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YOU’RE NOT SEEING DOUBLE, TWO NEW PLYWOOD MILLS PLANNED n our previous issue, in this space, managing editor Dan Shell wrote about Swanson Group’s pending decision on whether to rebuild a veneer and plywood mill in Springfield, Ore. at the site of the company’s plywood mill that was destroyed by a mid-summer fire. Shell, who travels extensively in the Northwest and had written about the Springfield mill a few years ago following a major modernization, emphasized that Swanson Group is one of the panel and lumber industry’s most vibrant companies, and has a history of making the right decisions.

Shortly before this issue went to press, Swanson Group CEO Steve Swanson informed us that they would indeed rebuild the facility. You can read more of the details on page 6. What those details don’t include is the collective sigh of relief from the local community and its families, and no doubt Swanson himself.

It might have been the very same day that we heard that Winston Plywood & Veneer will build a new plywood mill on the same “pad” where an idled facility in Louisville, Miss. had been destroyed by tornado last April. Winston Plywood & Veneer is an affiliate of New Wood Resources, which is an affiliate of Atlas Holdings. This is basically the same management that “turned around” plywood mills in Moncure, NC and Chester, SC before selling them to Boise Cascade in 2013, and it is New Wood Resources that purchased and is refurbishing the Omak Wood Products plywood mill in Omak, Wash. and also operates the specialty overlay plywood manufacturer Olympic Panel Products in Shelton, Wash.

The Winston mill is thinking about 400MMSF annual capacity down the road, no small potatoes.

Interestingly, both the Springfield, Ore. and Louisville, Miss. sites were once plywood mills built by GeorgiaPacific in the 1960s.

The point of this column though comes in the form of a question: When

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was the last time this magazine announced in the same issue that two plywood mills were going to be built?

Obviously these companies would not be proceeding if they didn’t possess some degree of confidence in the building marketplace of the near (and maybe long range) future. Elsewhere in this issue you’ll see that housing starts in 2014 barely topped 1 million for the first time since 2007, and the experts are predicting maybe a 20% increase this year. So there is something to be optimistic about, and while Swanson and Winston have announced the super projects, they’re by no means the only plywood mills taking some course of upgrade action.

Of course, as we’ve stated before, 1 million housing starts isn’t 2 million, nor even 1.5 million. Which brings us to another question: Is our industry ready for 1.5 million, much less 2? I hope we PW get to find out.

RICH DONNELL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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UPDATE SWANSON WILL REBUILD SPRINGFIELD PLYWOOD MILL Officials with Swanson Group Mfg. LLC announced plans in January to rebuild the company’s Springfield, Ore. plywood plant that was destroyed by fire in mid-July 2014. According to Swanson Group President and CEO Steve Swanson, “We are excited about this opportunity. Springfield is well positioned in terms of log supply and workforce, which make our site an attractive place to recapitalize.”

Plans are to have the new mill finished and ready to start up by mid 2016. The new plant will employ 190 and operate similar to the old facility in terms of capacity and product lines, with a few twists.

According to Swanson, approval for the new building was in mid February. Most of the equipment purchases will take place between now and May, and the new building is expected to be complete and ready by fall 2015.

While Swanson personnel are still looking at equipment types and suppliers and combinations of new and used equipment, Swanson says the mill will utilize a state-of-the-art triple-spindle peeling system with sheet and random stacking; After much deliberation, it’s a go for Swanson rebuild at two dryers, one handling wides and the other randoms, feeding Springfield, Ore. to respective stacking systems; and a layup line and related systems that enable more overlay production.

“We’re going to concentrate on overlays,” Swanson says of the new plant, which will add hardwood plywood production to the former plant’s paper overlay product offerings. The mill will still produce some softwood plywood, but primarily in premium 9-10 ft. sizes, he adds.

When in full operation, the new plant should produce roughly 20MMSF of veneer per month while laying up about 1012MMSF. Of the remaining output, lower grade material will go to Swanson’s Glendale, Ore. plywood plant for use in sheathing products, and higher grades will be sold to LVL producers in the region.

The hiring process is expected to start late in the first quarter, or early in the second quarter of 2016. “Of our 250 employees displaced by the fire, approximately 43 chose to take positions at our more southern locations, which hasn’t always been easy,” states Chuck Wert, Chief Operating Officer of Swanson Group. “These folks have gone through a lot, and made many personal sacrifices. We greatly appreciate this and are delighted to be able to offer them, as well as many of our other displaced employees, an opportunity to return home.”

The Swanson Group acquired the Springfield plant in 2007 and also operates a plywood plant and sawmill in Glendale and a stud mill in Roseburg, Ore. Including a helicopter division and forest products sales and distribution company, Swanson Group employs more than 630 in western Oregon.

Swanson Group purchased the Springfield site from McKenzie Forest Products in 2007 and proceeded to perform major capital projects on log merchandising, dryer rebuilds, lathe modernization and a new layup line. The mill ran four multiopening presses and two MDO/HDO presses. It had more than doubled production capacity since Swanson took over. Georgia-Pacific built the mill in 1960.

WINSTON P&V HOSTS GROUNDBREAKING

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and officials from Winston Plywood and Veneer held a groundbreaking ceremony January 30 at the site of the company’s new manufacturing facility in Louisville, Miss. The project represents an investment of approximately $50 million and will create 400 jobs.

In April 2014, a tornado destroyed the facility in Louisville. Since that time, Winston Plywood and Veneer has remained committed to rebuilding and expanding its operations in Louisville.

In addition to the investment made by

the company, disaster recovery funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will be used to build the facility.

“I am grateful to the Winston Plywood and Veneer team for their steadfast dedication to the Louisville community and the state of Mississippi following the tornado that devastated the area last spring,” the governor commented.

“Winston Plywood and Veneer has forged a unique partnership with the state of Mississippi, Mayor Hill, and Winston County to not only rebuild this plywood mill but to help this region recover,” said Dr. Richard Baldwin, presi-

dent of Winston Plywood and Veneer.

“That daily collaboration, since the first moments after the tornado hit, has delivered the resources and focus we needed to be here today, with construction on a new, state-of-the-art plywood mill officially under way. This will be a great facility and will enhance the quality of life in this community for many years to come.”

Mississippi Development Authority provided assistance in support of the project for preparation, relocation expenses, infrastructure needs and workforce training.

It’s anticipated that by early 2016, Winston Plywood & Veneer will pro-

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duce and distribute a full-range of specialty and commodity plywood products. Over time, the mill’s annual capacity could reach 400MMSF. The new mill will encompass 280,000 square feet, compared to the previous facility’s 230,000 square feet.

Winston Plywood & Veneer has ordered a considerable portion of the machinery for the mill.

Winston Plywood and Veneer is an operating company of New Wood Resources LLC, which is owned by Atlas Holdings LLC.

HOUSING STARTS TOPPED ONE MILLION

U.S. housing starts in 2014 totaled 1,005,800 million units, up 9% from 2013, marking the first time housing starts have surpassed 1 million since 2007 when starts exceeded 1.4 million units, according to a report by APA— The Engineered Wood Assn. Beginning with 2008 and running through 2014, housing starts averaged 776,000 units per year.

Single family starts in 2014 were 648,000, up 4.9% from 2013, while multifamily starts came in at 357,800 units, up 16.4% from 2013.

Regionally, housing starts in the Northeast were 110,700, up 14.3% from 2013; in the Midwest were 162,800, up 8.8%; in the South were 497,700, up 7.4%; and in the West were 234,600, up 9.2% from 2013.

Actual number of new homes sold in the U.S. were up 1% to 433,000. The median price of new homes sold in 2014 was $279,500, up 4% from 2013.

The number of new homes (inventory) either completed or under construc-

VIENNA EVENT COMBINES CONFERENCE, EXPO, TOURS The Vienna International Wood Products/Markets Conference, Expo & Tours will be held June 16-21 in Vienna, Austria.

The event is organized by International Wood Markets Group, Inc. and Georgia Research Institute.

On June 16 will be an invitation-only Schweighofer Prize reception and dinner. The Schweighofer Prize ceremony is held every two years and awards money for technologies, products and services that strengthen the competitiveness of the European forest-based industries. More than 600 international delegates from 40 countries are expected to attend.

The conference and expo will be held June 17 at the Hotel Savoyen Vienna.

Speakers from Europe and worldwide will address trends, issues and outlooks in international sawn wood and panel markets, including Europe, Russia, China, Middle East and North America. The full day conference will assess global market opportunities and wood products trade.

Concurrently on June 17 an all-day wood products equipment supplier exposition will be held adjacent the conference.

June 18-19 will feature an Eastern Austria Industry Tour of mills producing lumber, cross laminated timber and engineered wood products. The tour starts and ends at the conference hotel in Vienna, with one night spent outside of Vienna.

On June 20-21, Schweighofer will host a tour in the Radauti area of Romania of its large single line sawmill, a laminated post-and-beam plant, an edge-glued panel plant, particleboard plant and pellet mill. The tour will spend two nights in Radauti and ends at the Vienna Airport.

The tours are optional.

For more information and pricing, visit www.woodmarkets.com/conference/ global-conferences/; also e-mail: info@woodmarkets.com; phone 604-801-5996.

For more exhibit information e-mail fredkurpiel@aol.com. For hotel pricing visit www.austria-trend.at/Hotel-Savoyen-Vienna/en/. tion was 178,000 late in 2014, compared for example to 420,000 in 2008.

Sustained increases in home values drove down the share of homeowners that are in a negative equity position on their mortgage to 16.9%. About half of those who are underwater owe at least 20% more on their mortgage than the current estimated value of their home.

Early this year the rate on a 30-year

Housing starts topped 1 million for first time since 2007.

fixed rate mortgage fell below 3.7%; at that rate, the monthly payment on a $200,000 mortgage is about $100 less than in January 2014 when the mortgage rate was 4.5%.

For the year, the number of homeowners that started the foreclosure process totaled 1.2 million, down 18% from 2013 and down 61% from the peak of 2.87 million reached in 2010.

APA notes that the U.S. economy entered 2015 with considerable momentum. The mix of healthy job gains and gas prices below $2/gallon throughout much of the nation has driven consumer confidence to the highest levels since the middle of the previous decade.

APA forecasts 1,210,000 housing starts in the U.S. in 2015 and 1,365,000 in 2016. The APA report also lists forecasts from six other banking and housing concerns, which range from 1.1 million to 1.3 million for 2015 and 1.28 million to 1.65 million for 2016.

Housing starts in Canada in 2014 were 189,400, a gain of 0.7% from 2013.

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STRUCTRUAL PANEL PRODUCTION ROSE

North American structural panel production increased 2.6% to 30.68 billion SF in 2014 compared to 2013.

OSB production was up 6% to 19.88 billion SF, with U.S. production increasing 4.1% to 13.008 billion SF and Canadian production increasing 9.7% to 6.877 billion SF. Plywood production was down 3.1% to 10.795 billion SF, with U.S. output falling off 3.9% to 8.985 billion SF while Canadian production increased 1% to 1.810 billion SF. North American glulam production was up 1.4% to 254.8 million board feet. I-joist production was up 7.4% to 672.2 million linear feet, and LVL production increased 11.7% to 63.9 million cubic feet.

U.S. plywood exports to Mexico and the offshore markets totaled 358MMSF, down 15% from 2013, including a 33% decline in exports to China.

Structural output at 30.68 billion SF

U.S. plywood imports from offshore totaled 424MMSF, up 3.2%, while Canadian plywood imports from nonU.S. sources were 50MMSF, up 22%.

NORBORD, AINSWORTH AWAIT GO-AHEAD

Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. and Norbord Inc. announced that the Supreme Court of British Columbia has granted a final order approving the previously announced merger of Norbord and Ainsworth. Meanwhile Norbord and Ainsworth are providing the U.S. Dept.

of Justice with the information it has requested about the transaction. Subject to the satisfaction of all closing conditions, the transaction is expected to close by the end of the first quarter.

The merger would create the largest OSB producer in the world with an OSB production capacity of 7.7 billion SF, according to the companies.

Norbord, based in Toronto, operates seven OSB North American mills, (six of them in the U.S. South) with one mill in Quebec, along with four mills in Europe. Ainsworth, based in Vancouver, BC, operates four Canadian OSB mills—three in Western Canada and one in Ontario. Prior to this transaction, Norbord reported it was third in OSB production capacity behind LouisianaPacific and Georgia-Pacific.

The new company will have opportunities to increase capacity through the expansion of Norbord’s OSB production in Western Europe, the restart of Norbord’s two idled mills in North America, and the completion of

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Ainsworth’s second line in Grand Prairie, Alberta.

The combined company will operate under the Norbord name. Upon completion of the transaction, Norbord shareholders will own 63% and Ainsworth shareholders will own 37% of the combined company.

ARAUCO ADDS PAPER TREATING

Arauco North America purchased the operating assets of Suddekor’s paper treating business located in Biscoe, NC. The acquired asset gives Arauco the ability to impregnate decorative paper with melamine based resin, which is used for the manufacture of thermally fused laminate panels (TFL). The Biscoe facility brings a new capability to Arauco in North America, and will supply the internal needs of its five laminating centers located in Albany, Ore.; Bennettsville, SC; Moncure, NC; Sault Ste. Marie, ON, and St. Stephen, NB.

To complement the purchase of this asset, Arauco announced plans to install a next generation fast-cycle press to produce TFL products, and to expand the particleboard panel capacity at its plant in Bennettsville.

“The investment in treating decorative papers provides us with the opportunity to better manage an important part of our supply chain,” says Kelly Shotbolt, President. “And it’s part of a vertical integration strategy that will further develop our TFL program by enhancing our ability to deliver new and innovative products to our customers.”

GRAD SCHOLARSHIP IN MALONEY’S NAME

Washington State University is establishing the Thomas M. Maloney Graduate Scholarship through the Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture.

Maloney, who died June 18 in Pullman, Wash. at age 83, was prominent in the development of many facets of the

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wood based panel industry, especially composite board, through his long association with WSU as professor of Mechanical & Materials Engineering and director of the Wood Materials & Engineering Lab. “After consulting with Tom’s family, we all agreed that an endowed scholarship would be a fitting tribute to honor Tom’s commitment to education as we know he would be pleased to help deserving graduate students working in the field of wood composites and engineering,” the university stated.

The university has established a goal of $100,000 for this endowment. All donations will be acknowledged by the WSU Foundation and communicated to the Maloney family.

Any questions or for assistance in making a donation contact Bridget Pilcher at pilcher@wsu.edu or call 509-3350144. Make checks payable to “WSU Foundation” and note “Maloney Scholarship.” Mail to WSU Foundation, Box 641925, Pullman, WA 99164-1925.

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POLLMEIER FINDS RHYTHM ONE YEAR AFTER BEECH LVL PLANT STARTS UP Company brought beech handling and processing experience to the table.

most hardwoods)—strength and hardness for example—also invite startup machining and processing challenges because it’s “heavier, less forgiving, difficult to compress, etc.”

Pollmeier may be a bit too tough on himself, considering the uniqueness of the operation—LVL from hardwood, which provides higher strength values, excellent surface quality and maintains the appealing look of hardwood. As a result, beech LVL’s still evolving product applications encompass a broad range from construction to architectural to interior design—large span beams, furniture board, flooring and much more.

The company touts its beech LVL as considerably higher density and higher bending strength than spruce

laminated veneer lumber, glulam and structural timber.

Pollmeier sees many end use applications such as exposed posts and beams in modern glass façade construction and as ceiling panels because of an “elegant and sleek” look. Product impregnation is also undergoing testing. Other specialty applications are also being addressed.

If anybody knows European hardwood and particularly beech, it’s Pollmeier. His company has been operating modern hardwood sawmills at Creuzburg and Aschaffenburg since 1996, and producing large quantities of beech lumber.

Pollmeier notes that the more conventional method of converting beech into a building material, as a glulam,

CREUZBURG, Germany ollmeier Group continues to make great strides introducing into building markets new products from its new beech laminated veneer lumber plant here.

The EUR 105 million, 180,000 m 3 production capacity plant started up a year ago. Pollmeier Group owner and managing director Ralf Pollmeier says that while “finding new markets is easy,” the manufacturing process is still a work in progress. Pollmeier says the values and characteristics of beech (and

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Pollmeier installed a Siempelkamp 60.3 m continuous press, shown at right, with infeed shown below.

Ralf Pollmeier had the vision for beech LVL.

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Raute supplied log peeling and veneer handling and layup.

proved too expensive due to the higher cost of cutting and the longer drying time. The solution was provided by laminated veneer lumber, which ensures efficient utilization of the raw material and permits a high degree of automation, and is more cost-efficient.

Pollmeier turned to German-based manufacturer Siempelkamp for the downstream processing machinery and technology portion of the plant. After a test period of two years, Pollmeier commissioned Siempelkamp to build a 6 ft. x 60.3 m ContiRoll continuous press (Generation 8).

Typically up to 28 layers, each 3.0 mm (.118 in.) thick, are pressed into a thickness of up to 80 mm (3.15 in.). Siempelkamp supplied a double diagnonal saw for the edge trimming and cut-to-length unit, designed to handle a board thickness up to 85 mm (3.3 in.) and process a maximum board length up to 32 m (105 ft.).

Siempelkamp also supplied a high rack storage system for veneers once they’re peeled, resin storage/preparation and dosing system, and a Buttner energy plant with 13 MW heating capacity as well as the measurement and control technology.

The energy plant is fueled with waste wood from the production process. Beech is characterized by its long burning time, strong ember generation and high burning value.

The plant procures beech round timber exclusively from sustainable and certified forests, mainly from within a 150 km radius of the plant. Pollmeier says beech logs are 9 in. and up. Logs are hot-water treated and then debarked.

For front end processing, Pollmeier

Cut-to-size sawing

Pollmeier also operates two hardwood sawmills.

signed on Finland-based Raute, which has considerable LVL machinery and technology experience.

Raute’s scope of supply includes the rotary peeling line, which can handle 8 ft. and 6 ft. block lengths. The thin veneer strips can be stored at that point.

Veneers are dried in a Raute 24-section roller dryer, which is directly coupled to

two veneer scarfing units. Veneers are dried to 2-3% moisture and conditioned to 5-6% moisture. Scarfed veneers are visually and moisture graded with Mecano VDA and MVA analyzers. Randoms and sheets with defects are conveyed to a Raute veneer composer. Before the scarfed veneers enter a Raute layup line, they go to automated storage.

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Automatic veneer storage and transport

The Raute layup line is equipped with vacuum manipulators, especially developed for thick beech veneer in this project. Two Raute curtain coaters lines take care of the supply of veneers to the Raute continuous layup system. Phenolic resin adhesive, supplied by Dynea, is applied crosswise or parallel to the grain of the veneers. This resins offers good economy, high strength and is water-resistant. Applying the adhesive adds moisture, which pushes the moisture level of the final product back up to approximately 8%-10%.

Beech LVL end-use applications have broad potential.

An enlarged heating circuit with a booster hot platen at the Siempelkamp continuous press infeed ensures quick heat absorption of the veneer package.

The press is characterized by its even pressure distribution plates, providing homogeneous curing.

The process-integrated measurement system from Siempelkamp, called SicoScan, measures board thickness and detects blows and blisters during production. The control technology system, Siempelkamp’s Prod-IQ, includes the areas of production management, quali-

ty control and maintenance.

Pollmeier notes that when selecting the equipment, “the quality of the technical solutions and the dedication of the people developing these technical solutions took priority over the price.”

The new plant, which is currently running one shift, employs 121 including staff in administration, sales, marketing and purchasing. Pollmeier operaPW tions overall employ 700.

(This articles combines reports from Panel World, Pollmeier, Raute and Siempelkamp.)

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‘TURNING THE CORNER’

EDITOR’S NOTE: Brian Luoma is Senior VP and General Manager, Engineered Wood Products, for LP Building Products, based at LP headquarters in Nashville, Tenn.

Luoma is a 26-year veteran of the building products industry, the majority of it spent at LP. He has been responsible for LP’s EWP business since 2005.

PW: According to APA—The Engineered Wood Assn., though dipping in the final quarter, the North America 2014 annual production of LVL and Ijoists showed an increase. What’s your perception of those markets at the moment?

Luoma: On average, I-joists and LVL go as the housing market

goes. I think of Q4 2014 as a bit of an anomaly. According to APA, production came off more than 20% for each product line compared to Q3 production at the same time Q4 housing starts were about the same as Q3, in fact a little stronger.

I suspect some inventory liquidation occurred in Q4 both in the channel and at the mills. If this is true and if Q1 2015 demand remains similar or better than the past couple of quarters, I would expect to see the production numbers pick right back up and even grow a little. Again according to APA, year over year, housing starts were up 9% in 2014; I-joist production was up 7.5% and LVL up about 12%.

Forest Economic Advisors (FEA) reports that LVL capacity will come under some stress at 1.3-1.4mm housing starts, which could happen in the next couple of years. On a regional basis, I believe LVL production may become stressed based on veneer supply before press capacity is ever an issue. I think most of the installed capacity in North America is running at some level. I have not heard of any new LVL mills being considered in North America at the moment. My sense is that any new LVL capacity being contemplated would come at the expense of some existing plywood production, meaning it would require some existing veneer supply in addition to veneer expansion.

The quickest way to bolster existing LVL capacity, in my opinion, is to get low value products out of the mix, like I-joist flanges and low E beams and headers, and utilize that capacity for high E LVL beams and headers. The market will need this production, and it will provide better utilization of existing capacity and better returns to the mill.

PW: What about application trends?

PW: What about capacity trends?

Luoma: At the current demand levels (1mm-1.1mm housing starts) there is still capacity available in all product lines. Though overall capacity utilization is improving as demand slowly increases, the EWP industry is not running full. At 1mm housing starts, the industry appears to be running at less than 70% capacity utilization.

I believe the EWP industry will start taking a different shape in the range of 1.3-1.4mm housing starts.

Luoma: For I-Joist flanges, MSR lumber has always been the obvious alternative to LVL. However, MSR lumber capacity may come under some stress of its own in a rising housing market. Therefore, the Ijoist flange solution of the future, in my opinion, is LSL (laminated strand lumber). Product development and testing is under way now and a LSL flanged I-joist will be available when the market needs it.

In my opinion, LSL will also be the best option for low E beam and header applications in the future.

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We also see fire resistance, energy efficiency, industrial products, construction methods and building science as important focus areas for the future.

PW: What are the biggest challenges to developing a new product application in the marketplace for those products?

Luoma: In my experience, the biggest challenge to getting new products or technology into the market is our industry’s inherent reluctance to change. There is a comfort level that forms around what works and is tried-and-true, so to speak.

Change occurs when there is either significant economic benefit to be had (with tolerable risk), the end use requirements change based on codes or policy changes, or the tried-andtrue way of doing things ceases to exist for some reason. I believe all of these things are in play in the next housing recovery.

PW: How is the raw material availability of the wood products that are used for your products?

Luoma: Raw material availability for Engineered Wood Products has been adequate. There is plenty of OSB for I-joist webs. MSR lumber for flanges and veneer for LVL production tend to ebb and flow a bit regionally, but overall both are fairly stable at the current production levels. At 1mm housing starts, EWP production is still relatively low. In my opinion, it won’t take much of a bump in the road on either the demand side or the supply side to cause some disruption here.

PW: Has LP increased production at any of its LVL, I-joist operations?

Is there consideration for new plants being built?

Luoma: We’ve ramped up production as needed to supply the slowly increasing demand. As a result of previous investments made in our EWP business, we still have plenty of capacity in front of each of our product lines so no new major capacity additions are being contemplated at this time.

PW: Are you still seeing significant enhancements in the plant process?

Luoma: I don’t know that we’ll see significant enhancements using current technologies. I do suspect everyone in the industry has ongoing continuous improvement efforts aimed at improving cost, quality, yield and overall output.

PW: You rebuilt your Houlton (Maine) plant for LSL and introduced the product basically in the depth of the recession. How is that product line proceeding in terms of production and marketplace?

Luoma: I have been very pleased with the year-over-year growth of our LSL product line.

The product has been well accepted in the market and we continue having success getting it placed in the right applications where it creates value for our customers.

We still have a lot of capacity available and will be able to respond to whatever the market requires from us.

PW: We’re hearing more about cross laminated timbers in North America. Is LP looking at this?

Luoma: We continue to study Mass Timber construction methods where CLT is used. LP doesn’t produce lumber so the CLT lumber product doesn’t really apply to LP from a manufacturing standpoint.

However, we are very interested in the construction method and the cross lamination technology as it relates to our LSL products.

PW: What are your expectations for the engineered wood products marketplace for the next couple of years?

Luoma: I believe the engineered wood products market is turning the corner, thinking about it from a traditional point of view. I expect housing demand to continue to improve—slowly—and with that I expect the overall performance of the EWP industry to continue to improve.

The industry expanded capacity trying to service the 2mm housing start market in 2005 and then contracted on the way to 500k housing starts in 2009. Now the market is somewhere in between at about 1mm housing starts. The industry has adjusted, but it is hard to say what demand level it is capable of servicing today. We know it’s more than 1mm starts but I’m pretty sure it’s not 2mm. When housing starts do reach the 1.3-1.4mm range in the next couple of years we’ll learn a lot about what the true capability of the industry really is.

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‘AN INTEGRATED MODEL’

EDITOR’S NOTE: Grady Mulbery is vice president, manufacturing, at Oregon-based Roseburg. He oversees all manufacturing facilities throughout the company. Mulbery began his career as a facility manager for Willamette Industries at the Eugene, Ore. MDF facility. He held various management positions at Weyerhaeuser Company from 20022007 and was director of operations at SierraPine. He joined Roseburg as vice president of composites manufacturing in 2011. He currently serves as chairman of the Composite Panel Assn.

PW: Your veneer facility at Weed, Calif. sustained a fire last September 15, but it’s our understanding the company and the community rallied quickly and that the mill is running again.

Mulbery: That was a great company success story. It was handled well by all different functions within

the company especially the people at Weed. We were able to meet our veneer needs and our customers’ needs by moving some people from California up here (to Oregon) to run some lathes that were down to maintain internal veneer supply. We got the Weed facility up and running in three weeks, with the exception of the cogeneration facility, which will be on line in March. This has been a great reflection of the company and the culture of the company.

middle of some automation projects in our plywood group but most them are still several months away from being operable.

PW: What’s the status and pace of your operations in general coming out of the recession?

PW: How does Roseburg approach new product development?

Mulbery: For most of our segments it’s been fairly steady in 2013 and 2014. The big move up happened in the latter part of 2012. Engineered wood continues to be the strongest segment. There tends to be more demand there. The repair and remodel segment has helped us. We’ve been able to run the operations at reasonable capacity. The toughest segment has been particleboard. That’s had the slowest recovery.

PW: Have you done much project upgrade at your plants?

Mulbery: We’ve started doing projects in the last 18 months, more so than in the past five years. A lot of that is deferred maintenance.

Some major projects include some upgrades to our primary breakdown system at the stud mill, an upgrade of our Missoula (Mont.) particleboard plant, where we replaced an old forming line with an existing forming line we had at a facility that we had shut down. We’re in the

PW: What’s the status of the robotics technology that you implemented in certain areas of your operation?

Mulbery: We have several. We utilize them. They still have their function. We continue to work on how to utilize them more efficiently and look at other things we can do with them. But yes we continue to utilize them.

Mulbery: Fundamentally we’re trying to keep things as simple as we can. We try to exploit what we do well. If certain things come along that make sense, something we can adopt from a current product line, we take a look at that in conjunction with sales and technical people and evaluate if that makes sense. Can we make money at it? Is there enough market share? Can we scale it up? Is there anything to work with, operating off our platform, or what does it take to adjust our platform to be able to do something like that? So it’s really a collaborative effort, but we look at it as how can it add value to what we do, knowing what our core business is. We really work hard to try to keep things simple. We have an integrated model which is complex enough.

PW: Roseburg has at times been aggressive with enhancing the culture of the company, while implementing business models such as Lean, performance metrics, team collaboration. What’s required at the manufacturing level for those things to evolve like they should?

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Mulbery: It takes strong plant managers and strong leadership at the sites. We’ve continued down those tracks. We’ve modified certain things. Our focus has been to do the basics well, fundamentally understand the gaps and what we have to do to close them and make sure we have the right people in place with the right tools to make it happen. It’s a continuous work and process to get better. As a former mentor of mine used to say, “you never arrive.” You’re always trying to come up with the next best approach, but we really work hard at empowering our leadership to understand what we need them to go after.

Over the last couple of years we’ve embarked on a team-based collaborative management style.

We’ve implemented that within the different businesses and now we’re at the stage where we’re starting to implement it in some of our operations. It’s having your team leadership commit to directions and decisions and everybody getting on the same page. You have the disagreements behind closed doors, and then once you get a commitment go do it.

That’s been a real focus for us as a company and that transcends into the manufacturing side.

Also we’re putting a whole lot more emphasis on safety performance. Not just going out and trying to hit a number, but making sure we have the right resources, the right tools, and people understanding culturally we need them to work safe, we want them to work safe, so we’ve made a strong effort over the last 18 months to get that message out and make those changes.

PW: How does Roseburg approach finding high quality personnel?

Mulbery: During that four- or five-year swoon a lot of the talent in our industry left or retired from it.

As we look forward, we recruit and hire the best talent we can, but we also embark heavily on internally developing people. Fundamentally we’ve started doing several different things to develop younger people over time. That’s been a real concerted effort. Especially as you look long-term, we’ve just got to develop our own.

PW: How does Roseburg maintain leadership positions in so many product segments?

Mulbery: We’ve got an integrated model. We’ve got internal log supply and our goal is to add value to that.

We have a higher margin product portfolio for the most part and we try and spend our energy there.

In everything we do, we strive to be a top quartile performer—making sure that our (manufacturing) operations are as competitive as possible.

How can we automate things, how can we get more efficient? What type of projects can we look at that can really advance us, realizing that we’re competing globally with several of our segments? Additionally, with the currency dynamics, that pressure is only increasing.

PW: What is your perception of today’s particleboard industry? Any product trends developing?

Mulbery: It’s been the slowest segment to recover since the great recession. It’s still a very tough business. There’s plenty of supply.

But it has gotten better since the bottom of the downturn. It’s a large

portfolio business for us. We have a tremendous amount of melamine capacity that goes with it. We have very strong positions in both PB and melamine in North America. We restructured back in 2011 and 2012 and we believe the segment will continue to get better and we’re positioned to do well in it.

Regarding product trends, there continues to be slow movement toward lighter weight products. This is one trend that I think will continue and likely accelerate given the continuing shift in furniture markets to lighter weight products. Additionally, freight continues to be such a large part of the delivered cost to a customer.

PW: Are you optimistic about your engineered wood products business?

Mulbery: Everybody is optimistic that it still has a long term upside. It’s continues to have fairly good growth coming out of this downturn. It continues to have good growth numbers relative to other product segments. We’ve done some internal automation projects for efficiencies that will benefit us as we go forward.

PW: Does Roseburg have an interest in cross laminated timber?

Mulbery: We’re not active in the segment. We monitor it and pay attention to what’s going on there. It will be interesting to see how well it gets off the ground and what it turns in to. We’re of the opinion that time PW will tell.

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Top motivation includes boosting efficiency to stay competitive and catching up on deferred projects and investments.

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Equipment suppliers and fabricators are staying busy as panel producers seek to reinvest in their operations.

PANEL PLANTS SEEK TO REINVEST AS MARKETS STAY STRONG A brightening housing market and a solid year or more of strong pricing are leading more panel producers to plan and schedule capital improvements.

BY DAN SHELL

everal years of improving markets and a solid housing market recovery have put the panel industry in a capital improvement mode as producers have moved from a “survival” to an “upgrade and expand” operating stance.

A few big projects are currently gathering headlines: ● Construction of the new Winston Plywood & Veneer plant in Louisville, Miss. on the site of a former G-P plywood plant. The new facility is scheduled to start up in 2016 as a specialty and commodity panel producer that will eventually push 400MMSF in annual production. ● Martco’s new east Texas OSB plant (confirmed by everyone in industry except Martco, apparently). The only true greenfield structural panel plant currently in the works in the U.S., the $235 million facility is scheduled to produce 800MMSF. ● Georgia-Pacific’s extensive and ongoing $400 million capital improvements program for both panel and lumber plants that was announced in spring 2013. Projects announced so far include a $65 million investment in drying capacity, wood yard replacement, lathe upgrade and glue line and press expansions at G-P’s Madison, Ga. plywood plant, plus a $6 million investment in the Thorsby, Ala. LVL plant. ● Swanson Group’s recently announced commitment to rebuild its Springfield, Ore. veneer and plywood plant that was destroyed by fire in July 2014 (see page 6). A key player in specialty panel markets that also produced some sheathing, the plant produced more than 150MMSF annually before the fire. According to news reports, the new plant will be much like the old one with a peeling line, two dryers and layup systems oriented toward overlay production.

However, there are plenty of other projects in the works and on the drawing board, says Dave Larecy, President of Con-Vey. “We are seeing a big upswing in capital equipment purchases for 2015, and we believe 2015 and 2016 will be very good years for capital equipment upgrades,” he says, adding that last year’s project quoting activity for his company was even busier than the heyday years of 2004-2005 prior to the downturn.

Larecy notes that the recent downturn has companies in less of a rush into cap-

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ital projects, taking a bit more time and doing more due diligence—and some larger companies likely have fewer internal resources to handle as many projects as before the downturn, he says.

Even so, Con-Vey remains quite optimistic: “Most of the projects we are working on are upgrades both small and very large to existing mills. Many of these mills have not invested over the last few years so we are replacing machine centers that are worn out or upgrading a complete system that has many years of service and needs to be brought up to date,” Larecy says.

The projects Con-Vey is seeing range from potential customers looking for improved production efficiency, minimizing downtime, eliminating downgrade and improving safety and ease of maintenance. Larecy adds that most of the projects Con-Vey is quoting are in the structural panel product segment in plywood and OSB, but also LVL and Ijoist plants.

As a systems partner for Kuka Robotics and a preferred integrator for Kawasaki Robotics, Con-Vey is also seeing more integrated automation projects, Larecy says. “We are quoting robotics and other highly automated equipment for a wide variety of products. I think our customers see applications where they can use the technology to get the gains they want in efficiency and safety and at the same time get help in dealing with an aging or shrinking workforce.”

As a key component supplier that serves all panel industry segments, Flamex President Alan Wagner says he’s “optimistic and encouraged by an uptick in interest in bringing mills up to snuff on fire protection.”

Wagner adds that the renewed activity is bolstered not only by recent fire incidents in the news but also the value of a fire prevention systems in reducing downtime and boosting overall productivity while also scoring points with insurance providers and local fire authorities.

“We’re seeing more people looking to get their house in order,” Wagner says, noting good interest in the Flamex Mini-Fog water mist system designed for board presses.

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OSB plant production.

“We have multiple upgrade and replacement projects in process in the OSB industry for emissions controls,” Deemer says. “The common themes are increasing reliability or increasing dryer throughput, which means more air is sent to the pollution control systems.”

Deemer adds that there are also more than a few inquiries for complete replacement of older systems. “It feels like the industry overall is coming back, but it certainly hasn’t returned to the early 2000s level,” he says.

PLYWOOD FOCUS Across the plywood, veneer and LVL segments, Sweed Machinery Chief Operating Officer and Director of Engineering Panel plants in many cases are seeking more sophisticated monitoring and control systems.

Tyler Casebeer says the company has been busy for several years, “and we don’t see any let up at smart phone are also drawing lots of infor Geoenergy products at Lundberg, all in that this year.” He adds, “2015 is terest, he says. says his company is receiving a good shaping up to be a good year.”

Looking at the OSB segment, Jaymie amount of inquiries—and also doing In addition to quoting new installaDeemer, Market Development Manager multiple projects—related to improving

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tions for Sweed’s popular dryer infeed and outfeed systems, “We’re also doing a fair share of upgrades on older equipment,” Casebeer says. “We have systems in operation that go back as far as the 1970s, so there’s a lot of activity there.”

Casebeer notes that Sweed is making the most of the current increased level of panel plant reinvestment to re-introduce the company’s panel handling and veneer stacking systems.

“We’ve always prided ourselves on customer relations after the sale, and

we’re very effective working with customers to help solve problems,” Casebeer says, noting that panel and veneer handling systems were traditionally key Sweed products, and a new generation is now being “reinvented.”

Sweed has plenty of history with such products, “and we’re looking for opportunities to help our customers,” Casebeer adds.

Don MacHarg, Grenzebach Veneer/Plywood Sales Manager, says he’s seeing a “fair amount” of planned

capital improvements in Southern U.S. plywood plants, although he adds that with strong prices of the recent past producers are finding it hard to schedule downtime for extensive projects.

“Housing has stayed strong, and the plants that are up and running are running full out,” MacHarg adds, noting that dryer rebuilds are scheduled carefully to minimize downtime. In addition to modernizing an existing dryer to make it more efficient, many customers are adding new technology and features, such as humidity controls and fan vibration analysis, he says.

“I think we’ll see more new dryers going in if the economy stays good,” MacHarg continues. “There are a lot of 40-year-old dryers out there.”

MacHarg notes there’s plenty of “money to be made” in upgrading dryers, whether it’s a complete new dryer system or well-targeted smaller investment in an existing dryer.

“Even $100,000 in the right place can really improve things, and the quicker the ROI the better,” MacHarg says. He adds that more than a few producers are beginning to shift from an “if the market stays good” approach to green-lighting improvement projects to pulling the trigger and beginning to actively plan them.

Alan Knokey, USNR Panel Sales Manager, says that in the softwood plywood sector, dryers should continue to attract the lion’s share of capital project dollars.

Last year was a good year for plywood—with Southern plywood reaching a record average dollars per MMSF sales price in 2014. After such a good sales year, those producers are looking to reinvest in areas with the most payback potential, and dryers are the top destination, Knokey believes.

“In a plywood plant, much of the technology isn’t that revolutionary: scanning, feeding, driving logs and pulling veneer,” he adds. “Investing in those areas you can pull your profit up a few percentage points, but a new dryer can boost profits 10% or more.”

Citing multiple dryer projects the past three years, Knokey says roughly 3 billion SF of veneer drying capacity switched from old to new dryers, and in those projects six new dryers replaced 17 old ones.

“Dryers are the most expensive part of a plywood plant and have more environmental, energy and labor issues than other areas, and years ago adding another dryer meant adding 14 or so people,”

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Capital projects that provide short-term ROI are popular.

Knokey says. “Now, the new big super dryers offer huge cost savings through better controls and better thermal efficiency in less floor space.”

Noting a great USNR panel division sales effort during the last quarter of 2014—led by a large order from the

new Winston Plywood & Veneer plant in Mississippi—Knokey says he’s looking for strong plywood production growth through 2016.

“I think dryers are going to be a big area of investment the next four or five PW years,” he says.

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PROJECTS MURPHY STARTS UP NEW DRYER LINE

Murphy Co. has installed a Raute dryer line at its softwood veneer mill in White City, Ore. Murphy Co. has been operating a Raute line at its LVL plant in Sutherlin, Ore. Both systems rely on high humidity drying; however, the heating system is gas burner in the new dryer at White City, compared to hot oil at Sutherlin.

Raute reports that from signing the contract to filling containers took six months, followed by module delivery and mechanical installation of 12 weeks, and the commissioning phase and first full production run in three weeks. After seven weeks, the Mecano VDA-S defect detection vision system and MVA moisture detection system were realized and three shift production began.

The line includes a Raute 12 bin dry veneer stacker and Metriguard grading system. The stacking system was manu-

factured in Delta, BC, while the dryer was built in Shanghai.

The dryer scope is three sheets wide, 20 hot cells and three cooling cells. The line runs Allen-Bradley ControlLogix PLC and Wonderware (HMI).

BRAZIL’S ASPERBRAS ORDERS MDF PLANT

New vision measurement and dryer installation at Murphy Co. in White City, Ore.

Asperbras ordered for its Água Claral, Brazil site a complete MDF plant with a contract value of 67 million euro.

Siempelkamp will supply all components ranging from engineering to steel construction, fiber preparation, and forming and press line to the finishing equipment. Siempelkamp will also supply an energy plant, a short-cycle press line as well as an evaporation plant for the water treatment.

Planning and engineering will be conducted by Siempelkamp subsidiary Sicoplan in Belgium. The fiber dryer with a dry material throughput of 23 t/h as well as the 42 MW energy plant will

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PROJECTS

be supplied by the Siempelkamp subsidiary Büttner.

Siempelkamp will manufacture the resin preparation and dosing system including an Ecoresinator for fibers as well as a forming and press line with 9 ft. x 27.1 m ContiRoll continuous press.

The prepress and the finishing line with double diagonal saw, cooling turners, intermediate board storage, sanding machines, dividing saw and packing equipment will be supplied and assembled by Siempelkamp.

The order includes a short-cycle press for surface lamination of finished boards.

An evaporation facility for the water treatment and a refiner are also part of the project. Automation technology for the complete plant is SicoScan and Prod-IQ.

ARAUCO ANNOUNCES P’BOARD EXPANSION Arauco is investing $30 million to expand particleboard and TFL (thermally fused laminate/melamine) capacity

for its Carolina Particleboard Mill in Bennettsville, SC. The particleboard expansion, with a scheduled startup in the fourth quarter of this year, will increase production by 60MMSF (¾ in. basis or 100,000 m3) annually through increased dryer capacity. This project will also improve the plant’s flexibility to source a broader range of raw material in response to regional changes in the wood supply mix.

To complement the panel expansion, Arauco is also investing in a next generation fast-cycle press for TFL production, which is also scheduled to start in the fourth quarter. The new installation will add to the three existing fast-cycle TFL presses in the region.

The new line will further equip the particleboard and MDF site with a state-of-the-art press featuring higher throughput, faster changeover capabilities, higher pressure for deep textures and paper alignment technology for registered emboss designs. The company’s goal with these investments is to

meet the growing demand for particleboard, and to broaden its TFL design offering in the region.

“These capacity and value-add investments translate into improved product sourcing options for our customers, and in turn generate additional longterm jobs for this manufacturing complex and the Bennettsville community at large,” states Mike Reardon, Regional Manufacturing Director.

YORK TIMBERS UPGRADES LAYUP York Timbers is investing in a USNR automated layup line for its plywood manufacturing plant at Sabie, South Africa. This new line is part of a major expansion York is undertaking to automate its process, manufacturing high value pine veneer into plywood panels of up to 9 plys. York is a major producer based in South Africa, with its focus on a wide range of solid and engineered wood products for its markets.

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WESTMILL KICKS OFF ANNIVERSARY YEAR

vices. Parts are available from warehouses in Oregon, Georgia and British Columbia. Visit westmill.com.

NEW GENERATION OF ROLLER DRYERS

Westmill dryer at southern pine mill

Westmill is celebrating its 40th year this year, expecting to continue the momentum from last year when it installed a third jet dryer for a southern pine plywood producer, following successful installations and startups of the first two.

The new Westmill 20 hot section dryer includes Westmill infeeds, outfeeds, PLC control and the new (patents pending) WestVac Dryer Emission Control & Seal System.

Westmill designers are innovators who are constantly striving to build the best veneer dryer for today’s market, carefully listening to customers’ needs, remaining committed to its customers long after the sale.

“Many features that are optional with other manufacturers are standard equipment on a Westmill dryer system,” the company states. “Robust design, modular components and decades of experience provide mill owners with veneer dryers that offer years of production and minimum maintenance expenses.”

To ensure durability, stainless steel panels are standard inside and out for all dryer systems. Westmill’s patented articulating door and hardware are designed for greater efficiency, easy installation and the best door seal possible.

Serving the panel board industry since 1975, Westmill, based in Aldergrove, BC, provides new veneer dryers and rebuilds every make and model of existing dryers. Westmill has an extensive inventory of parts to service and supply all makes and models of dryers. Westmill provides consulting, equipment layout and engineering ser-

The features of Grenzebach’s new generation of modular roller dryers, the Thermojet Novaroll 4000, reflect the company’s extensive experience gained during its long history in the field of drying highest quality peeled veneer.

In response to the needs of the plywood industry, Grenzebach has brought together all time-tested and proven features of its equipment sold to customers all over the world and combined them into a new dryer for best results in stateof-the art veneer drying.

Grenzebach dryer with automatic feeder

Grenzebach has optimized the drying process itself by means of flow-optimized air distribution zones and a better balanced air volume over all decks to obtain more uniform drying results. Heating surfaces made to a new design provide enhanced thermal efficiency and reduced pressure losses.

The result is a higher drying capacity at lower energy consumption, and a high quality final product.

The entire dryer skin itself, from the seal welded insulated floor up to the seal welded upper duct, is made of aluminized sheet metal. The same material is used for the floating skin type dryer doors. Each of these access doors extends over an entire section. It can be opened with one hand and features a special door hinge design. The door seals are fixed to the frame and consist of a flexible stainless steel construction covered with Kevlar reinforced fabric.

Soft bends instead of sharp 90 degree corners ensure a long lasting and perfect sealing effect.

In combination with the thick insulation, this well-engineered system ensures minimum heat losses and fast, homogeneous heat-up times. The dryer rail system is simply bolted to the flat concrete floor—there is no need for a special foundation. The special rail guiding system ensures a uniform thermal expansion of the dryer throughout its entire lifetime.

To solve the problems of condensation and resinification, Grenzebach has developed infeed and outfeed air lock systems as well as a fresh air preheating device. In combination with the right insulation, these devices ensure that there will be no condensation on the hot wall between the air locks and the dryer.

Simple and well-designed parts produced using laser cutting and bending technology provide for easier access, easier cleaning and reduced maintenance for the whole dryer system.

This new generation of roller track dryers features excellent reliability, minimized downtimes and highest final product quality for which all Grenzebach systems stand out. Each modular dryer section is 2.25 m long.

These modules are combined to obtain the required dryer length.

Four, six or eight deck dryers with a working width of 4 m, 4.8 m, 5 m, 5.8 m and 6.2 m are available. Visit grenzebach.com.

DOMOTEX FLOOR SHOW MARCH 24-26 The floor covering industry will meet in Shanghai to see the hottest new products and innovations in Asian floorings at DOMOTEX asia/CHINAFLOOR March 24-26.

As one of the fastest developing and most dynamic regions in the world, Asia is the hub of growing markets with enormous demand for flooring products.

DOMOTEX asia/CHINAFLOOR is the place to explore this market and make professional connections.

Shanghai is where the industry sees the latest flooring products trends in Asia and beyond. Both Asian and Western exhibitors from around the world are bringing their new and innovative products and flooring solutions.

Country pavilions from machine-

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LINES made carpet producing countries such as Belgium, China, Germany, USA, The Netherlands, along with individual exhibitors from other countries such as Turkey, Egypt, etc. will exhibit their outstanding products in the international carpet flooring hall W1.

It will take four halls (E1-E4) to contain the DOMOTEX asia/CHINAFLOOR wood sector—the largest wood and laminate products show in the world.

A sampling of DOMOTEX asia/CHINAFLOOR 2015 Wood & Laminate exhibitors: USA Pavilion (National Wood Flooring Assn. and American Hardwood Export Council), Anji Pavilion, Changzhou Pavilion, Nature, Sunyard, Parador, A&W, Kronoswiss, Beaulieu, Egger, Lamett, Berry Alloc, SE Timber, Dasso, Kindle, Yihua, Jinqiao, Lodgi, BBL, Jinlong, Youyu.

The online registration portal for the 17th edition of DOMOTEX asia/CHINAFLOOR is open at www.domotex asiachinafloor.com. Admittance for pre-registered visitors is free.

IMAL-PAL PLAN WOODMAC DISPLAY IMAL-PAL Group is renowned for designing equipment and systems that can increase capacity, reduce direct material costs, and improve product quality in the field of primary panel production, all of which are top priorities for manufacturers today.

DynaSteam, a small prepress which injects saturated steam into the mat resulting in inIMAL-PAL Dynasteam prepress creased press throughput of up to 25%, will be showcased at WoodMac China 2015. Also emphation to the PAL range, the Cyclops, casized will be the FBC100, which is capable of removing all kinds of pollupable of monitoring 100% of the tants (plastic, PVC, metals). board’s surface for blisters and/or deThese are just some of the interestlamination defects. ing new products that the IMAL-PAL PAL has continued to focus on partiGroup will be offering its customers at cle preparation in both the wet and dry this year’s edition of WoodMac March area with fresh and recycled wood. In11-14 at the Shanghai New Internatense and ongoing PAL R&D activity tional Expo Centre. Visit Hall E1, has led to the design of the latest addiStand 1B41.

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MOMENTIVE CHANGES NAME TO HEXION Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. changed its name to Hexion Inc., effective January 15.

“We are pleased to leverage the rich legacy of the Hexion name, which already has significant name recognition in the marketplace, and believe it better aligns with our company heritage,” says Craig Morrison, Chairman, President and CEO. Momentive Specialty Chemicals completed or announced a number of strategic growth initiatives in 2014, including the acquisition of an oilfield facility in Shreveport, La.; a new epoxy resin and curing agent production facility in Itatiba, Brazil; a phenolic specialty resins joint venture manufacturing facility in China, which is expected to be operational in the fourth quarter of this year; and three formaldehyde facilities, which are expected come online in late 2015 and 2016.

SIEMPELKAMP FOCUSES ON TWO DISPLAYS

Infeed area of ContiRoll press for laminated beech veneer lumber

Siempelkamp will once again exhibit at WoodMac China in Shanghai on March 11-14. The Krefeld, Germany machine builder will present two product innovations: the mat preheater Conti Booster and the ContiRoll continuous press for laminated beech veneer lumber.

With Conti Booster, plant operators achieve up to 20% higher output for the production of particleboard, MDF and OSB. The intermediate belt in the infeed area of the press is replaced with a steam-permeable screen belt. The steam distributors, which are mounted above and below the screen belt, inject up to 400 kg/h of saturated steam with a temperature ranging between 100 and 130

LINES °C into each side of the mat. Thus, the board’s surface layer is heated and moistened. In this way, plant operators can do without mat spraying prior to the mat entering the press.

Siempelkamp is setting another milestone with a fully automatic press line for laminated beech veneer lumber.

Laminated veneer lumber (LVL) consists of peeled veneer approximately 3 mm thick and is used for the manufacture of joists, beams and panels in the construction industry.The ContiRoll Generation 8 is characterized by its uniform pressure distribution by means of pressure distribution plates. Siempelkamp’s double diagonal saw combination is designed to be used with this innovative product.

FAMILIAR FACES JOIN RAUTE CANADA Raute Canada Ltd., a world leader in the engineered wood machinery industry, announced the addition of two regional sales managers.

Paul Phillips joins Raute as the Regional Sales Manager of the U.S. South.

He brings with him more than 30 years of experience supporting the wood products industry through machinery manufacturing, environmental control equipment supply and systems installation and extensive knowledge of the market in this key regional area.

Barry McCallister has been promoted from his current role at Raute to Regional Sales Manager, Pacific Northwest. He brings with him 25 years of experience in sales as well as a technical background of wood processing machinery. McCallister has a unique history with Raute as he has had hands-on experience building and working with Raute machinery and Raute clients in the field, which makes him especially proficient in Raute products and services.

“We are elated to be able to round out our sales team with two experienced sales managers that possess diverse talents and technical skills,” says Martin Murphy, Senior Vice President. “Raute has been on a strategic path to improve our wide range of technical services.

Having both Paul and Barry working with us will help to meet Raute’s business objectives and exceed our growth expectations.”

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Oregon State University has begun an initiative to build a $60 million complex to accelerate its forestry education programs and research on advanced wood products at Corvallis, Ore. The Oregon Forest Science Complex will encompass renovation of existing OSU campus facilities as well as new construction; showcase innovative uses of wood in building design; and allow the College of Forestry to help meet the world’s growing demand for energy efficient, tall buildings made from sustainable building products.

The project includes a $30 million fundraising goal. Once philanthropic commitments are secured, OSU will seek matching bonds from the state. Bonding for the project was included in the governor’s capital budget for consideration in the upcoming legislative session.

The initiative was announced in Portland at the Oregon Leadership Summit

of the Oregon Business Plan by Thomas Maness, the Cheryl Ramberg Ford and Allyn C. Ford Dean of the College of Forestry.

“We are excited about leading a new national effort to advance the science and technology necessary to primarily use wood in the construction of 5- to 20-story buildings,” Maness says. “Developing these new, competitively priced, environmentally friendly products will not only increase the value of Oregon’s natural resources, but also grow jobs in our rural communities, with substantial benefits for our state.”

Seeking new methods to reduce the carbon footprint of high-rise construction, architects and engineers from Austria to Canada, Norway and New Zealand have begun constructing buildings with exceptionally strong wood products. This cross-laminated timber is made of strips of wood glued together across the grain, and panels can be more than 1 foot thick and 80 feet long.

OSU already is a global leader in de-

veloping adhesives and manufacturing techniques for engineered wood products.

The Oregon Forest Science Complex will boost the university’s applied research efforts with a new Advanced Wood Products Laboratory. Envisioned as a 25,000 sq. ft. facility, it will include computer controlled and robotic manufacturing systems, plus a pilot plant designed as a learning laboratory for students.

The project also will create a lifesized example of what can be done with advanced wood products through a renovation of the College of Forestry’s main academic facility, Peavy Hall.

New space is needed to serve OSU’s growing numbers of undergraduate and graduate forestry students. Over the last decade the College of Forestry’s enrollment has nearly doubled to about 1,000 students, and to meet high demand for trained forestry professionals, OSU plans to further increase enrollment to 2,000.

Fundraising for the Oregon Forest Science Complex will be led by the Oregon State University Foundation.

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The foundation recently concluded The Campaign for OSU, in which more than 106,000 donors made gifts exceeding $1.1 billion.

MARTCO LAUNCHES SAFETY CAMPAIGN RoyOMartin has launched a six-month, company-wide campaign to increase safety awareness among employees and their family members. Coming on the heels of the organization’s safest year in its 91year history, 2014, this campaign, titled “I Believe in Zero,” strengthens executive leadership’s continued commitment to striving for a workplace with zero injuries. With one of the lowest total incident rates in the wood-products manufacturing industry, RoyOMartin has received national recognition by various industry groups for its employee safety, health and wellness programs.

“The idea behind ‘I Believe in Zero’ is to focus on the personal responsibility factor of our safety culture,” says Roy-

OMartin Senior Vice President and COO Scott Poole. “While teamwork and the buddy system are essential to an effective safety program, we must each believe that it is our individual responsibility to take the necessary steps to follow safety precautions—both at work and at home—and otherwise stay safe.”

Throughout the next six months, RoyOMartin employees and family members will be exposed to a variety of multimedia communications designed to reinforce the message that all injuries can be prevented. Keys to this program’s success will include the personal commitment of each team member, as well as increased near-miss reporting, performing quality safety audits and making daily safety contacts at each RoyOMartin operation.

NEW CPA OFFICERS TAKE PLACES The 2015 officers of the Composite Panel Assn. Board of Directors started their terms, including Grady Mulbery of

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Roseburg as Chairman; Steve Stoler of Boise Cascade as Vice Chairman; and Emilio Ayub of Duraplay as Secretary/Treasurer. Kelly Shotbolt of Arauco North America completed his term as chairman in 2014 and now serves as Immediate Past Chairman.

Mulbery has appointed an Executive Search Committee to conduct the search for the new association president. The committee includes the current CPA officers; past CPA chairman and Board Member Elliott Savage of Seemac, Inc.; as well as Jeannie Ervin and Gary Heroux from CPA staff.

The committee intends to fill the position prior to the CPA Spring Meeting in late May.

CONTACT INDUSTRIES NAMES PRESIDENT Contact Industries, Clackamus, Ore., has expanded its management team with the hire of John Ferry as president.

Ferry is charged with overseeing day-

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to-day operations of the engineered wood products company while former president, Frank Pearson, steps into a newly created CEO role and focuses on longer term strategies.

Ferry brings more than 20 years of senior management experience to Contact, having held president and CFO roles at a number of companies in the U.S. and the United Kingdom.

Contact Industries has a 500,000+ sq. ft. manufacturing facility in Prineville, Ore., and is a leader in veneer profile wrapping, a sustainable and resource-efficient process for adhering real wood veneers to a wide range of building components. Its headquarters, including sales and marketing, is based in Clackamas.

While Ferry focuses on working to grow the business in key industry segments and enhance manufacturing efficiencies, Pearson will be turning attention to longer term strategies for growth, including new product development and prospective new market initiatives.

SWANSON FOUNDED SUPERIOR LUMBER Rodney Gale Swanson, who cofounded Oregon-based Superior Lumber (now Swanson Group, Inc.), died January 16. He was 91.

Swanson was born in 1923 in Santa Clara, Ore. His father, Helga, started Swanson & May Lumber Co. at Noti, Ore. in 1937, an experience which helped to prepare Swanson in his future endeavors.

In 1943 he joined the Army, leaving his studies at the University of Oregon, to get into WWII. He was a light machine gunner for the year he was overseas, often driving the company jeep hoarding his rations under his seat.

While stationed in France he met and married his first wife, Olesia. He left the Army in 1946, receiving two Bronze Stars for his service in Europe.

Upon returning to the United States, he earned his Chemical Engineer Degree at OSU, built a few houses with his

brother to earn extra money, and started his family. In 1951 he founded Superior Lumber Co. (now Swanson Group, Inc.) in Glendale, Ore. with two of his brothers. Rod and his brother Dean would continue to run that company for the rest of their working days.

In 1988 Rod married his second wife and adopted her children. Papa Rod, as he was called, had a great sense of adventure. He was a pilot for a number of years, he sailed the world in a sailboat and later a powerboat, crossing the Atlantic twice and going through the Panama Canal numerous times. He was an avid traveler visiting all of Europe as well as Africa, China, India and Russia.

He is survived by his wife, six children, 17 grandchildren, and 14 greatgrandchildren. Donations can be made to Alzheimer’s Assn. of Oregon, 1650 NW Naito Parkway Suite 190, Portland OR 97209 or Oregon Commission for the Blind, 228 North Holly St., Medford, OR 97501.

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T BABBITT SYSTEM

Kinetic introduces an easy-to-use lathe blade height adjustment system called the T Babbitt System. This patent pending technology is made to reduce or eliminate the need for hot babbitts and special tools to adjust lathe blade heights after regrinding. The T Babbitt System allows decreased blade setup times as well as increased safety in the grind rooms by eliminating the need to use hot babbitt. If you have ever worked around hot babbitt pots, you are well aware of the dangers and how quickly an accident can happen.

The “T” allows you to reset knife heights as easy as 1, 2, 3!

The patent pending T slot is made to allow fast and accurate height positioning using the conventional tools already in your grind room. Using your current babbitt table, find the correct height that is needed for the reground blade set, slide the T to the required height position, and tighten. Repeat throughout the blade’s usable lifespan. The T’s are reusable under normal conditions, so when the blade is discarded the T can be removed for use on your other blades.

Once the T Babbitt System is set to the size needed for the lathe, it will not shrink or move. The system has been tested at major plywood mills and found to be reliable and simple to use.

This system is one more way of helping customers run safer, greener and more cost efficiently by eliminating the need for nickel babbitt and its accessories. Visit knifemaker.com.

LOGSTACKER

“The L60 is a dream machine,” claims Graham Wylie, National Fleet and Sales Manager for C3 Limited of New Zealand.

Wagner’s new focus on safety and ease of maintenance has drawn interest from log yards around the world. Wagner, a division of Allied Systems Company, has been manufacturing specialized mobile equipment for the timber, pulp, steel and power utility industries since the 1930s. All machines are designed and manufactured in the U.S. at Allied’s 250,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility south of Portland, Ore. The Wagner Logstacker has been the backbone of some of the industry’s largest log yard operations. Recent shifts in the industry have created a need for a smaller, more agile machines to handle cut-to-length logs. Customers demanded a machine able to outperform anything else on the market.

Rather than simply responding with a re-sized machine, Wagner accepted the challenge and took this opportunity to survey operators, maintenance crew and customers to design a ma-

chine that addresses all of their needs.

Lighted stairway access and clear walkways around the machine provide for drastically improved access and safety. The new L60 allows all major maintenance to occur from the standing position using ground level service bays. The pressure check indicator allows quick troubleshooting of the six major hydraulic systems with the push of a button. Upgraded vehicle monitoring system allows plant managers to view realtime location, speed and fuel efficiency among 18 reporting parameters remotely from any computer, tablet or smartphone.

Operator comfort is also a key differentiator; the Wagner L60 is the only machine in its class with a rotating operator’s platform.

Coupled with the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership driven by low fuel consumption, long tire life, and proven Wagner durability, these new features provide a value-laden, purpose-built solution that operators and owners will appreciate.

The whole project has been customer driven with great feedback. The process has been so successful that even before the first machine is delivered a second is on the production line cementing the commitment to Allied on this new endeavor. Visit alliedsystems.com.

LOG LOAD SCANNER

At the end of 2014, Woodtech presented to the management team of West Fraser the results of a test that compared the accuracy of the Logmeter loaded log truck scanning system (installed in Newberry, SC) versus manual measurements taken at the weigh scale and the rollout area of several variables such as stem count and average log length per load, log SED and LED. Results were excellent in detecting small tops and butts and identifying logs with sweep automatically and accurately, according to Woodtech; and the Logmeter was more consistent with less variability and significantly less time consuming than scale operators in log count and average length per load.

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logs on the truck while it goes through the laser curtain of the scanning system. For each load entering the mill, the Logmeter provides the number and type of defective logs, diameter and length averages and distributions, volume and number of logs per load. The Logmeter includes a comprehensive auditing system that allows managers to analyze log data and images, identify trends, rank log suppliers, avoid fraud, etc. Logmeter database can be integrated to the client log accounting, inventory and procurement systems.

Compared to the actual values measured at rollout, the average log length per load calculated by the Logmeter was within 10% in all loads and 7% in 90% of the log loads. The Logmeter stem count per load was within 17% in 95% of the loads.

West Fraser has started testing the Logmeter system in a preliminary operative mode with the intention of getting used to the information provided, its interface and auditing system. In addition, operators are being trained to detect and mark on the PC screen visual log defects such as cat face, knots, etc. using the log pictures the system captures which complement the automatic measurements and defect detections provided by the scanners.

Based on the test results of the logs received at Newberry, the average percentage of logs per load detected and scanned by this Logmeter model is in the order of 65% for butts (scanning more than 70% of the log butts in 60% of the loads received), 60% for tops (scanning more than 70% of the log tops

in 40% of the loads) and 50% for length.

Official date for operation was agreed to be the beginning of February 2015 when the system will be fully customized according to West Fraser’s IT systems, log specifications, etc. The impact of this technology is realized in increased efficiencies, recovery and profitability of the operation. Visit woodtechms.com.

DRYER EMISSION CONTROL

Westmill offers the WestVac Dryer Emission Control System (patent pending) for use with new and existing veneer jet dryers. The WestVac system is proven to control emissions from escaping end-walls while increasing veneer dryer production and reducing energy consumption.

The WestVac Dryer Emission Control System increases the humidity level inside the dryer for better dry-veneer quality and energy savings. This is accomplished via the system’s ReIntro-Duct which draws any escaped heat-energy, VOCs or humid gases back into the drying chamber by way of the main circulation fans. The amount of vacuum in the system is adjustable and can be operated automatically or manually.

The WestVac is successfully operating in seven dryer installations across North America. It is designed for easy and inexpensive installation on new or existing jet dryers. Benefits include: increased dryer production, greatly improved veneer quality, reduced energy consumption, reduced risk of fires, in-

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creased dryer humidity ratio, reduced in-plant emissions.

The WestVac system costs nothing to operate. It does not require constant operation of an auxiliary fan to draw the emissions from the dryers’ seal chamber and it does not need an additional heat source to keep pitch from building up inside the dryer exhaust system.

The Re-Intro-Duct connects directly to the main circulation fans inside the dryer. An improved Roll Baffle design provides an effective seal against the rotating dryer roll to seal the end of the dryer. The WestVac can be controlled three ways: manual control, stand-alone control, integrated control with Westmill’s PLC dryer control system. Visit westmill.com.

OPPOSED HEAD SANDER SERIES

For more than 60 years, Costa Levigatrici S.p.A. has manufactured industrial sanding equipment. Today Costa reports it is is the world’s largest manufacturer of industrial sanders for wood, solid surface, plastics and metal products.

Building on the 60+ years of experience manufacturing industrial calibrating, sanding and polishing equipment, Costa’s KK10/11 large panel series machines continue a tradition of rugged world class machinery that made Costa an industry leader. These “extreme duty” opposed head solutions are engineered and manufactured to the highest quality standards, in modular frames, with the right combination of working units, motors and feed speeds that best fits the industrial process for today and tomorrow. Visit panels.costasanders.com.

DIEFFENBACHER, SWPM TEAM UP

Dieffenbacher will be featuring its new concept for particleboard and MDF plants specialized for small capacities at this year’s Dubai International Wood & Wood Machinery Show scheduled April 14-16 at the Dubai World Trade Centre.

The Dieffenbacher Group will present its new and complete package for particleboard and MDF plants together with its subsidiary SWPM, China. The new concept is specially designed for the needs of small plants in the order of 250 to 300 m3 of wood-based panels a day. Built on the same basis, using the same technology, and offering the same benefits as large plants, it is the perfect product for low capacities.

The individual components are produced by Dieffenbacher in Germany and SWPM in China. Particularly complex parts are manufactured in a highly automated process in Germany, while the Shanghai production site produces in particular labor-intensive and heavy parts with a high steel content. No matter on which production site worldwide, Dieffenbacher ensures that highest quality standards are always met.

Dieffenbacher’s emphasis is on cost savings and working with its customers to achieve the highest efficiency of plant operation, supporting the development of their business as well as offering advice on technical matters. The fully automated concept guarantees high-tech equipment and 24/7 support.

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VENEER/PANEL SUPPLIERS DIRECTORY ■ India

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M P VENEERS, INDIA “Teak People”

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www.smartbamboo.com Premium quality bamboo veneer & panel FSC certified in 2009 Bamboo Veneer

– European fleece and glue – 4x8, 4x10 and custom cut – Thick veneer available Bamboo – Traditional and Density bamboo Panel – 8, 10, 13 length and custom cut – Many colors and patterns available Hangzhou Smart Bamboo Products Co., Ltd. Email: bhe@smartbamboo.com smartbamboo@ymail.com

Shanghai Lion Wood “Providing Industry Co., Ltd. Value & Cost

• High Grade Hardwood Plywood Savings With – HPVA Grading, All species, NAUF, High Quality Products” CARB, UV, FSC – Whole Pc X Bands, Composed Core – 1/8" - 1-1/2" Thickness: 6', 7', 8', 9' & 10' Lengths • Platforms – VC, MDF xBanded VC, FSC • Paper Laminated Plywood • Veneer Edge Banding – up to 3.0mm – UV Contact U.S. Direct Sales Agent Industrial Wood Products Inc. • Tel: 703-435-6486 Fax: 703-435-6489 • mlubina@iwpwood.com

Manufacturer of TEAK sliced veneers • In clipped and Bundled 0.5 to 2.5 mm • Spliced Faces 0.5 to 1.4 mm • Panel Size : 50” x 99”/123” and Counter front or any size required.

FEQ TEAK LUMBER – Rough & Random Sawn OR Even Quarter Sawn on Edge or Face Teak Decking S4S - QTR - 9mmx36mm; 10mm x 48mm or any size required Thickness 3/4 to 12/4 Phone: +91 755 246 1243 • Fax: +91 755 246 8197 Website: www.mpveneers.com Email: exports@mpveneers.com

■ Indonesia PT. SENGON INDAH MAS Manufacturers of High Quality Plywood

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

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

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• HARDWOOD PLYWOOD—HPVA Grade • ALL SPECIES—CARB/NAUF • CORES: VC, Lumber Core, Combi Core, MDF • PLATFORMS—Veneer Core & Lumber Core • DOOR SKINS Contact U.S. Direct Sales Agent Industrial Wood Products, Inc. Tel: 703-435-6486 • Fax: 703-435-6489 mlubina@iwpwood.com

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KAOCHUAN WOODWORK CO., LTD. Taiwanese Enterprise in China

• FANCY: On Plywood/MDF/PB/BB • VENEER: Custom-cut, Layon, Parquet • PLYWOOD: Hardwood, Poplar, LVL, Marine Tel: +86-573-89110999 Ext. 218 Fax: +86-573-89110599 Email: kaochuan@kaochuanwoodwork.com Website: kaochuanwoodwork.com CARB : TPC 6/CARB-ATCM/M013-HWPW008

■ Japan ■ Germany Manufacturers of innovative machinery for the rotary veneer & plywood industry Meinan Machinery Works, Inc. 3-130 Kajita-cho, Obu, Aichi 474-8543, Japan E-Mail: sales@meinan.co.jp Represented in USA by: Merritt Machinery, LLC www.merrittmachinery.com

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VENEER/PANEL SUPPLIERS DIRECTORY ■ Italy

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LEGNOQUATTRO S.P.A. WOOD VENEER DYEING FACTORY Bird’s Eye Maple, Movingui, Similpear, Carbalho, Wengé, Cherry, Burls, Anegré, Kotó, American Walnut, Lacewood, Etimoé, Poplar

Manufacturer of high quality veneers.

Specializing in engineering flooring blanks and stiles and rail components. Lengthwise sliced hardwood veneer and cut-to-size veneer from 1/7" to 1/50" Walnut, Cherry, Maple, Mahogany, Red & White Oak, Eastern White Pine, Hickory, Aromatic Red Cedar, Birch, V.G. Fir, Alder

Head Office & Factory: Factory: Via Brunati, 7 Via Provinciale, 19 20833 Birone 22060 Novedrate (CO) di Giussano (MB) ITALY tel. 0039-31-790246 fax 0039-31-791705 Email: legnoquattro@legnoquattro.it Web site: www.legnoquattro.it

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300, 6e rue Nord, Daveluyville, Qc, Canada G0Z 1C0 Tel: (819) 367-3100 Fax: (819) 367-3199 placages.beaulac@beaulacfils.com www.beaulacfils.com

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

Producers of high quality fine face veneers.

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

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

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Southern Veneer

■ Ontario PRODUCERS OF SLICED AND ROTARY CUT VENEERS

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

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

• Bookmatched jointed burl faces.

We supply furniture, panel and architectural grades.

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

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Products Manufacturer of high quality pine veneer and plywood

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”

240 Peachtree Road • P.O. Box 278 Fitzgerald, GA 31750 Phone: 229-424-0294 • Fax: 229-424-0424 Email: info@southernveneerproducts.com Website: www.southernveneerproducts.com

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VENEER/PANEL SUPPLIERS DIRECTORY ■ Indiana Amos-Hill Associates, Inc.

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

Producers of fine veneer for the global market, since 1892

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

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

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.

1285 Indianapolis Rd. • Columbus, IN 47201 Ph: 812-375-1178 • Fax: 812-375-1179 www.RSVPveneer.com

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

Manufacturers of Fine Face Veneer Machinery 2801 Roosevelt Ave. P.O. Box 18310 Indianapolis, IN 46218 Email: capital@capitalmachineco.com Website: www.capitalmachineco.com

CURRY VENEER SALES

1014 EAST SIXTH STREET NEW ALBANY, IN 47150 Email: bradblcveneer@gmail.com

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■ Kentucky

“Hands On Personalized Relationships” SUPPLIERS OF: HARDWOOD DOMESTIC VENEERS Carrying a diverse line of Cherry and Walnut to supply your every need Imported Veneers Including Recon Veneer (Veneer Style) and Rotary Okume FSC Species Available

■ Michigan

Locate veneer & plywood products and services worldwide.

COLDWATER VENEER, INC. Sliced Face Veneers

NORSTAM VENEERS, INC. Proud to announce we have the “Newest Veneer Mill in the World”

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 & Face Veneers 415 Industrial Blvd. • New Albany, IN 47150 Tel: 812-944-6491 • Fax: 812-944-7421 www.dimensionhardwoods.com

MANUFACTURER OF QUALITY HARDWOOD AND SOFTWOOD VENEERS

Oak ● Carolina Pine Cherry ● Hard Maple ● Walnut Dean Calhoun ■ Dave Counterman Don Steffey ■ Rob Taylor Jack Freese Tel: 517-278-5676 • Fax: 517-279-7104 548 Race Street Coldwater, MI 49036 www.coldwaterveneer.com

CUSTOM CUTTING AVAILABLE P.O. BOX 32 HWY. 135 MAUCKPORT, IN 47142

BUS: 812.732.4391 FAX: 812.732.4803

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VENEER/PANEL SUPPLIERS DIRECTORY ■ South Carolina

■ Minnesota BUFFALO VENEER & PLYWOOD CO.

A new “Dimension” in Veneer & Plywood

Darlington Veneer Co., Inc.

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

Dimension Hardwood Veneers, Inc.

Established 1918

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 & Face Veneers 415 Industrial Blvd. • New Albany, IN 47150 Tel: 812-944-6491 • Fax: 812-944-7421 www.dimensionhardwoods.com

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

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■ Mississippi

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

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■ New York

■ Oregon

•Manufacturers of stock sizes of hardwood plywood •Species range from ash to walnut in rotary, plain sliced and rift cut •Core constructions of veneer, lumber, flake and fibercore •Lengths up to 12 feet in all cores •Fire retardant plywood

P.O. Box 1087 • Darlington, SC 29532 (843) 393-3861 • Sales: 800-845-2388 Fax: 843-393-8243 email: rhubbard@darlingtonveneer.com

■ Vermont

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

Offering FSC certified veneer products in Red Oak, Hard Maple, Birch, Ash, Tulip Poplar, Basswood and Soft Maple in Stock Panel & Cut-to-Size Lay-ons as well as unspliced veneer .4mm thru 1.6mm thickness

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

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

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

■ Virginia

WEST POINT VENEER Manufacturer of sliced face veneers Carolina Pine is our speciality

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

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

■ Ohio

■ Pennsylvania

Oak • Cherry • Walnut • Maple • Ash • Poplar

Robert van der Meulen ■ Samuel Agcanas Tel: 804-843-2900 ■ Fax: 804-843-2554 320 Dupont Street West Point, VA 23181 Custom Cutting Available Member of the Coldwater Veneer Group www.coldwaterveneer.com

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DIRECTORY COMPLETE ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR THE PANEL BOARD, SAWMILLING AND BIOMASS INDUSTRIES.

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Tel: 705.360.5525 • www.cmaeng.com info@cmaeng.com

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

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

Installation, Laser Alignments, Retrofits, Rebuilds and Troubleshooting Peel Problem Troubleshooting and Rectification Lathe Training Seminars - Operational and Maintenance Representing: Demco Manufacturing and Doyle Tool & Gauge

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JOHN GANDEE

Management Recruiters of Houston Northeast

Tel: (800) 985-5191

gcopeland@mrihouston.com • www.mrihouston.com

Gates Copeland 281-359-7940 • fax 866-253-7032

Jon Olson

& ASSOCIATES, INC Depending on Circumstances / Needs

“Your Success Is Our Business” Serving the Wood Products and Building Materials Industries For more than 21 years.

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

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Top Wood Jobs Recruiting and Staffing George Meek

Toll Free 1-800-536-3884 www.johngandee.com Austin, Texas

THE Forest Products Group

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EVENTS MARCH

OCTOBER

11-13 • Southern Forest Products Assn. annual meeting, Royal Sonesta, New Orleans, La. Call 504-443-4464; visit sfpa.org.

16-18 • APA-Engineered Wood Assn. annual meeting, The Coeur d’Alene, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Call 253-5656600; visit apawood.org.

11-14 • WoodMac China 2015, Shanghai New International Expo Center, Shanghai, PR China. Call +44 (0) 20 7840 2104; visit woodmacchina.net.

16-18 • EWTA Info Fair, The Coeur d’Alene, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Call 253-620-7237; visit engineeredwood.org.

18-20 • International Wood Products Assn. annual meeting, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nev. Call 703-820-6696; visit iwpawood.org.

APRIL

3-5 • Hardwood Plywood & Veneer Assn. Spring Conference, Monterey Plaza Hotel & Spa, Monterey, Calif. Call 703435-2900; visit hpva.org.

11-15 • Ligna: World Fair For The Forestry And Wood Industries, Hannover, Germany. Call +49 511 89-0; fax +49 511 89-32626; visit ligna.de.

31-June 3 • Composite Panel Assn. Spring meeting, Hyatt Coconut Point, Bonita Springs, Fla. Call 703-724-1128; visit compositepanel.org.

JUNE 10-12 • 33rd Forest Products & Machinery Equipment Expo, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 504443-4464; e-mail: egee@sfpa.org; visit sfpaexpo.com.

16-21 • The Vienna International Wood Products/Markets Conference, Expo & Tours, Hotel Savoyen Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Call 604-801-5996; email fredkurpiel@aol.com; visit woodmarkets.com/conference/global-conferences.

SEPTEMBER 2-4 • Wood & Bioenergy Exhibition, Conference and Fair Centre Paviljonki, Jyväskylä, Finland. Visit bioenergyevents.fi.

13-15 • Composite Panel Assn. Fall meeting, Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Call 703-724-1128; visit compositepanel.org.

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