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ed Emmerson, the 90-year-old chairman and CEO Emeritus of Sierra Pacific Industries, will be honored during the upcoming Timber Processing & Energy Expo as Timber Processing magazine’s 2019 Person of the Year. Since the last issue of Timber Processing, when we indicated we would present the award during the Portland, Ore. show to somebody, but didn’t name the person, we’ve received numerous e-mails inquiring as to whom it would be. Now you know. Archie Aldis “Red” Emmerson himself will be on hand at 4 p.m. on Thursday, October 18 at the Hatton-Brown Publishers Media Presentation Center at the front of the floor in Hall E of the Portland Exposition Center. This will be a quick presentation with a short reception to follow, and really anybody on the show floor at the time can walk over to the Hatton-Brown booth and take it in. Red Emmerson, 2019 Person Mr. Emmerson will be the 31st recipient of the Year of the award, which first went to another Northwest sawmiller, Duane Vaagen of Vaagen Brothers Lumber, in 1989. We’re hoping that some of the previous persons of the year might be able to stop by the booth and allow us to recognize them to the gathering. Needless to say we’re long overdue (would negligent be a better word?) in presenting the award to Mr. Emmerson. It’s almost unfathomable, starting really from scratch, what he has accomplished—partnering early on with his dad—with Sierra Pacific Industries since the post-war years. Today the company operates 14 sawmills in California and Washington, producing in the range of 2.6 billion BF annually. These are high-tech sawmills, as evidenced by our cover story in this issue on SPI’s new sawmill at Shelton, Wash. The company owns 1.95 million acres of timberland in those states, making it reportedly the third largest landowner in the U.S. behind John Malone and Ted Turner. Some of the stories about Mr. Emmerson’s purchase of some of those timberlands are absolutely remarkable. Perhaps most impressive of all is the philanthropy undertaken by the Sierra Pacific Foundation toward community projects, youth activities and student scholarships especially in areas where the company has operations. Red Emmerson remains a sawmiller through and through, and his sons and family members are as well. Our January issue of Timber Processing always features the Person of the Year and we hope to be able to sit down with Mr. Emmerson between now and then and get him to reflect on his outstanding lumber career. TP
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NEWSFEED ANTHONY TIMBERLANDS PURCHASES SAWMILL Anthony Timberlands Inc. is purchasing the hardwood sawmill and chip mill facility in Mt. Holly (Union County), Ark. that has been owned and operated by Watson Sawmill Co. Inc. “The Watson mill is a modern, stateof-the-art facility in all respects,” Antho-
ny Timberlands President Steven Anthony says. “Its location and product mix fit almost perfectly with our existing hardwood facilities and recent acquisitions we have made in southwest Arkansas, and will complement those operations.” Watson has about 75 employees. Watson Sawmill President Donald Watson states, “After 35 years in the hardwood sawmill business, we are proud to pass on our family operation to the Anthony
family, and wish them much continued success.” Anthony Timberlands owns pine sawmills in Bearden and Malvern and hardwood sawmills in Beirne and Magnolia. It manages a lumber treating plant in Hope, a hardwood laminating and timber mat manufacturing facility in Sheridan and an oak flooring mill in Magnolia. The company owns 150,000 acres of timberland scattered throughout south central Arkansas. Anthony Timberlands also has more than 700 employees. Anthony says they are hoping for a near seamless transition within 30-45 days, while operations continue unabated, with some minor changes. Current employees will be given an opportunity to continue their employment with ATI.
WEILER PLANS PURCHASE OF CAT FORESTRY LINE Weiler, Inc. of Knoxville, Iowa has entered into a preliminary agreement with Caterpillar, Inc. to purchase the Cat purpose-built forestry business. The sale is subject to negotiation of a final agreement, which is expected by early 2019. The proposed sale includes the purpose-built forestry product line consisting of wheel skidders, track feller-bunchers, wheel feller-bunchers, knuckleboom loaders, and related operations facilities including a manufacturing plant and warehouse in LaGrange, Ga., a demonstration and training center in Auburn, Ala., and the Prentice parts distribution center in Smithfield, NC. Weiler has been manufacturing purpose-built equipment for the asphalt paving market since 2005, with sales, service and support exclusively through the Caterpillar dealer network. Weiler anticipates retaining the approximately 270 employees supporting the forestry business, adding to the nearly 500 employees currently employed at the Iowa-based manufacturer’s corporate office and manufacturing facility. Caterpillar will continue to provide forestry excavators designed for log loading, processing and other forestry applications, in addition to supplying core Caterpillar equipment to the forestry industry. Weiler will design and manufacture purpose-built forestry products, which will be available through the Cat and Prentice dealer networks. Pat Weiler founded the company in 6
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NEWSFEED 2000. Weiler sells through 190 sales offices and service centers worldwide.
CALIFORNIA COUNTY GAINS FIRE GRANT While wildfires scorch the state and region, California’s Tolumne County recently announced a $5 million federal grant that will fund forest management
operations in the area to reduce the risk of wildfires and boost the local economy. Project activities include fuel reduction, thinning, mastication, reforestation, biomass removal, and prescribed fire preparation. Last December the county board of supervisors signed a Master Stewardship Agreement under which Tolumne County can conduct restoration projects on the Stanislaus National Forest and apply and
receive funding for supplemental project agreements, also known as SPAs. According to county officials, the grant is a major collaborative between the county and U.S. Forest Service along with other Yosemite Stanislaus Solutions (YSS) stakeholders, a group representing a wide range of interests from timber industry members to environmentalists. Many of the forest heath improvement activities are planned in the Tolumne River watershed, and all projects must begin work by March 2022. The local economy should benefit since there is a sawmill, two biomass plants and a shavings plant in Tolumne County that can utilize a wide range of the raw materials generated by thinning and other fire reduction strategies. The county is also working on a grant from the CAL Fire California Climate Investment Forest Health program for LiDAR radar data acquisition scans that can closely gauge tree mortality, water retention and vegetation density and help with overall project planning and analysis.
LOGGERS RALLY FOR BIOMASS
On September 7, in support of New Hampshire’s biomass industry, CBI in Newton, NH partnered with the New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association to host a community dialogue on overriding the vetoes of Senate bills 365 and 446. The bills, which passed both houses of the legislature with overwhelming bipartisan support, but were vetoed by the governor, would help support biomass and other renewable energy in the Granite State and thus the market for wood chips by implementing requirements for biomass power generation. Attendees discussed the environmental and economic impact of the bills and urged legislators to override the vetoes. On hand were state senators Regina Birdsell and Dan Innis. 8
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NEWSFEED BOISE SELLING TWO OREGON SAWMILLS Boise Cascade Co. has entered into an agreement with Woodgrain Millwork to sell its northeast Oregon lumber mills in Pilot Rock and La Grande and the particleboard operation in Island City. The planned transaction does not include Boise Cascade’s plywood mill or the
powerhouse and log utilization center, based in Elgin, Ore. Woodgrain is a manufacturer and supplier with a product offering including molding, door shop products and window parts. “The sale to Woodgrain allows us to further focus on our veneer-based engineered wood products and plywood businesses,” says Mike Brown, senior vice president of operations, Boise Cascade
Wood Products Div. “Woodgrain is a family-owned company with a solid reputation in the industry. The products manufactured at these northeast Oregon facilities are a good fit with their business strategy.” “Being a fully integrated company in each step of our supply chain has become one of our core strengths as a company,” comments Kelly Dame, Woodgrain CEO. “Being able to grow the Woodgrain Lumber division is a key step in growing as a company. We are excited about the opportunity it offers.” Woodgrain Millwork is based in Fruitland, Idaho and has operations in 18 locations in the U.S. in addition to a joint venture in Chile. Woodgrain has provided wood doors, moldings and windows since 1954.
WESTERVELT SELLS 70% OF PELLET MILL Pinnacle Renewable Holdings Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire a 70% interest in Westervelt’s active industrial wood pellet production facility in Aliceville, Ala. Westervelt will retain a 30% interest. The Aliceville facility has an annual production capacity of 270,000 metric tons, of which 210,000 metric tons is committed under a long-term off-take contract to a major European utility. The remaining production volume from the Aliceville facility will be sold through Pinnacle’s contracted backlog of longterm, take-or-pay off-take contracts. Westervelt is currently ramping up production at the facility. Pinnacle is partnering with Westervelt to optimize asset configuration, distribution logistics and fiber supply. “Our acquisition of a majority stake in this facility will increase our production capacity and establishes a platform for Pinnacle’s future growth in the U.S. Southeast, one of North America’s key fiber baskets,” comments Robert McCurdy, Chief Executive Officer of Canadianbased Pinnacle. McCurdy says the companies will explore other growth opportunities in Alabama and Mississippi. As part of the transaction, and consistent with Pinnacle’s operating strategy, the Aliceville facility has now entered into longterm wood fiber supply contracts for residuals with several large local sawmills. Westervelt’s sawmill, located in Moundville, Ala., will remain an anchor supplier. 10
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STUDMILL By Dan Shell
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SHELTON, Wash. xpanding the company’s presence and footprint in Washington, Sierra Pacific Industries’ (SPI) newest sawmill here is built for high volume and high quality lumber produced in a dual line configuration that’s essentially two stud
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F rom left, S PI President and C E O
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M erc handising systems feed bins to their respec tiv e O L I lines.
mills in one, operating side-by-side. Mill officials say the facility should produce up to 500MMBF annually The mill sawed its first log in December 2016 on a transformed site where Simpson Timber had operated a sawmill more than 100 years before SPI bought it in July 2015. Since then, SPI completely remade the site as it built a new sawmill, converting what was once a sprawling multi-building facility into one large mill building, one shop building, 10 kilns—and a really big log yard. All that’s left of the previous facility is the office (since renovated) and boiler. Key suppliers for the project include Bid Group, which supplied two optiL ogs entering O L I line flow under C omac t sc anning system.
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Dual processing line design is made for high volume production.
mized length infeed processing lines, two sorter stacker lines and related equipment (off-line resaws, edger and gang), in addition to two planer mill lines with automatic grading systems and sorter-stackers. USNR provided gang saw systems and infeed work on each OLI, and Gilbert provided two planers. Kilns are from Wellons. LogPro (Timber Automation) supplied bucking and merchandising systems. Debarkers are from Nicholson. The Shelton mill is SPI’s fourth in Washington statea. The company is a major independent lumber producer, and prior to the Shelton startup was cranking out more than 2.1 billion BF annually. In addition to the newest mill at Shelton, SPI operates mills at Aberdeen, Centralia and Burlington, Wash. SPI has 10 sawmill operations in California as well as three lumber remanufacturing facilities, plus window manufacturing in California and Wisconsin. In total SPI employs more than 5,000. A family-owned company, SPI is led by founder and Chairman/CEO Emeritus Red Emmerson and his sons George, President and CEO, and Mark, Chairman and CFO. Their sister, Carolyn Emmerson Dietz, is a Member of the SPI Board of Directors as well as President of the SPI Foundation, which has donated more than $7 million in scholarships and additional donations supporting youth activities and other organizations in the communities where Sierra Pacific Industries operates. Family involvement extends to George’s sons Collin and Vaughn, who both work at the Shelton sawmill.
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The story of Sierra Pacific’s move into longtime mill town Shelton, Wash., has its roots in Simpson’s decision to separate its timberlands and manufacturing operations into separate companies in 2006. Ultimately, the company decided to sell all its lumber manufacturing facilities: In late 2014, Simpson sold sawmills at Tacoma and Longview, Wash. Georgetown, SC and Meldrim, Ga. to Interfor. In early 2015 Sierra Pacific purchased the Shelton mill complex, plus smaller operations at Dayton and Johns Prairie, Wash. that were auctioned. “We really didn’t want the whole package,” says Red Emmerson. “But by then we had been in Washington a while, really liked the Shelton area and decided we’d try to buy it if we could.” He adds that SPI was attracted to the site thanks to its fully permitted boiler system, waterfront location and rail service
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from two lines. Shelton is also a central location on the west side of the Olympic Peninsula that’s easily fed by the region’s extensive private timberland holdings. Log availability in the area had a big impact on mill design: Initially, SPI officials were planning a facility with a stud mill and larger log dimension mill but eventually decided on a high production two-sided dual stud mill. Log availability in the area is good, but smaller stud mill logs a grade below export quality are in better supply. “We decided it would be cheaper to log a twosided stud mill rather than a large log mill and stud mill,” Red Emmerson says. Another reason for the decision was good old competition: With the eventual closure of the former Simpson mills at Tacoma, Dayton and Johns Prairie, logs in the area were looking for a new home, and SPI executives wanted to take full advantage.
NEW MILL The Shelton mill was designed by SPI’s in-house engineering group. Mill design is loosely based on the Centralia sawmill, which has a single line configuration. “The only engineering we farmed out was some of the structural,” George Emmerson says. “Almost all our mills— and all of the mills in Washington—have been designed by our own folks.” Following their belief in engineering and fabricating self-sufficiency, one of the first moves SPI made when it began work at the Shelton site was to set up an on-site fabricating facility. With more than 90 employees involved in fabrication throughout SPI (23 at Shelton), the company operates one of the biggest fabricating shops on the West Coast between Sacramento and Portland at its Anderson, Calif. headquarters, and the Shelton facility’s fab shop plays a big role in keeping all the Washington mills in good sawing shape. “One of the first things we did here was to start the fab shop with several CNC milling machines, lathes and more,” George says. Supporting all its mills in California and Washington, SPI’s two main fab shops don’t do a lot of new original design work but instead focus on building equipment, components and parts for machines that need repairing. The shops also do a good bit of handling equipment such as conveyors, bins, etc. For example, on the Shelton mill sorter lines the SPI fab shop built the frame work and bins while Bid Group supplied the sorter “top” with its kickers and pivot
The new mill has plenty of gang and edger sawing flexibility.
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The mill’s only trimmers are in the planer mill.
Planer mill sorter features innovative new pivot hook design.
Sierra Pacific Industries is focused on high production and high quality.
hooks and control system. “We split the machine shop work between here and California, and it’s only a 10-hour drive, which isn’t too far for a major part or machine,” George says. “We try to move the workload around where it makes the most sense and runs the smoothest.” The mill processes primarily Douglas fir and the remainder is hemlock. Log specs for the Shelton facility are down to 5 in. on the small end, up to 23 in. on the butt end, with 40 ft. the preferred length. Incoming log trucks are unloaded by Komatsu 600 wheel loaders that also feed the mill. A Liebherr log handler performs decking duties. Logs are introduced to two identical processing lines: Each LogPro bucking and merchandising system feeds four bins that in turn feed their respective processing line. The company continues to refine a plan to sort logs by saw pattern to keep log gaps to a minimum. “We’re not quite there yet, but we want to have minimum saw movement between logs,” Red says. Wave feeders in each bin feed logs to a belt that moves them under a Comact C1 scanning system and a quad roll log turner. The Comact Optimized Length Infeed (OLI) line includes a set of canter heads and a Cetec twin band with profiling heads. A USNR Variable Shape Sawing (VSS) gang at the end of each line processes cants. Each OLI can also feed material requiring additional processing to a 4 in. McGehee gang, three-saw high speed Comact edger and Cetec resaw if needed. Lumber then flows to matching Bid Group sorter-stacker lines: double unscramblers, rotary log loaders, 90° and 180° transfers, 40 bin drag chain sorters and 8 ft. stacker lines. Bid Group supplied controls for the primary breakdown and edger line and sorter-stacker line while SPI handled much of the heavy metal work. The sawmill filing room features Armstrong Vari-Sharp CNC band saw sharpeners, three #4 Armstrong grinders, three Vollmer round saw grinders, Wright dual side grinders and a Jacobsen plasma tipper. Simonds supplies both round and band saws, and round saws run with Stellite wire tips. Burton Saw provides most of the filing room’s consumables such as grinding wheels, lubricants, etc. Kilns are from Wellons, 120 ft. new units that operate with Wellons controls and are heated with a wood-fired boiler. The side-by-side planer mills feature 16
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Shelton Div. Manager Darrin Moorcroft, left, and Washington Operations Manager Curt Adcock
two Gilbert planers that feed to a set of rotary lug loaders that present boards to Comact two-camera GradExpert automatic grading systems. Boards are processed through two Comact double arbor trimmers and two pivot hook sorters with 40 bins. Lumber released from the sorters goes to double unscramblers and double fork stacking
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systems. Packaging and banding system is from Samuel Strapping.
SPI IN WASHINGTON The Shelton mill project culminates an almost 20-year run of developing SPI facilities into a major presence in Washington state. Prior to 2000, all SPI assets
were in California. While the company had done very well there and outlasted many larger competitors to become the dominant forest products producer in the Golden State, SPI executives believed they had reached the limit for growth in California. In addition, having all the company’s assets in a single state and region with some of the toughest environmental, labor and legal conditions for business led the Emmersons to begin looking elsewhere for expansion. They found the sweet spot in southwest Washington, where a log export boom in the 1980s and much of the 90s had dissipated, and plenty of logs were looking for a new destination. In addition, mills in the area had closed or not kept up with the technology required to efficiently handle large volumes of small logs. Lumber capacity in the region had atrophied as a result of the strong log export market. What began SPI’s march to Washington was a conversation with Rayonier executives: The company had a closed sawmill in Aberdeen and was looking for someone to buy it and enter into a log supply agreement to help boost local markets for Rayonier’s 500,000 acres of timberland in the region. ➤ 20
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Sierra Pacific made the move, 18 ➤ although officials decided to build a new mill on another site in Aberdeen, a former mill location that was already cleared. The Aberdeen operation started up in 2002. “It’s been successful from Day 1, and we’ve been really happy with it,” Red says. As the Aberdeen mill was starting up, SPI was already looking at another lumber operation, this time north of Seattle. The company looked at the Darrington Lumber mill that was eventually purchased by Hampton, and also came real
close to building a mill in Everett until local restrictions and requirements led officials to look elsewhere. They settled on Burlington, Wash., where there’s decent private timber availability plus the near access to Canadian logs. “This gave us a footprint in another part of the state,” George says of the dimension mill that makes a wide range of products. “It’s been successful from the get-go,” he says of the mill that started up in 2006. He adds that operating a mill north of Seattle also revealed the city as a “nat-
ural barrier” between northern and southern parts of the state along the I-5 corridor, especially for businesses that depend on regular deliveries of raw materials—like sawmills and log deliveries. “It’s hard to do business if you’re trying to haul logs through Seattle every day,” George says. As a result, the Burlington mill has capabilities to handle a wider range of logs from its procurement area compared to the three southwest Washington mills that occasionally work together on optimum log specs when timber sale location makes log swapping possible. A year later, SPI made another move in the state when it acquired Centralia Sawmill Co. in Centralia from an investment group that had not completed the single line stud. “They had it about 90% completed when the economic recession of 2008 began. At that time with the uncertainty in the lumber business they decided to sell and we were the successful purchaser,” George says.
MOVING FORWARD Almost two years after sawing its first log, SPI’s Shelton Div. Manager Darrin Moorcroft says the mill is running well and continues to seek more consistency and continual improvement. SPI Washington Operations Manager Curt Adcock says, “Logistically, the Shelton area was a perfect fit for fiber resources and the transportation available.” He adds that Shelton’s proximity to the other southwest Washington mills helps with workforce needs and offers more growth opportunities for crew members. The mill is expected to produce around 100MBF/hr. once all the crews are more fully trained and experienced, SPI officials say. According to Adcock, “Overall, it’s been a really successful project,” he says, noting there haven’t been any issues with design, material flow or equipment capacities. “We are quite pleased with the Shelton operation, as it came in not only on time but on budget,” he adds, noting the challenges of auctioning and demolishing the old facility, adding infrastructure and building a new mill. “Not only does it fit well with our other Washington operations, the additional stud capacity fits well with our overall SPI lumber production and having the additional volume of studs really complements our product offering to the market,” George Emmerson explains. “We are quite excited about our growth in Washington State and anticipate that we will continue to grow our presence in the region.” TP 20
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SAWMILLS By Jay Donnell
Neiman Enterprises has grown big time, but its family background remains a guiding force.
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HULETT, Wyoming ven in good markets, sawmills must continually fine-tune their equipment, and for Neiman Enterprises Inc. COO Tom Shaffer the task is even more involved as he bounces between three “North Mills” as Shaffer refers to them, in the vicinity of the Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota and Wyoming. Oh yes, and Shaffer has to dip now and then down to yet another Neiman sawmill, this one in Montrose, Colo. When Shaffer came on board in 1995, the Neiman family owned just a single mill
in Hulett, Wyo., known as Devils Tower Forest Products, which is the site of company headquarters. In 1998, the company acquired Rushmore Forest Products in Hill City, SD, and 10 years later the Neimans purchased Spearfish Forest Products in Spearfish, SD along with Heartland Pellets. In 2012 the company acquired Montrose Forest Products in Colorado. Shaffer has seen the company go from producing 45MMBF per year to 300MMBF of high grade ponderosa pine lumber, and employment has grown to nearly 500 employees. ➤ 26
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Devils Tower itself looms in the background of the Neiman Enterprises headquarters and sawmill (Devils Tower Forest Products) in Hulett, Wyoming.
With four sawmills and a pellet mill, projects are always ongoing. Marcus Neiman, plant manager at the Spearfish mill, and Neiman Enterprises COO Tom Shaffer check out the latest drawings.
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Neiman’s Rushmore Forest Products in Hill City, SD, purchased 20 years ago, has been a steady performer.
In order to supply these north 24 ➤ mills, Neiman Enterprises relies heavily on federal timber from the Black Hills National Forest, and counts on nearly 30 contract loggers and up to 80 contract trucks. They generally deliver big logs to Hulett and small logs to Hill City and Spearfish. This can be a delicate situation, especially when timber management on the Black Hills has been challenged following a 20-year pine beetle epidemic that mostly ran its course last spring. The infestation affected 450,000 acres, which is nearly one-third of the total area of the Black Hills. Logging continued as forest managers looked to remove dead trees
Dry kiln yard at Spearfish Forest Products
Spearfish operation has undergone improvement to byproducts collection.
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and thin dense tree stands where pine beetles were most prevalent. Today, a new project known as Black Hills Resilient Landscapes emphasizes thinning, fuel reduction and other activities to increase ecosystem resilience, reduce risk of wildfire and insect infestation. “We all know how it can go with federal timber,” Shaffer comments. “You may have it today, but then you’re always wary.” Shaffer notes that President & CEO Jim D. Neiman is very active politically and has helped Neiman Enterprises develop a strong relationship with the Forest Service. “There probably isn’t a day that goes by that we don’t interact with the Forest Service,” Shaffer says. ‘“It’s a relationship we’re constantly engaged in. That was the only way we made it through the pine beetle epidemic here. If we had sat on our hands we would have had a dead forest. We put pressure on the Forest Service and worked with them to design timber sales.” To support its timber harvesting activities both on federal and private land, Neiman Enterprises adheres to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, which involves an educational and training aspect with its contractors and with landowners, continually improving its forestry and management practices, and monitoring the forest resources.
Pine shavings are a big mover at Rushmore Forest Products.
BACKGROUND The elder James Neiman (Jim D.’s father) was a mere six years old when he moved to Wyoming in 1936 with his adventuresome dad, A.C. Neiman, from Gordon, Neb. A.C. saw an opportunity in starting up a sawmill that would be fed from the ponderosa pine forests of the Black Hills. He bought a mill in Hell’s Canyon between Newcastle and Custer and moved it to the Upton-Sundance vicinity south of Hulett. The operation reached north for better quality timber near Belle Fourche River. The mill burned in 1939 and A.C. started up another one in Hulett in 1940 just across the road from the current mill. A.C. sold that mill in 1945, bought another one and operated it on his recently purchased Black Tail ranch, 10 miles south of Hulett. The operation manufactured grain doors for CB&Q Railroad. The Black Tail mill operated for a couple of years until A.C. decided the profit potential in the Black Hills had evaporated. He and his family left for Canada to start up a red cedar fence post mill, hauling materials across the border to Northport in northeast Washington. ➤ 28
Log primary breakdown at Rushmore Forest Products
Feeding the log deck at Devils Tower Forest Products
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It’s boards and more boards for all of the Neiman Enterprises mills.
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A.C.’s son, James, who had 27 ➤ worked in his father’s mills all along, and James’ brother Ray bought their father’s Black Tail ranch in 1950 and accumulated 2,000 acres. But ranching couldn’t support the two families and the brothers began logging. Then in 1956 they bought a sawmill and sawed timbers for the Homestake sawmill in Spearfish. That same year, A.C. died in a mine explosion near Colville, Wash. In 1958 James and his brother moved their mill to the current site in Hulett. In late 1958, with Jim wanting to expand the operation, the brothers split up. James rebuilt the mill and operated it until August 1961, when it burned to the ground. “I had a $20,000 note against a pile of ashes,” James recalls. The banker asked James what he was going to do, and James replied. “I’m going to go on. You’re going to loan me the money.” The banker loaned $7,000 to James. That night James drove to a Montana mill auction. James paid $7,000 for an end trimmer, and kept buying. James spent $17,500 for equipment. The next morning he woke up the banker with a phone call. “How we doing?” the banker asked. “Too darn good,” James said. “So far I spent $17,500.” The banker paused. “James, go ahead and do what you have to do. If we’re going to sawmill, let’s get with it.” With his wife handling the office work, James kept enlarging the operation. “I didn’t know what it was like to buy new equipment. I’d go to a ranch sale and buy a piece of farm equipment that would have a piece of iron in it that would fit somewhere else.” ➤ 30
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RAMPING UP Jim D. and his dad decided to enter the kiln dried surface lumber business and started up a planer in 1975, and installed a Wellons wood fired boiler and dry kiln in 1976. Machinery installations continued for the next decade and by 1985 the mill operated four dry kilns and production had increased in 10 years from just more than 4MMBF annually to 22MMBF. They added optimization at the trimmer and edger in the late 1980s. In the early 1990s they rebuilt the Hulett sawmill, starting it up with two tilted bandmill/carriage headrigs and three horizontal resaws. At the same time the company leaped into a Total Quality Management program. The sawmill business had come of age, which was one reason Timber Processing named Jim D. Neiman its Man of the Year in 1995. The other reason was that Jim D. immersed himself in dealing with the Forest Ser30
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vice on timber management issues, and he became an integral part of the community of Hulett. Not long after that, the company began its first in series of sawmill acquisitions. Today the sawmill lineup includes Devils Tower Forest Products, the original sawmill built in 1958 by the elder James Neiman. Devils Tower Forest Products produces high quality 5/4 and 6/4 heavy shop as well as 1x4 and 1x6 commons. The current production capacity reaches 40MMBF annually. Rushmore Forest Products, formerly
known as Continental Lumber, was purchased in 1998 and is located in Hill City, SD. This mill was converted from dimension to boards and produces 70MMBF of ponderosa pine boards and pattern. Primary products are 1x4, 1x6 and 1x8. In 2008 Neiman Enterprises purchased the Pope and Talbot, Inc. sawmill in Spearfish, SD, and it is now known as Spearfish Forest Products. The mill produces more than 90MMBF of boards and pattern annually. This is the largest of all the sawmills and primary products are
1x4, 1x6, and 1x8 ponderosa pine. The most recent mill acquisition came in 2012 with the purchase of Montrose Forest Products, formerly known as Intermountain Resources. This mill produces premium 2x4 and 2x6 studs from the beetle-killed forests of Colorado. Total annual production is 90MMBF. A big portion of production goes East, as the operation has a freight advantage since they’re closer. The north mills move 5,000 loads of chips per year to operations in Rapid City, SD and Longview, Wash.
RECENT PROJECTS A number of improvements have been made and are ongoing at the mills, but Spearfish has undergone the most changes recently. In the sawmill they added a new Lico board edger and converted the gang to single arbor. They’re now looking at upgrading the primary breakdown. Most of the improvements at Spearfish have been in the planer mill, including a new sorter and various planer upgrades such as electric drive conversion. They also put in a Comact auto grader. Currently they’re putting in a sticker stacker and a new tilt hoist infeed on the large planer. (Spearfish runs two planers.) Spearfish has also seen an upgrade to its shavings and hog fuel collection system. Shaffer says they’re looking to boost production at Spearfish to 100MMBF annually. “We’re very grade oriented and quality oriented,” he says. “We don’t want to go a million miles per hour and make junk. You can’t do that with pine boards and be successful.” In the molder department at Spearfish they’ve recently added a new Weinig molder as well as an end matcher, auto stacker and auto de-stacker. The pellet mill at Spearfish hasn’t gone untouched either, receiving a robotic stacking system and new bagger line. At Rushmore Forest Products much of the work has been time-consuming infrastructure to overcome flooding. A new crane was put in at the debarker infeed. “This is kind of our steady runner,” Shaffer says. Devils Tower Forest Products completed an electric drive conversion on a Coastal planer and is starting up a new USNR Transverse High Grader. The same auto grader has also been ordered for Montrose Forest Products. Montrose is gearing up for a whole new greenfield planer project as well as a conversion to a combination stud mill, short pine board mill. ➤ 34 32
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BUSINESS MATTERS As the business has grown substantially in the past 20 years, the company’s sawmill and lumber distribution business has been looking to improve communication between all locations to streamline inventory and accounting operations, which is why they’re implementing Epicor LumberTrack software. The move to Epicor software will enable Neiman Enterprises to merge its multiple inventory management systems to a single platform, which will reduce
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human error through the automation of manual processes. “The main reason we selected a new software system was because of the disconnect we had across locations and processes with our old system,” says Mike Stevens, Sales Manager at Neiman Enterprises. “We had individual inventory systems in all four of our locations because as we grew, we added that company’s system to the mill. Our sales office was tied into those systems individually, which made for a very disjointed operation.” Epicor LumberTrack will free up
time and enable Neiman Enterprises to improve ship times, develop more accurate projections, and enhance customer service. With 490 total employees there is a lot to keep track of at Neiman Enterprises. Shaffer notes that the company doesn’t have a lot of turnover in the higher up positions, but hiring can be difficult when it comes to some of the lower end jobs. Developing relationships with local colleges is crucial for the company. “We’re working with Western Dakota Tech which is a technical school in Rapid City as well as Gillette College in Gillette, Wyoming,” Shaffer says. “Indeed.com has been a big thing for us and we also do some local programs with the high schools.” Getting young people interested in the industry continues to be a challenge, but Jim D. Neiman’s son, Marcus Neiman, who is plant manger at Spearfish, believes advancements in technology will get younger people interested. “I think you can get millennials engaged,” Marcus says. “If you pull someone off the street they’ll see how the manufacturing process works. It’s no longer the antiquated model it was before.” Marcus, 32, became plant manager at Spearfish in 2014. He graduated from the college of business at the University of Wyoming. “I had a good feeling that this is where I was going to end up,” he says. Marcus will look to continue the legacy his father and grandfather have built in the sawmill business. It’s clear that he’s learned a lot from his father, Jim D., as well as Shaffer who has led Neiman’s expansion and growth through the years. The elder James Neiman remains Vice President. Other key officers are CFO Chad Voyles, Resource Manager Dan Buehler, and Secretary/Treasurer Sheri Stinson, who is James’ daughter, and Assistant Secretary, Sally Ann, James’ wife. Shaffer believes the technological advances the company has made over the years will keep the business running strong for many years to come. “There are a lot of smaller family run companies that didn’t take that step toward technological advances and you can’t survive now without that,” Shaffer says. “ This year marks the 60th year since the company started up the mill that is now known as Devils Tower Forest Products in Hulett. It is also the 82nd year since A.C. Neiman started the first sawmill. This rich sawmill history and the company’s understanding of the challenges and complexities of modern sawmilling have enabled Neiman Enterprises to expand and prosper. TP
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early two-hundred equipment and technology exhibitors have taken up all the available booth space at the Timber Processing & Energy Expo (TP&EE) to be held October 17-19 in Hall E of the Portland Exposition Center in Portland, Ore. Held every two years, TP&EE is produced by HattonBrown Expositions LLC and hosted by Timber Processing and Panel World magazines. The event caters to the lumber, veneer, plywood, crosslaminated timber and engineered wood products segments of the wood products industry. This will be the fourth TP&EE since Hatton-Brown Publishers began the event in 2012. “To state the obvious, the lumber industry nationwide has had an excellent run since the
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E XPO BRINGS NEW TECHNOLOGIES last TP&EE,” says Rich Donnell, show director and editor-in-chief of Timber Processing. “It’s not over yet, especially if housing numbers advance to where they should be. That’s why many mills are continuing with capital expenditure programs, to make sure their mills don’t fall back due to tired technology.” The primary equipment companies in the lumber industry will be displaying their technologies, many of them opting for larger booths compared to two years ago. The depth of their technologies is more impressive than ever. Here’s just a sampling of some new developments: —Autolog will be showing a new log optimizer. —BID Group is displaying a new debarker. —Brunette has a new optical conveyor belt scanner. —Carbotech has upgraded its stick distribution system. —The newest company on the block (but with familiar personnel) is GF Smith, which is promoting its Gmachine edgers and gangs. —McDonough has a new resaw infeed system. —Taylor now offers compact forklifts. —Vollmer is showing its grinding machine. Donnell adds that the show also presents an opportunity for companies to give their personnel a day off and allow them to cruise the show. “TP&EE can also be a morale booster for the work force,” Donnell says. “Everybody has been busting their gut during these high markets, and everybody deserves a break.” In 2016, Weyerhaeuser led all companies with 123 personnel registered, followed by Seneca with 101, Sierra Pacific had 73, Hampton Affiliates had 71. The 2016 expo drew personnel from 110 forest products producer companies and hundreds of individual mill site operations from 39 U.S. states, six Canadian provinces and 22 countries. Registration to walk the show floor is free if done before the first day of the event. At the gate it’s $20. Attendees can also sit back in a classroom environment for additional education in the Lumber Manufacturing Workshop and/or the Mass Timber and EWP Workshop. They each cost $75, which includes admission to the expo floor for three days and a beer and brat ticket. See page 44 for more detail on TP the workshops.
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Acrowood .................................................... 263 AKE Knebel.............................................. 319.11 Altec Integrated Solutions ..............................457 American Wood Dryers.................................. 379 AMS Solutions ..............................................367 Andritz Iggesund Tools...................................219 Arrow Speed Controls.................................... 119 Autolog......................................................... 353 Automation & Electronics USA........................ 122 Balluff...........................................................258 Baumer Inspection GmbH..........................319.09 BEP Engineering Services ............................. 167 BID Group .................................................... 437 Biomass Engineering and Equipment.............. 911 BM&M Screening Solutions ...........................266 BOLDESIGN ......................................................6
BRUKS..........................................................130 Brunette Machinery & Murray Latta...... 729, 4001 Brunner-Hilderbrand Lumber Dry Kiln ............ 167 Brunson Instrument ...................................... 255 California Saw & Knife Works ...................... 1053 Can-Am Chains ............................................ 761 Canadian Forest Industries.............................145 Carbotech .................................................... 829 Carters Machine Planer Fabrication ............... 152 Climax Metal Products ...................................... 3 Colonial Saw............................................... 1011 Columbia River Staple & Lumber Wrap/ Intertape Polymer Group............................ 958 CON-VEY ..................................................... 837 Concept Systems...........................................483 Connexus Industries...................................... 137 Construction Equipment.................................485 Cooper Machine ........................................... 955 Crow Engineering ............................................. 7 Delta Computer Systems................................945 DK - Spec .................................................. 1057 DO2 Industriel............................................. 1051 Dykman Electrical .......................................1037 EBI Kiln Duty Motors...................................... 165 Endurance Equipment ...................................364 Evergreen Engineering................................... 104 EWTA .......................................................... 134 FinScan ....................................................... 159 Fromm Packaging Systems-Octomeca..........1052 German Information c/o Hannover Fairs Int’l ....................... 319.08 German Pavilion............................................ 319 Gilbert Products ...........................................737 Gillingham-Best ............................................106 Greg F Smith ................................................925 Grenzebach ..................................................366 HALCO Software Systems ........................... 1035 Hansen-Rice................................................. 479 Harbin Hi-Tech Machinery ..............................19 Hashimoto-Denki USA ...................................102 Hatton-Brown Publishers Media Presentation Center........................ 503 Hermary .......................................................108 HewSaw Machines ....................................... 227 Hurdle Machine Works.......................................8 In Stock Parts................................................265 International Bar Coding Systems ................ 1044 International Forest Industries.........................118 Itipack Systems........................................... 1024 James G. Murphy ......................................... 147 JoeScan........................................................337 John King Chains ....................................... 1020 Kadant Carmanah Design...............................154 Kalmar USA...................................................903 KDS Windsor.................................................362 Keith Manufacturing ................................... 1031 Key Knife ..................................................... 921 Kimwood ......................................................347 Kobe Bearing ............................................... 264 Konecranes Woodyard Cranes..........................21 Kop-Coat ................................................... 1056 Kuper Heinrich ........................................ 319.05 L.G. Isaacson ............................................... 725 Lewis Controls-Corley Manufacturing..............619 Lico Machinery..............................................471 Lignomat U.S.A............................................. 383 LINCK ..................................................... 319.10 Linden Fabricating ........................................ 244 LMI Technologies.......................................... 127 Logging & Sawmill Journal-Timberwest.......... 261 Lokring West Coast....................................... 162 Lonza Wood Protection.................................... 16 Lucidyne Technologies...................................558 Ludeca .......................................................... 26 Mac Chain Co .............................................. 941
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Machinery Sales ...........................................161 Mahild Drying Technologies ..................... 319.06 Maxi Mill ...................................................... 861 McDonough Manufacturing ........................... 150 Meinan Machinery Works ..............................937 Metal Detectors, Inc. .....................................717 Metriguard.................................................... 811 Michael Weinig ........................................319.07 Mill Tech Industries..................................... 1007 Minda Industrieanlagen ............................319.02 Modern Engineering...................................... 164 MPM Engineering.......................................... 821 MTS Sensors.....................................................4 Mühlböck......................................................953 Nelson Brothers Engineering.......................... 346 Newman Machine .........................................711 Nicholson Manufacturing .............................. 143 Northern Plastics ........................................ 1046 Novilco .........................................................243 Oiles America .................................................23 Oleson Saw...................................................403 Opticom Technologies................................... 149 Optimil Machinery ........................................ 303 Optware Solutions ....................................... 158 Owens Corning - InterWrap............................385 Pantron Automation.......................................350 Pape Material Handling.................................. 763 Paw-Taw-John Services................................ 658 Peerless Saw ............................................... 957 Piché ........................................................... 853 Pilana Wood S.R.O.......................................... 27 Platt Electric Supply....................................... 149 Player Design................................................ 481 PMP Solutions ................................................20 Polymax........................................................469 Porter Engineering ........................................637 Precision Husky ............................................163 Premier Bandwheel & Equipment .................. 110 Premier Gear & Machine Works .....................146 Pro Mac Manufacturing .................................855 Purakal Cylinders...........................................920 Raptor Integration .........................................743 Raute............................................................811 Rawlings Manufacturing ................................237 REA JET USA................................................ 751 Redwood Plastics ......................................... 247 Reliability Resources .......................................14 Rockwell Automation..................................... 155 Rogers Machinery ........................................123 S. Huot ........................................................ 151 Samuel Packaging Systems Group................. 359 Samuel Packaging Systems GroupCoding & Labeling ................................... 409 Saw Control Systems.....................................153 SAW+ADD ................................................... 112 ScanMeg ..................................................... 309 SCS Forest Products by Finna Group...............251 Sering Sawmill Machinery ........................... 1015 Sharp Tool ..................................................... 18 SiCam Systems ............................................ 248 Signode Packaging Systems...........................847 Simon Möhringer Engineering .................. 319.03 Simonds International ........................... 109, 209 Slatercom Lighting Solutions.......................... 138 SolaGen .....................................................1023 SonicAire.................................................... 1040 SparTek Industries.........................................269 Springer Microtec ......................................... 527 Starcyl Cylinders ...........................................166 Stringer Industries......................................... 857 Sugimat.......................................................... 15 Sumitomo Machinery of America...................... 11 Sweed Machinery.......................................... 949 Taihei Machine Works .................................... 13 Taylor Machine Works................................... 105
Tebulo Industrial Robotics.............................. 375 Telco Sensors............................................... 822 Terog Manufacturing....................................... 10 Terra Source Global......................................... 12 Timber Automation........................................ 627 Timber Machine Technologies..........................25 Timber Products Manufacturers Assn............. 120 Tolomatic....................................................1042 Top Wood Jobs ............................................ 954 Tradetec Computer Systems ......................... 160 TS Manufacturing.......................................... 929 Ultimizers .....................................................519 Utility Composites Raptor Composite Fasteners.......................... 114 Utility Composites - Sundog RFID Staples........116 VAB Solutions................................................627 Valutec Wood Dryers .................................... 825
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f combing the aisles amid 200 equipment exhibitors and 60,000 SF of booth space at the upcoming TP&EE still leaves you wanting more, for a small fee you can sign up for the Mass Timber, Engineered Wood Products and Plywood Workshop to be held Wednesday, October 17, the first day of TP&EE, and/or the Lumber Manufacturing Workshop to be held Thursday, October 18. Each workshop costs only $75. The Mass Timber and CLT (cross-laminated timber) movement is well under way in North America with a few mills in operation, a few others under construction, and some in the planning stage. The workshop will be divided into morning and afternoon sessions, with the morning session focusing on mass timber and CLT, and the afternoon session on veneer and plywood manufacturing. During the morning session, Russ Vaagen, from the Vaagen Bros. Lumber family in Colville, Wash., will speak about Vaagen Timbers, his new venture that is currently constructing a CLT and glulam plant adjacent the family sawmill. “Russ has been very visible on social media providing updates on his CLT plant,” comments Rich Donnell, TP&EE Show Director. “He’ll deliver a very informative talk.” Also in the morning, Tyler Freres, VP of Sales for Freres Lumber, will speak about the company’s new MPP (Mass Plywood Panel) plant in operation at Lyons, Ore. and he’ll address new technical and market developments and also the recent certification achieved for MPP through APA—The Engineered Wood Assn.
BOOSTING PROFITS The Lumber Manufacturing Workshop on October 18 features eight presentations (four in the morning and four in the afternoon). It hits the ground running in the morning with talks from representatives of two major equipment manufacturers. You may be more familiar with Baxley Equipment and LogPro than Timber Automation, but indeed Timber Automation is the parent company to those operations, and its vice president and general manager, Seth Vance, will speak about ways to enhance profitability through optimum implementation of technologies from the wood yard to the planer mill. “Unlocking the Turnkey Strategy” is the title of the second presentation of the morning, and nobody is doing it better than BID Group, which is becoming synonymous with building greenfield sawmills, especially in the Southern U.S., for such companies as Biewer Lumber, Two Rivers Lumber, Georgia-Pacific, Jordan Lumber, Rex Lumber and others. Now BID is taking its turnkey expertise to the Northwest.
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MASS TIMBER WORKSHOP Wednesday, October 17 9:10 a.m.—The Mass Timber and CLT Movement— Charles Gale, principal, Doug Fir Consulting 9:30 a.m.—Developing a CLT and Glulam Business and Facility—Russ Vaagen, CEO, Vaagen Timbers 10:00 a.m.—Mass Timber Buildings—Ethan Martin, Regional Director, WoodWorks 10:30 a.m.—Global Breakthrough of CLT—Markets and Technologies—Dominik Wolfschuetz, German Woodworking Brian Fehr, chairman and managing director of BID Group, and Ron McGehee, new product development at BID, will talk about this unprecedented run of new sawmill construction and address BID’s turnkey strategy moving forward. If you’re interested in specific scanning and optimization technologies, you’ll find it in the afternoon sessions, where representatives from Lucidyne Technologies, Springer Microtec, and Autolog will address applying artificial intelligence to automated lumber grading, x-ray technology in the planer mill, and log scanning and optimization.
REGISTRATION Each workshop costs $75. It includes admission to the expo floor for three days and a complimentary beer and brat ticket. You can register on the show web site: timberprocessingandenergyexpo.com or walk up and register. To read more about the speakers and their presentations, go to the show web site.
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Generate ROI—Laurie McCabe, Sales and Marketing Manager, TradeTec Computer Systems 11:30 a.m.—Advances in Hydraulic Power Unit Design—Richard Vetter, Vice-President, AMS Solutions 1:00 p.m.—Control Your Product Output with the Latest in Artificial Intelligence—Patrick Freeman, Chief Technology Officer, Lucidyne Technologies, Inc.
1:30 p.m.—Bringing Multi-View XRay Technology to the Planer Mill— Norvin Laudon, Chief Technology Officer, Springer Microtec 2:00 p.m.— Log Optimization New Development—Mario Godbout, Chief Technology and Quality Officer, Autolog 2:30 p.m.—Practical Solutions to Difficult Hydraulic System Design Problems—Peter Nachtwey, President, Delta Computer Systems
Machinery Manufacturers Assn. (VDMA); Gerhard Binder, Projecting and Sales, MINDA 11:00 a.m.—Mass Timber Partnerships—Evan Schmidt, Outreach Coordinator, TallWood Design Institute 11:30 a.m.—The Making of Mass Plywood Panels—Tyler Freres, Vice President of Sales, Freres Lumber 1:10 p.m.—Rising from the Ashes: Update on Swanson Group’s New Plywood Plant with Meinan Automated Green End—Steve Swanson, president and CEO, Swanson Group; Anna McCann, president, Merritt Machinery 2:00 p.m.—High-Performance Combustion Plants—Miguel Martinez, key account manager, Sugimat 2:30 p.m.—Discussion Group: Always Survival of the Fittest—Veneer and Plywood Operations and Technologies Moderator Dick Baldwin, managing partner, Oak Creek Investment; Stefan Eisenkohl, Head Sales and Market Director, Baumer Inspection
LUMBER MANUFACTURING WORKSHOP Thursday, October 18 10:00 a.m.—Increase Your Bottom Line (OR: Don’t Leave Dollars on the Table)—Seth Vance, Vice President and General Manager, Timber Automation 10:30 a.m.—Unlocking the Turnkey Strategy—Ron McGehee, R&D New Product Development, BID Group; Brian Fehr, Chairman and Managing Director, BID Group 11:00 a.m.—Maintaining a Modern Sawmill: Embrace the 4th Industrial Revolution by Leveraging the IoT and TIMBER PROCESSING
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SHOWCASE EDITOR’S NOTE: The following companies are advertising in this issue and also exhibiting at the Timber Processing & Energy Expo to be held October 17-19 at the Portland Expo Center in Portland, Ore. These companies submitted the following editorial profiles and photos. See their advertisements and contact information throughout this issue of Timber Processing.
ACROWOOD The Acrowood Dual Drive Suspended Screen offers an alternative to the standard center drive screens. The Dual Drive design eliminates the large center bearing and counter weight. The drives and counter weights are instead located outside of the screen. This makes maintenance access and belt changes easier. No need to crawl under or into the screen to get at bearings or belts. The Acrowood Dual Drive can come equipped with a wide range of screen decks. Louvered decks as well as punched plate and wire mesh top decks are available. The bottom decks can come with punched plate or wire mesh. A steel ball deck is also available if required. The Dual Drive Screen can be fine-tuned to meet specific screening requirements. Both speed and orbit can be adjusted to suit various applications. While Acrowood screens come in a wide range of standard Acrowood Dual Drive Suspended Screen sizes and capacities the discharge arrangements are per customer requirements. This is especially important in retrofit situations where there is a need to match up with existing takeaway conveyors. Acrowood also offers dust covers and vacuum ports for dust containment when required. The Dual Drive design has been in production and operations since 1992. In addition to the Dual Drive Screen, Acrowood also offers its patented DiamondRoll screens, disc thickness screens, scalpers and Trillium screens. Acrowood is not only about screens but also offers chip crackers, chip slicers, air density separators and chippers. The chipper line includes whole log, sawmill utility and rechippers. Acrowood offers both standard spout under shaft design as well as its unique Slant Disc design chipper. Booth 263
AMERICAN WOOD DRYERS American Wood Dryers, LLC has been producing quality efficient dry kilns to the lumber Industry for more than 30 years with installations throughout the world. Everything from package kilns for smaller volumes of hardwoods to large volume high throughput conifer kilns such as high temperature and or continuous track kilns. Kiln buildings, both package loaded and track types, are designed for each application and can be all-aluminum structures with Alclad aluminum panel surfaces and R20 insulation or all-stainless steel in special cases. Continuous kilns are typically a combination of aluminum construction in the cold sections and steel in the hot section for economy of material costs. American Wood Dryers continuous dry kiln Heat systems vary from hot water or steam coils in hardwood kilns to larger steam systems in the conifer kilns, as well as thermal oil coils, direct fired natural gas furnaces and green or dry wood waste fired systems with optional natural gas backup burners. Circulating air systems are also designed for the application and can be direct drive kiln duty motors mounted inside the kiln or standard motors mounted external of the kiln chamber. In most cases motors are driven by variable frequency drives to adjust air flow to match the kiln schedule requirements and reduce electric power costs. The Continuous Dry Kiln (CDK) design has become especially prevalent in the southern yellow pine industry. This design provides increased throughput and higher efficiency by taking advantage of both the stored heat in the lumber and the chamber humidity to preheat the entering lumber while conditioning the exiting product. American’s proprietary Drystar Kiln Control is a pc based system that provides flexible and intuitive operation when processing high value materials to exact specifications. PLC based control systems can be supplied for high production conifer kilns. American Wood Dryers also provides dehumidifiers, pre-dryers, steamers and specialty drying systems for non-wood materials. Booth 379 46
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Over the years, Arrow Speed Controls has successfully provided variable frequency drive (VFD) systems to the most up-to-date and fastest sawmills in the industry. The most recent completions include West Fraser in Opelika, Ala.; West Fraser at High Prairie, Alberta; and Jordan Lumber in Mt. Gilead, North Carolina. Packaged in our bused system utilizing the high performance Mitsubishi A800 Sensorless Vector, line speeds nearing 100 FPM have been achieved. The company’s depth of experience means that Arrow Speed is very familiar with how to apply control/automation systems to various areas of wood processing and sawmilling. Arrow Speed knows how to make the application work correctly the first time. Arrow Speed Controls provides design, engineering, manufacturing, startup and service expertise. Mitsubishi A800 VFD, Langdale lumber kiln in Valdosta, Georgia Booth 119
AUTOLOG Autolog is proud to introduce its new GEN 3 Log Optimizer system at TP&EE. The design of their new solution includes many new features that respond to the growing demands within our industry. Here is a sneak peak. Performance features: Can replicate any curve-sawing from downstream machine l Better true shape modeling l Select solution based on a risk factor (rotation error for example) l Minimum face (width and length) can be defined for each face (left, right, top and bottom) l Optimizer can minimize mechanical movement by using last solution (controlled by a maximum loss factor) l Possibility to define a set of active sawing patterns, a set of not valid sawing patterns (exclusion list) OR let the optimizer decide the best one to use Simulation features: l Easy comparison tool to analyze multiple simulations results l Live simulation which compares side to side solutions from live production logs optimized with different parameters l Save as much as 20,000 logs per simulation lot l Optimization advanced analysis tool, allowing user to test alternate solutions by forcing a sawing pattern or adding a sideboard Autolog new GEN 3 Log Optimzer For a live demonstration, visit Autolog’s booth as they showcase their new GEN 3 Log Optimizer in a fully operational modular frame. Also available on-site will be their ProGSP Grade Stamp Printer, a high-density color camera, a high-speed double laser tracheid system and key user interfaces operational in simulation mode for their carriage, trimmer, edger and ProGrader systems. Booth 353
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BEP ENGINEERING SERVICES BEP Engineering Services Limited is a multi-disciplined engineering company with more than 37 years of experience providing design, detailing and certification service. Our highly qualified and proficient team of professional engineers, designers, project coordinators, draftspersons and CAD operators can respond quickly, professionally and efficiently to clients’ requests for the following: —A full range of mechanical, civil, structural and geotechnical engineering services ranging from detail engineering to turnkey projects with the specialties of: sawmill, reman, plywood, planer mill and veneer projects Mill Engineering and Industrial Design: —Equipment layout and flow plans, incorporating used and existing equipment inside exciting and modified structures —Re-design and modifications to existing equipment —Material handling, transfers, belt conveyors, chain conveyors and refuse system —Cranes and bridge cranes design, detailing and supply —Vendor support to complete turnkey projects with support steel, refuse systems and buildings —Design and flow plan with greater payback —Soil and concrete engineering —Equipment layouts and flow plans —Creative and practical conceptual design and detailing of mill equipment —Redesigning and modifications to existing equipment —Structural design and detailing of new and buildings —Preparation of bid inquiries, evaluation and equipment requisitioning —Field measurements and concept at existing plans (site visits) We also design and supply steel and fabric buildings, or supply additions to existing buildings which offer a much more cost-effective option for many of our clients. Our team is also involved with project coordination and permit acquisition. Our clients receive first-rate service to get their building(s) designed, permitted and constructed in an efficient and cost-effective manner. We have also expanded our product offerings with all new lumber drying kilns and control systems from Brunner Hildebrand, a leader in the kiln manufacturing Industry. Booth 167
BID GROUP With more than 35 years of experience and facilities throughout North America, BID Group is the leading integrated supplier of turnkey solutions for equipment, technology, data analytics and service to the forest products industry. BID Group creates strategic value for its clients with fast response times, highly efficient execution and outstanding customer support. Our team is excited to demonstrate these new and innovative solutions at the 2018 TP&EE: l The Variable Tool Opening Debarker (VTO): The VTO will be unveiled in our booth and represents the first true innovation to debarking in several decades.Delivered through the respected R&D team at COMACT, the VTO uniquely applies 3D and vision scanning coupled with closed loop control of the tool arm pressure and opening to allow pre-setting of the tools themselves. The VTO offers ultra-high speed and unmatched results in removing bark, while minimizing tear-out and damage to your highly valued raw material. Come witBID Group will unveil its new Variable Tool Opening ness the future, today. Debarker (VTO). l Oper8 Digital Platform: Oper8 is the industry’s digital platform for bringing value to your data through the power of predictive analytics. The platform allows you to connect disparate data sources in one cloud-based platform, operationalize complex data models in minutes, and visualize predictive insights in real-time for faster and better outcomes. l Miller Planer Tour: BID Group continues to invest in state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities and is proud to showcase the opening of the new Miller Planer shop in Washougal, Wash.—only 20 minutes from the exposition. Please join us on a tour of the new facility and see the Miller Planer system first hand! Tours will run daily from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. as well as 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m., with shuttle buses transporting you to and from the facility. Sign up early at our booth! Visit us at TP&EE and meet the BID Group team and see our solutions in action. You will also not want to miss our very own Brian Fehr and Ron McGehee presenting “Unlocking the Turnkey Strategy” on Thursday, October 18 at 10:30 a.m. as part of the Lumber Manufacturing Workshop. Booth 437 48
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BRUNETTE MACHINERY COMPANY With a focus on R&D, Brunette has developed new technologies for the forestry industry; a natural fit given the experience Brunette has gained as a manufacturer of wood processing machinery for more than 75 years. Brunette specializes in wood processing and material handling systems. As a premium supplier to the industry, Brunette’s long history of manufacturing guarantees its customers an unsurpassed level of quality and leading-edge technology built into every single one of its innovative products. Products include: chippers, hogs, log sweeps, conveyors, rotary debarkers, Log Singulators, butt reducers, and other wood processing and log handling equipment. Brunette provides custom engineered solutions to help take control of your fiber supply and get more from your mill. For many years, Brunette has offered a wide variety of high performance stationary drum chippers for many different applications including trim blocks, chip overs, lily pads, veneer, cores, spinouts, and whole logs. The latter can be set up to produce pulp chips or “micro” chips for added versatility. Brunette chippers are available in a drop feed or horizontal feed configuration. Other key products offered by Brunette include the CBI Grizzly Mill Hog—the heavyweight champion of grinding; the BioSizer—a high speed secondary grinder; the SmartVIBE—a unique vibrating conveyor with no coil springs; the Brunette ESweeps—electric log sweeps; the Brunette Reclaimer—a rotary debarker; scalping screens; and flare butt reducers. Brunette Machinery drum chipper The newest addition to the Brunette product family is the Optical Belt Scanner, which utilizes lasers to accurately measure volume of material flow over a conveyor. Brunette Machinery is an independently owned and operated company with three offices across North America: Vancouver, Prince George and Toronto. Today, the company puts its extensive experience to work with an aggressive R&D program developing new products and improving existing ones. Brunette’s commitment to quality gives its customers an important advantage as they compete in an ever-changing global economy. Booth 729 Front Lot 4001
BRUNNER HILDEBRAND Brunner-Hildebrand manufactures a complete line of dry kilns—package kilns (forklift and track loaded for softwood and hardwood), continuous kilns, steamers, heat-treating, pre-dryers, vacuum and various types of kiln controls with on-line service. Brunner-Hildebrand recently introduced a new highly efficient continuous-type kiln, the Alexander Hildebrand Continuous Kiln (HCK-A). This type of continuous kiln is designed for mills that produce large volumes of lumber product, e.g., dimension SPF. While designing its Alexander Hildebrand Continuous Kiln, the company put great emphasis on creating exactly the right drying conditions (temperature, climate, air Brunner-Hildebrand new continuous kiln speed) for the respective lumber moisture content. The technical features of each individual drying zone are customized to the drying state and moisture of the lumber passing through. Lumber is placed length-wise on carts and dried during transport through a number of zones with separate climates. Ultimately, customers will dry lumber in the company’s continuous kiln HCKA just as they would in a conventional package kiln. Conditions are perfectly adjusted to the lumber moisture content at all times. It features the company’s new “greenkiln” technology for energy management and the Hildebrand Turbo Technology ensuring tight final moisture distribution for maximum planer yield. Booth 167-1
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CARBOTECH
For the last 30 years, Carbotech has been challenging and supporting the lumber manufacturing industry by constantly reaching new levels of efficiencies and production speeds. One more time, the updated version of the Carbotech automatic sawmill stick distributing system has pushed efficiencies to higher levels. Over the last 18 months, four of those systems have been installed in North America and a fifth one is getting installed at the new Sierra Pacific sawmill in Burney, Calif. Sticks are dropped in a conveyor by the forklift and from that point all the process is automatic. Every stick is sorted, scanned for rejects, and dropped into magazines. Reaching speeds of 225 sticks per minutes, Carbotech is able to offer the best solution for 20 ft. and longer green mill production. This automatic stick distribution system is added to the wide range of equipment offered by Carbotech such has the ACCUGATE positioning system, its well appreciated pneumatic lug loader, renowned trimmer and its three models of Carbotech stacker and stick placer electric package makers. Over the past 30 years Carbotech has focused on the following four principles: speed, precision, know-how and toughness. Carbotech can also count on several business partners, parts and service distribution centers as well as mechanical intervention centers to cover their markets around the world. Booth 829
CLIMAX METAL PRODUCTS From initial harvest to final product, machinery used in timber applications is constantly subjected to some of the harshest environments and strenuous loads for which an engineer can design. Climax Metal Products Co. provides products that will allow designers to forgo traditional keyed connections, splines, or traditional interference fits to mount critical components to shafts. Climax keyless locking assemblies, shaft collars, and rigid couplings provide engineered shaft locking solutions for timber applications available from stock in the U.S. Due to the nature of the lumber and wood industry, sheared and rolled keys and broken shafts are common on equipment such as debarkers, kicker arms, wood chippers, and feed rollers in sawmill equipment. Climax locking assemblies create a 360° contact mechanical interference fit eliminating backlash associated with keyed connections. Removing the shaft keyway and asClimax provides engineered shaft locking solutions. sociated notch factor provides for a shaft that is 30% stronger in both torsion and bending. Rigid couplings are the true workhorse of the coupling family and can be used in many timber applications such as line shafts. Climax rigid couplings are available in set-screw, one-piece, and two-piece designs and can be supplied with or without keyway. Our balanced couplings produce less vibration resulting in less wear and tear on expensive components. Climax rigid couplings manufactured from steel, stainless steel, and aluminum are lighter and smaller versus their cast iron counterparts, and are suitable for the timber industry. Manufacturing couplings in-house allows for quick turnaround ensuring less downtime and loss of productivity for lumber and sawmills. Shaft collars maintain spacing, lock components into position, or serve as end-stops in timber applications. Climax offers several collar styles allowing engineers to choose collars that best suit their needs. Shaft collars can be found in almost every stage of timber processing from harvesters, to log sorters, debarkers and sawmill planers. Climax manufactures, catalogs, and stocks more than 1,500 shaft collar products and has the ability to manufacture collars to meet special design requirements. Stop by the Climax booth to talk to one of our application engineers about the advantages of choosing Climax Keyless Locking Devices and Engineered Shaft Locking Solutions. Booth 3
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COLONIAL SAW
Colonial Saw, Inc., a leading distributor of advanced saw and knife grinding machinery, is introducing a new, high-tech solution for sharpening a high volume of carbide saw blades. Sawmills, lumber manufacturers, and grinding and sharpening shops will benefit from its robot loading system that enables unattended and overnight grinding at a surprisingly affordable price. The Premium-Loader, an 8-axis grinding machine, is built by global pioneer ABM Grinding Technologies. Colonial Saw will formally showcase the new solution to the market at TP&EE. This new generation machine minimizes human Colonial Saw new robotic saw service center labor with a robot and probing system, allowing for true unattended processing with superb accuracy and superior finish grind quality. “We’re very excited to introduce this new technology. It will revolutionize workloads and deliver unprecedented cost savings, helping filing rooms get ahead in an increasingly competitive industry,” says Dave Rakauskas, Vice President of Colonial Saw. “We have two U.S. customers who were so excited about its potential they purchased the Premium-Loader in advance of its formal introduction. Their feedback tells us being able to run Premium-Loader overnight with no personnel delivers dramatic productivity increases and boosts the bottom line.” Designed to meet the increasing demand for automation by today’s circular saw manufacturing and mill filing rooms, Premium-Loader offers vast range of production capacity for round saw blades. It delivers a high ease-of-use factor with a user-friendly control system, web camera monitoring, live error notification and a familiar Windows platform. Shops will also appreciate its compact footprint and efficient power consumption. For more than half a century, Colonial Saw has delivered uncompromising performance and value, along with one of the most comprehensive and responsive after-sale customer support programs in the grinding and filing industry. Booth 1011
COOPER MACHINE Cooper Machine has become known for several things over the years. The first is being an expert on scraggs. We provide several different models of scraggs including the overhead scragg and the sharp chain scragg. The overhead scragg is offered with either 48 in. or 56 in. circle saws or with twin bands. Over the years, we have made numerous improvements to these machines, including the pivot dog upgrade which cuts cycle times by over half. We also offer skewing log turners to increase yield by up to 30%. We are also now offering these machines with vertical edgers or chipping heads and VFDs/starters. Our sharp chain scragg works great on smaller logs allowing for more production than the overhead. We offer the Yield Champ, which is a sharp chain system with up to an 8 in. edger behind it. Cutting up to a 16 in. log this machine will cut between 3-4000 logs a day. We also offer the tandem sharp chain which is great when a customer wants to make larger cants processing around 1500-2000 logs a day on this machine. In addition to the scraggs, Cooper Machine manufactures trimmers, board, cant and slab edgers, slab recovery systems, sorting systems and merchandizing systems. We also offer Cooperage and Stave equipment as well. Cooper Machine scragg system Cooper Machine represents MIT S.A., which produces band saws, carriages and cooperage equipment in Santiago, Chile; Precision Husky waste systems and chippers; and MDI metal detectors. We also are working with Prodesa to provide tailor-made biomass pellet and thermal drying solutions. We also work with several other suppliers to supply complete sawmill solutions for our customers. Cooper Machine has a reputation for producing long-lasting and reliable equipment, which is one of the reasons why we have so much repeat business. We are proud that so many of our customers who have run our mills for years have returned to buy their next machines from us. Our goal is reduce labor in your mill and we work with our customers to make their mills as profitable and efficient as possible. Booth 955 54
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DELTA COMPUTER SYSTEMS With the motion control needs of forest products applications such as multi-axis manufacturing lines in mind, Delta Computer Systems Inc. of Battle Ground, Wash. is continually upgrading its family of motion controllers. The new RMC200 controls and synchronizes up to 32 axes with a single unit, making it the most capable electro-hydraulic motion controller offered to industry. Announcements during the past year include high-density I/O modules and more base modules and power supply options. The new B5, B11 and B15 base modules support applications from 4 to 32 axes in user defined increments, and the new 56-Watt PS6D power supply will handle any possible configuration. These products supplement Delta’s previously announced B7 base module and 35-Watt PS4D power supply. This fall, Delta will be adding PROFINET interfacing as an option for connecting RMC200 to PCs and PLCs. The RMC200 extends Delta’s high-performance motion control product line, which includes the RMC75 (one- or two-axis) and RMC150 (up to eight-axis). For example, if an RMC150 configuration is fully loaded and more axes are needed, using an RMC200 may be a practical option to add additional control capability. Delta controllers provide precise closed-loop position, velocity, and pressure/force control, with built-in capabilities to manage simultaneous multi-axis motion via synchronization or gearing, and to precisely execute complex motion profiles using features such as feedback switching and second-order control algorithms. There is no extra charge for Delta’s powerful software suite, RMCTools, which includes automated wizards for programming, tuning and plotting of motion results, greatly reducing Delta Computer RMC200 configurations the time to implement and commission systems. For more than 35 years, Delta has supplied motion controllers and other industrial products that enable better performing machines. Delta’s RMC motion controllers are used for hydraulic, pneumatic and electric closed-loop control in a wide array of single and multiaxis control and testing applications. Booth 945
EBI EBI is the brand of high temperature totally enclosed dry kiln duty motors of unsurpassed quality and long-term reliability. From 1 HP up to 40 HP, 900 rpm, 1200 rpm and 1800 rpm, they are used by many hardwood and softwood lumber dry kiln manufacturers and sawmills in North America and Europe. EBI dry kiln duty motors are available through a North American distributor network for quick delivery. They are available in NEMA and IEC frames and covered by the best warranty on the market (up to three years). EBI motors are rated 248ºF ambient temperature. They are CSA and UL approved, and ISO 9001 quality-controlled. Today, more than 22 000 EBI motors have been used to dry lumber since 1995. EBI motors have a unique design made to resist higher ambient temperature in continuous duty. They are protected from humidity, fungi, corrosion and acids. These high temperature motors come with standard regreasable bearings or sealed bearings depending on the customer preference. Casting l Cast iron frame and cast iron junction box l Totally enclosed frame against steam and acid penetration l End bells fixed with stainless steel bolts l Epoxy coating and silicone protection all over components Windings l Handmade lap winding maximizing heat dissipation capacity and better use of the stator EBI dry kiln duty motor l Inverter duty magnet wire resisting surge voltages from variable frequency drives l Double impregnation class H non-hygroscopic varnish and double baking l Rated 248ºF with a service factor of 1.15 at 212ºF and 1.0 at 248ºF Bearings l C3 type standard regreasable or sealed l Calcium sulfonate complex grease for regreasable option or Klüber grease for sealed option l Bearing retainers for a stronger mechanical resistance and better bearing lifespan See the EBI Dry Kiln Duty Motors at the Timber Processing and Energy Expo. In the meantime, you can watch the EBI Dry Kiln Duty Motors in action on our YouTube Channel and get a quote online at ebielectric.com. Booth 165 56
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FINSCAN
FinScan’s BoadMasterNOVA-N is a non-turning autograding scanner. Complete analysis of boards is performed in 10 different directions including accurate defect detection and reliable optimization results. Based on required grades the system optimizes boards giving detailed instructions for trimming, curring, ripping and sorting. BoardMasterNOVA-N has comprehensive graphical reporting tools for operators, production planners and top management. FinScan grading systems can be easily installed in existing or new grading lines. Send your lumber to our testing facility in North America. Booth 159
FinScan auto-grading scanner
GF SMITH COMPANY The GF Smith Company started operations in 2017 by founder and CEO Greg Smith, providing consulting services to hardwood and softwood lumber manufacturers. The business quickly transformed into designing and supplying complete machines and experienced immediate success providing machinery to sawmills from coast to coast. The Gmachine brand of edgers and gangs quickly resonated with both hardwood and softwood manufacturers as the build quality reflects the precision engineering and long history of application knowledge that goes into each machine. Recent applications of Gmachines include board edgers designed to process 50 pieces per minute, linear sawing systems, and heavy-duty pallet edger machinery. Infeed and outfeed systems get the same level of design attention on Gmachine systems to ensure full system performance regardless of the application. All Gmachines are built using industry standard components where possible and documentation of each machine includes full assembly drawings that include OEM part numbers allowing end users to manufacture or purchase replacement parts locally at the best price and availability. GF Smith Co. manufactures Gmachine gangs and edgers. Gmachine designs incorporate direct coupled arbor and chipping head motors where possible and use cog belt drive feed systems to eliminate issues caused by chain stretch and tensioning while also significantly reducing operating noise levels. Electric linear actuators are standard components on Gmachine edgers and gangs reducing initial installation costs, and ensure the highest levels of performance while removing potential fire hazards. Gmachine edgers and gangs are available with optimization and machine control systems included, or can be provided ready for customer supplied controls from any supplier our customers choose. “Our job is to make our customers money, and Gmachines get that done,” Smith says. ‘To get there we make sure we have the correct design, build a machine that can be easily maintained, and take every step we can control to ensure smooth startups.” Booth 925
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GILBERT PRODUCTS
The Gilbert Products team has developed a unique expertise in designing the most efficient planer equipment in the world. Almost 20 years after introduction to the market, more than 100 units have been sold and installed worldwide. In operation in nearly 10 countries including Canada, United States, Germany, New Zealand, Denmark, Brazil, Australia and Sweden, the Gilbert planers are known to be the fastest in the world and have the highest efficiency rate due to the unique-to-Gilbert pull-through technology. From molding and glulam applications to high speed planer mills, Gilbert has the right model of planer for every mill. l Gilbert Timber Power Planer is built for big timbers such as glulam, CLT, log cabin beams and more. It features state-of-the-art renowned technology, safety systems and automatic adjustments for high quality Mass Timber. Our first machine is now in operation in the Southern U.S. at a very impressive glulam site. l Gilbert High Speed Planer will run at speeds up to 4000 Gilbert offers planers for a range of applications. FPM and more than 300 lugs per minute! This model of planer is offered to mills that want a high speed production, best lumber finish and require the most heavy-duty machine. l Gilbert 6 Roll Planer is designed for mid to high planer mill speeds and production. It runs at speeds up to 3000 FPM. Its compact design will fit very well in an existing layout. l Gilbert S Series Planer, a new generation planer, is affordable and flexible, designed for mills that want to do more than conventional planing. It runs at speeds from 300 up to 1800 FPM. This model is the solution to diversified value-added products like molding. remanufacturing, fingerjointing, cedar, pine and rip saw operations. l Gilbert Moulder Planer is recognized for its strength, versatility and high quality results. It is designed to produce all profile and special products, as well as high quality construction lumber. Gilbert offers the moulder opportunity to all of its models of planer, either with the S Series, 6 Roll or high speed planer models. Booth 737
S. HUOT Established in 1920 and located in Quebec, Canada, S. Huot provides a wide variety of services such as design, detailed engineering, drawing, fabrication, machining, welding, project management and installation of forestry, sawmill, biomass, pulp & paper and bulk material handling equipment. Our experienced technical team is a combination of structural and mechanical engineers, technicians and designers so we can take care of your turnkey project from A-Z. We can also do the on-site surveys when needed. With more than 150 employees working on three shifts, we are able to meet the most complex technical challenges and deliver with the speed and competitiveness requested by today’s customers. Over the years we developed a solid expertise in slashing systems and related equipment: trough bucking systems, optimized transverse bucking systems, multi troughs, one to six saws, variety of configurations and sizes, slasher outfeeds, step feeders, unscramblers, infeed and outfeed conveyors, transfers, etc. We will adapt our equipment to your needs so you will optimize your operations and save time and money. S. Huot bucking system Booth 151
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ITIPACK SYSTEMS
Itipack Systems is a dynamic and innovative strapping equipment manufacturer focused on providing our customers with the most advanced and effective strapping machines in the market. Since 1970, our focus has remained the same: to design and manufacture the very best and most innovative strapping equipment available in the wood products industry, and to tailor each of those systems to our specific customers’ needs and environment. Our comprehensive team of experienced mechanical, electrical and controls engineers, combined with our seasoned project management team, remains passionately driven to exceed customer expectations. From our initial discussions and consultation, right through to final equipment design and drawing approvals, we develop and build quality equipment that is the most advanced for your specific appli- Itipack strapping equipment cation. Some of our many innovations include mass dunnage feeders, advanced top and bottom dunnage feeders, quick-change head options, and industry leading systems diagnostics. These innovations not only make our equipment user friendly and easy to operate, but also ensure your facilities maintain the highest level of uptime available. Further innovations include a variety of advanced strapping head models/types for any application you would require, including many friction-seal and heat-seal options. Whatever your specific application requirements, we will have a solution that fully meets or exceeds your expectations. Our proactive approach to mill service-support and equipment maintenance includes many different aspects, all of which are tailored to your specific mill environment and requirements. From comprehensive and mill specific preventative maintenance programs, operator and machine maintenance training, strapping head rebuild/exchange programs, and ready access to spare parts, we work with you to develop an ongoing support plan based on your needs. Our mission is simple: reduce downtime and increase safety through advanced custom strapping systems and unparalleled customer service-support. Booth 1024
JOESCAN JoeScan is unveiling the latest in its line of 3D laser scanners. The new model JS-50 was developed with direct input from sawmill operators and optimization experts. It sports a feature set designed to make it the easiest-to-use scan head on the market today: JoeScan JS-50 new model laser scanner Applications l Perfect for log scanning and transverse trimmers and edgers. Binocular Systems l Two cameras prevent occlusion from flighted chains and other obstructions. Single Cable Interface l Just one PoE cable provides power and data connection. l Fewer cables = fewer problems = less downtime. Dovetail Snap Mount l Design inspired by US military Picatinny rail mounts. l Scan head installs in seconds, significantly reducing downtime. Best-in-Class Specs l Fastest scanning and highest resolution JoeScan yet. The JS-50 packs all this into a much smaller and lighter weight form factor than previous models. But rest assured, it still boasts the JoeScan heritage of long-lasting reliability, and effortless performance for the sawmill industry. To inquire about participating in JoeScan’s early adopter program and to try out a JS-50 in your sawmill, visit JoeScan during the TP&EE. Booth 337
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JOHN KING CHAINS
John King Chains is delighted to be exhibiting at this year’s Timber Processing and Energy Expo. World leaders in the manufacture of timber/lumber chains and sprockets, the company, founded in 1926, has enjoyed a long association with the United Sates. As far back as the 1950’s the company was a market leader in cast link chain production for the cement industry. The company has progressively expanded the product range to encompass chains of other constructions including welded steel chains, engineering class chains, forged fork link chains and engineering plastic (polymer) chains. Today we probably offer the widest range of conveyor chains of any producer worldwide. This year we have invested in a U.S. manufacturing facility where we will be stocking all common chain sizes for the U.S. market. We also have invested in a state-of-theart ABB robotic welder to carry out all necessary welding and flight arrangements, including CNC automated bending and cutting. Our goal is to become the fastest producer for all common chain assemblies and provide high quality, competitively priced conveyor chains and sprocket for the U.S. market. We look forward with relish to increasing our product sales to the North American timber/lumber market. Booth 1020
John King Chains continues expansion into the U.S.
KADANT CARMANAH DESIGN Kadant Carmanah Design and its predecessor companies have been designing and manufacturing chippers for more than 65 years. Our comprehensive line of drum and disc chippers can be found running in pulp wood rooms, chip plants, sawmills, planer mills, veneer plants, MDF wood rooms, and pellet plants. No matter what your chipping application, Kadant Carmanah has the solution! Our best-selling chippers, the 55 in. and 65 in. Super Chippers, are known by our customers for their outstanding chip quality, durability and long operational life. At the heart of the chipper is an extremely rigid cast disc. We chose to manufacture from a casting because it allows us to add contours, stiffness and mass in ways that would be too costly to achieve by simply welding plates together. The result is a disc that is not only the heaviest available on the market but is also purpose built for maximum chip quality. Our Advantage Chipper shares many of the key features that have made our Super Chippers so popular. By eliminating some of the premium features found in the Super Chipper, such as the shear pin proKadant Super Chipper and Advantage Chipper tected anvil and the air cylinder operated housing quadrant, we have reduced the price significantly. The Advantage Chipper features a heavy-duty, single-piece disc that is among the heaviest in the industry. With identical geometry to our Super Chipper, customers can expect the same great chip quality from our Advantage Chipper. Booth 154
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LINCK
LINCK cutter head discs combine highest flexibility with excellent chip quality. They allow you to produce either chips for the pulp industry or fine chips for wood pellets. Retrofit sets are available to change between the production of pulp and fine chips at any time depending on the market conditions. Regardless of the kind of chips, their excellent quality is guaranteed. The shape of the pulp chips produced meet the high requirements of the pulp industry. A pre-cutting saw ring ensures an even and tear-free surface on the two-sided cant produced by the cant chipper canter. The cutter head discs are arranged in multi-steps. The knives of the outer step that are less in use than the ones of the inner step must therefore be changed less frequently. The possibility of regrinding and reusing the knives several times reduces the cutting costs. LINCK canter head A free-spinning disc integrated into the center of the cutter head ensures a reliable guiding of the two- or four-sided cant during processing and provides for an excellent dimension accuracy of the products. Booth 319.10
LMI TECHNOLOGIES By combining the success of our patented chroma+scan technology with our industry-leading Gocator platform, LMI has created a highly configurable, easy-to-use solution for transverse board scanning. Based on the proven high-density profile design of chroma+scan, Gocator 200 scanners run 50% faster to achieve scan rates at 3 kHz, matching mills running at 300 FPM. In addition, tracheid scan rates are 3x faster to deliver 1.5 kHz density for exceptional detail in wood grain detection. With Gocator 200 multi-dot scanners, users can create a scanning system based on a modular design that allows a mix of 3D profiling, tracheid detection, and color vision for sawmills and planer mills looking to maximize wood breakdown decisions. These flexible systems can start out with profile data for volume recovery and then easily be upgraded to add color for grade-based recovery. Or, users can start out with profile and tracheid scanning for a system that offers excellent grain angle and knot detection, and then add color for further defect recognition. The G200 series is based on coplanar scanning that effectively captures both the leading and trailing edges of lumber while minimizing conveyor LMI Gocator opposing frame scanning footprint, offers true differential profiling for accurate thickness measurement, and can scale from 1 to 48 sensors to cover various lumber length requirements. In addition to transverse board scanning, the Gocator 200 Series can be used in a variety of other web applications such as metals, veneer peeling, and textile manufacturing. In these applications, Gocator offers onboard processing and multi-sensor networking capability to build high definition 3D data models for material optimization. l Gocator 210 entry-level model delivers profiles every 1 in. at 2 kHz. l Gocator 230 delivers profiles every 0.3 in. at 3 kHz. l Gocator 250 delivers profiles every 0.3 in. at 3 kHz with tracheid running at 1.5kHz. l Gocator 205 bolt-on color and lighting modules deliver 0.5 x 0.25 mm resolution at 3 kHz. Booth 127
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LUCIDYNE TECHNOLOGIES Deep learning artificial intelligence is the foundation of Perceptive Sight Intelligent Grading—only available from Lucidyne, in both GradeScan and ChopScan. Perceptive Sight dramatically improves lumber grading results, creating a surge in demand. Lucidyne is managing multiple projects on tight schedules and simultaneous installations. Its team of engineers and technicians has the flexibility and elasticity to meet the demand, delivering successful, seamless, on-time startups. Perceptive Sight’s powerful results are also fueling upgrade requests. One customer was so impressed with the results from their new GradeScan with Perceptive Sight that they fast-tracked the purchase of a second system for another mill, and are now upgrading a legacy GradeScan to the new platform. Because Perceptive Sight uses Deep Learning techniques, new characteristics in a mill’s wood basket are quickly incorporated into the software. Lucidyne’s team of certified lumber graders continuously evaluate customers’ lumber, keeping results on-grade. Lucidyne’s QCAssist Tablet is now a standard GradeScan component. The Surface Pro tablet, loaded with Lucidyne’s proprietary software, lets mills collect and evaluate lumber data on the go, without returning to the computer room to re-enter Lucidyne GradeScan and artificial intelligence data on a spreadsheet. New characteristics are immediately uploaded to Lucidyne for further evaluation and updates are automatically downloaded to your system, then activated by the mill at their convenience. Lucidyne’s ChopScan uses the same sensors as Perceptive Sight, delivering results for a wide variety of products, sizes, species, grades and speeds. An impressive reports package includes reoptimization and cutbill pricing, and detail board width, category, run, shift and total value. The software provides access to underlying data so mills can configure their own data extraction. The Supplier Database archives board data by source and grade, giving mills the power to evaluate and identify best-quality suppliers. Lucidyne continues to raise the bar for innovative mill solutions, maximizing fiber and value recovery. Booth 558
MCDONOUGH MANUFACTURING Since 1888, more than 130 years, McDonough has focused on providing the most rugged, durable sawmill machinery, while providing the efficiency and speed required by the best mills. We build our equipment to remain the industry leader—specializing in band mills, carriages, resaws, and now a full line of edger systems. McDonough has come to market with several new products. Our MAXX resaw infeed system automatically feeds any resaw system with piece counts of more than 17 pieces per minute. Upstream of the resaw a lumber grader positions the cant and determines the board thickness, then the MAXX does the rest and automatically feeds every cant. By eliminating the human expertise of feeding a resaw, you get faster and McDonough offers several new products. more consistent production through the resaw. Also new is our optimized curve sawing gang system which features electric servo positioning of all axis, modular infeed/outfeed design and an optional chipping section. The response and accuracy of the electric servo system means this machine has incredible accuracy without the maintenance typically required of large hydraulic servo systems. Available in single arbor configurations for material up to 8 in. thick or double arbor configurations for up to 12 in. thick material. The optional chipping section eliminates roundbacks from two sided cants being processed at the gang inline with the slewing/skewing sawbox. Also available with electric servo over air press roll assemblies to dramatically reduce press roll impact and improve cant handling timing throughout the entire sawing process. Booth 150
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MINDA
MINDA has specialized in glulam beam production in Europe for more than 40 years. We began with hydraulic press mechanization and automation for standard straight beam production, then quickly expanded our offerings to include automation for curved beams and integration of technology such as scanners, fingerjointers, planers etc. from other machine manufacturers. MINDA’s in-house control department integrates the complete production line. Our customers rely on MINDA to design and build the right solution for their specific CLT and glulam needs. In addition to standard offerings, customer requirements have ranged from large capacity presses of 20 ft. x 66 ft. with 150 psi, to presses with a high press force of up to 180 psi. Presses have also been built for high throughput capacity capable of 1,000 8 MINDA TimberPress X 300 HS high speed press ft. x 16 ft. ground protection mats per day. The majority of worldwide CLT producers construct layers using loose lamellas, whereas pressing edge glued panels to elements is another but not mandated alternative. High flexibility and production capacity is becoming more and more important to the industry. As a result, six of MINDA’s more recent European orders this year have been for high speed presses capable of up to 20 press cycles/shift. For a smooth production process, the MINDA-Control-Server (MCS) ensures high process reliability and optimum usability. It provides the link between production planning and the controls of the various machines within a production line. All relevant data like pressing time, press force, glue application or element geometry can be recorded for later quality approval. MINDA is represented in North America by Stiles Machinery Inc. headquartered in Grand Rapids, Mich. Together we offer complete production lines for glulam beam and CLT production—from grading scanners to CNC machining of the finished elements. Booth 319.02
MÜHLBÖCK For more than 36 years, Mühlböck Drying Technology has in its own facility in Austria developed and manufactured lumber drying kilns. With experience from more than 12,000 of their drying systems worldwide, Mühlböck has also been servicing the North American market for 18 years. Mühlböck’s in-house Research and Development department is constantly working hard to ensure the economic success of the Mühlböck customer: on the one hand through the use of the highest quality components and state-of-the-art technology, the ongoing support through their excellent Customer Service, and the simple and secure operation. On the other hand through the potential of high savings in the electrical and thermal energy consumption of their dry kilns. One of the biggest cost factors in producing lumber is therMühlböck has sold its first CDK in North America. mal energy, making up about 80% of the total drying costs. With Mühlböck’s drying system Type 1003, already in operation at several sawmills, these costs are reduced by about half. The innovation here: The energy that is readily available in the exhaust air is used in its entirety for the drying process in a different part of the kiln. l Mühlböck has also focused on the further development of their CDK, the Mühlböck Progressive. Aside from first-class engineering and processing, Mühlböck has achieved exceptional results in the fields of drying quality and operation. And combined with their Heat Recovery system 1003, the company has accomplished a milestone in regard to saving thermal energy. Mühlböck is proud to announce that after great success with this type of continuous drying systems in Europe, they have now entered into an agreement with Delco Forest Products Ltd. of New Brunswick, Canada, for installation of the first Mühlböck Progressive 1003 continuous drying kiln for North America. Booth 953
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MURRAY LATTA PROGRESSIVE MACHINE Murray Latta Progressive Machine Inc. has continued to develop planer knife grinding machines to suit all make and model planers since 2002 and is currently in its third major design iteration. Over the years we have learned many lessons along the way and listened to our customer base to continually improve upon the design to meet or exceed customer expectations. The newest design offers a complete Allen-Bradley electrical controls package and the ability to offsite troubleshoot via Ethernet connection if required. This has been a huge success in troubleshooting electrical problems when they do arise, which has saved our customers both time and money. Our mechanical package has also received a few upgrades to increase precision and reduce routine maintenance even further. Many of our machines are in service with more than 15,000 hours and have had no unscheduled maintenance required beyond the typical consumable items such as grinding wheels and grinding coolant. With grinders all over the world we now have multiple different language options available. Our heavy duty and high precision design gives us the confidence to guarantee a .002 in. to .005 in. finish on knives, which is the best in the industry. Pro Edge-Tec line of grinders have been trusted to provide precise, high quality, maintenance free grinding by more than 60 customers for over a decade. Can you afford not to have our fully automatic technology and hassle free grinding working for you? Booth 729
Murray Latta Pro Edge-Tec III automatic grinder
NICHOLSON MANUFACTURING As the leader in ring debarker technology since 1948, Nicholson Manufacturing Ltd. has built its reputation on constant innovation, performance, quality, service support and long-term relationships. Customers worldwide demand debarkers that deliver the highest debarking quality, with minimal fiber loss, high uptime, minimal maintenance and long-term durability. Nicholson delivers all of these benefits and more throughout a range of innovative machine designs, quality of manufacture, and state-of-the-art control technology, backed up by 24/7 service and parts support. The Nicholson A6 sliding ring debarker provides the user with optimum debarking quality at medium feed speeds. Traditional chain type or herringbone design roll feed style feedworks are available. This medium speed, rugged and low maintenance machine protects valuable wood fiber and provides a quick return on investment through optimum fiber saving when compared to other debarker designs. Nicholson A8 high speed debarker For true high speed applications the Nicholson fixed ring A8 debarker provides optimum debarking quality. In production for just more than five years and in service in more than 100 installations worldwide, the Nicholson A8 debarker has quickly become recognized within the industry as the most technically advanced high speed ring debarker available. Operating in both single ring and tandem ring formats the A8 offers exceptional debarking performance at high speeds under the most demanding conditions. Proportional tool pressure, proportional roll pressure, innovative roll control technology, carbide leading edge tool arms and fiber saving/labor saving “Fiberguard Feedrolls” are indicative of Nicholson’s constant focus to provide real user benefits that reduce user cost. Booth 143
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OLESON SAW TECHNOLOGY Oleson Saw Technology (OST), a division of York Saw & Knife (YSK), is proud to announce that it has relocated its Bandsaw Manufacturing activities into a modern state-of-theart 70,000 SF facility in York, Pa. The new plant has been up and running since the beginning of August. Mike Pickard, President and CEO, states, “This move was necessary due to the tremendous demand for Oleson band saws from new and previous loyal customers alike. Due to the high demand and tremendous growth for our high-quality band saws we outgrew our previous manufacturing facility.” In addition to the new manufacturing facility OST has made a multimillion-dollar investment in new Iseli CNC machinery engineered solely for band saws to better serve their customers with faster lead times and an even higher quality product. Oleson Saw Technology now operates the most modern Bandsaw Manufacturing facility in the world and has become the number one choice in band saws amongst saw filers, Pickard reports, adding, “We would like to thank all our customers for their tremendous support and patience during our move as well as their continued support of our products and services.” In early 2019 OST will be opening a new Bandsaw Manufacturing facility located on the West Coast. This will allow Oleson to reach a large unserved audience and supply them with Oleson Saw Technology expands into the same quality band saws OST customers have come to expect. new band saw manufacturing facility. OSTI is the exclusive agent for sales and service for Swiss precision made Iseli Equipment and will be displaying the CNC BMP 100 Fully Automatic & Flood Cooled Bandsaw Profile Grinder, RZ1 Fully Automatic Bandsaw Benching Center and the STA Fully Automatic Swager & Shaper. Please stop by our booth and talk to us about your saw and machinery requirements. Booth 403
OPTICOM TECHNOLOGIES Opticom Technologies has launched its CC04 Series IP cameras. Like the near legendary analog CC02 cameras, the new CC04 series offers the same extreme vibration resistance in a 2.43 megapixel network format. Many wood processing operators have struggled to find an IP camera that can withstand the harsh mill environment—the CC04 steps up to challenge. The full featured CC04 delivers real time 1080P video, dual streaming and is completely ONVIF compliant—seamlessly integrating into virtually all major NVR and VMS platforms. The camera also supports PoE and includes a specially designed neoprene damped mount for maximum longevity under high vibration. Opticom Technologies Inc. is a Canadian based industrial video camera company specializing in manufacturing application specific Opticom CC04 camera with vibration mount cameras for a variety of industries. Our products are designed to solve the formidable challenges presented by heavy industry. Booth 149
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OPTIMIL
Optimil has redesigned its machinery to incorporate superior sawdust and chip containment with systems on chipping/sawing centers, saw boxes and bandmills in major mill throughout North America. Some key features include: l New chipping sections with increased head diameters and enlarged chip chutes l Reconfigured chip chutes allow for fewer transitions and diversion points deliver optimum chip flow and reduced pockets for chips to strike and create dust and debris l New guarding that promotes safety by preventing debris entering work areas from saw boxes and bandmills Optimil also specializes in the EDEM brand of vibrating conveyors for sawmills and wood processing, pellets and biomass. Optimil welcomes visitors to its booth 303. The heart of every EDEM medium, heavy and extra heavy duty vibrating conveyor is a rugged coil spring/eccentric shaft drive assembly. While simple in design these Optimil/EDEM coil springs are noted for their outstanding performance and the unique EDEM design has the lowest horsepower requirement of any drive on the market. Power is provided by tramp metal before they reach the metal detector. A premium efficiency TEFC electric motor and standard “V” belt drive. Each conveyor is custom designed and engineered to suit the customer’s exact requirements. All vibrating conveyors are available in both unbalanced and dynamically balanced configurations. EDEM Magnet Trap conveyors are used to remove smaller pieces of iron and steel before they reach the metal detector. The system is only shut down to remove the larger pieces. Booth 303
PEERLESS SAW Peerless Saw Co,, Groveport, Ohio, is now represented by longtime head saw filer, Jimbo Davis of Longview, Wash. Following the untimely death of Paul Duclos, the company believes Jimbo will fit perfectly with their strategy to aggressively grow their share in sawmills throughout the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada. Jimbo is well known and respected throughout the territory from his previous 36 years as a saw filer and his record as a former president and officer of the Western Sawfilers Educational Association. He prides himself as a third generation sawfiler, who will offer his problem solving skills to filing rooms throughout the territory. Recent consolidation in the cutting tool industry has increased the demand for alternative, independent suppliers like Peerless Saw. Mill managers and saw filers throughout North America are searching for viable alternatives to supply high quality, competitively priced round saws in faster delivery times. Peerless Saw is positioned well to provide the sawmill industry with this option. Adding Jimbo’s expertise to the Peerless sales team makes a powerful offering to cutting tool customers. Peerless Saw became an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) in 2016 and has steadily been gaining market share in round saws throughout the country. In business for 87 years, the company has grown to 60 employees, encouraged by the opportuniJimbo Davis represents Peerless. ties offered with employee ownership. Peerless Saw is one of the few round saw manufacturers that employs their own inhouse heat treatment of American made Nickel Alloy saw steel. The hardening furnace uses an exclusive quench press technology employing hydraulic pressure and water cooled platens to simultaneously flatten and harden the steel. Add a robotic, Gerling auto-tensioning system, plus a hydraulic leveling process and customers can understand why the Peerless Saw factory produces the flattest round saws available. Booth 957
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PICHÉ
Founded in 1983, Piché designs and manufactures high speed lumber handling and processing equipment. Piché’s specialty is trimming, sorting and stacking lines for any type of lumber, hardwood and softwood, green and dry, timbers and boards mixed in the same production. Piché has done it all. The company is managed by a dynamic team boasting years of experience. This team is backed by qualified professionals working in various departments such as engineering, estimating, accounting, administration, project management, manufacturing and installation. The company’s manufacturing facilities are equipped with stateof-the-art technology. The machining department has the machine tools required to produce precision parts as well as larger size parts. Piché products in the planer mill include electric tilt hoists for single or double packages, conveyors and transfers, unscramblers, trimmers, grading stations, sorters and more. Come by our booth at TP&EE and let’s talk. Booth 853
Piché handling equipment
PRECISION HUSKY Hurray for Precision Husky! Put Precision Husky into the game and give your sawmill crew something to cheer about. Our roster of industry-leading chippers, screens and conveyors are designed and built in Alabama and used in mills all over the world. For backup, we maintain an unbeatable parts inventory and first-rate service technicians. How’s that for championship performance? Industry’s Best Chippers The latest generation of Precision-built chippers tackles the competition for a loss. They include a 66 in., five-knife option, which allows the chipper disc to operate at a slower rate. This not only saves wear and tear, it produces the most valuable chip quality you can Precision Husky precision-built chippers find. Our new 2366 chipper brings 25% more anvil contact area to the table to prevent slapping and turning. This results in smoother slicing and more uniform chips, with less horsepower. Standard Chip Screen Our ‘‘Fixed-Rotary’’ chip screens are welcome in any lineup. They offer long-life performance with consistent high-quality production. The smooth glide of the fixed rotary counter weight from the balanced center axis of the drive unit provides year after year of high performance with minimum maintenance. High Volume Chip Screen Built for speed and power, the HV Series Screens have heavy-duty tubular steel support frames. The TEFC motor rotates the screening surface up to 300 RPM and is supported by U-joints at each corner. The support frame assembly is made from square tubing with cross members bolted to each corner for maximum stability. Disk Scalping Screen Precision’s Disk Scalping Screen is a fan favorite. They are designed to function as both a high-volume material classifier and conveyor. As material is fed onto these special rotating shaft assemblies, it is conveyed, agitated and classified. The oversized material is conveyed over the end of the scalper screen and the acceptable material is dropped between the factory spaced rotating disks. Vibrating Conveyors This conveyor is a clean winner. All components are heavy-duty, including the spherical roller bearings used in the drive section. The motor under the conveyor gives added protection. The sawdust removal screen allows only blocks, slabs and edgings to enter the chipper, increasing chipper blade effectiveness and reducing dust. Too Much Winning? No. We didn’t think so. Ask around and you’ll find Precision Husky leads the league in highly satisfied customers. They root for us because we deliver the toughest forest industry machines on the planet—machines that offer the highest production possible at the lowest cost per ton in the industry. Bottom line is, in the rugged game of sawmilling, Precision Husky has your back. We hope you give us a tryout soon. Schedule a demo, tour our facility or talk to with one of our team members. Booth 163 80
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RAWLINGS MANUFACTURING With 40 years of experience in the sawmill and forest related industries, Rawlings Wood Hogs offer a complete line of wood waste processing equipment for helping mills in the sawmill and plywood industries convert their wood residuals into valuable wood fiber products. Rawlings Super Hi-Inertia wood grinders provide the crushing and shearing power needed to handle really tough jobs, like green waste, cypress, redwood, cedar, poplar and a wide range of other stringy and fibrous materials. We offer our wood grinders in both vertical and horizontal models in a full range of sizes. Stationary, portable, diesel or electric powered systems with a wide variety of available options, you’ve got the flexibility to customize the perfect wood recovery system. Booth 237
Rawlings Super PXZ wood hog
REA JET The wood industry, and even more specifically the lumber industry, requires printing systems that are reliable and can provide high quality, legible markings. REA JET provides consistent and flexible prints for any wood products that will stand the test of time and hold up in the harshest environments. REA JET high resolution printers are being used more and more in lumber mills today to replace messy stamps and roller wheels. The flexible and reliable technology delivers high resolution, legible lumber grading and allows for the printing of 2D codes and large logos. REA JET’s product range includes large character ink jet printers, high resolution ink jet printers, laser systems, spray mark systems and labeling systems. Booth 751
REA JET high resolution blue ink stamping
ROYAL WESTCOAST CYLINDERS Our guiding purpose at Royal is to solve your cylinder application problems, not just sell you a cylinder. We have been solving your problems for more than 57 years by providing you the best solutions to your operational headaches by working directly with you to understand your application requirements. We have more than 77 combined years of field experience in identifying these problems and more than 95 combined years of mechanical engineering experience in solving them. Our custom cylinder solutions are the industry standard for actuators that will survive the toughest applications and they enable you to concentrate on the more important problems in your business. Our latest product offering, the Royal E-Series Actuator, utilizes our 57 years of problem solving experience and delivers the toughest roller screw in the wood processing industry. Our E-Series Actuator features all steel construction, nitrided positioning rods and bronze scrapers from our proven 5000 psi hydraulic cylinder line. Additional features include internal end crash resistant bumpers and high load shock resistant thrust bearings. The result is an actuator that you can rely on. Our E-Series is available in multiple mounting configurations and can be customized to suit your specific requirements. Royal offers cylinder application solutions. Royal manufactures a full range of cylinders from NFPA configurations, specialty cylinders for unique applications or replacement cylinders for hard to find OEM units. Our cylinders are simple to repair and tough enough to hold up under extreme conditions. Royal cylinders are not “throwaways.” They can be rebuilt indefinitely. We have the build sheets and designs of every cylinder we have ever manufactured. Whether you need assistance in finding a cylinder that better suits your operations requirements, are looking for technical support or just need information on our product lines, come by and talk to us. We’ve got your back. Booth 381
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SAMUEL CODING & LABELING Samuel Coding & Labeling Group provides automatic systems for ink jet printing and labeling of panel and lumber products. Fully automated systems for both panel and lumber applications include ink jet grade stamp printing, bar code label print and apply systems (individual boards and individual panels) for both retail sales and product tracking, ink jet stencil machines for logos and variable information on full packs, print and apply staple systems for unit load labels on finished packages for both side labels and wrap around labels, and much more. New developments for product tracking from the grade station through to the packaging station is now possible. This includes the application of 2D bar codes at the grade mark station and use of this code to automatically track the product through the process and automatically apply stencils and package labels guaranteeing accurate label details and accurate inventory records. All systems can be supplied as fully integrated solutions with numerous options available. Samuel representatives provide a free service to analyze your application and make recommendations on the equipment and consumables for your specific requirements. Booth 409
Samuel ink jet printing labeling
SAMUEL PACKAGING Samuel Packaging Systems Group offers the forest products industry a wealth of experience in overcoming the challenges of transporting of lumber and panel products. Its products can help you to ensure that your final package maintains its integrity and ease of handling—both on route and in the yard. Samuel’s comprehensive line of strapping and unitizing solutions, from steel and industrial strength polyester strapping, tools and accessories, bar coding solutions, general purpose machines, to large turnkey fully automated strapping systems, are specifically designed to keep you competitive. Booth 359
Samuel offers strapping systems and accessories.
SAW+ADD Saw+ADD is a patent pending anti-deviation device for band saws. It now has a proven track record and is gaining momentum as the only antideviation system. Cutting the highest grade while increasing production are the key selling points of this system. Increased production is accomplished with ability to reduce target sizes and with an increase in average feed speeds. Saw+ADD achieves this by integrating force sensors in the bottom-guide-block-holders which measure lateral forces on the saw blade. Saw+ADD uses this feedback for real-time proportional control of the feed speed. This closed loop system responds within milliseconds virtually eliminating deviation before it starts. There are added benefits such as less benching of saws and considerable reduction in unscheduled saw changes not to mention the safety and diagnostic benefits. Mills have reported no wrecked saws since installing Saw+ADD. Saw+ADD now has a successful installation at Hyne Timber in Australia. They have realized as much as 12% increase through a USNR quad sawing Radiata Pine. The chart shows an overall increase in average feed speed of about 7.9% after Saw+ADD installation. The data consists of hundreds of logs at each increment of depth of cut. Their recovery has never been better and their reman lower than it has ever been. They were never able to run at that speed increase before, without blowing up a saw within a few hours (in their own words). They are now able to run complete shifts without changing saws. The theory behind this technology and its astounding success has Saw+ADD LLC beta testing a round-saw version. Booth 112 84
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SAW CONTROL SYSTEMS Saw Control Systems announces its new “HANDS FREE SAWING (ALMOST).” The sawyer heads the log towards the saw and the automatic control takes over. The sawyer is not required to have his hand on the joystick, but it is advisable to have it nearby. The entry speed is pre-set by depth-of-cut tables. As the log enters the cut, “The Saw Control System” adds speed to the carriage. If the least amount of snake occurs, the system reacts instantly backing off feed. As soon as the saw is stable again the feed returns to established rate. The system was developed at Lampe & Malphrus Lumber Co. in Smithfield, North Carolina. They have had the basic joystick control on their hydraulic shotgun for 15 years. The sawyer is still overall in control; the flick of the wrist drops auto feed controls out. It is also dropped out when he hits the auto return button on the control handle or manually reverses carriage. The new control system is designed to help sawyers out-perform normal handle control. Come by and meet inventor Reid Smith. Booth 153 Saw Control Systems “hands free sawing”
SHARP TOOL Sharp Tool specializes in the manufacturing and sale of circular saw blades, carbide products and knives for the woodworking industry. Family owned since 1959, we pride ourselves on our customer service and quality products. Our goal is to help maximize your cutting application. Circular Saws: Since 1959, Sharp Tool has manufactured circular saws and has become one of the largest saw manufacturing facilities in the USA. Our manufacturing facility in Massachusetts is fully robotic, featuring state-of-the-art equipment. Wide Band Saws: Sharp Tool also offers wide band saws at a competitive price and quick delivery. We offer a wide range of bands: tooth and joined, swaged and alloy tipped. Sharp Tool provides variety of saws and accessories. Carbide Products: Sharp Tool offers a variety of carbide products: carbide saw tips, bars, blanks, preforms, inserts, wear parts and more. Our carbide is LB Toney Braze treated to ensure the highest quality braze. Technical Expertise: Servicing the forestry industry for almost 60 years, Sharp Tool has a diverse background in providing technical expertise to sawmills. Come see us and find out how we can maximize your cutting application. Booth 18
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Signode Industrial Group is a global leader of packaging equipment, systems and tools for the safe packaging and transport of lumber, panel, and pulp and paper products. With more than a century of customer-focused innovations in materials, processes and automation technology, Signode has revolutionized the packaging sector. From label applicators to direct-to-product printing solutions that integrate multiple technologies, Signode provides a variety of coding, marking and labeling solutions to suit both large and small operations. Our automated printing and labeling equipment is easy to use and integrates seamlessly into production lines. With PLC-based programming, our equipment is easy to manage and allows for fast and easy adjustment to your printing message and parameters. Direct-to-product systems print grade information, logos and other fixed or variable data directly onto products. Capable of printing in multiple colors, our systems offer precise placement and highSignode BPX lumber machine with new guarding speed, high-resolution quality. Our print and apply solutions apply pre-printed labels, or can print variable data and barcodes onto blank labels that can be applied to panels and boards. Featuring high-speed applicators and low maintenance, our applicators are built for maximum efficiency and feature high-resolution print quality and precise placement. Our systems also feature high-performance glue, eliminating messy hot glue systems. Labels are designed to withstand the elements and affix to lumber regardless of its condition. The BPX compression strapping system delivers maximum packaging reliability in an easy-to-use machine. Innovative features enable faster cycle times and consistent performance. Unlike other systems, the BPX prefolds edge protectors before placing them on the load ensuring consistent strap tension. Together, these features enable the industry’s fastest and most consistent strapping of lumber and panel packages. BXT3 tools feature real-time indication of tension force, variable tension speed, and strap alignment indication. A quicker and simpler operation than comparable tools, the BXT3 is perfect for various recurring packaged goods with different setting requirements. Booth 847
SPRINGER MICROTEC Two highlights will be presented by Springer Microtec at the Portland show: A CT Log simulator allows visitors to experience the benefits of CTsawing optimization for their own production. Based on real data, the interactive CT Log Simulator unveils the real advantages of breakdown with the aid of computed tomography. A live Goldeneye 800 scanner invites customers to experience lumber grading at its finest. The fastest and most advanced lumber scanner Goldeneye 800 features three X-ray sources for precise pith detection and knot size calculation at feed speeds of up to 1,200 m per minute (4000 FPM). This multi-sensor quality scanner maximizes recovery for high-speed planer mills and manufacturers of construction lumber and high-speed applications. New Microtec Multi-View X-ray technology identifies internal wood defects, pith and accurately determines the knot displacement size inside lumber. This allows for ultra-fine split detection and unprecedented levels of accuracy in automated grading according to the National Grading Microtec Goldeneye 800 scanner Rule for Dimension Lumber. Goldeneye complies with those Standards and makes machine grading profitable, providing added value to a wide range of wood products. With a special heavy-duty design for high speed scanning, the scanner works in full production at a feeding speed of 1.200 meters per minute. Featuring the most advanced in house developed technology such as innovative Multi-View X-ray technology, the scanner identifies all external and internal wood defects. Next generation cameras and sensors developed in-house at Microtec assure highest performance and recovery in contactless grading. In a fraction of a second knots, cracks, pitch pockets, holes, stain, decay, wanes and other board defects are recognized and localized. “Ruggedness, speed and measurement precision are key for high performance planer mills and manufacturers of construction lumber products. We have made sure that our customers have no need to compromise in terms of either throughput or reliability, and certainly not in terms of function,” states Microtec CEO Federico Giudiceandrea. Visit us for a Live Demo. Booth 527 88
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TAYLOR MACHINE WORKS Taylor Machine Works, Inc. is pleased to introduce our GT-Series of Taylor lift trucks. This new line of compact lifts range in capacity from 8000 lbs. to 18,000 lbs. If you need solid performance in a smaller dependable lift truck, the Taylor GT series gets the job done. The wood products Industry relies on manufacturers that can provide durable, dependable solutions to heavy lift requirements. Taylor Machine Works, Inc. exceeds customer expectations with lift trucks that have been vetted in the harshest industrial proving grounds. Decades of working in our customers’ unique sites have given us the experience to plow ahead with lift trucks built to withstand unreasonably hostile environments. Founded on the principles of “FAITH-VISIONWORK,” and ingrained with 90 plus years of heavy industrial material handling experience, Taylor meets our customers’ demanding industrial needs with more than 90 models and lifting capacities that range from 8,000 lbs. to 125,000 lbs. New Taylor Machine Works GT Series in capaciTaylor customers demand the most rugged, dependable lift trucks on the plan- ties from 8,000 to 18,000 lbs. et, and we have taken the approach to not give up performance or durability for questionable potential fuel cost savings. Our trucks have proven to have equal and, in many cases, better fuel consumption than competitors that have chosen to utilize smaller displacement engines. The Taylor “X-Series” lift trucks feature tier compliant engines that have retained the powerful low-end torque that our customers have come to expect. Ultimately, it is up to the customer to decide what features are important on their lift trucks. We strive to keep things simple and use appropriate technology that brings value! Taking care of customers is Priority One! Booth 105
TELCO SENSORS The SpaceScan series from Telco Sensors is a high-power, selfcontained, 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 which 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 Telco SpaceScan light curtain system 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. Booth 822
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TIMBER AUTOMATION LogPro has been the leader in innovation of high speed merchandizer systems for more than two decades. With those years of experience, we have refined our system for safety, performance and durability. More mills continue to choose our log bucking system than any other because it is the most accurate and highest producing system available today. Ensuring the safety of both your operators and your investment, the LogPro design incorporates redundant positioning measuring systems, a safety gate system, balanced saw arms to naturally retract in a power failure emergency and electro mechanical safety brakes on travel LogPro optimized multi-saw log merchandizing system drives. These improvements eliminate historical concerns with hydraulic linear cylinders. Electric powered designs offer smooth and accurate bucking at high piece rates of up to 16 stems per minute, and the all-electric design reduces energy consumption by at least 40% over previous systems. With saws positioned via flux vector electronic drives with encoder feedback, merchandised length accuracy is reliable and consistent. If needed, the infinite travel of electric saw module positioning allows most mills to easily expand for higher throughput by adding additional shifting saws. Merchandizer system specifications: l Designed for stems up to 36 in. in diameter and 70 in. in length l Per minute throughput of up to 45 logs or 16 treelength stems l Run speed up to 700FPM linearly l Consistent saw positioning within +/- ¼ in. Booth 627
TIMBER MACHINE TECHNOLOGIES Timber Machine Technologies designs and manufactures a range of edgers, gangs and slab chipping machinery for both hardwood and softwood sawmills. Custom, versatile and affordable systems backed by full parts and serviced support. Unique to the industry, Timber Machine Technologies Scan-N-Saw systems process both boards and cants through the same linear scanning system. Because of their simplicity and versatility, these systems work well in both hardwood and softwood sawmills. The Scan-N-Saw system combines a simple infeed TMT linear combination gang/edger table, linear scan conveyor, linear combination gang/edger and outfeed picker. TMT’s board/cant turner system indexes boards and cants onto the linear scan belt. The pieces pass through a single scan zone (or multiple scan zones if there are length restrictions) and the optimum solution is generated. Once the piece is scanned, the Scan-N-Saw module will place either a battery of gang saws for cants or edging saws for boards into position. The Scan-N-Saw module’s guided saws slew and skew to match the solution generated by the optimizer. The saw module will straight-saw or curve-saw the cants or edge the boards. The outfeed system then picks out and sends edged boards or canted sawn boards out to the trimmer’s landing table. By performing simple preventative maintenance, these systems will continue to accurately operate at optimal levels. That reliability combined with superior wood recovery makes this a very popular system. TMT’s curve-sawing gangs are extremely fast gangs consisting of a shifting gang cluster and linear scanning configuration with optimization by whoever the customer requests. TMT—custom, versatile machinery, conversions, parts and service support. Booth 25
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TS MANUFACTURING
TS Manufacturing has been designing, building and installing quality systems for sawmill and lumber handling industries for over 40 years. We make a large variety of sawmill equipment for hardwood and softwood mills. Because of this, clients benefit from the enhanced efficiency and reliability inherent in the production line of a single manufacturer. The result is always higher output and higher recovery. TS Manufacturing’s presence is found in every stage of mill production. We manufacture equipment for log handling and merchandising, primary breakdown systems, secondary breakdown systems, grading and lumber sorting and stick placing and stacking. And we build residual handling equipment too: belt, bar and TS grading line, with three stations for graders, feeding an optimized trimscrew conveyors, vibrating conveyors, screening sysmer, sorting and stacking line. tems, truck loaders and storage bins. All systems can be customized for a new production line, or retrofit into an existing one. TS engineers and installers dedicate themselves to a client’s request for customized equipment and fast installation. Our unified sales/engineering/fabrication and installation teams—under one roof in our Lindsay, Ontario plant—can produce individual systems or whole production lines on a shorter time line than most competitors. Our clients are up and running sooner, with exceptionally integrated equipment. Get detailed information about our capabilities and services by visiting us during the Timber Processing & Energy Expo. TS also hosts an extensive video collection on YouTube: youtube.com/tsmanufacturing. Booth 929
VALUTEC Valutec Group AB, with its registered offices in Skellefteå, Sweden, is a privately owned Swedish corporate group with the wholly owned Valutec AB in Skellefteå, Sweden, Valutec Oy in Riihimäki, Finland, Valutec LLC in St Petersburg, Russia and Valutec Wood Drying Inc. in Vancouver, Canada. Altogether, the Group disposes over the market’s broadest product range based on Swedish and Finnish know-how in timber drying. With more than 4,000 delivered timber kilns we are the market leader in Europe. At most of the events where Valutec is participating we’ll give you the opportunity to experience our TC Kiln in VR. A truly fascinating experience. TC is a Swedish abbreviation for ”cross circulation” and the TC-kilns have fast become the most talked about type of kiln in Europe. This is due to its distinguishing features and special construction, which results in high Valutec cross circulation kiln flexibility in mixing dimensions, perfect quality and superior capacity. “It’s a machine that has drawn a lot of interest and that provides benefits for many types of sawmills,” says Ingo Wallocha, managing director of Valutec Inc. “With our control system, it’s very intuitive and still easy to use. We have made sure to automatize a lot of features so that the kiln operator can focus on managing the drying process as a whole.” The TC Kiln is also the machine that Pleasant River Lumber in Maine decided to invest in. “We visited several Swedish sawmills that were using Valutec products and they exceeded our highest expectations in terms of the details, quality of design and energy efficiency. At the end of the day, it was a very easy decision. Valutec has a product that will position us at the leading edge throughout North America when it comes to drying technology,” says Jason Brochu, owner of Pleasant River Lumber. Booth 825
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Vollmer continues to support the sawmill and wood production industry with a renewed focus on circular saw blades. For TP&EE 2018 Vollmer will continue the inaugural debut on the West Coast of the new grinding machine CHX 840, with which the tooth face and top of circular saw blades can be sharpened in one setup. Vollmer had sawmill operators, sharpening specialists, and furniture makers in mind when developing the new grinding machine CHX 840. This machine is ideal for machining carbide-tipped circular saw blades with a diameter up to 840 mm (33 in.). The second variant CHX 1300 can machine circular saw blades with a diameter up to 1300 mm (51 in.). With five CNC-controlled axes the CHX 840 can machine saw blades with all common tooth geometries—this also applies to sawing with axial angle and group toothing. Thanks to a double grinding wheel the sharpening of tooth face and top is completed in a single setup, thus reducing the setup times. Vollmer CHX 840 grinder with HS loader The CHX 840 can be equipped with different automation levels adaptable to the individual needs of each customer. The CHX 840 has an optional automatic setup process, which consists of running in the saw, the diameter detection as well as an acoustic sensor for touching. With the integrated sensor system of the feed pawl, the input of the tooth pitch is no longer required while the automatic setting of the hook and clearance angle avoids adjustment errors. The HS automation solution ensures automatic loading of the CHX for unmanned operation of up to seven hours. With the saw blade stack height of up to 180 mm the automatic machine loading can hold up to 25 circular saw blades. Talk with us about your needs at the German Pavilion. Booth 319.01
WAGNER METERS We all know that taking moisture measurements in your kiln packs from only the edges of the outer boards never was and never will give you a very good indication of what is going on deeper in the pack where it counts. When Wagner Meters introduced the first version of the moisture meter/stack probe combination, for the first time it made it easy to take hundreds of measurements deep inside (where they need to be taken) kiln packages without having to split the pack with a forklift. Wagner has sold thousands of this combination over 20+ years, and many kiln operators across the nation depend heavily on it as a key part of drying quality control. The L622 Digital Recording Moisture Meter provides accurate moisture measurement and data storage for your moisture quality control program. l Takes up to 5,000 separate moisture readings and stores up to 200 easily organized groups for comparison of average moisture content, standard deviation, and minimum/maximum moisture data from group to group l Stat-Pak Data Analysis Software included l Interfaces with optional Stack Probe accessory using non-volatile memory; the L622 will retain the stored readings even when the batteries are removed The easy-to-read backlit LCD screen features a two-line, 32-character display. Wagner L622 Digital Recording Moisture Meter Function buttons and scroll arrows operate a menu system that guides the user step-by-step through the selecting, storing and viewing process. The L622 has an auto shutoff to extend battery life as well as a low-battery indicator. It can operate accurately in virtually every wood drying and processing environment. Come visit the Wagner Meters staff for a chance to win a free L622 Digital Recording Moisture Meter as well as other great prizes. It’s our way of saying thank you to current and future customers and valued partners in kiln drying and moisture management. Booth 369
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WEST COAST INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS Since 1987, West Coast Industrial Systems Inc. has focused on design, manufacturing and construction within the wood products industry. As system integration specialists, they are considered a leader in the manufacture of innovative industrial facilities primarily in wood products. WCIS’s strength is in the engineering, procurement and construction of solid wood product plants. WCIS builds sawmills, planer mills, mass plywood plants, laminated beam plants and LVL facilities. Specialties in the sawmill include log handling, log singulators, merchandizers, debarking lines, primary breakdown systems, secondary breakdowns and lumber handling beyond. In the planer mill, they can do it all. Adding a marketing agreement with Carbotech, they can now provide full service from front to back of your sawmill or planer project. As one of the first companies to be involved with “Mass Plywood,” WCIS has added new capacity in that product line. West Coast Industrial Systems strives to meet customer satisfaction in each project. Manufacturing spaces are availWCIS engineers and builds wood products facilities and specific systems. able in 2019. Booth 1003
WILLIAMS & WHITE Williams & White of Burnaby, British Columbia is the exclusive distributor of Hana brazing machines in North America. Hana Commercial is a global leader in high speed brazing machines for a wide range of industries. The new HM (manual), H50 (semi automatic) and H55 (fully automatic) line of brazers fills the needs of sawmills and saw producers of all shapes and sizes. HM The HM brazer is an ideal machine for smaller sawmills and repair shops, combining manual operation with the consistency and accuracy of an automatic brazing machine. The HM requires an operator to manually index the saw and feed the tip. With the push of a button, the braze is completed automatically; automatic saw and tip pushing, automatic temperature control and automatic anneal cycle. H50 The H50 is an entry level automatic brazing machine. Equipped with laser sensors for tip recognition, automatic flux dispensing, silver solder feed and a separate water cooling system, the H50 is an ideal brazing machine for any sawmill, saw shop or saw manufacturer. H55 The H55 Ultimate Brazer is a high-end brazing machine that offers Williams & White distributes Hana brazing machines. extreme automation, flexibility and speed. With automatic tip removal, servo controlled saw/hook angle adjustment, camera sensors for tip recognition, and robotic loading capability, the H55 truly is the ultimate brazer. Booth 817 Front Lot 4003
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WOLFTEK INDUSTRIES Wolftek has been a primary supplier for the wood products industry for more than 30 years, specializing in upgrading and retrofitting planer mills. Focusing on throughput and safety our systems work to reduce the “jam-ups” caused by thin and thick boards, lower quality fiber and dry/damaged wood while at the same time making it easier to set up for jointing and clearing out by reducing the human-machine interaction. With more than 40 systems sold and running, in the largest lumber companies in the world, our DTS (Dynamic Roll Tensioning System) is a must have in today’s market. Wolftek’s OEM offered systems can be adapted to all planers and molders currently used in the industry: DyWolftek retrofits and upgrades planers lines namic Roll Tensioning System (DTS), electric drives, feedtables, bridges, electric cutterhead setworks, live shears plus innovations in wear parts like rolls, guides and plates. By choosing Wolftek you gain a partner who is as invested in your mill as you are, bringing our knowledge, experience and various industry partners to work for you. Booth 259
WOOD-MIZER Wood-Mizer introduces the WM4500 industrial sawmill featuring several structural and performance enhancements to the sawmill head and bed for improved sawing productivity. As Wood-Mizer’s next generation flagship industrial sawmill, the all-new WM4500 continues a long tradition of providing commercial sawmilling equipment solutions throughout the world. Featuring many benefits of Wood-Mizer’s world renowned industrial sawmill range, the WM4500 can be used to break down logs for further processing or to saw boards, grade or dimensional lumber. Alongside the complete line of Wood-Mizer sawmills, the WM4500 capitalizes on thin-kerf blade technology to produce accurate lumWood-Mizer’s newest industrial bandmill WM4500 ber while reducing capital, material, labor, energy and maintenance costs. The WM4500 features 30 HP electric; 40 in. log diameter cutting capacity, 22 ft. 6 in. length of cut, 32 ¼ in. width of cut and 16 in. depth of cut; 2 in. blade width with balanced steel band wheels and 3 in. diameter blade guide rollers. Key innovations of the WM4500 sawmill bed include stronger angled bed rails, reinforced dual-rod side supports, enhanced material drag back, off-feed conveyor and roller with suspension, pull down cant clamps, modular toeboards, and a longer cutting length. Booth 126 Front Lot 4002
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WOODTECH MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS Woodtech Measurement Solutions (Woodtech) is a supplier of truckload scanning systems geared toward forest product facilities in need of measuring log intake biometric characteristics and accomplishing log quality control in a fast, precise and cost effective manner. Woodtech’s system known as the Logmeter generates benefits for mills via cost savings and improvements in the manufacturing process. The Logmeter measures automatically—while the truck goes through the system— key log variables such as length, top and butt diameters, and excessive sweep and crook. For each log load entering the mill, the Logmeter provides the number of defective logs, diameter and length averages and distributions, and number of logs per load. The Logmeter includes a comprehensive auditing system that allows managers to analyze log data and images, identify trends, rank log suppliers, avoid fraud, etc. Logmeter database can be integrated to the client log information systems such as accounting, inventory and procurement. The impact of scanning, measuring and auditing every single log load entering the mill and before it is unloaded is realized in the improvement of log size and quality enabling smoother running in the mill and resulting in increased efficiencies, recovery and profitability of the operation. Woodtech Logmeter 3D laser truck load measurement Woodtech Measurement Solutions has three systems operating in the U.S. Southeast region: Shuqualak Lumber (Shuqualak, Miss.), T.R. Miller (Brewton, Ala.), and West Fraser (Newberry, SC) and nearly 50 installations around the globe including Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Poland and the U.S. The same technology, developed by Woodtech, is utilized around the world to measure in cubic basis the volume of logs, wood chips, aggregates and other raw materials loaded in open containers. Woodtech has offices in Brazil, Chile and the U.S. Booth 136
Z-TEC AUTOMATION SYSTEMS Z-Tec Automation Systems has been designing custom solutions for the industrial printing world for the last 26 years and has proven its leadership with hundreds of installed systems across the globe. From continuous inline printing, to turnkey motion-controlled print on stationary product, Z-Tec offers solutions designed for your specific needs. The WinJet II is a powerful control system developed by Z-Tec to offer: l Dynamic print at speeds in excess of 450 FPM l Vision systems to monitor, collect and process data l Real time reporting to keep you informed on your production l Lift controls to easily handle variable product thicknesses l Rugged and redundant mechanical designs to ensure continuous production regardless of cross ups and printer impacts l Automated maintenance features to avoid line stops and lockouts The WinJet lumber printer has been running in locations for up to 13 years, but has been in continuous R&D since its first installation. By remaining proactive to the ever-increasing demands of the Z-Tec WinJett II printing system industry, and responsive to the needs of our customers, Z-Tec has maintained WinJet’s lead as the most advanced and reliable industrial printing solution. Z-Tec stands firmly behind all our products and each one of our customers. That is why we offer 24/7/365 remote support completely FREE to our loyal customers. Come talk to us about how a custom Z-Tec Solution can improve your bottom line. Booth 250
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HALCO
Since 1988 HALCO has supplied the forest industry with software and related consulting services in the following areas: l Production planning optimization l SAWSIM mill design and operation studies l Log procurement HALCO’s production planning optimization systems are used to make routine operating plans that truly maximize profit with consideration to market prices; committed sales, and other market constraints and opportunities; log supply; and mill production capabilities (bottlenecking machines and other production constraints). The systems determine the production mix that maximizes profit, and how to configure the mill to make it happen. The entire process, from logs in through mill operations, through to lumber sales, is included in a single model, producing a plan that everyone can get behind. The profit increases are substantial. Whether you’re planning a greenfield mill or modifications to an Halco software and optimization existing mill, a SAWSIM study will give you the information you need to make the right decisions, and the data to get the project approved. A SAWSIM study will determine: mill recovery for a greenfield mill, or recovery increase for a mill upgrade project; mill flow and production rate (machine piece count and time requirements); production mix (the ability to produce a required mix). SAWSIM is very flexible, allowing consideration of any mill equipment, sawing pattern, and product mix option. A SAWSIM study can begin with logs delivered to the mill, or with standing timber definitions, thus log supply and log bucking options can be considered. HALCO’s log procurement analysis systems help you to become a better log buyer. The systems combine log bucking simulation with a SAWSIM model of the mill processing. For delivered log purchases, the system can determine the profitability of individual log vendors or log sales, and also determines the relative profitability of different log diameter/length/quality classes. For standing forest valuations, the system begins with cruise data defining the forest population. Log bucking and sorting options can consider bucking and allocation to different mills, plus log sales (or trades). The result is an accurate valuation of alternative timber stands, to improve your bidding. Booth 1035
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LINDEN
Linden Fabricating Co.’s 36-year history of lumber processing sawmill equipment has made Linden a recognized brand name for North American sawmill and related industries, including chipping plants, plywood mills, pulp mills, MDF plants, OSB plants and others. Linden’s patented log merchandising systems, log ladders, quadrant log feeders and step feeders are found in mills across North America, and overseas in Japan, China, France, Russia and Belgium. Linden’s range of sawmill/wood processing products includes everything from infeed log decks and transfers to the log unscrambling and singulating equipment and log merchandising equipment leading to the log breakdown lines— everything that is required to process a log from the log yard to the point where it is broken down into lumber. Linden’s self cleaning double acting step feeders unscramble, singulate and feed logs Linden step feeder one at a time using only one moving section activated by two haydraulic drives handling up to 50 logs per minute while clearing debris as it unscrambles and singulates logs. The revolutionary log feeder from the designers of the step feeder features simple mechanical electric drives which eliminate hydraulics. The log feeders ship as a complete unit requiring no assembly. Options include ending systems and laser gap control. Models are available in sizes to suit long lengths from 8 ft. to 24 ft. and log diameters 3 in. to 30 in. Booth 244
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WEST SALEM MACHINERY Let us help optimize your grinding operation! Is it time to upgrade your wood and bark hog? WSM offers the most complete line of wood and bark hogs available with a full range of options to reduce expenses and maximize production including: l Vertical or horizontal machines to best fit your needs. l Wide variety of hammer styles/configurations and sizing screen options can give you the ability to process varied feedstock and produce multiple products. l Unique pivoting hog case allows access to preventative maintenance areas with all infeed components remaining in place. l WSM’s ballistics infeed chute for our vertical hogs is a unique design that helps capture tramp metal and other uncrushables, helping to protect the grinder rotor and reduce maintenance expenses. l Dependable long-term operation and optimal performance in most demanding applications. l Proven reliability with hundreds of long-term installations in the West Salem offers turnkey grinding systems. most rugged applications around the world. l Grinders, screens, and conveying equipment offered as individual components and complete processing systems. Fully integrated systems: If you’re looking for a turnkey system, check out WSM’s complete processing systems. Designed for capacities up to 150 tons per hour they can include bulk feeders; pre-screeening and cleaning for low cost processing, reduced grinder wear and increased throughput; grinding; post-screening; conveying; access platforms and structures. Optional project management and startup assistance complete the package. One fully integrated system to deliver superior performance—engineered for your specific application. Most complete line of grinding & screening equipment available: horizontal hogs, vertical hogs, shredders, hammermills, disc screens, trommel screens, oscillating screens, vibrating screens/conveyors, bulk feeders What works best for your operation? Let’s talk and determine the best solution to optimize your operation. Booth 1027
SIMONDS INTERNATIONAL/BURTON SAW Burton Saw & Supply is your one stop for ALL your Yield Enhancement Solutions. In January 2018, Simonds International and Burton Saw announced the merger of the companies creating the leading producer and marketer of cutting tools and related equipment for the primary wood fiber industry. In May of 2017, Simonds had merged with BGR Saws. These mergers combine the leading companies in our industry, each with a deep history of product innovation, quality products and customer focused organizations providing value added services to our customers. The cultures of the companies are similar and will strengthen our service to the industry. The Burton, Simonds, Cut Technologies, BGR, Wright Machine and Armstrong brands are prominent in the industry and will remain a core part of the combined company in the future. Here at the TP@EE show, we are excited to showcase our extensive range of cutting tools, filing room equipment, guides, hand tools, technical expertise and more to our customers. Our booth will feature custom designed saw blades from BGR Saws, Cut Technologies and both saws and knives by Simonds International. Our saw design experts will be on site to discuss how to optimize your saws for your application. We will display both the innovative filing room equipment we manufacture, Armstrong and Wright Machine, as well as European machinery that has been engineered for the North American market. We will feature the new Novus saw grinder, the 095 Automated Bandsaw bench, the latest versions of our proven Armstrong band saw equipment, Wright tippers and the exciting new Kirschner Automatic carbide tipper. We are the most complete supplier to our industry. Stop by and see the exciting new ways we can help you get the most yield out of your Fiber, People and Filing Room Investments. Booth 109, 209
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MDI
Metal Detectors Inc. (MDI) is a family owned and operated company located in beautiful “Track Town” Eugene, Ore., right in the heart of the Pacific Northwest. Since 1965, we have been producing world class industrial metal detectors for processing plants with an emphasis on the timber industry. Our systems have a track record of their own! We are known for providing high quality, dependable systems you can rely on. Expensive precision equipment demands protection. We’re always listening to our customers’ needs, therefore our research and development never MDI MP-5000X metal detector stops. We’ve taken the foundation of our legendary MP Series and supercharged it with our latest technological innovations to create our most advanced system to date. MDI is proud to bring the new MP-5000X Series Metal Detector to our cutting-edge product line. The MP-5000X has a lot of new features to stop metal like never before. Under the hood it’s got new coil geometry for improved stability, clean target signals and even better sensitivity. It’s also running new CB-5 Series electronics that pinpoint a balanced magnetic field; eliminating the problem of drift in extreme temperatures. We’ve also reconfigured the software for improved interference rejection. Radio communication and frequency interference will be minimized as well. Calibration is now a breeze! We installed the popular phase calibration board that was only previously available on the TWA-2000 Series Surround Systems. The MP-5000X has it all as it should. Our customers want only the best and MDI is here to deliver. We never oversell and under-deliver. All of our quality metal detectors are proudly made in the USA and include free lifetime telephone technical support. Booth 717
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SALEM EQUIPMENT Salem Equipment has been manufacturing premium machinery to lumber producers for more than 70 years—since 1946. Salem is committed to first class design of individual components as well as complete systems. We are fully capable of identifying what is needed for any application, then seeing the project through to completion. Our solutions-based approach provides higher value to customers by actually understanding your specific application(s) and recommending the best plan for product flow. The result is a higher probability of customers actually achieving or surpassing desired operational goals and product values. As a wholly owned subsidiary of the Wellons Group, which is based in Vancouver, Wash., Salem has access to a variety of technical skill sets and resources. Improvements to machinery designs have accelerated and new machinery with higher productivity and accuracy are available to meet customer needs in demanding lumber producing applications. Salem can supply a single machine center, a process line or an entire sawmill to meet a customer’s needs. It also offers installations throughout North America by the Wellons installations crews. Booth 703
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Salem headrig bandmill, Model BHS-72
VALON KONE Valon Kone Oy (VK) is a well-established Finnish company that specializes in the development and production of high speed ring debarkers, along with butt reducing equipment. Our customers are located worldwide ranging from OSB/plywood mills to large sawmills. VK offers a solution for all debarking projects in locations where the logs can be fed into the debarker one at a time. Whether it concerns a small plant or a high-speed production plant, VK can deliver a suitable machine from its extensive product range for customers’ needs, regardless of conditions and wood species. This is proven by thousands of satisfied customers worldwide. More than 60 years’ experience in developing ring debarkers guarantees that Valon Kone is today’s world leader of ring debarkers. Behind the success is a skilled workforce and continuValon Kone focuses on high speed debarking. ous investments in quality, research and development, as well as modern manufacturing technology. A close relationship with our customers enhances product development. VK is known as a pioneer in the ring debarking technology. VK manufactures the KODIAK Hi Speed Air Seal rotor debarker exclusively for the U.S. and Canada market. Built to North American standards the Kodiak debarker offers the latest in technology to achieve superior debarking quality, maximum uptime, high feedspeeds and of course safe operation. The Kodiak’s modular construction ensures the strongest machine design in the industry. Debarker sizes come in 17 in., 22 in., 27 in., 32 in. and 36 in. Configurations can be single, dual or triple rotor machines. VK also offers as an option Self Centering infeed conveyors. These conveyors provide accurate log centering when running precut lengths while minimizing log gap. Booth 917
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TRUE PARTNERSHIP: JARTEK AND CAW
Typical Jartek kiln for the thermal modification of sawn timber in New Zealand
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n May 2005, the Finnish company Jartek Oy, today called Jartek Invest Oy, placed its first order with Classen Apparatebau Wiesloch GmbH. Since then, the two companies have maintained a close partnership and supplied numerous systems to many countries in Europe, as well as to the U.S., Canada, Japan and New Zealand. Jartek and CAW develop the projects together with their clients and build equipment to match with needs and expectations. Receiving repeat orders is the best reputation a company can be awarded with—both Jartek and CAW take pride in having many such customers. Jartek Invest Oy from Lahti was initially established under the name of SATEKO Oy in the late 1950s. Through the years there have been the usual changes in business orientation, but Jartek’s two original product lines, timber drying kilns and sawn timber sorting lines, have remained active and continue to be a substantial part of the company’s success. Given the geographic proximity to the former Soviet Union, Jartek built complete sawmills in those countries. A typical sawmill then consisted of up to 30 lumber dry kilns. With more than a total of 1,500 installed dry kilns and many 114
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high-capacity automated sorting lines inCAW, located in the city of Wiesloch stalled in world-leading sawmills, Jartek in southwest Germany, is a specialist in is regarded as an internationally recogengineering, construction and commisnized global player. sioning of complete plants for heat generIn 1998 Jartek entered a new applicaation using heat transfer oils (thermal tion: “ThermoWood.” Being part of this oils), heat storage and heat distribution in growth process and developing the associ- the temperature range up to and above ated special drying kilns and sophisticated 400° C. CAW also specializes in reciprocontrol philosophy, Jartek has become a cating grate technology, decentralized leading systems manufacturer. Today its ORC power stations and thermal oxidizcustomer-producers of ThermoWood ers for solid, liquid and gaseous waste cover more than 50% of the global fabristreams. cation of thermally modified timber. The Amongst many other prominent instalrest of total production volume is shared lations in nearly all industries all over the with numerous other technologies. globe, the company has built the largest Detailed information on the production biomass-fired power generation systems process, special properties and broad applicability of these durable and resistant wood products can be found at www.thermowood.fi. Classen Apparatebau Wiesloch GmbH, which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary, has gained a reputation worldwide for high-quality and reliable customized plants in the secCAW thermal oil heater/oxidizer and oil circulation pump tor of high temperature skids for a Jartek installation in Belgium process heating.
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Electric flameless “flox” incinerator installed in Finland.
installed to date: four thermal oil heater systems in Canada, each with a nameplate thermal oil heating capacity of 28 MW and powering an ORC turbine with 6.5 MW; as well as one thermal oil heater system in the U.S. with a nameplate thermal oil heating capacity of 31.5 MW and powering an ORC turbine with 8.5 MW. CAW’s equipment supply for Jartek usually covers a complete tailor-made process heating system comprising a thermal oil heater with three flue gas passages and integrated kiln off-gas incineration as well as a steam generator. The heaters/oxidizers are mostly fired with locally available fuels such as natural gas and fuel oils. Included in CAW’s scope are all thermal fluid circulation pumps for primary as well as consumer oil circuits.
toward a total green and CO2-neutral ThermoWood production. During a mill modernization project, one long-term client with a broad wood products operation decided to decommission its natural gas-fired thermal oil heater/oxidizer and to replace this with a system that will no longer generate emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels. This client operates a wood waste-fired power station and generates all its required energy by utilizing its mill waste. Jartek awarded CAW with the job to design and install the first of its kind pure
electric incinerator for the thermal oxidization of the kiln exhaust. This pioneering system, featuring electric flameless “flox” combustion, does not consume any fossil fuels but operates solely on “green accredited” electricity generated by renewable energy. The installation and commissioning of the system went flawless and the system has been up and running for almost two years now. TP This article and photos were supplied by Classen Apparatebau Wiesloch. All statements are attributable to CAW. Visit cawwiesloch.de.
THERMAL MOD Thermal modification of wood is an environmentally friendly and pure thermal process: The woody materials are modified by using solely process heat and saturated steam, no toxic or other chemicals are used nor needed. The wood extractives driven off the lumber during the modification process are captured, incinerated and turned into a vital part of the required process heat. The required heat energy can also be generated in a “green” way by utilizing the mill’s wood waste and residuals. The total energy consumption is approximately 20-30% higher than in the standard wood drying process. Thermally modified wood products are recyclable in the same way as natural unmodified wood; also, the use of thermally modified wood products does not accelerate the greenhouse effect. At the end of its service life the disposal of modified wood will free no more carbon dioxide than the wood has extracted from the ambient air during its growth. Environmental balance is consequently ensured during the entire life cycle of thermally modified wood products. With one of their recent jobs, Jartek and CAW took a further significant step TIMBER PROCESSING
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MACHINERYROW Murray Latta Purchases Oregon’s Kimwood Murray Latta Progressive Machine, Inc. of Surrey, BC has acquired the operations of Kimwood Corp., a Cottage Grove, Ore. based manufacturer of machinery for the forest products industry, including sanders, planers, resaws, rotary hogs and cylinders. Murray Latta designs, manufactures and distributes indus-
trial machinery for several sectors including forest products, oil, gas, mining, material handling, construction and is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Dan Reader, President of Murray Latta, states, “Murray Latta has been a licensed manufacturer and distributor of Kimwood products in Canada for more than 30 years. Our long working relationship with Kimwood, familiarity with Kimwood’s products, reputation and brand, as well as
our respect for the employees of Kimwood made this an easy decision. Our goal is to keep operations in Oregon and invest in reinvigorating the Kimwood brand and products. ” Kris Woodard, President of Kimwood Corp., adds, “Kimwood has been in business in Cottage Grove for more than 70 years. As a family owned business in a smaller community it was important that we choose wisely who might acquire the Kimwood operations—a buyer who would respect the community, Kimwood’s long history and, foremost, Kimwood employees. The combination of the Kimwood operations with Murray Latta simply gives the operations a broader international reach and opportunities for the Kimwood employees. This transaction ensures the continued presence of Kimwood manufacturing operations in Cottage Grove for many years to come.” The new company will be operating under the name Kimwood Machinery Inc. All Kimwood employees will be retained, including Woodard, who will continue to manage the new company’s operations.
McCoy Group Buys Seven Nortrax Stores Nortrax, Inc. has sold seven stores in its Midwest Region to the family-owned company McCoy Group, Inc. based in Dubuque, Iowa. The sold dealerships will do business as McCoy Construction & Forestry (MCF) and will retain the Nortrax employees at the branches in Escanaba, Mich.; Merrill, Chippewa Falls, and Ashland, Wis.; as well as in Duluth, Grand Rapids, and Bemidji, Minn. “We believe this sale represents a key strategic distribution move for John Deere and Nortrax,” says Nortrax President and CEO Tim Murphy. Headquartered in Tampa, Fla., Nortrax is a John Deere subsidiary that operates Deere construction and forestry dealerships throughout the U.S. and Canada.
USNR Expanding Eugene Facility USNR is expanding operations at its facility in Eugene, Ore. The investment will refurbish and enlarge an existing building. The expansion allows USNR ➤ 120 118
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The new facility is expected to be operational in January 2019. l USNR also announced it has restructured its North American Service Department by creating regional service teams. “We believe this change will provide you with faster response times and allow us to maintain reasonable rates, while putting known faces in your plant to assist with scheduled as well as critical service and support,”
the company states. The lineup of managers includes: Corporate Service Manager: Jason Corkle; North American Regional Service Managers—Western Canada, Keith Epp; Western U.S., Tom Chambers; Eastern Canada/Northeastern U.S.; Renald Julien; Southeastern U.S., Milton Stahmer
McDowell Lumber Updates Optimization McDowell Lumber, a hardwood producer located at Asheboro, NC, is updating its edger and trimmer optimization systems with USNR BioLuma scanning technology. The edger line will receive a new scanner frame to house the new sensors, while the trimmer line’s scan frame will be modified to accommodate the sensors. This new scanning technology will improve the accuracy and recovery from its edging and trimming processes. The BioLuma 2900L transverse HD laser profile sensors provide results in 3D modeling using an enhanced image processing application (IPA) that delivers more detail. The BioLuma sensors provide true differential measurements, presenting the highest data accuracy for data collection. This mill was established in 1974, and today it primarily processes poplar as well as red and white oak to supply furniture and flooring manufacturers, both domestic and international. The mill also provides pallet stock for its pallet operation on the same site.
Last Rites Held For Brad Massey Memorial services for well-known logging equipment personality Brad Massey were held August 31 in Zebulon, NC, his hometown. Massey, 62, died August 28 after a brief illness. A native of North Carolina and known for his outgoing personality, wit and sense of humor, Massey worked in Blount’s Forestry Equipment Div. for many years before joining the sales team of Barko Hydraulics. In his last position with Barko he served as Sales Manager for the Southeast region. Survivors include his mother and one sister. The family requests that any memorials be directed to Union Hope Baptist Church, 12712 Hwy. 97 W., Zebulon, NC 27597 or a charity of the donor’s choice. 120
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Story Of Timber Sale Preserved In Museum The National Museum of Forest Service History has partnered with Neiman Enterprises, Inc. to develop a new, premier virtual exhibit showcasing an important piece of public lands history: Case No. 1. Case No. 1 was the name given to an 1899 timber sale on U.S. Government land in the Black Hills Forest Reserve in South
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Dakota. Case No. 1 was a contract between the Homestake Mining Company and the United States Department of Interior, authorized by the Organic Administration Act of 1897. Under this contract, 13 million board feet of ponderosa pine trees were cut from the Forest Reserve by the Homestake Mining Company. Homestake was awarded the contract to cut these trees, so they could mill them into mine timbers for their large underground gold
mine in Lead, South Dakota. Previous to this time, people simply cut trees from the Black Hills forests as they wished, without permission from the U.S. government. “The significance of Case No. 1 is that it was the first time the U.S. government set standards and requirements for the harvesting of trees from public lands,” says Dave Stack, National Museum of Forest Service History Curator. “This American story of the beginning of conservation-based forest management should be a part of the school curriculum for every young person,” comments Jim Neiman, President of Neiman Enterprises, based in Hulett, Wyoming. “I am very pleased that my company was able to partner with the Museum and make this exhibit possible.” The Case No. 1 exhibit also includes the evolution of forestry tools and logging equipment. After eight months of development and research, this new exhibit is now unveiled on the National Museum of Forest Service History’s web site and may be viewed by going to: www.forestservicemuseum.org/exhibits The National Museum of Forest Service History, a non-profit organization, was formed in 1988 to share the rich history and story of America’s conservation legacy. The Museum shares the history of America’s conservation legacy through an extensive collection of 50,000 artifacts, traveling and virtual exhibits, a Conservation History Education program, and a 36-acre campus in Missoula, Mont. The Museum campus currently includes an historic Ranger’s Cabin that serves as Visitor’s Center; a pack corral with knot-tying stations; an “L-4” Fire Lookout Tower; and a winding Forest Discovery Trail with interpretive signage and interactive exhibits. A Capital Campaign is ongoing to build a world-class 30,000 sq. foot facility on the campus. The National Conservation Legacy and Education Center will inspire and inform the public about America’s conservation and public lands history. Neiman Enterprises is a family-owned business that has contributed to the management of the Black Hills National Forest. In 1936, A.C. Neiman started the company with a small sawmill near Upton, WY. In 1958, his son, James S. Neiman, began building Neiman Sawmills, Inc. in Hulett and started cutting mine timbers for Homestake Mining Co. Through the years, other sawmills were bought and updated.
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U.S. Lumber Purchases Alexandria Moulding U.S. Lumber Group, LLC, a leading two-step distributor of specialty building products in the Eastern and Midwestern U.S. and based in Atlanta, is acquiring Alexandria Moulding, headquartered in Alexandria, Ontario, Canada, a manufacturer and two-step distributor of a full range of moldings and accessories across all of Canada and the northern U.S. The combination will create a company with a broader geographic presence as well as enhanced product and service capabilities. Upon completion of the acquisition, Alexandria Moulding will continue to be led by its existing management team from its current headquarters. The companies expect to complete the transaction soon. U.S. Lumber was formed by the merger in 1998 of Atlantic Trading Co. and Bestwood Forest Products.
ATLARGE control tools and technologies and other related topics. Also speaking is Mario Angel with Woodtech Measurement Solutions, the developer of Logmeter, which uses 3D laser scanner technology coupled with image recognition software to measure the volume and biometric characteristics of logs on the truck. The second day consists of more QC topics and a brief look at planer setup and finishing quality with Harry Mead-
ows, Planer Consultant, and former SPIB quality supervisor. Learn how good manufacture on the finished end translates to improved grade yield and customer satisfaction. Quality and process technicians, product managers and supervisory personnel should attend. Cost for the course is $400. Register at blog.spib.org/spibquality-control-course-2018-lp/ or call 850-434-2611.
Enviva Remains Bully On Wood Energy Enviva reports three new 15-year market contracts with Japanese customers totaling 700,000 metric tons of pellets per year and and a 650,000 MTPY, five-year contract extension with Drax, meaning the company expects to continue substantial investment in new wood pellets plants in the U.S. Enviva continues to construct the 600,000 MTPY production plant in Hamlet, NC, which is expected to be operational in the first half of 2019. Enviva is studying the development of a deep-water marine terminal in Pascagoula, Miss. and a wood pellet production plant in Lucedale, Miss. Enviva expects to make a final investment decision on these facilities in late 2018 or early 2019. In addition, Enviva continues to consider building wood pellet production plants in Epes, Ala. and Taylorsville, Miss.
SPIB Will Conduct Quality Control Course SPIB Quality Supervisor Daniel Carroll will lead a Quality Control Course to be held October 23-24 at the Hilton Pensacola Beach, Pensacola, Fla.. Some main topics are size control, optimization parameters, tracking and collecting data, and troubleshooting drying problems. Guest presenter Nick Barrett with SiCam Systems will discuss lumber size TIMBER PROCESSING
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19301 St. Clair Ave. Cleveland, OH 44117 800-875-7637 • Fax: 800-875-6866 www.shorelineproducts.com
■ Georgia Beasley Forest Products, Inc.
Manufacturer of Quality, American Made Crane Mat Bolts
P.O. Box 788 Hazlehurst, GA 31539
Stock bolts – 7/8"-9, 1"-8, 1/4"-7 x 47 1/2
beasleyforestproducts.com
Custom Lengths upon request
Manufactures Kiln-Dried 4/4 Red and White Oak, Poplar, Ash and Cypress Contact: Linwood Truitt Phone (912) 253-9000 / Fax: (912) 375-9541 linwood.truitt@beasleyforestproducts.com
Pallet components, X-ties, Timbers and Crane Mats Contact: Ray Turner Phone (912) 253-9001 / Fax: (912) 375-9541 ray.turner@beasleyforestproducts.com
Larry Arth–Sales Contact us for a free quote today! 50 Years In Business
■ North Carolina Cook Brothers Lumber Co., Inc.
■ Tennessee
STACKING STICKS Manufacturer of Appalachian Hardwood Lumber LEONARD COOK, Sales (828) 524-4857 • cell: (828) 342-0997 residential: (828) 369-7740 P.O. Box 699 • Frankin, NC 28744 NATIONAL HARDWOOD LUMBER ASSOCIATION
Next closing: January 5, 2019
■ Kentucky HAROLD WHITE LUMBER, INC. MANUFACTURER OF FINE APPALACHIAN HARDWOODS
(606) 784-7573 • Fax: (606) 784-2624 www.haroldwhitelumber.com
Ray White
Domestic & Export Sales rwhite@haroldwhitelumber.com
Green & Kiln Dried, On-Site Export Prep & Loading Complete millworks facility, molding, milling & fingerjoint line
Buyers & Wholesalers We produce quality 4/4 - 8/4 Appalachian hardwoods • Red Oak, White Oak, Poplar •
Green Lumber: Air Dried, Kiln Dried Timbers & Crossties • Hickory, Sycamore, Beech, Gum & Elm • Custom Cut Timbers: Long lengths and wide widths
Sales/Service: 336-746-5419
336-746-6177 (Fax) • www.kepleyfrank.com
FOR SALE
AIR-O-FLOW profiled & FLAT sticks available Imported & Domestic DHM Company - Troy, TN 38260 731-538-2722 Fax: 707-982-7689 email: kelvin@kilnsticks.com www.KILNSTICKS.com
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MAINEVENTS OCTOBER 2-4—Arkansas Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Hot Springs Convention Center, Hot Springs, Ark. Call 501-374-2441; visit arkforests.org. 2-4—National Hardwood Lumber Assn. Annual Convention & Exhibit Showcase, Sheraton Centre Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Call 901-377-1818; visit nhla.com.
3-5—Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Assn. Fall Leadership and Board Meetings, Interlocken Resort, Broomfield, Colo. Call 800-365-0919; visit mslbmda.org. ●
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3-5—Southern Forest Products Assn. annual meeting, The Greenbrier, White Shulpher Springs, W.Va. Call 504-4434464; visit sfpa.org.
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