production, Siempelkamp will be presenting its new 6-fold saw. By using six saws, lab cuts can be executed precisely and without loss of speed. Even with highspeed production, the new Siempelkamp saw makes it easy to change individual saw blades during operation.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: The following companies submitted these editorial profiles and photos as a complement to their advertisements in this issue.

CHEM-TREND

DAUBERT CHEMICAL How would you define the “right adhesive” for your manufactured product? l You expect it to perform.

Daubert Chemical formulated Daubond PUR to work with the wide range of substrates offered today, to deliver the highest strength available for most any assembly or repair task.

Lamination of intricate profiles and details will stay put.

Chem-Trend: product innovation and partnership

Chem-Trend understands, supports and helps strengthen the wood composite industry on a global level. Chem-Trend helps you realize your goals in increasing efficiency, improving quality, and being more environmentally responsible, creating broad innovation as well as custom solutions that answer your specific challenges.

Whether you use a continuous press system, a daylight press, or another type of wood-pressing or finishing operation, there are many variables that affect the quality of your end product and the efficiency of your operation. Often, those variables also interrelate with—and are impacted by—the application of the release agent or plate/platen sealer that is used during the process.

Chem-Trend has developed a comprehensive range of release agents that are formulated to excel within the challenging framework of engineered wood pressing applications. Most of the products it has designed for this industry are water-based, and all have been tailored to work within a process that is demanding in terms of both chemical and mechanical attack of the pressing surface.

Chem-Trend’s global presence allows for unmatched strength in continuous innovation, exceptional knowledge, best practices, and cross-industry innovation. Its multiple wood composite research and development facilities around the globe provide leading-edge solutions. Chem-Trend’s robust regulatory department keeps you ahead of changes in the industry. And its focus on sustainability helps its clients, and the planet. However, it is Chem-Trend’s localized presence across the globe that creates production close to your technical centers and mills, support at-the-ready, and a true partnership approach.

All from Chem-Trend: a global leader in release agents, purging compounds, casting lubricants, and other ancillary molding and casting products. Using a customer-centric philosophy and deep research and development, Chem-Trend listens and delivers, helping build certainty and success. ChemTrend is part of the Freudenberg Chemical Specialities Group and is a brand of the global technology group Freudenberg.

Visit chemtrend.com

Daubert Daubon PUR for flexibility, strength l You expect it to apply well.

As a single-component reactive polyurethane adhesive available in hot melt and liquid formulations, Daubond PUR goes on easily in just one step. What’s more, you’ll enjoy a wide range of processing capabilities that will allow peak efficiency. Daubert offers standard and custom formulations. l You expect ongoing support.

If the adhesive fails, you’re in for trouble. If it’s not cost-effective to apply or is difficult to clean up, you’ve got headaches that cut into profits. Just as Daubond PUR has redefined what “the right adhesive” means for countless manufactured products, Daubert Chemical as a company is setting the standard in PUR support. l Daubert will be there at startup and stick with you every step of the way.

—Windows, doors and laminate boards —Bonding of thin edges and intricate patterns —Postforming —Wrapping —Applied molding —Surface bonding and lamination —Engineered floors —Assembly bonding Stick with the proven leader. Visit Daubert Chemical to learn more.

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DIEFFENBACHER

FUSONI

Fusoni has production plants in Mexico, Spain and Brazil.

Dieffenbacher’s PROjet, above, and EVOjet P, right, for reduced glue consumption in board plants

There is money in glue.

On average, glue accounts for 15-25% of the total production costs of woodbased panels worldwide. Logically, the desire to save glue and reduce glue costs are global issues. Compared to the other two major cost drivers—wood and energy—glue costs occupy a particularly dominant position. That’s why woodbased panel producers do everything possible to minimize glue consumption.

The various Dieffenbacher glue-saving systems help wood-based panel producers to reduce costs. For an MDF plant, the PROjet gluing system is the solution that requires the least retrofitting effort and needs little extra space. It enables glue savings of up to 15% compared to conventional blow line gluing.

More retrofitting is needed to implement the EVOjet M in an MDF plant. In return, the EVOjet M technology promises potential savings of up to 25%.

The EVOjet P is used to reduce glue consumption in particleboard production. Compared to conventional gluing technology, the EVOjet P can save up to 15% of the amount of glue used and 15% of glue costs.

At the end of 2017, Dieffenbacher received the latest order for a gluing system from Masisa for its particleboard plant at the Cabrero site in Chile. In the face of increasing cost pressures, Masisa decided to invest and, after thoroughly analyzing the various glue-saving systems on the market, chose the EVOjet P. Among other things, Masisa’s positive experiences with glue-saving systems at their other locations across Latin America were decisive factors in ordering the EVOjet P. Visit dieffenbacher.de

Established at the end of 1980 in Mexico City, Fusoni is a Spanish family company specialized in the production of release agents and additives for the wood-based panels and other branches of industry.

In the 1990s, due to the rapid growth of the wood based panel industry in Europe, a natural step for Fusoni was to establish a production factory in Europe. This prompted the company to set up a new plant in the owner’s home city of Oviedo, in the Asturias region of Spain.

Fusoni’s factory in Spain has considerably expanded the company’s capabilities, offering effective release agents for panel production, as well as a full range of additives for the impregnation of decorative papers.

With the growth of the South American market in the early 2000s, owners of Fusoni decided to build a production plant in Brazil as well, to supply the company’s products to South American panel producers.

After 30 years on the market, Fusoni is a company with three production plants (Mexico, Spain and Brazil), 60 employees and represented worldwide by distributors in India, China and the U.S., as well as representative agents in Eastern Europe, France and the Netherlands.

Fusoni’s philosophy is to fulfill customers’ demands by supplying effective products with very stable quality and very competitive prices. The company invests heavily in research & development, working on collaboration with its customers and academic institutions.

Fusoni is mainly focused on the production of release agents for all kinds of panels (MDF, particleboard, plywood and OSB) and all kinds of glue (UF, MUF, MDI), and it can offer additives for the production of impregnated decorative paper (LPL, CPL and HPL processes), such as wetting agents, hardeners, release agents, antidust, antiblocking, gloss improver, antibacterial, etc.

Through work on product development and continuous building of good relationships with its customers, Fusoni has been able to achieve a stable position on the market and to become a business partner supplying additives to the biggest players in the wood industry. Groups such as Kronospan, Egger, Finsa, Sonae, Arauco, Pfleiderer, Swiss Krono, Yildiz Entegre and many others are all applying additives from Fusoni.

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Hexion Inc. is a global leader in supplying resins, adhesives, wax emulsions and ancillary products to the forest products industry. Customers use these materials to manufacture a wide range of composite and engineered wood products including plywood, particleboard, oriented strandboard, medium density fiberboard, structural beams, furniture, moldings and millwork.

WEKO fluid application for improving board properties

Hexion provides adhesive for mass timber products.

EcoBind Melamine Resin System 6500 with Wonderbond Hardener M-650Y is a structural adhesive system utilizing separate component extrusion technology for the manufacture of CLT and Glulam Mass Timber elements. Energy efficient curing options and unique rheology provide production line efficiencies with minimal waste and consistent performance.

Advantages of the EcoBind Resin 6500/Wonderbond M650Y system for the bonding of mass timber elements include: l Manufacturing ease of use l Reduced adhesive application waste l Reduced press cycle time l Ambient or RF (radio frequency) cure flexibility l Translucent, unobtrusive bondline l Heat durable l GREENGUARD GOLD certification A North American leader in structural bonding of mass timber and wood composites, Hexion has decades of experience developing practical solutions for the wood products industry, helping to ensure the successful design and production of costeffective, durable, high-performance structural engineered wood components.

In addition to exceeding the North American industry standards for strength, durability, and fire performance, Hexion Ecobind Resin 6500/Wonderbond Hardener M-650Y resin system is certified to UL GREENGUARD Gold. GREENGUARD certified products are certified to meet GREENGUARD standards for low chemical emissions into indoor air during product usage.

To source the EcoBind or the WonderBond, Cascophen, Cascoset and StructurFast structural adhesive systems, please visit hexion.com.

Weitmann & Konrad GmbH & Co. KG (WEKO) is known as a partner for the wood fiberboard industry in the area of fluid application systems. These flexible and customizable systems help fiberboard manufacturers through a precisely metered application of the smallest amounts of water and release agents. This application promises higher productivity, less material input, better product properties and less effort for the cleaning of expensive production plants.

The WEKO Fluid Application (WFA) system is a non-contact application system based on spraying fluids by spinning discs, or rotors. Arranged in a row, these rotors rotate at high speed and generate a stream of the finest micro-droplets realizing a uniform fluid application. The application quantity can be quickly and easily adjusted with an extreme accuracy to achieve reproducible results. Fluid is sprayed on the transport belt (bottom) and directly on the fiber mat (top).

Thanks to the exact fluid application and the steam shock in the press, the board is hardened with an optimal density from the surface to the core. “The top layer properties as well as the bending strength are considerably improved,” explains Marcel Konrad, managing partner with WEKO. By the steam shock, the heat of the downstream hot press penetrates the wood fiber mat more quickly, the adhesive is immediately activated, and the hardening process becomes significantly shorter. The plants can be operated at a distinctly higher speed and are thus more efficient.

An added release agent prevents that the fiber mat adheres to the mold or to the prepress and hot press and that the fiberboard is damaged. The use of a precise application system can save resources such as material and energy while increasing productivity.

The WEKO experts offer support worldwide with the choice and integration of non-contact minimum application systems into the production process. Comprehensive services, such as test series at the WEKO technical center and high WEKO service standards, complete the WEKO offering.

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ROO GLUE

West Coast, U.S.-based Roo Glue continues to find unique solutions for customers faced with environmental and regulatory challenges. As formaldehyde content in building products continues to face increasingly stringent regulations, Roo Glue is able to manufacture polyvinyl acetate (PVA) adhesives that are the ideal alternative to UF resins.

Using Roo Glue’s high performance PVA, manufacturers can apply less adhesive and maintain high performance, while utilizing a no added formaldehyde (NAF) product.

Roo Glue provides products for the following applications: edge gluing (cold clamp and RF), fingerjointing, HPL to particleboard, general assembly, curved plywood, engineered flooring/plywood, paper and packaging, panel-to-frame, veneer splicing.

Roo Glue is a dynamic, family-owned manufacturer of water-based adhesives for the woodworking and industrial wood products industries. As a division of Specialty Polymers, Inc., Roo Glue is formulated based on the latest adhesive polymer technology developed in-house. Its diverse product line is truly technology-driven. With a fully equipped wood glue testing lab and manufacturing sites on the East and West coasts, Roo Glue is ready to provide solutions for any wood adhesive needs.

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Roo Glue products address environmental regulations.

COIL MANUFACUTRING Coil Mfg. precision spinning disc atomizers, rotary drum blenders and ancillary equipment maximize developments in resin blending technology and are employed for a wide range of resin types. The systems can also be modified or customized for specific features like dual resin input ports, quick disconnects, inverted cones and other features.

In terms of cost, atomizers and blenders represent a fraction of an engineered wood panel operation. In terms of importance, this equipment is crucial to the quality and strength of finished products.

Once waste wood has been chipped or wafered and dried, the atomizers and blenders represent the first crucial phase in the development of OSB products, particleboard and parallel strand board. If manufacturers don’t get it right at this stage, they won’t get a handle on quality control.

That’s why OSB companies in North America and worldwide rely on Coil Manufacturing Ltd. After an installation is completed, management from Coil will personally travel anywhere in the world to review the plant setup and offer startup assistance.

Coil Mfg. atomizers represent the heart of the system. Centrifugal atomizing, which runs on the spinning disc principle, does not require any maintenance or downtime for cleaning nozzles, or replacing plugged lines or filters. Every Coil atomizer system enables the operator to check each unit for speed (rpm) and temperature. The results are displayed on a user interface screen and can be integrated into the plant’s operating system.

The interface screen also allows for finite adjustments to ensure optimal operating efficiency, and the precise amount and desired frequency of resin distribution.

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SIEMPELKAMP DEEPENS COMMITMENT TO RICE STRAW PRODUCTION nnual plants are growing in importance in view of the worldwide shortage of wood.

Climate-neutral boards with a positive CO2 balance can be produced using rice straw, a waste product from the rice harvest. As a result, Siempelkamp is positioning itself globally as a technological driver in the use of annual plants for the production of MDF and particleboard. The Siempelkamp Group is at the same time sending a clear signal in favor of green business and efficient management of resources.

MDF, OSB and particleboard made from annual plants consist of 100% annually renewable resources which, as they are a natural waste product, do not compete with food production. They are recyclable and merely require an environmentally friendly binder during production such as PMDI in the case of rice straw. In addition, it is possible to produce MDF and particleboard made of rice straw that equals the general material properties of wood-based panels and offers a chance to occupy product niches where special characteristics are in demand.

“Rice straw barely accounts for three percent of the raw materials used in industry. We believe that this share will increase significantly in coming years, and this is evident in the intensive discussions we’ve been having with our customers,” explains Dr. Hans Fechner, Managing Director of the Siempelkamp Group.

Siempelkamp is an investor and the major technology supplier to a large rice straw MDF facility under construction at CalAg in Willows, Calif.

Around 5.1 billion metric tons of rice straw are produced worldwide each year as a low-cost agricultural waste product.

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Siempelkamp Neo Blender in rice straw production

The majority of this rice straw is produced in China (approx. 1,500 million metric tons), India (approx. 1,110 million metric tons), Indonesia (approx.

541 million metric tons) and Bangladesh (approx. 368 million metric tons). Europe is also responsible for producing around 12 million metric tons of rice straw every year. The largest cultivation areas in Europe are in Italy.

However, a large percentage of these sizable volumes of rice straw remains unused, being burned directly on arable land or left to rot in the fields.

Processing of rice straw to produce MDF or particleboard is much more complex than wood. This is due to the high proportion of inorganic constituents in rice straw, especially silicates, and impurities such as sand and loam from the straw harvest. Up to 20% of the dry fiber weight was determined to consist of natural inorganic constituents free of foreign substances. The raw material needs to be cleaned, as downstream plant components will otherwise suffer wear too quickly in the production process and sufficient workability of the boards cannot be ensured.

Separation of inorganic constituents and impurities is realized in a new twostage process developed by Siempelkamp. The first step involves the separation of impurities and coarse constituents such as entrained sand and silicate dust released during processing of the rice straw and their elimination through an airflow process. The cleaned

rice straw is then processed in the refiner using mechanical and thermal pressure to create high quality fibers and then further purified in a second step.

Resinating of rice straw fibers occurs after the dryer. Siempelkamp employs a process for the dry application of resin here using a newly developed continuous blending system. This blending system enables optimum adaptation of the glue system to production conditions.

Glue consumption is lower than in the conventional gluing process as losses due to pre-curing are avoided.

The newly developed NEO Blender ensures uniform, continuous gluing of fibers, is extremely resistant to wear and, thanks to a screw-on mixing chamber cover, is easy to maintain. The material properties of rice straw in production were consciously taken into consideration during the process.

The main features of the new NEO Blender are: l a high peripheral speed of up to 100 m/s for optimum wetting and thorough blending l optimized, wear-resistant mixing and transport tools l an innovative housing design with double-walled cylinder jacket and wearresistant inner cylinder jacket l a maintenance-friendly overall concept l integrated system monitoring through vibration measurement Visit siempelkamp.com Article provided by Siempelkamp.

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JOUBERT ENHANCES MOISTURE CONTROLS

A state-of-the-art THDF plant producing ultra-thin boards primarily for use by furniture makers will be built by Dieffenbacher for Guangxi Lelin Forestry Development Co. Ltd. in China

by June 2019.

Guangxi Lelin will produce boards ranging from 1 to 5 mm in thickness at the new high-speed THDF plant near Nanning in Guangxi province. Eucalyptus wood will be the main raw material.

“Dieffenbacher is the clear market leader in China and offers superior technologies, especially in the field of thin board production,” says Wei Mingkuai, President of Guangxi Lelin.

The THDF plant will include a wide range of Dieffenbacher equipment, including a PROjet system that uses up to 15% less glue than conventional blowline gluing systems, a CPS+ continuous press, sifter, forming station, forming line and finishing line.

Joubert Plywood, a leading producer of certified poplar plywood, with two operations at Charente, France, is updating its USNR Ventek brand Sequoia Sentry moisture measurement system with new software and processor. The existing Sequoia system was installed four years ago, along with a GSc2000 dry veneer grade scanner.

LITHUANIA P’BOARD WILL SET STANDARDS The new Kalipedos Madiena (VMG) particleboard plant ordered recently from Siempelkamp—which will be located in Akmene, in northeast of Lithuania—will feature Europe’s most modern particleboard production, according to Siempelkamp. The plant will go into operation in 2020.

The plant will focus on resource efficiency, best board characteristics, high

energy efficiency and low level formaldehyde or even formaldehyde free technology.

Siempelkamp’s Sicoplan will provide 3D-planning and CAD-capabilities.

Core component of the plant will be a ContiRoll continuous press Generation 9 with a length of 45.4 m and a width of 8 ft. Production capacity of the plant will be 2.000 m³/day. The newest Siemens S7-1500 TIA control system will be used as well as the “Prod-IQ next” control system.

Latest filter technology of EWK Umwelttechnik and Büttner’s drum dryer guarantee environmental “Best Available Technology.”

CSJC MUROM EXPANDS INTO OSB PRODUCTION After several years of joint development work, the Russian plywood producer CJSC Murom has ordered an OSB plant from Siempelkamp.

CLSC Murom, located in Murom,

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about 300 km east of Moscow, began producing plywood in 1929. Production of particleboard began in the 1960s.

The scope of the JSC Murom contract with Siempelkamp covers all raw material processing by Pallmann. Büttner will supply a drum dryer as well as an energy system. The Italian Siempelkamp subsidiary CMC will supply the complete material processing, including filtering, gluing and sprinkling technology. The entire planning engineering, carried out

by Sicoplan from Belgium, is based on millimeter-accurate CAD data generated using laser scans. To this end, the Belgian Siempelkamp subsidiary measured the future site with state-of-the-art drone technology, among other methods, to ensure planning reliability based on the actual local conditions.

Siempelkamp will produce the core of the plant—a ContiRoll continuous press Generation 9 with a length of 30.4 m and a production width of 8.5 ft., and also supply the finishing line, connected to an automated warehouse system.

CJSC Murom will produce 50,000 m² of OSB ADVANCED boards daily. The start of installation is planned for the fourth quarter of 2018. Commissioning is scheduled for the end of 2019 and regular production will get under way in spring 2020.

CHINA FIRM ORDERS STRAW-BASED PLANT For the fourth time in four years, Chinese straw-based particleboard specialist Wanhua Ecoboard has ordered a straw-based particleboard plant from Dieffenbacher. The greenfield project at the Tonglin site in the Anhui province is scheduled to start production in December.

Highlighting the order is a 28 m long CPS+ continuous press, the first of Dieffenbacher’s new generation of continuous press to be delivered in China.

Equipment for flaking, including three MRZ 1500 knife ring flakers with the FlowOptmizer material feeder, were

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also ordered along with a dryer, forming station and forming line.

“To meet our commitment to produce environmentally friendly, formaldehydefree panels made of wood and straw, we continue to rely on Dieffenbacher as one of our most important partners,” says Wanhua CEO Zhao Zhimei.

Dieffenbacher and Wanhua have also agreed on the delivery of two additional plants, numbers five and six. Again, a CPS+ will be used for both projects.

Commissioning of these plants is planned for 2019.

COASTAL INSTALLS LATHE CARRIAGE Altec announced the successful installation of its lathe carriage at the Coastal Forest Products plywood mill in Chapman, Ala. Altec had previously installed an XY scanner, charger controls and lathe controls in 2010, and the new Altec lathe carriage and electric actuator package was seamlessly integrated into

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the existing controls.

The Altec lathe carriage is an improved design featuring 100% fabricated steel construction. The carriage’s knife bar heads and trunnions are not only heavier but also stronger than traditional designs, ensuring increased stability throughout the peel and reduced maintenance. The knife bar comes with servo

knife angle adjustment and Demco hydraulic knife clamps. The installation of the carriage means improved quality, tighter thickness variation, and better knife clamping. When supplied with electric actuators and lathe controls, as in this case, the carriage is fast and accurate, providing superior veneer quality and thickness control.

Altec reports that Coastal is very satisfied with Altec’s project; that installation and commissioning went smoothly and was completed comfortably in the allocated time frame; and peel quality has increased considerably, and veneer thickness deviation has improved by an impressive 40%. Additionally, the efficiency of the carriage and actuator package eliminated one hydraulic power unit resulting in tangible energy savings and reduced maintenance.

During the carriage upgrade, Coastal also took the opportunity to upgrade its scanner from an XY scanner 1.0 to the improved 2.0 version, furthering improved recovery.

OFF-SITE FRAMING ATTRACTS LP Louisiana-Pacific has invested $45 million in Entekra, a design, engineering and manufacturing company that provides off-site framing for residential and commercial construction.

Entekra refers to its system as a fully integrated off-site solution (FIOSS), which integrates concept, design and engineering with off-site manufacturing and on-site assembly to deliver higher quality structures. Entekra says its system is designed to streamline the process of assembling new builds—reducing construction time, waste and dependency on skilled labor, resulting in faster build cycles and increased production volume for builders.

“This investment marks a logical extension of our strategy to position LP as a leading building solutions company,” LP CEO Brad Southern says. “The overriding constraint of supply in the housing industry today is a shortage of labor, and combined with rising construction costs underscores the need for more efficient and innovative building techniques. We are excited by the prospects in the burgeoning off-site market.”

Southern says the partnership will combine Entekra’s engineering and automated framing expertise with LP’s market access to regional and national builders. It will also allow LP to leverage its large scale manufacturing capabilities and capital deployment necessary to scale the business.

Entekra is based in Ripon, Calif., where it operates a single manufacturing plant.

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BY JESSICA JOHNSON

MONAGHAN, Ireland rish forklift truck manufacturer CombiLift has opened a new global headquarters and manufacturing facility sitting on 100 acres (11 acres under roof) in Monaghan, Ireland. CombiLift anticipates a rapid and aggressive amount of

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growth over the coming years as the world industrial economy, and especially North America, continues to remain strong.

Since the first CombiLift was brought to North America in 1999, more than 12,000 have been put in service with the aim to grow by 30% in 2018. CombiLift Managing Director Martin McVicar told attendees he believes the business sentiment in North America is really strong and that people are investing for the future.

Some of that growth, he says, is delayed replacement of equipment. “When the downturn came, people were reluctant to reinvest, so there are a lot of old forklift trucks out there that need to be replaced,” McVicar said. “It has done our business the world of good.”

The CombiLift building is now 500,000 sq. ft.—the largest manufacturing facility in Ireland. The expansion investment totaled 50 million Euros. Currently, 98% of CombiLifts are exported to 85 countries through 250 dealers.

New CombiLift factory

The current workforce here is 550 strong across technical support, parts, manufacturing and engineering. Over the next three years, the manufacturer has announced plans to add 200 jobs—a somewhat bold move compared to many companies that see the benefit of going to Asia for lower cost labor. However, McVicar is committed to keeping production in his home of Ireland.

“It wasn’t on our mind that we relo-

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LINES cate to Asia for cheaper manufacturing,” McVicar said. “As a business our target is if we can keep our labor con-

tent within 10% of our revenue, we believe we can be competitive to export anywhere in the world. When you have

expertise here it is not something to consider.”

Four 90 m moving assembly lines produce a finished forklift every 15 minutes. There are 60 welding bays, two plasma cutting machines, three paint lines which use sustainable waterbased paints, and three automatic shot blasters. 12,000 pallet locations ensure ample storage space for parts and components. The Monaghan facility also includes a 50-seat theatre-style training room, 5,000 m2 of office space and a dedicated R&D testing center.

CombiLift invests 7% of its annual turnover in R&D. The forklift manufacturer also offers a free logistic and warehouse design service, which enables customers to see the benefit that CombiLift products can bring. “Our engineers proactively design, plan and produce material flow analysis and 3D animations—150 to 200 per day for our worldwide customers— which clearly illustrate the capacity potential as well as the optimum flow of materials on their site,” McVicar explains.

Committed to keeping CombiLift a great place to work where top products are manufactured, 23% of the roof space is covered in skylights enabling staff to work in natural daylight. A 1 MW biomass plant fueled by wood recycled during the manufacturing process heats the spraying booths and assembly areas.

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LINES DOYLE HALL STEPS AWAY Industry innovator Doyle Hall of Sutherlin, Ore. retired from the company he founded 30 years ago this past April.

Hall, who began in the panel industry as a lathe operator right out of high school in 1951, said one of the first things he noticed was ineffi-

cient and dangerous lathe knife sharpening tools and techniques.

Before starting Doyle Tool & Gauge in 1988, Hall worked in all areas of veneer production, as part owner of Mt. Mazama Plywood in Sutherlin and Doyle Hall in early 1990s also part owner of Falcon Plywood in Eu-

gene. As far back as the late 1950s Hall had begun developing his own lathe knife sharpening and setup tools.

The Doyle Tool & Gauge system was a major innovation, using micrometer gauges and readouts to take much of the human error out of sharpening and setup while producing sharper and more consistent edges and angles.

Retiring to a golf resort in Sutherlin, Hall says he plans to work on making his golf game more consistent.

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Ore. after their father died in 1979.

Ted had a penchant for projects and a pursuit for innovation, especially at the Oregon wood products pioneer, phiproduction facilities. His love for lanthropist and family man Ted F. Frprogress led to continuous improveeres died on Sunday, June 3 following a ment throughout Freres Lumber and year-long battle against pancreatic canthe state-of-the-art processes in place cer. He was 78. today. He was elected the Although the last year fourth President of Freres brought unique suffering, Ted Lumber Co., Inc. in 1992, battled the disease without and held the position until compromising his finest qualhis final days. ities: kindness, determination During his 40-year career, and humility. He was practiTed, along with his brother cal to the end and didn’t give Bob and, later, his nephew up the fight or hope until he Rob Freres, expanded the decided there was “no end- Ted Freres led company from two green vegame to it.” neer production facilities into Oregon’s Freres The strength, comaraderie Lumber a multi-faceted wood products and devotion that Ted and his company producing green vewife Diane built during their 45 years of neer, dry veneer, studs, residuals, elecmarriage sustained them both through tricity, plywood, and more recently Mass the difficult trials of the last year.

Plywood Panel. Ted was instrumental in Ted and his brother, Robert “Bob” pushing the MPP plant forward and enFreres, were the guiding forces behind joyed its startup late last year.

Freres Lumber Company in Lyons, The company was founded in 1922

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with humble beginnings on the North Fork of the Santiam River by Ted’s father, T.G. Freres. It is now one of the largest privately owned, independent wood products manufacturers on the West Coast. Ted held to his strong belief that you must be able to visit all of your production facilities on the same day, which firmly established the company’s roots in Oregon’s Santiam Canyon. Ted ensured Freres Lumber’s commitment to providing family wage jobs and bringing prosperity to the local community.

Ted generously balanced all his roles in life: husband, father, boss and friend.

The things he enjoyed most were gathering friends for almost any occasion such as fishing, shooting, clamming or any other social event. One of his favorite party traditions began at Oregon State University in 1971 when they hosted an annual quesadilla party complete with homemade tortillas and imported dry Monterey Jack cheese. In later years, it became tradition for Ted

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to gather his sons before the party to make tortillas, drink margaritas and catch up on life.

In the last few years, Ted and Diane made a point of traveling extensively with in-laws and lifelong friends. Some of his favorite trips were road trips to visit unique places in the U.S. To Ted, a good road trip required a convertible, a sunroof didn’t cut it. Fishing trips to Mexico and Alaska were an annual requirement so he could not only catch up with industry friends, but also keep a well-stocked freezer.

Ted had a big heart and as a life-long Stayton resident was an ardent supporter of local schools and children’s services. Ted helped bring Family Building Blocks services into the Santiam Canyon by championing Doris’ Place.

Local causes were numerous, including Regis St. Mary Catholic Schools, Stayton Public Library and the City of Stayton Police Department. He lived by Albert Einstein’s philanthropic belief that, “It is every man’s obligation to put back

into the world at least the equivalent of what he has taken out.”

Ted was born to T. G. Freres and Frances Freres (Silbernagel) on May 30, 1950. He was pre-deceased by his siblings Larry Freres, Harold “Bud” Freres and Phyllis Goodman.

Ted is survived by wife Diane; sons Cameron (Pamela), Kyle (Trisha) and Tyler (Deana); grandsons Hap, Rand, Asher, Theo, Sawyer and Cassius; brother Robert T. Freres; sisters Maryann Meredith, Patty Nopp, Joyce Merrell, Carol Moll and Teresa McDougall; and many beloved nieces, nephews and cousins.

A Mass of Christian Burial was held June 15 at Immaculate Conception in Stayton. In lieu of flowers, consider donations to: Family Building Blocks Doris’ Place, 383 N 3rd Street, Stayton, OR 97383; or to Stayton Public Library Foundation, P.O. Box 810, Stayton, OR 97383.

(The family of Ted Freres provided this obituary.)

HPVA REBRANDS WITH NEW NAME Hardwood Plywood & Veneer Assn. has rebranded as Decorative Hardwoods Assn. and launched an easy-tonavigate website packed with resources for trade professionals, manufacturers and consumers.

“This name change will better describe our diverse membership of North American hardwood plywood, engineered wood flooring, and hardwood veneer manufacturers,” says Don Finkell, chairman of the board of directors of DHA. Kip Howlett continues as president of Decorative Hardwoods Assn.

“Our association is a legacy that has been handed down from one generation to the next for more than 97 years,” Howlett states.

Members of DHA produce 90% of the hardwood plywood stock panels and hardwood veneer manufactured in North America. Visit www.decorativehardwoods.org.

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A new “Dimension” in Veneer & Plywood

Dimension Plywood Inc.

Custom Architectural Plywood & Doors 415 Industrial Blvd. • New Albany, IN 47150 Tel: 812-944-6491 • Fax: 812-944-7421

Dimension Hardwood Veneers, Inc.

Rotary & Sliced Veneers 509 Woodville Street • Edon, Ohio 43518 Main Office - Tel: 419-272-2245 • Fax: 419-272-2406 www.dimensionhardwoods.com FSC-C041275

■ Kentucky Producers of fine veneer for the global market, since 1892

■ Idaho

Cherry Maple White Oak Walnut Hickory Red Oak Exotics Indiana Veneers Corporation

Knotty Idaho White Pine Western Red Cedar Red Alder Clear White Pine & Ponderosa Pine Clear Vertical Grain Douglas Fir, Hemlock, & Cedar

P.O. Box 339 Post Falls, Id. 83877 208-773-4511 FAX 208-773-1107 email: info@idahoveneer.com

■ Indiana Amos-Hill Associates, Inc.

Quality Veneers Manufacturers of Decorative Hardwood Veneer Domestic and International Markets Species include: Walnut, White Oak, Red Oak, Hard Maple, Cherry and Birch “Quality is the Lifeblood of our Business” 112 Shelby Ave. ◆ P.O. Box 7 Edinburgh, IN 46124 Phone: 812-526-2671 ◆ Fax: 812-526-5865 E-mail: info@amoshill.com Website: www.amoshill.com The mark of responsible forestry FSC Supplier: SCS-COC-002445 * SCS-CW-002445

1121 East 24th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46205 Tel: [317] 926-2458 Fax: [317] 926-8569 Url: www.indianaveneers.com Email: sales@indianaveneers.com

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■ Michigan

NORSTAM VENEERS, INC. Proud to announce we have the “Newest Veneer Mill in the World” MANUFACTURER OF QUALITY HARDWOOD AND SOFTWOOD VENEERS

Green & Kiln Dried Hardwood Lumber

P.O. BOX 32 HWY. 135 BUS: 812.732.4391 MAUCKPORT, IN 47142 FAX: 812.732.4803 EMAIL: info@norstam.com

RSVP is proud to offer a full line of imported and domestic veneer that includes burls, crotches and highly figured woods. If you would like more information pertaining to these products or others we offer please contact us directly or visit our website.

4920 N. Warren Dr. • Columbus, IN 47203 Ph: 812-375-1178 • Fax: 812-375-1179 www.RSVPveneer.com

NEXT CLOSING: September 23, 2018 ■ Minnesota BUFFALO VENEER & PLYWOOD CO. Quality Plywood, Six decades strong!

Stock Panels Counter Front Panels All Thicknesses and Cores NAF, FR and MR Availability Domestic and Imported Veneers CARB P2 Certified 501 6th Ave. NE - Buffalo, MN 55313 Tel: (763)682-1822 Fax: (763)682-9769 Email: sales@buffaloveneerandplywood.com Website: www.buffaloveneerandplywood.com

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VENEER/PANEL SUPPLIERS DIRECTORY ■ Mississippi

Universal Veneer Mill Corp.

Manufacturing and Sales Sliced Harwood Veneers Custom Cutting Available 1776 Tamarack Road Newark, OH 43055 Ph: (740) 522-2000 Email: info@universalveneer.com

■ Vermont

North America’s largest manufacturer of fancy face rotary veneer.

Offering FSC certified veneer products in Red Oak, Hard Maple, Birch, Ash, Tulip Poplar, Basswood in Stock Panel & Cut-to-Size Lay-ons as well as unspliced veneer .4mm thru 1.5mm thickness

Plain sliced Alder and Aromatic Cedar faces and flitch stock are regularly available.

Also offering domestically produced FSC Mixed Credit/CARB Phase II Compliant Aspen platforms - both long grain & cross grain dimensions in a variety of thicknesses.

Contact Sales at 802-334-3600 • Fax: 802-334-5149

■ Oregon

www.cfpwood.com • 324 Bluff Rd. • Newport, VT 05855

MAGNOLIA FOREST PRODUCTS, INC. DISTRIBUTORS OF SYP Plywood & Lumber OSB Cut to size

1-800-366-6374

www.magnoliaforest.com Terry, MS J.I.T. & P.I.T. Nationwide

NEXT CLOSING: September 23, 2018

Architectural Paneling, Door Skins, Custom Cabinet Package and Furniture Plywood ● Panel sizes up to 5' x 12' ● 4', 5' and cross-grain sanding capability ● Veneer manufacturing to 14' lengths ® ● FSC Certified ● NAUF products available ●

2323 Cross Street ● Eugene, Oregon 97402 Sales: (541) 461-0767 ● Fax: (541) 461-0738 Email: sales@westernpanel.com web site: westernpanel.com

■ Pennsylvania

■ Ohio

A new “Dimension” in Veneer & Plywood

Dimension Hardwood Veneers, Inc.

Rotary & Sliced Veneers 509 Woodville Street • Edon, Ohio 43518 Main Office - Tel: 419-272-2245 • Fax: 419-272-2406

Dimension Plywood Inc.

Custom Architectural Plywood & Doors 415 Industrial Blvd. • New Albany, IN 47150 Tel: 812-944-6491 • Fax: 812-944-7421 www.dimensionhardwoods.com

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5515 S.E. Milwaukie Ave, Portland, Oregon 97202 503-230-9348 Fax: 503-233-2051 www.kh2aengineering.com Email: kh2a@kh2aengineering.com CONSULTANTS & ENGINEERS FOR THE FOREST PRODUCTS INDUSTRY Feasibility Studies, Cost Estimates, Complete Project Design, Structural, Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Design

The Feltham-McClure Co., Inc. 2151 Wembley Place • Oviedo, Florida 32765 407-366-9333 Office • 407-366-4900 Fax www.thefeltham-mcclurecompany.com

Veneer Lathe Service - All makes, models and peripherals for all end products.

Installation, Laser Alignments, Retrofits, Rebuilds and Troubleshooting Peel Problem Troubleshooting and Rectification Lathe Training Seminars - Operational and Maintenance Representing: DEMCO Manufacturing, Inc. 9926

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EVENTS AUGUST

JULY 2019

22-25 • International Woodworking Fair, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Ga. Visit iwfatlanta.com.

17-20 • AWFS Fair 2019, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV. Visit awfsfair.org.

SEPTEMBER 10-13 • WMF: China (Shanghai) International Furniture Machinery & Woodworking Machinery Fair, National Exhibition and Convention Center, Shanghai, China. Call (852) 2516 3518; visit woodworkfair.com.

11-14 • FMC China 2018: Furniture Manufacturing & Supply, Shanghai New International Expo Center, Pudong, Shanghai, China. Call +86-21-64371178; visit furniturechina.cn/en-us/fmc.

OCTOBER 17-19 • Timber Processing & Energy Expo, Portland Expo Center, Portland, Ore. Call 334-834-1170; visit timberprocessingandenergyexpo.com.

22-25 • Lesdrevmash 2018, 17th International Exhibition for Machinery, Equipment and Technology for Logging, Woodworking and Furniture Industries, Expocentre Fairgrounds, Moscow, Russia. Visit lesdrevmash-expo.ru/en.

27-30 • APA-Engineered Wood Assn. annual meeting and Engineered Wood Technology Assn. Info Fair, La Cantera Resort & Spa Hill Country, San Antonio, Tex. Call 253-565-6600; visit apawood.org.

MAY 2019 5-7 • American Wood Protection Assn. annual meeting, Loews Royal Pacific Resort, Orlando, Fla. Call 205-733-4077; visit awpa.com.

5-7 • Composite Panel Assn. Spring meeting, Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort, Naples, Fla. Call 703-724-1128; visit compositepanel.org.

12-14 • Hardwood Plywood & Veneer Assn. Spring Conference, Santa Rosa, Calif. Call 703-435-2900; visit hpva.org.

27-31 • Ligna: World Fair For The Forestry And Wood Industries, Hannover, Germany. Call +49 511 89-0; fax +49 511 89-32626; visit ligna.de.

JUNE 2019 26-28 • Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Expo, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 504-4434464; visit sfpaexpo.com.

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