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n the publishing world we’re always working on next year’s media kit or next year’s conference, so sometimes we stumble and have to think a moment about what year we’re actually in.

2017, right?

Okay, so where has it gone? To refresh my memory of what transpired in the panel industry in 2017, I pulled out the issues of Panel World. Here are just some of the highlights of 2017, in chronological order: —Freres Lumber of Lyons, Ore. started putting in machinery to produce Mass Plywood Panel.

—Huber went full speed into preparing its OSB plant in Spring City, Tenn—closed since 2011—for reopening in 2018 —Siempelkamp became majority owner of Pallmann Industries.

—RoyOMartin celebrated the 10th anniversary of its OSB facility in Oakdale, La. —Our friend Brian Luoma, former vice president at LP, became President and CEO of Westervelt.

—Raute purchased high speed strength grading technology leader Metriguard.

—Arauco held a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of its new particleboard facility in Grayling, Mich.

—Bernd Deffland became president of Dieffenbacher USA. —Long-time influential industry figures Paul Ehinger, John Fery, William Whelan and Robert Crawford passed away.

—After 20 years of pursuit, CalAg closed on financing for a new rice straw-based MDF plant in Willows, Calif.

—CalAg named plywood veteran Fran Eck as Chief Operations Officer.

—Brad Southern succeeded Curt Stevens as CEO of LP. —Two new plywood mills—Winston Plywood & Veneer in Louisville, Miss. and Swanson Group in Springfield, Ore.—went into manufacturing mode

Swanson Group new plywood mill in Springfield, Ore.

after courageously rebuilding from tornado and fire destruction, respectively.

—The Ligna wood products show in Hannover, Germany featured 1,500 exhibitors and 93,000 visitors from more than 100 countries.

—Sandvik divested its Sandvik Process Systems steel belt producer to FAM AB. —Roseburg announced it’s building a laminated veneer lumber facility in Chester, SC. —International Beams announced it is building the world’s first southern yellow pine cross-laminated timber plant in Dothan, Ala. —Tolko announced it will restart its OSB plant in High Prairie, Alberta, which has been closed since 2008.

—Katerra reported it will build a CLT plant in Spokane, Wash.

—Logs began showing up in the wood yard at RoyOMartin’s new CorriPW gan OSB mill in Corrigan, Texas.

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UPDATE

PELICE 2018 PLANS FIRST WAVE OF SPEAKERS he sixth Panel & Engineered Lumber company’s recently announced project is Other PELICE sessions will address T International Conference & Expo Grady Mulbery, president and CEO of various aspects of panel production, in(PELICE) will celebrate its 10-year hisRoseburg Forest Products. cluding resins and adhesives, fire preventory as part of the event to be held April 13-14, 2018 in the Grand Ballroom North of the Omni Hotel at CNN Center in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Held every other year, and hosted by Panel World magazine, the first PELICE took place in 2008. All of them have been held at the Omni Hotel, though participants will remember the first one in 2008 occurring on three levels of the hotel, before the event settled into the Grand Ballroom North in ensuing years.

“It was not the best of times,” comments Rich Donnell, co-chairman of PELICE and editor-in-chief of Panel World magazine. “In fact, it was the worst of times as the Great Recession began hitting its stride.” But Donnell notes that the producer and supplier segments of the industry showed up to support the event nonetheless.

“PELICE remains unique in that it brings together the structural and nonstructural industries,” Donnell says.

“When the conference ends I think people leave with a real feel for the big picture, in addition to accumulating the information they need to make improvements to their operations.”

Donnell expects PELICE 2018 to represent the positive momentum of the building products industry. “We continue to look at 1.2 million housing starts or so in the U.S., but there remains that untapped potential to get to that 1.5 or higher mark.”

What it’s going to take to make that happen will be one of the points addressed by Roger Tutterow, professor of economics and director of the Econometric Center at Kennesaw State University.

Tutterow, who last spoke at PELICE in 2014, is highly regarded for his financial expertise, economic forecasts and statistical modeling because of their pinpoint accuracy.

“He also brings a lot of energy and humor to his presentations,” Donnell adds. “We feel very fortunate to be able to have him on our program.”

As it was at PELICE in 2016, the subject of ongoing mill projects will continue to be a theme of PELICE 2018. One of the keynoters who will address his

Roseburg, based in Oregon, plans to build a laminated veneer lumber facility in Chester, SC. Groundbreaking is planned in early 2018 with operation startup in mid 2019. Roseburg is no stranger to LVL and engineered wood products, as it has been operating a large plant in Riddle, Ore. since 2001.

In addition to addressing ongoing projects, PELICE will look at recently completed projects, such as the new Swanson Group plywood mill in Springfield, Ore. and Winston Plywood & Veneer’s new plywood facility in Louisville, Miss., with representatives from those companies speaking about the evolvement of the projects, high points and low points, lessons learned, workforce practices and getting into post-startup.

PELICE will also address cross-laminated timber and mass plywood panel.

While much of the CLT momentum has been generated in the Northwest, the announcement this summer by International Beams to build a CLT facility in Alabama brings the discussion into the southern pine belt. Representatives from International Beams will address the marketing potential of the southern pine CLT product as well as the manufacturing intricacies.

And while CLT has come on strong, Freres Lumber in Oregon is starting up a plant to manufacture an alternative product it calls Mass Plywood Panel. A representative from Freres will speak about their new manufacturing plant and further developments in the marketplace.

Addressing the big picture and potential of “Tall Wood Construction” in a keynote talk will be Bob Glowinski, president and CEO of American Wood Council. He’ll discuss what is being done to take it into the mainstream under U.S. building codes.

Speaking of alternative products, a representative from CalAg will speak about that company’s ongoing construction of a rice straw-based medium density fiberboard plant in Willows, Calif.

“This herculean effort required 20 years of absolute never-say-die commitment from the principals involved,” Donnell comments.

tion, air emissions control, dry end technologies, quality control and others. The specific timeline agenda will be announced soon as presentation proposals continue to come in.

PELICE 2016 attracted 450 industry professionals including representatives from 32 wood products producer companies worldwide. They heard 50 presentations and viewed 80 equipment and technology exhibitor sponsors. Donnell says they’ve added several more exhibitor spaces for 2018.

PELICE exhibitors are broken into Gold, Silver and Bronze sponsorships.

As of late September, Gold sponsors included B&W MEGTEC, Dieffenbacher USA, Hexion, Sandvik, Siempelkamp and Sigma Thermal-TSI. Silver sponsors include Atlantic Combustion, Argos Solutions, Baumer Inspection, Biele, Brunette Machinery, Cogent Industrial Technologies, ConVey, Dustex Lundberg, Electronic Wood Systems, Georgia-Pacific Chemicals, Globe Machine, Grenzebach, IMA Schelling, IMAL-PAL, Limab North America, Matthews Marking Systems, Meinan Machinery Works, MoistTech, NESTEC, Pallmann Industries, Player Design Inc., Process Combustion, SolaGen, SonicAire, Spraying Systems, SUGIMAT, Timber Products Inspection, Venango Machine/Custom Engineering, Westmill Industries, Wil lamette Valley Co. Bronze sponsors include Automation Industries, CMA Engineering, Continental Conveyor, Flamex, Georgia Forestry Commission, GreCon, Hardwood Plywood & Veneer Assn., Mid-South Engineering, Process Sensors, Rodewisch, Steinemann Technology, TANN Corp., Wechsler Engineering and West Salem Machinery.

As usual, PELICE will be preceded by the fifth Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo on April 11-12, and nearly half of the PELICE exhibitors also exhibit in the Wood Bio event as combo sponsors.

For exhibitor sponsorship information, e-mail: fredkurpiel@aol.com. For presentation information, e-mail: rich@hatton PW brown.com.

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UPDATE

KATERRA PLANS CLT PLANT IN SPOKANE

Katerra plans to build a factory in Spokane Valley, Wash., where it will produce mass timber products including cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glulam. Katerra wants to scale up the production of CLT in the U.S. so that the material can be more broadly adopted across the construction industry.

“CLT is perfect for Katerra in that it’s a material that creates beautiful spaces, is designed for manufacturing, and is sustainable all at the same time,” says Michael Marks, chairman and co-founder of Katerra. “This material represents a great opportunity to create new value within the construction industry and will be central to many of the projects we’ll be designing and building. We feel very comfortable and excited, particularly with the knowledgeable team we have, to make the jump into manufacturing mass timber. We are ready to help bring mass timber to the mainstream of U.S. construction.”

Through its end-to-end construction services model, Katerra will supply much of the CLT to projects where it will also serve as architect and contractor. One of Katerra’s first local Spokane-area CLT projects will be the construction of the new Hospitality Center in association with the Community Cancer Fund, Ronald McDonald House and Kootenai Health (Walden House). The facility will house both Ronald McDonald House families while their children are hospitalized in a home-away-from-home environment, as well as provide lodging for the Walden House adult outpatients and their families while receiving treatment at the Kootenai Health facility. The Hospitality Center project is expected to be completed by 2019.

Katerra’s CLT factory will occupy 29 acres of a 52 acre site in Spokane Valley, with easy access to rail lines and interstate highways. More than 150 construction jobs will be created to build the CLT factory. Construction will break ground later this year, with pro-

duction scheduled to begin in the first quarter of next year.

Founded in 2015, Katerra has a growing number of domestic and international offices, factories, and building projects.

GLULAM MILL SOLD TO HASSLACHER GROUP

The Rubner corporate group has sold Nordlam GmbH and Abbundzentrum Nordlam GmbH to the Hasslacher group. Nordlam GmbH was founded by Rubner in 2000 as a greenfield project and has grown to become one of the largest glulam producers in Europe.

In the last few years the site at Magdeburg, Germany was extended by adding a cutting center and a second glulam production line. Today around 200,000 m3 of glulam are produced in Magdeburg and sold worldwide.

Hasslacher group plans to increase production at the Magdeburg site.

Rubner will continue to produce wood panels of spruce, pine and larch.

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SHAW CLOSING TWO LAMINATE PLANTS

Citing a shift in demand for laminate products, Shaw Industries will cease its laminate manufacturing operations in Ringgold, Ga. and Lexington, NC. “Sourcing those products from other suppliers provides the best opportunity for us to meet evolving market needs while continuing to offer a broad range of products for a diverse range of customers,” says David Morgan, executive vice president of operations at Shaw.

“We are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in LVT/WPC manufacturing—strategically committing capital in these high growth areas as market preferences continue to shift.”

(OSB) manufacturing plant of its subsidiary, Corrigan OSB, L.L.C. Construction of the Corrigan facility began in 2015 and startup is expected later this year. The facility will employ 165.

To mark its first log delivery, the plant held a celebratory gathering with employees and industry and community partners. The logs were delivered by J&J Logging under the supervision of Walsh Timber Co., L.L.C. “We are excited to receive and unload our first three loads of pulpwood at Corrigan OSB,” states Terry Secrest,

vice president of OSB and corporate safety director for RoyOMartin. “This is the first of many milestones on the path to running a world-class OSB facility later this year. Thanks to everyone for making this happen safely.”

RoyOMartin Vice President of Land and Timber Cade Young adds, “We have eagerly awaited this log delivery and look forward to many more at the Corrigan site. We appreciate the relationships formed with our raw material suppliers and vendors, the Texas Forestry Association, and others throughout the region who have welcomed us.”

CORRIGAN WELCOMES FIRST LOG LOADS

RoyOMartin announced the first three loads of pine pulpwood were received in late September at the new Corrigan, Texas, oriented strandboard

All hands were on deck for first log loads delivered to the new Corrigan OSB complex.

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ROSEBURG PURCHASES TIMBERLAND IN SOUTH

Roseburg has acquired 158,000 acres of timberland in the Southeastern U.S. from Forest Investment Associates (FIA), a timberland investment management organization. The timberland is located around Roanoke Rapids, largely within the coastal region of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia.

“The property is an accretive addition to Roseburg’s Western-based timberland portfolio, with close proximity to broad, stable markets,” Roseburg Senior Vice President of Resources Scott Folk says. “With an attractive age class distribution and above-average site productivity, the property represents significant long-term value for the company, as Roseburg seeks to diversify and grow its timber holdings.”

Roseburg currently owns and manages more than 630,000 acres of timberland in Oregon and California, largely composed of Douglas fir.

“This acquisition advances Roseburg’s planned expansion into the Southeastern U.S., where steady housing starts and healthy markets create stable demand for high-quality timber,” Roseburg CEO Grady Mulbery says. “The region’s welcoming business environment and potential for growth also factored into our decision to add the property to our portfolio.”

Roseburg earlier announced it is constructing a laminated veneer lumber facility in Chester, SC. Groundbreaking is expected in early 2018, with anticipated operation startup in mid-2019.

MSU FORESTRY GRAD IS NEW FS CHIEF

A Mississippi State University forestry graduate and most recently the regional forester for the Southern Region of the U.S. Forest Service, has been sworn in as the 18th Forest Service Chief.

Tony Tooke has worked for the Forest Service since he was 18 and for a total service of 37 years.

“Tony is truly a home-grown Chief, having worked his entire adult life for the Forest Service, and he comes on board at a time of great opportunity to reform our approach to forest management,” says U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue. “He will oversee efforts to get our forests working again, to make them more productive, and to create more jobs.”

Tooke succeeds Tom Tidwell who retired in August after a 40-year career with the agency, characterized by his climb from a firefighter to a district ranger, forest supervisor and to the head of the U.S. Forest Service for the past eight years.

Tooke was responsible for 14 national forests in his recent position as regional forester for the Southern Region of the U.S. Forest Service. He now leads an agency that oversees 154 national forests and 20 grasslands in 43 states and Puerto Rico.

He was previously associate deputy chief for the National Forest System.

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AG SECRETARY ADDRESSES FIRE

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue called on Congress to address the way the U.S. Forest Service is funded so that the agency is not routinely borrowing money from prevention programs to combat ongoing wildfires. Perdue argued that taking funds from prevention efforts only leaves behind more fuel in the forests for future fires to burn, exacerbating the situation.

Currently the fire suppression portion of the Forest Service budget is funded at a rolling 10-year average of appropriations, while the overall Forest Service budget has remained relatively flat. Because the fire seasons are longer and conditions are worse, the 10-year rolling fire suppression budget average keeps rising, chewing up a greater percentage of the total Forest Service budget each year. The agency has had to borrow from prevention programs to cover fire suppression costs.

Perdue said he would prefer that Congress treat major fires the same as other disasters and be covered by emergency funds so that prevention programs are not raided.

“Our budget has moved from 15% of fire suppression to over half,” Perdue said. “There’s no way we can do the kind of forest management and the prescribed burning and harvesting and insect control, all those kinds of things that diminish fires. Fires will always be with us. But when we leave a fuel load out there because we have not been able to get to it because of a lack of funding, or dependable funding, we’re asking for trouble.”

anticipated startup in late 2018.

The Talladega sawmill is the first of several new sawmills GP may construct in in the South.

The mill is expected to produce 230 MMBF annually, bringing in 150 log trucks daily, with plans to expand to 300MMBF. The plant will employ more than 100 and generate an estimated $5 million in annual payroll, according to GP. GP had operated the plywood mill in Talladega for more than 30 years.

GP PLANS SAWMILL AT EX-PLYWOOD SITE

Wilsonart Engineered Surfaces has acquired KML, a Tacoma, Wash.-based manufacturer of decorative surfaces and panels.

KML has manufacturing locations in Tacoma, and Stockton, Calif. and employs 100. Wilsonart will continue to market the KML line, alongside Wilsonart’s HPL/TFL offering.

Georgia-Pacific reports that it plans to build a $100 million sawmill in Talladega, Ala. at the site of a plywood plant that GP closed in 2008. Construction of the 300,000 sq. ft. operation is scheduled to begin immediately with an

WILSONART ADDS TFL CAPACITY

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NEW SWANSON PLYWOOD PLANT FEATURES LATEST TECHNOLOGY WITH FLEXIBLE, EFFICIENT PLANT LAYOUT Swanson Group targets overlay market with state-of-the-art plywood plant rebuilt after major fire.

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SPRINGFIELD, Ore. ecovering from a disastrous July 2014 fire, Swanson Group’s new plywood plant

here is close to full production as the facility ramps up and widens a product line that’s focused closely on high-end overlay products. Housed in a new 340,000 sq. ft. building, the plant is a well-designed, compelling mix of innovative, state of the art technology plus fully rebuilt and upgraded equipment— with more pieces still being added as Swanson personnel build in even more flexibility and efficiency.

As of mid September, the plant was running at full capacity on its veneer line and 95% capacity in the drying area, said Swanson Group President and CEO Steve Swanson. The recent installation of a 24-opening film press will help in widening the plant’s product line and also boost production, he added.

When Panel World visited, the plant’s two presses were producing blanks and overlays, respectively, but the addition of the film press would enable the plant to double its blank output.

Work at the facility is ongoing as Swanson Group continues to implement its full plan, with an automated panel repair department and 10 ft. panel capabilities yet to be installed.

RECOVERY Operations looked much less certain three years ago, as Swanson executives analyzed what move to make going forward. The company had received an insurance settlement three months after the fire, but took close to a year in deciding

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From left, Jeff Remington, Steve Swanson and son Chris Swanson led Swanson Group’s Springfield rebuild project.

whether to rebuild and how, or possibly investing in a completely new direction.

A key factor in making the decision was what the fire had spared: minimal damage to the boiler house, treating vats and log yard that would have added $25+ million to the rebuild cost. Also, the Springfield location is a key procurement point for Swanson Group, which operates a sawmill in Roseburg and a sawmill and plywood plant at company headquarters in Glendale, Ore. in addition to the Springfield plywood plant.

“This is a good area to procure logs, because it gets tougher to source logs the farther south of Eugene you go,” Swanson says.

The City of Springfield wanted

Meinan veneer line delivers state of the art automation and consistent, high quality veneer.

Swanson to rebuild, of course, and was helpful in smoothing the recovery and rebuild process under the existing permit structure.

After the fire, Swanson offered many employees jobs at other Swanson facilities. Currently, the new plant is just over 200 employees, and that includes just more than 100 workers who were employed at the plant when the fire occurred. Eventually, as many as 250-260 will staff the new facility. Other key

groups of employees now in place at the plant include personnel from Swanson acquisition Olympic Panel Products who were experienced overlay producers, plus much of the maintenance team employed when the fire occurred.

PROJECT After Swanson announced it was rebuilding the plywood plant in January 2015, work began in earnest. Conceptual

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engineering was handled by Swanson Group Vice President Jeff Remington.

Engineering firm Bradford, Conrad & Crow did some of the mechanical drawings, plus structural engineering for the building and foundations.

Big construction challenges included the discovery of more than 200 concealed wooden pilings during old concrete tear-out, and all those had to be replaced with steel. The project was also hampered by extremely rainy weather that slowed some of the early construction; in some cases concrete pours were scheduled in the middle of the night to take advantage of rain-free breaks.

A significant part of the mechanical installation was handled by Swanson employees, with much of the work done by a “roving” mechanical crew that tackles big projects at all company facilities.

“They’ve been camped out here on this project, and they also dismantled much of the equipment at Olympic Panel Products,” Remington says. “Here, they put in the saw and sander lines and also helped with the lathe line substeel, so they’ve had their hands on just about Meinan lathe powers full log length when peeling. every piece of equipment in here.”

It’s interesting to note that two now-closed plywood plants played big roles in Swanson Group’s rebuild project. Soon after the rebuild was announced, longtime overlay producer Olympic Panel Products (OPP) in Shelton, Wash. was put up for sale, and Swanson acquired the company’s equipment and assets and operated the facility briefly before having to vacate the site. And after the new plant’s lathe line and dryers started up, Swanson leased the nearby closed Pacific States Plywood (PSP) plant and operated the presses there to make panels while the rebuilt presses in the new plant were going in and starting up. Swanson produced panels at PSP for sixplus months.

“Part of the OPP purchase was to selectively high grade the parts for this plant,” Remington says, noting that the saw and sander, a 24 opening Raute film press, a poly patch line, chippers and other equipment were brought to Springfield. Much of the 10 ft. equipment going in next year is also refurbished from OPP. Also important for a mill being built from the ground up was OPP’s stock Taihei knife grinding system boosts veneer quality. of parts and shop equipment and

machinery and supplies, including tools and spare bearings, motors and more.

The new mill began peeling in May 2016 and was pressing by December 2016. A big part of the rebuild project was customer relations and getting Swanson veneer and panels back into the market as quick as possible.

Swanson Group Executive Vice President Chris Swanson, Steve’s son, works closely with sales and marketing and has also been acting manager in Springfield during startup and coordinated activities between the two facilities when leasing the PSP plant.

Once the rebuild plan was in place, Chris Swanson and other sales staff visited customers around the country to explain the rebuild process. “The message wasn’t always happily received, but we had to communicate what we were doing,” he says. “Most of our customers did stock up on inventory, and we convinced them we’d be a better supplier once we got back up and running, with better quality and more flexibility.”

Going back into the market with veneer initially, then panels, was tough in a soft market in mid 2016.

“We had to muscle our way back into the marketplace, starting with veneer while we slowly ramped up internal consumption,” Steve Swanson says. “It was a hardfought process, but I couldn’t be more proud of our sales force, and the quality of veneer we pushed successfully into the market.”

Swanson Group leased the Pacific States plant from May through September 2017. The facility made mostly commodity plywood, sheathing, underlayment and some industrial. “By November we had our spreaders installed, so in December we shut that down and went to full overlay production (at the new plant),” Chris Swanson says.

To bolster the customer retention plan, an additional spreader was installed at the Glendale plant to make some overlay product there as well.

NEW PLANT As part of the new plant’s design, Remington was able to add several features, beginning with

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straightening out the flow of the mill so machine outputs and product move in one direction, from west to east. Additional features include: l Centrally located maintenance shops served by an overhead crane that goes over the walls to move machines and components. Another overhead crane is installed running the length of the lathe line and almost to the end of the building, with access to key machines. l Taking advantage of a city water project during construction, the plant also received a new 24 in. water main with enough pressure to eliminate the need for a pumping system. In addition, all water lines and systems are installed under the floor. l A rail line installed this fall has room for four boxcars inside the mill, plus there’s a weather-protected truck loading area as well. l A new high efficiency LED motion sensor light system earned a nice tax credit for its energy-saving features. l In addition to safety considerations, dust control is also a key quality issue with overlay production. To reduce dust, any horizontal surface longer or

Veneer line bin system: All veneer coming off line is either full sheet, 4x4 or residual.

wider than 3 in. has a 45° piece of flashing for dust to slide off. A white wall liner also helps hide small horizontal surfaces that can collect dust. The saw line has a Torit baghouse, while the

sander has a Carothers & Sons dual baghouse system that doubles sander dust capacity and also increased dust removal air flow by 40%.

Swanson officials decided to go with a

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In-line composers add to veneer line’s level of automation.

Rebuilt Coe M72 dryer handles 4 and 10 ft. material, some 8 ft.

New Raute 6 deck, 28 section dryer handles full sheets.

Raute dryer outfeed features moisture, strength, grade scanning.

Meinan lathe system, which they believe provides better block control and more consistent veneer thanks to its full length drive system that powers the log when peeling. Swanson shipped logs to Japan, where the lathe was set up and tested against a near-identical batch of logs that were run through the Glendale lathe.

As opposed to traditional spindlepower lathes, “The Meinan has such a positive turning system,” Remington says. “It’s being powered the full length of the log.” Another key to the system’s veneer quality is a knife room featuring a new Taihei knife sharpening and maintenance system.

Yet the Meinan veneer line is much more than just the lathe: The highly automated system runs from the lathe through three clippers and two in-line

“We’re extremely proud of the way our company and people have answered the challenge after the fire.”

—Swanson Group CEO Steve Swanson composing systems with only three employees; an automatic knife changer helps keep downtime to a minimum.

“Uptime is really good on the lathe line, more than 95%,” Chris Swanson says.

Coming off the lathe, full 8 ft. sheets are clipped out and flow overhead, past a VenTek moisture meter, and on to two five bin stackers. A slitter roll cuts random material into 4 ft. pieces that flow to two independent clippers. Those clipped pieces then flow to two in-line composing machines that produce 4x4 sheets. All of this is done with one lathe operator and two composer operators.

The full-sheet workhorse dryer in the new plant is a new Raute 28 section (24 hot) dryer. Swanson Group personnel like the dryer’s controls package that offers lots of operating flexibility and features. A modular design allowed for quick installation, Remington says, adding that the dryer’s powder coat paint resists rust as well.

“We try to send as much as possible

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Much equipment came from Olympic Panel acquisition.

through the Raute dryer,” Chris Swanson says, adding that full sheets make up about two-thirds of the material going through the dryers. Having everything in full or half sheets also aids dryer efficiency. “That helps with the feeding because we can vacuum feed it once it’s composed,” he says.

The Raute dryer feeds to a Ventek grading and moisture meter system and a Metriguard machine, and sheets flow to a 14-bin Raute stacker.

A Coe M72 dryer salvaged from the fire and rebuilt by Westmill Industries handles 4, 8 and 10 ft. sheets and operates with a Westmill controls and heat exchanger system.

The small dryer system runs with no hydraulics, using ACpowered accumulators and servo tipple. The rebuild is also Westmill’s first time using an AC-powered ball screw system on the dryer’s scissor lift.

Material coming off the M72 dryer runs under a Ventek moisture meter and is hand-pulled. Swanson adds that veneer coming off both dryers has more life with better humidity control. “We don’t have any more overdry-brittle problems, and there’s a lot less shrinkage,” he says. An RTO handles emissions from both dryers.

New equipment awaiting installation includes an Argos panel patch line and repair system that includes Con-Vey Keystone material handling systems. Interestingly, a Raute Patchman P2 veneer sheet repair system that was also going in may ultimately end up at the Glendale plant. “The veneer quality we’re getting off the line is so good I’m not sure we can get full use of the system here,” Steve Swanson says of the Patchman. A poly patch line from OPP is operating temporarily until the Argos system can be installed in early 2018.

The plant processes 100% Douglas fir, and can handle logs as small as 6 in. on the small end and as large as 23 in. on the large end. Logs are debarked through a Nicholson A5 27 in. debarker, then heated in 12 vats. The Meinan lathe doesn’t re-

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quire as much preconditioning of logs, warming them to about 90° internal temperature is optimum. At infeed, logs go to a Comact wave feeder that introduces logs to the Meinan line.

The press area continues to expand, with the recently installed Raute film press complementing the two rebuilt Spar-Tek 30 opening presses featuring new soft-touch overlay loaders and unloaders. Reconditioned Globe spreaders are at all three press stations.

A good bit of the panel area rebuild was handled by Mill Machinery, which installed the two large presses and rebuilt the spreaders. Mill Machinery also provided a new infeed and bin system for the reconditioned panel saw. The finishing end includes a reconditioned Kimwood 6-head sander (Norton belts).

Eventually, both the saw line and sander line will receive new Argos vision grading systems.

Additional suppliers include Wil lamette Valley Co. edge seal system, Arclin overlay papers and Hexion resin.

Spar-Tek presses are complemented by Raute film press; 10 ft. presses are set for 2018.

FUTURE Despite construction and weather issues that put the plant a bit behind its projected schedule, Steve Swanson says he’s excited about the new plant with its high levels of automation and efficiency and new technology that lower production costs while increasing quality.

The high-tech panel repair system going in early next year will add to product quality, and the last phase—adding the 10 ft. scarfing line—should be complete by the end of 2018. The new capabilities will only bolster perhaps the most automated plywood plant in North America—certainly on the green end.

Swanson is also looking forward to moving through the construction-startup phase and on to “normal” or regular operations. Son Chris is looking to move back to his position overseeing sales and marketing, and the company is looking for plant manager candidates now that the project is settling in to a more manageable phase.

“We’re excited about the future, but we’re also extremely proud of the way our company and people have answered the challenge after the fire,” Steve Swanson says. “We also appreciate the suppliers and vendors who have worked closely with us.”

All in all, it’s an exciting time for Swanson Group in an improving market, running the newest plywood plant in the U.S. PW

High quality and product consistency are keys to premium overlay markets.

Plant is picking up production as new equipment comes on line.

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HIGH PERFORMANCE LEADERSHIP IN FOREST PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING: SIX SECRETS TO GETTING THERE

BY DICK BALDWIN

hat is Leadership? Often used interchangeably with the term management, leadership has become a much discussed, but widely misunderstood term within the forest products industry. The downsizing of the Pacific Northwest forest products industry and its recent recovery provides a unique window on the leadership process and its effect on the primary wood based manufacturer.

The Pacific Northwest forest industry restructuring and downsizing occurred over a roughly 30-year (1985-2015) time period. It was a painful time; there were significant social and economic impacts on mill owners, workers, families and local communities that depended upon the mill and the industry. There were predictions of the industry’s demise as an economic factor in the rural communities of the Pacific Northwest. Much downsizing did occur and many communities suffered greatly.

However, some forest industry businesses survived and ultimately thrived.

This article examines what happened and draws lessons on the practice of leadership.

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GROUND ZERO The author initiated a study, on which this article is based, as a continuation of an earlier doctoral research project on differing community responses to the mas-

sive forest industry downsizing in the Pacific Northwest. This latest study focuses upon the leadership process by examining those mills that not only survived through the Great Recession (20082009), but have done well since then.

A representative sample of West Coast lumber and veneer-based producers were selected; these mills are geographically situated from southern Oregon near the California border through Oregon, Washington and into southern British Columbia. These forest industry mills, both lumber and veneer-based, include many small entrepreneurial operators as well as mills operated by larger companies (both public and private). On balance, the representative mix tended toward smaller companies that have developed a reputation for nimbly adapting to the evolving forest industry competitive situations.

About 40 on-site visits were completed beginning in early 2015 and extending through May 2017. Additional mills were assessed using data from a variety of public and private sources. Interviewees included mill owners, senior executives, mill managers, supervisors and hourly workers. When appropriate, outside specialists were used to assess and better understand the data. The following is a summary of that inquiry.

WHAT IS LEADERSHIP? The interviews, which could more accurately be described as free-flowing discussions, were multi-purpose, meaning that a wide variety of topics were explored such as equipment operations, people performance, and the respective business model for the company. The queries on leadership were interwoven

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into the conversation, or became apparent as the uniqueness of the business model was described.

The more successful mills were highly competitive, but reflected a culture of collegiality; formal leadership programs and structures were particularly absent from the businesses studied. While a hierarchy existed, there was little to indicate that reporting relationships were the basis for driving performance. Leadership, on all levels, appeared to be defined by what a leader could accomplish through others.

A pithy quote best describes a typical Pacific Mill turnaround situation: “A leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don’t want to do, and like it.” (Harry Truman, as quoted in the Howard Gardner book, Leading Minds.)

Ingrained methods, habits, and how

you think about the business required change; and even long held cultural norms must be transformed into a newer and often more innovative workplace atmosphere. A worker’s job at the more successful operations became more than an economic necessity; cognitive ownership of the job and resulting outcome appeared to become a part of the survival package.

The following are six common leadership characteristics, and examples of each, that emerged from the recent research: The People Resource Is the Heart of the Business Academic brilliance and an educational pedigree is seldom the ticket to survival. Often individuals of modest formal education proved themselves capable of important roles in a forest in-

dustry mill; nor is age a barrier to effective participation. Forest products manufacturing is still an industry where a young person with a strong work ethic, ambition, and the willingness to learn can rise to become responsible for millions of dollars of equipment and hundreds of employees.

One Oregon lumber operation annually manufactures about 115 million board feet. The one-person sales force not only schedules the mill, but sells the entire production. Rather than requiring a couple of assistants in an office, the sales manager uses tailor-made software, and effective support systems on the floor of the mill, to facilitate keeping apprised at all times of all inventories (green, rough dry and finished lumber), orders and shipments. His second floor office hovers over the planer floor; this provides constant visual feedback on floor activities. The software system was developed and installed to tailor-fit the sales manager’s needs for visibility and control.

A Pacific Northwest plywood plant has a press operator who almost effortlessly keeps two 25-opening hot presses full. Asked why he would continue to work at age 78, he stated, “I enjoy my work, what else would I do? My wife of almost 55 years and I get along fine with me working.”

Business success or failure invariably depends upon the individual as part of a blended team of varying ages, level of experience and knowledge. Carefully selecting, or retaining, the individual is key. The time worn adage: “Excellence comes from surrounding yourself with excellent people” is further proven by the Pacific Northwest experience. Certain people have the priceless characteristic, some call heart: the compelling drive to perform well under pressure in difficult conditions.

The Leader Will Establish Their Presence in a Personal Way Coworkers gain clarity and comfort knowing that a trusted leader is in charge. This is particularly evident as the leader demonstrates ability to facilitate change. Frequent and consistent contact, with visual constructs, mirror and reinforce the leader’s presence.

This characteristic was frequently noted, although one leader stood out after observing his handiwork on the mill floor.

This mill manager inherited a 1960’sera West Coast plywood mill. The product mix was typical of that era; a mix of

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sheathing, sanded and siding in which money was made in good markets, but gave most, if not all and more, back in poor markets. His mandate, when hired, was to restore profitability in a mill with a cadre of high seniority employees in a mill situated in an isolated community.

The leader knew the task; he had to change mill practices, while finding new customers for a revamped product mix.

The first order of business, after getting acquainted with the mill and its people, was to identify the survival product mix. He then set about effecting change. He got the crew together, related what needed to occur, the stakes involved for the mill and the community, and what each (and all) needed to do to master the new mix of products.

The manager was then present for incredible hours in this nonunion mill; continuous coaching and feedback was provided to the other leaders (of which there were few) and the hourly workers.

Focused leadership and the resulting activities brought about the needed changes over time. Upon reflection, the mill superintendent opined that it typically took three to five years for major product mix changes to occur in the mill

and accepted by the customers. Fortunately, the change initiative had progressed rapidly enough to head off a likely mill closure.

Cultural Expectations of Change Are Established Early-On A culture exists in every workplace.

The resulting culture is deeply influenced by the norms of the community, the business entity and its prior leadership, the work group, the family, and the individual. The leader’s task is to determine the nature of the existing culture, whether it will assist or hinder progress, and then facilitate the changes needed.

One mill had become the failed byproduct of an unsuccessful big-company initiative to focus on an offshore market that never really materialized.

The mill had been unionized in a highly unionized community; work practices were rigid and labor efficiency was low.

Rapidly growing social costs, along with double-digit unemployment, were causing pain within the community, and particularly with the unemployed and their families.

The mill was subsequently sold to a

local businessman with roots within the community. Having experienced the bitter taste of high unemployment, rising social costs and a declining community, the culture evolved into one of support for the business and its prospects. The leader task became involved, and assisted with the cultural change as it played out within the community.

Often the need for cultural change will be far subtler than the experience cited.

However, culture is a powerful thing that directs thinking and subsequent response. How the employees, their families, and the community think about the business is often a harbinger of success or failure. The power of cultural expectations played out in a very powerful way in determining the success or failure of a forest products business.

A Safe Workplace Is the Alpha and Omega of the Business; Everything Else Is Secondary The successful mills associate low injury rates with lean staffing. Somewhere during an interview, either in the mill or office, the leader would interweave safety and loss prevention into the conversation.

The more efficient mills appeared to be

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creatively staffed lean; each job was essential to continued operation.

One plywood manager was particularly vocal in his belief that, “We can’t get our numbers if we have people that aren’t here; it becomes a burden on everyone.

We track our safety conditions carefully to ascertain that we are doing all we can to avoid injuries; when an injury occurs… to keep the individual somehow involved in the mill (while mending).”

Safety statistics were frequently cited, and cited as an important key performance indicator. Also cited was the value placed on individual workers. While the operations manager set the pace, it was apparent that their leadership created the impetus for a “buy-in” within the individual and the work group.

Crucial Business Aspects of the Business Were Identified and Priorities Established

The leader focused upon the overall business. However, it was noted that disproportionate attention was given to the crucial few, often no more than four to five aspects of the business. The process began by broadly defining what was needed for the business to survive and satisfy the expectations of the stakeholders. Then these needs were redefined into the critical few.

One operator sought becoming a lowcost sheathing plywood producer. He then identified three crucial aspects to achieving that status. First, lacking a green end to peel veneer, he focused upon the cost and mix of his purchased green veneer. Secondly, the volume and cost of drying the purchased veneer was identified as a crucial aspect. Third, he then focused upon developing a capability to construct high quality plywood from the lower grade/lower cost green

veneers. He immediately established personal control over veneer purchasing, and directed the setup and operation of the three veneer dryers.

The three veneer dryers were direct fired using a heat source that was difficult to operate even under the best of conditions. He laser focused upon the heat source as the crucial aspect for veneer dryer operation and subsequently overcame the initial and continuing operating problems. His drying costs subsequently became the standard to beat within his industry peer group.

The third crucial aspect was panel layup efficiency and quality. The mill’s layup line was not just any layup line, but one innovatively modified to assemble lower grade CD veneers into a “silkpurse” panel. He supervised initial design and installation; then focused on virtually eliminating operational downtime while keeping off-grade to more than 2 percent of overall production. He would announce results to visitors, within hearing of the crew; then extend an invitation to review current and past production statistics which were readily available.

Another manager, at another mill, said that his green end crew was establishing a performance record during the shift then operating. He then described the crucial aspects being measured, the value of each, and the method of communication within the business. In his experience, the more the crew and its leader knew the numbers (both inside and outside their department), the greater the incentive to perform.

“I think we can do better.” Then his

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leadman went on to describe what they were going to try in establishing the next record. By focusing upon the crucial few aspects of the many, these two mill operators are able to focus resources and needs. This doesn’t mean that other basics were neglected, but it did mean that the focus was upon achieving the crucial business needs.

Clarity in Organizational Structure and Reporting Relationships Is Essential A question posed on every visit, whether expressed or implied, was, “How do things work around here?”

There was very little talk about titles and organizational structure, but a great deal about who was responsible for what within the business.

One operation was a case in point.

While standing next to the press operator at his work station, a leader of a highly technical wood based processing center described the role of the hot press operator. The press operator joined the conversation to then describe what he did to meet his assigned responsibilities, including accepting the responsibility for the oversight of

hot press maintenance. The back and forth conversation flowed smoothly; the actual conversation may have been the catalyst for further reflection upon the assigned responsibility.

This mill visit was typical of others; each citing common practices as a lead-

in for a focused discussion of current problems and opportunities. While there were organizational structures with reporting relationships, organizational structure and reporting relationships appeared to being less important than accomplishing the task at hand. ➤ 32

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EMERGING ISSUE

Confronting the industry is that of an aging workforce. One industry veteran describes the emerging issue as the “retirement tsunami.” Many key and essential industry figures, both in operations and technical support roles, are now in their late fifties, and some into their late seventies.

The earlier downsizing prompted transfer to other industries or early retirement for many experienced workers

who were in their most productive years. Disruption of the career paths of experienced leaders and operators 10, 20 and more years ago means there are fewer mentors for young people seeking to work their way through progressively responsible positions.

Compounding the problem is the reluctance of young people to enter an industry that typically requires long hours and arduous labor when other jobs often pay more and demand fewer hours and physical labor. The good news is that effective

leaders have now largely stabilized the wood products manufacturing industry and manufacturing is becoming more of a process, and less of an arduous job shop.

Efforts are now being made to redesign the processing centers to become more people friendly. Now the efforts need to shift to establishing a career track for the younger people that represent the future of our industry. The future then refocuses upon the role of the leader, and their role in innovatively guiding the path forward in avoiding the consequences of the pending retirement tsunami.

PW Dick Baldwin is the managing partner with Oak Creek Investments. He worked in various managerial and ownership roles in the panel industries for numerous decades and has authored seven books on manufacturing practices.

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RESINS TECHNOLOGY MANUFACTURER HEXION HAS CRUCIAL ROLE ON MANY FRONTS The company sees itself as a leader in the industry, with its products and its activism.

BY RICH DONNELL

he North America building industry, and the worldwide one as well, continues to grow, wood products manufacturers continue to increase production, and resins technologies provider Hexion Inc. continues to enhance its position as a primary partner with all of the panel and engineered wood production segments of the industry and as a visible and leading proponent of the industry.

Based in Columbus, Ohio, Hexion is structured with a Forest Products Division and an Epoxy, Phenolic and Coating Resins Division (that serves a range of industries such as automotive, electronics, aerospace, etc.). The Forest Products Div. operates up to 40 facilities globally, two dozen of which are in North America.

For forest products, Hexion is known for its urea formaldehyde-based, EcoBind low emitting resin systems for hardwood plywood, particleboard and MDF; phenolic resins for plywood, OSB and engineered wood products such as glulam; melamine resins for laminate applications; wax emulsions and various additives.

Hexion was formed in 2005 through the merger of Borden Chemical, Inc., Resolution Specialty Materials Inc. and Bakelite AG, the latter of which dates back to 1907. Hexion Specialty Chemicals Inc. and Momentive Performance Materials Inc. combined in 2010 to form Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc., which subsequently changed its

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name to Hexion Inc. in 2015. Hexion is controlled by investment funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management.

One of Hexion’s central and familiar figures is Jody Bevilaqua, named Chief Operating Officer a year ago overseeing both business divisions. Most previously, for eight years, he was executive vice president of the company and president of the Epoxy, Phenolics and Coating Resins Div., and for four years prior to that he was executive VP and president of the Forest Products Division. He joined the company in 2002 in corporate strategy and development. He reports to Craig Rogerson, Chairman, CEO and President of Hexion Inc. Bevilaqua says that despite the steadily improving building economy and related panel manufacturing uptick, in addition to anticipated demand caused by the two recent hurricanes in the Southern U.S., forest products resins capacity or volume availability is not a current problem in North America.

“You always have that moment when everybody decides to order, that instantaneous impingement is always there, but if you look at an average ratable volume there’s really not an issue with availability,” Bevilaqua says. “We’re well inside our customers’ construction window.”

Customer relations is a major emphasis for Hexion, especially given a producer company’s typically long-term plans and the time it takes to execute those plans because of the size of the production facilities.

“One of the keys for us is to have clear and open communication with our customers,” Bevilaqua says. “We work hard to keep it confidential. That becomes very critical. We do a very good job of compartmentalizing. The industry does a very good job of having long-term plans, and we can usually make our investment inside their window for a new plant. We normally can work our way through federal permitting processes inside that time frame and make the necessary investments to supply the volume.”

Another key figure at Hexion is Mark Alness, named Senior Vice President Americas for Forest Products Resins last January. His history with the company dates back to 1978 when he joined Borden Chemical.

Alness emphasizes Hexion’s devotion to not only maintaining production capacities to meet the market’s needs when it’s hitting on all cylinders, but to a continued commitment to research and development of resin technologies.

He points to more than $125 million Chief Operating Officer of Hexion, Inc., Jody Bevilaqua

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invested in several plants in recent years, including an expansion of formaldehdye production at Curitaba, Brazil, where they’ve also ramped up wax emulsion production, and in Geismer, La. and Luling, La., the latter two with 400,000 metric tons combined of formaldehyde production capacity per year.

The Geismer formaldehyde facility feeds to MDI customers as well as into Hexion’s amino and phenolic resins; while the Luling plant serves an adjacent Monsanto Company chemical plant by providing formaldehyde through a direct pipeline.

The company most recently has expanded its technology lab in Edmonton, Alberta. The plant there, which dates back to Borden Chemical, supplies all panel resins. The R&D facility now has a new building and new equipment including a scale press.

“We are making experimental panels on new chemistries at the lab,” Bevilaqua says, mostly around OSB, using sustainable

Hexion’s upgraded tech center in Edmonton keeps the company at the forefront of product capabilities.

raw materials such as lignin and other green feedstocks in combination with classic materials.

“There are a lot of novel chemistries,” he adds. “We found it was in our best interest to put in a line at Alberta that can push the moment. It gives us a chance to be much quicker in our development cycle.”

However, Bevilaqua notes that Hexion is a bit more conservative and prefers evolutionary advancement. “We think that with the commitment of our customers on such a large scale it’s best to fit into current footprint and gradually make the move to a more green adhesive. We believe hybrids work, they work in our reactors, they pass the test in being economically beneficial and in large enough quantity that our customers can dedicate a line or part of a line.”

Hexion continues to play an integral role in regulatory development, much as it did in the transition to CARB 2 for composite panel and non-structural

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resins. Alness notes that when CARB rolled out, everybody assumed they would have to use 10-15% more resin and lose 10% of productivity, but today productivity is probably better and the cost is the same. “It was a huge technological effort that’s now starting to happen in Latin America because they export significant product to here,” Alness says.

Meanwhile, there is ongoing discussion on the structural side concerning phenolic formaldehyde resins with regard

to preliminary determination and assessment of cancer risks reached by EPA and the Integrated Risk Information System, with questions about the EPA/IRIS methodology and interpretation.

Alness isn’t shy about promoting the environmental friendliness of the wood products industry. He cites a recent calculation that Hexion customers produce about 30 million cubic meters annually of wood products globally, which translates to the sequester of 30 million metric tons of CO2, which is

equivalent to taking 19 million cars off the road forever every year. And he notes it only takes 60 days to replace the 30 million cubic meters with wood that’s grown back.

“This is a story that industry needs to promote,” Alness says, “especially looking at marketing to a new generation of millennials who want to have an impact and who take this very seriously. This is one area where this industry has a huge opportunity, visibly and scientifically, to reach out and increase the awareness and importance of using wood. To me, Hexion makes the enabling technology for producing the most sustainable building products on earth.”

Alness is hopeful that such a message can attract young workers to the wood products industry. “Creating jobs in rural areas is difficult,” he says. “The jobs in these new modern plants are very sophisticated, really good jobs, but we have to attract them.”

Alness believes carbon sequester and sustainability are major reasons why cross-laminated timber construction has garnered such interest particularly in the Western U.S., with multi-story buildings composed of CLT replacing traditional steel and concrete structures.

Speaking of the product, however, Alness points to the issue of heat durability, and of looking at the engineered wood product and the adhesive that holds the product together. More specifically he says there are issues with thermoplastic adhesives melting and falling away. “When you start talking about 20 story buildings, you can’t have an adhesive that’s structurally deficient. We’re working on it,” he adds, noting that the issue has led Hexion into developing technology that they used in other applications such as laminated beams.

Bevilaqua emphasizes that Hexion’s lab work just as importantly focuses on how adhesives fail. He praises cross linkable chemistry that “performs significantly longer in testing.” Building code bodies are playing a crucial role in this development as they wrestle through what is the right code. “These code issues take time,” he adds. “It’s the proper way to go about it.”

Both Bevilaqua and Alness express optimism over the growth and demand of the building products industry for several years going forward.

“The economies are moving up, we’re in for a really really good run here,” Alness says. “We’re trying to make sure we’re prepared for it, both in capacity and continued investment.” PW

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DUSTEX LUNDBERG MERGER SHOWS NEW FACE, NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR EMISSIONS CONTROL The Dustex and Lundberg merger in March 2016 strengthens their ability to offer turnkey emission control equipment and services.

BY JESSICA JOHNSON

n industry standard in wet ESP and RTO technology, Lundberg, and its Geoenergy branded products, have been at the forefront of North American panel production plants for more than 30 years. In 2016, the company announced its acquisition by a private equity firm and its merger with Dustex, another leading air pollution control company specializing in dry emission control technologies such as fabric filters, sorbent injection and circulating dry scrubber systems.

Now, with Dustex | Lundberg operating their headquarters in Bellevue, Wash., and Kennesaw, Ga., the footprint for Geoenergy is far and wide in North America. But it doesn’t stop there. The new organization opens up the Geoenergy products to the global industrial market; while allowing the ability to offer solutions mitigating all emissions control concerns via an expanded portfolio of technologies coupled with expanded field service operations. By combining the technologies of Lundberg, who exclusively owns and markets Geoenergy products, with Dustex, the new company can provide solutions for any air pollutant, with one face to clients, according to Jaymie Deemer, Director of APC Sales for the organization.

He adds that at the time of the merger, Lundberg had just finished com-

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The Geoenergy technical team, based in Bellevue, Wash., from left, Jonathan Allyn, process engineer; Steve Jaasund, Geoenergy Manager; Jaymie Deemer, Director of Sales; Nick Seeley, process engineer

pletely redesigning its two most popular Geoenergy products within the panel production portfolio: its E-Tube wet electrostatic precipitator (wet ESP) and its GeoTherm and GeoCat regenerative thermal oxidizers (RTO).

“These are truly state-of-the art technologies that provide the highest performance and lowest maintenance requirements,” Deemer says. He specifically points to the design of the collection system of the wet ESP and features such as tube cooling, where years of development paid off: A condensation type system, the tubes are wet, making a continuous liquid film inside the wet ESP. This film protects the metallic collecting surfaces, which can often suffer material build-up problems when faced with sticky material, like what comes from a wood dryer. Deemer explains the tube design, combined with the direction of gas flow allow Geoenergy wet ESPs to get higher rates of removal at greater efficiencies.

Thanks to the improved design, and continued commitment to panel producers, many leading panel producers use Dustex | Lundberg’s Geoenergy technologies: for example, Louisiana-Pacific has well over 30 E-Tube wet ESP units installed in their plants across North America. Deemer estimates that greater than 225 different units controlling emissions in panel production facilities in North America are Geoenergy products.

HISTORY One of the biggest points of pride for Dustex | Lundberg’s Geoenergy products is its history, citing the first installation in a wood products facility in 1984 as when the company really started a tradition of “firsts.” This is possible thanks to Steve Jaasund, who has been associated with Geoenergy since that time, and who remains on board as Geoenergy Product Manager.

Deemer explains, “We have a lot of firsts that were ever done in terms of controlling emissions; we pioneered the industry over the years in terms of what is considered standard emission control systems for these mills.”

But it’s not just the firsts that Deemer and Jaasund are proud of when they think of the Geoenergy products. Instead, they point to the longevity of the technologies and products, and their constant evolution sets them apart. “No matter what happens, regardless of the new identity of our organization, Geoenergy lives on. And it always will within the new company. We think it is very important that it live on,” says Deemer, who previously served as business development manager of the Geoenergy products at Lundberg.

As part of the large roll out of Boiler MACT compliance regulations from the EPA, Deemer estimates that Lundberg had greater than 90% market share on projects that involved wet ESP and wet

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Dustex | Lundberg field support team will service and support all APC systems and equipment—not just Geoenergy products.

Dustex | Lundberg estimates greater than 225 Geoenergy units are controlling emissions in panel plants across North America.

scrubber technologies during the compliance period and greater than 95% market share of boiler wet ESPs overall in the last 15 years.

New additions include PLC programmers and those with extensive wood products process knowledge.

Field service technicians are coast to coast, heavy to the Southeast and Pacific Northwest, as well as the Midwest.

Deemer adds that field service is not strictly bound to servicing Dustex | Lundberg’s products. “We feel that it is one of our strengths. We can offer service to all facilities no matter the brand, make or model of emission control equipment they have. This is not just one or two guys. We have a large team of direct employees that are solely focused on startup, comPW missioning and supporting our customers.”

FLAGSHIP PRODUCTS The two flagship Geoenergy products produced by Dustex | Lundberg were completely redesigned in 2012-13, not only to improve performance, Deemer explains, but to stay competitive in the marketplace. The GeoTherm II RTO and GeoCat II RCO designs were overhauled and given their updated names, as well as features, which include an improved “cold face” design, Washington-based Deemer explains, to keep the units operating at maximum energy efficiency. Additionally, the GeoTherm II, which is the next generation of Geoenergy’s RTO offering, helps production facilities meet all current limits for the emissions of VOCs such as formaldehyde, methanol and carbon monoxide.

The newly redesigned wet ESP, branded Geoenergy E-Tube High Flow wet ESP, is designed to handle higher capacity than previous iterations. This new design was the basis of what is considered the largest wet ESP currently controlling emissions off a wood dryer. Deemer explains that several panelboard facilities have multiple wet ESPs to treat a high volume of gas flowing off the dryers and presses; recently, to solve the problem of running multiple pieces of equipment, Dustex | Lundberg’s solution was to install the single largest wet ESP on multiple wood dryers at a Lake State panelboard facility. Deemer says the new High Flow wet ESP design is capable of treating flows greater than 300,000 CFM. The wood industry is not the only one to take note of the ETube wet ESP technology. In November 2016, Lundberg announced an exclusive partnership with Dupont to put Geoenergy E-Tube wet ESP technology in petroleum refineries where DuPont scrubber systems would be installed.

FIELD SERVICES Dustex | Lundberg has put extra emphasis on the ability to service customers following commissioning by building a strong network of field service technicians stationed across North America, with a strong focus on panel plants.

By leaning heavily on in-house engineering and 25-year plus veterans in the industry for boots-on-the-ground support, Deemer says Lundberg’s field service team is unmatched.

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PROJECTS USNR FIGURES STRONGLY IN ROSEBURG LVL MILL

Roseburg Forest Products, which announced last month it is building a laminated veneer lumber facility in Chester, SC, has ordered a significant amount of equipment for the project from USNR. USNR will supply billet transport and stacking/unstacking, gang rip saw, sealing line, reman chop saw line, tray sorting and storage line, stacking line, package line, horizontal band saws, spray line, paper wrap line, strapping equipment and package outfeed. Associated PLC controls will be supplied, as well as USNR’s WinTally sorter management, ticketing system and grade mark reader.

Construction is targeted to commence in early 2018, with startup planned for mid-2019.

SWISS KRONO CONTRACTS WITH B&W MEGTEC Babcock & Wilcox MEGTEC has been awarded a contract to supply emission control equipment for the Swiss Krono HDF manufacturing plant in Barnwell, SC. B&W MEGTEC will design, fabricate and supply two CleanSwitch regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO) systems to Büttner Energie-und Trocknungstechnik for use at the Barnwell facility.

The RTOs will control volatile organic compounds created during the fiberboard manufacturing process.

The first RTO system will consist of four modules controlling emissions from the fiber drying process. The second RTO system will consist of a single module to control emissions from the board press.

“The CleanSwitch RTO delivers highefficiency VOC destruction and features our patented switch valve, which virtually eliminates pressure spikes,” says Rodney Schwartz, vice president-global sales. “This innovative design makes the CleanSwitch the optimum solution for VOC abatement of the drying process, where pressure fluctuations can be detrimental to dryer balance/control. The dryer RTO system will abate 235,000 WSCFM from the process, while the press RTO will abate 73,000 WSCFM from the press operations.”

“We thank Büttner for the opportunity to supply our advanced environmen-

tal equipment for this project,” adds Leslie Kass, senior vice president, B&W Industrial. “We’re pleased to be able to help our customers with the challenges they face.”

Engineering work on the project is under way. B&W MEGTEC is scheduled to deliver the equipment in the fourth quarter of 2017. The CleanSwitch units are being manufactured at the B&W MEGTEC facility in De Pere, Wis.

BOISE INSTALLS SEI ESP AT OAKDALE

ROSEBURG ORDERS LVL PRESS Roseburg Forest Products has contracted with Dieffenbacher to supply a microwave preheating system, continuous press and stacking system for Roseburg’s new LVL plant in Chester, SC. With a daily output of 800 m³, the more-than-65-m long CPS continuous press will be the world’s largest continuous LVL press as measured by production capacity, according to a Dieffenbacher report, which adds that the upstream 600 kW microwave will be the most powerful preheating system of this type in LVL production.

“We obviously knew of Dieffenbacher’s previous LVL projects. These excellent references are among the reasons that we ultimately chose Dieffenbacher as our supplier,” says Roseburg President and CEO Grady Mulbery. “The short distance between Chester and Dieffenbacher’s service center in Alpharetta, Georgia, is another plus for us.”

Roseburg has earmarked a total investment of USD 200 million for its new LVL production line. The plant will produce 285,000 m3 of LVL boards per year on one line.

USNR WILL SUPPLY CLT PRESS FOR KATERRA USNR has received an order for a cross-laminated timber press from Katerra for a new plant to be built in Spokane, Wash.

USNR designed and supplied the CLT press for the D.R. Johnson CLT operation at Riddle, Ore. in 2015. Since then USNR reports it has fielded many inquiries, and the announcement of the Katerra order follows Katerra’s official announcement that it is building the plant in Spokane.

Southern Environmental, Inc. (SEI) fabricated and installed a new state-ofthe art S 3 ESP with high frequency power supplies using SEI-ELEX electrodes at the Boise Cascade plywood mill in Oakdale, La. Boise Cascade challenged SEI to remove the existing stack and tie in the new ESP via duct and expansion joint in just 12 hours. SEI was up to the challenge. In fact design, supply and installation of the ESP was executed in five months.

The ESP was designed with wide plate spacing, top rapping, 7 ft. penthouse and a screw conveyor material handling system. SEI’s design, using the high frequency power supply and ELEX electrode, is cutting edge technology for biomass boiler ESPs. The company has been on the forefront, utilizing this technology in applications since 2002.

SEI’s ability to support every aspect of this job was key, including structural, mechanical, electrical and civil engineering. SEI also commissioned and managed a 1/12th scale physical model of the system to ensure uniform gas flow that optimized the system’s efficiencies. The contract scope included complete engineering, component supply, custom fabrication, construction services and commissioning services.

SEI’s Boise project was so successful that Boise was agreeable to awarding SEI two follow-up contracts for virtually identical equipment.

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PROJECTS SCISKY ORDERS P’BOARD LINE FROM SIEMPELKAMP

The Chinese company Nanning Shuixin Ketien (SciSky) has ordered a particleboard line from Siempelkamp that will allow it to enter and become established in particleboard manufacturing.

The order includes the forming and press line with a ninth generation 8 ft. x 30.5 m ContiRoll continuous press. The machinery will be driven by the ContiRoll Ecodrive, a new standard drive for the ContiRoll. The system reportedly provides plant operators with energy savings of at least 7% under full load operation and up to 14% under partial load operation.

The scope of supply for this order also includes a cooling and stacking line as well as a storage system. The system will be especially suited for the processing of formaldehyde-free resins—for SciSky a special advantage because of the company’s “commitment to nontoxic living environments.”

SciSky, which is headquartered in Lanzhou in the northwest Chinese province of G nsù, is a global supplier of home decorations and furniture. The Chinese company is also established as producer of water-based coatings and paints as well as other water-based agents for interior construction.

From now on SciSky can address new markets in the wood-based materi-

als industry with this first plant at the Wuming location in the province of Guangxi. This plant will manufacture wood-based panels as well as furniture.

Siempelkamp subsidiaries Pallmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG in Zweibrücken, Germany, and CMC Texpan in Colzate, Italy, were also in demand for this order: Pallmann will contribute five knife ring flakers, two surface layer mills, and one sanding robot. CMC Texpan and its expertise in front-end technology is also represented. The company will supply screening machines for dry chips, two sifters for surface and core layers, and the resin blending system.

Installation of the plant is scheduled for May 2018, with startup in October 2018.

SWISS KRONO STARTS UP NEW P’BOARD LINE Chairwoman of the Board of Directors Ines Kaindl-Benes and her guests celebrated the production of the first board at the new particleboard plant at the Swiss Krono site in Menznau, Switzerland.

Dieffenbacher supplied all the essential machines, from gluing through raw board handling. A highlight of the new plant is the EVOjet P gluing system. It ensures optimum gluing and significant glue savings compared to conventional

systems and requires minimum care and maintenance.

With its order of a CPS+ continuous press in late 2015, Swiss Krono was among the first companies to acquire the new continuous press system, which offers optimum board quality, reduced material consumption, high productivity and low lifecycle costs.

The new production line in Menznau is the fourth plant with the CPS+ in operation worldwide.

WANHUA FOCUSES ON STRAW BOARD The Chinese Wanhua Industrial Group is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of MDI resin. Since 2006, the Group has also devoted itself to developing and producing formaldehyde-free panels made of wood and straw and founded the subsidiary Wanhua Ecoboard for this purpose.

In 2015, Wanhua Ecoboard signed its first contract with Dieffenbacher for a straw-based particleboard plant, taking advantage of the German manufacturer’s expertise in developing equipment to process alternative raw materials, specifically annual plants and fast-growing woods. A second order followed about a year later.

Now, one year later, Wanhua and Dieffenbacher are working on the third project. ➤ 48

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46 ➤ The new order includes the core package of a straw particleboard plant, from the forming station and the 8.5 ft. wide and 28 m long CPS continuous press through to the raw board handling and extraction system. The plant will be installed at Wanhua’s site in Jingmen in the Chinese province of Hubei. Commissioning is planned for mid-2018. l Dieffenbacher also received an order for a new plant in China from Guangxi Hengxian Xin Weilin Panel Industry. An OSB plant with a capacity of 220,000 m³ per year will be constructed in Nanning. Construction will begin in November 2017, with production of the first board scheduled for April 2018. Dieffenbacher is supplying the gluing system, forming station, the CPS with a width of 8.5 ft. and a length of 22.5 m, the raw board handling and the extraction system and is also responsible for the entire electrical system and plant automation.

The Chinese market continues to be a success story for Dieffenbacher. Eleven new plants were sold in 2016.

KRONOSPAN ORDERS OSB PLANT PACKAGE Kronospan plans on investing 330 million euros at its Sanem site in Luxembourg over the next four years. Before the planned new construction of a

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The multi-opening plant, in operation since 1996, was one of the first OSB production plants in Western Europe. After more than 20 years of operation, it will be replaced by a continuous production line with a Dieffenbacher CPS+ continuous press.

The order also covers the forming station, forming line, finishing line (comprising a diagonal saw, large stack formation and large stack storage) as well as the conveyor technology, filter systems and press exhaust air treatment.

The execution and supervision of the assembly are also included in the Dieffenbacher scope of supply.

This cutting-edge plant was planned entirely using 3D design tools. This allowed Dieffenbacher to fine-tune the plant structure to the conditions at the site, largely avoiding additional preparatory work for Kronospan. The contract was signed at the end of May, and commissioning is set for autumn 2018.

Sanem will be the sixth OSB project completed by Dieffenbacher for Kronospan in less than 15 years. Kronospan also produces OSB panels using Dieffenbacher plants in Jihlava (Czech Republic), Riga (Latvia), Brasov (Romania), Mogilev (Belarus) and Strzelce Opolskie (Poland).

CMC TEXPAN WORKS WITH AWS CORP.

Combustion emission control has always been a very serious issue for the woodworking industry. Fumes released from wood dryers and combustion systems may contain significant quantities of wood particulates and other contaminants that may be released into the atmosphere together with the exhaust air, thus having an adverse impact on the environment and representing a hazard for human health.

To comply with environmental liability obligations, facility operators are required to implement reliable systems to control and clean the emissions likely to be released from their mills.

Wet electrostatic precipitators (WESP) represent a well-established and effective solution for wood industry applications. They ensure efficient emission control for sub-micron particulate and other contaminants, such as oil mist and VOCs, and offer proven

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Their operating principle is based on the so-called “corona discharge” effect.

A high voltage is applied and a strong electrical field is generated inside the machine; when the exhaust gas passes through the electric field in filtering chamber, contaminant particles contained in the gas stream are electrostatically charged; charged particles are then deflected and collected across the electrical field on a grounded tube, and the exhaust air flow is purified.

CMC Texpan, Italian subsidiary of the Siempelkamp Group, has always maintained an attentive approach toward safety and environment-related issues. Aiming at extending its range of products and services to systems for emission control dedicated to wood dryers, presses and combustion systems, CMC Texpan developed a cooperation project with the Italian company AWS Corporation, which offers a full range of air pollution control technologies, waste and primary water treatments, as well as industrial fluids purification systems, for fields of application ranging from textile processing to sulphuric acid plants, biomass/food drying and wood dryers in wood based panels plants.

Alongside this project, CMC Texpan has recently developed a safety-enhancing system for flameless venting of explosions on oscillating screening machines. The solution, which includes the “Q-BOX” device of the German firm REMBE, is called “EX-PROTECTOR” and has been conceived by CMC TEXPAN with the specific purpose of reducing the safety distance to be kept around the machine, enabling a smoother and easier installation also in indoor applications.

Industry professionals are already looking at both systems with great interest.

Article and photo supplied by CMC Texpan.

SASCO ACQUIRES MICHELMAN LINE SASCO Chemical, a Polymer Solutions Group (PSG) company, has acquired the wood release agent product line of Michelman, Inc., a major supplier of release agents to the engineered

wood market.

SASCO has expanded its business in the wood release agents market over the past several years by leveraging its core competencies around anti-tack products primarily sold into the rubber industry.

In 2015, SASCO opened a state-of-theart release agent production facility in Albany, Ga. According to Mike Ivany, President and CEO of PSG, “The acquisition of Michelman’s Michem wood release agents will advance PSG’s strategic goal of growing its product portfolio of functional materials for the construction industry. Specifically, this solidifies PSG and SASCO as a dedicated supplier to the engineered wood market and provides a platform to expand PSG’s presence into other technical and geographical areas.”

To ensure the smooth transitions of current customers, Michelman will continue to manufacture the acquired products for PSG while the production capacity is ramped up at PSG production facilities. Over the next few months, SASCO’s existing engineered wood products and the newly acquired products from Michelman will be integrated into PSG’s Functional Materials business segment. Products will be sold under PSG’s existing brand name, TechKote.

TRAINING CENTER OPENS IN COLORADO

Learning lab training center in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Stiles Machinery Inc. understands the importance of investing in future industry leaders and equipping them with the skills and knowledge they need to be successful.

One of the ways Stiles is putting this belief into action is through its support of the Manufacturing Industry Learning Lab’s National Training Center located in Colorado Springs, Col., which

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The Manufacturing Industry Learning Lab (MiLL) is a program dedicated to empowering the next generation of manufacturing professionals through advanced training courses in lean manufacturing. In support of these efforts, Stiles Machinery has contributed multiple state-of-the-art woodworking machines that will be used in conjunction with the MiLL’s hands-on training approach designed to provide students with a unique educational experience in modern-day manufacturing.

Dean Mattson, founder, and CEO of the MiLL, believes that programs like this are crucial to the future of the manufacturing industry. “Everywhere I’ve traveled throughout the country, industry partners tell me about their concerns regarding how they’re going to fill all the empty positions left by the retiring generation of baby boomers. The industry needs a pool of trained workers. That’s why we started the MiLL,” he says.

RECUDRY SYSTEM WORKS FOR HASSLACHER What can be done when the thermal energy produced on-site does not suffice anymore for covering peak load operation? Last year, this turned into a vital question at Hasslacher Preding Holzindustrie in Austria.

Especially in the high-consumption months during the fall and winter season, the company’s pellets production had to be reduced repeatedly in favor of timber drying. The people in charge at Hasslacher Preding were quick to dismiss an investment to expand their energy production. They instead focused on uncovering optimization potential in their existing setup. After some initial talks, it became clear that the belt dryer offered suitable options for optimization.

“Especially in the winter we did not have sufficient thermal energy at our disposal,” comments Thomas Bierbacher, pellets divisional manager at Hasslacher Norica Timber. The solution they

found was the heat recovery system called RecuDry by Stela Laxhuber, Massing, Germany. It had been Stela who had already installed the original belt dryer at Hasslacher‘s in 2006. Now the time had come to modify it for improving energy efficiency.

Hasslacher is particularly satisfied with the fast implementation. “We signed the contract at the timber fair in September 2016. By December 12 the reconstruction work commenced. Exactly one month later, we put the system into operation,” recalls Manfred Steinwiedder, manager at Hasslacher Preding. He says the system virtually operated at the push of a button and at the output level that was promised.

In other words, Stela was able to implement the project within four months and upgrade the existing belt dryer to a BTU RecuDry 1/6200-25.5. In order to do so, the dryer was extended by 3 m and its ventilators were replaced by more efficient models.

For a RecuDry system, they divide

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the conventional belt dryer into two segments: the condensation module at the front and the Recu module at the rear end. Tobias Latein, Head of Sales at Stela, explains: “Ventilators supply the existing warm air that has already passed over the chip mats via the condensation system where the heat is dispersed to the module. The generated heat in turn warms up the fresh air in the condensation module. This way, the still utilizable exhaust air is kept from escaping into the atmosphere and can be put to good use for chip drying.”

At the successful operation startup last January, the average temperature in Preding was -5.7°C. “Our energy savings amount to around 30% in the summer and reach even 40% in the winter,” Latein affirms.

Hasslacher chose to have the RecuDry standard model installed, but Stela also offers higher configuration levels. Depending on the model and the heat available, Stela promises a possible

amortization rate of less than two years.

Article and photo supplied by Stela Laxhuber.

ALTEC TAPS WEAVER AS SERVICE MANAGER Altec has appointed Mike Weaver as Service Manager.

Weaver moved to Vancouver in 1994 and started working in the veneer industry as an electrical maintenance foreman. After 14 years in the veneer industry, he was hired by Altec as a senior installation supervisor where he played a key role in the design, factory assembly, startup, and testing of major amusement park ride systems.

Weaver has more than 35 years of experience with industrial electrical installation and industrial control automation, and as Altec’s service manager he brings his considerable experience in both the wood and entertainment industries to ensure customers receive the quality service they deserve.

STEINEMANN PARTNERS WITH COLUMBIA’S REPSERV Steinemann Technology announced that Repserv, S.A.S. of Columbia, South America is now an exclusive partner representative of Steinemann Technology sanders and abrasive consumables.

“The timing in bringing an agent such as Repserv on is perfect. Our customer base continues to grow in South and Central America and being close to the customers is a key priority for Steinemann,” says Dan Murphy, President of Steinemann Technology USA. Repserv will cover the countries of Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela and Columbia.

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BMK AMERICAS BUYS MELAMINE FILM PLANT BMK Americas LLC, a subsidiary of DKB Décor Inc., has acquired a

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PAL +1000 OSCILLATING SCREENS

In 30 years, from 1987 (left) to 2017 (right), PAL has exceeded the 1000unit sales mark with its oscillating screens (VME, SUPERSCREEN, MULTICROSS) line, confirming the excellence and high quality of this consolidated product. Thanks to the hydrostatic technology PAL screens are evolving in order to satisfy all market needs. melamine film manufacturing facility from Shaw Industries.

The purchase fits into DKB’s strategy to gain new market share by having the ability to produce specialty decorative papers within a short lead time. By purchasing the plant, BMK Americas LLC will provide these services and products in addition to its existing business in North America.

The new U.S. based business supports continued Europe growth plans and accelerates entry into new and adjacent markets.

The manufacturing facility was previously a sole provider for treated material

to Shaw’s laminate flooring facility in Georgia. As part of the acquisition, Shaw associates working at the facility known as Plant LP will be given the opportunity to continue working at the facility as employees of BMK Americas LLC. “We are extremely pleased to secure the employment of the highly trained personnel,” DKB’s Moritz Menier says..

DKB Décor Inc. was established in 2016 as a subsidiary company to the BMK Group. BMK Americas LLC will be the operating company in North America under the group. The BMK/DKB Group now operates 15 impregnation lines.

APA ANNOUNCES SAFETY AWARDS Resolute-LP Engineered Wood and LP won Safest Company Awards in their respective categories in the 2016 Safety and Health Awards program conducted

by APA—The Engineered Wood Assn.

Meanwhile the coveted Innovation in Safety Award went to two winners: LP of Two Harbors, Minn. for the Equipment-Based Innovation Award, and RoyOMartin of Oakdale, La. for the Jeff Wagner Process-Based Innovation Award.

LP, a producer of engineered wood products in Canada, the U.S., and South America, earned top honors among companies with four or more mills, with a 2016 average Weighted Incident Rate (WIR) of 1.57. Resolute-LP Engineered Wood, which produces I-joists at mills in Larouche and Saint Prime, Quebec, won its award in the category for companies with three or fewer mills. The company posted a perfect 0.00 WIR for 2016.

The Two Harbors LP mill’s original “Saw Handling Articulating Arm” equipment innovation and the Oakdale RoyOMartin mill’s “Safety Banners” took top honors out of 26 Innovation in Safety Award entries.

The idea for the “Saw Handling Articulating Arm” came from millwright Roger Walsberg, who decided to try a new solution for a long-time safety concern. The mill and corporate requirements state that millwrights are not to lift anything over 50 pounds, despite the hogs being 75 pounds, with no mechanical means of handling them. This innovative hog saw handling unit carries the weight of the hog assembly without straining the employee using the equipment, creating a much safer workplace.

“Safety Banners,” the Oakdale RoyOMartin site’s entry, is a new initiative to help keep safety in the forefront of the minds of employees. The employee safety committee created banners with employees’ children and grandchildren working in the mill environment. They incorporated safety slogans onto the posters to give employees a personal reminder to work safely. The banners not only serve as a visual reminder for employees, but it also boosts morale and pride when employees see their family members in their place of work. During the implementation of this initiative, the

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mill was in the midst of a 400-day streak of no recordable injuries.

Seventy-seven APA-member structural wood panel and engineered wood product facilities in the U.S., Canada and abroad participated in the 2016 program. A total of 24 facilities representing eight APA member companies— Boise Cascade Company, EACOM, LP, Norbord, Resolute-LP Engineered Wood, Roseburg Forest Products Co., RoyOMartin, and Weyerhaeuser— earned awards in various competition categories. Some of the mills were multiple award winners.

The 2016 industry Total Incident and Weighted Incident Rates were 2.33 and 10.67, respectively.

The winning facilities and companies will be recognized and their safety accomplishments celebrated during the Chairman’s Dinner at APA’s annual meeting in October in Huntington Beach, Calif. Award plaques also will be presented to the winning mills by senior APA management staff.

STRUCTURLAM GAINS SFI CHAIN-OF-CUSTODY Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc. (SFI) announced that Structurlam is the first Canadian manufacturer of crosslaminated timber (CLT) to be certified to the SFI 2015-2019 Chain-of-Custody Standard. Structurlam has manufactured CLT for six years and supplied the product to more than 350 projects in North America.

“We are excited that Structurlam is the first CLT manufacturer in Canada to be certified to the SFI Chain of Custody Standard,” says Kathy Abusow, President and CEO of SFI Inc. “A few months ago I had the opportunity to visit Structurlam’s site and was impressed with their commitment to sustainability and the innovation driving their product development. Many of Structurlam’s suppliers manage forestlands certified to SFI so it is great to know that Structurlam will continue to source and build with SFI certified materials.”

Structurlam produces CLT at its Penticton facility in Southern BC’s Okanagan region.

A showcase project for Structurlam is the University of British Col umbia’s Brock Commons. This 18-story

student residence stands 53 m tall and is the tallest wood structure in the world.

The mass timber structure was completed in just 66 days. Over 460 CrossLam CLT panels were used during the building process along with more than 1,300 glulam columns.

Structurlam will also be able to use chain-of-custody certification to position itself as a supplier in the green building market that is officially recognized by green building rating systems.

NORBORD DONATES TOWARD REBUILDING Norbord Inc. is donating US$1 million to the Home Builders Institute (HBI) to help with the rebuilding efforts following the recent hurricanes in Texas and Florida.

“The construction industry is already afflicted by labor shortages, and the demand for framers will grow considerably due to the storm damage,” says Peter Wijnbergen, President and CEO of Norbord. “Building on the success of our ‘Thank A Framer’ campaign, we are donating US$1 million to the HBI. This money will go to training and educating new construction professionals to help Texas and Florida rebuild.”

The funding will enable HBI to expand and extend its existing training programs in Texas and Florida. These funds will provide valuable long-term jobs, offer support for those who need to rebuild and help ease the labor shortage in the industry.

The HBI supports diversity and provides training for prospective construction professionals, veterans and underserved youth and is celebrating 50 years of skills training in the building industry this year.

PIEROT JOINS ROSEBURG FP Roseburg Forest Products announced that Phil Pierot joined the company as Business Manager – Simsboro, La. Pierot has spent the past 28 years in the wood products industry, most recently with Arauco North America, where he served as national sales manager.

“Phil is a strong talent, who is very familiar with Simsboro and its primary market,” says Jim Buffington, Roseburg’s Director of Composite Sales.

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CLIPPINGS TAYLOR HAS PRESENCE AT WHITE HOUSE

It’s not every day that you get a call from the White House. Taylor Machine Works, Inc. (TMW), one of the last American manufacturers of heavy industrial lift trucks, received a call asking if Taylor would like to showcase its products at the White House. The “Made in America” event that President Trump was hosting on July 17 was having one representative from each state.

This event was a continuation of Trump’s “Putting America First” campaign. Robert Taylor, Chief Operating

House Security and being checked out by a bomb sniffing canine, the Taylor forklift was moved directly in front of the White House. President Trump viewed the Big Red machine along with the other products representing each state before making his speech.

Lex Taylor, Chief Executive Officer of the Taylor Group of Companies, commented, “It is important to (U.S.) jobs and our communities for products to be made in America. At the end of the day, if the product is built in America, then it is providing jobs for Americans.”

Along with Taylor Machine Works, Inc. celebrating this monumental event

A forklift made by Taylor Machine Works, Inc. of Louisville, Miss. sits by the White House representing Mississippi made products.

Officer of Taylor Machine Works, remarked, “This is a great honor for all of us at the Taylor ‘Big Red’ team to have one of our forklifts representing our great state of Mississippi. What a great day when our nation’s leaders salute manufacturing and those who do the manufacturing jobs in the USA.” After being elated and humbled by the experience of being chosen to represent Mississippi, the Big Red team began working to make this happen. Luckily, its Taylor dealer, Taylor Northeast, Inc., had a truck being rented just a few blocks away at the Smithsonian. With the help of Taylor Northeast, Inc., Taylor service rep Barry Rhodes from Taylor’s factory direct location in Richmond, Va., Michael Cravens, a previous Taylor employee who is now Chief of Staff for Congressman Gregg Harper, and Spencer Pope, TMW Sales Engineer, the truck was hand polished and made ready to move to the White House.

After a trip by the Department of Commerce, going through the White

at the White House, the company is also proudly celebrating 90 years in business. Not only are 3rd and 4th generations of this company now at the helm of management, but also can be found in the Taylor employee workforce.

Article provided by Taylor Machine Works and written by Kay Reynolds.

LP NAMES BLOSSER SENIOR VP Louisiana-Pacific named Mike Blosser as Senior Vice President of Manufacturing Services. Blosser has been with the company since 1999 and was most recently the vice president of EHS. Blosser joined LP in 1999 when LP acquired ABTCO, where he had worked for 15 years. He served as manufacturing manager for LP’s siding business before becoming vice president in June 2007 with responsibility for the corporate safety and environmental efforts, as well as the forest resources division, procurement and logistics.

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CLIPPINGS ARAUCO NAMES REGIONAL SALES MGR

Arauco announced that Geri Freeman has joined its sales organization as Regional Sales Manager - Western Region.

Most recently, Freeman worked with Plum Creek/Weyerhaeuser as a technical sales representative for MDF Panels in 13 Western states, Mexico and Western Canada. Prior to that, she was general manager of four locations for Rocklin, Calif.-based Pacific MDF.

FEA PURCHASES WOOD MARKETS Forest Economic Advisors LLC (FEA) has purchased International Wood Markets Group Inc. (WOOD MARKETS) based in Vancouver, BC. Russ Taylor, formerly the president of the International Wood Markets Group, has assumed the role of Managing Director of FEA-Canada. Taylor will continue to spearhead the produc-

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tion of WOOD MARKETS’ key publications and will remain available to lead independent research projects.

B&W MEGTEC CLEANSWITCH RTO

G-P CHEMICALS PROMOTES EASTER Georgia-Pacific Chemicals (GPC) announced the promotion of Dennis Easter to Vice President and General Manager of thermosets.

Formerly Business Manager - Wood Adhesives, Easter’s role will now expand to include managing GPC’s South American wood adhesive business, merchant formaldehyde sales and industrial resins business. The industrial resins group includes products for composite, coatings, laminates and insulation.

Easter joined Georgia-Pacific in 2010 as a senior manager of planning and analysis for the consumer products group. Prior to joining Georgia-Pacific, he worked in a variety of roles including sales, technical service, accounting and marketing in several firms.

Babcock & Wilcox MEGTEC is a global supplier of turnkey clean air solutions that meet stringent emissions regulations, improve process performance, and protect thermal downstream equipment in the engineered wood products industry.

Its systems effectively control emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) from dryers and press vents.

B&W MEGTEC provides ultra-high efficiency regenerative thermal oxidizers and regenerative catalytic oxidizers for VOC control for OSB, MDF, plywood, particleboard, wood pelletizing and other engineered wood products, with particular expertise in solving the problems of media plugging and alkali attack associated with wood dryer exhaust. Its designs are modular, operator-friendly, and cleanable. It also supplies alkali-resistant ceramics and corrosion-resistant materials of construction to suit the application.

Along with oxidation equipment, its advanced solutions for particulate removal include wet and dry electrostatic precipitators (ESP) and scrubbers.

B&W MEGTEC wet ESPs provide high-efficiency removal of particulate matter and “blue haze,” either as a standalone device or combined with downstream treatment systems like their CleanSwitch regenerative thermal oxidizer. The wet ESP removes sub-micron particulate including back-half salts (protecting the RTO), tar-pitch, ash and fiber from dryer and energy system gas streams.

Their dry ESPs can be used to control particulates for biomass-based heat generators for drying of wood and wood products. These systems feature a collector plate design, rigid discharge electrodes, and top-mounted electrically driven, externally maintainable collector and discharge electrode rappers.

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BRUNETTE SINGULATOR Brunette Machinery launches its newest in log singulation technology: the patented Retract-to-Load (RTL) Log Singulator. With pre-stage log positioning, robust design, heavy duty torque tube drive assembly, reinforced steps, RTL Log Singulator has proven to reduce maintenance costs and will give your mill tighter log gap control.

One of the most unique aspects of the RTL is the Retract-to-Load feature. At the park or pre-load position the log sits right above the conveyor and is ready to be

dropped in. The reducer crank arm is sitting over the top of the stroke holding the log in position, creating a negative torque which reduces the load on the drive and increases the ability to close the gap be-

tween logs. As the nose section retracts, the log is dropped into the conveyor, another takes its place in queue at the prestaging position. This reduces log gap, improves piece counts, and reduces maintenance costs on the log singulator as well as the conveyors it feeds into.

Each RTL Log Singulator is custom built to suit the application’s needs. It will fit within the same envelope as most existing log feeding devices currently being used.

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VENEER/PANEL SUPPLIERS

DIRECTORY ASIA

AUSTRALIA/OCEANIA

■ China

■ Italy LEGNOQUATTRO S.P.A.

KAOCHUAN

WOODWORK CO., LTD. Taiwanese Enterprise in China

• FANCY: On Plywood/MDF/PB/BB • VENEER: Custom-cut, Layon, Parquet • PLYWOOD: Hardwood, Poplar, LVL, Marine • Musical Instruments Plywood: Drum, Piano • Fire Retardance Veneered panel • Others: 4'x12', CARB, NAUF, FSC, UV

SPECIALISTS IN AUSTRALIAN & PACIFIC VENEERS FSC & PEFC ECO-CERT Veneers from around the world Over 150 species in stock Reconstituted veneer/spliced faces/rotary veneers Website: Email: Tel: Fax:

www.briggs.com.au admin@briggs.com.au +61 2 9732-7888 +61 2 9732-7800

kaochuan@kaochuanwoodwork.com

www.fsc.org FSC™ C004099 The mark of responsible forestry

EUROPE

www.kaochuanwoodwork.com

WOOD VENEER DYEING FACTORY Bird’s Eye Maple, Movingui, Similpear, Carbalho, Wengé, Cherry, Burls, Anegré, Kotó, American Walnut, Lacewood, Etimoé, Poplar Head Office & Factory: Factory: Via Brunati, 7 Via Provinciale, 19 20833 Birone 22060 Novedrate (CO) di Giussano (MB) ITALY tel. 0039-31-790246 fax 0039-31-791705 Email: legnoquattro@legnoquattro.it Web site: www.legnoquattro.it

■ Poland

■ Austria The world of veneer at www.veneer-world.com

We are an Austrian veneer producer with 50 years of experience in the export of veneer and Layons. We produce all European species but are strong in exotic veneers also.

Find more information at www.frischeis.com helmut.spaeth@frischeis.com

■ Taiwan

■ Spain

GREAT GIANT INC. VENEER AND VENEERED PRODUCTS

PRODUCERS OF SLICED AND ROTARY CUT VENEERS

SUPPLIERS OF FSC SPECIES • All figured species (Eucalyptus, Anegre, Sycamore...)

• All pommeles and African species • All burls (Ash, Elm, Olive, Walnut, Oak...)

• Bookmatched jointed burl faces.

260 Dachang Road Niao Song District Kaohsiung, Taiwan 833 Tel: 886 7 3790270 Fax: 886 7 3790275 E Mail: jc.giant@msa.hinet.net

We supply furniture, panel and architectural grades.

VALENCIA – SPAIN Tel: +34-96126 5400 Fax: +34-96126 5144 timbercom@timbercom.com

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■ United States ■ Georgia

NORTH AMERICA ■ Canada

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Call Melissa McKenzie 800-669-5613

■ Idaho

■ British Columbia

6670 - 144th Street, Surrey, BC V3W 5R5 Plant: (604) 572-8968 Fax: (604) 572-6608

Producers of high quality fine face veneers.

Specializing in species indigenous to the West Coast. We manufacture Music grade solids and veneers. We also offer custom slicing, cut-to-size and log breakdown.

Fir • Hemlock • Spruce • Pacific Maple (Figured and Plain) • Alder Western Red Cedar

■ Ontario

A FULL SERVICE PLYWOOD & VENEER COMPANY WE OFFER: Short turnaround time, In-house veneer mill—ROTARY, FLAT CUT, RIFT and QUARTERS, Custom pressing capabilities, Architectural specified plywood jobs, Huge veneer and core inventory, Over 100 natural species and engineer veneers in stock, All sizes and thicknesses–6'x4' to 5'x12', Internal logistics for fast on-time deliveries Contact us: Birchland Plywood-Veneer Ltd. TeL: 705-842-2430 • Fax: 705-842-2496 Visit www.birchlandplywood.com to view our “Live Log Program”

Reserve your space today.

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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

Promote your veneer and plywood or located veneer and plywood products and services worldwide. Reserve your space today.

Call Melissa McKenzie 334/834-1170 Fax: 334/834-4525 melissa@hattonbrown.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

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

Producers of fine veneer for the global market, since 1892

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

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

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

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■ Michigan

■ Ohio

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.

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

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

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

www.RSVPveneer.com

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■ 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

Promote your veneer and plywood or located veneer and plywood products and services worldwide.

Reserve your space today.

501 6th Ave. NE - Buffalo, MN 55313 Tel: (763)682-1822 Fax: (763)682-9769 Email: sales@buffaloveneerandplywood.com Website: www.buffaloveneerandplywood.com

Universal Veneer Mill Corp.

■ Mississippi

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

Call Melissa McKenzie 334/834-1170

info@universalveneer.com

Fax: 334/834-4525 melissa@hattonbrown.com ■ Kentucky

■ Oregon

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

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

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VENEER/PANEL SUPPLIERS DIRECTORY ■ Pennsylvania

VENEER/PANEL SUPPLIERS DIRECTORY NEXT CLOSING: MARCH 23, 2018.

Write your ad information below and we will typeset it for you for FREE. Please be sure to include this form for payment/contact information.

Please send any good-quality artwork that should be included. We will fax or email you a proof before final print for your approval. ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ESTABLISHED 1972

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Proudly serving our clients in the hardwood plywood sheetstock, plywood component, solid wood component, face and core veneer markets for over 40 years. Looking forward to applying our worldwide knowledge and resources to help create the solution you need. inquiry@pittsburghforest.com Office: 724.969.5000 375 Valleybrook Rd, McMurray, PA 15367

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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

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

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES The Jobs You Want — The People You Need

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geo@TopWoodJobs.com www.TopWoodJobs.com (360) 263-3371

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THE Forest Products Group 3779

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Serving the Wood Products and Building Materials Industries For more than 21 years.

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Custom search & recruitment services for the complete range of composite panel and related careers in the U.S., Canada and Europe. www.olsonsearch.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

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 Complete Engineering Services for the OSB, Particleboard, MDF, Plywood, LVL, Sawmilling and Biomass Industries.

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2017

EDITORIAL INDEX JANUARY Taking Stock It Was All About Getting Harry.

Page 3.

At The Core Harry Merlo Built LP With OSB, But Product Quality And Operations Accusations Snowballed On Him. Page 10.

Canada’s Coastland Wood Industries Operates Three Lathe Lines Proving A Good Mix Is All It Takes Using innovation driven by a young management team this 100% Douglas fir veneer producer gets high yield in a small space. Page 14.

2017 Directory/Buyer’s Guide. Pages 18-59.

What’s New Willamette Valley Co. Rotary Batch Mixer. Page 77.

SEPTEMBER

Xin Li Da Installs Swiss Combi Belt Dryer For P’Board Production.

Page 44.

Taking Stock Projects: Here, There And Everywhere.

Page 3.

MAY Taking Stock OSB Producers Looking Up. Page 3.

Once Down But Never Out, LP Clarke’s OSB Operation Is Truly A Comeback Kid The OSB facility has been running four years since its second startup and continues to gain momentum. Page 16.

Dieffenbacher Continues Emphasis In North America, Names New U.S. President German-based firm expects increasing level of upgrade projects in composite board mills. Page 22.

LIGNA Show Preview. Pages 26-77.

MARCH Taking Stock It May Have Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time. Page 3.

Lathe System Investments, New Controls Upgrades Give TPC Veneer An Increase In Quality, Recovery Recent capital improvements provide better ability to process widely variable log supply more efficiently. Page 12.

Raw Material Focus Adds To Tolko Versatility At Meadow Lake OSB Operation Tolko’s two OSB plants complement each other in production capabilities, end product offerings. Page 20.

Eight Keys To Less Costly And Better Veneer Drying With An Eye On The Past And On The Future Constant changes in raw material and improvements in drying technologies mean efficient veneer drying must always be earned. Page 24.

New Instalmec Dryer Installation Has Several Innovations At Kronospan P’Board Mill. Page 42.

Brazil’s Berneck Starts Up P’Board Line Adjacent MDF Operation Berneck’s success is due to consistent investments in modern technology.

Page 80.

Quality Control. Pages 24-30.

Projects Rice Straw Based MDF Project Begins Straw Storage As New Plant Nears Construction. Page 34.

NOVEMBER Taking Stock The Year In Review. Page 3.

Update Katerra Plans CLT Plant In Spokane.

Page 8.

New Swanson Plywood Plant Features Latest Technology With Flexible, Efficient Process Applications Swanson Group targets overlay market with state-of-the-art plywood plant rebuilt after major fire. Page 16.

What’s New Sweed Smart Pause Veneer Infeed.

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JULY

High Performance Leadership In Forest Products Manufacturing: Six Secrets To Getting There. Page 24.

Taking Stock Community Reinvestment. Page 3.

Tornado Recovery Complete, Winston Plywood Taking Off Disaster’s silver lining yields opportunity to expand vision for bringing destroyed plywood mill back to life. Page 12.

At The Core If Ligna Was An Indicator, Building Products Industries Across The Globe Are In Good Shape. Page 22.

Focus On People, Quality Will Follow: The Columbia Continuous Improvement Method Implementation of a daily management system for Columbia Forest Products’ West Virginia mill brought incident rates down and productivity up. Page 14.

Resins Technology Manufacturer Hexion Has Crucial Role On Many Fronts. Page 34.

Dustex, Lundberg Merger Shows New Face, New Technologies For Emissions Control. Page 40.

What’s New Minimax Spark Detection. Page 48.

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EVENTS OCTOBER 14-18 • Wood Processing Machinery & Intermob Fair, Tüyap Fair Convention and Congress Center, Istanbul, Turkey.

Call +90 212 867 11 00; visit intermobistanbul.com/en.

18-20 • Southern Forest Products Assn. annual meeting, Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort, Bonita Springs, Fla. Call 504-443-4464; visit sfpa.org.

28-30 • APA-Engineered Wood Assn. annual meeting and Engineered Wood Technology Assn. Info Fair, Hyatt Regency Resort & Spa, Huntington Beach, Calif. Call 253-5656600; visit apawood.org.

FEBRUARY 2018 6-9 • Fimma-Maderalia 2018, Feria Valencia, Valencia, Spain. Visit fimma-maderalia.feriavalencia.com/en.

APRIL 2018 11-12 • Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo, Omni Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 334-834-1170; e-mail dianne@hattonbrown.com; visit bioenergyshow.com.

13-14 • Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE), Omni Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 800-669-5613; visit pelice-expo.com.

MAY 2018 8-12 • Xylexpo 2018, Fieramilano Rho Fairgrounds, Milan, Italy. Phone +39-02-89210200; Visit xylexpo.com.

AUGUST 2018 22-25 • International Woodworking Fair, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Ga. Visit iwfatlanta.com.

SEPTEMBER 2018 17-19 • Timber Processing & Energy Expo, Portland Expo Center, Portland, Ore. Call 334-834-1170; visit timberprocessingandenergyexpo.com.

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