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The Rhythm Of Lumber Production Two More Sawmills Announced

HERE COMES GEORGIA-PACIFIC

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COVER: Georgia-Pacific starts up its new sawmill in Talladega, Ala. and has two more new sawmills in the works.

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SUPPLY-DEMAND BEAT GOES ON

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uring my recent visit to Georgia-Pacific’s newly started up sawmill in Talladega, Ala., and during my discussions there about the fact that GP is building two additional sawmills (in Georgia) this year, the words that kept coming to mind like the beating of drums were: Supply-Demand, Supply-Demand, Supply-Demand.

GP alone will have added new southern pine lumber production capacity of about 900MMBF come 2020, and I don’t have to tell you about all of the other lumber production projects in the works in North America, and especially in the Southern U.S. In fact as I departed Talladega that day I couldn’t help but worry that GP and some of these other companies might be over-extending themselves, even though GP officials had just assured me that they see demand outpacing supply for some extended period of time. My concern stemmed from the notion that U.S. housing starts seem to be stuck in the 1.25 million range. But who am I to second-guess the Koch brothers anyway?

Coincidentally, after I returned to the office, I received an article from veteran forest products industry prognosticator Henry Spelter. The article appears in this issue on pages 38-39. It’s about annual increases in lumber production capacity versus annual increases in lumber demand in North America. Spelter forecasts that new lumber supply will have outpaced new lumber demand when 2018 is all accounted for, and that in 2019 the increase in new lumber supply will still out-do the increase in new lumber demand, even more than in 2018.

But like all good novelists, and apparently economists, Spelters saves the best for last—that 2020 will reverse the trend, and the increase in new lumber supply will significantly lag the increase in new lumber demand by perhaps 1.5 billion BF. Meanwhile during the NAHB International Builders Show held in February in Las Vegas, a report from NAHB Chief Economist Robert Dietz states that in 2020 U.S. single family starts will increase 4% over 2019 to the 928,000 range, the biggest annual increase since 2017; and multifamily housing starts will show a slight increase in 2020 to 384,000 following a decline in 2019. That would put combined new starts in 2020 at 1.31 million and trending upward.

Spelter says the upward ticking will be due to Federal Reserve policy that is moving away from tight monetary policy and increasing interest rates to easier monetary policy and at least maintaining interest rates.

Of course all of these companies that are completing all of these production projects already knew this, but as a journalist burdened with a doubting nature and whose family comes from “show me” Missouri, I always need a little convincing.

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NEWSFEED CROSS CITY MILL HAS NEW LIFE Cross City Lumber, LLC, the former Georgia-Pacific sawmill in Cross City, Fla., is operating again under new ownership and recently named Wes Grant as President.

GP stopped production in 2008 of what was one of the original chip-n-saw sawmills, which GP built in 1969. Cross City Lumber upgraded the CNS line and resumed operation in April 2018. The mill employs 80 and is producing 60MMBF of dimension lumber per year.

“Cross City Lumber is a privately-owned U.S. company that prides itself in hiring the best of the best and taking care of their employees,” comments Daniel Dickert, an owner along with Steve Conner.

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family principal in Suwannee Lumber Co. of Shamrock, Fla., which was sold last year

by Blue Wolf Capital Partners to Conifex Timber.

Grant worked in a variety of roles, including vice-president of operations, at Suwannee Lumber for 19 years, before becoming general manager of Balfour Lumber Co. in Thomasville, Ga. “Cross City Lumber is happy to welcome Wes back to Cross City, and the team is excited to continue growing their successes under his leadership,” Dickert says. “His knowledge and leadership skills will take Cross City Lumber well into the future, ensuring long-term growth and success for our employees, Cross City and Dixie County.”

Grant comments: “My motto is to surround yourself with great people, delegate authority and get out of the way.”

ABBEVILLE FIBER BUILDING SAWMILL Abbeville Fiber, an affiliate of lumber treating giant Great Southern Wood Preserving, is expected to start up a sawmill in Abbeville, Ala. at the site of a closed West Point Pepperell plant this summer.

The $39 million facility will produce dimension lumber and small timbers to be shipped to Great Southern Wood plants. Great Southern Wood operates 14 facilities that produce YellaWood brand pressure treated pine lumber.

Abbeville Fiber will have the capacity to produce more than 2,200 truck loads of lumber per year.

According to Abbeville Mayor Billy Helms, the first phase of the new plant could bring 75-100 jobs. The facili-

ty is expected to have new rail line access.

Great Southern Wood CEO and President Jimmy Rane is also a principal in the Ashton Lewis Lumber sawmill operation in Gatesville, NC.

LUMBER GRADING AGENCIES MERGE Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau (PLIB) and West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau (WCLIB) have merged operations into a single entity.

The surviving organization, PLIB, will retain all of the trademarks and services formally offered by WCLIB, including the structural glued laminated timber certification services of the American Institute of Timber Construction (AITC), a role WCLIB had assumed since January 2013.

PLIB President Jeff Fantozzi

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NEWSFEED will lead the new combined organization from headquarters in Federal Way, Wash.

PLIB was formed in 1903 and is believed to be the nation’s longest standing grading agency. WCLIB was established in 1911. The combined organization will represent annual softwood lumber volume of more than 6 billion BF. “While PLIB is officially the surviving entity, this merger is truly a blending of two equals,” Fantozzi says.

“We will retain and strengthen all of the services we previously had been providing separately and we’ll find efficiencies where duplicative services exist. Member companies will notice little in the way of service disruptions.”

“This merger is truly an example of the whole being much more than the sum of the parts,” adds Ken Thorlakson of Tolko Industries, who is

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chair of the organization’s newly formed board. “Producers of all sizes will be well served to consider joining us.”

While long-time WCLIB Executive Vice President Don DeVisser will follow through with a planned retirement, he will be retained as a technical and engineering advisor during the transition period to help with fully integrating the two organizations.

The merger was effective January 1, 2019. All logos, trademarks and copyrights of PLIB, WCLIB and AITC will be retained and all will continue to be used by producers on their products. He said most members of the respective organizations will continue paying the same dues levels as they had been paying and for the most part they’ll be working with the same staff members.

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rope and PLIB’s members in Canada will continue to be served.

The new organization will be accredited in the U.S. by the America Lumber Standards Committee as a rules writing and inspection agency and by the Canadian Lumber Standards Accreditation Board as an inspection agency under NLGA rules The merged organization will provide grading, inspection and technical services to approximately 180 softwood lumber manufacturers and remanufacturers in the U.S., Canada and Europe; ISPM 15 certification and inspection services to 300 wood packaging manufacturers in the U.S. and Canada; heat treating (HT) inspection and USDA APHIS HT certification services to more than 50 manufacturers and dry kiln facilities; inspection and technical

support to seven glulam manufacturers across the U.S.; truss inspection services in the U.S.; and transient inspection services to producers, consumers and portable sawmill owners, engineers, etc. in the U.S. and Canada.

The existing WCLIB headquarters in Tigard, Ore., which the bureau owns, will remain open as a satellite office until the building is sold.

BC GOV SAYS COAST NEEDS HELP To create and support jobs in British Columbia’s coastal forest sector, the government reports it is making policy changes to increase the processing of BC logs on the coast and directing wood waste to BC’s pulp and paper mills. The changes, as part of the Coast Forest Sec-

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NEWSFEED tor Revitalization Initiative, were announced by Premier John Horgan at the annual Truck Loggers Assn. (TLA) convention.

“We’re committed to rebuilding a strong and healthy coastal forest sector for British Columbians,” Horgan says. “Through the forest policy reforms I’m announcing, we will see more logs and fiber processed in BC, supporting BC workers, their families and communities.”

At the same time, BC says it will stem the tide of log exports.

The Coast Forest Sector Revitalization has five main goals: ● Rebuilding solid wood and secondary industries to ensure more BC logs and fiber are processed in BC. ● Improving harvest performance to ensure more fiber is available for domestic

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mills, including the pulp and paper sector. ● Maintaining a credible auction system by taking steps to ensure bids on timber sale licences are independently made. ● Fostering stronger business-to-business relationships between BC Timber Sales, major licensees and First Nations. ● Restoring public confidence through amendments to the Forest and Range Practices Act and auditing the private managed forest land regime.

The goals will be imple-

mented through a series of legislative, regulatory and policy changes over the next two years. The policy reforms were developed after engaging with a broad cross-section of First Nations, industry and labor over the last six months. Engagement will continue over the next few months as some policy proposals are finalized.

New criteria for log exports from certain geographic areas, based on local harvesting economics and subject to engagement and consultation with First Nations, will be developed.

Changes to waste policy will be designed to redirect some of the 2 million m3 of wood waste on the coast to pulp and paper producers and the bio-products/bioenergy sector.

However, an opposing viewpoint is that without access to log export markets, none of the multi-thousand people directly employed in the stewardship of BC’s coastal private managed forestland would be working today; and that there are plenty of logs available on the BC coast for multiple purposes.

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ALL- IN By Rich Donnell

Georgia-Pacific starts up its first of three new southern yellow pine sawmills.

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TALLADEGA, Ala. o one has had a better view of the path taken by Georgia-Pacific toward the chain-reaction construction of three new lumber production facilities in 2018-2019—led by the startup of the Talladega facility— than Fritz Mason, vice president and general manager of GP Lumber.

In one of those where-do-you-begin stories, as good of a place as any is when privately held Koch Industries purchased publicly held Georgia-Pacific in late 2005. Mason was already in place at GP headquarters in Atlanta, having moved there that year from the Northwest, where Mason oversaw GP’s Western lumber operations. Mason, from northern California, had joined GP in 1999, after working for Oregon-based Hampton Affiliates, an experience that included his first taste of southern pine lumber manufacturing working with Hampton’s lumber facilities in Alabama and Texas.

A series of executive retirements at GP encouraged Mason’s move from GP in the west to headquarters in the south, just before the acquisition by Koch Industries.

Koch Industries and GP were no strangers. In 2004 Koch had purchased GP pulp mills in Brunswick, Ga. and New Augusta, Miss. and formed Koch Cellulose.

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Fritz Mason is overseeing G-P’s lumber push.

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Feeding logs from the wood yard; hog bins at back; CSX rail line in background

whether to sell its building products business—and had been approached by Willamette Industries a couple of years earlier when Willamette was trying to fend off Weyerhaeuser’s buyout. But the GP board decided that building products remained a nice fit in its integrated assets.

Koch Industries found GP building products attractive as well and in 2005 expressed an interest in buying it, but was turned down. That’s when Koch Industries responded with an offer to purchase all of Georgia-Pacific, and a deal was struck and finalized in December 2005.

The largest privately held company in the U.S. at the time, Kansas-based Koch Industries, majority-owned by brothers Charles and David Koch, operated numerous subsidiaries worldwide in manufacturing, refining and distribution of petroleum, chemicals and a vast lineup of other products along with a multitude of investments.

Mason recalls that the feeling upon Koch’s acquisition of GP was here is a company that has long-term vision, is known for its profit re-investment in operations and is not bound by the limitations governing a public company especially when it comes to cash flow.

However, when Koch Industries came in, GP, while maintaining operation effi-

ciencies and safety performance at its building products facilities, had gone somewhat thin in engineering capability and human resource. One way to alter that course is acquisition of facilities and personnel, which in April 2007 the “new” GP commenced with the purchase of several lumber and plywood complexes from International Paper, including lumber plants

at Gurdon, Ark. and Camden, Texas.

The great recession soon hit home, but out of its gate GP began investing strongly in continuous kilns and grading optimization, and then in 2013 let the industry know it was serious about the lumber manufacturing business with the purchase of Temple-Inland Building Products from International Paper. The sale included ➤ 22

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TALLADEGA LUMBER The Talladega sawmill project lived up to the city’s NASCAR reputation for speed. At top of both pages, panoramic views show the extent of demolition and the start of BID construction. Both photos were taken from atop the boiler stack. Above center, demolition of barrel building; at right center, green sorter imbeds where barrel building was. At left, equipment as it came off the truck. At right, debarker line (at left) and infeed to primary log breakdown line (at right).

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GP TALLADEGA LUMBER PRODUCTION

Infeed to primary breakdown building

P is going after 2x4s to 2x12s at its G new lumber production facility in Talladega. To produce them the mill relies on an open market of fiber supply, much of which has been simply standing and growing since the plywood mill shut down in 2008. GP hasn’t owned timberland since it sold its Timber Company business to Plum Creek in 2001. Locals are glad to hear and see the rumble of log trucks again after a 10-year absence.

Log trucks come across refurbished and new Toledo scales and proceed to the wood yard for unloading. Caterpillar wheel loaders work the wood yard and feed the BID Comact stems deck. Log yard mobile equipment includes two Caterpillar 988K wheel loaders, a Cat 938M wheel loader and a Liebherr LH50M material handler.

Stems come up the wave feeder onto the debarker infeed conveyor, run through a trouble saw ahead of the debarker to buck out defects and oversized logs, and run through a high speed Comact 22 in. ring debarker, a new product for Comact.

Bark from the debarker is conveyed to a Brunette Grizzly Hog station. Debarked logs continue through a Metal Shark metal detector and true-shape C1-Scan scanner for log bucking optimization, and proceed to a four-saw stem trimmer for producing 20 ft. lengths.

Log pieces reverse flow and are kicked onto parallel log accumulation decks, move up wave feeders onto a Vflight conveyor and are scanned. A flying log turner positions the log and it moves onto the Comact sharp chain optimized length infeed (OLI-CS3) for re18

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scanning and breakdown with a chipping canter double profiling system (Andritz Iggesund chipping heads) and large log quad circular saws.

The cant comes off the sharp chain, is turned on its side, scanned and enters a Comact TBL3 12 in. double arbor curvesawing gang. Side boards from the OLI and lumber from the gang accumulate toward a double unscrambler, speed up chains and rotary lug loader running into a 20 ft. transverse laser scanner, PosiLOCK positioning fence and electric trimmer.

Lumber enters a drag chain type sorter and then a MoCo high-speed electric stacker.

With emphasis on safe traffic patterns, five Taylor XH360L forklifts handle rough lumber including feeding two 220 ft. Deltech continuous kilns, with a third slightly shorter continuous kiln currently going in.

The kilns run on gas burners. The shorter length kiln was governed by the layout requirement for the kilns due to ADEM (Al-

abama Dept. of Environmental Mamnagement) air modeling.

Other rolling stock includes six Hyster H155FT forklifts for handling finished lumber, two Caterpillar 236 skid steer loaders, as well as two Genie cranes and two Skyjack scissor lifts Dried lumber is loaded into the planer mill tilt hoist/stick and dunnage system, moves along infeed transfers to a Miller 6roll planer (Key Knife knives), and accumulates with rotary lug loader into a Comact GradExpert automated grader, over a SCS MC Pro 2400 moisture meter and is positioned for entry into an electric trimmer. A cut-n-two system can saw long pieces in favor of higher value shorter lengths. Those pieces move into a drag chain type sorter and to a Comact double fork stacker with manual feeding lath placer. The mill operates two Signode Z30MP2 strapping machines.

Information from a Samuel ink jet grade marker is integrated with two downstream Samuel ST10 automatic package tag systems, which print the package label and staple it to the package.

All of the high grade lumber stays in a warehouse and is loaded out under cover, maintaining a bright and clean look as preferred by the customers.

U.S. Metal Works provided all the byproduct bins. The mill operates a PHL chipper and BM&M chip screens.

The cyclofilter (baghouse) came from Rodrigue Metal. The particle-laden air enters the dust filter and particles are centrifuged down to the cone section where they are continuously collected. The finer dust is captured upward in the filtering section using filter bags.

One thing the new Talladega mill doesn’t have is a filing room. The mill runs mostly Grasche saws, which are serviced

by Carolina Cutting Tools. GP is considering investing in a centrally located filing room to handle the cutting tools from each TP of its three new sawmills.

Moving left to right, profiled boards come off main line while turned cants proceed to gang.

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“Acquiring Temple was a heart pump,” Mason recalls.

GP purchased a timbers mill from RoyOMartin in Alabama in 2015. And in 2016 completed a major upgrade of its sawmill in Gurdon, Ark. “We got mature enough to where we said ‘let’s start to leverage our wood products business,’” Mason says. “When we went for board approval on the Talladega project is when we jelled around building multiple mills fast.”

Indeed within a span of 11 months GP announced it was building three lumber production facilities. First up would be a $100 million, 300MMBF annual production facility built on an idled plywood mill site in Talladega.

DIGGING IN The Talladega sawmill announcement came in September 2017. Project construction manager, Rick Wilson, had been on site with a civil engineering contractor and an operator of a small backhoe, digging holes in the dirt to see what they were dealing with. The day that GP made the official announcement in September, the demolition contractor, Frontier Industrial, began tearing it down.

Wilson was a 39-year veteran of the solid wood products industry, the last eight years-plus as regional engineer for Georgia-Pacific, and well known and respected in the sawmill ranks. He was about to retire when GP engineering/tech-

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Left to right, Franklin Castillo, Plant Manager; Jerrell Tyler, Operations Manager; Matt Thompson, Maintenance Manager; Garrett Proper, Dry End Superintendent; Telisha Moore, Production Operator; David Colvard, Production Supervisor; Kiera Gaddis, Production Operator; PJ Harris, Supervisor Trainee; Farrah Coley, Process Control Engineer

nology manager Steve Hendricks approached him about leading the construction effort at Talladega. Wilson agreed to manage the effort to get it built and running and then retire.

GP had built and started up the plywood mill at Talladega in 1975. A unique aspect of the location is that two rail lines, CSX and Norfolk Southern, service the plant. GP closed the mill in 2008 but maintained plans to restart it, until 2016 when opting to permanently shut it down. The buildings on site covered more than 200,000 square feet. It had been “cannibalized” a little bit, Wilson recalls, but it was mostly in place when the sawmill project began.

GP sold some of the machinery and moved out 12 million pounds of scrap metal and debris. It tore down one of the three barrel buildings, gutted the other two and replaced all of the plywood decking and a few bad joists. The 120 ft. bow trusses were all in good condition.

The office building was also cleaned out for remodeling. They tore down the boilers and regenerative thermal oxidizer but were able to keep fire pumps and a little bit of infrastructure. They refurbished the old sprinkler systems, added onto the fire main loops and added fire hydrants The wood yard for the plywood mill was cleaned down to the concrete and more concrete added in order to enlarge it.

They also added a switch to improve service ability from CSX and resurrected the railroad tracks to put them back in shape after 10 years of not being used and not being in the best shape when they had been shut down 10 years earlier.

Lots of concrete for roads was poured.

They moved 70,000 yards of dirt to fill where the dry kilns and lumber sheds would be installed on the back end of the mill.

GP didn’t have to look far for contractors. Adamson Grading of Conyers, Ga. did the dirt and concrete work in the first phase with Waites Construction and Concrete of Talladega providing most of the earthmoving. Gaston Construction of Sylacauga, Ala. did the dirt and concrete work in the second phase along with various mechanical work. Preman Engineering of Rainbow, Ala. did the civil engineering.

TTL of Tuscaloosa, Ala. provided quality control for the dirt and concrete work and

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environmental consulting for the prosawmill and lumber sheds at Talladeject. Golden Railroad of Linden, Ala. ga (bringing total square footage did the rail work. Total Fire Protecunder roof to 300,000), put in the tion of Alabaster, Ala. did the fire sysnew sprinkler system, refurbished the tem work. two barrel buildings, offices and In September 2017, the week shops, and put down the concrete after GP announced its plan to build foundations that supported their the lumber facility, it announced its equipment, and of course installed selection of BID Group as the and started up the equipment. turnkey supplier, including the conThe first piece of rebar or forming struction of the facility and the inthat went into the ground for any of stallation and startup of machinery. their foundations started January 3, BID Group had recently come on 2018. Wilson recalls that BID initialstrong in the South with a successful ly brought in about 30 BID employturnkey installation and startup of ees along with subcontractors for the new Biewer Lumber sawmill in Katie Kwilos leads Talladega’s human resource proconstruction and peaked with more Newton, Miss. followed by the new gram. Plant Manager Franklin Castillo likes the person- than 200 people on site. They worked Two Rivers Lumber sawmill in De- nel they’ve assembled. a 20-day on, eight-day off schedule. mopolis, Ala. Originally founded as They divided their force into four a construction firm in British Columbia, smaller turnkey optimization projects at crews, and had three crews there all of the BID had purchased several machinery two of its southern pine sawmills, both time, and each crew had to finish their manufacturer companies, opened a facili- projects of which Wilson was involved piece of work before they went off. ty in South Carolina and had proven at in. GP personnel also visited the Biewer Wilson observes that BID brought Biewer and Two Rivers that it could facility. “We liked their concept,” Mason some Canadian turnkey thinking to the build and start up a new, high producrecalls of BID. “What we saw at Biewer project, with as much work as possible tion, high technology mill in a very prewas a model we wanted to follow. We done in the BID shops in order to minicisely scheduled, abbreviated timeline. had done a large number of capital promize the work at the mill. He notes as an Mason recalls that GP was intrigued jects prior to that, but we had been the example BID shipping two 10 ft. pieces, by what BID was doing for Biewer, so integrator and knew all the pain and suflaid flat on a truck, ultimately welded at GP became more familiar with BID fering that went with it.” the mill to make a 20 ft. bin wall. Decks when GP brought in BID to do two BID put up the new buildings for the were mostly delivered intact with chains

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“You’re much more cost effective in doing it in the shop than you are in the field,” Wilson says. “You’ve got all of your fabrication equipment there, your overhead bridge cranes are there, you’re working inside, you’re not paying people for being on the road. The shop works its schedule to what fits the field. You pay more for shipping, but you make that back many times over for what you save in total cost.”

Wilson adds that this approach is similar to how the pulp business operated when he was in it. “We wanted big pieces delivered.”

Of course BID’s sawmill machinery itself had to appease GP, and with the Biewer Newton mill up and running well GP stuck to the template. “We have tried to keep it very similar to the Newton plant,” Mason says. “We wanted the ability to start it up without a lot of experimenting.”

Wilson adds that he’s high on BID sawmill technology, and even in the occasional spot where GP may have preferred an alternative device or machine, it wasn’t worth the tradeoff. “If you do that, now Comact has a lot more work to

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Two continuous kilns were in operation in January, and a third was going in.

do to make it fit together,” Wilson says.

“As it is, 100% of the engineering is done, debugging is done, everybody knows it works. If you make them change it, they have to go back to the drawing board and put engineering costs into it and take risks. The price goes up.”

Wilson says BID was able to put “an army of people on site for startup” that could run the whole mill. “They put a person in every chair, ran it, debugged it, worked it out. I’ve been on a lot of jobs and the one guy that’s there who knows the controls has to sleep some time right?

BID put people in around the clock, swapped them out so no one got burned out. The depth of support was impressive.”

The layout of the mill is a little different than at Newton. While a new build-

ing was constructed for the primary breakdown line, one of the restored barrel buildings contains the tilt hoist and planer on one end and the package makers at the other end, with finished storage in the middle. The second restored barrel building is all storage.

Saving the buildings provided big expense savings. However GP, which is very aggressive on safety, felt it was too tight for the larger Taylor forklifts inside.

GP basically turned the planer mill around (compared to Biewer at Newton).

Instead of the two sorter lines running in the same direction as at Biewer, at Talladega they run in opposite directions and are staggered a little bit.

Another big difference between the facilities at Talladega and Newton is that

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Talladega operates the log yard with mobile equipment as opposed to a crane.

With a concrete log yard already in place from the plywood mill, there was no justification to go with a crane. GP expanded the log yard to meet its expectation of at least 150 loaded log trucks arriving at the mill daily. (See related story.)

WORKFORCE CULTURE

MBM further focuses on five “dimensions,” including vision, virtue and talents, knowledge processes, decision rights and incentives. All of this is geared toward an individual and an organization’s growth and fulfillment. What kind of value am I creating and can I create for me to reach my potential and contribute to the operation?

Those characteristics or the potential to achieve them and grow with them were what GP was looking for—either from within the company or outside of it—as it pulled together its staff of 140 at

“Building a plant like this is not the hard part,” Mason comments. “It’s how you play the game every day.”

Mason is referring to the importance of a skilled workforce that’s operating the mill, but even beyond that the culture that permeates the workforce, which trickles down into daily performance on the mill floor.

When Koch purchased GP it meant the old GP would transition into Koch’s well known and well defined Market-Based Management (MPM), based on eight guiding principles such as integrity and humility and self-actualization, which should combine to create a dyStrapping machine from Signode namic and positive culture.

Talladega, including 110 hourly. “We knew that developing a team is the key to our success, so the people who were going to lead that, we had to have a high degree of confidence in,” Mason says, while referring to GP Regional Operations Manager over lumber operations, Tracy Smith; and Katie Kwilos, GP Human Resource Manager, as two who were in place at the beginning.

Kwilos worked at GP mills in Arkansas and Texas before coming to Talladega in November 2017 to lead the hiring effort. A lot of planning went in on the front end so that not only were they hiring the right people, but were bringing them in at the appropriate time.

“As part of our marketbased management philosophy we believe in hiring for virtue, and we want to hire people whose beliefs are similar to ours,” Kwilos says. “We believe that people whose virtues align with ours we can teach them what they don’t know because they want to learn and are looking for an opportunity.

We had a lot of hires who were out of the industry per se. But

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they had the core values we were looking for.”

There’s no written testing during the application process, but rather a behavioral type interviewing process that gauges the applicant’s approach to handling issues and circumstances in life.

Indeed only a handful of the existing workforce has sawmill experience. One of them is Jerrell Tyler, who was brought on site in January 2018 as green end superintendent during construction and was promoted to operations manager last summer. He Samuel automatic package tag machine came from Weyerhaeuser’s sawmill in Philadelphia, Miss., where he worked close to 11 years in su- way to go but we’re getting there.” perintendent positions.

One area of emphasis that quickly gets a Meanwhile Franklin Castillo had no potential hire’s attention is the emphasis sawmill experience, but close to it, when on safety. Every employee and his or her GP moved him from his position as plant family wants to feel secure about where he manager at the GP plywood mill in or she is going to work. “People accuse us Warm Springs, Ga. to plant manager at of going overboard at times with safety,” Talladega.

Mason says. “But we don’t back off of that “I’ve been impressed with the hourly commitment.” group,” Castillo says. “We have really talOne example is the flow of the plant so ented people here. They’re raising their that there are fewer places where mobile hands and asking what can we do to be equipment and pedestrian personnel have better. They want to be involved.” to interact or cross each other. The mill Mason says the emphasis on a higher makes it mandatory for workers to stand level of talent geared to the new culture on platforms while performing machinery showed impressive results at GP’s OSB maintenance. The mill has implemented mill in Clarendon, SC, which was not yet more robust controls for suppressing an igin operation when GP purchased it from nition source of combustible dust. In fact Grant Forest Products, did more capital ex- the baghouse location is off from the mill penditure and started it up in 2013. and has an exclusion area around it. If peoComplementing GP’s culture is its emple are in that area they have to wear apphasis on becoming an employer of propriate flame retardant clothing. The choice. Mason says it took GP a while to baghouse itself has a Flamex spark detecget on board this evolution. “We’re saying tion system, and there’s a dry chemical fire we want to be a place that people want to extinguisher for the baghouse. come to work, but are we willing to do the The mill has a very effective access things that make it that? A lot of us have button/key removal safety system at macome from the old school. We have a long chine center gates that includes a double

Finished lumber is loaded under roof.

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key reinsertion in order to resume production. The guarding around machinery is also more extensive than you see at many mills.

The MBM philosophy includes incentives and GP Talladega believes strongly in rewarding salary and hourly personnel for their “above and beyond” “continuous improvement” contributions, and the incentive amount varies. One example of the incentives program is the “spot bonus,” and an example of how that works is when a GP employee came back to the mill off shift because he didn’t feel that the gang oil system worked correctly. He redesigned the way it worked, “championed” the way to get it done and received a spot bonus.

Certainly in its effort to become a preferred partner with the community, GP Talladega has been aggressive in its community outreach, including partnering with area schools and simply becoming a visible and active presence in many forms of community involvement. Perhaps a small but meaningful example was in early February when GP donated $5,000 to Talladega’s Parks and Recreation Department. The news release about the donation included a nice photo of several GP Talladega personnel along with the Talladega city manager and Parks and Recreation director.

Meanwhile the lumber production facility began commissioning machinery by the end of July 2018, hosted an official start of production ceremony the first week of January 2019, and added its second 12-hour shift in the second week of the new year.

“We’re right on the nose with the timeline,” Mason says.

Wilson adds that though much of the workforce at the mill has had to get acclimated specifically to the sawmill environment, the knowledge they’ve accumulated in a short period of time and the skills they’ve demonstrated as BID has gradually turned over the mill to them has been huge.

GP is already doing it all over again at another brownfield site in Warrenton at its existing sawmill. The new mill is expected to start up in the third quarter. A different wrinkle there is that the mill will also have a core line for processing plywood cores from the plywood mill in Madison, Ga. A third new sawmill will be built on a greenfield site in Albany, Ga. and is expected to start up at the end of the year. TP

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EXPORT

EX PERTS By Dan Shell

Vanport International adds to its list of services with valueadded operation for domestic and offshore producers.

Vanport International President Paul Owen

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BORING, Ore. ongtime lumber exporter and broker Vanport International is well into its second year of a new value-added venture, Vanport Millworks, that provides opportunities for Vanport’s domestic and offshore clients to increase revenues through special orders and custom products.

The company’s revolutionary metric cutting mill closed in 1999, but the three Coe kilns on site have operated ever since. “We’ve been custom drying for years, and we’re always being asked about doing reman work, so we decided to build a new reman facility,” says Vanport International President Paul Owen.

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New Vanport Millworks plant features twin band resaw, computerized molder.

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Adding value a pattern at a time: examples of Vanport Millworks’ molding patterns

the facility was easy enough since the Vanport site is fully permitted, with warehouse space available. There’s also plenty of additional space on site to expand in the future if needed.

The plant includes a Turner twin band resaw and Leadermac LMC 630 Speedmac molding system that can handle material up to 4x12. “Mills are bringing stock product to us, and we’re making finished product for them,” Owen says.

“We’ll do everything from full package sizes to mini bundles.”

Vanport Millworks handles a combination of offshore and domestic products.

The finished products are primarily special orders or high end wholesale or home center lumber. Western red cedar and Douglas fir from the U.S. and Canada, pine from New Zealand and Japanese cedar are examples of lumber handled.

Owen notes that generally the cedar goes into high end cedar distributors, pine and fir go to a combination of home centers and wholesalers, and decking goes to retail yards.

Owen notes the Millworks plant fits well with Vanport’s international business, and remanufacturing adds anther dimension that boosts lumber producers’ revenues. “The idea is to add value for our customer base,” he adds.

Customers bring KD or green lumber, and Vanport develops a production and shipping schedule to process the lumber

Millworks plant handles orders of all sizes.

and meet customer timelines. “We build a schedule based on customer needs, and we do just-in-time processing for the customer,” Owen says, noting that the Millworks operation added a third shift since Timber Processing visited last fall. “We generally can deliver within a two-week timeline to get an order through.”

Another way Vanport facilitates international business is its location just outside downtown Portland and close to a lot of distribution. “Being 45 minutes from downtown Portland, we have rail, interstate and shipping lines just a few minutes away,” Owen adds.

GLOBAL COMPANY Proximity to shipping is key, since Vanport remains focused on international trade. Japan and Asia are major markets, as are Europe and Russia, New Zealand and Australia and other countries. About 20% of sales are into the U.S. While the company gained its initial reputation 40 years ago as Japanese metric lumber cutting and market experts, Vanport has branched out significantly since then. One of the biggest changes was during the downturn a decade ago, when more U.S. producers sought offTIMBER PROCESSING

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Vanport is positioned as an international lumber expert, whether it’s offshore producers looking to sell into North America or U.S. producers looking for new or high end export markets.

“We try to provide great customer service,” Owen says, noting that mills do a lot more of their own sales now than Millworks plant produces import and export products. in years past. “We position ourselves as shore markets. a player to help people with internation“We worked with mills like Warm al trade, whether it’s imports or exSprings Forest Products and Idaho Forest ports.” The Vanport Millworks operaGroup to develop export product lines in tion is an extension of that positioning, metric sizes, and we expanded more with providing product development and adU.S. product during the downturn as ditional value. people looked offshore,” Owen says. He Owen says international lumber trade adds that Vanport also moved more into has changed somewhat over the years, with digital technology making transacChinese and European markets during tions easier—though what it’s done has that time.

“The downturn was tough for U.S. pro- shifted the headaches: With customs, “Most paperwork can be done online and ducers, but we were able to help our supthat’s easier, but the requirements are pliers by going overseas,” Owen says.

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more numerous,” Owen says. With shipping companies, “Most documentation can be done online, but there are fewer customer service reps, fewer people to help,” he adds.

That’s where Vanport also adds value, Owen continues, by using its extensive global experience to ensure every detail of an international lumber order and shipment is covered.

Vanport received its FSC Chain of Custody certification in 2008 and Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) certification in 2012. According to Owen, European markets primarily use the PEFC certification; Russia tends to use FSC. Going into China and the U.S., for example, certified products are ordered based on marketing, mill-to-customer agreements and end user requirements as opposed to a blanket policy.

Looking at the development of international markets, Owen says that Japan has shifted its construction preferences a bit and now uses 2x4 frame construction for about 20% of its lumber demand. China is a bit tougher housing market because of more traditional use of brick and concrete, but the country consumes a large amount of forming and industrial lumber, packaging and more. ➤ 36

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LEADING EDGE The company dates to 1967 when it was founded as Vanport Manufacturing

by Adolf Hertrich and three partners (the name is based on the ports of Vancouver and Portland). Rejuvenating an older sawmill in Boring, Ore., Vanport was targeting export markets from its start, primarily Japan.

Working almost exclusively with logs from the nearby Mt. Hood National Forest, Vanport Manufacturing specialized in sawing smaller logs most mills didn’t

want while exporting large, high quality logs to Japan.

When log export restrictions were placed on federal timber buyers in 1974, Hertrich made the move to completely revamp the Boring sawmill into an export lumber mill producing metric sizes for complex Japanese markets and lumber grading standards.

He also did the legwork and laid the groundwork for long-term business relationships with Japanese and Asian lumber buyers, visiting Japan repeatedly to learn the country’s lumber business and how to

Clear, high-end markets are targeted.

gain the confidence of buyers with a quality product.

By the 1980s, the Vanport mill was one of the U.S.’s few advanced metric cutting mills, using early scanning and optimization. The mill was the first foreign company certified to grade lumber for Japanese markets and was the first foreign company to receive the highly sought after JAS stamp of approval from the Japanese Agricultural Service.

Unlike many in the U.S. who thought the best way to target the Japanese market was encourage U.S.-style stick frame building techniques, Hertrich was convinced the best way was to produce a better product for traditional Japanese postand-beam construction.

Vanport went as far as to build a 900 sq. ft. Japanese teahouse at its headquarters, using Japanese building techniques, to show off the company’s lumber quality and appearance to visiting executives. It’s still used today to display the company’s products.

In 1994 a sales arm, Vanport International, was formed and established offices in Russia in 1995 and Canada in 1996.

The business began to do more marketing, consulting and working with other lumber producers to target export markets and help with their lumber manufacturing, grading and sales efforts. The original Vanport sawmill was closed in 1999; today the facility is leased to a bark processing facility, while Vanport continues to operate the kilns and grading lines for its value-added services.

The new Vanport Millworks operation is a logical expansion of the company’s value-added mission for both export and import lumber orders.

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LUMBER CAPACITY SURGES But demand growth may boom as well come 2020.

By Henry Spelter

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umber is a notably volatile market with periods of euphoria followed by equally remarkable periods of gloom. The period from 2017 to the first half of 2018 was one of the more prosperous. Rising production strained against capacity, especially in the U.S. South where output in 2018 was set to match the prior 2005 highpoint of 19 billion BF. Those profitable conditions led to an upsurge of investments. Now a line of new or ex-

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panded projects has formed that have either started production or are heading toward startup.

There have been 20 new greenfield projects and 25 significant mill expansions within North America that have been announced over the past and coming two years. By and large their nameplate capacities are public knowledge, but the timing and impact of their arrival is somewhat opaque. To add clarity, this report makes the following assumptions: While the lead time from concept to re-

alization of a new greenfield mill can be indeterminate, once the permits have been secured and contracts signed, it normally takes nine to 10 months to activate a mill.

Therefore, I start counting some part of a project’s capacity 10 months after construction was initiated.

Once a mill is operating, however, usually some time is needed to bring new equipment up to speed. For that reason, during the first year I assume 70% of capacity is actualized before counting the full nameplate thereafter.

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Table 1: Lumber capacity growth at new and expanding mills after 2016; projects also include curtailments

Along with expansions there has also been some permanent downsizing. Four such events have emerged. Including their impacts arrives at the expected net change.

Temporary curtailments, however, are not included.

The 20 new greenfield mills represent approximately 3.8 billion board feet of additional capacity. A noteworthy aspect is that 85% is in the U.S. South. With the 25 expansions the overall increment rises to 5.2 billion. Four curtailments, all in British Columbia, totaling 0.3 billion feet, leave the net gain at 4.9 billion BF. Of this, 0.8 billion feet (16%) was already on-line in 2017 and 0.8 billion more (17%) came on in 2018. The biggest increment of 1.7 billion (34%) is set to become operational this year. In the immediate past and near future, mills in Talladega, Ala.; Urania, La.; Lufkin, Texas; and Lakeview, British Columbia, with combined nameplate of nearly a billion feet, have already or will shortly begin.

The remaining projects add a further 1.6 billion feet (32%) during 2020. The impact of these on overall North America capacity is illustrated in Chart 1 below.

From 2012 to 2015, in the rebound following the 20082010 recession, capacity grew at a smart 2%/year rate.

That slowed to less than 1% in 20162017 during which demand kept growing but fires and transport bottlenecks combined to constrict supply. These contributed to two years of extraordinary profitability, which climaxed in mid-2018.

Last June housing activity started to falter, slowing demand, while transport conditions improved, easing supply. That ushered price levels back to breakeven in most regions with the notable exception of the U.S. South where margins moderated but remained reasonable.

It is in this setting that capacity growth in 2018-2020 is making a comeback to the 2% rate. To maintain equilibrium, such growth in capacity requires similar increase in demand. That failed to materi-

alize in 2018 as demand growth lagged the growth in capacity, contributing to the second half price swoon noted earlier (see Chart 2 above).

For 2019, FEA’s analysis projects lumber demand will rise but lag the supply increase even more than in 2018.

This implies that, barring extraneous supply constraints, the industry will again be on the defensive, its ability to command positive margins dependent on the degree excess supply is curtailed.

Some of this has already happened as firms have taken volumes off line through cutbacks and temporary closures. Additionally, a couple of major expansion projects have been shelved.

Though a lot can happen between now and 2020 to alter the outlook, FEA’s current demand estimate for 2020 is optimistic based partly on the recent turnaround in Federal Reserve policy from tightening to ease. Overall demand is projected to grow by 3 billion feet on the back of housing getting a second wind. At almost double the projected capacity increment, that would obviously enhance the market’s ability to absorb the accumulated prospective capacity lined up TP in the pipeline.

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SMALL

AND GOOD By Jessica Johnson

For over 50 years, James Grezenski Forest Products has sawn hardwood lumber in north central Wisconsin. While things look a lot different in 2019, the pursuit of consistency in thickness has stayed the same.

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STEVENS POINT, Wis. ames Grezenski Forest Products, established in 1962, has stayed true to its humble roots.

Evolving with the times and technology available, the small hardwood mill cuts random width at a pace of 16-18MBF per day. Species vary from hard and soft maple, red oak, basswood, ash, birch, cherry, butternut and hickory, primarily in #3A and better, 4/4 thickness. Red oak dominates the inventory most of the time, owner Jim Grezenksi says. For him, he’s most proud of the thickness consistency the mill puts out—often getting compliments from customers on their orders.

“It’s all very uniform,” he says.

The mill is just once piece of James Grezenksi Forest Products. The company purchases timber for five cut-tolength harvesting operations, including one crew Grezenski owns and operates with two brand new pieces of John Deere equipment. The mill’s needs are consistently fed from company owned woodlands, which Grezenski says gives him a certain level of control though he’d like to move away from the mill stock being 70% of wood Grezenski has purchased and harvested, and only 30%

Barb and Jim Grezenski, self-described “old timers,” have been working the forests as loggers and sawmillers since the 1960s. The machinery has changed, but their work ethic has never wavered.

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being gate logs. “We’d like to see it more 50/50,” he admits. “As contractors are getting harder and harder to find, I don’t know if that will be possible.”

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Red oak usually dominates Grezenski’s inventory.

Right out of high school, Grezenski started logging part-time. In 1966, he made the decision to log full-time and after a few years of expansion, adding machines and employees to the logging business, Grezenski saw the opportunity to put a small manual, wood frame, friction feed

All lumber graders are NHLA certified, and round out the veteran sawmill crew.

sawmill on the land behind his house in Stevens Point. Things have changed since that first employee in ‘69—across the company Grezenski currently has 21 on the full-time payroll—but the sawmill has always been located on County Road X in Stevens Point, right behind Jim and Barb Grezenski’s first house.

While the sawmill had humble beginnings, first getting mechanized in ’74 with a Jackson hydraulic mill, and then in ’76 the addition of a rosserhead debarker and chipper from Fulghum, the real game changer Grezenski says was in 1988 when the mill made the move to Cleereman machinery. “That was the best move we ever made,” he firmly believes of the supplier located about 140 miles from his home. “They have everything I need and are so easy to deal with.

They really work with you,” he adds.

“They are good people. I knew Fran Sr., who built the first Cleereman carriage.”

Grezenski then upgraded to a Cleereman linear positioning carriage, Nicholson ring debarker and Morbark 58 in. chipper. As production levels rose, Grezenski realized the mill was outgrowing the 48 in. chipper, and that a step to a 58 in. was critical. Grezenski kept adding machines in the ‘90s, until settling on a basic version of what the mill operates now: including a McDonough 6 ft. headrig and a 60 in. McDonough bandmill resaw. ➤ 44 42

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MILL FLOW Grezenski’s product depends on log size—on a low day, the mill will run 14 15MBF, but on a good day can run 2021MBF. Grezenski says that a more steady average is the 16-18MBF per day range as the mill continues to move away from small logs and process only those with a minimum of a 10 in butt, with 11 in. being ideal.

Grezenski has flirted with the idea of shaking up his product mix, and cutting less and less #2 and #3A rough green

lumber in favor of 7x9 railroad ties—especially for the rougher stuff. It makes sense for him because then he’s able to get rid of the rougher log in one piece, but as Grezenski says it’s more mental.

“Have to make sure there’s no rot on it, it takes extra training for the sawyers to think, and cut, ties,” he believes. Not that his veteran sawyers couldn’t handle it, but just that it is a departure from what they’ve been doing.

Grezenski does some cut to order, but mainly cut to stock panel and flooring grades of #2 and #3A, #1 common, se-

U sing Armstrong machines in the filing room, Grezenski keep s kerf at 1 / 1 6 th.

lects and better. Of course, he maximizes every log by getting pallet lumber as well. All lumber produced at Grezenski Forest Products is rough green.

Grezenski found technology he likes, and stuck with it. An upgraded Nicholson ring debarker runs until the log decks are full. Grezenski also still has a 58 in.

Morbark chipper, which handles byproducts sold to the Expera paper mill in nearby Mosinee, Wis. Logs pass through an MDI metal detector, and are broken down on a Cleereman linear positioning carriage with a McDonough 6 ft. bandmill, followed by a McDonough 5 ft. bandmill resaw.

Grezenski has Inovec scanning at the carriage. The addition of an Inovec scanner was put in place in 2006 and Grezenski reports yield gains of 10% in most cases. Mill-wide, kerf is a little better than 1/16th thanks to the dedicated efforts of the in-house veteran filing staff, making use of an Armstrong leveler and Armstrong grinder, manual shaper and Newman knife grinder for the chipper.

Coming off the McDonough resaw, lumber is either kicked out to a turner or goes to the double end trimmer. The mill also uses a Crobsy edger. Lumber is graded according to NHLA grades and then stored on the yard. Higher grades of lumber are stored under roof until customer trucks or company owned trucks can haul it.

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GENESIS OF A LOADER FORWARDER Eby’s Sawmill rides with Tigercat 2160 loader forwarder.

CLEARVILLE, Pa. he oldest of seven boys, Leo Eby grew up on a dairy farm with his family. Whenever his dad didn’t need his help on the farm, Leo would help out at his neighbor’s sawmill. The dairy industry wasn’t for Leo—he was always more interested in the lumber business.

In 1987, when Leo was 18, the neighbor upgraded his sawmill, and Leo and his older brother, Arnold, decided to purchase the old equipment and start a sawmill themselves. Whenever they weren’t working on the farm, they were tinkering and running their new sawmill.

The company continued to grow and in 2004 Leo’s father opened up an official business account for them.

“Although my father wasn’t a lumberman, he loved the accounting work and played a critical role as the company grew,” Leo recalls.

The business started as a three-way partnership in 1988. Leo’s father owned 20%. Leo and Arnold each had a 40% stake. In 2005, Leo’s next three younger brothers, Conrad, Llewellyn and Durrel, bought into the business, making it a six-way partnership. Meanwhile back in 2002, the company had started a satellite business retailing landscape products such as mulch and bark. Leo’s brother, Keith, managed the business over the years and in January 2018 it was spun off and Keith took over as sole owner.

In December 1998, the sawmill had a disastrous fire that destroyed the entire facility. The family decided to rebuild

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Loader forwarder operator can see the top of his load and his grapple.

on a new location on the farm and invested in improved technology. “We got started in a new mill in April of 1999 and so May of this year is 20 years at our current location,” Leo states.

Eby’s Sawmill resides on a 30-acre lot with a large wood yard and employs 50, not including family members. The company produces 15MMBF annually.

“There is a lot of sorting going on at this mill,” Leo explains. “We are also handling sawlogs, containerization for export, and shipping a lot of low-grade materials to other mills.” The primary interest is high value lumber and veneer logs. However, in the pursuit of these logs, the business gets a lot of low grade wood that must be sorted and marketed.

TIGERCAT FACTOR Current Tigercat district manager, Jerry Smeak, sold Leo a TimberPro forwarder back in 2004 when Smeak was working for Lyons Equipment. “The machine be-

came indispensable to me, but there were some things that I wished were better about it,” Leo says. As Leo’s original machine began to accumulate a lot of hours, Jerry had made his transition to working for Tigercat. However, Tigercat did not have a comparable product to suit Leo’s mill yard needs at the time.

“Over the years I had been observing Tigercat and kept in contact with Jerry and I noticed Tigercat’s high quality construction. If Tigercat made a machine in the same category, I definitely wanted to go with Tigercat, but at this point, it hadn’t been built yet,” Leo says. Leo and Jerry kept in contact.

In early 2015, Tigercat delivered a loader mounted on an AC16 articulating carrier down to a Georgia-Pacific mill in North Carolina. Jerry and then-Tigercat president Tony Iarocci were planning a trip to visit this new machine and Jerry asked Leo if he wanted to join them.

Jerry recalls saying, “You will have an opportunity to talk to the president of Tigercat and you can see if you can talk

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Aerial view of Eby’s Sawmill nestled in the rolling hills of southern Pennsylvania

him into building you a mill yard loader.

Here’s your opportunity.”

Leo jumped at the opportunity. He took his mechanic, Rodney Bange, and brother Durrel with him and they drove down to North Carolina. Leo took a turn operating the loader and walked Tony through what he was currently using, what he was not satisfied with and why. Leo explained the application—he needed to unload trucks, load containers, and sort and move logs all over the yard. The machine also needed to feed the mill itself. “That is why it is critical that it has a high load capacity with good travel speed and no outriggers—to keep a continuous flow for the operator,” Leo explained.

At the end of the conversation, Tony said to Leo, “I’m going to put two engineers on it. Give us six months.”

About six months later Tigercat and Tigercat dealer CJ Logging brought some early engineering plans down for Leo to look over. Leo offered some adjustments. Tigercat invited him to meet at the factory in Canada, where Tony, Grant Somerville (current president, then VP of engineering), Peter Maljaars, loader product manager, and designer Tim DeVisser all participated along with

Rodney and Durrel. The group spent a half a day in the conference room and the Tigercat designers went back to the drawing board.

In October 2016 Leo received a phone call. Tigercat felt they had it right and Leo flew up and had another meeting with the team. “This time the team had a concept that I was really, really happy with and so we closed the deal that day,” he says.

It was very important that his new machine have high views out the cab and therefore a sufficient cab riser. “This objective was met. Now when a truck pulls up beside the operator to get unloaded, the operator can see the top of his load and he can see where his grapple is actually going. Before, the operator almost had to guess where his grapple was actually grabbing,” Leo explains. “Another critical item was service access. Tim went through a lot of pain to design it so that all the components are individually accessible, easy to access and replace.”

Another one of Leo’s objectives was more lift capacity. He wanted a machine that could lift twice the capacity of his previous machine without using outriggers. This was a critical part of the engi-

neering development. “I had a 20-ton carrying capacity on my older model and I wanted a 30-ton carrying capacity on the Tigercat,” Leo says. “And that’s what I got.”

In early October 2017, the machine was complete. Leo, Durrel and Llewellyn flew up one more time and ran the machine in the Tigercat yard. “I was anticipating finding something that wasn’t quite to my satisfaction, but believe me there wasn’t a thing I could complain about. Everything was exactly like I was hoping for it to be,” Leo recalls.

The machine was delivered to Eby’s Sawmill in Clearville in November 2017.

At the end of January 2019 it had accumulated nearly 2,500 hours on it.

“There has been virtually no downtime over the past year. We have had excellent performance out of the machine. I would recommend it to anyone,” Leo says, adding while there are a lot of yard machines available, they move slowly and they require four outrigger pads to stabilize them. “In my situation, I need TP mobility all the time,” Leo says.

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LOGHANDLING FULGHUM INDUSTRIES Fulghum Industries log cranes with traveling trolleys are available with the new trolley winch utilizing a single drum design, which was successfully engineered and tested in 2018.

An upgrade to the new single drum design is available for all existing Fulghum log cranes currently operating with a dual drum trolley winch.

This economical new design utilizes the same motor and motor controls as the dual drum system. Installation of this new trolley winch and drive can be performed in one to two days depending upon the necessity of replacement of ancillary components of the complete trolley system.

New single drum trolleys installed on several new and existing Fulghum log cranes have confirmed excellent service and uptime with less maintenance.

Fulghum single drum trolley

LOGPRO LogPro, a Timber Automation company, is an industry leader in log handling technology and sets the standard for performance, durability and safety.

The LogPro radial log crane is a continuous duty (Class F) crane designed for off-loading treelength stems and shortwood. In just one or two picks, the LogPro crane can off-load trucks for wood storage, onto log processing decks or directly into a debarking infeed system. The optional trolley allows maximum use of the wood storage area.

The radial log crane surpasses the most stringent requirements of CMAA 70 specifications. The overall class F structural design of the crane utilizes heavy-wall pipe and tubing for a strong yet simple structure. Structural truss assemblies are shop welded with nondestructive testing—main connections are of a pinned design.

LogPro radial log crane with counterbalance feature Unlike other cranes of similar construction, the structure at the pivot of the LogPro crane is filled with concrete of sufficient weight to counterbalance the crane lifting forces. As a result, the pivot bearing is always under compression. The counter balance design gives the LogPro radial log crane an added safety feature, that in the case of a pivot bearing failure, the crane will not overturn.

Opportunity for delivery in 2019! With the efficiency improvements Timber Automation has made to its engineering design and manufacturing processes, lead times for equipment delivery have decreased significantly, creating an opportunity for equipment delivery in late 2019.

PROGRESS INDUSTRIES Progress Industries offers log cranes from 75 ft. to 180 ft. with capacities of 14 tons to 45 tons. These radial cranes travel in a 360 degree circle, unloading trucks with treelength logs or short logs. The logs are then stacked in a circle for storage or fed for processing. Storage capacities can reach up to 20,000 cords of 60 ft. treelength.

With the option of a remote style log crane, an operator can be in a separate control room away from the log crane. This allows one operator to control the infeed deck system and still operate the log crane. In many cases where an operator is not comfortable traveling on the crane, this allows him or her to be in a stationary control room.

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LOGHANDLING SENNEBOGEN With its speed, versatility and reliability, the Sennebogen 818 M “E” Series material handler is making a name for itself in a wide range of log yard applications. This compact but powerful machine is ideally suited to smaller yards or where space is at a premium, narrow aisles are required and maneuverability is an issue. Applications would include feeding chippers and grinders as well as unloading trucks and infeed decks or sorting logs.

A Cummins 4-cylinder, turbo-charged QSB4.5-C130 engine delivers 132 HP (97 kW) of power while still meeting EPA Tier 4 Final emission standards. The 818 M “E” has a reach of 34 ft. 2 in. (10.42 m) and a lifting capacity of 17,196 lb. (7.8 metric tons).

The unique elevating maXCab with its sliding door can be raised to an eye level of approximately 17 ft. 7 in. (5.35 M). This provides opera- Sennebogen 818 M “E” rubber tired material handler tors with a 360° view of their work environment. With this enhanced visibility, operators can see inside a grinder or the top of the infeed deck or into a trailer when unloading when unloading it. Operators will appreciate many other safety and comfort features such as automatic climate control, full-color monitors for the cameras, intuitive joystick controls and a bullet-proof windshield.

With a top travel speed of 12.43 MPH (20 km/h), the 818 M “E” can move around more quickly to complete loading cycles faster than traditional equipment such as wheel loaders and knucklebooms.

The 818 M “E” material handler can be equipped with a range of attachments including a log grapple, clamshell bucket, orange peel or waste grapple. The 818 is equipped with a universal stick and can be fitted with a top or bottom-mounted cylinder for a live heel or other similar attachment, depending on the operator preference and application.

Depending upon the work surface and the application, the 818 is also available with tracks or can be pedestal mounted.

WAGNER

Wagner Logstacker emphasizes production, safety.

Allied Systems Company, parent company for Wagner Logstackers, has developed the New Generation design for its iconic Logstacker, retaining the durability that Wagner is known for worldwide, while introducing new features that make it faster and more cost effective than ever. ● Save Money and Increase Productivity Wagner purpose-built Logstackers move more logs at a lower price than any other machine and feature: —Best-in-class fuel efficiency —Three times the tire life —2WD models eliminate the need for costly center hinge repairs —Single-pass unloading of log trucks and rail cars —2WD and 4WD models available for all yard conditions

—Hoist speeds twice as fast as on older machines Reduce Downtime The new Logstackers retain the build quality of older machines, while introducing new features to make maintenance easier than ever. Service technicians can perform routine maintenance quickly and safely from a standing position at the ground level service bay. ● Operate Safely The spacious cab on the Wagner Logstacker sits up higher and farther back than cabs on big wheel loaders, providing near 360 degree visibility, and keeping the operator safely away from the load, and out of harm’s way. Liquid fire suppression is designed into the chassis with optional automatic fire detection available. Getting on and off of the machine is easy with lighted stairways on both sides of the machine and clear walkways all around. And now, with optional eco-friendly hydraulic oil and a leak-free hydraulic design, the Wagner can be operated in environmentally sensitive areas without concern.

Cost conscious equipment owners owe it to their bottom line to check out these New Generation Logstackers—simply the most productive and lowest cost to operate purpose built log handling machine, ●

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BAMBOO MAY BE THE NEW SCRIMBER New company is producing bamboo billets in Mississippi. bamboo engineered building product called A GRASSBuilt is being manu-

factured at a small plant in Meridian, Miss. The patented technology, owned by TimTek, LLC and licensed to GRASSBuilt LLC, involves merging long strands, called scrim, coating with adhesives and steam–pressing to produce bamboo billets, which are further processed for various end-uses.

“Applying the TimTek process to bamboo has really proven to be the perfect marriage,” says Nicholas Wight, vice president of GRASSBuilt.

“The process results in what can be described as ‘super bamboo,’ and is extraordinary as a base building material for superstructures, flooring, cabinetry, furniture and a host of other possibilities.”

The company reports that its aim is to shift the dynamic of nearly 90% of all bamboo products in the world being exported from Asia, with China alone accounting for 65% of world exports.

Creating a fully integrated and diverse bamboo economy in North America is the vision of GRASSBuilt founding partner, Sean Hemmings.

“I’ve been involved in the bamboo trade for over eight

years,” Hemmings says.

“Worldwide, bamboo represents a $30 billion industry for China alone. There’s no reason the United States can’t become a vital part of the global bamboo equation and foster our own bamboo-based economy right here in America—especially since the U.S. and EU represent 78% of total end-user consumption of the bamboo-based products currently available.”

Hemmings’ plan centers on sourcing species of bamboo from Mexico and the United States. The Meridian plant currently procures its bamboo from Mexico, where prior to shipping to the U.S. the bamboo is pre-processed, which involves splitting the bamboo culm (stem) apart and planing the inside and outside surfaces to remove the natural waxy substance that won’t bind to adhesive. Another pre-processing step is heating the material in an autoclave with no oxygen in order to carbonize the fiber (a form of thermal modification).

Once the bamboo slats arrive in Meridian they’re run through a scrimming (crushing) mill, coated with adhesives and steam-pressed. The Meridian mill is building inventory of the billets to fulfill

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orders. It reportedly has had some installations, such as for flooring in Florida, and at Mississippi State University where cut-up billets have been installed as paneling.

“Many Eastern economies, including China, focus on employing as many people as possible,” Hemmings says.

“At GRASSBuilt, we look forward to creating new jobs, but also to infusing our innovative, new technology into the equation of bamboo building materials.”

Hemmings adds that GRASSBuilt’s proprietary method of processing bamboo coupled with the plant’s inherent sustainable attributes make bamboo a premier building material for any project that desires to maximize its USGBC and LEED opportunities.

“GRASSBuilt products meet or exceed the most stringent of federal and state regulations for sustainable building initiatives,” Hemmings says. “The same cannot be said for much of the imported bamboo materials. At GRASSBuilt we’re 100% committed to being as sustainable and reliable as possible, and 100% transparent with our materials’ eco-quotient and consumer protection regulations.”

Hemming says bamboo has harvesting rotations of four to six years with certain types growing 2-3 ft. per day. He believes the finished engineered building material will compete in some structural applications, as well as many if not all decorative applications, and find applications in the furniture market.

Increasing sustainability regulations in the construction market, a desire to lessen dependence on imported goods and materials (particularly

from China), and the manufacturing trend of bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States after decades of outsourcing all combine to product a new supply chain economy, according to Hemmings, which he refers to as the “BamBoom.”

“I’m not aware of any other U.S. manufacturing firm which is beating China at its own game,” Hemmings adds.

The TimTek manufacturing process stems from a product called Scrimber that was started in Australia in the mid 1970s. The manufacturing process was that pine or other species logs in small diameters would run through a scrimming machine where the log was crushed to form a mat of interconnected long strands, followed by drying, adhesives application, layup and compression, steam pressing, cutting-to-size and finishing.

In 2000 a forest products industry veteran and former long-time Georgia-Pacific corporate director of forest resources, Walter Jarck, spearheaded the formation of TimTek and gained exclusive rights to Scrimber research and technology But the technology or product has never found commercial success with wood species. The small Meridian manufacturing plant exists because a previous venture there had a license agreement with TimTek and planned to use wood, but the last recession killed that project.

Reportedly, a plan to build a manufacturing facility in Canada, possibly Quebec, and also using wood, had significant private and government investment behind it but fell through only a couple of years ago.

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Acculine Rails Changes Ownership Acculine Rails, a carriage rail restoration company established in 2000 by George Balsbaugh, has changed ownership. Chris Tucker purchased the company from the Balsbaugh family in 2018.

“We’ve had a wonderful time serving our customers and ensuring their carriage rail is maintained in optimum condition, but the time has come to retire. Chris is the perfect person to carry on the carriage rail grinding trade,” states Balsbaugh.

Acculine Rails provides laser rail surveys, mechanical alignments, in-place machine grinding of carriage rail, and new rail installation for sawmills nationwide. With more than 160 customers, new owner Tucker states, “2018 was a year of upgrading equipment and working to clear out our waiting list. Now that we’re caught up, I’m looking forward to meeting as many of our mills in 2019 as I possibly can, while opening additional slots for new customers for the first time in many years.”

Balsbaugh continues to serve as a consultant for Acculine Rails during his retirement.

Can-Am Distributes RUD Chain Systems Can-Am Chains has been appointed the North American distributor for RUD Ketten’s Round Link, Case Hardened Chain systems. The RUD Round Link Chain

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MACHINERYROW technology will be utilized primarily in submerged ash removal applications in biomass and coal fired power generating plants throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Can-Am Chains and RUD bring almost 200 years of chain manufacturing and engineering experience to the North American market. Ranging from welded steel, round link, forked linked, drive and engineered class chains as well as sprockets and idlers, the two companies can offer best solutions for all bulk material handling applications.

RUD has systems for horizontal, vertical and inclined applications. They range from drag chain conveyors, ash removal systems and feeding systems to complete bucket elevators, trough chain conveyors and screw conveyors.

in. that was 120 ft. long with supports every 7 ft. All materials are Emtek 31F material. The surface is 4.5 in. thick and the support bars are 7.5 in. thick. Useable road width is 14 ft.

The road is important because it allows heavy traffic such as RVs to cross, and log trucks will be using the road in the near future for salvage logging projects in the area. Another stipulation was that the

bridge had to be moveable in case the migratory patterns changed.

According to Emtek GM Jon Fiutak, Emtek is used to handling difficult or custom applications, from Virginian swamps to rural roads in Africa. Constructing a toad road is typical of the type of custom mat solutions Emtek provides, although he adds that toads aren’t the usual clientele. ➤ 58

Emtek Mats Offer Toad-Saving Solution

In the Sierra National Forest in California, Emtek Matting Solutions has supplied engineered hardwood mats to build an elevated road to help save the lives of endangered toads. Emtek was contacted by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and Forest Service (USFS) to build the roads as part of an ongoing experiment by the USGS that determined which reptile or amphibian species was at the highest risk of death from road traffic, and whether elevated roads would help.

The Yosemite toad had the highest risk because it has to cross a road to get to its different habitats, leading to its listing as a threatened species status. Due to the road’s location, an elevated bridge could be easily erected so the USGS could determine whether the bridges would work for other species.

Usually, the elevated bridges built for such reasons were low tunnels that not all toads could find, causing them to be roadkill. Instead, this road was an elevated bridge with open space under that made it easier for toads to cross under the road.

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MACHINERYROW Registration Opens For WMF China

WMF China returns this September 8-11.

In view of the rising demand in innovative technologies across the entire supply chain of furniture production and woodworking industry, the Shanghai International Furniture Machinery & Woodworking Machinery Fair (WMF) has been collocated with CIFF (Shanghai) at Shanghai Hongqiao. The two fairs together attract more than 1,300 exhibitors to display products that include furniture products, woodworking machinery and accessories in the 400,000 sq.m. fairground.

WMF will be held September 8-11, 2019 at the National Exhibition and Convention Center, Shanghai Hongqiao, China.

The exhibits in WMF span across wood primary processing, wood based panel production, sawmill technology, automation machinery, machinery for custom production, wood architecture, green production and safety control, CAD/CAM and wood products packaging. WMF will be occupying Hall 7.1 and 8.1. It is expected to have 400 exhibitors from around the world in an exhibition area of 53,000 sq. m.

WMF 2018 received more than 33,751 visitors from 99 countries. It is widely supported by different organizations, including China National Forestry Machinery Assn. as one of its co-organizers, and China’s leading woodworking associations (Qingdao Woodworking Machinery Assn. and Shunde Lunjiao Woodworking Machinery Chamber of Commerce) as long-term partners. In addition, it is the only exhibition in China supported by EUMABOIS. Registration for WMF 2019 is open now on www.woodworkfair.com. Exclusive benefits will be offered to registered visitors, including free admission (one badge, two fairs: WMF + CIFF (Shanghai)), one free copy of show catalogue and priority to participate in conferences. ➤ 60 58

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MACHINERYROW Expo 2020 Dubai Impacts Wood Industry

Expo 2020 Dubai is scheduled for October 20, 2020 to April 10, 2021 at the 438 hectare site in Dubai South District.

The UAE (United Arab Emirates) is pushing to meet the anticipated demand for the six-month global event, which anticipates a massive influx of international visitors.

Massive construction activities in the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council), especially in Dubai that are being driven by Expo 2020-related infrastructure and projects will continue to drive demand for wood products in the coming years.

The construction boom represents unrivaled opportunities for all industries, particularly the wood industry, which is likely to get a shot in the arm from the region’s $2.4 trillion worth of construction projects. The upsurge in construction activities will continue to drive demand for wood products, wood-based accessories, interior décor, woodworking machineries and wood flooring materials, all needed for the new structures and hotels, which are being built in the lead-up to the mega expo event.

Dubai is adding thousands of hotel rooms and service apartments to meet the growing demand of tourists as part of the buildup for Expo 2020 Dubai.

According to a study conducted by Dubai’s Dept. of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism), the emirate’s hotel room supply is set to reach 132,000 by the end of 2019. At the end of 2018, Dubai’s total number of hotel rooms, including hotel apartments, stood at 112,381.

The UAE’s hospitality market is likely to reach $7.6 billion by 2022, growing at a five-year CAGR of 8.5% between 2017 and 2022. Currently, Dubai’s hotel sector has now more than 100,000 hotel rooms and serviced apartments. By October 2020, Dubai will need to have a strong hotel inventory of 140,000 hotel rooms and hotel apartments.

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ATLARGE Hatton-Brown Partners With Ligna Summit Hatton-Brown Publishers, Inc., which produces Panel World, Timber Processing, Wood Bioenergy and Timber Harvesting magazines, is the official media partner for North America for the upcoming Wood Industry Summit at LIGNA, May 27-31 in Hannover, Germany.

The Wood Industry Summit, which will be in its third season at Ligna, will be staged in Hall 26 and themed “Access to Resources and Technology.” The summit is organized by Deutsche Messe in conjunction with the German Forestry Council (KWF) and comprises a forum, lounge and exhibition area.

The summit will include an new group pavilion that will explore the implications of the German government’s “Charter for Wood 2.0” policy direction that will serve as a showcase for international startups, and a hub where young, innovative companies can present their ideas and visions for the future of the forestry and wood industries.

The new group pavilion is produced and run by the orHatton-Brown Publishers is partnering with the ganizers of Wood Industry Summit.

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ATLARGE LIGNA in partnership with the German Sawmilling and Wood Industry Assn.

(DeSH), Germany’s Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR), the Ministry for Environment, Agriculture, Conservation and Consumer Protection of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MULNV) and the German Forestry Council (KWF).

The Wood Industry Summit also focuses on ways of optimizing the entire forest-wood-logistics value chain. Other key themes include digitization in forestry, data protection and data integrity, forest firefighting, forestry infrastructure, road networks and logistics.

The summit will once again feature delegations from the timber-rich regions of Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Germany, Finland, Canada, Columbia, Romania, Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. The 2017 summit resulted in contracts worth more than 30 million euros.

TPI Purchases Stafford Inspection Timber Products Inspection, Inc. (TPI) has acquired Stafford Inspection & Consulting Services, LLC., which is headquartered in Orlando, Fla. Both TP and Stafford have been providing professional inspection and certification services for more than 50 years.

The acquisition aligns with TP’s objective to strengthen its position in the lumber, export wood packaging, truss and log home markets.

Jeremy Williams, controller of TP, comments, “The management team at Stafford has always been committed to providing dependable services and has built their reputation as a solid company based on integrity. These values are in direct alignment with the values that TP

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ATLARGE has delivered to their clients.”

Stafford will operate as a subsidiary of WRD, TP’s parent company, and be headquartered in Conyers, Ga.

Roseburg Names VP Of Operations Roseburg Forest Products announced Jake Elston as Senior Vice President of Operations, responsible for all Roseburg manufacturing operations, including both industrial and structural products; and named Mike Reardon as Director of Industrial Products Manufacturing, overseeing the entirety of Roseburg’s Industrial Products manufacturing structure.

Elston has an established and respected reputation in the wood products industry, with 23 years of experience in manufacturing and operations. He began his career as a superintendent and technical director at Willamette Industries, became manufacturing director for Weyerhaeuser Co.’s North American Composites Business, and moved on to Arauco North America, where he served most recently as vice president of operations.

“We are thrilled to have Jake join the executive team at Roseburg,” Roseburg President and CEO Grady Mulbery says.

“His extensive history with wood products, including broad national and inter-

national experience, allows us to structure our executive leadership to maximize opportunities for continued growth and development.”

Elston will work closely with Roseburg’s Ashlee Cribb, who has been promoted to Senior Vice President – Chief Commercial Officer, responsible for sales, marketing and logistics functions, and the supply chain initiatives for the company.

This is the third promotion for Reardon since he rejoined Roseburg in January 2017 as plant manager for the company’s composite panel plant in Simsboro, La.

Jorgensen, Brown Promoted At Boise Boise Cascade Company announced the promotion of company officers and the retirement of a veteran industry leader.

Nate Jorgensen has been named Chief Operating Officer, responsible for overseeing the Wood Products and Building Materials Distribution divisions. Jorgensen has 32 years of experience in the industry, including past positions in engineering, product development and distribution operations. He joined Boise Cascade in 2015, most recently leading the engineered wood products (EWP) sales and marketing organization.

Mike Brown has been promoted to Executive Vice President and will lead the Wood Products division, as the successor to Dan Hutchinson who is retiring on April 1 after nearly 39 years of service. Brown joined the company in 1999, serving in several leadership roles including guiding Boise’s Brazilian operations and the Southeastern U.S. region. He relocated to Boise,

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ATLARGE Idaho in 2015 to assume the position of vice president for Wood Products manufacturing operations.

Erin Nuxoll has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Human Resources.

Mass Timber Looking Up At 18 Stories American Wood Council reported that the International Code Council (ICC) in its release of unofficial voting results on code change proposals passed the entire package of 14 tall mass timber code change proposals, including allowance for up to 18 stories. The proposals create three new types of construction (Types IV-A, IV-B and IV-C), which set fire safety requirements, and allowable heights, areas and number of stories for tall mass timber buildings.

The three new types of construction include: Type IV-A: Maximum 18 stories, with gypsum wallboard on all mass timber elements Type IV-B: Maximum 12 stories, lim-

ited-area of exposed mass timber walls and ceilings allowed Type IV-C: Maximum 9 stories, all exposed mass timber designed for a 2hour fire resistance.

“Mass timber has been capturing the imagination of architects and developers, and the ICC result means they can now turn sketches into reality. ICC’s rigorous study, testing and voting process now recognizes a strong, low-carbon alternative to traditional tall building materials used by the building and construction industry,” coments AWC President & CEO Robert Glowinski.

The vote caps off several years of scientific research and testing, and verifies that mass timber meets the robust performance standards called for by the nation’s building codes, according to AWC.

WSRI Ends Run Of Great Research Following 20 years of research in support of logger-mill relationships and increasing efficiencies throughout the

wood supply chain, the Wood Supply Research Institute (WSRI) is being dissolved and its work archived by the Forest Research Assn.

Formed in 1999 by the Southern Logging Coalition and Professional Logging Contractors of Maine, WSRI was an innovative project to all segments of the wood supply chain, seeking solutions to common problems. The organization is transferring its assets and some of its mission to FRA. In its 20 years, WSRI produced 26 documented research projects. The organization sought to raise the caliber of dialog between wood suppliers and consumers, and identify opportunities for supply chain efficiency.

Its first research project, Wood Truck Turn-Time Cost Penalties to the Wood Supply System, showing the costs to the whole supply chain of unreasonably long truck turnaround time at the mill, was perhaps its most farreaching, as multiple mills implemented policies afterward to help reduce unloading wait times.

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WOOD PRODUCTS marketplace NORTH AMERICA

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JUNE

6-7—California Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Kimpton The Sawyer Hotel, Sacramento, Calif. Call 916-444-6592; visit calforests.org.

22-25—Assn. of Consulting Foresters of America annual conference, French Lick Resort, French Lick, Ind. Call 703-548-0990; visit acf-foresters.org.

6-7—Ohio Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Marriott Columbus University Area, Columbus, Ohio. Call 614-497-9580; visit ohioforest.org.

26-28—Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Expo, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 504-443-4464; visit sfpaexpo.com.

6-8—2019 Southeastern Lumber Manufacturers Assn. Spring Meeting & Expo, Hyatt Regency Savannah, Savannah, Ga. Call 770-631-6701; visit slma.org.

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This issue of Timber Processing is brought to you in part by the following companies, which will gladly supply additional information about their products.

13-15—National Wooden Pallet & Container Assn. Annual Leadership Conference, Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, Calif. Call 703-519-6104; visit palletcentral.com.

Allied Systems Andritz Iggesund Tools BID Group of Companies Biolube BM&M Screening Solutions Brunner Hildebrand Can Am Chains Carbotech International Cleereman Industries Cone Omega Evergreen Engineering EXPO 2019 Fulghum Industries G F Smith Holtec USA Hurdle Machine Works ISK Biocides JoeScan Johnson & Pace Linck Linden Fabricating Lonza Wood Protection Lucidyne Technologies McDonough Manufacturing Mebor Metal Detectors Microtec SLR GMBH Mid-South Engineering Muhlbock Holztrocknungsanlagen Nelson Bros Engineering Northeastern Loggers Association Oleson Saw Technology Opticom Technologies Pantron Automation Peninsular Cylinder Piche Port of Willapa Harbor Precision-Husky Premier Bandwheel Prewitt Group Progress Industries Rawlings Manufacturing Salem Equipment Samuel Packaging Systems Group Sennebogen Sering Sawmill Machinery Sharp Tool Signode Packaging Systems Simonds-Burton-BGR Saws-CutTech Smith Sawmill Services Smithco Manufacturing SonicAire T S Manufacturing Telco Sensors Tigercat Industries Timber Automation USNR West Coast Industrial Systems Wood-Mizer Woodtech Measurement Solutions

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20-22—Hardwood Manufacturers Assn. 2019 National Conference & Expo, Hyatt Regency, Savannah, Ga. Call 412-244-0440; visit hmamembers.org.

29-31—Forst Live, Exhibition Center, Offenburg, Germany.

Visit forst-live.de.

APRIL 2-4—Kentucky Forest Industries Assn. annual meeting, Embassy Suites, Lexington, Ky. Call 502-695-3979; visit kfia.org.

3-5—International Wood Products Assn. annual meeting, Loews Ventana Canyon, Tucson, Ariz. Call 703-820-6696; visit iwpawood.org.

23-25—American Forest Resource Council annual meeting, Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, Wash. Call 503-222-9505; visit amforest.org.

30-May 3—Virginia Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Sheraton Norfolk Waterside, Norfolk, Va. Call 804-278-8733; visit vaforestry.org.

MAY 5-7—American Wood Protection Assn. annual meeting, Loews Royal Pacific Resort, Orlando, Fla. Call 205-733-4077; visit awpa.com.

10-12—2019 NAWLA Leadership Summit + Western Wood Products Assn. annual meeting, Westin La Paloma Resort & Spa, Tucson, Ariz. Call 503-224-3930; visit wwpa.org.

17-18—Northeastern Forest Products Equipment Expo, Cross Insurance Center, Bangor, Maine. Call 315-369-3078; visit northernlogger.com.

27-31—Ligna: World Fair For The Forestry And Wood Industries, Hannover, Germany. Call +49 511 89-0; fax +49 511 8932626; visit ligna.de.

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