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s the year winds down, already, a quick glance back through the pages of Panel World reveals several articles on wood products plants that found new life, and some memorable comments from key players in the industry. ● “I was probably the last guy they called about acquiring the plant. I didn’t know anything about particleboard.”— Todd Brinkmeyer, owner, Plummer Forest Products, who grew up in sawmills and forestry, on when Potlatch called him about acquiring the particleboard plant in Post Falls, Idaho, which he subsequently did. ● “We’re constantly trying to make a better workplace for our employees and they’re involved in that process. We want people to slow down, think, and do it safely.”—Jedd Smith, environmental and safety manager, Plummer Forest Products, Post Falls, Idaho ● “That’s one of the joys of working for a private company—we can be reasonably agile. This is one of those cases where we were reasonably agile.”— Greg Johnston, general manager of Strand Board Business, Tolko Industries, on re-starting the OSB plant in High Prairie, Alberta ● “I’d say there’s no doubt Hardel is the largest specialty plywood mill in the U.S. We do 8, 9, 10 ft., sanded one or two sides, hardwood, marine, sheathing, you name it—and now customers can get units of MDO and HDO. Where else could a customer get that?”—Emmanouel Pilaris, general manager of Hardel Mutual Plywood, Chehalis, Wash. ● “Every company has principles and visions up on their walls, but the thing with Koch is we do live by them. It becomes a way of life, a way of doing business. It’s not all that difficult. A lot of it is basically how your parents tried to raise you.”—Clarence Young, vice president and general manager of OSB, GeorgiaPacific, on GP’s parent company Koch Industries ● “The challenge process, earning decision rights, the principle of en-

trepreneurship—I had never been given the leeway to think about business that way. But they’re also going to hold you accountable. At the same time you can go out and do some unique things, take some risks. We did a lot of that when we started up this facility.”—Tobey Elgin, director of OSB operations, GP, on restarting the OSB mill in Clarendon County, South Carolina ● “It’s not just something we say. We live it. Our entire management team here lives it and I know upper management lives it as well.”—Robert Willett, technical manager, Martco Chopin plywood mill, on regularly receiving APA’s safety and health award ● “It was depressing to come by this plant every day for the local people. Once we announced it was coming back, there was lots of excitement, and lots and lots of applicants to go through. We’ve given them the confidence that we’re here to stay.”—Bryan Little, plant manager, Huber OSB, on re-starting the OSB plant in Spring City, Tenn. following more than six years of downtime ● “We will miss him, but I know that his legacy will live on in the hundreds of lives he has touched so deeply and will endure through the family business that is approaching its 100th anniversary. A tall tree has fallen in our forest products industry.”—Roy O. Martin III, president and CEO of RoyOMartin, on the death of his cousin Jonathan E. Martin, chairman of Martin Sustainable Resources PW

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(Founded as P l y w o o d & P a n e l in 1960—Our 499th consecutive issue) VOLUME 60 NO. 6

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ARIZONA IS TRYING Saving The Forest Is Hard

UPDATE Certification Battle

SUPPLY LINES WVCO R&D

GEO DIRECTORY Veneer/Panel Suppliers

AIR EMISSIONS New Developments

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COVER: Huber Engineered Woods has brought back to life its OSB plant in Spring City, Tenn. that had been down since 2011.

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CERTIFICATION COMES UNDER FIRE

Nine U.S. domestic plywood producers, calling themselves the U.S. Structural Plywood Integrity Coalition, have filed a Lanham Act claim of false advertising against three U.S. certification bodies: PFS-TECO, Timber Products Inspection and International Accreditation Service. The essential point of the claim is that structural plywood panels produced in Southern Brazil are being fraudulently stamped as compliant with U.S. Product Standard PS1-09 for structural plywood, when the panels in fact do not meet minimum structural requirements for stiffness and deflection, according to the coalition’s claim.

The complaint, which was filed with the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (Fort Lauderdale Division), seeks preliminary and permanent injunctions requiring PFSTEC and TPI to immediately revoke the certifications of certain Brazil plywood producers to manufacture PS 1-09 struc-

tural plywood, and $300 million in damages from PFS-TECO, TPI and IAS, plus any additional amounts proven at a trial by jury.

“The product standards for American plywood have serious real-world implications for all homes constructed using wood panel products,” explains Tyler Freres, VP of Sales with Freres Lumber.

“Inferior products can endanger the health and safety of everyone who depends upon their homes to provide shelter and security for their families and loved ones. It is incumbent upon engineered wood products manufacturers to ensure that we meet all codes and that U.S. certification agencies have consumers’ health and safety as their primary concern when providing their certifications.”

The nine companies include: Freres Lumber, Coastal Plywood, Scotch Plywood, Veneer Products Acquisitions (Southern Veneer Products), Hunt Forest Products, Hardel Mutual Plywood, Murphy Co., SDS Lumber and Swanson Group.

They claim that 30 companies operating 35 plywood plants in two states in Southern Brazil (Paraná and Santa Catarina) are falsely stamping millions of square feet of structural plywood imported into the U.S. as meeting the U.S. Voluntary Product Standard PS 1-09 for structural plywood. They say that tests by the American Plywood Assn. in 2018 commissioned by the coalition show that the Brazilian plywood panels produced in Southern Brazil experience massive failure rates with respect to the stringent strength properties of the PS 1-09 standard, specifically bending stiffness and deflection.

They also claim that the testing demonstrates the PS 1-09 quality plywood cannot be consistently produced from the two fast-growing non-native plantation species, loblolly pine and slash pine, used by the Brazilian plywood producers.

“As the certifiers of all 35 Brazilian plywood plants exporting PS 1-09 stamped plywood panels to the U.S., defendants PFS-TECO and TPI provide

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the gateway into the United States for these falsely advertised panels,” the complaint states. “The only explanation for the pervasiveness of the false advertising and the number of years over which it has persisted, is the intentional or negligent failure of PFS-TECO and TPI to rigorously perform their certification obligations…” The complaint also says that International Accreditation Services, as the accreditor of PSFTECO and TPI, “has been grossly negligent in failing to perform its accreditation function.”

The complaint says that consequently millions of square feet of “falsely advertised off-grade Brazilian plywood” has moved into the U.S. and is being incorporated into residential and commercial buildings. “U.S. residents who live or work in (these buildings) are exposed to significant risk of serious injury or death, particularly in the event of a hurricane or significant earthquake.”

In a September statement PFS-TECO says it intends to vigorously defend its

reputation, says the coalition’s testing approach is not permitted to be used under PS 1-09 as an alternative to conducting the uniform load test, and notes that PSF-TECO has more than 15 years of data showing that plywood from Southern Brazil and produced by those manufacturing facilities certified by PFS-TECO can meet PS 1 requirements.

Timber Products Inspection says the allegations in the lawsuit are absolutely false. “Despite the claims of the plaintiffs, our experience and testing indicate that Brazilian plywood meets all objective industry and regulatory standards outlined by the PS 1-09 standard.

Clients in Brazil and elsewhere who do not consistently meet the applicable industry standard do not remain as TP clients. In 50 years of service, TP has never been accused of such negligence and we stand by our team, our clients and our processes. We intend to vigorously defend our reputation in court— and as necessary, in public—in the months ahead.”

SMARTLAM EXPANDS, PURCHASES CLT FACILITY Cross-laminated timber producer SmartLam has expanded as SmartLam North America under new leadership and investment from Brian Fehr, Erik Munck and SmartLam founder Casey Malmquist.

SmartLam North America has established its headquarters in Columbia Falls, Mont., and has acquired the stateof-the-art, formerly IB XLam CLT facility in Dothan, Ala. With two operational production facilities in Montana and Alabama, SmartLam North America reports it will immediately lead the industry with a combined capacity of 6 million cubic feet of annual CLT production.

The company has also commenced planning for additional CLT manufacturing facilities strategically located in major wood baskets from coast to coast.

It aims to open three more locations by 2022, targeting new plants in the Northeast, West Coast, and timber-rich

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Southeast. The combined operational facilities will allow the company to produce more than 17.2 million cubic feet of annual CLT production.

The company states, “SmartLam North America will leverage its proprietary design, engineering, project management, project delivery model with its expansive, modern, and fully automated, state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities to offer the full range of mass timber solutions needed for a comprehensive and integrated customer experience.”

The company adds, “SmartLam North America is dedicated to sustainable forest management, supporting climate and carbon-friendly building materials, and providing innovative construction solutions via extensive geographic distribution through regional production plants.”

CLT has rapidly gained traction within the past decade in North America among builders, engineers and architects because it is extremely durable, cost-effective, compliant with current building codes, and incredibly sustainable. It also vastly improves the speed of build and allows builders to construct and complete projects faster, with a fraction of the labor, using the only renewable building material, according to SmartLam. Fehr has spent more than 40 years on the timber supply side of the market, including co-founding BID, a sawmill maintenance and construction firm that

boomed in recent years, following acquisitions of several sawmill equipment companies, into a turnkey supplier of sawmills, including several that have been built in recent years and that are currently being built in the Southeast U.S. Munck brings 30 years of experience in the engineered wood product sector.

Malmquist’s 40-year career has been spent on the market side of the building industry. He was a co-founder of SmartLam in 2012, the same year the company became the first producer of CLT in the U.S. “We are thrilled to launch SmartLam North America to evolve the role that mass timber products has in transforming the building industry, and to ensure that North America plays a dominant role in the movement,” Malmquist says.

“Mass timber just got a whole lot stronger. Combining SmartLam’s historic presence in the mass timber market, an accomplished leader like Brian Fehr, and a significant investment in the enterprise, we welcome the work that needs to be done in solidifying North America’s place in the global mass timber market.”

RAUTE RECEIVES ITS LARGEST ORDER EVER

Raute Corp. reports it has received orders worth EUR 58 million, including all machinery and equipment for the production process of an entire greenfield ply-

wood mill, to be set up in Galich, Kostroma region, Russia, by Segezha Group.

The annual capacity of the new mill will be 125,000 m3. The ordered machinery and equipment will be delivered during 2020 and production is expected to start in summer 2021.

The equipment will be engineered and produced in Raute’s units in Nastola, Shanghai and Kajaani, and also in the company’s partnership network.

This order is the biggest single order ever in Raute’s history.

Segezha Group, a Russian forest industry holding company, has operations, in addition to Russia, in 11 countries in Europe. Raute has previously, in 2006 and 2017, delivered two production processes for the manufacture of birch plywood to Vyatskiy Fanernyi Kombinat in Kirov region. Vyatskiy Fanernyi Kombinat is part of Segezha Group.

COLLINS NAMES VP OF OPERATIONS

Chris Verderber is rejoining Collins Companies in the newly created role of VP of Operations. Verderber began his career with Collins in 2008 as the operations manager in Chester, Calif. after leaving Rough & Ready Lumber Co. He has been in Eugene, Ore. since 2018 working for Seneca as VP of Manufacturing.

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INDUSTRY & COMMUNITY LEADER JONATHAN MARTIN DIES AT 70 RoyOMartin chairman succumbs to illness, but was active until the end.

BY RICH DONNELL

onathan E. Martin, an industrial engineer who led the transformation of his family’s small sawmill operation into a multi-facility producer of OSB and plywood, all the while growing the company’s timberland portfolio into one of the largest privately held in the U.S., and doing this with a strong Christian message, died Friday, September 20 surrounded by all 11 of his immediate family at home in Alexandria, La. He was 70.

Martin died from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable lung disease. He had battled it since early 2018 and he and his wife, Maggie, had provided regular updates on his condition and treatments through the CaringBridge web site. Martin also continued to make posts on his facebook site. Two

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Jonathan Martin stands in front of the company’s new headquarters in Alexandria, La., 2004.

“Jonathan was a pillar in the Alexandria region and the state of Louisiana. His powerful love of Christ shaped and directed his life. Stewardship of his God-given assets for the benefit of others, and his respect for everyone was foremost on his mind. His commitment to his family, Calvary Baptist Church and his business while striving to maintain honesty and integrity in all his actions was evident to everyone he encountered. We will miss him, but I know that his legacy will live on in the hundreds of lives he has touched so deeply and will endure through the family business that is approaching its 100th anniversary. A tall tree has fallen in our forest products industry.”

—Roy O Martin, III, President, CEO, CFO, RoyOMartin

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of his last were: “Above all else guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it,” Proverbs 4:23; and “Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. Do everything in love.” 1 Cor. 16:13-14.

Martin was always known throughout the wood products industry as a builder of plants, but his and the company’s philanthropic givings through the Martin Foundation stretched even further to social outreach, educational and cultural causes. Since 1993, under his leadership, the Martin Foundation funded hundreds of scholarships and millions of dollars to help various charities. Over the past 15 years he raised more than $2.5 million for Homeplace, a ministry of the Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home that serves homeless mothers and children in northeast Louisiana through an annual golf tournament that he started. Martin said such benevolence began with his grandfather and company founder, Roy O. Martin Sr. “Giving back is simply something this family has been raised to do,” Martin said. “To whom much is given, much is required.” (Luke 12:48) As recently as this past June, Martin received the Alexandria Rotary Club Service Above Self award. “This is the best award I’ve ever received,” he said during his acceptance speech. “You get out and help other people, as many as you can. You don’t have to look hard to find people who need help.”

Martin died as chairman of the board for the parent company, Martin Sustainable Resources L.L.C., of which RoyOMartin and Martin Timberlands are subsidiaries. He had succeeded his father, Ellis Martin, as president and CEO in 1994. Ultimately those titles went to Roy O. Martin III, Jonathan’s younger first cousin. The twosome became almost a singular face of the company over the past two decades.

A native of Ringgold, La., Martin graduated from Culver Military Academy in 1965 and earned a bachelor of science degree in Industrial Engineering at Louisiana State University in 1971.

Having worked since he was 10 during summers and school vacations for the family business his grandfather had founded in 1923, Martin began full-time work in 1971 at the Castor, La. sawmill, which his grandfather and father had built in 1933. Also in 1971 on June 4 Martin married Maggie Burnaman and they began a 48-year journey.

Martin became manager of the Castor mill and his prowess for project upgrades

Martin at new Chopin plywood mill, 1997

“Johnny was simply an icon and pillar in our industry who was bigger than life. He had a bandwidth that encompassed every facet of this profession. Over the years, Johnny steadily built a network of friends and colleagues that will never be surpassed. He took the time to make personal relationships and foster them through the good times and bad. After 33 years working alongside him, he never failed to surprise me with his constant energy, zest for life, and quest to improve. Never still or content, Johnny navigated the way that brought our company, and us, to places we never dreamed.”

—E. Scott Poole, Executive Vice President and COO, RoyOMartin

quickly became apparent. Martin appeared in Panel World affiliate publication, Timber Processing, in 1979, when the Castor mill was featured. “Not me or anyone else can control or outguess the lumber market. So we just wake up every Monday morning with the attitude that we’re going to do the best job with what takes place that week. That’s our philosophy,” the 30-year-old Martin said. His father had recently become president of the company, with his grandfather passing away in 1973.

Shortly after that article appeared, his dad decided to build a plant for producing oriented strandboard, a new homebuilding sheathing panel product composed of wood flakes, and he put

Jonathan in charge of the project. “I didn’t know what OSB was in 1981.

There were only a few plants to see, mostly in Canada.”

Working closely with company VP of manufacturing Jerry Buckner, Martin directed the design and construction of the plant in LeMoyen, La. The company owned a considerable amount of low grade hardwood and it became the plant’s raw material. Production at the South’s first OSB plant began in 1983.

Martin and Buckner soon built and started up a hardwood sawmill in LeMoyen in 1984 to process the high grade hardwood out of those hardwood stands.

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During Corrigan OSB startup, left to right, Terry Secrest, Jonathan Martin, Roy O. Martin III, 2018

Castor sawmill manager, 1979

1992, but the volume of pine on its company timberlands was in abundance and they begin thinking about building another sawmill. But when they took a closer look at the timber resource, the emerging technologies and some unique product opportunities, Martin and Buckner opted to construct a southern pine plywood mill in Chopin, La., the first one to be built since 1981. It peeled its first block in February 1996. By then Jonathan had succeeded his dad as president and CEO. Over the next 23 years the company continued to refine and expand the plywood plant multiple times, and by 2019 plywood production had soared to 510MMSF annually.

A few years later Martco ownership and management went on an executive retreat with the purpose of developing a vision statement and defining its core values. They came up with the RICHES program (Respect-Integrity-Commitment-Honesty-Excellence-Stewardship). Martin said the move coincided with an evolving change in himself. His management style had graduated from at times hot-tempered to more controlled. “I perceived for a number of years that we had to change from a fam-

whenever and wherever they needed it.

In future years the company would implement an employee-based health and wellness program, and later a Women In Manufacturing Day celebrated every October under the motto: “We believe in Women in Manufacturing.”

It didn’t take long for Martin to dive into another construction challenge— this one announced in 2004, a new OSB plant to be built in Oakdale, La. with a monster annual capacity of 850MMSF. The still-at-the-time surging homebuilding market and the company’s available pine pulpwood on its timberlands drove the project forward. Martin lured Buckner out of retirement to work with VP of engineering and project manager Adrian Schoonover. Buckner was excited about “un-retiring” but even more upbeat about Martin himself. “I think it’s really going to give Johnny an opportunity to get involved in the construction. Johnny still has the fire.” The mill began production in 2007.

The company opted to close the OSB plant in LeMoyen. While recognizing the importance of building the new OSB mill, Martin had some bittersweet moments given it was LeMoyen where he stepped up as a skillful project man.

ily ‘dictator’ form of management to a professional style of management.” A management team pulled from inside and outside would lead the company forward. And they would be doing so from a new 40,000 square foot twostory headquarters that opened in 2001, a showcase of hardwood products and a library that houses the ever-growing company history archives.

“I don’t think I had a vision we’d be where we are today,” Martin said at the time. “But I always felt we’d be more than just a sawmill operation. We keep moving the rock every day, whether we move the rock a half inch or move it a lot farther.”

The company continued to grow its timberland ownership, approaching 600,000 acres, and it gained attention when its timberland-management operations attained certification through the Forest Stewardship Council. Martin liked FSC’s emphasis on biodiversity and interface with surrounding communities. “It’s given us a different image,” he said.

About this same time the company began its chaplains program, bringing in a full-time chaplain and making spiritual consultation available to employees

“Jonathan inspired thousands of people across the many areas of his successful life. He had a deep knowledge and understanding of the OSB business and inspired our team to be world class in safety, customer service and production. Jonathan taught all of us to drive for excellence while being humble. He cherished his relationships with family, employees, customers and suppliers. We will work tirelessly to carry on his legacy.”

—Terry Secrest, Vice President of OSB and Corporate Safety Director, RoyOMartin

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“The decision to shut down LeMoyen and start up Oakdale was very pivotal. It was also like taking part of my heart out.”

The company continued to stay on top of its safety culture, regularly winning awards in the APA—The Engineered Wood Assn. Health and Safety program.

Martin’s father died in 2013 at age 96. Ellis Martin’s passion to grow the company through expansion of plants and timberlands was always part of Jonathan’s makeup as well, and the son had one more big project in him.

In early 2015 the Martins selected Corrigan, Texas as the site Martin accepts Rotary award, June 2019 for a new OSB plant. They had looked at Corrigan back when they built would expand the timbers sawmill adat Oakdale, and didn’t forget its enticing jacent the plywood mill in Chopin, a wood basket, the potential of the labor project that was completed earlier this pool and a healthy logging force. Martin year. Thus the last major project Martin again relied on Schoonover to lead the experienced was a sawmill one, bringconstruction. The plant produced its ing him full circle from his first years first board in April 2018. in the family sawmill business. A year Not long after production began at before his death, Martin said, “I’ve Corrigan, the company announced it worked in this business since I was 10

years old picking up sticks in a sawmill. That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do and that’s all I still want to do.”

At his death Martin had led RoyOMartin in nearly $1 billion in capital projects during 49 years with the company.

Under Martin’s leadership, the Martin family of companies received the Louisiana Lantern Award, which recognizes help in building the state’s economy, and was voted the Best Overall Business by the Central Louisiana Chamber of Commerce. Martin received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year award for the Gulf Coast region. He served as President of the Hardwood Manufacturers Assn., and as Chairman of APA—The Engineered Wood Assn.

APA awarded Martin its Bronson J. Lewis Award in 2015, recognizing lifetime leadership and outstanding contribution to the industry.

Martin served on various boards for LSU’s College of Engineering and College of Business, as well as the

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Louisiana Technical and Community College System. Martin was never shy about his fondness for LSU (especially its sports teams), not only with his substantial donations, but literally wearing it on his sleeve as he frequently appeared and spoke at events while donning the school colors with a purple sports coat and yellow tie.

However, asked last year what gave him the most satisfaction in looking back at a career full of accomplishments, recognition and charity, Martin replied:

“I have two fine Christian daughters.”

Martin is survived by his beloved wife of 48 years, Maggie Burnaman Martin, PhD, two daughters and sonsin-law, Natalie and Darryl Monroe of Alexandria, and Amanda and Benn Vincent of Baton Rouge, and six grandchildren who brought him tremendous joy: Ryan, Raegan, Parker and Pierson Monroe, and Noah and William Vincent.

He is also survived by his brother, David (Phyllis) Martin, and sisters, Bonnie Nelson, Susan (Charles) Potter,

and Mary (Randall) Fowler, nieces and nephews, and more than a hundred relatives whom he loved.

Martin was an active member of Calvary Baptist Church where he had served as a deacon and sang in the choir. His faith in Christ shaped and directed his life. Stewardship of his assets for the benefit of others was foremost

“Johnny was a visionary that was passionate about everything he did.

He was an expert at many things, but what I admired the most was his love for Christ. He had a servant’s heart and believed in Luke 12:48, “to whom much is given, much is required.” He was a man of faith that prayed for and with our employees daily. He was a great steward that worked tirelessly to help others have a better life.

I was in awe of this man, and will never forget the lessons he taught me. I, like many others, will be forever grateful.”

—Donna Bailey, Vice President of Human Resources, RoyOMartin | MARTCO L.L.C.

on his mind. He sought honesty and integrity in his dealings with others. His values were passed down from his parents, the late Virginia and Ellis Martin, and were formed by his late grandparents, Mildred and Roy O. Martin, Sr. A memorial service was held Saturday, September 28 at Calvary Baptist Church. The family asks that, in lieu of flowers, memorials be made to the Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home, Rapides Symphony Orchestra or a charity of choice.

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BY RICH DONNELL

HUBER PUTS ZIP BACK INTO LONG SILENCED OSB FACILITY AT SPRING CITY More than six years after it went down during the housing recession, the facility goes through a herculean rebuild effort to once again answer the Huber OSB roll call.

SPRING CITY, Tenn. ince its re-startup in April 2018, the Huber Engineered Woods oriented strandboard plant here has straddled the extreme highs and lows of OSB prices with a continued commitment to production of specialty items ZIP System sheathing and AdvanTech flooring panels.

Those two product lines account for 80% of production at a facility that maintained a pulse, however slight, for nearly five years before the company committed in 2016 to the funding for its reopening. The operation had finally succumbed to the pangs of recession and shut down in October 2011. But it was never left for dead.

With the growing market presence of Huber’s specialty sheathing and flooring panels coming out of its other plants, a directive for additional production pointed to the 20-year-old plant that sits in the hills of northeast Tennessee, about an hour north of Chat-

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Plant Manager Bryan Little is well versed in the operations of the Spring City facility.

tanooga and an hour southwest of Knoxville.

A small staff had maintained the site for a rebirthing, but now the real fun, and challenges, would begin to put it back into world class production.

BACKGROUND Huber broke ground for this plant in April 1996 on 460 acres. Built at 380MMSF (3⁄8 in.) annual production capacity, the plant produced its first board in November 1997. It was Huber’s fourth OSB plant at the time (Huber now has five), and it attracted considerable attention because it was the first OSB plant in the U.S. to successfully implement a continuous press, specifically a 48.5 m (159 ft.) long Siempelkamp ContiRoll press. From the outset the plant emphasized Huber’s new at-the-time AdvanTech flooring panel.

The general layout consisted of two LeTourneau JC40 jib cranes feeding respective drum debarkers, two Pallmann ring flakers, four MEC triple pass rotary drum dryers, GTS Energy heat energy system, four Coil blenders, four Siempelkamp matformers and the continuous press, Globe sander, Globe cut-to-size saws and Durr air emissions control equipment.

The plant continued to operate through the usual high and low cycles of the industry for 10 years, until the recession and housing crisis hit hard in 2007, and Huber shut down the site in 2011.

“Preservation” became the modus operandi, and Huber hired a company to come in and preserve the plant, using, for example, anti-corrosive inhibitor in cabinets and gearboxes. Meanwhile Huber maintained a small group of seven employees on site who would run the big pieces of equipment once a month.

The site manager for the first year and a half after the plant shut down was Bryan Little. If anybody knew this plant, it was Little, who had graduated from a local college and been hired as a lab technician when the plant first started up and had held technical and quality manager positions at Spring City ever since.

Recognizing that Little could bring more to the company, Huber VP-Operations Mark Lindquist sent Little to the OSB plant in Broken Bow, Okla. for a press rebuild and then promoted him to technical director there. Little and his family relocated to Broken Bow in June 2013 and Little spent three years. It soon became apparent, however, that Huber needed more production of its specialty

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Equipment refurbishment began in the wood yard.

panels, especially its ZIP System sheathing, and the attention turned back to the Spring City plant.

An early consideration of course was the log supply and Huber conducted a wood study. The area contained good deciduous forests, including poplar and soft maple, and the thinking was the plant would potentially need to run a percentage of soft hardwoods (it had always run both hardwood and softwood).

But a couple of things had changed.

A pine beetle epidemic in the late ’90s had decimated a lot of the pine, but now the regrowth was coming on for reharvesting. Also, Resolute Forest Products in Calhoun, Tenn., about 50 miles south of Spring City, had altered its furnish from pine toward more hardwood for tissues production.

Wood Procurement Manager Rob Kidd worked at the plant before it shut down and had been in the procurement business for some years before that, so everybody felt good about the log supply situation going in. “Rob knew a lot of people. That line of work is about building relationships,” Little says.

“The logging force out there felt good about us coming back and we had confidence in them.”

Meanwhile Little went through Huber’s internal leadership development program and returned to Spring City in August 2016 as plant manager.

The company publicly announced a couple of months later that it was fur-

Older triple pass dryer and new single pass from TSI

ther investing in the plant, approximately $45 million, and intending to start it back up in spring 2018.

It also meant an accelerated pace of staffing the plant, up to 120 employees prior to startup and numbering 140 today.

“That was really key, getting the right people in a short amount of time,” Little says, adding that about 20% were rehires from the old plant and the remainder had to first learn what OSB even was.

The company transferred in a lot of the leadership people from other facilities, and they assisted in hiring and training the workforce.

Another thing they did was not just hire two shifts of people and try to run the

plant, but they hired four shifts and double-teamed them while running the mill two shifts, basically teaming up experienced personnel with less experienced.

“That was very critical,” Little says.

“The only way they really learn is to sit in the seat.” Little and only a few others knew how to run a lot of different equipment. “I lived out there for a while,” Little adds.

Though the plant had been preserved, there was considerable rebuilding and replacement to be done with some of the critical pieces of machinery. Little notes they did an evaluation of the site and determined what needs to be fixed, then decided whether to repair or replace and ba-

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Blending station with new resin handling system

Siempelkamp continuous press line received a major upgrade.

sically divided the plant up into different projects and created commissioning plans for each. He credits the experienced talent within the HEW engineering team for providing tremendous assistance.

PROJECTS EVERYWHERE A large volume of new forklifts, frontend loaders, man lifts and sweepers were purchased for the mill. New asphalt pavement on the spacious grounds adds to the efficiency and comfort.

A lot of the components on the jib style cranes were weathered and they ba-

sically tore the cranes apart and put them back together. They replaced all the tires on the drum debarkers and rebuilt the 400 HP motors. In fact, all of the 150 HP motors and above throughout the plant were rebuilt, all hydraulic units sent off and rebuilt, all air compressors replaced and all smaller bearings repacked. Another major upgrade throughout was the installation of new electrical wiring.

A few years before the mill was shut down, they had replaced two of the triple pass dryers with TSI single pass rotary drums, which were hooked up to a single GTS bark burner system.

About a year after startup in the spring of 2019 they replaced a damaged triple pass dryer with a TSI single pass rotary dryer. It has a denser flighting package and more robust design, which allows the dryer to achieve higher retention time of material, better throughput and tighter moisture tolerance.

Huber had replaced two old style MEC suspension biomass burners that supplied heat to two of the triple pass dryers.

Those burners would glass up with sticky ash and require cleaning every 10 days or so. Huber installed a low NOx emitting Sologen burner so now the ash hits a blanket of air and turns to sand so it doesn’t choke up the system and requires less frequent cleaning.

Huber replaced all of the drives and motors on the forming line, and some hydraulic components. Coming out of forming Huber installed an Imal Pal PSD (press security device), which identifies any formed mat impurities and measures density over the width of the mat and rejects the mat in real-time.

Immediately after the PSD and just before the press is a new Huber-designed unwinding system for the roll of ZIP System sheathing water-resistive barrier overlay, which is subsequently adhered to the substrate in the press.

A considerable portion of the new investment was spent around the press.

“We knew we were going to have to put a lot of effort into the press,” Little says, adding they looked at replacing it with a stacked press but couldn’t justify it.

A big part of the press upgrade and elsewhere was the electrical side. “We replaced all the electrical components on the press, all the wires, commissioned all the drives. When you go through these projects the electrical is always the hardest to predict,” Little says.

They replaced the infeed of the press, removing the first seven frames and adding eight frames back, and put in a flexible infeed. They had preserved all of the PLC programming, so everything was still active at least logically, but they updated from Allen-Bradley PLC-5 technology to A-B ControlLogix control systems allowing, for example, enhanced on-the-fly adjustment of panel thicknesses. The control room also received new monitors and terminals, and cameras were added throughout the plant.

They had two spare Sandvik steel belts and one of them replaced one of the belts still on the press that had started to crack.

“The press is running better than it ever has,” Little says, adding that they

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Control room received new hardware and software.

steam the mat before it’s pressed, requiring more wood, but making a better product. It’s one of five continuous presses in operation for OSB in North America.

A Globe sawline was modified to be

able to stack longer lengths, add tongue & groove profiling, and to accept branding at a Matthews Marking Systems station. They also installed an in-line Murray Latta board grinder.

They kept the Globe six head sander (primarily sanding the flooring panels) after putting it through some maintenance and lubrication.

The investment also included refurbishing Willamette Valley Co. paint booths, adding a new WVCO PRE-TEC robotic cardboard applicator and new Signode strappers.

While the mill was mothballed it maintained its air permits. Off the dryers is a Durr wet ESP and two RTOs, and off the press is a wet ESP and an RTO. They rebuilt all of the RTOs with new stainlesssteel tops and new media. They also repainted the baghouses—one for the saw line, two for the sander, one for the forming line and one for general dust.

Considerable attention was given to fire prevention. Flamex provided its FMZ 5000 fire detection and extinguishing control panel protecting the continuous press, and the Minifog PressProtect ProCon system, which protects the press utilizing fine water spray technology engineered by Minimax and designed and installed by Flamex. All alarms are reported back to the Inveron HMI. Inveron allows the operators to more efficiently respond to an event with the use of

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Spring City re-start was geared to ZIP overlaid sheathing production.

graphical displays that help pinpoint the location of the event in the mill.

Flamex also supplied wide belt sander protection with the Minifog fine water spray technology. Primary and

secondary thermal oil rooms, hydraulic oil pump room, dryer, rotary screen and dry bin detection was also provided.

The mill also addressed some issues with screw conveyors around the screen-

ing process to handle fines to reduce risk.

“Employee safety is very important to the Huber family,” Little says. “As we hired people and trained them we really wanted to start off on the right foot with our culture especially with regard to safety. We’ve done a very good job of that.”

The mill, which has long been a VPP (voluntary protection program) site, counts on employees to get involved and to lead the safety and health program.

It all seems to be coming together.

Unscheduled downtime, for example, is in the single digits. “People are very key,” Little emphasizes. “If you don’t have the right people you’re not going to be successful.”

The Huber mills have long been a subscriber to TECO certification. The Spring City lab does various board tests (bending, bonding, expansion, etc.) every four hours. Boards are sent to a TECO testing laboratory quarterly for testing there.

In fact, the first week of production in April 2018 the mill was making A grade production. They were able to produce it, package it and store it and then when they received the qualifica-

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Baghouses underwent a painting facelift.

RTOs were modified as well.

tion green light from TECO, started selling it.

As the OSB markets have generally turned softer in the past year, the plant has been running 10 days on and four days off. It’s on pace to produce more than the targeted volume this year.

“We’re selling what we’re producing,” Little says. “We’re very strong on grade.”

Certainly, nobody in the community is complaining. “It was depressing to come by this plant every day for the local people,” Little says. “Once we announced it was coming back there was a lot of excitement, and lots and lots of applicants to go through. We’ve given them the confidence that we’re here to stay.”

Other key personnel in addition to Little include: Production Manager Elden Padgett, Maintenance Manager Justin Perry, EHS&S (Environmental, Health, Safety & Sustainability) Manager Mike Wright, Process Area Manager Ed Morphew, Process Area Manager Mike Martin, Human Resources Manager Debbie Petrey, Quality Assurance Manager Jordon Hankins, Wood Procurement Manager Rob Kidd, and ConPW troller Daniel Ferrere.

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4FRI PHASE 2 SEEKS MAJOR INVESTMENT FOR ARIZONA TO SAVE FOREST The federal 4 Forest Restoration Initiative is going super big and long on resource commitments in seeking a major investment in Arizona forest infrastructure.

BY DAN SHELL

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ollowing a move by state officials to vote down a proposal to expand biomass utilization for electricity production—fur-

ther hindering efforts to thin millions of acres to reduce wildfire danger—all attention in Arizona now shifts to a massive new 4 Forests Restoration Initiative (4FRI) Phase 2 stewardship contract that seeks to mechanically thin and treat up to 818,000 acres across four national forests in the state.

According to a federal notice for the far-reaching and unprecedented project, the Forest Service “intends to achieve landscape-scale forest restoration through the award of one or more multiple award, firm fixed price, indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ), integrated resource service contract(s) with options, multi-year task orders with economic price adjustment and rate redetermination for mechanical forest restoration services across northern and central Arizona.”

The project is one of the first to utilize a new 20-year contracting authority, and the solicitation seeks to treat a minimum of 30,250 acres/yr. over a 20-year period.

In doing so, the Forest Service is looking

to solicit a major forest industry infrastructure and facilities investment to handle the massive volumes of small logs and fiber coming off the 4FRI Phase 2 Stewardship contract.

A five-year timber harvest plan that accompanies the Phase 2 solicitation materials identifies up to 101 projects across 203,301 acres that are estimated to yield 1.097 billion BF in logs and more than 152 million cubic feet of biomass material that must be removed or otherwise handled or reduced on site. And that’s just the first five years.

Considering that the 4FRI Phase 1 Stewardship contract has restored less than 25,000 acres in six years, the Phase 2 contract’s size and scope may seem the wrong way to go, “But there’s no other choice but to offer a wood basket long enough and reliable enough” to generate a major investment, says Pascal Berlioux, executive director of East Arizona Counties who has been involved as a stakeholder with 4FRI since its inception more than 10 years ago.

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The biggest challenge is how to handle the huge amount of biomass that will be coming off the Phase 2 contract—more than 152 million cubic feet in the first five years alone.

There’s plenty of opportunity in a Phase 2 20-year stewardship contract, but major challenges abound.

There’s only one major biomass market in Arizona, and state officials voted down a proposal to add more.

Berlioux is one of a group of individuals who have been working under NDA with the state of Arizona and the Forest Service to help evaluate proposals and answer any questions those interested might have about the contract.

Another individual familiar with the 4FRI process says the vastness of the contract and investment required is too big for all but the largest forest products companies—and he doesn’t think they’ll bite.

In one example, he cited trying to accurately estimate costs dependent on log and fiber volume distribution across such a wide and variable area is mind-boggling, and the personnel and equipment and facilities issues are too big for one company. Instead, he foresees the contract being operated by several companies in some type of public-private partnership in more manageable pieces.

The first 4FRI Phase 1 contract seeking to treat 300,000 acres in 10 years was awarded in 2012. However, Montana-

Arizona’s forest products infrastructure needs huge investment to aid restoration projects.

based Pioneer Forest Products couldn’t gain financing for its plan that included a sawmill and biofuel plant. Good Earth Power took over the 4FRI Phase 1 contract in 2013, and despite investing in trucking capacity and sawmilling capacity and fiber handling, contract fulfillment has been hampered by lack of markets for biomass, which makes up 60% or so

of contract volume.

Yet because of logistics, infrastructure issues and biomass market options, the company had treated less than 15,000 acres total as of early this year.

Good Earth acquired a sawmill at Heber, Ariz. and invested in debarking, planing and kiln capacity. Its location is good for projects on the east side of the

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state. Meanwhile, Good Earth opened up an “interim” small sawmill at Williams, Ariz. and is now building a high-production mill on a nearby site.

The 150MMBF annual production mill is under construction and should start up in 2020.

BIOMASS RIDDLE In seeking to treat and restore landscapes to prevent major wildfires across 2.4 million acres and four national

forests in Arizona, the 4 Forests Restoration Initiative (4FRI) is a hugely ambitious project that hinges largely on major investments in the state’s forest industry that languished after federal timber harvests were drastically reduced in the mid 1990s and since.

A key part of the 4FRI project is the reduction of small diameter timber and brush, and that’s generating mountains of biomass requiring disposal or removal. Traditionally, this material would go to boiler fuel, maybe some upper

More biomass utilization capacity is needed.

grades into chips or pellet wood. But Arizona is hampered by a lack of industrial boiler installations that could use the material.

Currently, Novo Biopower in Snowflake, Ariz., a 28 MW biomass power plant, is the state’s biggest biomass consumer, but its location on the eastern side of the state makes transportation costs from north and west Arizona problematic.

Also problematic is the recent move by the Arizona Corporation Commission to vote down a proposal to require state utilities to purchase up to 60 MW of biomass power—making it feasible to convert one EGU at a closing Arizona coal power plant to biomass and provide an outlet for more 4FRI volume and better contract performance—after the commission cited additional power bill costs of $3-$4 per month.

Key issues for handling biomass include the need for more facilities to utilize more volume and that are also located in areas closer to much of the 4FRI work north and west of Flagstaff. Alternative methods to traditional biomass utilization are also being investigated: ● Northern Arizona University is testing the export of bone-dry chips to South Korea by rail in containers. Researchers at the university are working with a Korean power generator JA International, which is seeking sources of sustainable biomass for power generation and could take a half-million tons of chips annually for 20 years. ● Meetings of 4FRI stakeholders have included presentations and demos of air curtain burners that would dispose of biomass on site and create ash as a soil additive. Demos show this is one of the lowest cost ways of disposing of biomass, but permitting and emissions questions remain before it could be widely adopted, though most believe it’s a viable system especially for remote or hard to reach projects far from markets.

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VENEER • PLYWOOD • COMPOSITES • ENGINEERED WOOD PRODUCTS • LAMINATES

JANUARY Taking Stock The Year Of The Composite Board.

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Small Potatoes Is Just Fine For Idaho’s Plummer Forest Products But attention to every detail is a must for the small particleboard plant amid an industry of giants. Page 10.

Timber Processing & Energy Expo Takes Pulse Of Wood Products Manufacturing Industry. Page 16.

2019 Directory/Buyers’ Guide.

Page 20.

MARCH Taking Stock After All These Years GP Still Knows Plywood. Page 3.

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2019 EDITORIAL INDEX

Update New Company May Finally Give Relevance To Old Scrimber Technology Using Bamboo. Page 8.

Get ‘Er Done: Tolko Restarts High Prairie OSB, Shuttered Since 2008 Recession After a lengthy shutdown, Tolko’s High Prairie OSB mill goes from restart approval in June 2018 to first board in November of the same year. Page 10.

Veneer Dry End. Page 18.

Structural Plywood & LVL: Production & Consumption Trends In North America Veneer-based products ride end-use innovation and mill technology enhancement toward a friendlier economy. Page 28.

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MAY Taking Stock Sweet Sixteen. Page 3.

Update Timber Industry Feels Wrath Of Michael’s Aftermath. Page 6.

New Overlay Press Puts Hardel Mutual In HDO, MDO Markets As Plant Remains ‘One Stop Shop’ Top specialty plywood producer adds to its already-wide product line with 4x10 overlay press. Page 12.

Update Rice Straw MDF Plant Approaches Startup. Page 20.

APA Report Shows Soft Forecast For 2019 After Small 2018 Increase.

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Ligna 2019 Preview. Page 31.

Projects Scheucher Parkett Continues To Enhance Parquet Production.

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Taking Stock When Grant Led The Way. Page 3.

Update Arauco Gets Grayling PB Mill Going.

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Clarendon Facility Is A Key Player In GP’s OSB Lineup The mill, which started up six years ago, continues to enhance its technologies and product offerings. Page 14.

Industry & Community Leader Jonathan Martin Dies At 70.

RoyOMartin Chairman succumbs to illness, but was active until the end. Page 12.

Huber Puts Zip Back Into Long Silence OSB Facility At Spring City.

More than six years after it went down

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during the housing recession, the facility goes through a herculean rebuild effort to once again answer the Huber OSB roll call. Page 18.

Air Emissions. Page 38.

Jaasund’s Long Run With Geoenergy (LDX Solutions) Isn’t Over. Page 50.

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Peeling Accuracy Relies On Precision Grinding Systems.

Taihei’s West Coast veneer knife grinding showroom develops green end peeling solutions for veneer producers.

Page 24.

Worldwide Presence, Including U.S., Is Obvious At Ligna In Germany.

The biennial event brought a lot of new technologies and international goodwill.

Page 28.

Resins Technology. Page 40.

SEPTEMBER Taking Stock Nothing Like Going Back. Page 3.

Louisiana’s Behemoth: Martco Chopin Knows Southern Plywood.

The largest single site plywood facility in North America, Martco L.L.C in Chopin, La. emphasizes safety and product versatility. Page 14.

Martco Finds Its Timbers. Page 20.

Projects Custom Bandmill for MPP. Page 30.

Quality Control. Page 36.

Canada Proposes Formaldehyde Emissions From Composite Wood Products Regulations. Page 46.

NOVEMBER Taking Stock A Good Quote Is Easy To Find.

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Update Certification Comes Under Fire.

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AIR

EMISSIONS RAUTE

The hot and humid environment of veneer dryers can create some tough working conditions, especially in regions where the outside temperature in November still hovers at 76°F (24°C). With an already dwindling pool of human resources, air quality control can offer a significant improvement toward creating a safer work environment while optimizing productivity.

Veneer dryers are a substantial source of VOC (volatile organic compounds) emissions, mostly due to the compounds that are naturally occurring in wood and are given up during the drying process. VOCs are a group of chemicals that are also anthropogenic, man-made pollutants like fossil fuels, paints, aerosols, perfumes, and cleaning products. Concentrated VOCs indoors have been linked to asthma, chemical sensitivity, and sick building syndrome. Softwoods in particular emit more VOCs due to the terpene, pinene, reacting or oxidizing into other New Raute veneer dryer addresses air emissions.

VOCs that weren’t present in the original wood. Veneer dryers also emit hazardous air particulates (HAP) with methanol being the most dominant, and acetaldehyde, and formaldehyde also present. Particulate matter (PM) also comes from dryers, and includes dust as well as hydrocarbons that condense, producing a visible haze.

Improving air quality does not impede dryer performance. Air circulation analysis revealed optimization possibilities to make drying more efficient with zero plant emissions. In fact, Raute’s Next Generation Dryer discovered a correlation between improving air quality and improving dryer capacity and veneer quality, which are intrinsic in optimizing recovery and profitability: Real profitability that isn’t eroded due to mechanical deficiencies, productivity inefficiencies and worker absenteeism.

Raute’s tightly designed Next Generation Dryer is equipped with a new air control system that manages energy output, air circulation, and temperature fluctuations while controlling air, moisture and exhaust conditions to eliminate pitch build up, corrosion and plant emissions.

“Our goal was to optimize drying efficiency, but the new design changes also had the double effect of eliminating plant emissions and pitch buildup,” says Martin Murphy, President, Raute North America.

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AIR

EMISSIONS DIEFFENBACHER

Dieffenbacher’s solution for improving the air climate in a production hall consists of two systems: 1) The Inline Scrubber is based on formaldehyde being soluble in water. Using step-by-step absorption, the advanced scrubber removes formaldehyde in addition to particulate, gaseous or liquid substances. The scrubber is integrated into the duct to save space. It binds the substances to be absorbed through smart water injection and separates them with a centrifugal unit.

2) The Intelligent Air Management System collects concentrated and diffuse emission sources and controls the infeed and outfeed air in the hall to improve the hall climate through systematic air flow. Heat recovery aspects are also considered.

Dieffenbacher has successfully completed the first project stage (Inline Scrubber) at Swiss Krono’s site in Heiligengrabe, Germany, in compliance with the German air pollution control regulations and limit values (TA-Luft 2019). In the next step, the Intelligent Air Management System will be installed.

As for dryer and energy system emissions, Dieffenbacher offers customers an integrated solution from one source. The fully integrated control approach enables a quick startup of new installations, easy operation via one joint visualization and the most efficient emission control. Energy saving potential is considered, e.g., the contaminated gas flows are reused for thermal energy generation while VOCs are oxidized. Lastly, the shared steel construction concept of the energy system, dryer and emission control system requires little space and helps to reduce investment costs.

DÜRR MEGTEC Dürr Megtec is a global supplier of turnkey clean air solutions proven to meet stringent emissions regulations, improve process performance and protect thermal downstream equipment. The engineered wood products industry relies on turnkey clean air solutions from Dürr Megtec for effective emissions control of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) from dryers and press vents.

With thousands of systems installed worldwide in many process industries, we have the knowledge to provide an optimized solution engineered to meet specific needs. Our designs are modular, operator-friendly, and cleanable, including alkali-resistant ceramics and corrosion-resistant materi- Dürr Megtec installation at a Southeast OSB facility als of construction to suit the application.

We are a single-source suppler offering optimized systems including the CleanSwitch regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO) for controlling volatile organic compounds (VOCs), combined with our SonicKleen wet electrostatic precipitator that remove sub-micron particulate and fumes from dryer and energy-system gas streams with unparalleled uptime and reliability. Wet scrubbers provide high-efficiency particulate removal for dryers, press vents and energy systems preventing buildup on the connecting ductwork and downstream equipment.

Our selective non-catalytic reduction (SNCR) DeNOx systems utilize our high-efficiency, wear- and plug-resistant nozzles for injecting ammonia or urea solutions into the hot gas to chemically reduce the NOx into clean nitrogen gas and water. We also provide regenerative catalytic oxidizers to reduce gas consumption and provide lower operating costs. And, we provide cost-effective control of particulate emissions and opacity with our proven pulse jet fabric filter (baghouse) technology, dry ESPs, and cyclone dust collectors, which can be applied to a variety of particulate sources or used as a pre-cleaner to lighten the dust load on a secondary collector.

In addition, we offer carbon adsorption systems for the recovery, distillation and purification of solvents, as well as heat-recovery systems. Secondary and tertiary energy recovery systems can help reduce operating costs by capturing waste energy and returning it to the process itself or utilizing it to meet other energy requirements.

Our commitment to the wood products industry is further established with the availability of a pilot unit scrubber/wet ESP/RTO for testing slip-streams of your process to determine the optimal pre-filtration and RTO ceramic bed configuration.

The Dürr Megtec Aftermarket Services team delivers right-from-the-source expertise. Our people are skilled in helping you maintain your equipment by recommending upgrades and rebuilds of your existing equipment, with the goal being to optimize its efficiency and performance, which reduces energy costs.

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LDX Solutions was formed in 2019 as the next evolutionary step resulting from the 2016 merger of Dustex LLC and Lundberg LLC. As the home for the Geoenergy E-Tube Wet ESP, GeoTherm RTO, and GeoCat RCO technologies, LDX Solutions is a mainstay supplier in the panelboard industry.

Since 1984 more than 150 Geoenergy E-Tube wet ESPs, treating over 10,000,000 cfm of waste gases have been successfully applied in the panelboard industry. These installations have included all common forms of wood dryers to include gas/steam/wood heated veneer dryers, rotary drum dryers for particleboard and OSB production, and flash tube dryers for MDF manufacturing, as well as presses The E-Tube wet ESP design exploits the intense electric field of the disk-intube configuration to yield the best particulate removal performance possible.

Both theoretical analysis and empirical data show that there is no higher-perform- Geoenergy has installed regenerative oxidizers ing wet ESP design available. since 1995.

The Geoenergy GeoTherm and GeoCat regenerative oxidizers have also received wide acceptance in the panelboard industry. Since 1995, over 50 of these units have been installed on wood dryers and presses treating more than 3,000,000 cfm of VOC-contaminated emissions.

Both of these regenerative oxidizer products have consistently achieved over 98% VOC destruction and, at times, have been tested at greater than 99% efficiency. This excellent performance is always achieved at minimum fuel consumption.

In fact, at several GeoCat installations the catalytic operation allows the oxidizer to run with virtually zero auxiliary fuel.

The second generation of GeoTherm and GeoCat designs offer the same excellent VOC destruction efficiency and low energy consumption as the original design with substantially reduced cost.

Both wet ESP and regenerative oxidizer products are supported by the LDX Solutions experienced engineering and field service professionals. This support team will tackle any project ranging from simple equipment-only supply to the most complex turnkey installation project. After a project is started up and operating, customers can continue to rely on our large and experienced field service staff.

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With thousands of models built and shipped all over the world, the impulse-filter is one of Scheuch’s core products. The bag filter has been part of the Scheuch product range since 1979, and has been fitted with the impulse cleaning system since the middle of the 1980s.

With plant availability of over 99%, the impulse-filter meets the high requirements for maximum productivity in the wood based panel industry, thanks to its robust design and the use of eliable, tried-and-tested components. The impulse cleaning system developed by Scheuch is highly efficient and energy-saving. With a high proportion of secondary air, the specially shaped twin nozzles ensure efficient and extremely gentle cleaning. This results in low compressed air consumption and longer cleaning cycles, which in turn means that the bags last longer.

The filter bags are cleaned using compressed air pulses. The dust-laden crude gas enters the filter casing and is diverted upwards by a baffle plate. This process protects the filter bags from wear and allows pre-separation of coarse particles. The dust particles are retained on the surface of the filter media and, in a subsequent step, are blown off the bags using compressed air. The separated dust falls into the dust-collecting trough, and the discharge screw continuously conveys the separated material out of the filter. The clean air leaves the system via the clean gas chamber or, if re- Scheuch impulse-filter quired, can be fed back into the production hall as return air.

Control units are a key component of filtration plants from Scheuch. They are used in anything from simple extraction units to complex process dedusting systems.

In conjunction with the impulse filter, Scheuch has developed a new filter control unit – the PulseMasteradvanced. The new-generation device is fitted with a powerful processor and a touchscreen with full graphic display and user-friendly menu navigation.

The certified Scheuch safety concepts guarantee availability and legal compliance for the operator. They can also help to reduce insurance premiums. Scheuch can provide explosion protection concepts with flame ranges of five meters if necessary. This enables the filter configuration to be adapted to particular requirements, even when space is extremely limited. Vehicle routes, walkways, storage areas and site boundaries are permitted within the vicinity of the filtration plant. The filter casings and separation distances have been tested in accordance with fire protection class EW 120.

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10 ➤ is reloaded with new experiences after Collins,” comments President and CEO Eric Schooler. “I am excited that Chris will bring a new voice and enthusiasm to the leadership at Collins. His structured analytical approach and experiences is something I feel is imperative to the continued growth at Collins.”

ARAUCO PURCHASES PRIME-LINE

Arauco is acquiring Prime-Line, Inc., a privately held manufacturer of medium density fiberboard (MDF) molding and millwork products. The acquisition strengthens Arauco’s presence in the North American molding industry with an integrated solution that enhances its ability to provide customers with value-added products.

Prime-Line started in Malvern, Ark. in 1996. In 2014, the company expanded with a new, state-of-the-art plant on a site adjacent Arauco’s MDF plant in Malvern. The 100,000 square foot facility includes three automated molding

lines with an installed annual capacity of 135,000 m3. Arauco has been a long-time partner of Prime-Line and has been their primary supplier of MDF panel for many years. “We are excited to have PrimeLine join the Arauco team,” comments Arauco North America President Pablo Franzini. “This acquisition further executes on our commitment to create higher value for our customers through product diversification, expanded services and supply chain efficiencies.”

Arauco will continue to operate the business under the Prime-Line name.

GEORGIA-PACIFC BEGINS GURDON UPGRADES

Georgia-Pacific is investing $70 million in upgrades at its lumber and plywood operations in Gurdon, Ark. Some of the improvements include an advanced merchandiser, new panel assembly stations with state-of-the-art scanning systems, an upgraded power plant and software and security enhancements. Work on the projects will be

completed by 2020. The investments will sustain the more than 700 jobs at the two facilities.

“We are making state-of-the-art improvements that will transform our Gurdon facilities, greatly improving the utilization of raw materials and overall operating efficiencies, making jobs more meaningful, and turning us into an even stronger competitor,” says Mike White, Western Regional Operations Manager.

The company is also contributing $100,000 over five years to Gurdon and Clark County schools to help install a multi-use playing field that will be used by the three schools and the city for community events.

“The Gurdon schools have been such a cooperative, helpful and successful partner in ensuring we have the talented people we need,” says Carrie Wilkins, Regional Human Resources for GP’s Plywood and Lumber divisions. “We want and need them to continue to be successful, so our aim is to contribute meaningfully to our schools every year.” ➤ 48

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WEYCO SELLS MICHIGAN LAND

Weyerhaeuser Company announced an agreement to sell its 555,000 acres of Michigan timberlands to Lyme Great Lakes Holding LLC, an affiliate of The Lyme Timber Company LP, for $300 million in cash.

“This transaction in our Northern region encompasses a diverse mix of hardwood and softwood acres and is part of our ongoing effort to strategically optimize our timberlands portfolio,” says Devin Stockfish, president and CEO of Weyerhaeuser. “Lyme will also welcome our exceptional team of highly skilled employees.”

“Weyerhaeuser’s Michigan timberlands have been managed for decades by an expert team of professionals, and we look forward to working with them,” adds Jim Hourdequin, managing director and CEO of The Lyme Timber Company. “We’re excited to be investing in a region known for the quality of its hardwood timberland, mill capacity, and logging and trucking infrastructure.”

Founded in 1976, The Lyme Timber Company is one of the oldest private timberland investment management organizations in the U.S. Its portfolio includes major forestland holdings in New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Tennessee, Florida and California. Core timberlands are third-party certified through either the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) or Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter.

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JAASUND’S LONG RUN WITH GEOENERGY (LDX SOLUTIONS) ISN’T OVER EDITOR’S NOTE: One of the first air emission control companies to advertise in Panel World magazine was Geoenergy, and one of its co-owners was Steve Jaasund, who today is Geoenergy Products Manager for LDX Solutions. The life and times of Geoenergy and Jaasund have been well documented through the years in Panel World. Further developments in recent years prompted the following question and answer exchange. Jaasund can be reached at: sjaasund@ldxsolutions.com.

PW: The dust seems to have settled on the transition into LDX Solutions.

Interestingly, the Geoenergy name survives, even in your title as Geoenergy Products Manager. Given that at one point you were the co-owner of Geoenergy, can you reflect on what Geoenergy has meant to you personally and professionally?

Jaasund: That’s a big question and very relevant to me on both fronts. My impression is that the names Geoenergy and Steve Jaasund are inexorably linked and rightfully so. Briefly stated, all things Geoenergy have been the central focus of my professional career for roughly 35 years.

In 1984 I left the corporate world and went out on my own as a consul tant. While consulting was challenging and fun, my real passion was in the world of air pollution control equipment and specifically wet ESPs. So when a consulting job with fledgling Geoenergy International Corporation came up, I had an ideal entre into the world of capital equipment supply. In those days Geo was a threeman operation with one E-Tube wet ESP on their reference list. To be successful the company desperately needed a change of ownership with a more go-go attitude. In reaction, two of my old friends

from the University of Washington and I struck a deal with the Geoenergy owners to buy the company with sweat equity. It was a good deal for both parties and ultimately very successful for me and my partners. Starting in 1988 we grew the company from that three-man operation to a real force in the industrial air pollution control market with a special emphasis on the world of panelboard. In fact, I think it’s safe to say that by the year 2000 Geoenergy was the leader in emission control in the North American panelboard industry and a very significant supplier of emission control systems in many other industries.

However, the situation changed dramatically in 2002 when the company lost an employment contract lawsuit brought by a former employee. That forced us to close the company and declare bankruptcy. That was a very dark time for me and my family, costing nearly everything I owned. All I could

Steve Jaasund

hold onto was my knowledge, professional experience and my association with the name Geoenergy.

Fortunately, that knowledge, experience and Geoenergy association appealed to A. H. Lundberg Associates here in the Seattle area, and late in 2002 Lundberg purchased the intellectual property rights of Geoenergy from the bankruptcy trustee and hired me and my former partner Gary Raemhild. With that, Geoenergy was resurrected from the grave and a fresh start began.

Now, 17 years later the name Geoenergy continues to be a force in the market for emission control technology with a continuing focus on panelboard and the related wood bioenergy industries. While the closure of Geoenergy

International Corporation was a traumatic event, I think that today the name Geoenergy and the products and markets that go along with it are even stronger than they ever were. And it has been my great fortune to be associated with it. As they say, Geoenergy has meant the world to me.

PW: LDX Solutions combines several air emission control companies. Can you review how this transformation evolved in recent years?

Jaasund: LDX is the new name for the combination of Lundberg and Dustex. Here’s how this happened: In 2015 Dustex in Kennesaw, Georgia was acquired by a private equity firm. About a year later Lundberg was also acquired. At that point the two companies were merged under the umbrella company, Dustex Holdings. The intent of these acquisitions was to develop a broad-based supplier of emission control products for the industrial market. Given the dry treatment technologies at Dustex such as fabric filters, circulating dry scrubbers and dry sorbent injection system and the Geoenergy wet ESP and RTO technology at the Lundberg office the new combined firm covered most of the bases. Most recently, the owners decided to put the new name, LDX Solutions, on the entire operation to give a clear message to the market that the two companies are now, indeed, the same company. This is not just a name change. Despite our different heritages and geographical locations we work together as a team on any and all projects.

PW: What is LDX Solutions bringing to the panel industry that may have been lacking, especially in product technologies?

Jaasund: It’s simple. There is always the need for higher efficiency, lower opex and lower capex. The wet ESP, RTO and scrubbing technologies of the 1990s, while acceptable in those days, are not acceptable in today’s world. My colleagues and I have seen great improvement in the emission control technologies over the past decades and there is more to come. As a company this drive for better performance and lower costs is very real to us and there is a lot of R&D going on to achieve these goals. Tangible examples of this include smaller, more energy efficient RTOs that perform at 97% thermal efficiency and >99% DRE and wet ESPs that routinely achieve less than 10

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mg/Nm3. Improvements such as these directly translate into lower cost and higher reliability for a wide variety of manufacturing operations.

PW: How much advancement does there continue to be in air emissions control technologies and what is driving these continuous improvements?

Jaasund: Throughout my career, I have seen that the demand for a cleaner environment has no limit. As long as the possibility of further emission reduction exists the public will demand it. This demand is reflected in regulatory mandates and drives companies like LDX Solutions to strive for the better performing products that I just mentioned. This then begs the question, just how far can we go? In today’s world of <10 mg/Nm3 particulate requirements and 1 ppm hap demands, one might think that we have reached a practical limit. Well, from my point of view, based on my experience, we’re not even close to that limit. For me, when the gas stream coming out of a wood dryer is cleaner than the US EPA ambient air quality standard, then, and only then, can we say we have reached a practical limit.

PW: Where do we stand with regard to EPA and government-body regulations and standards of air quality that impact the panel industry? Are there issues still pending?

Jaasund: Certainly there are issues still pending. The driver, of course, is the Clean Air Act, its amendments and future amendments. As time rolls on I am sure that restrictions on emissions will tighten and formerly unregulated emission sources will be regu lated. While the political leanings of the party in the White House matter, in my opinion they only matter on the margins. As I said before, the demand for cleaner air is insatiable and industries like the panel industry need to plan on tighter and tighter regulations in the future. Fortunately companies like LDX Solutions are working hard on developing the technological innovations to satisfy these coming demands.

PW: What do you feel are some of the keys to a panel plant implementing and maintaining an excellent air control program?

Jaasund: It starts with taking environmental compliance seriously. Gone

are the days when operators might thumb their noses at the local air pollution agency guy. Regulatory compliance is a very serious business and should be treated that way from the worker on the shop floor all the way up to the CEO. Fortunately, today’s generation of young people think that way and are virtually all very serious about obeying the rules.

If there is a weakness in this regard, I think that there may be a lack of skilled engineers and technical people out in the plants to ensure that the emission control systems perform as required. I am not saying that this is a universal problem, but that the panel industry along with other process industries could use more chemical, mechanical and electrical engineers to watch over and maintain their emission controls. As compliance demands grow and the control technologies become more sophisticated it is important that there are people at the helm who understand how these things work. Unfortunately, many plants simply do not have the technical talent to understand their emission control systems sufficiently despite a willPW ingness to play by the rules.

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WVCO OPENS EUGENE FACILITY

Willamette Valley Company held a grand opening in June for its state-ofthe-art Research & Development facility in Eugene, Ore. The building remodel took two years from concept to completion. The overall facility is 28,000 sq. New WVCO R&D facility in Eugene, Ore. ft., which houses 24 laboratory benches. The physical testing lab is utilized by chemists and technicians to test the physical properties of cured materials. The analytical lab is used to peer into the inner workings of the materials: how they cure and how the chemistry interacts. The application area is used to simulate how products are applied in the field.

Chemists and technicians share an open office space as well as many collaboration spaces. The R&D facilities feature some of today’s finest chemists and engineers, as well as very sophisticated analytical technologies.

Willamette Valley Co. is a multinational corporation that

manufactures and distributes a variety of custom products and services throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Russia, Australia, New Zealand and South America.

While its roots are based in the wood products industry and go back to its inception in 1952, expertise and solutions now encompass innovative coatings, paints, fillers, adhesives, value added waxes, polyurethanes, epoxies, robotics, engineering and much more across more than a dozen industries and specialties.

WVCP extends an invitation to come visit its facilities.

TIMBER PRODUCTS ADDS LYNCH TO TEAM Timber Products Company has appointed Pat Lynch as International Business Manager.

“We are very excited to have Pat join the team,” comments Mark Avery, COO for Timber Products. “Pat is well known in the wood products industry, and his knowledge and experience will be a major asset to our international sales division.”

Lynch has more than 30 years of sales and leadership experience in the wood products industry. Most recently working for Darlington Veneer and Timber Co. as vice president and general manager, he has also worked for Roseburg Forest Products and Georgia-Pacific. Lynch has been highly active with associations and groups within the building products and wood products industries.

“I am delighted to be joining the Timber Products team, and leading the international division,” Lynch says. “Timber Products has been a staple in this industry for decades, and I look forward to seizing the opportunity to explore new business opportunities and develop new avenues for the company.”

Lynch received his Bachelor of Science degree in Forestry Wood Products Management from the University of Missouri.

DAGHER LEADS BERNDORF IN CANADA Berndorf Belt Technology USA has named Nicholas Dagher as Director of Sales responsible for the Canadian region. BBT is a subsidiary of the Berndorf Band Group.

Dagher will also be responsible for supporting the sales of process equipment for Steel Belt Systems USA in his region.

With the recent acquisition of SBS by Berndorf Band Group, BBT and SBS work hand in hand to supply steel belts of the highest quality as well as engineering and manufacturing cooling systems that use those belts.

“Most of my nine-year career has been spent in the belt industry in the Quebec and Ontario areas,” says Dagher. “I owe a lot already to Berndorf, as they trained me at the headquarters in Austria and BBT USA, where I became a certified technician. BBT is a known name within this industry and I’m eager to take on the new challenges presented by this opportunity.”

MID-SOUTH BUYS STOLBERG Mid-South Engineering of Hot Springs, Ark. has acquired Canada’s Stolberg Engineering. Stolberg Engineering will operate from its office in Richmond, BC, as the Mid-South Engineering Stolberg Group, where it will continue to be led by industry veterans Norm Stolberg and Rod Gronlund.

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LINES pany has a rich history over the nearly 40 years it has been providing engineering services to the building products and wood pellet industries. This acquisition really strengthens our team and launches Mid-South into a whole new region.”

Stewart explains that the combination is expected to allow Mid-South and Stolberg team members to expand their professional experiences by being part of a broader team—both groups

will bring additional expertise and services to their respective existing clients and to new clients in wood products related industries. Together, Mid-South and Stolberg can handle the challenges of large-scale industrial projects across virtually all of the wood processing regions in North America.

Gronlund of Stolberg adds, “I’m looking forward to being a part of this larger combined organization. I think our clients will appreciate the greater depth, capacity

and range of services that we will be able to offer as part of Mid-South.

All Stolberg staff will continue to work out of the company’s existing offices in Richmond, BC, and will carry on serving clients with ongoing projects.

Stolberg Engineering was founded in 1980 as an offshoot of Stolberg Construction, which had been building plants and installing equipment for the wood products industry across Western Canada since the late 1940s.

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PROJECTS ENBOARD ORDERS CHIPBOARD PLANT

ENboard Co. Ltd., the new joint venture of the furniture manufacturer Eidai Co., Ltd. and Japan Novopan Industrial Company Ltd., has ordered a

Left to right: Yohei Murata (back), Noriko Nishino (front), Kenishi Miura (back), Yuji Kitanishi (front), Dr. Jochem Berns, Christoph Michel, Naoki Ishii, Makoto Takahashi, Taku Yamamoto, Dr. Dieter Siempelkamp, Jürgen Philipps, Yasushi Takahashi, Michael Bischof, Alexander Röwe, Marc Müller

chipboard plant from Siempelkamp, from wood preparation to final production including the overall planning of the plant.

Japan Novopan Industrial Co. Ltd has been a leader among Japanese engineered wood manufacturers for decades and has positioned itself in the local market. Most recently, the company entered into a joint venture with Eidai Co., Ltd. and established the new company ENboard.

Japan Novopan can look back on a long business relationship with Siempelkamp. About 10 years ago the company bought a plant from Siempelkamp and now once again places its trust in the Krefeld, Germany-based supplier.

The order includes not only the overall plant planning, but also all core machines for wood processing technology, energy generation and drying as well as classification and gluing systems.

Siempelkamp also supplies the forming

and press lines as well as the board handling systems. The heart of the new plant is a 7 ft. x 47.1 m ContiRoll Generation 9 continuous press including a PMDI package.

The plant is to be operated mainly with recycled wood and will mainly serve the local market with formaldehydefree bonded, particularly heavy chipboard. The plant will be built in a prominent position in the Shizuoka prefecture at the foot of Fuji Mountain.

LITHUANIA FIRM BUYS ROUNDTRACK

Klaipedos Mediena (VMG) is the first wood-based materials producer in Lithuania to order the combination RoundTrack + knife ring from Siempelkamp subsidiaries Strothmann Machines & Handling GmbH and Pallmann.

Strothmann’s specializes in handling and automation solutions. Thanks to its minimal rolling resistance, the RoundTrack moves loads weighing thousands of kilograms with high precision; up to 5 tons can be moved by one person.

The subject of the current cooperation between Strothmann and Pallmann is a RoundTrack carriage which moves knife rings between the Pallmann knife ring chipper and the sharpening robot.

This scope of supply is part of the third overall Siempelkamp plant for Klaipedos Mediena (VMG) in Lithuania. The plant planned for the Akmene site will go into operation in 2020.

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Electronic Wood Systems Germany (EWS), known as a supplier of quality inspection systems for the panelboard industry, is developing its second leg of the business—the spark extinguishing systems. These systems detect sparks and glowing particles inside pneumatic conveying systems, blow pipes and chutes before they arrive at flammable areas. Sparks are detected by ultra sensitive infrared spark detectors. Extinguishment is carried out by an extinguishing device which creates a dense water pattern in a split second.

Continuous research and development has resulted in a higher-efficient extinguishing nozzle, which allows significantly reduced use of water by 30% with the same effectiveness as conventional nozzles. As a result the adverse effect of the extinguishing water on the production process is greatly reduced.

The control cabinet has selective operator blocks for each zone, making it very user-friendly. The redundant assembly

and self-testing assures high reliability of the system. The system is approved by Factory Mutual. Visit electronic-woodsystems.com.

BAG FILTERS Donaldson Dura-Life bag filters provide many cost saving benefits to baghouse owners in the timber processing industry.

Utilizing a hydroentanglement process that uses water to blend the fibers to create a more uniform material with smaller pores, Dura-Life bag filters provide better surface loading and capture smaller particles with greater efficiency. Dura-Life bag filters can last up to three times longer, provide superior cleaning, and reduce maintenance and operating costs due to fewer bag changeouts.

Leveraging more than a century of technical expertise, Donaldson has developed a comprehensive line of replacement filters that are available for all popular brands of dust collectors. With Donaldson’s Ready 2 Ship program, all instock orders ship within 24 hours. Visit donaldsontorit.com.

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■ Ontario

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

NEXT CLOSING: MARCH 23, 2020 ■ Indiana Amos-Hill Associates, Inc.

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”

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

MANUFACTURER OF QUALITY HARDWOOD AND SOFTWOOD VENEERS

Green & Kiln Dried Hardwood Lumber

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

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

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

The mark of responsible forestry FSC Supplier: SCS-COC-002445 * SCS-CW-002445

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Call Melissa McKenzie 800-669-5613

■ United States

■ Kentucky

■ Georgia

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

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■ Ohio

ESTABLISHED 1972

A new “Dimension” in Veneer & Plywood

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

Dimension Plywood Inc. Custom Architectural Plywood & Doors 415 Industrial Blvd. • New Albany, IN 47150 Tel: 812-944-6491 • Fax: 812-944-7421 www.dimensionhardwoods.com FSC-C041275

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

■ Vermont

NEXT CLOSING: MARCH 23, 2020

■ Minnesota

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

BUFFALO VENEER & PLYWOOD CO.

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

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

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.

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

Contact Sales at 802-334-3600 • Fax: 802-334-5149 www.cfpwood.com • 324 Bluff Rd. • Newport, VT 05855

■ Mississippi Universal Veneer Mill Corp.

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

■ Pennsylvania

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EVENTS NOVEMBER

26-29 • Xylexpo 2018, Fieramilano Rho Fairgrounds, Milan, Italy. Phone +39-02-89210200; Visit xylexpo.com.

2-5 • APA-Engineered Wood Assn. annual meeting and Engineered Wood Technology Assn. Info Fair, JW Marriott Star Pass, Tucson, Ariz. Call 253-565-6600; visit apa wood.org.

AUGUST 2020

DECEMBER 3-6 • Woodex, 16th International Exhibition of Equipment and Technologies for Woodworking and Furniture Production, Crocus Expo, Moscow, Russia. Visit woodexpo.ru/en-GB/.

FEBRUARY 2020 27-March 2 • IndiaWood 2020, Bangalore International Exhibition Centre, Bangalore, India. Call +91-80-4250 5000; visit indiawood.com.

MARCH 2020 10-11 • Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo, Omni Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 334-834-1170; e-mail dianne@hattonbrown.com; visit bioenergyshow.com.

10-13 • Fimma-Maderalia 2020, Feria Valencia, Valencia, Spain. Visit fimma-maderalia.feriavalencia.com/en.

12-13 • Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE), Omni Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 800-669-5613; visit pelice-expo.com.

16-18 • Dubai Woodshow, Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Call +971 4 39 23232; visit dubaiwoodshow.com.

APRIL 2020 1-3 • International Wood Products Assn. annual meeting, Hyatt Regency, Savannah, Ga. Call 703-820-6696; visit iwpawood.org.

26-28 • American Wood Protection Assn. annual meeting, Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe, Incline Village, Nev. Call 205-733-4077; visit awpa.com.

26-29 • Composite Panel Assn. Spring meeting, Laguna Cliffs Marriott, Dana Point, Calif. Call 703-724-1128; visit compositepanel.org.

MAY 2020 1-2 • Expo Richmond 2018, Richmond Raceway Complex, Richmond, Va. Call 804-737-5625; visit exporichmond.com.

25-28 • International Woodworking Fair 2020, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 404-693-8333; visit iwfatlanta.com.

Listings are submitted months in advance. Always verify dates and locations with contacts prior to making plans to attend.

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