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he old expression, “the stars were aligned,” is an appropriate one for this issue. Five excellent articles came together at the same time. Sometimes when this happens, we’ll decide to hold one or two of them for a later issue. Not this time. We decided to lay all of our cards on the table.

The issue kicks off with Some familiar faces during Carolina Particleboard an article on Arauco’s green startup, 2001. raw material core dryer project and new laminate line at its Carolibecoming somewhat of a phenomenon na Particleboard operation in Benand D.R. Johnson is one of its leaders nettsville, SC. Their thought process in the U.S. leading to a second core dryer is very We have a nice story on the acquisiinteresting, as the article depicts. And tion of DEMCO by Altec Integrated Sothe effect of the new green dryer on the lutions and the developments already remainder of operations also makes for occurring and that are forthcoming as a insightful reading. result. Both companies are heavily inI recall visiting the Bennettsville parvested in green end veneer production ticleboard mill when Willamette Industechnologies. tries started it up—a mere 15 years ago.

Our final article reports on some of It transitioned to Weyerhaeuser soon the developments at the recently held after in 2002, to Flakeboard in 2006 and Timber Processing & Energy Expo, for to Arauco in 2012. I hadn’t really which this magazine is a media host, thought of it until I read an Arauco and of which I enjoyed serving as show newsletter, but the mill was the last director. This was the third TP&EE greenfield one built in the U.S. How fitproduced by Hatton-Brown Expositing that it will lose its title when Arautions, an affiliate of Panel World magaco’s new particleboard mill comes on in zine. That’s enough of me; you’ve got a Grayling, Mich. in 2018. lot of good material ahead of you to PW This issue also includes an article on read. Get to it.

Louisiana-Pacific’s OSB and siding operation in Hayward, Wis. Talk about an oldie but goodie. Our records show that it was the ninth OSB plant to start up in North America and the second in the U.S. We show it began production in 1978, but LP says 1979, and they should know. Of course back then it was producing something called “waferwood.”

The Hayward facility, long recognized for its safety record, has some big upgrades upcoming, and we hope to return there soon.

RICH DONNELL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF On page 38 starts the story on D.R. Ph: 334-834-1170 Johnson Lumber’s new cross-laminated Fax: 334-834-4525 timber operation in Riddle, Ore. CLT is e-mail: rich@hattonbrown.com PanelWorld • NOVEMBER 2016 • 3

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(Founded as P l y w o o d & P a n e l in 1960—Our 481st consecutive issue) VOLUME 57 NO. 6

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UPDATE

COMPOSITE INDUSTRY CONTINUES TO ADJUST

A report conducted by Forest Economic Advisors and released by Composite Panel Assn. says that in 2015, the total (direct, indirect and induced) impacts of U.S. CPA-member composite panel manufacturing on the U.S. economy were $7.05 billion in output, employment of more than 22,500 and wages of $1.45 billion. The Canadian composite mills’ impact on the Canadian economy were $3.41 billion (Can), employment of almost 11,500 and $724 (Can) million in wages.

“Economic Impact of U.S. and Canadian Composite Panel Mills” also reveals that in 2015 37 U.S. CPA-member mills had sales of $2.30 billion and 12 Canadian mills had sales of $1.34 billion (Can).

The report estimates that U.S. and Canadian composite panel facilities consumed 8.3 million dry tons of residual fiber in 2015, out of total residual supply of 76 million dry tons. On a regional basis, composite panel mills in the U.S.

South consumed the most wood fiber, accounting for 2.8 million dry tons, 34% of the total in 2015.

Other findings: —Resin costs account for 30% of composite panel production costs.

—Energy costs account for 10-20% of costs.

—Value-added shipments accounted for 31% of North American particleboard shipments in 2014 and 18% of MDF shipments. For particleboard, the biggest value-added product was thermally fused laminate panels, accounting for 66% of

Composite panel shipments have inched upward.

value-added particleboard shipments.

—In 2015, the 42 composite panel mills operating in the U.S. and 12 in Canada had total capacity of 8.15 billion SF (five of these U.S. mills were not CPA members).

—In 2015, North American composite panel shipments hit 5.97 billion SF, 31% below the pre-recession mark of 8.64 billion SF, but a gradual improvement over 5.23 billion SF in 2009.

Compounding the downturn was the continued loss of market share of domestic wood household furniture manufacturing to offshore imports, which have increased dramatically since 2000. From $17 billion in 2000, domestic shipments fell to $5.7 billion in 2009, held steady through 2012, and declined to $3.3 last year.

Over the 2000-2015 period, inflationadjusted shipments declined 81%. In contract, imports in 2015 were 60% higher than in 2000. This growth has been due largely to increasing volumes from China, though growth in Chinese volumes has slowed in recent years. Imports from

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UPDATE other countries have made gains. Import growth and the drop in domestic shipments have resulted in the import share reaching 86% of the U.S. market in 2015, up from 35-40% in the early 2000s.

U.S. domestic production and consumption of wood office furniture has trended higher as nonresidential construction and office rental markets have improved. U.S. cabinet and vanity shipments have rebounded since 2011.

The FEA report expects U.S. and Canadian composite panel markets to continue to improve at a moderate pace over the next five years as the rebound in U.S. construction continues; however, imported panels and finished goods taking more market share remains an important risk to the recovery in U.S. and Canadian composite panel markets—mainly imports of HDF/laminate flooring and MDF molding.

The report expects net U.S. and Canadian capacity to increase. “A larger, more competitive domestic capacity base could take better advantage of its proximity to market, as compared to offshore im-

ports,” the report states. “These advantages include the ability of end users to carry less inventory and of domestic producers to supply those consumers more quickly than distribution channels relying on imports.”

The report concludes that growth in net U.S. and Canadian composite panel capacity means production and sales will likely increase, not back to early 2000s level, but to totals well above the 2015 market volumes.

FORD STEPS DOWN, MULBERY STEPS UP Grady Mulbery is the first leader in the 80-year history of Oregon-based Roseburg who isn’t a member of the Ford family. Effective September 1, Mulbery became president and CEO, replacing former CEO Allyn Ford.

Mulbery became president of the company in January 2016, taking over that role from Ford who had remained as CEO and expected to do so through the remainder of 2016, at which time Mul-

bery was to also assume the position of CEO. But the ease of transition and strength of the leadership team prompted Ford to advance the timeline.

“Roseburg is a strong organization, well-positioned in the industry, with a long-term strategic vision that will ensure growth and stability even as the markets inevitably cycle through good times and bad,” Ford comments. “The company is changing, the industry is changing, and the Ford family relationship to the business is changing, too.”

Mulbery has been with Roseburg since 2011 and was vice president of manufacturing before becoming president. The board selected Mulbery “due to his proven leadership abilities, experience with manufacturing and deep connections in the industry.”

Mulbery, 50, now fully oversees a diverse organization that operates plywood, lumber, EWP, particleboard, MDF, laminate and export operations, and owns more than 600,000 acres of timberland.

Prior to joining Roseburg in 2011, Mulbery held numerous technical, opera-

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UPDATE tions and leadership positions with SierraPine, Weyerhaeuser and Willamette Industries. He holds a B.S. in Wood Science & Technology from Colorado State University.

Ford recently celebrated his 50th anniversary with the company his father Kenneth Ford founded in 1936.

LIEBICH NOW LEADS WINSTON PLYWOOD Winston Plywood & Veneer announced that Dr. Richard Baldwin has stepped down as president and general manager “following the successful recovery, rebuild and startup of the company’s state-of-the-art plywood mill in Louisville, Mississippi.”

Baldwin is succeeded as president by Kurt Liebich, who currently serves as President and CEO of New Wood Resources, Winston’s parent company.

“Dick Baldwin has been an indispensable part of Winston Plywood & Veneer, the City of Louisville and Winston County for the past two and a half years,”

Liebich says. “From the very first hours of the storm that devastated the community in April of 2014, his tireless commitment and advocacy made the seemingly impossible possible. Through his steadfast leadership, he inspired the residents of Louisville and all of us to believe that, together, they could recover and rebuild this mill. That mission has been accomplished.”

On April 28, 2014, a F4 tornado struck Louisville, killing 10. The plywood mill in Louisville, purchased just 30 days earlier by New Wood Resources LLC, an Atlas Holdings company, to establish a new business called Winston Plywood & Veneer, was in the direct path of the tornado. It was completely destroyed.

On January 30, 2015, Winston Plywood & Veneer broke ground on a new plywood manufacturing facility.

NORBORD TAKES AIM AT SUBSIDIES Norbord UK is calling on the UK government to amend biomass subsidies. Ac-

cording to Norbord, earlier this year a major energy supplier lobbied the government to make biomass power stations eligible for future subsidies.

Biomass power plants already receive government support, but the industry wants more, Norbord claims. However, Norbord says the type of technology used to convert coal-fired power stations to biomass is not currently eligible to bid for the new subsidies.

There are several reasons why this technology should not receive subsidies but the most basic is that wood is, fundamentally, very different from other renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power, according to Norbord. Nobody has to buy their wind or sunshine and there is no market for these energy sources.

Wood markets, however, are well-established. It is a raw material for numerous industries and is traded internationally. “Subsidies fundamentally distort the market for timber and applying the same incentives to wood as to wind or solar power generation is nonsensical.”

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NEW GREEN CORE DRYER OFFERS MORE PRODUCTION, GREATER FLEXIBILITY FOR ARAUCO’S CAROLINA PARTICLEBOARD New green core dryer, new flaker, also a new TFL line have started up.

BY JAY DONNELL

BENNETTSVILLE, SC. eeking additional production and more flexibility in its raw material procurement, Arauco North America recently invested $36 million in its Carolina Particleboard mill here, installing a green core dryer supported by a new flaker, along with additional storage and material movement improvements. The company also added a thermally fused laminate (TFL) press—its second here—for greater value-added capabilities for specific markets.

Chilean-based Arauco offers a wide range of sustainable forest products produced in North America and South America, including nine composite panel mills in the U.S. and Canada. In addition, Arauco has 1.8 million acres of forest plantations in Chile, all sustainably managed to the standards of the Forest Stewardship Council. It also owns plantation forests in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.

Carolina Particleboard started production in 2001—under the Willamette Industries label (Arauco purchased the plant from Flakeboard in 2012)—and it has carried the title of newest greenfield particleboard plant in North America. But not for long. Arauco is currently constructing

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New B&W MEGTEC RTO on the new core dryer

a new particleboard plant in Grayling, Mich., destined for startup in 2018.

DRYER PROJECT Several developments prompted the recent expansion at Bennettsville, one

of which was a strong order file as demand bounces back from the recession, during which several particleboard mills went out. Another consideration was a shift in raw material mix for the plant, which was designed for a 60% dry and 40% green mix. Today with the im-

New green conveyor with new raw material storage setup

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New core dryer station, left; existing core dryer, right

provements in sawmill efficiencies, lower demand for lumber and the development of large pellet mills in North America, dry raw material price and demand forced the plant into a much higher green mix.

In addition, improvements at the plant itself pushed production capabilities, but drying capacity hit a ceiling

and a bottleneck there ensued.

“The biggest thing is the overall capacity of the plant and the bottleneck residing in the drying function of the process and the ability to get material to the press,” explains Plant Manager Matt Swinnie. “We had reached the mechanical capacity of the facility from a speed perspective and we just had nowhere else to go really.”

Arauco considered three project options. But two of them—boosting up the existing core dryer or installing a green predryer in front of the existing core dryer—still would not solve mechanical conveying capacity issues at the existing core dryer.

A third option, installing a parallel green core dryer, would remove the dryer capacity bottleneck and allow for future press optimization, in essence pushing the bottleneck downstream to the press.

Recent investment added a fourth Pallmann flaker.

Swinnie comments, “We added the second core dryer. It’s an all green dryer so it runs only chip and it gives us a ton of flexibility in regards to dry, green and mix. It provides some protection in the wood markets as the wood markets ebb and flow. We have the ability to dip to the dry if needed and dip a lot heavier to the green than we’ve ever been able to.”

The new single pass drum dryer from Büttner is designed to process 45,000 lbs/hr BD flaked green wood chips at 100% MC in and 2% MC out. It has a 68 MMBtu natural gas fired burner. The company had a variety of dryer manufacturers come in, but ultimately Büttner had the best package in this situation. “It was the best fit when you put the full package together and what they could offer,” Swinnie says. Also, a Büttner dryer is already in operation at the plant so there was some familiarity for operators.

The additional dryer has increased production capacity by up to 20% from the previous design capacity of 350MMSF annually (3⁄4 in.).

Exhaust from the new dryer is discharged to a new B&W MEGTEC RTO for removal of VOCs, HAPs and particulate. Swinnie notes that the new RTO technology offers less components which makes it more efficient and effective.

MEGTEC has rebuilt or converted several existing Flakeboard/Arauco RTO’s with upgraded ceramics, or converted RTO’s to TCO/RCO with the addition of catalyst. MEGTEC was familiar with the Bennettsville mill as it previously rebuilt the RTO on the existing dryer line back in 2006.

The RTO for the new line was speci-

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Forming and continuous press line

Management is focused on employee skills and culture.

fied to be able to operate without traditional particulate control devices such as a dry or wet ESP. The RTO ceramic bed selection was critical to avoid typical plugging problems and minimize fuel consumption operating in this environment.

Of course the new green core dryer meant alterations throughout the plant.

Increased capacity would push the three existing knife ring flakers and consequently Arauco added a fourth Pallmann flaker along with related new distribution conveying and dust management.

The storage area for green chips has doubled and this includes additional distribution conveyors and concrete storage bunkers. In total, the plant is running 15% more green chips than before the new dryer was installed.

The production increase has increased truck traffic and the plant also added scaling capacity to improve traffic flow. Truck dump capacity was sped up in anticipation of the project as well as associated raw material conveying in that area.

Conveying from milling to the dry metering bins has been enhanced. A new second metering silo is dedicated to the new green dryer. With two green metering silos it became necessary to split the flow of material coming from the flakers. Arauco installed a cyclone at the end of the flaker pneumatic conveyor along with airlock, splitter gate and screws to feed the two core dryer silos separately. The cyclone exhausts to a relocated flaker baghouse.

In addition: The project impacts core resin, therefore a larger IMAL weight belt and blender was installed.

The board cooler underwent enhancement to take advantage of the speed increase at the press for thinner board.

A third strapping line was added.

Also, a warehouse expansion of 62,000 sq. ft. of additional space above the existing 154,500 sq. ft. was added.

Swinnie says the plant went down for 10 days for the dryer and flaker projects. “Just an amazing and impeccable job by the maintenance and project teams.” All systems were running by the beginning of summer.

PLANT FLOW

Production capacity is up significantly.

The plant produces a board thickness range of 3⁄8 in. to 1½ in. with densities of 32 to 48 lbs/cu ft.

“We’re making a lot better board,” Swinnie comments. “We’ve shifted to a

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Operations flexibility provides a versatile product mix.

Laminate paper bound for TFL lines.

Plant Manager Matt Swinnie says workforce performance was excellent during spring projects.

more flaked core and a more consistent core. We’re able to provide more consistency to the customer day in and day out, from the consistency in our milling processes and consistency in our drying process.”

Two truck dumps get the process going. The facility has separate dry and green raw material handling systems.

Incoming raw material is mostly southern yellow pine. Dry raw material— shavings and plywood trim—is stored indoors, while the green raw material including chips (SYP and some hardwood), and sawdust is stored outside.

The materials are loaded by a front end loader into the re-entry bins that feed into the storage silos.

Dry material is milled by refiners and hammermills. Dry reclaim goes to a hammermill, then to refining and screening. Virgin dry fiber goes across an Acrowood screen for the first cut.

Any large material goes to an Andritz refiner and then to a Pal screen which screens out the material and separates it into a face and a core. If additional face material is needed they can run dry fiber through three Bliss hammermills.

The green chip material is processed by the four Pallmann knife ring flakers (one of which is always in standby mode). This material goes 100% into core.

The face dryer (Büttner) is a rotary direct-fired drum dryer and from there face material goes to the face production silo. The existing core dryer is a flash tube section followed by a rotary direct-fired drum dryer for handling both dry and green material. The existing RTO is a B&W MEGTEC. The blending area features an IMAL core blender and GTZ face blender. The plant uses urea-formaldehyde resin. The prepared materials move to two face forming heads and two core forming heads.

A Classiformer forming system lays down a face layer, two core layers and then a second face layer, which run through a Dieffenbacher 10.5 ft. wide by 120 ft. long continuous press. The press RTO is a B&W MEGTEC as well.

Panels are cooled and stacked in bundles for a Lukki automatic storage and retrieval system. Sanding is handled by an Imeas 10 ft. wide, 8 head unit and Kimwood cross belt sander, and then sawn to finished dimensions on a Schelling book saw system. Finished particleboard is packed and strapped by three automatic Samuel strapping sys-

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New Wemhöner laminate press

tems, then moved by forklift to warehouse storage and shipment.

LAMINATION Carolina Particleboard has installed and started up a second TFL melamine

TFL production; new GreCon SuperScan is at left.

press line. It includes a 5x20 fast cycle, high pressure Wemhöner press. Max pressure is 60kg/cm2, which helps with speed and deep textured applications.

The new line can run 225 press cycles per hour and has a 15 second paper change capability.

The new Emobossed in Register (EIR) technology is the first time EIR has been available from Arauco (using Hueck plates). “There’s a deep texture in it and the plate matches the paper,” Swinnie explains. “The cameras align the paper where it goes in and the ➤ 62

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LP’S LEGENDARY FACILITY IN WISCONSIN KEEPS TWO LINES MOVING QUICKLY, LEANING TO SIDING The oldest mill in LP’s portfolio produces both OSB and siding products.

BY JESSICA JOHNSON

HAYWARD, Wis. ouisiana-Pacific’s facility in Hayward is starting to show some age. It should be, having started up in 1979—LP’s first OSB mill! But the workforce is starting to show some age as well.

“This mill has a very senior workforce.

I’ve got people that were here when the mill basically started,” says Chris Forslund, Hayward’s Plant Manager of 11 years, “I’m at 24 years, and I’m

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kind of a junior around here.”

But in this business, old doesn’t have to mean antiquated. In fact, an infusion of capital investment and the seasoned workforce training new recruits has given Forslund a positive outlook for the future, while the two line mill keeps steadily cranking out OSB and siding products at an annual capacity rate of between 450 and 525MMSF. In anticipation of retirements, Forslund says he’s a bit “up-staffed” at the moment, allowing newer skilled workers to shadow and learn not only the ins and outs, but the fine details that only come from decades of experience.

What makes things more challenging for new labor is that each of the two lines is technically flexible and able to respond to market demand—and able to make the full lineup of LP’s OSB and siding products.

“We have a lot of things going on so that the next generation is capable of taking over. The running of an OSB or siding operation now is very technical and we need to make sure we have the right people in the right positions,” Forslund adds.

According to LP, having weathered most of the storm of the recession, it was time for some major capital investments in Hayward. In order to stay ahead of MACT compliance the boiler has seen some improvements, as well as Hayward’s RTOs on both lines—replaced with PRO Environmental units to process emissions coming off the dryers.

One of the RTO installments required a relocation on-site. Recirculation systems were installed on the dryers.

Both presses in recent years have seen some major repairs—but nothing quite like what is planned. The existing WIW presses, put in when the plant was built, will see top to bottom improvements, including new hydraulics, and a structural rebuild. Forslund says that while the upgraded presses aren’t going to be brand new, the only thing that will remain in original form will be the frame.

Line one’s press is currently receiving close to $14 million in attention, with scoping and planning under way for completing the same on line two. A major finishing end revision is also on the horizon.

CAPITAL INFUSION

PLANT FLOW

When the plant started up, it was one of only nine in the world and was the largest. Now, Hayward’s rated as a medium sized plant, but by making siding products, it has been able to stay economically viable.

In addition to some older machinery, Hayward is working with extreme climate conditions, which affects the wood yard. The logging contractors have difficulty getting in and out of the woods once the ground has thawed, so typical-

Among many planned investments, LP's Hayward facility recently replaced two RTOs.

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Plant Manager Chris Forslund

8 x 16 ft. mats are formed with a blend of Huntsman resins and wax.

ly, the wood yard stock-piles during the winter. “We are capable of storing about 100,000 cords of wood,” Forslund explains, “and we top out in March, which is the breakup season.” Hayward processes predominately aspen, purchased from 50-100 miles out.

The mill uses about 900-1,000 cords of wood a day, he estimates, so it’s important to max out the inventory once spring hits, and ride the curve down until the following winter.

The wood yard is closely managed for moisture content, trying to keep the wood in as constant state as possible.

With that in mind, as well as the knowledge of the difficulty in essentially flaking an ice block in January and February, all logs are conditioned using one of six 250 ft. long, 8 ft. wide ponds. From the ponds logs are debarked through Nicholson debarkers and flaked using CAE flakers.

Forslund says that since the mill doesn’t strictly concentrate on OSB, the debarking and flaking process has some slight variance depending on what the mill is producing on that given day.

Hayward makes use of Key Knife knives on the CAE flaker, in various setups, because, the flake geometry for a siding product is a tighter tolerance than the standard OSB product.

Each of the two lines has a dedicated debarker and flaker, while a third “swing” debarker and flaker fill in as needed.

Lap siding is the mill’s bread and butter.

Forslund likens the finishing area to NASCAR pits: a piece comes off the line every two and a half minutes.

Once flaked, wood enters single-pass MEC dryers for 2.5-3 minutes at 1200°.

Once out of the dryers at 200°, flakes are conveyed to the blending system where a proprietary blend of Huntsman resins and wax is added—from there, flakes are completely coated and ready to be formed.

On the forming line, flakes are transformed to 8 x 16 ft. mats where a resin impregnated paper overlay is placed, just before pressing. Hayward uses twin 12 tier WIW continuous batch presses. “These presses are original to the mill. The industry has come a long

way. We do a lot with older equipment around here,” Forslund says with pride.

While the lines have the ability to make different products, he reports that the twin presses are exactly the same.

“They, of course, are slightly nuanced for various products, but when push comes to shove they are exactly the same,” he adds.

The finishing area is the most laborintensive area of the mill. Forslund aptly compares it to NASCAR pits: “We cut it, we paint it, we grade it and we package it. These units come off that line, one every two and a half minutes.”

From there, units get mini bundled,

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Logs spend time in conditioning ponds before being debarked and flaked.

With a fairly extreme climate, the wood yard peaks in March and rides the inventory down until the following winter.

then grouped by SKU, and packaged for retail sale. Given a relatively small warehouse to the overall capacity, products have to be turned over quickly.

MAINTENANCE, SAFETY With any mill, the key to success is in the strength of its maintenance and safety programs Forslund believes. With the flexibility of two lines, Hayward is able to stagger its maintenance so the mill does not have to undergo major standdowns regularly. Each line goes down every other Wednesday.

Forslund estimates that between millwrights, electrical and mechanical and process controls, 40-45 people staff Hayward’s maintenance team. Resources are assigned to each of the four rotating operational crews, as well as a day contingent.

LP as a whole prides itself on a sterling safety record, and Hayward is no different. The mill is an OSHA VPP STAR Site, first certifying in 2005, and most recently recertifying in 2015.

Forslund adds that not only is LP progressive on the safety front as a company, he makes certain his mill is also progressive in how it implements safety programs.

Hayward uses both GreCon and Firefly spark detection and suppression.

PRODUCTS, PEOPLE Hayward runs virtually all the major SKUs that LP produces from 3⁄8 to 1 in., plus tongue and groove flooring products. However, Forslund says the primary focus now for Hayward, following a shift in focus at another LP mill in the region, has been on SmartSide siding products.

“We run a lot of panel siding. We were basically servicing the entire retail industry, switching some of that over to the SmartSide facility in Manitoba, changing our focus to 16 ft. products.

We’ve been making more lap with every year that’s gone by. We are a siding mill that makes OSB,” he explains.

Hayward’s capacity is always leveraged to market demands, and is currently making a lot of 6 in. and 8 in. lap.

OSB capacity is mainly sold regionally to the Chicago area, the Lake States, and Twin Cities, so it traditionally goes out via truck. Since the siding is sold nationally, it is shipped via rail.

When asked what about the mill makes him the most proud, Forslund comments, “We make excellent products that look and perform great, and our customers prefer, and we do it safely and ethically. LP is a great place to work, and this gets reflected in every product we make.”

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TP&EE EVENT PROMOTES NEW PRODUCTS, TECHNOLOGY AND MARKETS FOR PANEL PRODUCERS More than 220 exhibitors highlight well-attended trade show.

Veneer-focused exhibitors such as Westmill promoted new innovations.

BY DAN SHELL

PORTLAND, Ore. rganizer efforts to bring more of the structural veneer and plywood industry and engineered wood products segment into the Timber Processing & Energy Expo appear to have worked, as numerous producers converged on the Portland Expo Center September 28-30.

The Portland event traditionally has been tilted to lumber manufacturing technologies, but event producer Hatton-Brown Expositions, affiliate of Panel World magazine, has emphasized the importance of “putting panel” on the show floor as well as lumber. This was the third TP&EE, which is held every other year.

Indeed wood products producers sent ownership, management, supervisory and skilled personnel to the event, where 225 exhibitor companies, including the leading equipment and technology manufacturers in the veneer-plywood and EWP industries, showcased products and technologies.

Some of the veneer-plywood and EWP producer companies in attendance included: ATCO Wood Products, Bessemer Plywood, Boise Cascade, Browder Veneer Works, Coastland Wood Industries, Columbia Forest Products, D.R. Johnson, Freres Lumber, Georgia-Pacific, Hardel Mutual Plywood, Hunt Forest Products, Louisiana-Pacific, Murphy

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USNR displayed its CLT press and the product itself with company logo spelled out.

Company, Nordic Veneer, Pacific Veneer, Potlatch, Rainier Veneer, RedBuilt, Roseburg Forest Products, Savona Specialty Plywood, Swanson Group, Timber Products Company, Tolko Industries and Weyerhaeuser.

TP&EE registered nearly 1,800 industry (non-exhibitor) personnel, as well as 1,200 exhibitor personnel. Attendees came from 39 U.S. states, six Canadian provinces, and 20 countries besides the U.S. and Canada.

The event included a day of manufac-

turing workshops for both panel and lumber producers, and one of the most well-attended sessions was on crosslaminated timber (CLT) and its potential as a new forest product and market segment.

D.R. Johnson Lumber Co. President Valerie Johnson told how her company had gone from being a bit interested in CLT and making some panels to assist Oregon State in research to building its own production line and becoming the first North American CLT manufacturer

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Hashimoto reps showed company’s veneer production and drying equipment.

Altec-DEMCO joined forces on show floor.

Raute’s Martin Murphy introduced company’s new G5 mill production analysis system.

Crowd awaits entry to TP&EE 2016.

BE&E officials gathered leads, shared gasification project ideas.

Samuel Packaging promoted unitizing and strapping solutions.

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Sweed officials said quality contacts met expectations.

Evergreen reps talked services, new Southeast office.

Con-Vey noted its new panel repair system at Swanson’s Springfield mill.

One of the most popular places to be at TP&EE was the Beer Garden that featured local micro-brews and hot brats.

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certified under APA’s structural CLT standards.

Johnson gauged the overall CLT outlook in North America, noting that her company is already scheduled to contribute to five projects in 2017.

Early construction reports show that using pre-fab CLT panels reduces waste and also features less installation noise in a much shorter construction time, Johnson said. The CLT pioneer is also in talks with government and military builders and designers and also corporate interests, Johnson added, saying the product is ideal for motel chains.

“We see CLT as a completely new market,” Johnson said, adding that solid wall and floor construction uses much more wood than traditional wood frame building systems.

Along with other speakers, Johnson said it was important for CLT to develop performance and product standards that enable the product to be plugged into existing building codes, and that Los Angeles is in the process of allowing CLT under its building codes.

Several presenters noted that Europe has a lack of integrated building codes and standards. That means CLT utilization there consists almost solely of custom projects using proprietary grades.

SHOW FLOOR Promoting its new CLT press and the product itself, the USNR booth included four large CLT panels spelling out the company logo as USNR also promoted its new veneer lathe and drying technology.

USNR Senior Marketing Associate Sonia Perrine noted that the company’s new window-frame style CLT press drew lots of attention at the show, as did USNR’s new all-electric design carriage

Kuper officials emphasized veneer composing.

feed works that use a planetary screw actuator. Conversions for electric actuated knife pitch control, electric actuated vertical roller bar height control, and electric actuated horizontal roller bar gap control are also ready to be implemented, she said.

Perrine added that USNR had a good show talking to both new and existing customers. “It is not always the volume of customers but the type of customer that you meet with at a trade show,” she said. “We had the opportunity to have conversations with several senior managers and some serious technology shoppers planning for the near future.”

USNR is optimistic about business conditions for 2017, Perrine said.

“We’re relatively certain the show bolstered the confidence of some who will be making decisions later this fall or early next year. Some customers expressed apprehension until after the elections, but the overall mood was cautious optimism.”

Melinda Lilley, Member Services Director for the Engineered Wood Technology Assn. (EWTA), noted that there were about 30 EWTA members exhibiting at the show, plus she had the chance to discover new members. “We’re always looking for new associate members,” she said. “And with all the new products and new technology, this has definitely been an upbeat show.”

Mike Crondahl, President of Westmill Industries, said TP&EE, especially the show’s second day, was “Absolutely busy—it was hopping so much we didn’t have time for lunch.”

Crondahl said the company is coming off a record sales year in 2015, and one thing he noted at TP&EE is that “People are really seeking us out about our innovations.” Adding that he’s been coming to equipment shows in Portland since he was a kid, Crondahl said TP&EE fills a real need for an event of its type on the West Coast.

Noting a good bit of interest in used

About 1,600 industry visitors enjoyed 225 exhibitors and the opportunities to explore new technologies and network with others.

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and reconditioned equipment, Mike Simmons, Vice President of Sales & Service for Kimwood, said the show’s second day was a busy one. “It looks like there are a few people buying. The parts business has been good for us.”

Interest in industry’s newest plywood mill startup at Swanson Group in Springfield, Ore., along with a good response to her presentation on advances in Meinan green end technology, drove a lot of traffic to the Meinan-Merritt Machinery booth, said Merritt Machinery President Anna McCann.

Part of the booth display included an eight-minute video of the Springfield operations, which are currently in startup. The project features Meinan’s fully automated green end that includes charger with 3D vision scanning and optimization, constant peel speed, auto knife changer, full sheet stacking by MC and auto random veneer clipping with in-line green veneer composing.

“We’ve been very happy with the show,” McCann said. “There’s a lot of interest in the Swanson line, and we’ve had some very high level contacts who are interested in Meinan’s product line.”

Gustavo Mostiack, Commercial Di-

rector of Fezer SA Industrias Mecanicas, said his company was focusing on promoting its slicing and splicing product lines. “This is our first time exhibiting here, and the results are in line with our expectations,” he said.

“The show has been good for us. We made some good contacts,” Mostiack added.

With a leading edge technology gasification plant project at Lockheed Martin’s Owego, NY plant now up and running, Biomass Engineering & Equipment President Dane Floyd was promoting his company’s involvement in the project, which will use plant waste as raw material.

“This has been a great show for us,” Floyd said on TP&EE’s final day. “The number of leads we’ve gotten here is phenomenal, and we’ve had a lot of good quality booth visitors.”

Dave Larecy, President of Con-Vey, noted that his company had also met lots of high-quality vistors, and there’s been plenty of interest in a new panel repair line Con-Vey has going in at the new Swanson plant in Springfield.

“We’ve been very pleased with the outcome of the show, and we’ll definitely

be here again in two years,” Larecy said.

“We’ve had a really busy show,” said Raute NA Senior Vice President Martin Murphy. During a private event near the TP&EE show site, Raute unveiled its G5 advanced mill operations analysis software.

The new system combines the power of high-tech cameras and innovative systems to analyze the entire production process. Analyzers collect data in every process, from the green end onward, and evaluate the information to automatically affect production decisions. G5’s stateof-the-art analyzers collect data on defects, moisture and density and automatically establish the best results based on pre-determined customer goals. Information from a combination of analyzers is amalgamated in real time to determine the best value for the veneer.

“G5 technology has the ability to affect every aspect of mill production positively, with up to 15% in better raw material utilization,” said Murphy, who added that Raute’s private events were “very well attended by key decision makers.”

The next TP&EE is planned for October 17-19, 2018 at the Portland Expo PW Center.

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ALTEC-DEMCO MERGER BRINGS TWO INNOVATORS TOGETHER Committed to green end technology to improve veneer and plywood production

Earlier this year, Altec moved into new offices with 26,000 sq. ft. space.

the outfit Diboll Engineering & Manufacturing Co. Schmidt remembers he went by the Temple Lumber plywood plant in Diboll to look at a small job

BY DAN SHELL when he looked down from a catwalk over the lathe. Below, veneer was flying ombining forces after Altec Intoward the clipper at almost 30MPH. tegrated Solutions’ acquisition “Something about seeing that made of DEMCO, the merger feaan impression on me that changed my tures two longtime lathe and life forever,” Schmidt remembers. “I peeling innovators, one that got very interested in veneer lathes and started in the early days of the Southern still am!”

U.S. plywood industry and the other Most everyone who’s anyone in the founded more recently in the digital era, veneer and plywood industry knows the with both focused on improving veneer story of the spindleless lathe that quality and recovery while also boosting Schmidt invented in 1977 and subsepeeling productivity and efficiency. quently sold the rights to Durand Raute, The deal closed on April 30 this year, but what earned DEMCO its first solid foothold in the industry was the and DEMCO is now a subsidiary of DEMCO replacement chuck (eventually Altec. Company CEO Bill Long is now CEO of DEMCO, while Charles known as the “Super Chuck”) develSchmidt remains DEMCO President. oped more than a decade earlier.

HISTORY Initially the companies are planning on Schmidt visited the Temple mill While Altec was founded in the digiusing DEMCO to help Altec expand in again soon after seeing the lathe in actal age in 1999, DEMCO dates to 1965, the Southern U.S. and also take advantion for the first time in the mid 1960s. when the owners of a small fab shop tage of DEMCO’s extensive fabrication On this visit, he saw a lathe operator moved to Diboll, Tex. to get closer to facilities and capabilities. But there are “beating the crap out of the lathe more industrial facilities and renamed chucks” with a pick-axe to remove also some bigger ideas at work: wood chip and resin buildup “Both companies are fothat was causing spin-outs. cused on the green end, but After watching spin-outs we want to raise the bar,” cause major problems, Schmidt Long says. “We want to come says what he saw stuck with up with a better green end. him, and he awoke that night There’s a lot of unchanged with an idea to slope the chuck technology out there, with teeth back and outward, a depeople running older masign that pushed any block dechines with digital controls.” bris downward and outward The Altec-DEMCO deal each time the chuck teeth encame about after Schmidt’s tered a block, keeping it clean. partner Arthur Temple III Schmidt built a crude set of passed away in 2015, but bechucks the next morning, took fore he died had asked them to the Temple mill and Schmidt to sell the company they worked great. He then so an ongoing business Rebuilt in the 1990s, DEMCO facilities cover 28,000 sq. ft. built another set and took them wouldn’t be part of his estate.

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“The company I really wanted as an owner, Altec, was interested but not quite ready when I first approached them,” Schmidt says. “We were working with a broker who had investors interested, but I wanted an owner who was working in the wood-based panel industry.”

Almost a year passed, and Schmidt asked the broker to contact Long again.

This time, the timing was right. “We started negotiations, closed on April 30 and we’re happy,” Schmidt exclaims.

“DEMCO has a new and exciting lease on life, and things couldn’t be better.”

The two companies had worked together on several projects, the first when DEMCO rebuilt a lathe for Weyerhaeuser at a mill in Uruguay and Altec did the controls for the job back in 2007-8.

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to the Champion mill 13 FUTURE miles up the road and they As Altec and DEMCO got so excited the company move forward, initial plans soon wanted multiple chuck are to capitalize on DEMsets for all its Southern CO’s capabilities as a manmills—and DEMCO was ufacturing center as well as off and running. To date the a base of operations in the company has sold more South. The DEMCO facilithan 8,300 sets of the ty includes 28,000 sq. ft. of chucks and still ships them manufacturing and office almost every day, Schmidt space with plenty of room says. to grow and expand.

Temple came on as a Altec has also grown, partner in 1968 and earlier this year moving Schmidt continued to build into a new office in Coquitthe business. The ‘70s saw lam that features 18,000 sq. the development of the spindleless lathe, and Plans are to take advantage of DEMCO’s advanced fabrication facilities. ft. of manufacturing and 8,000 sq. ft. of office space.

DEMCO began establishing Altec has 35 employees itself as a go-to supplier of at its BC office, while high quality roller nose DEMCO has 21 in Texas. bars, chucks, knife clamps Long and Schmidt say the and more—plus all the acquisition gives both comparts and subcomponents panies an opportunity to associated with them. A big add to their field service capart of the company’s sucpabilities. cess is its commitment to In fact, Altec recently reparts and service and its ceived an order from Hood overall expertise in working Industries for new green with and troubleshooting alend equipment, including a most any lathe out there. new carriage with actuatorThe company also supplies charger system and new APA-certified panel test backup rolls, that will be frames and has more than Altec shop: “We want to come up with a better green end,” Long says. manufactured at DEMCO’s 80 in the field right now. facilities. The company also DEMCO suffered a nearhas several charger orders scheduled for disastrous fire in 1994, but Schmidt realong with a clipper controller, thickcompletion in 2017. built and came back strong as ever. ness quality monitor and the company’s Long says there have already been Borne in the digital age and founded first green veneer stackers. some R&D activities between the two in Coquitlam, British Columbia in 1999 Altec continues to ride the wave of its companies. Altec’s electric actuator by process control system designer and planetary roller screw technology introtechnology and control systems will be programmer Bill Long, Altec made its duced in 2010 for lathe applications. continually improved, but with the name as a controls company, though it The first project included electric actuamerger he’s looking for more. has evolved into a machinery supplier tor systems along with a lathe control “We want to make improvements to as well. upgrade at Roseburg in Riddle, Ore., on machinery to keep up with new digital The company’s early days included 8- and 10-ft. lathes. technology and control systems,” Long lots of service work and small projects The electric system is more efficient continues. “Charles is always thinking for local customers involved in the vewith less maintenance than hydraulic or outside the box, so we have an opportuneer and plywood industry. “We did pneumatic systems, according to Long, nity to capitalize on that as well.” projects in all areas of plywood plants and is also simpler. Peel quality is imAltec’s merger with DEMCO solidibut quickly became specialized in the proved with the removal of hydraulics, fies its capability to service and support green end,” Long says. and control accuracy is increased with its installed base of machinery. “This is Altec completed its first lathe conthe higher resolution and bandwidth of allowing us to expand that base and also trols project in 2001 that included the AC servo motors and drives. to bring new machinery products to company’s original 5-laser, PC-based Altec has since sold more than 15 of market,” Long says.

XY scanning and optimization system these systems on lathe carriages and for Noting that Altec is known primarily and PLC/Delta RMC-based control sysother applications. as a controls company, Long adds, “Our tem for the lathe and charger—the first Expanding its product line in 2012, challenge now is to bring awareness to complete PLC/ Delta RMC-based lathe Altec sold its first x-y charger—the first the market that we are a fully capable and charger control system in the infully electric charger in the industry machinery supplier with the capability dustry. using roller screw technology. That to design, manufacture, service and supBy 2005, Altec had introduced its same year the company introduced its port our machinery and controls sysnew “XY 3D” 32-laser, PC-based XY new XY 2.0 laser line scanning and optems for customers worldwide.”

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D.R. JOHNSON BUILDS ON GLULAM EXPERIENCE WITH CLT PRODUCTION D.R. Johnson Lumber invests in the future of cross-laminated timber with its CLT plant venture.

Glue applicator developed in-house coats lumber layers in 2 ft. swaths

BY DAN SHELL

RIDDLE, Ore. n the leading edge of crosslaminated timber (CLT) new product technology and market building, D.R.Johnson Lumber Co. here is leveraging its longtime experience with custom glulam manufacturing to invest in the future and a product category with the potential to greatly increase wood’s commercial and multi-story building market

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share—while possibly revolutionizing how many wooden structures are constructed.

As the first CLT manufacturer to gain certification under the ANSI/APA PRG 320-2012 CLT performance standard, D.R. Johnson is moving ahead in establishing CLT as a viable and sustainable building component.

Unlike many mill operators in the forest industry who see their products

for the last time when they leave by truck or rail to be distributed and handled by a variety of third parties in the supply chain, D.R. Johnson these days is a flurry of hands-on new product marketing, development and education.

The company is also regularly talking with designers, builders and contractors.

“It’s almost essential that you be in contact with the architect, the engineer and the owner,” says John Redfield,

Hundegger CNC machine greatly boosted production capabilities while also increasing quality and accuracy.

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Solid walls and floors use much more lumber than traditional systems.

D.R. Johnson Lumber COO. “A big part of this right now is the collaboration among all parties involved. We have one chance to get it right because it’s all custom, so there’s a process you need to go through to understand what people want in all aspects of a given project.”

Currently, CLT applications and products are a long way from commodification. “Eventually it may come to the point where you’re building standard panels that may be fabbed and installed by someone else,” Redfield says. “But

our approach right now is more like our glulam beam plant, which is a totally custom manufacturer.”

Being one of the first producers in a new product category, “We know the market is going to be a bit spotty, where you’ll see an influx of business then a lull, then some more orders,” Redfield says, adding that having the glulam plant, Riddle Laminators, makes CLT a better fit for DR Johnson than a mill starting from scratch to produce CLT. “We had a lot of the infrastructure in

place and a lot of the tools to complement the CLT plant, and that makes it a bit less of a risk for us,” Redfield believes. “Also, having the knowledge working with glue for so long was a big factor in helping the project.”

Meanwhile, Redfield and Sales Manager Todd Black are heading up the sales effort. “We’re working on some marketing strategies internally and with other groups,” Redfield says, noting that multiple organizations, from forest products industry trade groups to green

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building code supporters, are promoting the product.

“We have all kinds of information we’re putting out, samples going everywhere—and we just sent two boxes to Washington, DC for the politicians to look at and talk about,” Redfield says, adding that the National Museum of Science and Technology in DC is also planning a display on CLT in the near future.

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Finger jointing line handles material for both CLT and glulam.

D.R. Johnson’s CLT venture dates to a meeting at Oregon State University (OSU) in 2013 that gathered forest products industry leaders from a variety of organizations, including producing companies, introducing the CLT concept and asking for feedback.

In attendance was D.R. Johnson Lumber Co. President Valerie Johnson, who expressed interest and put the OSU group in touch with Redfield and the Riddle Laminators team.

“We looked into it, built a little mini press to put some wood together, decided this was something we could do so we went further,” Redfield says.

The OSU group was initially planning an 8x8 press, but the team decided a larger press would be more commercially viable. The project was boosted by a $150,000 grant from the Oregon Built Environment & Sustainable Technologies Center (Oregon BEST) a state economic development agency focused on green technology.

Redfield called USNR’s Sam Pope, West Coast Capital Sales Manager, for help with a larger10x24 ft. CLT press,

D.R. Johnson personnel collaborated on the innovative USNR press that has since been expanded to 32 ft.

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and the company provided much of the design and engineering work led by USNR’s Laura Meeker in collaboration with D.R. Johnson’s team. Professor Lech Muszynski of the OSU Wood Science & Engineering Department provided key assistance through OSU’s wood engineering lab.

The press uses pneumatic pressure, and its modular design makes it easily expandable. Much of the fabrication was done by D.R. Johnson’s in-house machine shop, with USNR providing key components and parts.

As all this was going on in late 2014, Redfield says he realized he had never seen a full-sized CLT panel actually being manufactured, handled and installed. So he took a week and went to Europe, touring operations that ranged from the massive Stora Enso CLT plant in Austria to smaller companies quite similar to Riddle Laminators and its facilities.

“Even the guy at the large plant told us it was a good idea to start small, not get too big too early, and at the end of the trip we came home thinking we were on the right track and going in the right direction,” Redfield remembers.

The CLT operation started up in September 2015. “At that point we had a press and a plan, but we hadn’t convinced ourselves we needed any auto fabrication equipment,” Redfield says.

But it quickly became apparent that cutting notches, window openings and spline and lap joints with hand tools wasn’t fast enough.

The team looked into CNC machines, and decided the way to go was with a CNC machine that could handle both CLT panels and glulam beams. The Hundegger 5-axis CNC panel fabrication machine was installed in late 2015 and started up the first quarter of this year.

“We decided that was the way to go,” Redfield says. “When you’re dealing with architects and engineers you have to be accurate, on time and with high quality so you need to use CNC equipment.”

PROCESS Interestingly, while it operates a sawmill adjacent the glulam and CLT plants, D.R. Johnson Lumber buys all its lam stock from outside suppliers.

The sawmill concentrates on producing

beams and timbers and stringers, and only 10% of its volume is dimension lumber.

Lumber specs for lam stock and CLT are similar, with CLT using a higher percentage of lower grade lumber than a typical glulam beam. The mill accepts 2x4-12 lumber for CLT stock. “A lot of our lam stock suppliers also produce a #2 grade material, and that’s what we buy for CLT,” Redfield says, adding that lumber for both is dried to 12% MC with a 3% tolerance.

CLT and lam stock material goes to a sorting line where it is initially planed to a 1 3/8 in. thickness. Boards then flow under a Wagner in-line moisture meter and are hand-sorted by grade and MC. Sizes are checked by caliper with the L-Size program.

“The sorting helps us be more productive and consistent and weeds out material we don’t need or can’t use,” Redfield says. “It’s worth paying a premium to get what we want, and we notice what sits on the yard and isn’t usable.”

After sorting, lumber is moved to separate lam stock and CLT inventory areas.

Lumber is moved via forklift to an

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assembly tray on a track that feeds into the CLT press. The plant is currently using a forklift with skid rolls where a layer of lumber is stacked, and the forklift slides the layer into the assembly tray.

The longitudinal (long) pieces use #2 and better grade lumber and go in the tray first. Glue is applied to that layer, then a perpendicular layer of lower grade lumber is added, followed by another glue application and another layer of higher grade long lumber pieces— and so on—up to seven layers “Generally the layer numbers are odd, starting with three,” Redfield says.

“We do a three-, five- and seven-layer panel.”

The CLT plant uses the same glue as the glulam plant: a melamine 2-part clear glue from AkzoNobel that’s low emission, LEED Gold certified and approved for interior and exterior use. “It just seemed like the way to go since we were familiar with it—it’s a strong glue that performs well,” Redfield says.

Using a spreader that Redfield saw on his European CLT tour as an idea, D.R. Johnson personnel built their own glue applicator: a 2 ft. wide spreader bar on a trolley over the panel with accompanying electronics to advance the spreader as it goes back and forth across the panel in 2 ft. swaths.

Once the panel is assembled, it’s fed into the press via a set of pop-up rolls and comes to rest on platens within the press opening.

A set of pneumatic cylinders then applies pressure from the sides to ensure minimal gap between timbers within a given layer. Meanwhile, a set of channels carrying eight large diameter pneumatic hoses is lowered to rest on top of the CLT panel. Once the panel is configured correctly within the window of the press, the hoses are brought to pressure (typically 110 PSI).

The press is not heated, and the process may vary a bit depending on ambient temperatures, lumber temperature and humidity levels. To create more consistency in that area, D.R. Johnson installed radiant floor heating in the new CLT plant—another feature they had noticed at several European plants.

“It takes approximately two and a half times the open time to put pressure on a panel and let it dry,” Redfield says.

With current panel layup taking 30-35 minutes, the goal is to get the full cycle down to two hours that will allow four panels in an eight-hour day.

“As we ramp up and automate more,

D.R. Johnson’s longtime glulam experience helped the CLT venture go more smoothly.

we’ll be able to reduce our time for layup and that will reduce the press time,” Redfield says.

Panels are rolled out the back end of the press and lifted by forklift to the Hundegger CNC machine. Imagine the biggest, most hi-tech wood router ever, one that can operate in five different axes while rolling up and down a track that’s 138 ft. long, and you have the Hundegger.

The blueprints for each panel are

loaded into a 3D modeling program for the CNC machine that contains the specs for each panel’s characteristics: any notches, connection cuts, windows or other openings or features. “We have a digital file on every panel, you upload it to the CNC machine and away it goes,” Redfield says.

Depending on the order, the panel is then ready for shipping or needs finishing. Currently the plant is sanding using floor sanders, though personnel are ac-

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tively looking into a full-size panel sander. After sanding, panels are either moved to storage or loaded onto a truck for shipping.

planer and LSI sort/stack line with Signode strapping station.

SAWMILL

The company’s move into a new product with a new business reflects founder Don R. Johnson’s vision of constantly seeking new opportunities to expand and increase efficiency and production.

D.R. Johnson Lumber dates to 1951, when it was founded by Johnson who moved to the Riddle area from Veneta, Ore., where he had worked in his father’s mill.

Johnson continually expanded and diversified the company’s operations: He bought Prairie Wood Products in Prairie City, Ore. in the mid 1960s and in 1967 started the Riddle Laminators glulam business.

In the mid 1980s Johnson built 10MW cogen plants at the Prairie City mill and at Riddle and ran both until the contracts expired in the mid 2000s.

Both facilities are not currently running but the company is awaiting a better power market and hoping for a positive impact from the state’s recently enacted renewable portfolio standard mandating

The sawmill on site cuts 100% Douglas fir, 14 in. and larger, which is handled with a Nicholson 60 in. debarker.

Logs are fed to a Corley carriage with Lewis Controls 3D scanning and optimization package, feeding a set of CME chip heads and 6 ft. McDonough bandmill. (A separate pony headrig with Salem carriage and bandmill runs intermittently.)

Material leaving the headrig flows to either a Letson-Burpee twin resaw or USNR shifting four-saw 6 in. edger with USNR Lasar scanning and optimization package.

Boards are trimmed with a vintage used trimmer and fed to a 68-bin LSI sorter/stacker line leading to a Signode strapping station.

The bulk of production is in 2-3-4 and 6 in. timbers up to 24 ft., and all is sold green, with about 80% surfaced.

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FOUNDING VISION

more utilization of renewable energy.

In the early and mid 1990s Johnson acquired Grant Western Lumber Co. in John Day, Wallowa Forest Products in Wallowa, Ore. and Umpqua Lumber in Round Prairie, Ore. The economic downturn that really began in the forest industry in 2007 took its toll, however, and all facilities are now closed except for D.R. Johnson Lumber in Riddle and the Riddle Laminators glulam and CLT plants.

Johnson, who died in 2010, played a huge role in postwar economic development of southern Douglas County, serving on numerous boards and committees for county government and schools. He and his wife JoAnne—married 65 years!—were active in the community and working with children’s programs, contributing to school expansions and much more. Johnson also started college scholarship programs in many of the communities where his mills were located.

Johnson also worked tirelessly to promote the industry and with timber availability and public lands issues in the region, earning awards from the Douglas Timber Operators and local chamber of PW commerce.

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CLT PROJECTS Though there are several projects pending, the first and biggest project for D.R. Johnson and its CLT product is the Albina Yard in north Portland, a four-story 16,000 sq. ft. creative office building that’s the first in the U.S. to use domestically produced CLT panels for its building-wide structural system.

The project is using CLT for the roof, floors and ceilings.

Most of the panels are supported by glulam beams and are screwed into place using long, self-tapping wood screws. The largest panel in the project is just under 10x24 ft. and 4 in. thick.

According to project updates from the Albina Yard project architect LEVER Architecture and contractor Reworks, the building is nearing completion. The project is serving as a key proving ground for CLT, “giving the city, state and design teams and construction crews a chance to work with the technology and perfect its use so it can be applied successfully in much larger projects.”

Right now, educating the market and all involved, from designers and builders to architects, regulatory agencies, consumers and more is just as important as any press design or process innovation. “There’s a lot of interest out there, and we get a lot of calls from people just wanting to know more,” says John Redfield D.R. Johnson Lumber COO. Redfield recounts the company’s first CLT installation at the Albina Yard building:

“We were meeting with the owner and the contractor who was going to install the panels—and none of us knew exactly what we were doing,” Redfield remembers, adding the contractor looked like he wondered what he had gotten into and thought the installation would probably take forever.

“I told him we had been to Europe and seen how the CLT panels were handled, but it was definitely a learning process for all of us,” he says.

On the delivery and installation day, the DR Johnson team began pulling panels off the truck and quickly caught up to a shear wall crew that was working ahead of them. “We told them we’d have to wait on them before we could finish because they still had a corner to do,” Redfield remembers.

On the first day, the first time the new building product was used on the structure’s first floor, the crews put down 4,000 sq. ft. of flooring in less than four hours.

“Everyone was real excited, and the owner and contractor were like ‘Wow!’ at how very fast it went,” Redfield remembers.

On the second floor, with everyone involved having one first floor’s worth of “experience” under their collective belts, they laid down another 4,000 sq. ft. of flooring in a little more than two hours.

“All the things you hear about it being easy to handle and install were true from the start,” Redfield says. “It’s kind of a dream to work with: Just bring the panel in and set it in place and there’s no trimming, no subflooring, no joists and no waste,” he adds. “One panel, lay it down, and you’re done.” PW

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STEADY FLOW AT IWF IN ATLANTA International Woodworking Fair, held at the Georgia World Congress Center August 24-27, reports attendance of more than 16,000. “We had double digit growth in attendance, exhibit space, and the number of exhibitors,” comments Tom Onsrud, IWF 2016 chairman and president of C.R. Onsrud Inc. Representatives from more than 90 countries attended IWF, which focuses heavily on woodworking, remanufacturing and value-added technologies, as well as building products systems and distribution The event showcased 1,080 exhibitors. In the photos shown here, clockwise from above: Exhibitors such as Dieffenbacher, USNR, Biele Group, Henkel and Siempelkamp not only brought their technologies and representatives to IWF, but also attractive styles for their displays.

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PROJECTS

NEW SWISS KRONO MDF/HDF PLANT REPRESENTS LARGEST SIEMPELKAMP ORDER

Swiss Krono SC, LLC has ordered an MDF/HDF plant for its Barnwell, SC factory. Siempelkamp reports the complete plant order is the largest order in Siempelkamp history The Swiss Krono plant will have an annual capacity of 280,000 m³ for its Barnwell location. The Swiss family enterprise, known for its laminate flooring operation, requires the new plant to meet its own in-house requirements.

The largest share of the annual output will go into the production of carrying plates for laminate flooring.

The $230 million investment will create 105 jobs.

The order encompasses technology ranging from the wood yard to a highbay storage system including a transfer station to the flooring production. Nearly all Siempelkamp subsidiaries will be involved.

Sicoplan in Belgium developed and planned the entire plant concept and new equipment based on three-dimensional models. Pallmann is supplying the wood yard with a disc chipper and a chip washing system including a refin-

er. Büttner will supply an energy plant with a capacity of 53 MW and a dryer.

The Italian subsidiary CMC will supply screening technology.

The forming and press line will include one of the latest Generation 8 Siempelkamp ContiRoll continuous presses. For the first construction phase the press will be designed with a dimension of 10 ft. x 30 m. The scope of supply also includes a finishing line, a cooling and stacking line, a sanding line, a dividing saw, and an automatic high-bay storage system.

A special feature of this plant is the equipment package for high-speed thin board production including a compactor which provides additional compression in front of the press. Material lumps and other impurities are destroyed by the compactor.

The highly flexible operation will produce boards with a broad range of thicknesses between 1.5 and 42 mm.

The order also includes the Ecoresinator, which was developed at Siempelkamp’s research and development center, and is expected to reduce resin

Swiss Krono visits Siempelkamp. Left to right: Dirk Koltze, Sico USA; Bob Jordan, Swiss Krono USA; Axel Weiß and Lisa Femers of Siempelkamp; Roland Kovacic, Swiss Krono Group; Jürgen Philipps, GF Siempelkamp; Bernd Henrich, Swiss Krono USA; Norm Voss, Swiss Krono USA; Dr. Johann Hochbaum, Siempelkamp; Alla Jörin, Swiss Krono Holding; Ulrich Kaiser, Siempelkamp; Alicia Jackson, Evergreen Engineering; Peter Beck, Siempelkamp

consumption by up to 15%. This is possible due to special nozzle technology and the use of super-heated steam.

ACTION TESA PLANS FOR NEW PRESS Action Tesa has ordered a forming and press line including an 8 ft. x 27.1 m continuous press as well as other components, such as the sifter, cooling and stacking line, and a high-stack storage system, for an MDF/HDF plant from Siempelkamp. The contracting party is Belaji Action Buildwell in New Delhi, a company of the Action Group, which has already applied several innovations in the area of wood-based material production in India. Examples include the first MDF/HDF plant for thin boards and the largest particleboard plant.

The installation is scheduled to begin mid-2017. After startup and acceptance, the new plant will manufacture boards with a thickness ranging from 2 to 35 mm. The plant is designed for a daily capacity of 750 m³.

PANEL PLUS BUYS MDF PLANT Panel Plus Co., Ltd. in Thailand has purchased its first MDF plant from Dieffenbacher. Installation will start in February 2017, with the first panel expected to be produced in August 2017.

Panel Plus is part of the Mitr Phol Group. After seeing increased demand for MDF panels, the company is expanding its production capacity.

"We are very pleased to win over Panel Plus by outlining the benefits that our solutions offer," explains Christian Dieffenbacher, Member of the Management Board. “Securing this contract is further evidence that customers are responding well to the CPS+ press, which we introduced in 2015.”

The MDF plant will have a number of technological features. One is the wood preparation process, which generally uses wood from the rubber tree, which is abundant in Thailand. The Zsifter from Dieffenbacher reliably eliminates the latex component of the wood, ensuring that high quality panel surfaces can be created. The forming station is another area that uses intelligent technology: The Dieffensor helps to reduce raw material usage by providing a very

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PROJECTS precise level of forming accuracy and a low grinding allowance.

The plant is designed to produce up to 800 m3 per day. It will produce MDF of various types, from extremely thin 1.5 mm panels up to 32 mm, and all at speeds of up to 1,800 mm/sec. This is made possible by the flexible, adjustable infeed and the optimal pressure distribution in the 25 m long CPS+ continuous press.

The plant will be controlled by the Siemens S7-1500 automation system and the Dieffenbacher PRODACON process management system, from debarking right through to the Lukki storage system.

Automation of raw board handling has also been adapted to meet the special requirements for the high-speed production of extremely thin boards.

"This project continues our success in the Asian market,” says Bernd Bielfeldt, Head of the Business Unit Wood.

“Once again, the crucial factor is that we are able to adapt our technological concept so readily to the plant’s requirements. The customer was also im-

pressed that our branch office in nearby Kuala Lumpur could provide such fast and comprehensive lifecycle support."

high quality, value-added products,” explains Louis Brassard, Tafisa Canada’s CEO.

TAFISA STARTS UP 5TH TFL PRESS

BIRCH MILL ORDERS PRODUCTION LINE

Tafisa Canada reported the startup of its 5th TFL (thermally fused laminate) press and the delivery of initial orders for its new collection with an embossed and in-registered texture called VIVA. Tafisa Canada’s new TFL press represents an investment of more than $15 million and includes cutting-edge embossed and in-register (EIR) technology. This production line enables Tafisa Canada to offer two-sided embossed and in-register textured panels in two dimensions, 4x8 ft. and 5x9 ft., enabling Tafisa to set new standards.

“Our 5th TFL press is yet another example of our company’s ability to provide unprecedented flexibility and impressive production capabilities attuned to the market’s growing demand for

Raute Corp. has received orders worth almost EUR 32 million for the expansion of Vyatskiy Fanernyi Kombinat’s mill in the Kirov region in Russia.

The order was closed with an Italian company Carmac Group srl, which is the EPC contractor for the project. Vyatskiy Fanernyi Kombinat has a birch plywood mill in the Kirov region for which the entire production process was delivered by Raute in 2006.

The present order received by Raute includes the entire production process of a birch plywood mill: log handling, two veneer peeling lines, two veneer drying lines, two veneer composing lines, automatic veneer patching line, two plywood layup and pressing lines, plywood edge cutting, puttying and

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PROJECTS overlaying lines. The order also includes an automatic veneer patching line and an overlaying line to Vyatskiy's present mill.

Deliveries of the machinery and equipment are scheduled for the second quarter of 2017 to be followed by the machinery deliveries to the present mill.

The equipment will be engineered and produced in Raute's units in Nastola, Shanghai and Kajaani.

POLISH LVL FIRM ORDERS NEW LINE Steico Społka z o.o., A Polish subsidiary of the German timber construction systems and wood fiber insulation manufacturer, Steico SE, has ordered laminated veneer lulmber equipment valued at EUR 17.5 million from Raute Corp.

The equipment will be Steico´s second LVL line delivered to Steico’s LVL mill in Czarna Woda, Poland. The machinery includes a veneer drying line, dry veneer grading, composing and scarfing lines as well as LVL layup line, prepress and hot press. This order is related to the second phase of the LVL manufacturing project, which Steico and Raute initiated in June 2014. The equipment ordered under the first phase of that project was delivered, installed and the mill started up in late summer 2015, with LVL production being ramped up during the winter of 2015/2016.

Total annual capacity of Steico’s LVL mill will be 160,000 m3 when the new line is in full production, doubling the LVL capacity installed during the first phase.

Raw material for Steico’s LVL will be mostly Polish grown pine, which has proven to provide good technical characteristics for structural LVL. The machinery will be manufactured at Raute’s Nastola, Shanghai and Kajaani plants, and delivered during the first half of 2017. The full scale production of the future LVL mill is planned to be reached by mid-2018.

NORBORD ORDERS OSB DRYER, ENGERY PLANT Norbord is relocating a continuous press from its mill in Alberta, Canada to Inverness, Scotland. The order for a new OSB drum dryer with the corresponding energy plant has been placed with Siem-

3D display of Büttner plant for NorbordInverness

pelkamp subsidiary, Büttner.

The single-path drum dryer sized 6.5 x 36 will have a throughput capacity for dry strands of 45 t/h. Along with the air process equipment, steel support structures and insulation, the scope of delivery will include a 500 m³ wet material horizontal metering bin.

The energy plant with a total combustion capacity of 55 MW will use a 75 m² grate to generate around 40 MW of flue gas for heating the dryers and 15 MW for heating thermal oil. As with the drum dryer, Büttner will also be supplying the entire range of equipment from a moving floor for the fuel storage to the primary circulation system for thermal oil, which will include the piping, brick lining, steel construction and insulation.

The complete assembly of the dryer and energy plant is also part of Büttner’s scope of delivery and is scheduled to be concluded by the middle of 2017.

more importantly a verification for our customers,” says Casey Malmquist, president and general manager, SmartLam. “As CLT use continues to grow across the United States, certification underscores the viability of this material as a future mainstream construction practice.”

First developed in Austria more than 25 years ago, CLT has a documented track record supporting its widespread use across Europe. Adoption of this construction method has grown with the green building movement. With careful, yet conventional planning and engineering considerations, the service life of a CLT building can last as long as buildings constructed from other materials like concrete or steel. Unlike concrete and steel, CLT is made entirely from wood, the only renewable building material.

SMARTLAM GAINS CLT CERTIFICATION SmartLam Technologies Group reports it is now certified under the American National Standards Institute approved ANSI/APA PRG 320-2012 Standard for Performance-rated CrossLaminated Timber.

SmartLam cross-laminated timber is an engineered wood building system made from several layers of solid lumber boards, stacked crosswise to each other and bonded together with a nonVOC and formaldehyde free adhesive.

This provides dimensional stability, strength and rigidity, making the product a viable alternative to concrete, masonry and steel in many applications.

The standard adopted by ANSI details the manufacturing and performance requirements for quality assurance.

“The validation of this certification is a point of pride among our employees, but

In addition to this certification standard for manufacturing and performance requirements, application standards are also being adopted: the use of CLT was incorporated into the 2015 edition of the International Building Code (IBC) as well as the 2015 edition of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 5000 Building Construction and Safety Code.

“With our wide range of products and services, we provide unmatched support to a wide variety of markets,” Malmquist says. “We continuously update and improve our processes to keep pace with developing codes and standards, today and in the future.”

SmartLam produces more than 1MMBF of CLT each month. Visit smartlam.com.

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also monitored the correct operation in the first month after commissioning. From planning right up to commissioning and beyond—always a clean affair.

(Article submitted by Scheuch.)

WAR ON SILICA

Scheuch’s SENA wet ESP emits clean emissions.

Since a SENA wet electrostatic precipitator was retrofitted in the drum dryer of the chipboard manufacturer Laminex in Dardanup, Western Australia, white smoke has been literally rising from the chimneys.

When chipped wood is drying, the resulting flying ash, fine wood dust and aerosols—known as the “blue haze”—needs to be filtered out. For Laminex, situated 200 km south of Perth in a popular holiday region, the challenge of finding a cleaner solution was especially great.

After initial customer contact at the Ligna trade fair in Hannover, Germany, Thomas Kreuzhuber, Head of Sales for the wood-based panels industry at Scheuch, got a good idea of the requirements on site in Dardanup. It quickly became clear to him that only a wet electrostatic precipitator would solve the problem.

The dryer’s cyclones cannot meet the required dust limit values. Bag filters and dry electrostatic precipitators are not suitable filter technologies due to the resins and wood dust contained in the gas. Separation with a venturi wet scrubber would only work for a certain particle size and, in this gas composition, the particle size is much smaller.

“At Scheuch, we see ourselves not only as sellers, but also as generators of ideas and as a partner for our customers,” explains Kreuzhuber.

It took two years to clarify the technical matters, and the filter was tailored exactly to the customer’s requests. The customer also viewed a reference plant in Europe.

In the SENA wet electrostatic precipitator, the dryer exhaust gas leaves the dryer and is sprayed in the crude gas duct. After entering the filter, the gas is optimally distributed over an additional, permanently sprayed wet scrubber layer and is cleaned of any coarse particles. In an electrostatic filter stage operated with high voltage, aerosols and dust are separated and clean gas will be emitted.

SENA is normally a one-off investment due to its long service life. The filter is safe to operate, guarantees adherence to limit values and normally only needs to be cleaned once or twice per year. In addition, the customer was supported on site by Scheuch’s experienced staff members during the filter assembly work. During the work, which took four months in this particular case, a supervisor was always on site. Scheuch staff members

Overview of the 70 t/h b.d. dryer installed by Instalmec at Burgos. The new dryer has been operative since October 2016 together with the new cleaning line for the dry area (running since November ’16).

Instalmec has won the challenge against silica at the plant of one of the world’s biggest panel producers. A couple of years ago a new combustion chamber had been installed at this producer’s plant, but it did not stop the sedimentation of silica, causing its vitrification, plant stoppages and considerable problems to production.

Silica is responsible for: —a poor quality of the panel (when it is present in high concentration) —wear of the dryer —wear of the dry area of the plant In order to keep a plant working efficiently it is necessary to ensure that all machinery is kept clean and that any harmful substance is removed and disposed safely without harming the environment.

Instalmec has been providing technical solution respecting the environment for 40 years. Focusing on designing better products Instalmec has studied and manufactured innovative combustion chambers that guarantee an optimal sedimentation of the silica, thus solving the problem of vitrification. The design of the combustion chamber allows the settling of higher quantities of silica at the bottom of the chamber, while an automatic system removes it ensuring a continuous and optimum performance of the system. The automatic system for the removal of the silica is installed also in the separation chamber. An automatic fresh air control system ensures that the temperature in the chamber is high enough for a good combustion, but not sufficiently high for melting the silica.

The Instalmec combustion chamber is able to meet the emission standards set by strict regulations for the respect of the environment. Thanks to the optimum management of the process gases, pollutant emissions are reduced; moreover, the system keeps the gases moisture close to saturation point, avoiding the

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Instalmec has a long experience in the design, manufacture and erection of sucking and pneumatic transport, in addition to the production of cleaning systems for drying wood particles, strands and fiber for the PB, OSB and MDF panel sectors.

The wood panels manufactured with recycled wood treated with Instalmec cleaning system have excellent mechanical and aesthetic properties; furthermore the percentage of silica in panels made with recycled wood is significantly lower than the percentage requested by the strictest regulations in force.

sessment of physical samples between printing plants of decorative paper and their customers is no longer necessary, saving process costs.

Leading printing plants of decorative paper and converters of decorative paper use ACMS as process tool for the color match as well as the DQM. ACMS is a good addition to the visual measuring

system, GreCon SUPERSCAN, for the inspection of raw and decorative panels that has been successfully used in the wood based panel industry for years.

Presently, 13 ACMS systems are in operation. Egger ordered three for its plants in Gifhorn and Wismar, Germany and Gebze, Turkey immediately after the acquisition became known.

(Article submitted by Instalmec.)

FAGUS-GRECON ADDS VISUAL MEASURING Fagus-GreCon, a leading manufacturer of measuring systems for the wood based panel industry, has acquired the majority interest of Improve Process Analytics and Control GmbH (Ipac) of Villach, Austria.

With this investment, Fagus-GreCon expands its expertise in visual measuring systems.

With the Advanced Color Measurement System (ACMS), the company Ipac is a leader for the color measurement of decorative surfaces. ACMS replaces subjective assessment of physical samples by human beings by objective measuring data.

“Through the future close cooperation between Fagus-GreCon and Ipac, synergistic effects arise that will be of great advantage for manufacturers of high quality decorative surfaces,” says Harald Jordan, Managing Director of Ipac. The ACMS color measuring system is accepted by both decorative paper printing plants and the wood based panel processing industry for the reproduction of decors for the color match and certification of the color effects and contrast. The color match allows the production of a defined quality while waste paper and scrapping steps are reduced.

With ACMS replacing visual and subjective quality control by objective measuring data, the system provides the precondition for the introduction of Digital Quality Management (DQM). With the introduction of DQM, sending and asPanelWorld • NOVEMBER 2016 • 55

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CLIPPINGS GATHERING IN STARKVILLE Mississippi State University in Stark ville, Miss. hosted the Veneer Based Plywood and Engineered Lumber short course Septem ber 13-15.

The event included presentations on a range of topics including log peeling, veneer drying, resins & adhesives, operations strategies and others. MSU has long been recognized for its Forest Products Lab research. The event included a tour of the upcoming Winston Plywood and Veneer plant in Louisville, Miss. Some of the participants are shown above.

FANTONI ORDERS ENERGY PLANT Italian-based Fantoni MDF has ordered a new energy plant from Italian company ITI Engineering of Cremona.

The energy plant with a total net combustion capacity of 30 MW will use a 50 m2 grate to generate 10 MW of flue gas for heating dryers and 20 MW for heating thermal oil. Complete assembly, steel structure and startup is also part of ITI’s scope of supply and is scheduled to be concluded by third quarter 2017.

WOODMAC CHINA POSTPONED FOR 2017 Organizers of WoodMac China— China National Forestry Machinery Assn., China International Exhibitions Ltd. and Deutsche Messe—announced that WoodMac China and associated events FurniTek and WoodBuild China and Forestry China scheduled March 79, 2017 in Shanghai is postponed until at least 2018.

Citing reasons for the postponement, Brendan Jennings, General Manager for China International Exhibitions, states, “The slowdown of the Chinese economy generally and specifically the fall in new house and apartment building have had an adverse effect on the market for wood products used in building and furniture manufacturing and consequently demand for woodworking technology.”

He adds that the organizers want to preserve the reputation of the WoodMac

China brand as a quality exhibition for new and innovative technology. “This is best achieved when the market returns to a growth phase,” he says.

WoodMac China has served the Chinese market for woodworking technology since 1995. Organizers will continue to monitor the Chinese economy and reschedule it when market conditions improve.

SWISS KRONO GROUP NAMES NEW CEO Martin Brettenthaler is the new CEO of Swiss Krono Group. Brettenthaler, 45, was educated in economics in St. Gallen and Paris and worked for a few years as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group before entering the timber industry 15 years ago.

Brettenthaler succeeds Maciej Karnicki, who in his dual role as the CEO and as Site Manager of the corporation’s largest factory in Poland, will at his own request now develop business activities of the Polish production facility.

President of the Board of Directors, Ines Kaindl, comments, “I am happy that we were able to win Martin Brettenthaler for our group. Together with the experienced and long-standing executive management board and our site management, he will implement our ambitious strategy with success in the years to come.”

The Swiss Krono Group ranks among the world’s leading manufacturers of engineered wood products, with 10 facto-

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CLIPPINGS ries in eight countries. At the beginning of 2016, the process began to change the names and logos of the individual sites with a single, unified brand image, with the corporation acting as an integrated group under the name Swiss Krono.

DANZER RECOGNIZED FOR DUE DILIGENCE Danzer North America, Darlington, Pa., has received the ISO 17065 certificate for its due diligence program for the procurement of legal timber. HPVA Laboratories, the testing and certification arm of Reston, Va.-based Hardwood Plywood & Veneer Assn., issued the certificate in June. The new due diligence standard ANS LTDD 1.0 2015, published in March 2015, was developed jointly by the American National Standards Institute and HPVA. With one of the hardwood industry’s largest and most experienced procurement organizations, Danzer has a long history of formally managing its procurement processes to ensure the procurement of legal timber.

Danzer formalized its procurement policy in 2005 using the ISO14001 framework. It has been audited by a third party ever since.

“Our existing groundwork has been the reason that Danzer could pass the new standard so quickly,” says Kami Ervin, sustainability and compliance director at Danzer North America. “While Danzer’s due diligence system is not new, having a program certified to the ANS LTDD Standard will further offer peace of mind to our stakeholders that we are providing a legal and responsible product to our customers. It is also easier for customers to communicate and prove the legality of their raw material, when they buy from a certified source.”

The new Danzer certificate applies to all Danzer wood and wood products in North America from logs to veneer, including higher risk items like exotic trade veneers.

The company has approximately 2,600 employees and services customers from 21 sales offices worldwide.

Founded in 1932, the family oriented company is managed by a member of the third generation. Danzer owns and manages forests sustainably and produces sliced veneer, lumber and innova-

tive value-added wood products for decorative purposes.

For more information, visit dan zer.com.

GROUP EMPHASIZES SAFE TRUCKING TEAM Safe Trucking (TST), a broad-based, non-profit volunteer group seeking to elevate the standard and performance of the American forest industry’s transportation sector, is moving ahead with its ambitious agenda, according to organizers, who met in early fall to review the progress of TST and to tweak its priorities.

The group launched a web site (teamsafetruck ing.com) in October. The web site is being populated with information and tools designed to help TST reach its objective. Its emerging safety-focused program will embrace awareness and education; driver training, skillset improvement, motivation and recruitment; fleet best management practices; and public image enhancement.

The organization expects to expand its program nationwide as it secures additional funding through donations from stakeholders and through grants. At least 10 companies and associations have contributed funds to TST. As well, Virginia Tech University has committed funds and a graduate student to conduct log/chip truck accident research, which is just beginning. The study will help guide TST’s work going forward.

Organizers consist of logging companies, log trucking entities, wood fiber suppliers, paper/wood products manufacturers, insurance companies, and logging and forestry association representatives.

According to TST president Rick Quagliaroli, “Our objective is to help make the forest industry’s trucking segment safer, more accountable, more efficient, and more acceptable to the public. This will take some time. For the good of the industry as a whole, we’re asking for all connected parties to ‘buy in’ with their ideas, enthusiasm and support.”

To learn more, visit teamsafetruck ing.com, e-mail Quaqliaroli at rick@ swampfoxagency.com or e-mail Jimmie Locklear at jimmielocklear@forestry mutual (phone 910-733-3300).

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20 ➤ plate texture matches the paper so it’s pretty wicked. It’s just another level of what you can offer the customer.”

A semi-automatic plate changer has a 20 plate magazine and they can change both top and bottom plates in 25 minutes.

“The flexibility of the line is just amazing. It’s world class top technology with much quicker paper changeouts,” Swinnie adds.

A GreCon Superscan automatic grading and surface inspection system works in conjunction with manual grading and in line quality inspection station. The new press area also features an automatic polyester strapping machine from Samuel Strapping.

As a result of the new TFL line Arauco doubled the size of its paper room and increased the width storage area by a total of 65,000 square feet.

The new press system complements the company’s existing Siempelkamp 5x20 melamine press.

The plant is offering Arauco’s new Prism TFL brand. Swinnie says the TFL industry is driven by design, color and texture. Shaving weeks off of delivery time is a major benefit to meet fastchanging styles and market needs.

About 20% of particleboard production at Bennettsville is moved to the laminate area. A considerable amount of the treated paper comes from Arauco’s plant at Bisco, only an hour away.

PERSONNEL The Bennettsville plant runs around the clock and is currently increasing its

One of Arauco’s new product lines is PRISM TFL.

staffing up to approximately 215. They have a core maintenance staff that runs on the day shifts. Arauco is a big believer is empowering its employees. The company wants to give its operators the opportunity to run the process and run their teams. Swinnie feels the plant struggled with this philosophy for a number of years in the recent past and that this impacted performance and plant culture. The organization is working hard to recapture that spirit in the work place.

“The magic happens when the employees are empowered to make the decisions and are well educated and well trained,” Swinnie says. “We as an organization have to make sure we’re giving them the

proper training and clarity to where we’re trying to drive the ship. It’s a fun process.

It’s infectious when you see these men and women grab it. Efficiency is going to be better because they care.”

Swinnie started out as the finance manager for Arauco’s Bennettsville plant and worked his way up to plant manager. He has been with the company for five years. “We’ve built a strong team who’s going to do the right thing and run this facility right,” Swinnie says. “We’ve worked hard to get a really sound and ethical team. No matter how nice the assets are, it is the teams that will take these facilities to the next level and will truly make it a world PW class facility.”

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2016

EDITORIAL INDEX JANUARY

how industry has faired after downturn.

Page 14.

Taking Stock New Projects Bring In The New Year.

Page 3.

Roseburg Puts New Life Into LongStanding P’Board Mill In Missoula.

A serious facelift has improved production efficiency and raw material usage.

Page 14.

2016 Directory/Buyer’s Guide. Pages 20-68.

MARCH

New Projects, New Products Lead Discussions At PELICE 2016 In Atlanta Not only a record crowd, but an enthused one pumped up the Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo. Page 16.

North American Plywood & Veneeer Based Industry: The Reinvention Continues Fewer mills, larger capacities, increasing automation and management tools.

Page 28.

Taking Stock PELICE 2016 Will Get To the Heart Of The Matter. Page 3.

Xylexpo 2016 Preview. Page 38.

PELICE 2016 Exhibitors See Busy Schedules, Solid Prospects For More Improvement Projects Vendors are seeing a lot of interest in panel industry capital investments and hope the planning come to fruition during PELICE. Page 12.

Roseburg FP Brings Data Optimization To Life. Page 52.

Wisconsin veneer company stays strong and steady through the ups and downs by paying attention to detail. Page 18.

Real Pulse Of The Panel & EWP Industry Will Be Felt At TP&EE 2016 In Portland. Page 24.

Cross-Laminated Timber, New Panel Production Technologies Highlight Plywood and EWP Workshop The workshop will be held the first day of the Timber Processing and Energy Expo in Portland, Ore. Page 34.

PELICE Preview. Page 36.

One Mill Finds Solutions To Enhanced Biomass-Fueled Furnances. Page 44.

WMF 2016 Preview. Page 44.

Quality Control Products. Page 58.

JULY Taking Stock Among The First, Among The Greatest.

Page 3.

PELICE Preview. Page 23.

Partnerships Enhance Panel Repair.

Page 74.

APA Meeting Reveals Optimism.

Page 82.

MAY Taking Stock Fifth Edition Of PELICE Really Popped.

Page 3.

Not Your Regular Recovery: Homebuilding Gains More Momentum Ongoing economic trends are having positive and negative impacts on housing market. Page 12.

International Trade Issues Affecting Hardwood Plywood Recovery Hardwood Plywood & Veneer Assn. president takes a look at hardwood plywood industry since downturn. Page 13.

Composite Segment Of Indistry Recovering Slow, Steady Composite Panel Assn. leader discusses

Huber Continues To Invest In Small But Mighty Easton Mill The Maine facility is the smallest and oldest in the Huber Engineered Woods’ portfolio. Page 10.

PELICE Technical Session Delivers Adhesives Information From basic research to new technology.

Page 16.

IWF Preview. Page 20.

SEPTEMBER Taking Stock Wrapping Our Minds Around Formaldehyde. Page 3.

Improvements Boost Quality, Production For Veneer Drying Line At Medford Plant.

Timber Products Co. makes extensive investment in southern Oregon hardwood plywood facilities. Page 12.

Woodland Face Veneer Attends To Details, Quality And Customer Care

NOVEMBER Taking Stock Now This Is A Good Issue. Page 3.

New Green Core Dryer Offers More Production, Greater Flexibility For Arauco’s Carolina Particleboard New green core dryer, new flaker, also a new TFL line have started up. Page 14.

LP’s ‘Legendary’ Facility In Wisconsin Keeps Two Lines Moving Quickly, Leaning To Siding The oldest mill in LP’s portfolio produces both OSB and siding products. Page 22.

TP&EE Event Promotes New Products, Top Technology For Producers In Panel Industry.

More than 200 exhibitors highlight wellattended trade show. Page 27.

Altec-DEMCO Merger Brings Two Innovators Together Committed to green end technology to improve veneer and plywood production.

Page 34.

D.R. Johnson Builds On Glulam Experience With CLT Production D.R. Johnson Lumber invests in the future of cross-laminated timber with its CLT plant venture. Page 38.

IWF In Photos. Page 48.

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VENEER/PANEL SUPPLIERS

DIRECTORY ASIA

AUSTRALIA/OCEANIA

■ Poland

■ China KAOCHUAN

WOODWORK CO., LTD. Taiwanese Enterprise in China

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

kaochuan@kaochuanwoodwork.com

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

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

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

EUROPE

www.kaochuanwoodwork.com

■ India

■ Spain

■ Germany M P VENEERS, INDIA “Teak People”

PRODUCERS OF SLICED AND ROTARY CUT VENEERS

Recognized Export House by Govt. of INDIA Recognized Environmentally Friendly An ISO 9001-2008 Co. Enterprise by Chamber of Commerce, FMPCCI 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 Qtr 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

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

■ Switzerland

■ Italy

■ Taiwan

GREAT GIANT INC. VENEER AND VENEERED PRODUCTS

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

www.timbercom.com

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 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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VENEER/PANEL SUPPLIERS DIRECTORY

NORTH AMERICA

■ Idaho

■ Canada

A new “Dimension” in Veneer & Plywood

Dimension Plywood Inc.

■ British Columbia

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

Producers of high quality fine face veneers.

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

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

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

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

■ Indiana Amos-Hill Associates, Inc.

■ Ontario

A FULL SERVICE PLYWOOD & VENEER COMPANY WE OFFER: Short turnaround time, In-house veneer mill—ROTARY, FLAT CUT, RIFT and QUARTERS, Custom pressing capabilities, Architectural specified plywood jobs, Huge veneer and core inventory, Over 100 natural species and engineer veneers in stock, All sizes and thicknesses–6'x4' to 5'x12', Internal logistics for fast on-time deliveries

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

■ United States ■ Georgia

Dimension Hardwood Veneers, Inc.

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

Reserve your space today.

Call Melissa McKenzie 800-669-5613

Producers of fine veneer for the global market, since 1892

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

Contact us: Birchland Plywood-Veneer Ltd. TeL: 705-842-2430 • Fax: 705-842-2496 Visit www.birchlandplywood.com to view our “Live Log Program”

Reserve your space today.

Call Melissa McKenzie 800-669-5613

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

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

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 “Hands On Personalized Relationships”

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

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

MANUFACTURER OF QUALITY HARDWOOD AND SOFTWOOD VENEERS

Locate veneer & plywood products and services w o r l d w i d e .

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

Green & Kiln Dried Hardwood Lumber

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VENEER/PANEL SUPPLIERS DIRECTORY RSVP is proud to offer

■ Mississippi

Universal Veneer Mill Corp.

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.

Manufacturing and Sales Sliced Harwood Veneers Custom Cutting Available

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

1776 Tamarack Road Newark, OH 43055 Ph: (740) 522-2000 Email:

www.RSVPveneer.com

info@universalveneer.com

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

1-800-366-6374

www.magnoliaforest.com

Locate veneer & plywood products and services w o r l d w i d e .

Terry, MS J.I.T. & P.I.T. Nationwide

■ Oregon

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

■ Kentucky A new “Dimension” in Veneer & Plywood

Dimension Hardwood Veneers, Inc.

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

Dimension Plywood Inc.

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

Locate veneer & plywood products and services w o r l d w i d e .

■ Minnesota

■ Vermont

BUFFALO VENEER & PLYWOOD CO. Quality Plywood, Six decades strong!

Stock Panels Counter Front Panels All Thicknesses and Cores NAF, FR and MR Availability Domestic and Imported Veneers CARB P2 Certified

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

QUALIFICATIONS: • BS in business or engineering • Minimum of 5 years as plant manager with forest products company • Ability to multi-task and self-motivate • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Results oriented

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

gcopeland@mrihouston.com • www.mrihouston.com

Recruiting Services Executive – Managerial – Technical - Sales

JOHN GANDEE

& ASSOCIATES, INC

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SEARCH NORTH AMERICA, INC. IT'S YOUR MOVE...

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“Your Success Is Our Business” THE Forest Products Group

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

Jon Olson

Tel: (800) 985-5191

jon@olsonsearch.com

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

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Send resume to: Human Resources Darlington Veneer Company PO Box 1087 Darlington, SC 29540 sbritton@darlingtonveneer.com 475 800-845-2388

PANELWORKS WYSOCKI CTS VENEER, INC.

Rotary-cut, cut-to-size, northern hardwood veneers.

No job too large or too small.

Let me quote on your needs.

Call or Write: Walter Wysocki 8109 County Line Rd. • Armstrong Creek, WI 54103 Phone & Fax (715) 336-2351 Email: wysockicts@gmail.com 2037

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JOB DESCRIPTION: • Has overall responsibility for all company activities including P&L responsiblity • Provides direction to all department managers including sales, production, maintenance and human resources and responds to their problems.

• Provides and manages strategic manufacturing plans and objectives • Monitors and insures that all regulatory issues are closely followed such as CARB, EPA, LACEY, FSC, OSHA • Strives for continuous improvement in manufacturing processes • Reviews manufacturing reports daily

Specializing in confidential career opportunities in the Forest Products industry 2200

GENERAL MANAGER

Darlington Veneer Company is a manufacturer of stock panel hardwood plywood located in Darlington, SC. A third generation familyowned business, the plant employs approximately 115 co-works in a one-shift operation.

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EVENTS NOVEMBER

SEPTEMBER

5-8 • APA-Engineered Wood Assn. annual meeting and Engineered Wood Technology Assn. Info Fair, Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort & Spa, Bonita Springs, Fla. Call 253565-6600; visit apawood.org.

12-15 • FMC China 2017: Furniture Manufacturing & Supply China 2015, Shanghai New International Expo Center, Shanghai, China. Call +86-21-33392048; email martin.du@ubm sinoexpo.com; visit fmcchina.com.cn/en-us.

MARCH 2017

OCTOBER

1-4 • Delhiwood 2017, India Expo Centre & Mart, Greater Noida, India. Call+91-80-4250 5000; visit delhi-wood.com.

1-3 • Composite Panel Assn. Fall meeting, Hyatt Regency, Savannah, Ga. Call 703-724-1128; visit compositepanel.org.

7-9 • WoodMac China 2017, Shanghai New International Expo Center, Shanghai, PR China. Call +44 (0) 20 7840 2104; visit woodmacchina.net.

APRIL 5-7 • IWPA 61st World of Wood Annual Convention, Hotel Nikko, San Francisco, Calif. Call 703-820-6696; visit iwpawood.org.

9-11 • American Wood Protection Assn. annual meeting, Encore at Wynn Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nev. Call 205-7334077; visit awpa.com.

30-May 3 • Composite Panel Assn. Spring meeting, Grand Fiesta Americana, Los Cabos, Mexico. Call 703-7241128; visit compositepanel.org.

MAY 7-9 • Hardwood Plywood & Veneer Assn. Spring Conference, Marriott Vancouver Pinnacle Downtown, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Call 703-435-2900; visit hpva.org.

22-26 • Ligna: World Fair For The Forestry And Wood Industries, Hannover, Germany. Call +49 511 89-0; fax +49 511 89-32626; visit ligna.de.

JUNE 14-16 • Forest Products & Machinery Equipment Exposition, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 504-4434464; e-mail: egee@sfpa.org; visit sfpaexpo.com.

JULY 19-22 • AWFS Fair 2017, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV. Call 800-946-2937; visit awfsfair.org.

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