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A Hatton-Brown Publication

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Biewer Lumber Is At It Again in Mississippi

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PERSON OF THE YEAR

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CHARLES INGRAM LUMBER

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MONTANA’S MARKS

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Robert Jordan, IV Leads The Way

On The Forefront of Drying Technology

All About Forest Health, Utilization

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Gordon Paved The Way in The South

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Hood’s Ben Crim Coasts Into Retirement Scanners, Forklifts, Saw Filing

COVER: Robert Jordan, IV has spearheaded the amazing growth of Jordan Companies in Mt. Gilead, NC. Story begins on PAGE 20. (Jessica Johnson photo) Inset: Charles Ingram Lumber’s new DPK. Story begins on PAGE 28. (Patrick Dunning photo)

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THEISSUES

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Jessica Johnson Senior Associate Editor

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he irony is not lost on me that here we are, in the beginning of the year, with another dynamic (and incredibly deserving) industry titan gracing the cover of this magazine as our Person of the Year, and I am once again about to start, as my kids would call it, blathering about his family.

But, here I go: I am going to blather about his family.

During these, dare I say, unprecedented times—of which I of course mean lumber prices that are so high I envision lumbermen dancing around their offices after everyone has gone home scattering rose petals and $20 bills around before hopping into a brand new sports car/fancy pick-up truck/luxury SUV to feed their spouses bon bons—one thing has been for certain, the industry remains strong and the families that support it are equally incredibly important. Families like the Jordans.

2020 was a hard year for them, as they grappled with losing their patriarch, Bob Jordan, TP Person of the Year in 2007, and just overall the kind of guy you want in your corner. A champion for his beloved state of North Carolina, the industry at large, Robert Jordan, IV with his family with a special heart for children’s charities, Bob Jordan is exactly whom the TP Person of the Year committee looks for. It is only natural that he’d pass along all those great qualities to his son, 2021’s Person of the Year, Robert Jordan, IV. Robert Jordan, IV is just like his father in so many ways: he’s charitable; he’s smart; he’s passionate about the industry. He is exactly whom I want in my corner. He’s the guy that gets things done—I remember my first interaction with him, as Jordan Lumber & Supply was putting the finishing touches on the new TBL3 Comact sawmill line at its flagship mill in Mt. Gilead. He explained the thought process in incredible detail while buzzing with excitement, giving a rare glance behind the numbers that TP is sometimes cut out of. It was during this visit in 2018 that I met another Jordan man, Vince, Robert’s son, who struck me as a chip off the old block, so to speak. It was Vince who gave me the mill tour, and gave me a complete and total walk through of the technologies in action. He was buzzing with excitement talking about the project. It was like déjà vu.

And then I realized something—that’s whom the Jordan men are. They have a passion for the industry and their projects and their family’s mill that’s in the blood. They just can’t help it. During my time with Robert for his Person of the Year profile, he talked a lot about taking over the family business as a third generation owner, and the initial reservations he had, but that for the fourth generation, he’s officially got no reservations. The next generation, his sons, Wes, Vince and Landon, are poised and ready. The Jordan Companies, and its core business Jordan Lumber & Supply, is going to be just fine. Maybe it is just that they make them a little differently in Mt. Gilead, but these Jordan men, they are something special. And it won’t surprise me at all if in a few decades we have our first third TP generation Person of the Year winner.

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NEWSFEED BIEWER PLANS SECOND SYP GREENFIELD MILL iewer Lumber is constructing its secB ond greenfield southern yellow pine sawmill in Mississippi, this one in

sawmills in Michigan, two in Wisconsin and one in Mississippi.

“My family’s passion for the lumber industry has prompted this expansion in the South,” Biewer adds. “There is no better place to grow the business than the fiber-rich state of Mississippi.”

to eligible businesses that create jobs exceeding the average annual wage of the state or the county in which the Winona, about 100 miles north of its first company locates. one in Newton, and 130 miles south of Montgomery County is providing a Memphis. The $130 million investment, “fee-in-lieu of property taxes.” which is expected to create 150 jobs, will BID Group will manage, design, use BID Group as the turnkey build, equip and provide supplier, which was also the full startup services for case at Newton. the project. BID reports “We had just completed the new mill will be fitted our expansion with the secwith BID’s leading prodond production line with the uct technologies, optiBID Group in Newton at the mization software, and arend of 2019, so in 2020 we tificial intelligence, and started to strategize our next will feature the new Comove to grow our southern mact Variable Tool Openyellow pine sawmill busiing (VTO) debarker with ness,” comments Biewer in-line flare reducer, cant Lumber President and CEO, optimization system, and Tim Biewer, a former Timber TrimExpert. The planer Processing Person of the mill will feature a Miller Year recipient. planer, Comact GradExBiewer Lumber was the pert and the new SortPro first company to start up a lumber sorting software. turnkey BID SYP sawmill at Lumber drying will be Newton in late 2016. performed with three DelBiewer Lumber started up a greenfield sawmill in Newton, Miss. in late “We have developed a Tech continuous dry 2016 and added a second line in 2019. great trust in the BID team’s kilns. ability to go above and beyond to deliver The facility in Newton expanded in “We would like to thank Biewer what they commit to,” Biewer says.

2019 with a second line, increasing proLumber for their ongoing trust in BID,” “Their dedication to our success is clear duction to 350MMBF annually. The comments Alistair Cook, President and in all aspects of their performance. This sawmill in Winona will have similar pro- CEO of BID Group. “We delivered our has been evidenced through the course duction capacity. very first new generation greenfield of two major successful projects togethMississippi Development Authority lumber complex to the Biewer team in er, including our first investment in (MDA) is providing an Industry Incen- 2016. Since then, we’ve delivered sevBID’s industry-transforming mill design tive grant to assist with road infrastruc- eral similar projects. We are humbled at our Newton facility.” ture and rail and site prep. MDA also and honored that Biewer has chosen to Biewer Lumber is also currently is providing a CAP loan to Montpartner with us again for their next building a new planer line with BID gomery County to assist with public major growth investment.”

Group at the McBain, Mich. sawmill. infrastructure. The company also qualWork on site will begin in first quarter Biewer Lumber is based in St. Clair, ifies for the Advantage Jobs Rebate 2021 and startup of the sawmill is schedTP Mich. and currently operates two program, which provides a cash rebate uled for December 2021.

MISSION FP MILL PLACES ORDER Mission Forest Products is proceeding with plans to build a $160 million 250MMBF annual production greenfield sawmill in Corinth, Miss. and has placed a substantial order with machinery supplier USNR. To take advantage of Mis6

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sissippi’s abundant timber resources, attractive lumber pricing, and promising housing market, Timberland Investment Resources is investing in the new greenfield mill at Corinth, which will be called Mission Forest Products and with a targeted 250MMBF annual production.

USNR will supply the following for the sawmill: a complete edger line featuring

the MillTrak lumber flow management system, edger Maximizer positioning infeed, 3saw edger with top reman head and close coupled picker tailer, and USNR’s edger optimizer with BioLuma 2900L sensors.

The trimmer line will feature USNR’s trimmer optimizer with BioLuma 2900L sensors.

Two Uniflow continuous dry kilns with 8-grate green fuel burners and Kiln Boss control

system will be implemented.

In the planer mill USNR will install the Transverse High Grader (THG) automated grading system, integrated with the WinTally sorter management system.

Mid-South Engineering is contracted to handle the civil and building work. Installation is scheduled for the latter half of 2021, with startup in the first quarter of 2022. ➤8

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NEWSFEED 6 ➤ Mission Forest Products is a subsidiary of Timberland Investment Resources, LLC. The state-of-the-art pine sawmill will be financed through capital provided by investors that TIR represents.

“Our objective is for this mill to become one of the lowest cost and most reliable suppliers of high quality dimensional lumber products in North America,” says TIR Managing Director Christopher Mathis. “We intend to do this by capitalizing on three things—the abundance of high quality timber in the area, Corinth’s proximity to the growing housing markets of the U.S. South and lower Midwest, and the low cost, high-efficiency nature of the mill’s design.”

TIR decided to locate the mill in Corinth due to the rail and road access it offers to growing population centers

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like Memphis, Nashville, Birmingham and the lower U.S. Midwest—all areas where lumber demand is high and is projected to increase in the future due to commercial and population expansion.

In addition, the area surrounding Corinth, which sits where the state lines of Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi intersect, also is a prime timber-growing region that currently is underserved with sawmilling capacity despite the plentiful inventory of high quality timber that is growing in its vast forestlands, which are generally owned by local families and large institutional investors, such as those TIR represents.

TIR also was attracted to the Corinth area because it has a skilled forest products workforce.

Mississippi Development Authority is providing assis-

tance for infrastructure improvements. The company also qualifies for the Advantage Jobs Rebate Program.

SAWMILL FINDS NEW HOME

operate a sawmill.

The 425,000 sq. ft. facility, which sits on a 35-acre property, was built in 1996 as a tissue paper manufacturing facility and owned by global manufacturer Essity, which shut it down in 2019.

Good Earth Power/NewLife plans to produce 120MMBF per year of lumber and also produce engineered wood products, while employing 200. The company currently operates older sawmills in Heber and Williams, Ariz. It

Good Earth Power AZ and its operating entity, NewLife Forest Products, which received the Phase I 4FRI contract to harvest 300,000 acres in Arizona’s national forests back in 2013, and is interested in landing the contract for another 800,000 acres as part of Phase 2 to be awarded in 2021, has acquired a large-scale industrial manufacturing facility in Good Earth Power AZ/NewLife Forest ProdBellemont, Ariz. ucts plans to install a sawmill in this recently near Flagstaff in acquired 425,000 sq. ft. vacant manufacturorder to build and ing facility.

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NEWSFEED had started ground work on a new sawmill in Williams, but decided to invest in the vacant manufacturing plant and relocate the sawmill there.

Good Earth Power gained the U.S. Forest Service Four Forests Restoration Initiative (4FRI) Phase 1 contract in 2013. 4FRI is an effort by the Forest Service to restore 2.4 million acres of dense forest on portions of the Apache-Sitgreaves, Tonto, Coconino and Kaibab national forests in northern Arizona. The project began in 2012 and came on the heels of several years of devastating wildfires across the state. The 300,000-acre Phase I contract for 4FRI was initially issued to Montanabased Pioneer Forest Products in 2012; however, one year into the project Pioneer stepped away and the Forest Service gave the contract to Good Earth Power AZ. But

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Good Earth Power/NewLife has only thinned a small portion of the contract amount, citing various logistical and technical difficulties, as well as a lack of market for biomass, a major byproduct of any thinning program.

“This is the most exciting and important project I have been involved with in my 40year career in the forest products industry,” says NewLife Forest Products CEO Ted Dergousoff, who recently joined NewLife and has built and operated large-scale mill infrastructure in Washington State and British Columbia, Can. Dergousoff was most recently a consultant, and his career has included chief operations managerial and other roles for companies such as C&C Wood Products, Terminal Forest Products, Western Forest Products, Forest Grove Lumber and others.

“This facility allows us to leapfrog in our scale as a company and as a vital local industry,” Dergousoff adds. “We have invested millions of dollars to retool the existing plant which will allow us to work with our partners to process the mixed inventory of diameter trees and log sizes that the forest gives us. The Bellemont sawmill will play a key role for keeping Coconino County protected from a catastrophic wildfire event.”

According to the company, the sawmill will run multiple lines for processing timber, capable of handling any size logs efficiently and will produce a range of lumber and engineered wood products and bagged residuals. The new facility will also allow NewLife to process smaller fiber and ramp up to forest thinning and harvesting 30,000 acres per year, the company states.

“This facility helps Good Earth Power AZ to deliver on its vision for a sustainable model for forest management, without government subsidy,” adds Jason Rosamond, Chairman and Founder of NewLife Forest Products who led Good Earth Power early on during the awarding of the original 4FRI contract. “We look forward to creating jobs through this incredible new facility that will breathe life into the Arizona forest products industry.”

The Bellemont facility will house a sawmill, planer mill, kilns and engineered wood product lines with ample storage and movement space.

Good Earth Power AZ will also build a rail spur.

Good Earth Power AZ states it has formed a consortium of local partners across Arizona to help build out the regional forest products industry. This consortium in-

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NEWSFEED cludes TriStar Logging and Novo Star Wood Products in preparation for expanding the scope of the forest restoration efforts under Phase 2 of 4FRI. “Arizona’s loggers have a rich history of taking care of our forests and we are united in working together with NewLife Forest Products to get the job done,” says Allen Reidhead of Tristar Logging.

“We believe our harvesting experience and facilities on the east side of the forest really complement NewLife’s growing capabilities in manufacturing and remanufacturing on the west side.”

Good Earth Power AZ and NewLife Forest Products is backed by Lateral Investment Management, a San Mateo, Calif.-based private credit and growth equity firm.

“We believe the ecosystem that NewLife Forest Products is helping to create in Arizona

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with the USFS will serve as a model for helping to restore forests and prevent catastrophic wildfires throughout the region,” says Richard de Silva, managing partner of Lateral. “The mission of the company to reduce fires and to restore the forest is as compelling as the opportunity to create high quality jobs and a successful company.”

The company had actually held an official ground breaking for the new sawmill in Williams in October 2019 and did some earthmoving and foundation work before going in another direction. “We could never have built this building on the Williams property,” Rosamond says, referring to the acquired facility in Bellemonte. “This has water, air, power, gas, high ceilings, overhead cranes — everything you could possibly imagine.”

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ny was struggling to prepare the Williams site for the new mill and that in the end the ground there wasn’t suitable.

ARIZONA TRIES TO FIND FOOTING Uncertainty continues to surround forest restoration efforts in Arizona: A key second contract for the U.S. Forest Service’s (FS) Four Forests Restoration Initiative (4FRI) has been delayed again; Arizona state election results will affect the state’s renewable energy policy that’s going to be a big part of any forest restoration effort; and while recently introduced legislation could make the 4FRI process easier, the federal government’s final budget proposal seeks to eliminate the Forest Service Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program that funds

4FRI and 22 other stewardship projects across the country and shift its administration elsewhere in the Forest Service that also does restoration work to reduce duplication.

The 4FRI is a highly ambitious project seeking to actively treat more than 2 million acres that are at risk for wildfires across four Arizona national forests. The first 4FRI contract awarded in 2012 to treat 300,000 acres has underperformed, as the state faces major challenges, primarily the lack of timber harvesting, hauling and processing capacity to make such extensive forest work viable.

In September 2020, 4FRI officials again extended the deadline for 4FRI’s expansive Phase 2 contract, already delayed a year, due to a variety of issues, primarily questions and requested changes made by potential bidders. Billed as

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NEWSFEED a precedent-shattering stewardship contract that covers 20 years and provides the huge volumes required to justify a major investment in infrastructure and timber processing capacity, Phase 2 seeks to treat more than 800,000 acres but has suffered several delays in awarding the contract.

An FS spokesman says the plan now is to award the Phase 2 contract in April 2021.

Meanwhile, election results from November may not bode well for ongoing discussion requiring utilities to purchase a certain amount of biomass-derived power that would help provide critical markets for the lower quality fiber coming off restoration projects. The Arizona Corporate Commission considers such proposals and voted down a similar mandate 3-2 last year. But once the newly elected commis-

sioners are seated in January, only one commission member is on record supporting a biomass mandate.

Arizona’s only biomass power plant, the 28MW Novopower, can handle enough volume to support roughly 15,000 acres of thinning each year, but more capacity is needed, especially with Phase 2’s projected massive biomass volumes.

Novopower is negotiating new power purchase agreements with Arizona Public Service and the Salt River Project.

According to Novopower President Brad Worsley, despite more competitive solar and wind power prices, utility executives understand the importance of forest treatment and he hopes to have power contracts renewed by mid 2021.

There was also federal legislation introduced late last year by U.S. senator from Ari-

zona, Martha McSally—the Forest Health and Biomass Energy Act of 2020, which would set the table for Arizona to expand biomass power generation by, among other things, creating a fund to help subsidize biomass harvesting, collection and transportation, streamlining the FS bureaucracy in terms of identifying and defining sources—and also giving preferential treatment to facilities that have recently converted from coal burning.

The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining held hearings on the measure in November.

IDAHO FOREST LOOKS SOUTH Idaho Forest Group is building a sawmill in Lumber-

ton, Miss. in Lamar County.

The project is a $120 million investment and will create up to 135 jobs.

Headquartered in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, IFG operates six sawmills and a fingerjoint plant at locations in Idaho and Montana. The company manufactures, markets and distributes a variety of lumber products to consumers predominantly across North America and has the capacity to produce more than 1 billion BF per year, making it one of the country’s largest lumber producers.

IFG is working closely with Pearl River Community College on several workforce training initiatives. Details about training and employment opportunities will be available in early 2021.

“We are pleased to have the confidence of the Lamar County leadership,” says Marc

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NEWSFEED Brinkmeyer, Owner & CEO of Idaho Forest Group.

Mississippi Development Authority is providing assistance for site preparation and rail upgrades. Lamar County and the city of Lumberton also are assisting with the project.

“This is the most exciting news we’ve received in Lumberton in quite some time, and we are thrilled that IFG has chosen Lumberton as their new home in the Southeast U.S.,” says Lumberton Mayor Quincy Rogers.

IFG plans to begin construction on the new sawmill in early 2021 and expects it to be operational in 2022.

The Lamar County Board of Supervisors agreed to transfer 174 acres of county land to IFG for the project.

The site is between Lumberton and Interstate 59, along Old Highway 11.

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JASPER-TOLKO WILL TRIPLE OUTPUT Alabama-based Jasper Lumber Co. and Canada’s Tolko Industries Ltd. have formed a partnership that will expand lumber production at a Walker County facility through a $45 million project creating at least 60 jobs.

The investment will triple capacity at Jasper Lumber’s existing sawmill and create additional activity for its other subsidiary companies. The venture will operate under the parent company Jasper Forest Products LLC, a Jasper-Tolko Partnership.

Plans call for the construction of new facilities, the installation of new machinery, and increased shifting at the mill.

State Sen. Greg Reed says the venture will deliver a mas-

sive economic impact for the northwest Alabama county.

“Wood products serve an important role in the Walker County economy, and this partnership will create a major expansion of the Jasper lumber facility,” Reed says.

Tolko, a family-owned privately held wood products company based in British Columbia, Can., will hold a 50% stake in Jasper Forest Products through its U.S. subsidiary. Tolko produces a variety of wood-based products including lumber, oriented strandboard (OSB), plywood and pellets.

Jasper Lumber is also family-owned and has manufactured southern pine lumber for more than 30 years.

“This joint venture project is an important part of our company growth, and we’re excited to be investing in this mill with Jasper Lumber Co.,”

Tolko CEO Brad Thorlakson says. “This is our third U.S. lumber partnership and supports our product and geographic diversification. We’re pleased to support this facility and enhance its sales, marketing, and logistic capabilities to service existing and new customers across North America and abroad.”

Jasper Lumber Chief Operating Officer Roy Beall says the partnership represents a milestone for his company.

“We are very excited to be partnering with Tolko, who has a proven track record and a long family history in the lumber manufacturing business. Our new partnership with Tolko will allow us to have a larger presence in the industry, and in our local community,” Beall says.

Beall adds the partnership will expand lumber production capacity at the mill site from

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NEWSFEED 70MMBF to 200MMBF. Construction is beginning in early 2021.

The Walker County Development Authority, the Jasper Industrial Development Board, and the city of Jasper have been working on this project for a year securing various funding grants to help expand key utility infrastructure to the project.

“Jasper Lumber has long been a major employer and big part of our community,” adds David Knight, executive director of

the Walker County Development Authority. “Existing industry is the cornerstone of our local economy, and it has been exciting to work with Jasper Lumber and Tolko for the past year on this massive expansion.”

The family of Jasper Forest Products, LLC companies includes Jasper Lumber Co., LLC; Greentree Shavings, LLC; Southern Wood Chips, LLC; and Southern Wood Trucking, LLC.

AUSTRIA’S BINDERHOLZ WINS AUCTION AGAIN Austria-based Binderholz Group has purchased through auction the bankrupt Klausner Lumber Two LLC sawmill operations in Enfield, NC for $83.4 million.

Binderholz had already purchased at auction in August the bankrupt Klausner Lumber One LLC sawmill operations in Live Oak, Fla. for $61 million.

Binderholz prevailed over runnerup bidder Austria-based Mayr Melnhof Holz both times.

Reinhard Binder, CEO of Binderholz, comments: “The acquisition of Klausner Lumber Two is the logical complement to the Klausner Lumber One plant. With this acquisition accomplished, the foundation has been laid for further investments.”

Klausner Lumber Two had produced some green lumber before going down.

As some technical investments still have to be made, production is expected to start at the end of 2021.

Construction at Enfield began in 2015 and over the years several setbacks and delays plagued the operation. Klausner shut it down this past March.

With this acquisition Binderholz becomes the largest European lumber producer with nine sawmills in Austria, Germany, Finland and the U.S. Both Klausner sawmills were expected to produce 350MMBF of southern yellow pine lumber annually.

Family-owned Binderholz now has 14 locations producing sawn timber, profiled timber, single- and multi-layer glued solid wood panels, glued laminated timber and cross laminated timber.

Once both U.S. mills are running, it will employ 3,500 at five Austrian sites, five German sites, two Finnish sites and the two U.S. sites.

HANKINS LUMBER PLANS TIMBERS SAWMILL Hankins Lumber is building a timbers sawmill in Grenada County, Miss. The project is a $12.5 million investment and will create 43 jobs. It’s expected to be operational in the spring.

The new Hankins Timbers operation will process first and second pine thinnings and produce 40MMBF annually.

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NEWSFEED Advantage Jobs Rebate Program, which provides a rebate to eligible businesses that create new jobs exceeding the average annual wage of the state or county in which the company locates or expands. Delta Regional Authority and Grenada County also are assisting with the project.

TWO CONFERENCES ANNOUNCE DATES Two popular conferences/ expos in the bioenergy and panel industries announced their dates for 2022. “The Future Is Bright” is the promotional slogan for the seventh Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo scheduled March 2930, 2022 at the Omni Hotel at CNN Center, Grand Ballroom North, in Atlanta, Ga. “Let’s Talk In Person” is the slogan for the eighth Panel & Engi-

neered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE) scheduled immediately thereafter, March 31 to April 1, 2022, again at the Omni Hotel at CNN Center in Atlanta.

The Wood Bio conference draws participants from the industrial wood pellet, biomass power, biofuels, in-woods chipping and raw material procurement sectors. It features dozens of presentations on new projects, technologies, markets and forecasts delivered by producer company executives, supplier representatives and industry consultants. It also attracts up to 70 equipment and technology exhibitors in the Grand Ballroom North.

PELICE is the only non-association conference that draws participants from both the primary structural and non-structural panel industries. It features 12 keynote addresses and 40 presentations delivered by

producer company executives, supplier representatives and industry consultants. It also attracts up to 100 equipment and technology exhibitors in the Grand Ballroom North.

The Wood Bio and PELICE 2020 events were held right as the pandemic hit last March and may have been the last inperson wood products industry conferences held.

“I firmly believe that once the virus is under control that in-person events will have more relevance and generate more enthusiasm than ever,” comments Rich Donnell, cochairman of both events and editor-in-chief of Wood Bioenergy and Panel World magazines, which host the events.

“Virtual events have had their necessary role in the meantime, but the people in the wood products industry thrive on face-to-face gatherings.”

Donnell says the 2022

events are beginning to solicit presentation proposals and sell exhibitor space and sponsorships.

For presentation information, contact Rich Donnell, rich@hattonbrown.com. For exhibitor information, contact Fred Kurpiel, fredkurpiel@aol.com

NEW RELIEF ACT INCLUDES LOGGERS Following months of political lobbying, America’s loggers finally have access to fi-

Loggers and log haulers receive monetary assistance.

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NEWSFEED nancial assistance. The Emergency Coronavirus Relief Act of 2020, passed by a bipartisan vote in both the House and Senate in late December, includes language appropriating $200 million in funding for those logging and log trucking businesses that saw a greater than 10% loss in gross revenues from January 1 through December 1, 2020 related to the COVID-19 pandemic, as compared to revenues for the same period in 2019.

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Contacted a few days after President Trump signed the legislation, American Loggers Council Executive Vice President Danny Dructor is excited about its passage, though he cautions, “We may be a ways off before we can see any money on the ground.”

Going forward, he says, two big issues are how the funds will be administered and the qualifications for receiving assistance. “The issue is the $200 mil-

lion needs to go to those truly impacted

by COVID,” Dructor says. Administrators may want to roll the logger relief funds into an existing program. Two potential areas are the USDA’s Farm Service Agency or more recently created USDA Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) for agricultural producers whose operations were directly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

Compounding the uncertainty is the change in presidential administrations.

One of the most significant impacts of the relief fund passage is the recognition that loggers are their own industry, apart from pulp and paper or lumber. “Creating parity” between loggers and other commodity agricultural producers is a big objective that is beginning to be realized with the legislation, Dructor says.

Another big impact is the awareness of what’s possible when people get involved. “This happened because industry came together,” Director says.

“When loggers do stand together they can get things done, and that’s important because we had people from all over get involved, and lots of people engaged their representatives.”

Logging and log hauling businesses were deemed to be essential service providers, but have struggled with making fixed cost payments as a result of reduced markets.

Many logging companies experienced severe losses when lumber and paper mills across the country reduced or ceased production in response to drops in demand. According to reports, raw material delivered to mills by loggers and truckers experienced price drops greater than 5% in 2020 compared to 2019. According to a third party analysis by Forest2Market, a 6.7% (21.4 million tons) reduction in nationwide wood consumption reduced wood prices and generated a $1.83 billion (-13.0%) loss in revenue.

Insurance, equipment, fuel and other costs make up the vast majority of logging expenses as compared to payroll which some were able to take advantage of under the Payroll Protection Program issued earlier during the pandemic. “The amount of relief coming from the federal government is not meant to make these businesses whole, but rather to serve as a stop gap while they adjust their business plans to be able to operate under this new economy,” Dructor says. ➤ 40

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GROWING

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By Jessica Johnson

Robert B. Jordan, IV, president and CEO of the Jordan Family of Companies, is the 2021 Timber Processing Person of the Year, 14 years after his father, Bob Jordan, received the annual award, now in its 33rd year.

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MT. GILEAD, NC ifty-nine year old Robert Jordan, IV has been around his family’s sawmill business his whole life.

Started by his grandfather in 1939, then run by his father and uncle, and now run by himself—sawmilling is what he knows. It comes as natural to him as breathing, and without his family’s sawmills, one in Mt. Gilead, NC and one in Barnesville, Ga. that combine to produce 500MMBF of SYP annually, he says he would be lost.

Sure, Jordan Lumber and Supply, Inc. could yield a bucketful of money for the Jordan family by selling out, and he admits to having received some flattering offers over the years.

But Jordan says the core business, the Mt. Gilead sawmill, will not be for sale during his lifetime. “My father convinced me that we can help more people over time by staying our course,” he emphasizes. “I am delighted to have great faith in the fourth generation, some of whom are already proving they can be trustworthy and innovative leaders. So basically, we have no need to sell and I also need something to do.”

And that’s just whom Jordan is. He’s a straight shooter who embraces innovative leadership within his family, has great faith in his sons, Wes, Vince and Landon, and also son-in-law Gil Shaw, and perhaps most importantly realizes the impact his family’s business has on the community at large. Something, Jordan learned from his father.

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Under Robert’s guidance, there is always sure to be major project and construction activities in the works.

“I feel like I have been training for this my whole life,” he comments. “I have been blessed with the greatest leadership examples and mentors anyone could have ever had and I do not believe I am exaggerating at all. I love my job. It is not work to me. I am very proud of the team I have helped build.”

THE PATH TAKEN While now it seems obvious that Jordan is doing exactly what he was supposed to do—it wasn’t exactly a clear-cut path. The Jordan family spent many years active in North Carolina state politics, Bob first being elected to the State Senate in 1976. Between Robert’s major of wood science and technology at North Carolina State University and being a Caldwell Fellow, which means he was one of 20 selected from 18,000, Jordan received some attention pretty quickly from “bigger companies.”

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“I have been blessed with the greatest leadership examples and mentors anyone could have ever had and I do not believe I am exaggerating at all. I love my job. It is not work to me. I am very proud of the team I have helped build.”

He found himself with attractive job offers that included summer work while Jordan was still in school and attractive paying management jobs afterwards—if he proved himself. “I was still walking that path and then they found out who I was, that we already owned a sawmill and they came back with seven-year contracts,” he laughs at the memory. Simultaneously, Bob Jordan ran and was elected Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina.

“Dad asked me not to take them,” Robert recalls of the offers.

But Robert was hesitant.

As part of his studies, Jordan took a seminar on family businesses. He recalls learning that of third generation family businesses, 91% of them fail. “That scared me a little,” he admits. “I talked to Dad about it and he said we were going to study why the 9% make it.” Their findings led them ultimately to making some decisions about control, that Jordan believes are why the company is so strong today and poised and ready for the fourth generation to take over when the time is appropriate.

Jordan says he had a rare relationship with his father, in life and in the business. Unlike some family businesses run by the patriarch, Bob Jordan gave his son the space to learn things for himself. That doesn’t mean Bob was completely hands off though: “If we were headed down the wrong path he would change that very quickly,” Robert once again laughs at the memories. “But he let me make some of my own mistakes and learn from them. From 1984 to 1988 he was in Raleigh as Lt. Governor, and I was the eyes and ears for him at the mill. He was easy to learn from, always looking for ways to help other people.”

Bob Jordan’s legacy, and those critical learnings he was able to pass down to his son for years, are all over how Jordan Lumber and Supply operates today. A guiding principal Jordan has for the business is what can it do for others. While Bob did for others first in the political arena and then in the philanthropic, his son is somewhat under the radar, while focusing on employees within the company and giving to the community, to his beloved North Carolina State University and to numerous charitable organizations—too many too list here.

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Jordan: teamwork and loyalty

“We create more and more jobs and help the community more and more because we are focused on helping the communities we operate in,” Jordan says emphatically, again citing his employees, of which there are more than 675, and those two important sawmill spaces they operate in as his reason for working every day. Between faith in his employees and his sons, Jordan believes his company will be one of the less than 2% of family businesses that will be a success in its fourth generation of ownership—again crediting his father, grandfather and uncle Jack for paving the way.

As a rule, the Jordan family reinvests in the facilities by more than 80% each year of the money made. Jordan believes that is the path forward, and one of the reasons the company is stronger now than it has ever been. He adds, “When we went through some of the toughest times our industry has ever had to experience over the last 34 years, I learned a great deal about adjusting and doing what it takes in tough ways when it is needed to save the ship. I learned how TIMBER PROCESSING

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Jordan started up a turnkey green sawmill line in record time.

powerful the great loyalty we have to each other on our teams can be.”

GOLD MINE Leaning on that loyalty among his team helped to not just get through the tough times. As will go down in the history books, 2020 was unlike anything anyone was expecting, envisioning or otherwise anticipating. And for lumbermen, that wasn’t all bad. Jordan quips,

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“If you’re not making money in this business right now, get out. Find something else to do, because we just came off our biggest year ever by 3 to 1.”

The market dynamics overshadowed anything anyone could have imagined, culminating in record lumber prices while lumber demand gained momentum month after month. For Jordan, this accelerated prosperity has created opportunities for the company to grow with and keep things safe. “We’re trying our best to take advan-

tage every day of this market. We’ve postponed projects, because you make money in these kind of markets and you don’t stop. You stop when the market is terrible and then you put stuff in,” Jordan says—a nod to another one of his dad’s nuggets of wisdom. Adding, “We’ve always done the things that make sure that during the tough times we still have the ability to expand.

We can get equipment cheaper, you’re not sacrificing as much profit, and then normally you come back up and things are turning some.”

For Jordan that advice came in handy after installing a $50 million+ complete green sawmill line with today’s most up to date technologies from the BID Group in 2018. The timing could not have been better. The project pushed Jordan’s sawmill capacity at Mt. Gilead to more than 450MMBF—though they produce on a 310MMBF per year pace now because it matches the current drying and planing capacity—making them one of the largest single site producers in the U.S., while Barnesville claims another 190MMBF. “Even though we spent a lot of money building the new mill, we’ve already paid it off,” he says. “Because of the 70,000 acres of land and timber growing every day in our forest that we keep sustainable,

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we don’t get into real scary positions unless you are not smart enough to understand not to push the cash flow envelope.”

Another game changing project for Jordan in the last few years was reducing the bottleneck at Mt. Gilead’s bucking line. Thanks to support from a local provider, the mill is able to over buck logs with the addition of a supplemental bucking line, keeping production steady at 6MMBF a week. He only chose to move forward with that project because it didn’t require a lot of downtime.

Other projects, like upgrading the technology on the lineal high graders in both North Carolina and Georgia, have been put off. Jordan explains, “The machines do a great job and we were going to shut down for four days to do it and I don’t want to shut down. We had some other projects, not critical parts, so we will do them when it is not costing us so much opportunity in profit.”

Jordan likens the current market situation to striking a big vein in a gold mine.

“That’s the way it feels. We’re running all the time. I feel like we’re manufacturing gold,” he says. Making gold has its challenges though, Jordan admits.

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to quarantine or getting sick. (What was more upside down in an upside down year than the snowballing pandemic at the same time the lumber market set records?) As an example, Jordan says on a normal day, the average would be maybe four to five people absent. Now it is upwards of 22—creating problems with maintenance, as things fall behind schedule and people are put in places they don’t normally work while the mill pushes to maximum run rates.

In addition, Jordan says he’s had some struggles finding new employees. In 2019 the company hired 271, but the total employment has decreased jobs by three.

“Basically, we ended up with none of them and we trained every one of them.

And we paid to train every one of them.

Now it is not that bad, there are people out there available. That was a different animal I’ve never had to deal with. But my people handled it as well as could be.”

who he aspires to be every day.

Jordan adds: “We found success and comfort, being able to sleep during the bad times, because of doing the right thing during the good times. We have not skipped a year planting, period. And it will help us through the next tough time even better. And there will be those coming. Not looking forward to it, but you better be prepared for it. We’ve been taught well. I’ve been here 36 years and there are still people here who came before me and having that stable group really pays off especially in the tough times.”

He admits losing his father on February 16, 2020 was incredibly difficult and he misses Bob Jordan every single day. “My job now is to be my own man but I am shooting for being as much like him as possible,” Jordan says.

While Jordan looks to the future, with a strong market that seems bent on maintaining its strength, it is easy to see that the son certainly learned from the father, and why both are incredibly deserving to be included in the roster of Timber Processing magazine’s Person of the Year.

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WISDOM Once an avid motorcycle rider, Jordan says now he doesn’t like taking risks. “I kept one, but I have more weight on my shoulders because Dad is gone. I have more responsibilities. Those things have changed my life a little bit,” he explains.

Instead, he leans on the things he knows are most important—his wife Wendy, the expanded Jordan family, his employees, his company, its legacy on the forests. Jordan is incredibly proud of the sustainable forest the company maintains in North Carolina, having worked with Weyerhaeuser and NC State to develop a hybrid seedling that they have been planting for 40 years.

“These things will carry on long after my time,” Jordan says. “Between what we’re doing with survival on planted trees and the quality of the seedlings we plant, and with the technology that we have added to our sawmills that gets better yield out of logs—it takes us 300% less tons of logs per thousand board foot than it did 20 years ago. That has been a great thing for us. I have always been proud of how we do what we do,” Jordan says.

Even as the “monster” in Mt. Gilead continues to grow and consume more and more timber, Jordan’s procurement team can stick close to the 45 mile radius it has worked within from the beginning, because of the seedlings performing so well. Bob Jordan’s memorial plaque reads: He who plants trees loves others rather than himself. Robert IV says it was selected because it was something that fit so well with whom the man was, what the company is and TIMBER PROCESSING

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BETTER

DRYING By Patrick Dunning

Charles Ingram Lumber has a lot going on, including a new DPK with patented technology.

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EFFINGHAM, SC bout 15 years ago, Andy Pollard of Pollard Lumber, Appling, Ga., gained a patent for a dual path continuous dry kiln where parallel charges of lumber are conveyed in opposite directions so that the dry lumber going out preheats and conditions the green lumber going in, and the green lumber gives off moisture that conditions the dry lumber as the two lines pass one another (a technology for which Pollard in subsequent years gained improvement patents, while starting up a kiln of his own and licensing the technology to others). Now, Charles Ingram Lumber has taken the technology and tweaked it into another patent for what it calls the NOREV DPK (dual path kiln).

Charles Ingram Lumber produces close to 200MMBF annually of southern yellow pine from two distinctive sawmills and a planer mill on site. A small log mill produces 2x4s, 2x6s, timbers, 5 ¼ x 6 decking and 1x4 boards along with some odd-size lumber for the pallet market.

The big log mill produces 2x4 through 2x12, timbers and decking. Dimension lumber at No. 2 grade and better is around 88%, while decking at Standard and better is about 82%.

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New DPK has stabilized the burner.

Putting all of the fan power on the outside showed immediate results.

Side view shows placement of fans on one side.

two of which are conventional batch kilns, two “conventional” dual path continuous dry kilns and the new NOREV DPK. Furman Brodie, 72, vice president of Charles Ingram Lumber, wasn’t necessarily dissatisfied with their drying situation.

The existing DPKs had enhanced grade and streamlined the planer mill because the boards ran better. But Brodie wanted to section off the dry kiln and place the fans on the sides. (That’s where you want the air anyway,” he says.)

Brodie, his partner Ingram Vice Presi-

dent Jim Anderson, Planer Mill Supervisor Christopher Stewart, consultant Doug Tinsley, who had worked closely with Pollard on the evolvement of the DPK and had done considerable work for Ingram Lumber, and Shayne Smoke, engineer at Tinsley Consulting Group, pooled their ideas and discussed them with Pollard, and they delved into some preliminary testing and were pleasantly surprised by what they saw. The patent was filed in January 2019 and granted in April 2020 with NOREV DPK as the assignee and

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FAMILY AFFAIR Charles N. Ingram and his wife, Mary Alice Caudle Ingram, from Wadesboro, NC, came to South Carolina and partnered in Bynum-Ingram Lumber, which the company web site states was founded in 1931.

The business became Charles Ingram Lumber in 1945. Ben Ingram, Jr., Charles’ nephew, came to work for his uncle after World War II. Thus today the Charles Ingram family owns the majority of the business and the Ben Ingram family owns a minority stake.

T. Furman Brodie II didn’t enter the lumber business picture until 1992. Brodie had graduated from The Citadel and was stationed at Ft. Bragg, NC with the 82nd Airborne Division. He served in active duty as an infantry platoon leader in Vietnam and came back as a team leader for a year in the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne). He later served in the reserves with the 11th Special Forces Group (Airborne).

“Vietnam was an interesting experience, something I will never forget, and I am glad I did it,” Brodie says. “I am glad it’s over with and I am one of the ones who came home alive.”

He married Jean Wall Ingram, daughter of Ben Ingram Jr., in 1973 while attending and ultimately graduating from the University of South Carolina Law School. Brodie practiced law in Columbia for a year and moved to Florence in 1976 to continue his practice.

His brother-in-law, Ben Ingram III, who was a vice president in the lumber business, died in 1992 and Brodie’s father-in-law asked Brodie to assist him in the business. “I really hesitated because he and I were really good friends and I didn’t want to ruin that working with him,” Brodie recalls. “I came and it was the best decision I ever made; we got to be even closer friends.”

Brodie, who had no sawmilling background, recalls on his second day his father-in-law informing him that they wanted to close down their mill at Andrews, SC and rebuild the one in Effingham. “He gave me some preliminary plans and told me to

L-R, Thomas and Furman Brodie, Jim Anderson, Jesse Moore

get familiar with them,” Brodie chuckles. “And he told me they were using three different accounting systems and we needed to get those straightened out as well. He was a tremendous help and a wonderful teacher. The unique thing about the lumber industry is there are a lot of people in it who have been a tremendous help.”

Jim Anderson, who married Charles Ingram’s granddaughter, joined the management team in 1994. He previously worked for Sonoco and has a wealth of manufacturing management knowledge that has helped the company to grow.

Last year Thomas Brodie, Furman’s son, joined the company after a successful career in medical device sales. He represents the fourth generation to be involved in the business. Thomas, who is a vice president and on the Board, is taking on a lot of his father’s job and working on special projects.

Furman and Anderson feel like they have created a successful succession plan with Thomas and Jesse Moore, who is a vice president and serves on the Board.

Moore grew up next door to the mill and started working there in college. A graduate of Clemson University, he became head forester and was in charge of procurement as well as managing timberlands. Today he still looks over those in charge of procurement and timberland management as well as manufacturing. “He is not related by blood or marriage but is part of the TP family,” Brodie says. the above-mentioned as the inventors.

Prior dual path kilns had utilized internal reversible propeller fans because the flow of air through the lumber in the end chambers or/and the central heating chamber must be periodically reversed, typically every three hours. But while the air flow is being reversed, the lumber is not being dried. Burner inefficiency and disruption becomes an issue. Then there’s some question about the mechanical efficiency of reversible fans and their location inside the central chamber and fully exposed to a harsh environment.

Consequently, the new technology utilizes single direction (or unidirectional) external fans. For the entire length of the kiln the air flow directions do not change in the respective partitioned chambers. The typical propeller fans previously located internal to the kiln and above the fan deck are replaced with centrifugal type fans on the outside. And these fans each produce substantially more air than the typical propeller fans. ➤ 32

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Big log mill primary breakdowns include USNR twin band-sharp chain, Comact quad, McDonough headrig

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Ingram Lumber brought in A. W. Stiles to build the stainless steel kiln, following Tinsley Consulting’s drawings, at 140 ft. long encompassing the main chamber of 60 ft. (which is actually two sections). In addition to the term centrifugal, the participants describe the unidirectional fans as squirrel cage or radial with angled paddles.

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forces air out of the center of the fans with more forced air coming in. Industrial Air Products (IAP) built the fans. There are two fans for each end and two for each of the central chambers (a total of eight fans).

The first pair of fans is located on one side and the next pair on the other side, etc.

A major benefit in doing away with the reversible fans is that the slope grate sawdust burner and blend box have become more efficient. Temperature spikes and drops are averted in favor of an even and consistent burning. Temperature in the kiln heat chambers is 240° F. Bruce Moore, kiln supervisor, says he’s learned a lot from this kiln exercise especially with regard to air flow. For example, they were drying 2x4s on the bottom two packs to reach 15% moisture content and

the top two packs at 1 in. to reach 10% but 1 in. had more air gaps in the top in the lumber. “That helped balance the lumber on the other side but we’ve done away with that now,” Moore says. “All two-inch on one track, all five-quarter the other track. Most of the time this kiln runs fivequarter on two tracks which is a lot of heat load, but we’ve got a really strong burner, and really good kiln.”

Ingram Lumber is discussing building an additional kiln with more tweaks to the technology, and Pollard is “tinkering” with new CDK technology as well.

OPERATIONS Brodie happily acknowledges that the company experienced a tremendous year

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in 2020 “where all the stars aligned and we are glad for it because we know it’s not that way every year.” As with many sawmill companies, when the pandemic hit in early spring great concerns came with it with regard to the potential shutdown of building products markets, but instead the market remained strong, especially DIY, lumber price set records, new housing increased every month and Ingram never had to shut down.

Some mill projects are in the works, including the addition of a Timber Automation (Baxley) sorter in the planer mill to take in the cut-in-two pieces that stem from the abundance of decking product.

The company is also preparing to completely rebuild the small log mill next year.

Why? The log diameter for that mill has gotten larger to the point there’s lost recovery with the current sawing/profiling line.

A lot of butt cut logs from there are taken to the large log mill.

The plan is to take out the profiling line and install twin band saws with profiling heads and a curve canter with profiling heads and a new gang. That’ll happen in the fourth quarter, but before that they’ll upgrade bucking at the big mill because those bucked logs from the small mill will go away. The company added a saw line in the big mill a couple of years ago.

Currently the sawmill usually runs one shift, although the big or small mill might run a night shift at times. The planer mill runs two shifts. Paxton Smith and Jason Flowers supervise the small and large log mills, respectively.

While the company owns some timberland, it also supplies the mill from various sources, trying to stay inside a 60-mile radius.

At the small log mill, known as Willow Creek, a LogPro crane unloads trucks, followed by a Nicholson debarker, MDI metal detector, Huot bucking, a Comact DDM6 profiling line, Baxley trimmer, Carbotech sorter and Gillingham-Best stacker.

A Fulghum crane works the large log mill, which packs some major sawing punch, with Nicholson debarkers followed by a McDonough bandmill and Corley carriage and USNR twin band sharp chain both feeding into a McGehee canter and to a Columbia gang. A Comact quad feeds a Comact canter and Omega gang.

The planer mill includes a Miller planer, Lucidyne grade scanner, Baxley trimmer, HEMCO sorter, Hogue stacker, Baxley stacker and Signode strappers.

An interesting development in the small log mill is that Ingram Lumber upgraded all of the DDM heads to the Cortex solid head design. Ingram was using

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ABM topper facer grinder

Armstrong band saw sharpening room

standard chipping heads but upgraded those heads with the Cortex bolt-on solution. As those older heads continued to wear out the mill decided to upgrade to all Cortex heads.

The bolt-on solution to existing chipping heads allows sawmills to upgrade their heads without buying new heads. Ingram was looking to reduce grinding costs and overall operating costs and they went to the Cortex bolt-on conversions. Knife life went from two shifts to six shifts between changes with the Cortex. Ingram decided to upgrade to the Cortex DDM heads and convert additional conical heads in

both mills. The heads are 14 in., six knife heads with a 5 in. depth of cut.

Cortex knives utilize a proprietary extrusion process to form the steel and align the grain structure of the alloy, which produces a more durable and tougher knife. The grinding process on the knife produces a smooth almost polished surface finish which improves edge performance.

The filing room features some of the latest technology, such as the Hana H50 round saw brazing tipper machine, known as the Ultimate Brazer from Williams & White, and an ABM topper

facer grinder provided by Carolina Cutting Tools which does considerable work with Ingram Lumber.

The mill runs mostly Simonds and Olesen saws. The filing room works up 10-15 saws a day per shift.

As to byproducts, chips go to WestRock in Florence, as does fuel bark; shavings go to the Arauco MDF mill in Bennettsville and Ingram burns its own sawdust.

Also ongoing is the construction of a $6 million industrial wood pellet mill that will supply pellets to the biomass power generation market in Europe.

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MARKS’ FOREST HEALTH ROLE

Montana’s Marks Lumber plays a key role in regional forest health activities—and wants to share industry’s side of the story.

Marks Lumber focuses on high-end timbers and beams as part of a broad and diverse product line.

By Dan Shell CLANCY, Mont. ocated just south of Helena, Marks Lumber may be small compared to high production mills, but owner Steve Marks is looking to make a significant impact on the region and overall industry by highlighting the integral role the industry plays in maintaining healthy forests, ecosystems and rural economies.

Marks Lumber is a high-end custom mill with optimized sawing systems and kilndrying capabilities.

Production ranges from custom, circle sawn flooring and sid- Steve Marks ing to rough-cut timbers, lumber and more. The company has played a role in the local natural resource economy for 75 years and is slowly expanding to take on a higher profile in forest health issues.

Showing how Marks Lumber and the industry overall fit into the economy and environment, the company is working on an educational video series dedicated to emphasizing the critical role the timber products industry plays in Montana while identifying the benefits of a more proactive, science-based forest management policy. The result is an insider perspective on how responsible forestry and Montana’s forest products industry can create a lasting, positive impact on state wildlife habitat, air quality, water quality and safety.

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Marks Lumber has also recently purchased and is working on a Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) contract 11 miles from the mill, the Brooklyn Bridge project, and Marks’ experiences working with the project and its goals and objectives helped bring the whole concept home.

“I wanted to share our story with the public about how good forestry creates healthy forests, healthy communities, and a vibrant economy,” Marks says, adding that so much of our lives, from cell phones to a loaf of bread, ultimately comes from the land.

In the company’s first video, https://you tu.be/4iFvS3Ov-Js, Marks explains his philosophy to approaching a logging project—and the company’s overall business practices. “I want to leave someplace in better shape than it was when we started,” he says. (The company also has an extensive and informative website at markslumber.com.)

BACKGROUND Marks Lumber and its predecessor have been doing just that as part of the local community and the Marks Ranch (cross half-circle brand registered in 1888) for more than 133 years.

The mill was initially installed on the ranch in 1938 to produce lumber for the growing ranch operations and also timbers for nearby mining and railroad operations, and lumber for the local community. It continued that way for years, basically supplementing the cattle operation.

A big change came in the 1980s, as the

family persevered and adapted during the decade’s agricultural downturns. Marks had begun logging in 1977 out of high school, but after his father was elected to the state legislature, he spent more time managing the ranch. When these hard times hit the cattle business, Marks turned to logging and sawmilling and the emphasis on Marks Lumber as a high quality, low volume producer.

That, in turn, has led to almost 30 years of investment in quality production, starting with an all-hydraulic upgrade in 1989 and a new mill built from both new and used machinery in 1999 to the present.

OPERATIONS Since the turn of the century, the mill has transformed as an organization and operation, today working with a custom timber framing business, additional logging activities and related operations.

Marks Lumber added a planing facility in 1998, and in 2005-06 added a biomasspowered dry kiln. In 2006 the company began operating and expanding a chip and bark sorting plant that produces landscaping, gardening and soil conditioning products along with an engineered wood chip designed for playground safety. The company grinder, a B66 Rotochopper, also moves around and does processing work for several municipalities, other mills and independent contractors. It’s all a part of Marks’ commitment to full utilization.

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Full utilization: Boiler is fired with in-house residuals.

room (with no steel; it’s all mortise and tenon joints).

In 2009 the mill added a complete inhouse timber framing shop, headed by Marks’ son Cody, to provide turnkey projects and construction services as a valueadded service to customers. The most recent upgrade came in 2016 with an optimized trim saw and end-matcher that improved product quality and made Marks’ flooring product easier to install, and also boosted overall fiber recovery.

“We’re a specialty sawmill,” says Operations Manager Jeremy Glatz, noting that the mill produces authentic circle sawn timbers and lumber that boast a unique “Montana-look.” This look targets highend construction projects, both residential and commercial. He adds that the vast majority of production goes to small and medium-sized contractors.

“For a little company, we have a sophisticated program of direct-to-consumer sales, and we have the capability to serve that niche that large mills and major wholesalers find too small,” Glatz says.

Marks notes that the company is following a model to be a direct supplier and retailer, small scale at 1.5MMBF though that will grow some in the future. “We’re pretty diversified and try not to put all our eggs in one basket,” Marks adds.

Rustic saw patterns are in demand for some products.

with dozens more in the planning stage. “I really want this to work for Montana,” he exclaims.

Approved in 2018, the Brooklyn Bridge sale is part of a project that covers 17,595 acres, with mechanical treatments allowed on 11,650 and a current area of 2,512 acres already treated. The area is a critical part of Helena’s watershed.

The four-year contract will mean more fir logs coming to the mill and more biomass material, or firewood, for the company’s burgeoning firewood operation. Contractors working on the project are making several log sorts that are being sold to other mills as well. “(Sawlog) recovery is not what we had hoped,” Marks says, adding that the importance of the work overshadows such concerns and has pushed the company to be innovative with this expanding firewood market. “We’re all in this together, trying to survive. And if you don’t have the (mill) infrastructure, you (federal, state, and private forestry) can’t take care of our forests.”

FUTURE Following the first video on managing for healthy forests, Marks says he plans to do more on other topics, such as watershed work, fire mitigation and carbon sequestration.

“Mill capacity in Montana is an asset that allows for good jobs and the capacity for forest health activities that need to be done,” Marks exclaims. That capacity provides benefits for all sorts of stakeholders, including hunters and fishermen and municipal water systems in addition to forest products, he says. However, “We can’t have healthy communities without healthy forests, and while Montana has the mill capacity to help treat these forests, a luxury that many states no longer have, we still need more state and federal support.

“We’ve been at this for a long time, started with nothing but worked hard,” Marks continues. “We’ve always believed you have to be proactive and alTP ways trying to improve.”

BRIDGE TO HEALTH Purchased this past year, the HelenaLewis & Clark National Forest’s Brooklyn Bridge project is implemented under the Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) and administered by the Montana Department of Resources and Conservation’s (DNRC) Forestry Division. The GNA allows federal projects to be administered by the Montana DNRC’s forestry officials. The process allows many federal projects that might languish for lack of resources to move forward.

Marks says the arrangement has worked well, and he believes it’s important for the amount of treatment Montana forests need, as many are sick and dying. A news article from summer 2020 said the state had already completed almost 20 GNA projects,

Marks Lumber plays a key local role, providing good jobs and improving forest health.

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NEWSFEED ➤ 18 Logging companies need to be able to take advantage of programs like other commodity producers, says ALC President Tim Christopherson of Kamiah, Idaho. “To see Christmas trees and other agricultural commodities and specialty crops included in the first and second versions of Coronavirus Food Protection Program (CFAP) while not including those same trees that can be turned into paper and other consumables simply did not make sense. We applaud members of Congress for recognizing and including the loggers and log haulers in this historic legislation.”

Senator Susan Collins (RME) secured logger relief funds in draft legislation released in December by a bipartisan coalition of members of Congress. Her provision built upon the “Loggers Relief Act” that Collins, Jared Golden (Maine second district congressman) and Rep. David Rouzer (R-NC) spearheaded earlier this year. Ultimately, the provision was retained in the final COVID relief package passed by Congress.

“This industry is built on the backs of our dedicated loggers who sustainably harvest and haul one of Maine’s most precious resources,” Collins says. “Loggers were already facing significant headwinds due to a changing 21st century economy and unfair trade practices, as well as the explosion at the Androscoggin Mill in Jay and the shutdown of the paper machine at Sappi in Westbrook. COVID-19 has only compounded these challenges. Maine’s family logging and log hauling businesses need our support.”

“Maine loggers don’t want a handout, but they deserve the same support during tough times that we have already provided for farmers and fishermen,” Golden adds.

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FAMILIAR FACE IS BEHIND PEAK Peak Renewables reports it is building a 600,000 tonne per year industrial wood pellet facility in Fort Nelson, British Columbia.

Recently Peak Renewables purchased Canfor’s forest tenure in the Fort Nelson region and Canfor’s Fort Nelson mill assets, including an idle sawmill and OSB facilities.

The site reportedly has buildings, a log pond and a biomass energy plant. The new mill will export its pellets to Asia.

The Peak Renewables executive team includes its founder and chairman, Brian Fehr. He is a co-founder of BID Group, which has had tremendous success with the turnkey supply and construction of sawmills in the Southeast U.S. Fort Nelson First Nation will reportedly have equity in the plant, which is anticipated to be in operation in 2022.

CEOs ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE Forest products industry, environmental and conservation leaders have announced an agreement of principles on the important role sustainably managed forests and forest products can play in mitigating climate change.

The principles were signed by the CEOs of 43 forest industry businesses representing more than 46 million acres of working forests across the U.S., along with CEOs of American Forests, American Forest Foundation, Environmental Defense Fund, National Alliance of Forest Owners and The Nature Conservancy.

The policy principles encourage incentive and marketbased approaches to increase the carbon benefits of working forests and forest products.

They recognize the important

role that private sector participation, investment and partnerships can play in expanding carbon benefits from the forest sector. They also emphasize the need for robust science, data and life cycle analysis to guide policy.

Forest owners and forest products manufacturers are well positioned to optimize the carbon potential of the private working forest value chain through sustainable forest management and the manufacture of sustainable forest products. However, private forests are under increasing threat from uncharacteristic wildfire, pests and disease, drought and extreme weather events that can cause significant carbon releases and other environmental damage. In many private forests, addressing these threats requires sustainable management such as thinning, prescribed fire, and other forest management techniques that bolster forest health and resilience.

Some of the signees include J. Travis Bryant, President & CEO, Coastal Forest Resources Co.; Marc Brinkmeyer, Owner, Idaho Forest Group; James Irving, Co-CEO, J.D. Irving, Ltd.; Bob Lyle, President, Molpus Woodlands Group; Mike Covey, Chairman and CEO, PotlatchDeltic; David Nunes, President and CEO, Rayonier, Inc.; Grady Mulbery, President and CEO, Roseburg Forest Products; Mark Emmerson, Chairman and CFO, Sierra Pacific Industries; Brian Luoma, President and CEO, The Westervelt Company; Steve Killgore, CEO, Timber Products Company; Devin Stockfish, President and CEO, Weyerhaeuser.

more than 3.2 billion BF of timber, the second highest level in 20 years. It also improved forest conditions and reduced wildfire risk on more than 2.65 million acres, removing hazardous fuels like dead and downed trees, and combating disease, insect and invasive species infestations.

“2020 was a challenging year with record wildland fire activity and the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the Forest Service, we have risen above these challenges and set our minds, hands and hearts to carrying out our mission to meet the needs of the communities we serve,” says Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen.

The Forest Service was successful in prioritizing early suppression of wildfire ignitions while facing a recordbreaking fire year, with the most acres burned on national forests since 1910. The agency’s modeling research on how COVID-19 may spread between firefighters or in communities during response efforts led to new interagency safety protocols to better support fire camp management.

The protocols not only successfully minimized the spread of COVID-19 among the agency’s 10,000 firefighters, but early learning suggests the safety measures resulted in additional health benefits to fire crews, reducing ailments common in fire camps, which translated to a healthier and more resilient firefighting workforce available to protect lives, homes and communities threatened by wildfire.

USFA SOLD 3.2 BILLION BF

UFP Industries, LLC is purchasing PalletOne, Inc. for $232 million. UFP has also agreed to pay $18 million for PalletOne’s recent capital expenditures.

Based in Bartow, Fla., Pal-

Despite challenges posed by the pandemic, the USDA Forest Service announced it surpassed goals in 2020 and sold

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NEWSFEED letOne is a leading manufacturer of new pallets in the U.S. with 17 pallet manufacturing facilities in the South and East.

The company also supplies specialized industrial packaging including custom bins and crates, and its Sunbelt Forest Products subsidiary operates five pressure-treating facilities in the Southeastern U.S. The PalletOne management team, including President Howe Wallace, will continue to lead the company.

“We are excited to welcome PalletOne and its 1,500-plus employees to the UFP family of companies,” says Matthew Missad, CEO of UFP Industries. “PalletOne brings a strong brand, a new customer base, and operating excellence, which drive us closer to our goal of becoming the preferred global packaging solutions provider and preferred wood preserver in the U.S.” “This is a great opportunity for all of us at PalletOne,” adds Wallace. “As a strategic addition to UFP’s leading industrial business unit, we will have access to new markets, valueadded industrial products, and resources that will help us grow our business and provide our customers with more value. Because UFP is committed to developing its employees and promoting from within, PalletOne employees will have new opportunities to grow their careers as well.”

UFP Industries is a holding company whose operating subsidiaries—UFP Industrial, UFP Construction and UFP Retail Solutions—manufacture, distribute and sell a variety of wood- and alternative material-based building and industrial products worldwide.

Founded in 1955, the company is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Mich. with affiliates in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Organized in 2001, PalletOne manufactures new pallets, provides pallet repair programs, recycles used

pallets and produces a variety of other wood products.

BAMBOO MILL GAINS STEAM Resource Fiber, a leader in efforts to manufacture commercial bamboo products, plans to establish its first fullscale production plant in Sulligent, Ala. Resource Fiber plans to invest $3.6 million in the Lamar County facility, where it will produce engineered bamboo products such as bamboo nail laminated timbers used in the construction of multi-storied buildings.

Founded in 2011, Resource Fiber has engaged in extensive research and development activities focusing on bamboo products, with six U.S. patents and five U.S. patent applications pending. It has developed bamboo railroad ties and a laminated timber system to replace steel roof and floor decks in commercial buildings.

Resource Fiber CEO David Knight says the company operates the nation’s largest commercial-scale bamboo nursery in Greene County and has been looking at nearby locations for its first manufacturing facility.

Last year, the company analyzed seven buildings in four Alabama communities.

“We are grateful to have found the right facility and are honored to be a part of the Sulligent community. We also want to thank the Northwest Alabama Economic Development Alliance for the support and assistance they provided in our site selection process,” Knight says.

“Achieving this milestone is the cornerstone of the U.S. bamboo industry.”

Resource Fiber relocated an experimental pilot facility in Oneida, Tenn. to the Sulligent site in November 2020. The company expects to begin hiring and launch manufacturing at the Alabama facility in the second quarter of 2021.

Marsha Folsom, co-founder and chief development officer of Resource Fiber, says the company’s new production center will cast substantial ripple effects throughout northwest Alabama.

“Other industries utilizing bamboo fiber will be attracted to locating here to be near the ‘bamboo fiber basket’ and to advance bamboo manufacturing technologies,” Folsom says. “Resource Fiber will serve as the catalyst for attracting bamboo-related jobs and industry to the region.”

To make the project possible, Resource Fiber received support from the State of Alabama, which is providing incentives under the Alabama Jobs Act, and the city of Sulligent, which purchased a building it is leasing to the company. The Houston-based Harry E. Bovay Jr. Foundation also provided a grant to facilitate the project. In addition, the company received a USDA Rural Business Development Grant, administered by the city of Sulligent, to apply toward the purchase of manufacturing equipment.

WEST FRASER BUYS NORBORD West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. is acquiring all of the outstanding common shares of Norbord, the world’s largest oriented strandboard producer, for $3.1 billion (U.S.) The combined company will operate as West Fraser.

“Norbord’s OSB production is a perfect complement to the West Fraser portfolio, enabling us to deliver a wider range of wood products, and making us a more complete, efficient and valuable partner for our customers,” says Raymond Ferris, President and CEO of West Fraser.

Norbord operates 17 plant locations in the United States, Europe and Canada, encompassing 15 OSB mills, one

MDF plant, two particleboard facilities and a furniture plant.

West Fraser operates 34 sawmills in British Columbia, Alberta, and the Southern U.S., as well as three plywood operations and two MDF facilities in Western Canada.

West Fraser will continue to be led by Ferris as CEO and Chris Virostek as Chief Financial Officer. Peter Wijnbergen, President and CEO of Norbord, will be appointed President, Engineered Wood, responsible for the company’s OSB, plywood, particleboard, MDF and veneer operations.

Sean McLaren, currently West Fraser’s Vice-President, U.S. Lumber, will be appointed President, Solid Wood, responsible for all of the company’s lumber operations.

AWC ELECTS BRODIE AS CHAIR American Wood Council announced the election of Charles Ingram Lumber Co. Vice President Furman Brodie as the Chairman of AWC Board of Directors for a oneyear term, effective January 1.

Newly appointed President & CEO of PotlatchDeltic Eric Cremers was elected First Vice-Chairman, and President & CEO of TR Miller Mill Company Ricky Stanley was elected as Second Vice-Chairman. LP Corp.’s Executive Vice President Neil Sherman will serve as the Immediate Past Chairman.

Fred Stimpson, President of Canfor Southern Pine, was elected to a third twoyear term.

AWC President & CEO Jackson Morrill comments, “Furman has been in the wood products industry for over 28 years and has served on the AWC board for four years. He has an extensive history of service to the wood products industry, assuming significant leadership roles on many association boards.”

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ULTIMATE GUIDE TO MOISTURE CONTROL Part 4: The Sawmill

By Stuart Harries

the kiln is key to improved grade recovery at the end of the process. Single species efore reaching the can be weight-sorted to dekiln, the sawmill provelop bulk density output, vides the first opporbut with moisture sensors, tunity in lumber processing mills can achieve significantto recognize benefit from ly better results. This is done today’s advanced moisture by deploying radio frequency sensing technologies. Desensors to determine the best signed to optimize lumber sort, based on a precise Dryrecovery factor, moisture ability Index Number (DIN). systems are giving sawmills An accurately measured the necessary tools to quickDIN allows for sorting of the ly identify and sort boards total fiber basket, in up to after primary breakdown, four groups, that can create and to improve groupings. more uniform packages for This data-driven sort, after the kiln and deliver better primary breakdown, is critidrying outcomes. Sensors cal to achieving the best controlled by advanced softgrade recoveries at the end of ware can track boards as they the production process. move from the sawmill Dunkley Lumber Process through the kiln and to the Control Manager, Lee planer, allowing operators to Mason, agrees with this asbetter understand how sort sessment: decisions will affect final “The most important part yield. of our drying program is the ● Moisture Sensor Adsorting of wet and dry lumvancements ber after primary breakAdvanced moisture sendown,” he says. “Sorting alsors in the sawmill are added lows us to capture more at the end of the production value from the fiber due to line to improve production less downgrade for being too dry, or too wet.”

High Definition (HD) sawmill moisture systems can be positioned to read bottlenecks at the kiln and grade recovery in the planer.

Mills optimizing to the top and bottom of boards for more accurate sorting.

In the past, moisture sensors achieve better grade recovactually touched the boards using a conery by accessing additional data parame- These deviations will typically miss the tact system that measured both faces. desired moisture target and decrease the ters are also utilizing advanced moisture sensor systems connected through the In- mill’s productivity by consistently deliv- However, this approach required additional and ongoing maintenance because ering a significantly higher volume of dustrial Internet of Things (IIoT). This of the system’s full contact nature. wet lumber and over-dried boards. modern integration helps mills to clearly Addressing these early concerns, senBut today, the latest moisture sensors see quantifiable improvements in prosors have been developed to be more roare helping mills avoid these costly drycessing productivity and grade recovery. bust and non-contact. They avoid contin● Lumber Variability Controls ing errors and make better, more profWhen mills can effectively control the itable products. That’s because advanced uous maintenance, while providing up to five sensors beneath the line, to deliver natural variability of lumber, they can moisture sensors are going beyond simprocessing data for up to a 9 ft. board. improve the balance of cost and time that ple species sorts to deliver robust data But as mills required even more robust represents their ultimate profitability that determines critical considerations, data to increase profitability and reduce measure. Sorting after primary breaklike variations within a single species, to waste, moisture sensors advanced even down lets mills manage the complex isensure more uniform packages for kiln further. Today, the most modern mills sues of forest biodiversity such as multidrying and improved grade recovery at are benefitting from HD moisture sensple species, varying log sizes and differthe planer. ent conditions. Some logs or boards in “Our mills are in Northern Canada and ing technologies that can read data from up to 24 sensors. These sensors can be the North may be frozen, and in the the Finna Sensors High Definition (HD) South they may be subject to mold, system reacts well to temperature fluctu- specified to fit between chain runs and can be positioned to read both the top staining or end checking. ations,” Mason says. “We also see imand bottom faces of boards.

When moisture sensing isn’t a paramproved kiln efficiency by reducing our This significant increase in surface eter for sawmill optimization, the resultdrying times on the drier sorts.” ● Dry-ability Index Numbers area readings delivered by HD moisture ing lumber is often prone to large stanAchieving more uniform packages for sensors can help operators to identify the dard deviations in its moisture content.

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boundaries of heartwood/sapwood or the areas of wet pockets to improve sorting, before kiln drying, and to help realize the double-digit productivity increases and enhanced lumber recovery.

“We currently have two of the Finna Sensors HD systems in our mills. They are built strong, easy to maintain, and don’t impede the flow of wood due to their non-contact design,” Mason says.

“The payback in each mill took less than a year.” ● Expanding the Best Advancements Developers of advanced sawmill moisture systems in forestry are continuing their drive to further improve the profitability of mills. The next generation of advancements is already combining the best measurement options from previous technology wins.

Now, modern mills can opt for a hybrid sawmill system that seamlessly combines moisture measurement technologies, including bulk density, radio frequency and species inputs to deliver even more data points. This data, when combined with advanced software and IIoT communications, is the future of data-driven sorting.

Thanks to design innovations, hybrid

sawmill systems are going beyond their production benefits of higher accuracy, better yield and increased profitability.

They now deliver solutions that require less maintenance and provide mills with lower costs of ownership, along with easier system startup and more streamlined operator training.

Yet, despite their importance, moisture sensing technology advancements don’t end at the sawmill. After data-driven sorting is completed on primary breakdown, the ongoing benefits of monitoring moisture across the timber pro-

cessing line has just begun.

The most advanced mills are leveraging more opportunities to improve their profitability by using moisture systems that are also deployed at the kiln and in the planer. It’s this kind of enhanced process integration that lets mills achieve their biggest benefits by tracking, capturing, analyzing and responding to the real-time moisture readings developed across all areas of the lumber milling process.

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MACHINERYROW Gordon Started Up Valon Kone U.S. Jerry Clark Gordon, a, tall and jovial man who started up and was part owner of Atlantabased Valon Kone U.S., died January 4 in Kennesaw, Ga. He Jerry Gordon in 1995 was 82.

Born in Portland, Ore., and raised by his mother, Maxine Elizabeth Clark, and stepfather Dale Gordon, Jerry attended Portland State University and studied economics and business. After graduating he worked for a consulting engineering firm in the pulp and paper industry until the early 1970s.

When his stepfather, who did engineering and manufacturing work in the plywood machinery business, was slowed by a heart attack, Jerry assisted him, traveling throughout the country and especially in the South visiting numerous plywood mills.

Gordon then received a call from Per Brunes, whom Gordon had worked with earlier at the consulting firm. Brunes had started up Valon Kone North America based in Vancouver, BC for the Finnish debarker manufacturer. When VK’s U.S. rep Bush Manufacturing was purchased

by VK competitor Kockums, Brunes sought out Gordon to start up and become part owner of a new parts and service operation, Valon Kone U.S. Gordon and his wife, Carol, set up shop in Marietta, Ga. in 1975.

Gordon immediately called on the several companies that had purchased a VK debarker from Bush Manufacturing to assure them of continued service and also sold a few debarkers but felt VK’s earlier spring-loaded model was not suitable in strength and operating technology for the southern pine industry.

Gordon’s business began making a real imprint when VK introduced the heavier, faster, more maintenance friendly 600-800 series of debarkers with self-centering infeed, top and bottom feedworks and stronger rotor. Gordon sold it first to larger producers such as Leaf River Forest Products, Georgia-Pacific and Union Camp. He felt that if the major corporations installed the new VK debarker, the independent producers would be less concerned about any risk factor. ➤ 48 46

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MACHINERYROW 46 ➤ “The most important lesson I learned was to be there when the customer needed you, even if the equipment did not perform up to expectations,” Gordon said.

“That’s really how I hung in there by establishing a certain degree of personal and company credibility.”

Gordon also sold the VK log singulator and then the Bruks drum chipper. A major development was when Valon Kone purchased Brunette Machinery of Vancouver in 1990. “We decided we needed a totally North American built machine,” Gordon said, as all VK debarker manufacturing had been in Finland. The company name changed to Valon Kone Brunette.

Gordon also represented VK’s remote tool ring debarker, the Grizzly Hog and drum unscrambler. He ultimately moved warehouse and office operations to Kennesaw.

After raising their two children, Michael Dale Gordon and Sarah Gordon Parrott, Jerry and Carol retired and moved west to Tucson, Ariz. Gordon lived in Tucson for 10 years prior to moving to Coosada, Ala. to be closer to his family and friends. His wife had passed away in Arizona.

Gordon loved flying, especially soaring, and spent his days in retirement finding joy in rebuilding gliders and airplanes.

He was an avid member of flying and soaring clubs such as EAA and Tucson Soaring Club.

He is survived by his son and daughter, and two grandsons.

Dave Ramsey, owner of HattonBrown Publishers, Inc., which publishes Timber Processing, recalled: “I first met Jerry in the summer of 1976 at his Atlanta office. I was making a sales call attempting to get him to buy an advertising program in Timber Processing. This visit was the beginning of a beautiful friendship that lasted until late October when he suffered a series of strokes resulting in his passing.

“We had a lot in common. We were both pilots, loved old cars especially Porsche’s in his case. In fact we were born within eight days of each other in 1938. He was a good friend and his death has left a large gap in my life.”

Ian Corrigall, former general manager at Brunette, recalled several outings and vacations involving the Corrigalls and Gordons during a friendship of more than 30 years.

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MACHINERYROW meeting at VK, they took the ferry to Stockholm and rented a car for the drive to Bollnas in Northern Sweden to visit an affiliate company.

“Traveling in Northern Sweden before GPS with an old fashion paper map in a snowy evening in March and unable to speak Swedish to get directions can be challenging,” Corrigall said, adding that Jerry was at the wheel.

“As we approached Bollnas, we spotted the Scandic Hotel on the other side of a city park. Jerry hangs a right turn onto a narrow lane. As we drive on down the lane through the park there is a steady stream of bikes coming at us.

Soon we realize we are on a bike path.

The Swedes graciously pull over, shaking their heads, to let this crazy American drive on.

“We were laughing so hard that tears were running down our faces. The bike path finally ended at the hotel parking lot; after checking in we hit the bar for a few beers and a few more good laughs for navigating the Swedish bike path. Jerry will be missed and our good memories will live on.”

Tschopp Orders USNR Saw Line

USNR’s Logmaster HPS quad bandmill.

At the end of 2020 USNR signed a contract with Tschopp Holzindustrie AG in Buttisholz, Switzerland for a complete new saw line. The sawline will be custom designed to cut a maximum volume of thin boards from each log. The mill, one of Switzerland’s largest, provides the raw material for Tschopp’s production of formwork panels for the construction industry.

The log line will comprise two Logmaster HPS quad bandmills. Designed for accurate cutting at speeds up to 590 FPM

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MACHINERYROW (180 m/min), Logmaster HPS is the most advanced bandmill in USNR’s program for throughput and recovery.

The line will also be equipped with USNR’s optimization and controls, and designed with flexibility and capability to accommodate complex saw patterns.

To handle the large volume of sideboards, USNR will also deliver two Catech XT edger lines that operate in the range of more than 70 boards/min. These lines will be equipped with the latest optimization technology.

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years ever in terms of sales for our European operations, despite the ongoing pandemic. This is validation of our very strong position in this region,” remarks Johan Johansson, CEO USNR AB. “Located in the heart of Europe, this is a very strategic project for USNR. It will afford the wood processors in that region the opportunity to see first-hand the capabilities of USNR’s technology.”

The project is valued in the range of $16 million (13 million euro), and all machinery will be manufactured and delivered from the USNR facility in Söderhamn, Sweden.

Rambler Plans New Mill Operation Rambler Wood Products is moving into the 300,000 sq. ft. former Bush Furniture Industries facility in St. Paul, Va. and investing $7.6 million to establish a wood products manufacturing facility that will create 73 jobs.

Rambler Wood Products founder Mark Wadams comments, “In addition to contributing to the economic rejuvenation of the region, we are committed to being thoughtful stewards of the region’s natural resources by implementing sustainable

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MACHINERYROW practices and a ‘waste nothing’ philosophy throughout our operations.”

Rambler will convert white oak into barrel staves for the West Virginia Great Barrel Co. and will use red oak and other lower value hardwoods to produce lumber for flooring manufacturers, pallet production and for mining usage.

Wood residuals will be sold to paper companies or further manufactured to biomass products.

HS Timber Group Will Build Sawmill HS Timber Group, one of the leading wood processing companies in Europe, is expanding its portfolio by building a sawmill in Svisloch in the Belarusian region of Grodno. The investment amounts to 84 million Euro. The building permit has been issued and completion is expected in spring 2022.

The sawmill, processing pine and spruce logs, will have an annual sawing capacity of 500,000 m³ (212MMBF).

HS Timber Group says it will only process timber from sustainably managed forests.

The sawmill in Belarus complements the group’s existing production sites in Germany and Romania. It offers excellent connection to the Polish port of Gdansk.

Moreover, the connection to the European and Russian rail systems provides important strategic advantages.

F.H. Stoltze Chooses Lucidyne GradeScan F.H. Stoltze Land and Lumber has purchased a GradeScan with Perceptive Sight 2.0 from Lucidyne for installation in the Columbia Falls, Mont. planer mill.

According to Trevor Kjensrud, plant manager at F.H. Stoltze, “Lucidyne’s knowledge, professionalism, customer service, and being the leader in the auto grader industry” are the reasons they chose Lucidyne.

All new Lucidyne GradeScans come standard with the Perceptive Sight Intelligent Grading platform, using deep learning artificial intelligence for defect detection and grading results. The GradeScan system will be installed at F.H. Stoltze in April 2021.

Collums Is Upgrading Log Line with ELI Collums Lumber of Allendale, SC is updating its log line with a new USNR Extended Length Infeed (ELI) and Quad Roll Log Turner. The mill’s existing DLI was installed by Newnes in 2002 and over the years some of the components as well as the optimization system have been updated. The hardworking line is now getting a new infeed with skew/slew capability. Installation will take place in the second quarter.

The ELI system intelligently maneuvers the log into the right position every time for a perfect handoff to downstream equipment.

The Quad Roll Log Turner uses an actuation cylinder that enables the second roll to maintain contact with the log longer relative to the log dimension. This provides more time to turn the log but also helps smooth out the flow and boosts throughput so the rolls can close on the log sooner and let go of it later.

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Ben Crim Retires From Hood Industries Ben Crim, Vice President of Engineering & Environmental Management for Hood Industries, retired at the end of December after a 30-year career with the wood products manufacturer and distributor.

Crim joined Hood Industries on Valentine’s Day of 1990 as the Director of En-

gineering & Environmental Services, becoming corporate employee “number 8” when he joined the team. During his career, he has worked for all three presidents of the company—John Galloway, Sr., Don Grimm, and Jay Galloway.

Crim was a single person department until 2011 and was named vice president in May 2012, ultimately leading a team of seven project managers and engineers.

Crim’s career spans nearly 49 years.

Ben Crim, left, and Hood Industries President Jay Galloway celebrate Crim’s retirement from Hood Industries.

After graduating from LSU in 1971 with an Industrial Engineering degree, he worked for Hines Lumber Co. in Hines, Ore. Crim spent 13 years with Temple Inland as a staff engineer and then taking on a role in operations as a plant manager before joining Hood Industries.

During the course of his career with Hood Industries Crim has held a number of committee and advisory roles with the Mississippi Manufacturers Assn. (MMA), Mississippi Dept. of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), and Mississippi Engineering Society. He was a past Chairman of the Title V Advisory Council for MDEQ, having been appointed to the council by former Lt. Governors Phil Bryant and Tate Reeves. He has also represented the company at a number of American Plywood Assn. (APA) events.

Crim says he plans to play golf, spend time with his 12 grandchildren, and travel with his wife, Vicki. When asked about his favorite memory from his time with Hood Industries, Crim replies, “By far it’s the people. Hood is a great company and a well-kept secret, although the secret is starting to get out. I’ll miss the people the most…I’m already starting to miss them.”

He adds that he never saw it as a job, that he was always doing something different and having fun every day.

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ATLARGE having a pleasant conversation,” Donnell says. “Though he is retired, I hope to see him down the road.”

Upon announcing Crim’s retirement, Hood President Galloway comments, “It has been a privilege for me to work with Ben at different levels throughout my career. He has been a true professional and valued colleague. I wish him all the best in this new phase of his life.”

Russ Taylor Forms Consulting Firm Consultant Russ Taylor has announced the formation of Russ Taylor Global, a “re-invented” company that focuses on wood business and market consulting.

Taylor’s return to consulting work follows his 25 years of leading International Wood Markets Group and then the completion of a three-year employment contract with Forest Economic Advisors.

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needs when it comes to difficult-to-find information, for short industry/market perspectives, as well as in-depth analysis on specific topics.

E-mail: russtaylor@russtaylor global.com; visit russtaylorglobal.com.

Hood Names Newbill As Director—EHS Hood Industries, Inc. has promoted Sam Newbill to Director—Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS), reporting directly to President Jay Galloway, and becoming part of the senior executive team. During his 20-plus years with the company, Newbill has played an integral role in the development of safety processes and the ongoing improvement of safety performance.

Newbill started out as a utility employee at the Wiggins, Miss. plywood mill while working his way through college. He moved to the maintenance department, eventually assuming the planner role. However, a safety incident that resulted in a fatality at the Wiggins mill

changed the trajectory of his career.

After this incident, Newbill moved into the safety profession and started out as a safety specialist. Later, he served as a mill safety manager and divisional safety manager before being named corporate safety manager in 2019.

Newbill represents Hood Industries on a number of industry and professional committees. He is active on the American Plywood Assn. (APA) Safety & Health Advisory Committee, where he was Vice Chairman from 2019-2021 before becoming Chairman for 2021. He has also served on the Mississippi Manufacturers Assn. (MMA) Steering Committee and the MS Gulf Coast Community College District Workforce Council.

Seneca Paid Off PPP Loan Due to the lumber market recovery, Seneca reports it was able to pay off its PPP loan with interest instead of applying for forgiveness.

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ATLARGE Based in Eugene, Ore., when Seneca applied for a PPP loan in April, lumber prices were low, demand was the lowest it had been in decades, and the drastic market disruption created by the coronavirus had resulted in rolling closures in their facilities. The qualification for the loan gave Seneca an influx of cash that allowed them to bridge the difficult time. They used the funds to reestablish and maintain full employment during that time of uncertainty.

Ensuing months saw lumber market improvement. The rise in the demand for lumber was first led by homeowners who were spending more time at home and repairing or remodeling their existing homes, then it was led by homebuilders due to pent-up demand for housing starts that had been paused during the first few months of the pandemic.

The strong lumber market helped Seneca get back to business as usual.

“We want to thank the SBA for the support and opportunity to help keep our employees employed during that time of uncertainty,” comments Todd Payne, CEO of Seneca.

ship will allow us to finish the process of coming back from the Barry Point Fire.”

Over the lifespan of the project, the Collins-Modoc Reforestation Project is expected to re-create a working, sustainable forest and carbon sink, capturing and sequestering several hundred thousand metric tons of carbon dioxide while allowing for sustainable timber harvests.

Prior to the fire, the property had a mo-

saic of meadows, riparian woodlands, aspen groves and pine stands. As a headwater for the Klamath and Sacramento rivers, the replanting activity will help to restore these important terrestrial ecosystems, as well as reduce erosion, increase aquifer recharge, and create and support habitat along the Pacific Flyway.

The exploration of carbon values was enabled by RenewWest’s partnership

Collins Leads Carbon Project Collins, in partnership with RenewWest, announced a joint endeavor, the Collins-Modoc Reforestation Project, in which more than 2 million trees will be planted on approximately10,000 acres of the Modoc Plateau in northern California, making it the largest single-site carbon-focused reforestation project in U.S. history, according to the participants.

The site was damaged by the 2012 Barry Point Fire, which burned 92,977 acres across federal, state and private lands and has failed to recover. The new partnership between Collins, a leader in FSC-certified well-managed forestry, and RenewWest, which is exclusively focused on Western carbon projects, showcases the shared interest in using forests to capture atmospheric carbon and meet landowner needs.

“As we have evaluated carbon opportunities over the years, we lacked a way to leverage these markets to help us invest in fire restoration and reforestation,” says Galen Smith, Project Manager for Collins.

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ATLARGE with Coalitions & Collaboratives Inc., a not-for-profit working on wildfire preparation and response. Financial support for this exploration was partially provided by funds from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation as administered by The Nature Conservancy. Significant project funds were provided by the California Climate Investments program and administered by the California Dept. of Forestry and Fire.

IKEA Partner Buys More Timberland Ingka Group, a major franchise partner in the IKEA system, operating 380 IKEA stores in 31 countries, has acquired nearly 11,000 acres located in southeast Georgia near the Altamaha River Basin from The Conservation Fund.

Ingka Group, based in the Netherlands, now owns 136,000 acres in five states—

Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Texas and Oklahoma, and owns a total of 613,000 acres worldwide, including the U.S. and Europe.

Ingka Group’s forest management is audited by the Forest Stewardship Council. Between September 2019 and August 2020 Ingka Group planted 600,000 seedlings in the U.S. and close to 7 million seedlings worldwide.

Dippel Retires From Seneca Mark Dippel, Stud Sales Manager at Seneca in Eugene, Ore., retired in December after 27 years.

Dippel made a shift in his lumber career when he was hired by Seneca in August 1994 after more than a decade of lumber wholesaling. In December of that same year, Aaron Jones, owner of Seneca, completely revised Seneca’s sales philosophy and restructured the sales team, assigning Dippel as the sales manager for studs.

Seneca’s owner conceptualized a “just-in-time” sales philosophy where Seneca would mill lumber based on industry demand and sell it once the inventory was in the stockyard. Dippel made up half of the two-person sales management team tasked with completely reworking the way lumber was sold and educating customers on how to buy lumber from Seneca with the new methodology.

After six months they had cemented 25 or 30 big accounts that loved the justin-time sales model. They built trusted relationships, speaking with them daily, as well as maintaining many smaller accounts. “We created a stocking distribution model at the mill level, and it worked beautifully,” Dippel says.

At the end of the first year, Jones called both sales managers into his office and said, “I want you to source every mom and pop lumberyard that plays a big role in their community and tell them we want to partner with them.” It took them from having around 150 customers to almost 300 customers.

Dippel is proud to have been a part of that important piece of Seneca history, maintaining and refining it over the years. “I got to hitch my little wagon to the back of the train, and I’ve loved every minute of it.”

When asked about retirement, Dippel says, “I hope it is like summertime when I was a kid and doing anything is possible!”

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Microtec’s recent acquisition of Lucidyne creates a significant global lumber scanning portfolio. Microtec has demonstrated success across a range of scanning solutions and Lucidyne’s GradeScan is a gold standard for lineal scanning.

Lucidyne now offers a transverse scanning solution to North America, using Microtec’s scanning technology and Lucidyne’s deep learning software platform.

Using the Goldeneye 900 series at its core, the new Lucidyne 900 will deliver unparalleled grading solutions to transverse applications in planer mills, sawmill and stud mills.

The Lucidyne 900 will be sold, installed and maintained from Lucidyne’s U.S. headquarters in Corvallis, Ore. As the Microtec and Lucidyne teams continue to combine their technologies, additional Microtec scanners will be added to the Lucidyne product line.

Frank Jost, CEO of Microtec, states, “Together we will continue to invest in R&D to develop and implement leading edge scanning solutions for the North American market.” Visit lucidyne.com.

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A PCD dresser disc is incorporated with a smooth edge for longer life, or a toothed edge that helps open the wheel during shaping. The ability to continually duplicate wheel shape from filer to filer reduces grind in laps reducing saw and sharpening wheel usage. The unique precision cam template will duplicate almost any wheel shape every time. Visit armstrong.com.

Mitsubishi Logisnext Americas group, the exclusive manufacturer and provider of UniCarriers forklifts across North, Central and South America, has launched the CF100-CF155 Series, 4wheel internal combustion heavy-duty cushion tire forklifts. These enginepowered forklifts are available to all UniCarriers brand dealers across North and South America, as well as the Caribbean. This product lineup addition now completes the Class IV product line for UniCarriers Forklift.

Some key advantages include 10,000-15,500 lb. capacity; PSI 4X 4.3liter V6 EPA/CARB compliant engine with great fuel economy; low noise/vibration levels; low-profile counterweight for more compact turning radius; higher lift heights to allow stacking at the third level. Visit logisnext americas.com.

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MAINEVENTS FEBRUARY

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24-28—Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers annual meeting, Ponte Vedra Inn & Club, Ponte Vedra, Fla. Call 336885-8315; visit appalachianhardwood.org.

1-3—Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers Summer Conference, The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, WV. Call 336-885-8315; visit appalachianhardwood.org.

MARCH

11-13—Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Expo, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 504-443-4464; visit sfpaexpo.com.

24-26—Hardwood Manufacturers Association's National Conference and Expo, Austin, Tex. Call 412-244-0440; visit hmamembers.org.

24-26—Forestry Association of South Carolina annual meeting, Myrtle Beach Marriott at Grande Dunes, Myrtle Beach, SC. Call 803-798-4170; visit scforestry.org.

14-16—International Wood Products Assn. 65th World of Wood Annual Convention, Hard Rock Hotel, San Diego, Calif. Call 703-820-6696; visit iwpawood.org.

19-21—Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen’s Assn. Convention & Exposition, Indianapolis Downtown Marriott, Indianapolis, Ind. Call 317-288-0008; visit ihla.org.

MAY 14-15—Loggers’ Expo, Cross Insurance Center, Bangor, Maine. Call 315-369-3078; visit northernlogger.com.

16-18—American Wood Protection Assn. annual meeting, Francis Marion Hotel, Charleston, S.C. Call 205-733-4077; visit awpa.com.

21-22—Expo Richmond 2021, Richmond Raceway Complex, Richmond, Va. Call 804-737-5625; visit exporichmond.com.

JUNE 4-5—PA Timber Show, Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center, Pennsylvania Furnace, Penn. Call 814-8632873; visit agsci.psu.edu/timber.

26-29—Assn. of Consulting Foresters of America annual conference, Graduate Eugene, Eugene, Ore. Call 703-5480990; visit acf-foresters.org.

JULY 14-17—2021 Southeastern Lumber Manufacturers Assn. Annual Conference, Ritz Carlton, Naples, Fla. Call 770-631-6701; visit slma.org.

20-23—AWFS Fair 2021, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV. Visit awfsfair.org.

25-28—Walnut Council annual meeting, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill. Call 765-583-3501; visit walnutcouncil.org.

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