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A Hatton-Brown Publication
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COVER: Almond Bros. Lumber in Coushatta, La. is known worldwide for its upper grade export lumber, frequently referred to as “Almond Wood.” Story begins on PAGE 14. (Jessica Johnson photo)
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Jessica Johnson Associate Editor
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ver the last few years it seems there has been a flurry of new mill announcements, startups and upgrades with new ones popping up every few days. The downside to some of those announcements is the revelation that many independents are going the way of the dinosaur. However, despite all the shiny new equipment and large companies with multiple mills in multiple states, the industry still retains some history. You just have to look a little harder to find it these days. Brand new SYP mills are populating the South, turning out more and more production each day. But this month’s featured mill, Almond Bros. Lumber in Louisiana, and the family members who own and operate it—William, Ardis, Will, Winn and Vince Almond—say the mill isn’t about its production numbers. And it isn’t all about the intrinsic history either. The staying power of this mill, continuously operating on the same site since 1947, remains the commitment to tinker with equipment and to continually adapt a strategy to grow overseas markets. Since the early 1990s, the bulk of Almond’s production has gone to more than 200 overseas companies in 20+ countries—high-grade SYP milled and sold by the fifth generation of Almond men to work at the mill site in Red River Parish, Louisiana, with the fourth generation no less than a phone call away for guidance. The photos that line the front office of Almond Bros. Lumber show a hardworking and enterprising family from the Civil War and Reconstruction all the way to 2018. In a way, the story of the Almond family and its portable sawmill to now a large mill site, optimized with cutting edge scanning technology, tells a bit of the story of the sawmill industry itself. But the Almond mill is not the standalone bastion of history in the lumber industry. This issue also brings the next installment of May Donnell’s reoccurring series Mill Roots: A face first dive into the rich histories of some of the country’s well-known sawmill families like F. H. Stoltze in Montana, Collum’s Lumber in South Carolina, Hancock Lumber in Maine and now, The Collins Companies in Oregon. Yes, we’re always going to give some love to the newest, brightest and greatest mill announcements, startups and upgrades. But, in order to see the TP future, sometimes you have to look back.
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FOUR SYP MILLS ANNOUNCED Southern pine lumber sawmills will soon be spreading like kudzu, with four companies recently making announcements that they’re building new ones. l Rex Lumber Co. plans to invest $110 million to build a sawmill with a minimum 240MMBF annual production capacity near Troy, Ala. Rex Lumber currently operates three sawmills, two in the Florida Panhandle and one in Mississippi, producing a total of 575MMBF annually. Site work at the new Pike County sawmill was scheduled to start in March. Pike County was chosen over sites considered in several other Southern states. Rex Lumber, founded in the 1920s by W.D. McRae, continues to be owned and operated
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by the Finley McRae family of Graceville, Fla. The new mill will provide 110 jobs. “Our fourth-generation family owned business is looking forward to a long and prosperous future in Pike County and the great state of Alabama,” says Caroline McRae Dauzat, one of the Rex owners. l Hunt Forest Products, based in Rushton, La., and Tolko Industries of Canada will partner and build a $115 million sawmill in Urania, La. The venture will operate as LaSalle Lumber Company LLC and will be managed and operated by Hunt on a daily basis. Construction is expected to start in April, and the facility will employ 60 when operations begin in January 2019
and will employ 110 at full capacity. It is estimated the mill will require 850,000 tons of wood annually to produce 200 MMBF of lumber annually, according to the company. The facility will be located on 125 acres of the old 285acre Louisiana-Pacific sawmill site. Drax Biomass now occupies the other 160 acres of that site, and the new sawmill is planning to supply residuals and wood fiber to Drax for use in manufacturing wood pellets. “We are excited to be bringing a high-tech sawmill, and the skilled jobs it will provide, to central Louisiana, and to provide a local outlet for the massive inventory of southern yellow pine that exists in this region,” says James Hunt, coowner and vice chairman of the
Board of Directors of Hunt Forest Products. Louisiana Dept. of Economic Development will be using the state’s LEP FastStart workforce developmental program in coordination with Central Louisiana Technical Community College to build and train the local skilled workforce the new mill will need. Tolko Industries, Ltd. is a 60-year-old family-owned Canadian forestry industry company. Tolko, based in Vernon, British Columbia, will own a 50% share in the mill. “This is our first venture into the United States,” notes Brad Thorlakson, Tolko president and CEO. “We are thrilled to be in Louisiana with Hunt Forest Products, a family-owned company like ours, and one that has played a vital, reliable role in this state’s forestry industry for more than a century.” ➤8
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NEWSFEED 6 ➤ Hunt also said that Entergy Louisiana will support the new facility as an economic development partner, supplying clean, reliable and low-cost electricity, adding yet another competitive advantage. l Georgia-Pacific announced it will build a sawmill at Warrenton, Ga. on property adjacent its existing lumber mill. Construction of the $135 million, 340,000 sq. ft. plant is scheduled to begin this summer. GP expects the facility to produce 350MMBF annually. As previously announced, GP is also constructing a sawmill in Talladega, Ala. that GP says will begin production this summer. The Talladega and Warrenton sawmills are two of several that GP reports it is planning to build. Startup of the Warrenton mill is expected in spring 2019. GP’s existing lumber plant in Warren County will
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continue full operations until the new facility is completed. After startup of the new plant, Georgia-Pacific estimates hiring an additional 30 to 40 employees, bringing its workforce in Warren County to approximately 150. “We have enough property next to our existing mill in Warren County to build a larger facility equipped with the latest in lumber manufacturing technology,” says Fritz Mason, vice president and general manager, Georgia-Pacific Lumber. “We have a great team at Warrenton and building a new state-of-the-art facility on this site will make it competitive for years to come. The team has earned it.” The new facility will be capable of over three times the output of the current facility. The existing facility has been operating since the early 1970s. Mason adds, “We chose to
reinvest in Warrenton and Warren County due largely to our current talented employee base and the incredible reception we received from county and economic development officials.” Once in production, the new facility will receive approximately 185 truckloads of pine logs a day. “Last year we announced a similar project in Talladega, Alabama that will begin production this summer. This new facility at Warrenton is the second of several we have in our current plan,” Mason says. “The demand for lumber continues to improve as the housing market recovers, so we continue to evaluate similar investments in several states across the country to serve our customers’ needs for lumber.” l Canfor Corp. announced its plan to build a sawmill in Washington, Ga. with an in-
vestment of $120 million and with a production capacity of 275MMBF annually. The mill will be located near the company’s glulam facility in Washington. The new mill will be able to draw on a strong and skilled employee base. Construction will commence in the second quarter of 2018, with the official startup projected for the third quarter of 2019. At full run rates, assuming 2017 market pricing, the sawmill is forecast to generate annual EBITDA of approximately US$35 million, according to Canfor. However, shortly after that announcement, Canfor followed with an announcement that the contractor it had selected to build the Washington sawmill had informed Canfor of a previous commitment that may prevent the contractor’s construction of the Washington mill.
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NEWSFEED JONES LBR BUYS R&R NATCHEZ MILL Jones Lumber Co., Columbia, Miss. has purchased the Rives and Reynolds Lumber hardwood lumber sawmill division in Natchez, Miss. and the equity of Monticello Tie & Timber in Natchez. This acquisition will allow Jones Lumber to expand its offerings by adding grade lumber to its production capabilities and open up sales to the international market. Jones Lumber has multiple locations throughout Mississippi that are focused on building hardwood mats. “We are thrilled to add the Natchez operation and its team of workers to the Jones Lumber Company family. Wherever we go, it is our mission to enhance the lives of our employees and the communities they live in and
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we are excited to continue that charge in Natchez,” says Erik Toth, CEO of Jones Lumber. Rives & Reynolds was founded in 1971 and has operated hardwood sawmills in Natchez and Louisville, Miss. For 17 years the Natchez mill has sold primarily kiln-dried and air-dried lumber both domestically and internationally. MT&T, purchased in 2006, operates a small-log tie and timber sawmill that sells railroad ties and timber to treating facilities and rough green lumber to domestic manufacturers. The R&R mill in Louisville will continue its operations, and after a transition period, Bruce Reynolds, who has been managing the Natchez operation, will join his father, Terry, in operating the Louisville mill. Terry says, “At 77 years old, I am ready to have Bruce move in to the management of the Louisville operation. I will
continue to be involved, but I am looking forward to turning the reins over to Bruce.” Jonathan Jones, President and CEO of the Jones Companies, adds, “We are excited to expand our operations into the grade lumber business to complement our existing mat operations. We believe that the R&R and MTT mills are among the best in the Southeast, and we plan to further the efficiency and production of the mill with capital expenditures.”
CLT PANEL FAILS DURING SETUP Officials with Oregon State University are investigating a construction incident when a cross laminated timber (CLT) panel failed in mid March at a campus building project. A 4x20 ft. panel, part of the sub
flooring between the building’s second and third floors, gave way after delaminating on one end. No construction personnel were in the area and no one was injured. The panel was replaced, other sections of CLT sub flooring were shored up, and work was halted on other CLT sections. Steve Clark, OSU vice president of marketing and university relations, says the university is bringing in an outside engineering firm to determine cause of the failure and whether any other CLT portions of construction were at risk of failure, and CLT work will resume once any issues are addressed. The new Peavy Hall building is home to OSU’s College of Forestry and the building is designed to showcase Oregon’s forest industry and the new (in North America) mass timber construction movement.
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SUCCESS WITH
EXPORT By Jessica Johnson
In one of the smallest footprints, Almond Bros. Lumber packs a big punch.
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COUSHATTA, La. or five generations, the Almond family has milled southern yellow pine in the town of Coushatta, but the tradition actually started a generation before that. Ardis Almond, now retired, tells the story of his great-great grandfather, Green Almond, serving the Confederate Army in the 14th North Carolina before losing an arm on the same day Stonewall Jackson lost his at Chancellorsville. A farmer, the one-armed Almond now had to find a new way of living after the injury. He decided to give the sawmill business a try. He put the first Almond sawmill on a mountainside near the Pee Dee River in North Carolina. Green’s son, Richard Thomas Jackson Almond (named for Stonewall), learned the business from his dad and followed the gold rush to Jefferson, South Carolina where he cut timbers for the mine and lumber for the boom town. After it played out, in 1909 he moved his family, includ14
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The Almonds, from left, Vince, Ardis, William and Winn
ing a son, Reno, to Red River Parish and Coushatta, where the land and timber was cheap. He and his son would ultimately run separate sawmills, but the Great Depression took both mills with it. Many years later, in 1947, Reno and his sons started a sawmill on the same site where the operation is today and became Almond Bros Lumber. The business persevered through many challenges, including a devastating planer mill and lumber inventory fire in 1957. In the early 1970s, a fifth generation of Almonds came into the business—Ardis, William, Cecil and Tremmell, and following the retirement of the previous generation they reorganized it and took over the leadership in 1983. The sixth generation started working full-time in the mid 1990s and today the mill is in the capable hands of Winn, Will and Vince Almond. In spite of bad health, William still tries to work fulltime and handles the banking and finance along with Office Manager Scott Page. They still look to Ardis, who is officially “retired,” for his mechanical engineering expertise and Ardis often finds himself in the office helping here and
there with projects. Ardis notes that the mill is designed more like a hardwood mill than the large SYP facilities dotting the South. “We go for grade and quality first, then production. It’s one of the reasons we got into the export business. If you were going to be in the domestic market, you had to cut 100MMBF or more a year. We don’t do that,” he says. Tremmell passed away from liver cancer two years ago. “He was the spirit of the company and really broke us into export,” Ardis reflects. The family credits Tremmell’s go-getter attitude in the 1990s for the successful mode in which it currently operates. Nearly 85% (if not more) of the mill’s 26MMBF production is exported. The mill was exporting here and there, mainly using agents and a broker—until one day the broker said they wanted to take 100% of Almond’s capacity. The mill shifted to be export focused, cutting true to size boards of very high-grade pine, with no dressing, and then the world plywood market crashed, and it took the broker down with it. “All of a sudden we were set up for ex-
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The mill takes high-grade pine logs of a somewhat large size. Average butt diameter is 20 in. year round.
port and had no contacts in the domestic market,” Ardis explains. “Plus, it had changed a lot during the years we had been exporting. That’s when Tremmell got on a plane, even though he didn’t even like to leave Red River Parish, and he started going over there and going direct to these customers, which at that time was unheard of.”
poltics of some of these countries, things have gotten rocky at times. Vince explains, “When Libya blew up, it was gone. If you wake up and the next day your market’s dead, and you’ve got nowhere to go? It’s very up and down.” In addition to keeping an eye on the politics, the Almonds also pay close attention to currency—most
markets have volatile currencies. “We’ve had some orders where the buyer sent us some of the money, but they said don’t ship it. The currency had devalued by 50% and they wanted to wait until it recovered. It’s crazy. Each different country has its own set of problems. And some aren’t so bad, like in Asia, but the Middle East is terrible with that because
CURRENT EXPORTS Vince Almond has filled Tremmell’s shoes and now focuses on traveling, building relationships with overseas customers, and selling. His cousin Winn cheekily says, “You have to go. They play so many games. Vince is bad news on two feet. He’s got an iron stomach and iron will.” Winn sells the mill’s timbers (the main product currently marketed domestically) and the lower grades to the Caribbean. He says, “Those markets are established. Over time we’ve been able to decipher who can pay us and who can’t, who’s honest and who’s not. That’s where we sit.” In the 1990s, Tremmell and William worked hard to establish markets in Italy and Spain. Now, Vince works hard to establish markets in the Middle and Far East, and mainly, North Africa. However, between the world economy and the
Logs are broken down on a 42 in. McDonough headrig with Cox carriage and scanned with the new USNR Lasar2 3D scanning system—the mill’s most recent upgrade. TIMBER PROCESSING
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T h e addi ti on of th e U SN R L asar2 3 D scanni ng system, completed last M ay, was th e first proj ect done f ollowi ng mech ani cal engi neer Ardi s Almond’ s reti rement.
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it’s very up and down,” Vince explains. Selling export lumber means you have to work at it, the Almonds say, especially for their special kind of lumber. The family is very proud of the reputation they’ve built over the decades—in some parts of the world, dealers and agents refer to SYP as “Almond Wood.”
involved in the design,” he explains, “and did some of the foundation work we had to do, but it was all them for installation and startup.” Winn is very happy with how the project went overall, which was overseen by Will Almond and Keith Melton, Mill Superintendent-Green End. It replaced an aged Inovec system that had become obsolete and left the Almonds buying computer cards off eBay in order to keep it going. “It was doing what we needed it to do, but we’re so much about grade. Nothing can read grade, but it was doing a
PRODUCTION While capacity is 26MMBF, Vince estimates that the mill does about 24MMBF most years. The mill cuts four grades: #2, Merch select, Prime and Sap. Winn explains that mostly those are inhouse grades, as they exceed the rules for export lumber. “Everything is a half step up. That’s how we are able to demand higher prices.” Mainly the mill focuses on 2x8s and 2x10s, full size, based on metric standards. By cutting this size, the Almonds aren’t able to recover as much, since it is traditionally thicker and wider, high grade; though the mill strives to be as efficient as possible and will mill edger strips to 1x3x3 dimension and call it short and narrow (SNL). The overseas market purchases a fair amount of SNL for various applications. Ardis comments that most domestic mills won’t fool with something that small, but considering the high grade, it’s still worth something. “We have to handle it a lot, but we can come out on it,” he adds. Since the lumber is handled by so many before it reaches the destination, and given the various applications at the destination, Almond lumber is not 16
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dressed. Winn explains, “They want thicker pieces, to rip it a little different.” Almond Bros. Lumber owns little standing timber, and is sustained strictly on gatewood, procured within a 150-mile radius, with an average butt diameter of 20 in. year-round. Winn says one of the biggest struggles the mill has is with the logging force. Because of the high grade needed, even a “good” tract will only have about 30% of usable logs for them. It does help that the primary breakdown is able to handle logs up to 48 in. “I don’t know if there’s not enough logs out there or if there’s not enough loggers,” he adds. The Almonds have the capacity to keep 1MMBF of logs under water, to help condition and maintain the high grade. Once brought into the compact mill, logs are broken down on a 42 in. McDonough headrig with a Cox (highly modified in-house) carriage. Ardis explains that at the primary breakdown, some boards are made, but the sawyer is mainly getting a flat face for the McDonough twin resaw. “Even with our sophisticated equipment, it can only look at the shape and how to cut the log based on that. What it can’t see is grade, which is why our sawyer is looking at every face he cuts. He’s learned from experience, so he can guess what the rest of the log looks like,” Ardis explains of the veteran sawyer. At the primary breakdown, the Almonds upgraded their scanning technology to the Lasar2 3D scanner system from USNR last May—the first major project completed since Ardis’ retirement. “I was
T h e fili ng room also serves as a spare parts sh op f or modi fied eq ui pment.
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An older C rosby tri mmer h as been converted to h andle th e speci fic length s Almond mi lls.
Almond B ros. sti ck s to true to si z e 2 x 8 and 2 x 1 0 di mensi on as i ts bread and butter.
good job of helping the sawyer,” Winn explains. “When it would break down sometimes it would be two days before we could get it back going because it was obsolete. We had to change it.” Following the McDonough bandmill and resaw is an old Crosby edger that was also highly modified in-house for the specific way the Almonds mill SYP. The McDonough resaw scanning system was upgraded for the same reason as the headrig—downtime and product support. Paw-Taw-John Services helped with that project. “We really need to upgrade the edger system,” Winn admits. “We like what we’ve got, but we need to make some upgrades.” The Crosby trimmer was converted long ago to handle the “odd” lengths cut, supported by a Hi-Tech Engineering scanning system. Ardis says the stacker is so old and modified it’s basically a piece of Almond machinery at this point. Vince makes the comment that everything in the mill is used until it’s used up. Winn quickly pipes in that even then, they will modify it before junking the machinery totally. Ardis, laughing, corrects Winn: “We don’t ever junk anything. We might need the sprockets!” The conventional direct fire natural gas dry kiln is HEMCO. Ardis explains that the debate to go to a wood fired kiln has been had many a time, but with export nothing can get on the lumber. So it would be nearly impossible to use a direct wood fired kiln because of the dust and ash. He adds, “We’ve looked many times about putting in a boiler, but with the environmental regulations, and it’s run time,
maximize space. Ardis explains, “You don’t see many mills laid out like this. But we’re jammed up. Creek on one side, hill on the other, pond on one end, and a road on the other. We had to fold the mill until it worked.”
it costs so much. We figured out how to make the natural gas work, so we have kept doing it that way,” Ardis says. The dry end system is Hi-Tech Engineering, with belts, decks and conveyors built in-house. Lumber is warehoused until a container is ready to ship out of either Mobile, Ala. or New Orleans.
MODIFICATIONS Ardis, a graduate of Texas A&M University, is a licensed engineer by trade and has built a culture at the sawmill of tinkering, building and figuring out how to make something work perfectly right for the mill’s highly focused finished product. Since so many of the machines have been modified and rebuilt in-house, the machine shop, and filing room, of Almond Bros. Lumber is essentially its own spare parts maker. Winn believes that’s one of the biggest secrets to the family’s success. “If you went and put in a brand new mill, with all new technology, it might be where you couldn’t do what we do because everything is modified exactly for export. If you went out and built one from scratch, you’d have to make modifications.” Ardis adds that with every major project, it takes a handful of years beefing up the machinery, tweaking it before it will do what the family wants. “A lot of trial and error has happened here, that’s a fact.” Like with the machinery, the Almonds have even modified their mill’s flow in order to fit on a relatively small parcel of land. The very compact mill has curved decks throughout in order to
LABOR Usually, the mill will average a 44-hour run week with one shift. Winn likes to see 50 to 55-hour run weeks when the markets are good and the weather yields the logs needed, but that’s not typical. Between 85-90 employees staff the facility across the single shift. “You have to get someone that wants to live here or has a reason to be here,” Vince says. He estimates that 75% of the employees live no more than five miles away. “It’s why we have a lot of families that work here,” Ardis agrees. Labor concerns and the specialized nature of the milling process is also why the Almonds have never fluctuated to a second shift. Winn stresses the importance of paying close attention to the details of the lumber. By the time a second crew would be trained in the way of making “Almond Wood,” it would be time to lay them off: “We’ve talked about that often, when things are good and running as hard as we can, but we can’t do like a domestic mill, put a night shift on and just run it. You’ve got to pay attention to every step of the way.” In addition to Melton as the Mill Superintendent-Green End, Joey Freeman is the Mill Superintendent-Dry End. TP TIMBER PROCESSING
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Fort McMurray mill upgrades and sidesteps a major fire.
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Within the past three years the company purchased Millar Western’s sawmill operations in Boyle, Alta., shook hands with Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries to integrate fiber supply, and upgraded to a curve-sawing small log line. These moves allowed the mill to post a 2017 output of 75MMBF. Resilience is in Northland’s DNA. Less than two years ago the mill survived the harrowing experience that was The Beast—the media-dubbed nickname for the Fort McMurray wildfire in May 2016 that consumed more than 575,000 hectares of forest and about 2,400 buildings in the municipality. The mill is owned and operated by two brothers—Howie Ewashko, who is the president of Northland, and Craig
Ewashko, who is in charge of mill operations. Sister Kim Norris is Northland’s health and safety coordinator. The family’s sawmill story begins with their father, Roy Ewashko, who opened a mill in Berland River near Whitecourt, Alta., in the early 1960s. The family relocated to Fort McMurray in 1964 to take advantage of quota opportunities. Northland Forest Products was first opened as a portable mill in 1970 by Roy and a partner, who was bought out by Roy and his wife, Bev, a year later. It became a stationary mill in 1975 and was relocated to its present site and rebuilt in 1981. Howie and Craig bought Northland from their parents in 1997. Soon after, they rebuilt the planer mill to handle the inAt top, new H ewSaw small log profili ng mach i ne
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Northland is owned and operated by the Ewashko brothers, Craig, left, and Howie, right. Their sister Kim Morris is health and safety coordinator.
chased Boyle the road ahead became more clear.” Today, the mill employs 60 and runs one shift to produce 300,000 BF a day. They use 100% of the wood fiber hauled into the mill—300,000 m3 of spruce, pine and fir.
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creased production of the sawmill. “For a while we didn’t know who we were as a company,” Howie explains. “We knew we were losing cut to oilsands development. We looked at all sorts of different opportunities—solid wood, biomass, or power generation—trying to keep the company alive. As we went we crossed out some opportunities, but we were lucky enough to purchase Millar Western in Boyle, and once we pur-
In 2017 the mill installed a new HewSaw curve-sawing small log machine. The new line replaced a HewSaw from 1998—one of the first HewSaws in Canada. In 2003, the mill upgraded the line with a log turner and scan conveyor. “We saw the advantages immediately on that upgrade so with our comfort level and the expertise of HewSaw we were confident going with them with a new machine,” Craig explains. The HewSaw R200 A.1 with Prologic+ controls and optimization includes separate edging tools that have been ideal for running 4 to 12 in. diameter logs. “For those sizes we’re able to get quite an uplift in recovery without the board edger being utilized. It’s a finished
product with a single pass,” Craig says. The new line bumps up feed speed to 600 FPM (with capability of 650) from 450. “It’s instantaneous benefits for sure. The original machine was 20 years old and by no stretch was it worn out. But with the newer technology and the higher speeds it was a necessary step to take for us, especially with our focus on smaller diameter logs in the future,” Craig says. Along with the HewSaw the mill runs an Optimil four-sided canter with optimization from USNR. The Optimil runs about 3,500-4,000 stems per shift and the HewSaw about 10,000. Products from both lines are 1x4, 1x6 and 2x3 to 2x12. Oversized logs are handled by a Kodiak wideband horizontal sawmill. In 2016 Northland upgraded one of its two treelength infeeds, replacing a lineal bucking saw with a four-saw merchandizer. Craig worked closely with Nanaimo, B.C.-based Gerhardt Mueller to design and install the moving saws in the mill. Treelength logs are scanned and the saws move into position for optimized cuts lengths. ➤ 20
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he story of Northland’s fight against The Beast—the fire that ravaged Fort McMurray in May 2016, destroying close to 2,500 buildings—is almost hard to believe. A handful of staff and several agricultural sprinklers defended the mill and log yard from the encroaching wildfire that, day after day, threatened to consume the surrounding forests. On May 3, as Fort McMurray emptied under the mandatory evacuation order, about 30 people took refuge at the Northland Forest Products sawmill site 18 km north of the city on the shores of the Athabasca River. “We didn’t know what was going to happen and we didn’t know when it was going to end,” says mill President Howie Ewashko. “Most of our employees went home to their families and left in the evacuation.” Those who stayed were not inactive. In the first week staff with the help of government cleared out the trees that surrounded the mill and set up lawn sprinklers and later water cannons. They placed a sprinkler on the roof of the planer, and others to surround the main office building. Water cannons were placed on the roof of the sawmill and in the log yard. “The one night the fire ran on the west side of the hill (across the highway from the mill), it looked like sunset at 2 p.m. When it came up to the ridge it was 300 feet of flame,” Howie says. With the sprinklers running they stood their ground. It was a strategic move. Howie was in direct contact with provincial forest service district manager Bernie Schmitte, who had accurate and up-to-date wildfire information. “We had a good information flow and we were ready to leave if necessary,” Howie says. “We were waiting for that call from Bernie, but until then we were going to stay.” The crew remained at Northland during the entire evacuation of Fort McMurray. The mill was at times a refuge for a handful of wildland firefighters who preferred to stay there over bunking in town. About two weeks in a contractor came by and hooked up a temporary sprinkler and hydrant system fed by the Athabasca River. “That gave us a lot of confidence. At that point with our cannons and sprinklers and the added sprinklers, we were putting roughly 70,000 gallons of water into the air. If the fire was close we would start it up and leave it to run to prevent ember transfer fires,” Howie says. The entire ordeal lasted just over a month and in spite of a few threatening days, the fire never reached the mill. Looking back, Howie is proud of their efforts during the fire, but knows the situation could have been a lot worse. The need for preparation is a message he wants to share with other forest communities. “It’s not ‘if’ you’ll burn, it’s ‘when’,” he says. “You have to manage your fuel load, now. It really does take a combined effort among industries in a community—for us it’s forestry and oil and gas. You can’t build a firebreak when it’s coming at you. “A positive takeaway for me was that when something happens like that in our industry, people stand behind you. I had phone calls and I had emails with, ‘What do you need? Whatever you need give us a call.’ It was an interesting snapshot of a really good group of people in my mind, and a good industry TP to be in. That was really neat to see,” Howie says.
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Kodiak horizontal bandmill reduces big logs.
19 ➤ With the new HewSaw and previous upgrades, the Ewashkos are confident their 2018 production will reach their target of 100MMBF.
EXPANSION Northland purchased Millar Western Forest Products’ Boyle operations in late 2015. The mill itself was already on the chopping block by Millar Western, and the doors officially closed shortly after the sale. The $30 million deal gave Northland a significant boost in timber supply area, bringing its total up to 500,000 m3. Northland is now the largest quota holder on the Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries’ (Al-Pac) forestry management area, which covers about 6.37 million hectares from Fort McMurray south and east to the AlbertaSaskatchewan border. Most of their logging is wintertime when the river crossings are frozen. Two contractors—Tchir Forest Products and Jaward Developments, both out of Lac La Biche, Alta.—harvest about 130-160,000 m3 of conifer for Northland. Approximately 80-100,000 m3 is incremental volume from Al-Pac. Northland has always had a positive relationship with Al-Pac—the owners of a pulp mill near Boyle. The mill has supplied Al-Pac with wood chips since 1992. In 2016 the companies signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to optimize fiber supply in the forest management area. “So far it’s been good,” Howie says. “We think it’s going well and we are moving forward into integrated operations. That’s a big step forward for us to share roads and contractors. It helps both sides.” Integrating operations is ideal for a pulp mill and sawmill on the same land base. Northland buys conifer incidental in the pulp operation’s deciduous blocks so the arrangement is going very well. ➤ 22
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New Comact automated grader in the planer mill
WOOD V. OIL Being located in the heart of the Alberta oilsands has created unique challenges for Northland Forest Products. At the moment they employ about 60 but it has been a challenge to fill those positions in the past, Howie says. Housing prices in Fort McMurray follow the oil booms and busts, as do staff
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shortages. “There’s a reality to trying to operate in the shadow of oil and gas, and it doesn’t make life easy; it makes it interesting,” Howie says. One of their strategies to deal with worker shortage was to sign up for a foreign worker program. “We were one of the first sawmills to go into that market for labor and that’s worked out very well for us. We have some long-term employ-
ees out of that program who have become Canadians and stayed with us. That really helped us continue operations,” Howie says. The mill’s location, a 15-minute drive north of town, makes it an attractive option for locals who want to be home at night. Many oil and gas sites require employees to stay in camps. “We try and offer lifestyle,” Howie says. The past two years of acquisitions and partnerships have been ground breaking for Northland and have set the company on an impressive upwards trajectory. The future is looking brighter than ever, Howie says. “We really feel that the hard times are over,” he says. “We’re good at making lumber, and now we have fiber to do it. From my point of view there are a lot of opportunities available to us now and we just need to figure out which ones are TP going to work.” This article appeared in Canadian Forest Industries and appears here with permission. David Harman, who was director of business development and forestry for Northland, passed away peacefully in Fort McMurray on November 28, 2017. Sincere condolences to his family and colleagues at Northland Forest Products.
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LOGSCANNING AUTOLOG At the primary breakdown, it is a wellknown fact that proper gap management has a direct impact on production and bottomline profits. In essence, when the gap between logs is too small, the line must stop to position the cutting tools. When the gap is too long, throughput is reduced. Therefore, it is important to maintain a constant gap between the logs, which is easier said than done. This is where Autolog’s solution comes in. The camera for gap management is located at the log infeed of a sawing line. By adding the camera, it will detect with precision both the beginning of the log in the feeder, or the absence of the log, as well as the end of the log on the conveyor, maximizing the use of the sawing line while maintaining a constant gap between each log. The system also eliminates virtually all log crossings. For example, a log that is too small to be detected by the other type of sensors may result in two logs crossing over one another in the chain, triggering a proGap management system by Autolog duction stoppage in order to separate these two logs. Without this solution, customers must use several types of sensors to detect these two logs; for example, photocells such as analog or single point, only to achieve average results. Thanks to Autolog and the early adopters, customers achieve excellent results while reducing downtime and production costs. This may be the quick fix you are looking for and Autolog is ready to help. Visit autolog.com.
JOESCAN JoeScan scan heads have been made for sawmills since the company introduced its first scanner in 2002. Every JoeScan scanner is backed by the company’s five-year warranty and 10-year product support policy to protect against obsolescence. JoeScan is committed to the sawmill industry, and it stands behind its scanners to ensure they are a good long-term investment for sawmills. JoeScan’s scanner, the JS-25 X6B, is a high-performance, six-laser scanner, designed for high-density, snapshot-scanning of logs on carriage headrigs. The JS-25 X6B was engineered to make it easy for optimizers and sawmills to upgrade obsolete carriage scanning systems, often reusing the existing scan frame. The JS-25 X6B scan head takes six profiles, each spaced 6 in. apart, with each profile measuring up to 35 in. wide. The JS-25 X6B provides a high-density scan in less than 6 in. of travel. Each JS-25 X6B scan head can be mounted end-to-end to scan any length of log on 6 in. spacing. The JS-25 X6B is based on JoeScan’s proven and reliable JS-25 scanner platform. It uses an Ethernet interface, allowing the optimizer to communicate directly with the scanner without special hardware. The JS-25 X6B’s built-in profile processing eliminates the need for large numbers of PCs to process the image data, resulting in a simpler, more reliable system. The interface enables users to configure and calibrate the scanner on their PCs and to view real-time profile data and camera images. Visit joescan.com. JoeScan scanners are supported by a five-year warranty. 26
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LOGSCANNING LEWIS CONTROLS Lewis Controls, Inc., based in Cornelius, Ore., a subsidiary of Corley Mfg., has been a driving force in 3D carriage scanning technology for many years. The Readyscan II, their latest offering, is running strong with more than 150 units in use. Users fall into three general groups: Group 1—Major mill projects in hardwood and softwood where the customer replaces the carriage along with the scanning and controls. Teaming up with Corley on these jobs, recent projects with Canfor, West Fraser and Rex Forest Products are excellent examples. Group 2—Scanning and Setworks Retrofits. This group actually comprises the bulk of Lewis business. In 2017 Lewis shipped 11 of these units. Examples include Long Island Lumber, Long Island, Va.; Britton Lumber, Bath, N.H.; and Hawkeye Forest Products, Trempealeau, Wis. Many sawmills have been implementing Readyscan II carriage scanning Group 3—Loyal Repeat Customers. These are the systems. Lewis customers who invested early on in 3D technology. Scanning and sawmill controls like technology everywhere has improved rapidly over the last 15 years. Would you consider trading in your Android for a Flip Phone? Unfortunately when it comes to phones we don’t have a choice. However, unlike your phone, the Readyscan system is designed to be upgradeable for a fraction of what a new comparable system would cost. In 2017, 13 mills took advantage of the savings available to them. Examples include Piedmont Lumber, Mt. Pleasant, NC, and Canfor, Conway, SC. In any of these three configurations the Readyscan II system provides the kind of investment that can be very attractive in this marketplace. The initial capital investment is moderate, the payback potential is excellent and downtime for the conversion is negligible. Visit lewiscontrols.com.
METAL DETECTORS INC. Since 1965, Metal Detectors, Inc. (MDI) has been a proven leader in providing metal detection solutions for the forest products industry. Technological advancements in today’s mills can cause environmental interference due to electrical noise (e.g. radios, CB’s, VFD’s). This noise can interfere with the operation of a metal detector in a mill environment. MDI has developed the most advanced metal detection systems for the harsh surroundings of a production mill. MDI’s premier metal detector system for whole log applications, the TWA-2000-HD Series, will save costly production downtime, prevent lost opportunity and increase production profits. The TWA-2000-HD is designed to scan up to 60 in. in diameter softwood or hardwood logs and comes with a three-year warranty. In addition, MDI offers unlimited lifetime telephone technical support for all its products at no additional charge. Customer satisfaction is important to MDI. Therefore, it always strives to provide the right metal detector system to meet the requirements of each individual application. When comparing the cost of an MDI metal MDI TWA-2000-HD unit on southern yellow pine. detection system with the cost of downtime as a result of metal contamination, a large return on investment will become clear and will occur within a short period of time. MDI also manufactures the XR-3000 Series and MP-2000 Series Under Conveyor Metal Detector Systems for protecting hogs, chippers and grinders. With its experienced in-house design, manufacturing and support team, MDI can provide solutions for all of your metal detecting needs. The picture shown is a typical log scanning installation located at a southern yellow pine mill. This image was provided by Collier Service Company, Benton, Ark., which provides on-site service to startup, inspect, troubleshoot, tune, test and make recommendations for new or existing MDI equipment. Visit metaldetectorsinc.com. 28
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LOGSCANNING MICROTEC The Microtec Logeye is the first and only log scanner in North America to be officially approved for automatic log volume measurement for trade by Measurement Canada. The first installation is in the debarking/bucking line of a BC sawmill, producing both government scale measurements as well as bucking optimization. The Microtec Logeye scanner system at Interfor’s Acorn sawmill in Delta, BC is the first scanner in North America to be approved to automatically measure log volume for trade. The scanner has been certified by Measurement Canada to meet the recently released Terms and Conditions for the Approval of Timber Dimension Measuring Devices. The company is reducing scaling costs while providing more accurate log measurements. Microtec log scanner in BC sawmill Previously, the Acorn sawmill was required to manually scale every single log off site at a drylands sort facility. Now the system is significantly reducing manpower, reducing scaling costs while providing more accurate log measurements. Interfor’s Acorn sawmill has had a Microtec six-head true shape scanner for six years. “The big difference now is that the system is now government certified,” says Bruce Moran, timber value supervisor for Interfor’s Campbell River operation who oversaw the pilot project at the Acorn mill. The potential savings from implementing this type of technology has already grabbed the attention of other coastal mills, as well as mills in Quebec and the BC Interior. The Logeye Multi-Sensor Quality Scanner at Acorn has 12 cameras that are synchronized to the microsecond while they are taking digital images of each log up to 600 times a second to be able to make a proper reconstruction of the log while it passes through the debarker. Illustrating the high tech nature of the system, Norvin Laudon, chief technology officer at Springer Microtec North America, says, “The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has done a very thorough job and it is the most thorough certification we have so far. I know having the Canadian certification is opening doors in other countries as well.” Logeye features full 3D shape, color and density measurement. The scanner determines volume over- and under-bark and optimizes breakdown, bucking and sorting. By drastically reducing the manpower and log handling involved in the process, the scanner virtually eliminates scaling costs while providing accurate and consistent log measurements for trade. Logeye scanner is approved for diameters from 18-115 cm, and lengths up to 17.6 m. The installation and startup of the machine usually takes less than a week. An investment in Microtec Logeye increases throughput, productivity and resale value. Already more than 100 Logeye log scaling solutions have been sold worldwide. Visit microtec.eu.
NELSON BROS. ENGINEERING Nelson Bros Engineering has been making scanners and optimizers since 1992. Its goal is to make systems that are simple, and thus simply better. Prior to starting NBE, Rod Nelson worked for many of the big vendors. During that time he learned a lot about scanning and optimization, but also about the problems that plagued the big vendors: Late deliveries. Inexperienced designers, startup and service people. Inflexibility to customer requirements. Overpriced. Mergers followed by abandoned products. Forgotten or ignored sales commitments. Equipment and controls that just did not work. NBE focuses on the equipment startup. Good startups cost less. Good startups are enjoyable. NBE’s best startups have been the scanner/optimizer/controls upgrade. These have all been weekend startups, plus the mill can usually see the improvement in overall mill recovery during the first week. It can’t get better than that. For new equipment, startups are more involved, thus entail more risk. NBE’s best startups of new equipment are usually the result of the following: A shop test or an off-line startup. An experienced startup team. A simple system. Avoiding words like “new” and “first” and questioning statements like “no problem.” Hope for success, but plan for problems. Visit millsmart.com. 30
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LOGSCANNING REMASAWCO RemaSawco is a Swedish company specializing in advanced measurement and machine control systems. These systems cover the entire production process from log sorting through to dry sorters and planers. The company has been in the business for many years and is operating worldwide. RemaSawco’s partner in the North American market is the Canadian company Raptor Integration Inc. The product range includes 3D and X-ray scanners, measurement control systems in the sawline, fully automatic grade optimization in green and dry sorters including touchless strength grading. RemaSawco RS-Opt log optimization The latest offering from RemaSawco is the real time log optimization RS-Opt. The system is based on a 3D scanner. The software includes a modern graphical interface making it easy and effective for the operator. Also, the interface has the same design as other products from RemaSawco making it easy for operators working in different areas of the sawmill. The log optimization is carried out continuously during sawing and is executed on a measured 3D model of the actual log. Instantaneously after the log has passed the scanner, the optimization is executed considering the best economical value, maximum volume or other requirements. RS-Opt in brief: Fully implemented real time optimization. Optimum infeed/alignment values. Individual cut pattern, log turning angle and infeed position for each log and cant. Support for saw machine setup and limitations. Curve-sawing optimization is based on product definitions, e.g. allowed wane, dimensions, economical value, priority, center and side board yields etc. Simulation tools for production planning and for evaluating different outcomes depending on selected cut patterns. Off-line optimization. RS-Opt can be used in the log sorting process, e.g. sorting by cut pattern. Data storage of individual log data, production stops and alarms. This guarantees flexible reporting with selection by a number production parameters. Data export to various administrative systems. Visit raptorint.ca
TELCO SENSORS The SpaceScan series from Telco Sensors is a high-power, self-contained, industrial light curtain system made for the sawmill and wood products industry. Generating a dense infrared multi-beam light grid, the system offers a sensing range of 10 meters with high excess gain and 100,000 lux light immunity. The series is available in a wide array of sensing heights, ranging from just 160 mm up to 1980 mm, making it suitable for almost any application. The light curtains are housed in sturdy aluminum profiles that are fully sealed for a waterproof IP67 rating and are designed to withstand severe vibration, shock and misalignment. Available with discrete or analog output, the SpaceScan series offers 5 mm, 10 mm, or 20 mm beam spacing for accurate detection of even the smallest items. The SS 01 provides a discrete, solid-state relay output for reliable presence detection. Automatic sensitivity adjustment continuously maintains the ideal gain level and compensates for buildup of dust and contamination. Cross-beam/parallel-beam mode and blanking function are wire-selectable and require no external controller or DIP switches. The SS 02 offers both analog and discrete outputs for sizing and sorting applications. Easy setup and configuration is via free PC software interface, which allows the user complete control over output type, gain level, and blanking function, as well as the ability to configure the system to ignore smaller objects like sawdust and flying wood chips. The SpaceScan SS 02 offers a robust solution for measuring applications at the debarker infeed, resaw lines, planer mill, or wherever log, cant or board size or detection is needed. Telco light curtain system Visit telcosensorsusa.com. 34
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LOGSCANNING TIMBER AUTOMATION LogPro, a division of Timber Automation, offers a full line of lineal scanning conveyors that are designed around the customer’s application and fiber supply. From extra heavy-duty conveyors featuring an engineered roller transport chain for high speed applications to a lineal flighted belt for ultra-high speed small log applications, LogPro can provide a solution for your operation’s needs. Safety is a key factor with features such as infeed tunnels and infeed skids to protect from fiber jams as well as high side LogPro V-Flight scanning conveyor walls to keep the fiber contained and at a safe distance. Standard on all systems are vector electric encoded drives, large oversized head and tail sprockets/pulleys that reduce transport system wear and air over mechanical take-up with lubrication impregnated wear pads thus eliminating hydraulic needs altogether. Transport speeds vary from 300 FPM to 1,000 FPM depending on log size and application. Chain applications incorporate a heavy-duty frame that will allow loading transversely from a singulation system directly on the conveyor as well as discharging transversely after scanning for a more compact footprint. Scanning and optimization for a log bucking system, which will find the optimum cutting solution and transfer this to the control system PLC, is also offered. LogPro is an industry leader in log handling technology and sets the standard for quality, durability, low maintenance and dependable service. Visit timberna.com.
USNR Scanning incoming logs is the first step toward profitable value recovery in the sawmill. In modern high-speed, narrow-margin operations, it becomes even more critical to accurately capture the true shape of logs to achieve complete fiber utilization. Today’s optimized primary breakdown systems are extremely precise, commonly fitting boards into fiber that would previously have been chipped away. In this environment, the accuracy of a log turning system can make or break your recovery ratio depending on its ability to achieve the optimizer’s suggested rotation. A mis-turn of as little as 5° can wipe out an entire board in a small log! USNR’s Precision Geometric Log Rotation (PGLR) system is a real-time rotation verification and correction system that ensures you get the best turn on every log, significantly improving cutting accuracy and increasing uplift and recovery. It solves the often-hidden problem of log rotation turn accuracy errors using a standard TriCam or BioLuma scan Located at the log turner, PGLR uses four Smart TriCam 3D sensors to scan the log zone. This simple solution adds profit to your bottom as it is rotated, monitoring and correcting the log rotation process in real time to line in the form of higher recovery and increased pro- increase recovery by reducing log rotation error. duction of more boards, longer boards and more wane-free boards, all with no extra mechanical hardware. The PGLR uses the log rotation solution and a lineal scan zone placed upstream or downstream of the turning rolls to actively monitor and correct the precise degree of turn during and after actuation. The system can be used on high speed log lines, sharp chains, end doggers, and carriages to bring a new level of precision to these systems. PGLR works on dual or quad roll log turners, ring-type turners and sharp chain log turners, providing a fully automated precision log turning system that improves cutting accuracy and boosts recovery. USNR is a long-time leader in advanced scanning and optimization technology, bringing innovations to the industry that capture even more value. Visit usnr.com. 36
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LOGSCANNING WOODTECH Woodtech Measurement Solutions’ Logmeter measures log loads using scanners, automatically and while the truck goes through the system, generating many benefits for clients via log cost savings and log quality improvements. The Logmeter functions as an independent station and can be installed before or after the scales depending on the client preferences and site layout. The latest Logmeter in the U.S. South, where logs are purchased on weight basis, has been installed before the inbound scale and it allows the scaler to make a procurement decision about each load before the truck leaves the weigh scale. The process works as follows: Each log truck arriving at the plant stops before the Logmeter where the scale house operator identifies the log grade of each load using an audiovisual system. Once the grade is selected, the truck goes through the Logmeter scanning measuring/systems are operating in the Southeast. Logmeter to be scanned. When the load arrives at the scale, the Logmeter has calculated if the load meets the log specifications for that selected grade and the operator inspects pictures of the load (from his or her desk) using the Logmarker module to identify quality defects such as knots, flare, etc. At this point, the Logmeter provides a solution to either accept, penalize, reject or downgrade the load. Once the solution is confirmed, the load leaves the scale and the information goes to the Logmeter auditing system, which allows clients to analyze the log data, in real time, identify problems and opportunities for improvement and integrate the data in their own log management systems (accounting, inventory, etc.). Woodtech has four Logmeter systems operating in the U.S. Southeast region and nearly 50 measurement solutions around the globe including Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Mexico and Australia. Visit woodtechms.com.
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Collins: Sustainable Company And Sustainable Forestlands
By May Donnell
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o you know beyond generalities what your great-great grandfather did for a living? Do you know the odds of actually working for a company your great-great grandfather started? It is estimated that only two percent of U.S. families can make that claim. The timber industry seems to produce more than its share of these multi-gener-
ational business concerns. Maybe it has something to do with the permanence of land, or stubbornness of those attracted to the wood products way of life. And speaking of stubborn… In 1851, 20-year-old Truman Doud “T.D. or Teddy” Collins left his family farm in Cortland, New York – along with the butter and egg route he’d started – and went to work driving survey stakes for the expanding Binghampton and Syracuse Railroad.
Truman Doud “Teddy” Collins
The Collins family had been in America more than 200 years by that time, having come over from England in 1636. None, however, among the merchants, farmers, preachers and soldiers produced by the family, would leave a deeper
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mark than young Teddy. Three years later, Teddy Collins was an engineer with a division in Broome County, but railroading was not his great desire. Timber was. He and his brother, Joseph, and three friends went to work as laborers in the dense forests of the Tionesta Valley in northwestern Pennsylvania earning 60 cents a day, 12 hours daily. By 1855, the friends had enough for a downpayment on a steam mill along Turkey Run near Whig Hill, Pennsylvania and nearly 1,500 acres of timber. They put down $3,000 with a promise to pay the balance of $17,000 in three years. Teddy Collins eventually bought out his partners but not before with another partner he bought a sawmill and store in nearby Beaver Valley. Then he bought Lacy’s Mill in Nebraska (Pennsylvania). As his ventures paid off, he bought more land and mills and kept cutting. He didn’t stop until he was the single largest private landowner in the entire state. Along the way he started an oil company, a chemical plant, a bank, several company stores to furnish his employees with their needs and several railroads to haul his timber from the woods. His wife Mary once said her husband would not be happy until he bought every pine tree there was to buy. To be sure, Teddy Collins saw the wisdom of diversification, innovation and land ownership. He was among the first to switch from circle to band saw and see the value in cultivating new and niche markets. One can’t help but make comparisons to the classic movie, It’s A Wonderful Life. The small town of Nebraska, where he settled, could be Bedford Falls and Teddy Collins might be Mr. Potter in a slouch hat and jeans. Like Potter (well, maybe not as mean as Potter), Collins owned the bank and ruled the town (not to mention his family and his businesses) in a brusque, frugal style. He financed the building of the beautiful new Methodist Episcopal Church and expected dutiful attendance. Teddy, the son of deeply religious parents, did not drink or dance and disapproved of such habits in others. Even after he became a millionaire, he worked like someone was behind him with a whip. His main hobby was funding Methodist missions and building Methodist churches. He drove a twowheel horse cart to check his many holdings in and around the Tionesta Valley well after automobiles came along.
The Salmon Creek Mercantile Company store in Kellettville, Pa. supplied Teddy’s employees with the necessities.
Everell Collins, #37 back-center, attended the first Pacific Logging Conference in 1909 on the University of Washington campus.
EVERELL COLLINS Collins set his only son, Everell, to work bundling shingles at the age of nine, let him wrangle timbers out of frozen streams and build dams at 13. At 15, Everell was working in the mill jacking logs and edging and by 18 he was running the whole thing while fighting recurring lung infections. All this the father did in order not to spoil the son. Later, Teddy argued against the lad attending college. Everell, with money he’d earned since childhood, put himself through one year of Allegheny College and then quit due to the illness likely contracted in the frozen woods and waterways of northwestern Pennsylvania. All the hard work and ill health might have broken a lesser man. Instead, quite the opposite happened. In 1887, with the California gold rush
All photos on these pages appeared in The Collins Story three-volume book published in 2005.
in full swing, Teddy and Everell Collins struck out to see what they could find. Everell fell in love with the west. On the train back home, Teddy (likely) invested in a friend’s mill operation at Ostrander, Wash., setting the stage for his son to eventually break out from under his unique father’s very long shadow. In 1890, 24-year-old Everell went back to Ostrander to help his father’s ailing friend tackle the tall timber. It was in Ostrander that Everell came into his own. He built over the course of the next decade a railroad empire, a new mill, a hotel, a Methodist church and parsonage, an elementary school, a community hall and in 1899 his very own family. By 1902 he and his wife, Mary Emma, had three children. He became the man to see about “square timber.” If all this wasn’t enough to keep him busy, Everell was elected that same year to the Washington State Legislature. TIMBER PROCESSING
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By any measure Everell, also called E.S., was turning out to be a chip off the old block, with nothing against dancing. Back east in Nebraska, Pennsylvania, 71-year-old T.D. Collins figured if his son could win at politics, he could, too. He was wrong. The people of Forest County voted overwhelmingly for his opponent. Maybe it was his Mr. Potter persona. Everell kept going. With the advice of his father, he purchased 37,000 acres in Molalla, Oregon and nearly 68,000 acres in Tehama and Plumas counties in California. After Teddy died in 1914, Everell had to move back to Nebraska for two years to settle the estate, which wasn’t without some debt to go along with the assets. Some 46,000 Pennsylvania acres were reduced to 30,000. After finalizing his father’s affairs, he and his family went back home to Oregon, where he set up a headquarters for all his holdings in Portland. Approaching 60, Everell started the Cowlitz Development Co. in 1923 and Everell Collins when most men begin thinking about their happy golden years, Everell Collins had ownership, leadership or strong positions in the following companies: Oregon Pulp and Paper St. Helens Pulp and Paper Ochoco Timber Ochoco Lumber Mt. Adams Pine J.T. McDonald Logging Lakeview Logging Elk Lumber Grande Ronde Pine
Cook Oil Lease Curtis, Collins & Holbrook Pennsylvania Lumber Ostrander Railway and Timber Silver Lake Railway and Timber Cowlitz Development
TRUMAN COLLINS Without the untiring work of his God fearing, tight-fisted grandfather, Teddy, and the equally manic drive of his father, Everell, there might have been no third generation Collins heir, but there was. His name was Truman Collins. Without the influence of Truman, born in 1902 – when “clear cut and keep going” was still the philosophy – the company might have long since splintered and dissolved in a sea of corporate acquisitions. What Truman had in addition to a fine mind and a Harvard MBA (unlike Teddy, Truman’s father Everell was okay with higher education) was a philosophy that kept the company together and as it turned out eventually led the entire industry into the modern era. By 1931, the pine was playing out for the Mt. Adams Pine Co., in Glenwood, Wash. Smaller mills had already closed, leaving Collins in competition with one other mill for dwindling resources. The story goes that Truman and the competitor flipped a coin for the right to stay on and Collins lost. He took the buyout money and, with the reluctant cooperation of his father, Everell, bought a family-owned mill and railroad near Pondosa, Oregon. According to the Collins corporate history:
“Perhaps the most important lesson Truman Collins was to learn (at Grande Ronde Lumber) in Pondosa boiled down to one word: Sustainability. And not just in terms of trees, but in terms of human beings. If you don’t own and sustain your timber resource, you can’t continually operate a mill or support a community, or provide jobs, or establish a stable environment for families. This was where Truman Collins broke with his granddaddy and namesake, Truman Doud Collins. Young Truman didn’t want to own every tree he could lay his hands on. He wanted to sustain every acre he owned.” Sustaining trees, though, was more philosophical than practical at this point. Mules and waterways had given way to railroads, but these were expensive to build and Truman was looking for a lighter touch. He and his mentor, an Alabamian named J.T. McDonald, began experimenting with cannibalized ModelT Fords and along the way ushered in a new era. In a very few years, truck logging became the norm. When Everell died in 1940, Truman was left with, among other things, part ownership of a near 68,000-acre tract of ponderosa pine near Chester, California. His grandfather had bought the land back between 1902-04. It had never been logged. Truman discovered a similar situation back in Pennsylvania, where the trees on Collins’ property had been uncut for 20 years. He suggested they wait a while, that the property would only increase in the next two decades, as growth was about two inches in diameter every 10 years. Truly Truman was ahead of his time. But just as this new day of timber harvesting was dawning, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the rug was pulled out from under the industry. Building a sawmill became next to impossible. Tools, engines and pipe were among the items that became scarce. To keep a sawmill going, workers had to salvage what was needed as best they could.
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Truman joined the Naval Reserve as a lieutenant and asked his brother-in-law Elmer Goudy to help run the operation in his absence. The first few years of sustainable forestry commenced while Truman was engaged in the war but by 1950, the practice was catching on. They had the opportunity to put “sustainable forestry” into practice on a grand scale. The first thing they had to know was how much wood fiber the forest was growing each year. The growth of trees
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researched and written by Joan Campf— on the history of the company to commemorate its 150th year in business and in 2007 opened the Collins Pine Museum in Chester. Today the company maintains its corporate office in Wilsonville, Ore., owns and operates softwood lumber sawmills in Chester, Calif. and Lakeview, Ore., hardwood lumber sawmills in Kane, Pa. and Richwood W. Va. and a particleboard and engineered wood siding and trim plant in Klamath Falls, Ore. and a retail yard in Chester. It owns some 311,000 acres of FSC-certified forestlands across three states—Pennsylvania, California and Oregon. The timberlands are biodiverse, multi-layered, canopied forests, not single-species tree farms and they contain more wood than they did 100 years ago. Maribeth passed away in 2017 at age 98 (three weeks shy of her 99th birthday), after having spent more than 50 years as the widowed spiritual and hands-on leader of her husband’s family business. If he were still around to hear it, today’s corporate motto, “Feel Good About It” likely would sound odd to the hardworking, no-nonsense Teddy Collins. But even Teddy would have smiled at the genius of his grandson’s vision to ensure an endless supply of the pines he so coveted. And even though, thanks to flood control, most of the Tionesta Valley where Teddy got his start, including the small town of Nebraska, now lies under Lake Tionesta, the path he cleared for generaTP tions to come remains wide.
was monitored by species, He also oversaw the competition class, and maconstruction of a hardturity. This provided a wood sawmill in Kane, guide in selecting the indiPa., which opened the vidual trees to be harvested same year that Alan sucso that the growth on the ceeded his dad Elmer as forest could be enhanced. president of the company. At Chester, as the first harFollowing Alan, nonvest cycle was drawing to family members assumed a close, the growth inforthe leadership role at mation from the plots exCollins, including Bob ceeded expectations, indiLastofka and Jim Quinn. cating an annual growth of Quinn was at the helm in 30 million board feet. 1993 when the Collins AlOnce the practice was manor Forest at Chester— initiated, it eventually in keeping with the comspread to all Collins pany’s 70-year-old belief Maribeth and Truman Collins sawmill operations, inin forest sustainability— cluding those in Lakeview, Ore., Medbecame the first industrial forestland in ford, Ore., and Kane, Pa. the U.S. to be certified for sustainable In 1964, Truman died at age 63 of a forestry through third party accreditation heart attack. His wife, Maribeth, expectfrom Scientific Certification Systems ing their fourth child, eventually took under the principles and criteria of the over as chairman of the board, stating Forest Stewardship that she felt responsible for keeping the Council. The Collins company together. Pennsylvania Forests “I certainly didn’t have any experience around Kane gained running a company. But it’s been in the certification the folfamily since T.D.,” Maribeth said years lowing year. Quinn later. “There were several times when received the prestisomebody wanted to buy our company… gious Person of the I couldn’t imagine, after all this time, Year honor from after all these generations, that we could Timber Processing just give it up…Wouldn’t you feel if you magazine in 1998. gave it up that you were just selling it all Eric Schooler, after down the river?” overseeing several Maribeth stuck to her beliefs and lived sawmills for Hampto see the fourth and fifth generations as- ton Affiliates in the sume control of the family business. Northwest, became Elmer Goudy’s son, Alan, became an president of Collins influential piece in the Collins operain 2000. Meanwhile, tions. He was educated in forestry and fourth and fifth genwood technology at Yale and worked in eration Collins family the company sawmills in numerous posi- members have contions as he was coming up. He helped to tinued to work in the steer the company into a new venture, company. seeing through Truman’s vision to build The Collins family a flakeboard plant in Chester, which in 2005 published a Magnificent stand of ponderso pine in the Collins Almanor Forest in started up in 1961. three-volume book— Chester, Calif. 44
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SECONDLOOK On the cover of Timber Processing for the third time, Idaho’s Bennett Lumber profiled in the April 2018 issue operates a productive mix of proven and new technology at its Princeton, Id. sawmill—and always with an eye toward efficiency-improving innovation that boosts both recovery and production. With a family tradition that dates back to 1939, Bennett Lumber is a longtime fixture of the Intermountain region and has worked for years to improve the industry and community.
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COLLABORATION
CLIMATE CHANGE IN THEORY
ment. This is where it starts to get interesting and I start to notice that something other than science is playing a role here.
CLIMATE CONFERENCE
By Russ Vaagen
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t seems like everything I read has something to do with climate change. It hasn’t been something that I really spent a great deal of energy studying or looking into, but I always thought that it could be true that carbon dioxide and other gas fumes could be contributing to some effect on our atmosphere. For the last 10 years or so I had a growing belief that this would be the biggest opportunity the forest products sector has ever seen. After all, we have the only product that takes energy from the sun, carbon dioxide from the atmosphere with the byproduct being oxygen. On top of all that when we sustainably manage these forests we store that carbon in building products. Why wouldn’t we want to help combat climate change? As time has gone on I have become involved and interested in learning more about the science of climate change and how carbon emissions play a role. As fires got larger and we had massive scale smoke pollution it appeared like it would be a nobrainer to help reduce these toxic emissions by way of better forest manage-
Let me tell you a story about a conference where I gave two 45-minute talks on the benefits of forest management. It was organized by an environmental group. I was happy to speak because I love the opportunity to talk to people from outside of our normal sphere. I was slated to talk in the middle of the day, but I was also very interested in the first panel of the day. This panel included some of the region’s experts from area universities on the topic of climate change. I may have been naïve, but I was going into this with an open mind, hoping to learn something new that I could bring back to my colleagues in the forest industry. I was looking for real data that supported the theory of climate change that could be reasonably explained. What happened was very different. From the first speaker to the last, they all had an agenda and an angle that seemed to suggest that almost all forest management was bad. Especially as it related to climate. One of the common themes was that old forests and larger trees were important because they stored so much carbon. Then they talked about how it was critical that we didn’t harvest trees too young because they then wouldn’t have enough size to store any carbon. I looked around the room to gauge the faces and could see some forestland managers with growing scowls. It seemed like a thinly veiled way of saying don’t cut trees when
they are small because they don’t store enough carbon, so wait until they are larger, but then you shouldn’t cut those either because then they are too important because they embody too much carbon and should be left.
CALCULATING That wasn’t even the bad part. One of the presenters went on to explain how they calculate carbon emissions from forest management. This is where they really lost me. One of the professors said that when a tree is cut, 100% of the embodied carbon is emitted. I asked the gentleman next to me if I heard that correctly. Before he said yes, her slide showed it. Not only did that get my attention, but then she said that they must add all the emissions created during the harvest and transportation activities. Then once the logs get to the mill they add the carbon emitted by the facility. It’s not until there is a product produced is the stored carbon calculated back in. That’s right, they calculate a solid log the same way they calculate the exhaust from your tailpipe. As if it was released into the atmosphere even though all the carbon remains embedded in the tree. I don’t believe any of this is by accident and I don’t trust that the calculations are accurate. Based on the way they all talked about it and how they seemed to feed off one another, I have no doubt that they leaned on the heavy side for emissions and cut the embedded carbon short in the lumber or other products. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
“What happened was very different. From the first speaker to the last, they all had an agenda and an angle that seemed to suggest that almost all forest management was bad. Especially as it related to climate.”
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COLLABORATION QUESTIONS, PLEASE It’s not like me to just let that stuff go. So, during Q&A I stood up to ask a question. It went something like this: “In the calculations, you describe what seems to be only westside (WA/OR) clear-cuts. I’m wondering if you were to look at forest restoration thinning of condition class 3 forests that are destined to burn in a catastrophic wildfire, how would that affect your calculations since you still have a healthy forest after the management activity?” I could not have predicted the answer. She said that where we were thinning, most likely would not burn in a wildfire, therefore we were disturbing the site unnecessarily. Then she went on to say that we were probably thinning too heavy which results in ground surface temperatures of the soil exceeding 38 degrees celsius which negatively affects regeneration. Not only did she say these things, she said them with clear disdain for my question.
ing less toxic pollution in our air. We all know that if we close the garage and leave the car running it can kill you. Forest fires are also a toxic cocktail of fumes and they are one source we can reduce. We need to quit driving this debate with a theory of climate change and get to some shared interests which include a healthier planet with clean air and clean water. Dividing our population because some of us question a theory
isn’t right. The focus needs to remain on our shared interests, not supporting TP our special interests. Russ Vaagen is a third generation sawmiller with his family’s company, Vaagen Bros. Lumber, in Colville, Wash. He is also the founder of www.theforestblog.com that specializes in topics focused on collaboration and the state of forests and industry. E-mail him at: rvaagen@vaagenbros.com.
SHARED INTERESTS I was somewhat shocked to be honest. What was interesting was how many people came up to me afterward and shared that they were appalled by the panel and didn’t think they represented reality. It’s important to point out that most of these comments came from members and staff of environmental organizations. It is good to question what we hear and what we read. I am dismayed at how people who ask questions are labeled as “deniers” and dismissed as being stupid. The fact is that we all have an interest in hav-
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MACHINERYROW Bandmill Wheel Resurfacing Technology By Ralph Wijesinghe
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he Bandmill Book was published in 1998. Since then, we have had the benefit of innovative technology which I have utilized to greatly increase the accuracy of proper resurfacing with respect to bandmill wheels. For more than a hundred years, bandmill wheels have been resurfaced by way of grinding with little to no accuracy, and the method has had a history of “black magic” associated with the procedure. While an acceptable finish could be displayed to any observer, the accuracy was inherently unacceptable. This method must now be discarded. I had worked in Chile, South America on and off for a period of five years with some of the time spent teaching university students who were hired to operate the equipment in a Mininco sawmill. When the time came to resurface the bandmill wheel, I soon realized that there was little to no accuracy in the available grinding equipment and significant guesswork had to be done. Educating the operators in a “guesswork” solution was simply unacceptable, and I had to come up with a more precise idea. I spent some time contemplating possible solutions, and after a couple of years of experimenting on my own and building a prototype, I discussed the idea of machining the wheel with my longtime friend Gord Dhiman. Gord is an expert machinist who owned Dhiman Industries and he was keen on the idea and further development. The results have paid off. The RID Resurfacer is new age in bandmill wheel resurfacing technology. Utilizing the latest trends in automation, RID resurfacing can be programmed to achieve wheel surface finish and crown accuracy and position previously unattainable. The RID Resurfacer’s key technology RID bandmill wheel resurfacer employs a dual axis servo system to control a precision cutting tool piece in the very same manner as utilized in today’s CNC machining industry. Controlling these servos is the RID Resurfacer’s custom design software, which is programmed using the handheld controller. The software allows the operator to define a crown position and full profile that will not only be accurate to within one thousandth of an inch but can be duplicated from one wheel to the next. The result of this precision control allows positioning of the crown in the same location on both top and bottom wheels, eliminating saw path “hunting.” The ability to machine the bandmill wheel surface, rather than grinding, allows the removal of minimal amounts of material and follows the face path. The RID Resurfacer can also vary its depth of cut, reducing oval distortion of the wheel diameter. Additionally, it has the ability to machine the side-rim of the wheel to quickly align the RID Resurfacer parallel to the arbor. This procedure is further explained in the RID Resurfacer manual. An additional note: Pi tapes have been used and are still used to compare the circumference of the wheel, but all operators should know that this measurement does not indicate the roundness of the wheel. The wheel could be oval or distorted in many different directions and have the same reading. In other words, the Pi tape should be discarded. A dial indicator with a magnetic base could be mounted on the tool post of the RID Resurfacer and can be used to compare the roundness of the wheel at any point on the width of the wheel and show accuracy in roundness. Ralph Wijesinghe is the author of The Bandmill Book: The Complete Guide to Your Industrial Bandmill & Bandsaw, published in 1998. He holds numerous patents in bandmill technology, end-dogging log carriages, and automated sawmills. E-mail Ralph at: ridw@shaw.ca.
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Allegheny Mills Are Updating With USNR Allegheny Wood Products is investing in new optimization and scanning technology for its trimmer and edger lines at its mills at Kingwood, Norton and Princeton in West Virginia. Trimmer and edger lines at Kingwood and the edger line at Norton will receive the latest USNR optimization , as well as new scanner frames outfitted with BioLuma 2900L sensors. These HD laser profile sensors provide exceptional results in 3D modeling with tremendous detail. This results in the optimizer providing solutions that maximize the fiber for the highest recovery possible. The edger line at Princeton is updating the optimization package to USNR’s latest release with new computer hardware, and re-using its existing scanning system.
Tolko Will Implement USNR Edger Line Tolko is investing in a new USNR BioVision edger line for its sawmill at Armstrong, BC. The line will comprise an unscrambler, Maximizer positioning infeed with dual fetchers, 4-saw edger, and close-coupled picker tailer. The optimizer is a BioVision system utilizing data from the new transverse scanner fitted with BioLuma 2900LV vision sensors. Also included is a MillTrak lumber flow control system comprising two sensors mounted above the unscrambler. BioVision’s edger grade evaluation adds overall value through remanufacture or rip, based on the final grade of the wood. For example, a #3 appearance due to knots can be edged to #3 wane to maximize recovery. Likewise a low grade 2x8 may be worth more as two 2x4s, one being a higher grade.
ISELI Taps Oleson Saw As Exclusive Distributor Following its previously reported purchase of the Wood Bandsaw Equipment Div. of Vollmer, ISELI has chosen to continue the partnership with Oleson Saw Technology, a division of York Saw and Knife, as ISELI’S exclusive distributor for sales & service of ISELI’s complete product offering. OST/YSK has been a leader in saws and saw filing room equipment in the forest products industry since 1906. OST/YSK utilizes ISELI equipment ex-
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Springer Group Buys Finland’s FinScan Springer Group has acquired a majority stake in Finnish company FinScan, based in Espoo, Helsinki. FinScan is a specialist in scanners and software for automated optimization of lumber in sawmills. FinScan has installed more than 400 scanners in more than 20 countries around the world. Timo Springer, CEO of Springer Group, comments, “With the majority stake in FinScan we extend our market product portfolio as an integrated technology provider for the wood processing industry. From now, we have an extensive range of optimization systems at our disposal and that way we can expand our technological and innovative leadership. We are looking forward to working together.”
“FinScan is very successful, has longtime customers and has a clear portfolio of sophisticated scanner solutions at its disposal. Through the merger with Springer we expect a further technological progress,” confirms Jyri Smagin, CEO of FinScan Oy, who will continue running the company at the same managing position.
WMF, CIFF Join Forces At Shanghai International Exhibition on Woodworking Manufacturing Equipment (also known as WMF) will be co-organized with CIFF Shanghai—The China (Shanghai) International Furniture Machinery & Woodworking Machinery Fair Septtember 10-13 at the National Exhibition and Convention Center, Shanghai Hongqiao, China. The new cooperation will demonstrate Asia’s largest furniture and woodworking machinery exhibition in Shanghai, tying up upstream and downstream of furniture manufacturing chain, launching a new era of quality-oriented and intelligent manufacturing.
In response to growing demand in equipment upgrade, WMF2018 will showcase equipment and technologies stretching over the whole wood production chain from logging to processing. Besides furniture manufacturing equipment, high quality wood-based panel board and pollutants processing technologies will also be introduced. The four-day fair will cover Hall 7.1 and 8.1 with 53,000 m2 and is expected to attract more than 550 exhibitors from around the world. Visitors can pre-register online to enjoy privileges such as one free copy of the show catalogue, and priority to participate in symposia. Visit www.woodworkfair.com or the show’s official social media platforms.
Tembec Upgrades Hearst Scanning/Optimization Tembec, now owned by Rayonier Advanced Materials, established a longterm capital plan with a focus on the modernization of its sawmills. At the Hearst, Ontario operation the
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MACHINERYROW first project consisted of a curve cant sawing optimizer. Autolog supplied new scanning, optimization and controls on an existing Newnes McGehee 10-inch curve-sawing “wiggle box” gang edger. At the canter-twin and the McGehee curve-sawing wiggle box, Autolog supplied its new modular scanner frame which allowed for an easy installation and removal of the old frame, especially in a tight environment. The scanners were supplied by Hermary Opto from Coquitlam, BC. The impact on the mill was substantial, as it increased uptime on the line, increased the percentage of 16 ft. lumber by 3%, increased the volume recovery by 2.5%, increased the value recovery by 3% and reduced the gap to further increase production.
Wood-Mizer Acquires Planer/Moulder Line Wood-Mizer has acquired the Swedish company, MOReTENs AB, placing a full range of popular 4-sided planer/moulders, table saws, spindle moulders, and CNC routers into WoodMizer’s globally available product range. Founded in 1980, MOReTENs also supplies high-end, CNC-controlled routers and log home building machinery. “Throughout our history, Wood-Mizer has been committed to providing the best quality equipment to process logs into finished wood products,” says Wood-Mizer President and CEO Richard Vivers. “The affordable and versatile moulder and planer product lines from MOReTENs have been proven worldwide for decades, and are now backed by the high-quality service and support network customers expect from Wood-Mizer.” The founder and owner of MOReTENs, Bo Mårtensson, has joined Wood-Mizer as the General Director of the factory in Ostersund, Sweden. The factory in Sweden marks Wood-Mizer’s fifth manufacturing plant throughout the world including three facilities in the U.S. and one in Poland.
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Rex Lumber Names Jaye Procurement Manager Rex Lumber Co. named Alan Jaye as procurement manager for the company’s recently announced sawmill to be built near Troy, Ala. The $110 million facility is scheduled to start up in mid2019 and produce approximately 240MMBF annually. Jaye’s 35-year career as a registered forester reflects broad technical knowledge and extensive business experience in all areas of professional forestry, including wood and fiber procurement, land management, resource sustainability, and environmental certification. He served the past six years as procurement manager for Enviva Pellets, formerly Green Circle Bio-Energy, of Cottondale, Fla. Prior to that he was employed as district procurement manager for Alabama River Woodlands, which supplied wood fiber for the Alabama River Pulp and Paper Mill Complex near Monroeville, Ala. A Monroeville native, Jaye holds a bachelor’s degree in forest management
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from Auburn University. He is a past director of the Alabama Forestry Assn. and currently serves as a director of the Florida Forestry Assn.
Killgore Becomes CEO Of Timber Products Co. Timber Products Company, Springfield, Ore., appointed Steve Killgore as Chief Executive Officer. Killgore most recently was vice president over the solid wood business for Roseburg Forest Products. Killgore has also operated his own companies, serving as president of both McKenzie Forest Products and Cascade Structural Laminators from 2002 to 2011. Prior to that, Killgore was general sales manager of Willamette Industries and Bohemia, spanning 22 years. David Gonyea, Timber Products CoChair of the Board, comments, “As a family run business for four generations, it is with the utmost confidence that we transition to outside leadership for our day-to-day work. Killgore is an industry veteran who can help lead us
into the future.” The Gonyeas will continue ownership of the company and lead the Board of Directors. Timber Products operates 10 manufacturing facilities, including a hardwood lumber mill in Munising, Mich.
Eibel Leads Roseburg Global Chip Business Keith Eibel has been promoted to Director of Roseburg’s chip business and the Coos Bay (Ore.) Shipping Terminal. Eibel joined Roseburg in 2008 as the manager of Roseburg’s chip business. His expanded duties now include the procurement and sale of chips to both international and domestic customers, the operations of Roseburg’s Coos Bay shipping terminal, and responsibility for the Western fiber business including sawdust, shavings and woody biomass. Prior to joining Roseburg, Eibel spent six years as chip manager for Weyerhaeuser and managed chip procurement for the company’s Albany and Spring-
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OLC Reaches Students Through Young Operators Twenty-something Millennial generation logging equipment operators from Miller Timber Services in Philomath, Ore. told their stories to more than 400 local Oregon high school students at the first Future Forestry Workers Career Day during the Oregon Logging Conference (OLC) in Eugene, Ore. February 22-24. Kacie Hillery, age 22, a recent Washington State University graduate, and Brayden Anderson, 23, both work in Miller’s CTL division, with Hillery operating a Ponsse forwarder and Anderson running a Ponsse harvester. Hillery, an environmental sciences graduate, said she was looking for something different to do when a family member met someone with Miller Timber and passed along a job opening. Part of her message was to never sell yourself short. “This is something I never imagined I could do but I can, and it’s 60
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also a job that women can perform just like men,” she said. Anderson, who started with Miller out of high school, operated a forwarder initially but has been on the harvester two years now. His message to the students was these kinds of jobs are huge opportunities in their home state. “I tried to open their eyes that this is a real opportunity to work, and the technology is really neat.” OLC Manager Rikki Wellman noted that more than 20 high schools participated in the event.
Roseburg Names Cribb VP Structural Products Roseburg Forest Products named Ashlee Cribb as Vice President of Structural Products, with responsibility for the sales and manufacturing of Roseburg’s engineered wood products, softwood plywood and lumber businesses. Cribb joined Roseburg in January 2017 as sales director for the company’s solid wood business. She previously held several roles at Georgia-Pacific, most recently as vice president of industrial packaging.
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3-5—American Forest Resource Council annual meeting, Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, Wash. Call 503-222-9505; visit amforest.org.
15-16—28th Annual WMI Workshop on Design, Operation and Maintenance of Saws and Knives, Holiday Inn Portland Airport, Portland, Ore. Call 925-943-5240; visit woodmachining.com.
10-12—Kentucky Forest Industries Assn. annual meeting, Brown Hotel, Louisville, Ky. Call 502-695-3979; visit kfia.org.
17-19—Timber Processing & Energy Expo, Portland Expo Center, Portland, Ore. Call 334-834-1170; visit timberprocessingandenergyexpo.com.
11-12—Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo, Omni Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 334-834-1170; visit bioenergyshow.com. 13-14—Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE), Omni Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 334-834-1170; visit pelice-expo.com. 20-21—Southeastern Saw Filers Educational Assn. annual meeting, Hilton Garden Inn, W. Monroe, La. Call 803-2436677; visit southernsawfilers.org. 22-24—American Wood Protection Assn. annual meeting, Seattle Marriott Waterfront, Seattle, Wash. Call 205-733-4077; visit awpa.com.
MAY 2-4—Virginia Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Omni Richmond, Richmond, Va. Call 804-278-8733; visit vaforestry.org.
22-25—Lesdrevmash 2018, 17th International Exhibition for Machinery, Equipment and Technology for Logging, Woodworking and Furniture Industries, Expocentre Fairgrounds, Moscow, Russia. Visit lesdrevmash-expo.ru/en. Listings are submitted months in advance. Always verify dates and locations with contacts prior to making plans to attend.
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8-10—Western Wood Products Assn. annual meeting, Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort & Spa, Austin, Tex. Call 503-224-3930; visit wwpa.org.
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JUNE 9-12—Assn. of Consulting Foresters of America annual meeting, Grove Park Inn, Asheville, NC. Visit acf-foresters.org.
JULY 16-18—Georgia Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Westin Resort & Spa, Hilton Head, SC. Call 912-635-6400; visit gfagrow.org. 29-August 1—Walnut Council annual meeting, Grand River Center, Dubuque, Iowa. Call 765-583-3501; visit walnutcouncil.org.
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Smith Sawmill Services
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800.598.6344
Smithco Manufacturing
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800.764.8456
Softwood Lumber Board
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202.463.4705
Telco Sensors
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Tigercat Industries
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Timber Automation
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