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IDAPINE MILLS

The Inventor On The Patent SmartLam Takes It Up A Notch New Planer Mill Provides Big Boost

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Investments Are Showing Returns Lumber Drying Technology Is Flourishing Western FB Gets It Going

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THEISSUES

Rich Donnell Editor-in-Chief

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ou’ll notice in the kiln drying section of this issue, several references to continuous dry kilns. We know certain equipment manufacturers that make them because we’ve seen theirs in action, and we’ve read about others who claim to make them, but maybe we haven’t seen theirs. Regardless, the continuous dry kiln is like…well, the curvesawing gang of the ’90s. I’m referring to momentous developments in sawmill operations of course. Obviously there have been many others, but these two come to mind.

Every time I read about a continuous dry kiln being sold by a certain manufacturer, I have to smile, because I think Andy Pollard still gets a piece of the action.

Or maybe that time has passed. But I still smile.

I recall in 2006 when I visited Pollard Lumber in Appling, Ga. and sat down with Andy to talk about the family sawmill business and about the direct-fired triple-length continuous dry kiln they had just installed.

Not satisfied with the mill’s drying results, Andy had decided to put his ideas into one of their aging kilns. So he built a kiln three times longer—adding 80 ft. to each end of the existing 80 ft. double track unit (no doors on it). Lumber would move through the kiln on respective tracks in opposite directions; the heat coming off the dry lumber would pre-heat the green lumber, and moisture coming off the green lumber would condition the dry lumber.

And it worked, big time, in terms of production, grade, inventory movement, etc. He contacted USNR, which agreed to build it, and they came up with a sales/royalty agreement of some kind.

Pollard filed for a patent in 2006 and was granted it, under his name, Levi A. Pollard. It refers to a “dual path kiln” and a “kiln having one or more chambers and at least two lumber charge paths adapted to convey lumber through the kiln in opposite directions.”

USNR started calling it a “counter-flow” continuous dry kiln. T. R. Miller put one in for poles a year later and within several years USNR had sold a couple dozen to the likes of Rex Lumber, Canfor, West Fraser and others.

Today USNR is one of several companies that builds and sells them. I know that Pollard and several others, such as consultant Doug Tinsley, are listed as inventors on several other patent filings for dual path kiln improvements, and I assume they’ve been granted these or some of these.

Another thing that caught my eye on Levi A. Pollard’s list of patents was one for a “method and apparatus for cutting a cant into boards.” The apparatus referred to is a gang saw mounted on a pivot axis to accommodate curvature in the cant as the cant moves through the cutting device. Hello curve-sawing.

Listed on this patent, dated March 3, 1998, is not only Pollard, but Ronald McGehee, Christopher Raybon, Russell Kennedy and Patrick Conry.

Pollard had apparently come up with the concept, McGehee of Ukiah built it and Hi-Tech Engineering (Raybon, Kennedy and Conry) put optimization on it.

They installed the first one at Pollard Lumber. At least that’s one version.

Unfortunately Pollard said he signed away his rights to the patent, whatever that means, though I think it means he didn’t collect any royalties on future sales.

Whether he did or not, and whether he still does or not on the continuous dry kiln, it’s quite remarkable that the same man was largely responsible for the conTP cepts behind two great machinery production achievements in sawmills.

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NEWSFEED SMARTLAM BEGINS MAJOR EXPANSION SmartLam Technologies Group, the first U.S. manufacturer of cross-laminated timber (CLT) products, is establishing a new headquarters and production facility at the former Plum Creek Timber/Weyerhaeuser lumber mill in Columbia Falls, Mont.

SmartLam plans huge leap into former Plum Creek sawmill site.

SmartLam expects to quadruple production compared to its existing operation in Columbia Falls and employment is expected at more than 75 by the end of 2019.

The SmartLam campus will be part of a 40-acre site that was recently purchased by Columbia Rising, LLC with the intention of redeveloping the space into a railserved industrial park.

“As more architects and builders learn about the performance and efficiency of CLT, demand for our products has accelerated rapidly,” said Casey Malmquist, president of SmartLam. “We have been looking for the right location to continue to grow our company since we launched it: mindful of the available resources, positioned optimally to receive locally-sourced raw materials, and accessible to multiple modes of transportation. This site is the right home for us.”

SmartLam is installing a new CLT line, including automated composing table, 54 ft. press line (Minda press), and full format sanding/finishing (Costa sander).

The company expects to focus on additional product certification, development and innovation. The company plans to occupy its new space by January 1, 2018.

Coming from a construction background, Malmquist was one of four founders of the company, which started putting the first production line together in summer 2012.

It produces 28,000 m3 per year (12MMBF).

Weyerhaeuser Co. purchased Plum Creek Timber in February 2016. The company quickly closed the former Plum Creek sawmill and plywood mill in Columbia Falls, citing reduced production capabilities due to log shortage.

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(CLT) and glulam.

“CLT is perfect for Katerra in that it’s a material that creates beautiful spaces, is designed for manufacturing, and is sustainable all at the same time,” says Michael Marks, chairman and co-founder of Katerra. “This material repre-

sents a great opportunity to create new value within the construction industry and will be central to many of the projects we’ll be designing and building. We are ready to help bring mass timber to the mainstream of U.S. construction.”

Katerra’s CLT factory will occupy 29 acres of a 52 acre site in Spokane Valley, with access to rail lines and interstate highways. More than 150 construction jobs will be created to build the CLT factory. Construction will break ground later this year, with production scheduled to begin early next year.

Through its end-to-end construction services model, Katerra expects to supply much of the CLT to projects where it will also serve as architect and contractor. One of Katerra’s first local Spokanearea CLT projects will be the construction of a new Hospitality Center in association with a Community Cancer Fund, Ronald McDonald House and Kootenai Health (Walden House).

ROSEBURG BUYS ACREAGE IN SOUTH Roseburg has acquired 158,000 acres of timberland in the Southeastern U.S. from Forest Investment Associates (FIA), a timberland investment management organization. The timberland is located around Roanoke Rapids, largely within the coastal region of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia.

“The property is an accretive addition to Roseburg’s Western-based timberland portfolio, with close proximity to broad, stable markets,” Roseburg Senior Vice President of Resources Scott Folk says. “With an attractive age class distribution and aboveaverage site productivity, the property represents significant long-term value for the company, as Roseburg seeks

to diversify and grow its timber holdings.”

Roseburg currently owns and manages more than 630,000 acres of timberland in Oregon and California, largely composed of Douglas fir.

“This acquisition advances Roseburg’s planned expansion into the Southeastern U.S., where steady housing starts and healthy markets create stable demand for high-quality timber,” Roseburg CEO Grady Mulbery says. “The region’s welcoming business environment and potential for growth also factored into our decision to add the property to our portfolio.”

Roseburg earlier announced it is constructing a laminated veneer lumber facility in Chester, SC. Groundbreaking is expected in early 2018, with anticipated operation startup in mid-2019.

WEYCO DIVESTS ACRES IN SOUTHEAST Weyerhaeuser announced an agreement to sell 100,000 acres of timberlands to Twin Creeks Timber for $202.5 million. The sale includes 80,000 acres in Mississippi and 20,000 acres in Georgia.

Weyerhaeuser is terminating agreements under which it has managed the Twin Creeks timberlands. “Through these transactions, we are simplifying our operations to focus on management of our own timberlands while continuing to strategically optimize our timberland portfolio,” says Doyle Simons, president and CEO of Weyerhaeuser.

Twin Creeks was formed as a joint venture between Plum Creek Timber and several institutional investors.

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IDAPINE MILLS

BIG STEP By Dan Shell

Idaho’s Krogh family moves operations closer to market and grows the company with new planer mill.

MERIDIAN, Id. uilding on a plan to move some finishing operations closer to lumber markets and distribution points, IdaPine Mills’ new planing facility here in Idaho’s Treasure Valley region along I-84 in the greater Boise area puts

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the company’s end products literally where the customers are. “Between having the Boise, Denver and Salt Lake City markets so close, we’re definitely strategically placed for the future,” says IdaPine Mills President Rodney Krogh, who spearheaded the project. He adds that at the new location trucks are available within hours and the rail line services the plant two or three times daily.

The move is the latest for Idaho’s Krogh family, who operate Clearwater Forest Industries, a planer mill in Kooskia, Id., and Evergreen Forest Products, a sawmill in New Meadows. The mills are owned by the family of longtime Idaho lumberman Bob Krogh, whose sons Rodney and Mark, who manages the New Meadows mill, and Jeff, production supervisor at the new Meridian planer mill, all work in the business.

For years Rodney Krogh had thought about moving finishing operations closer to the Boise market, but the downturn had slowed his plans. After markets began to improve in 2014, the company had already bought property for a new planer mill in Horseshoe Bend, just north of Boise.

Equipment decisions for that facility were already being made when IdaPine Mills’ current location became available: a former Plum Creek lumber reman plant and warehouse operation in Meridian located just blocks from I-84 that had closed in 2015. The 20 acre site features a total of 150,000 sq. ft across four buildings, includes rail service, was fully permitted for what IdaPine wanted to do and is located in an industrial area.

“This is what we needed to grow the company,” Krogh says, adding the plan

New IdaPine planer mill runs with high levels of labor-saving automation.

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Grader paired with trimmer enables plant to make cut-in-2 solutions for a wide variety of products.

is to eventually process lumber from other sources as well as its own inhouse mill.

PROJECT When developing plans for the new planing facility, Krogh toured mills in Canada that have extensive board planing and finishing operations. That’s when he ran across suppliers PLC, PLC USA and Inotech.

“First thing we noticed was everything was well-built, just like the old days, and that’s what we were looking for because some of the new equipment out there these days is pretty light,” Krogh says.

He also liked the idea of working with a smaller vendor eager to get into the U.S. West market at a time when many of the larger suppliers were backed up with orders as the industry improved.

Krogh eventually settled on PLC USA out of Florida as the contracting group that installed the equipment. Inotech supplied an innovative 21-saw trimmer with bank of PET saws. FinScan provided at MoistSpy moisture meter along with its BoardMasterNOVA lumber grading system. Kimwood supplied a rebuilt Stetson-Ross planer, and Samuel Strapping provided a packaging line and grade mark reader and stamper. Clarke’s Sheet Metal supplied the baghouse and

The 21-saw trimmer runs with a bank of PET saws.

shavings/dust truck bins.

PLC USA and Inotech handled much of the infrastructure manufacturing as well, with PLC USA also providing controls systems. Local contractor Boller Electric did a good job with electrical installation and integration, according to IdaPine officials.

Architectural engineering firm Glancy Rockwell & Associates did the engineering, and the project covered seven phases, says Don Bodewig, who oversaw the entire project.

In addition to installing the planer mill and related equipment, the project included raising the floor four feet due to a flood plain issue, insulating all four buildings, installing new power distribution systems and even remodeling the office.

Bodewig calls the project a “fast and furious” one: The first equipment arrived in May 2016 and the mill was running by the end of October.

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PLC stacker feeds to Samuel Strapping and packaging line.

most high-tech planer mills around, and we’re pretty proud of it.”

Both Bodewig and Rodney Krogh say the planer mill’s cut-in-two capability at the trimmer and ability to handle all sizes at the innovative PLC sorter is a key mark of flexibility and makes it easier for the

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mill to produce what customers want.

“I can’t say enough about the ability to do all the cut-in-twos for the big box stores and have two lumber lines going into the sorter,” Bodewig says.

After a cut-in-two is made, the transfer cases pull each separate board to the

respective far ends of the line. Of the 30-tray sorter, the top five have dual trays able to handle the two separate lengths.

Flexibility is important: “The trimmer with the grader gives us a ton of flexibility, and we can produce what the box

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Jeff Krogh, planer production supervisor

Innovative 30-tray sorter features five double trays at top.

Don Bodewig oversaw entire project.

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stores want, from 4-16 ft.,” Krogh says.

Bodewig notes that the mill has full Ethernet-PLC communications to enable more accurate monitoring and control. The facility’s high levels of automation mean the whole planer mill runs with six people. A total of 10 are employed at the site, and about half

worked for Plum Creek previously while others are new.

He adds that finding employees in the more populous Boise area hasn’t been a problem, and the mill’s automation systems make for easier training even with personnel who are new to the lumber industry.

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SAWMILL BOOST Moving closer to market with IdaPine Mills is a big move for the family business, but kiln and edger projects during the past decade at Evergreen Forest Products in New Meadows, Id. have boosted production of KD lumber and made transportation more efficient while increasing its output of premium shop grade material.

A sister company to IdaPine Mills and Clearwater Forest Industries in Kooskia, Id., the Evergreen sawmill runs heavy to pine, with some Douglas and white fir. A conventional sawmill that handles logs from 5-60 in., the facility also operates a 6 MW cogen plant that sells power to the Idaho PUC. In 2012, the mill completed moving six kilns (two projects, three at a time) from the Kooskia drying and finishing plant to the New Meadows sawmill. Shipping much of the sawmill’s green output to Kooskia almost 150 miles away meant higher trucking costs due to wet lumber.

Working with Wellons Inc., which reconditioned the kilns with new skins, thicker insulation, high-speed fans and new controls, the Evergreen mill is now 100% KD output, using steam pulled

Edger upgrades at sawmill have boosted high-grade lumber production.

from the cogen turbine to heat the kilns.

“Once we put the kilns in, trucking costs improved dramatically,” says Mark Krogh, Vice President and plant manager at Evergreen Forest Products. He adds that moving products from New Meadows to Kooskia and now Meridian is made even more efficient through inhouse trucking company KBC Transport,

which enables the company to better utilize its transportation capacity through scheduling and back hauls.

Inside the Evergreen sawmill, another big improvement came at the board edger several years ago following a project to upgrade scanning and optimization while also adding grade scanning capabilities that have greatly increased premium shop

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Kiln installation has made Evergreen mill an all KD facility.

and molding product production.

Working with USNR, Evergreen took an existing 5-saw Schurman edger and added a new scanner transfer and edger table infeed, plus a close-coupled shifting picker outfeed.

System upgrades were all USNR: The new scan frame features BioLuma 2900LV sensors with integrated HD laser profiling and HD color vision capabilities.

Grade classification is handled via a BioVision sawmill grade optimization system. The PLC system was upgraded to the ControlLogix platform with RMC150 motion control. A MillTrak camera controls the flow at the edger infeed.

The most obvious benefit, Krogh says, is an almost doubling of molding and shop output that reflects an effort by Evergreen to better meet customer needs. “Instead of a 15 in. pine shop board, for example, we’re moving toward selling a rip that customers can take straight to a chop line and reduce their own manufacturing costs,” he says.

Green end grade scanning has also made the final graders’ jobs easier, Krogh adds. “It’s simplified things a bit since (the grade) has already been identified,” and graders can make an evaluation instead of making a grading decision from scratch.

FUTURE The new planer mill in Meridian is on its way to becoming the company’s main sales office, Rodney Krogh says. “Our product line is becoming broader and more diverse, and Kooskia will still be an important facility for shop products because we can do more patterned products and things like ship lap and tongue-andgroove,” he states.

And while shop and molding sales will be out of Kooskia, and Evergreen will sell some timbers, the Meridian plant will be the main sales office, Krogh says.

He adds that the goal is to develop growth through more production that will eventually include outside lumber, and possibly taking another step or two closer to IdaPine’s customer base, perhaps with resaws or molders.

Krogh notes he’s seen a trend toward more investment in finishing or valueadded capabilities as opposed to primary and secondary breakdown, and he’s excited about the leadership at each facility.

“It’s the management teams we have who really make things go,” Krogh says.

“We really like the teams we have in place here and at Kooskia and New Meadows, and they’re a big part of what TP makes us successful.”

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BUILDING

RETURNS By Maria Church

Resolute’s newest sawmill is experiencing many successes and overcoming many challenges.

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ATIKOKAN, Ontario illes Plante, general superintendent of the Resolute Forest Products Atikokan sawmill in northwestern Ontario, has plans for the future of his mill: to be the best.

The former Quebecer, who transplanted to the sawmill in January 2016, says he wants to see Atikokan sawmill outshine Resolute’s other mills; not just in Ontario but across the company.

“My challenge is to be Resolute’s number one mill. I think we can achieve that,” Plante says. “We are proud and we are focusing on being the best sawmill in the company. I want to beat my buddies in Quebec!”

Situated a half-hour drive east of the small town of Atikokan, 200 kilometers northwest of Thunder Bay, the sawmill began lumber production in the summer of 2015 after an accelerated 13-month build. The chosen site was a former Buchanan Forest Products’ AFP mill, but Resolute began fresh by leveling out a new portion of land to accommodate a larger operation that would house a sawmill and planer mill under one roof.

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sawmill investment plan by Resolute in northwest Ontario.

Resolute is the largest forest products company in Eastern Canada. The company has several other operations in the area, including a pulp mill, paper mill, cogeneration plant, sawmill and a pellet mill in Thunder Bay, and a reopened sawmill in Ignace, 250 km northwest of Thunder Bay.

INNER WORKINGS Much of the mill’s sawline equipment was brought over from Resolute’s former Oak Hill sawmill in Nova Scotia, which closed in 2012. Built in a new 220x40 ft. building, the mill is a single-line 16 ft. sawline that is almost entirely supplied by Comact, including a new TBL-3 curve-sawing gang edger with a 10 in. arbor, which allows them to produce 2x3,

Resolute started up a new planer mill in spring 2015, followed shortly thereafter by the startup of a new green end. At top, right, General Superintendent at the Atikokan sawmill, Gilles Plante, and one of many young workers, Brody Riding.

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2x4, 2x6 and 2x10 dimension.

The mill’s two infeed decks lead to two Nicholson debarkers for 17 in. and 22 in. logs. From there the logs are separated into three sort bins for large, medium and small sorts. A Comact scanner picks up the shape and defects in the log before a double log turner and canter quad, followed by the TBL-3.

Resolute also invested in new material handling equipment purchased from Fabmec, a dust collection system acquired new from Rodrigue Metal and a natural gas kiln supplied by Wellons. A second natural gas kiln was moved from Oak Hill, upgraded and installed by Wellons.

A stacker, strip system and Samuel strapper were repurposed from closed Resolute mills in Nova Scotia and Quebec. A CAE chipper on site supplies high-quality wood chips for Resolute’s pulp mill in Thunder Bay. In the saw filing room are several Vollmer machines, as well as a new Kirschner LKX automated brazing machine from Scies BGR Saws. The Kirschner machine automatically removes and brazes carbide tips and features a pyrometer temperature control system, annealing system, and a vibration-free sorting system that uses laser optics to recognize carbide tips.

On the planer side, which runs under the same roof as the sawmill, Resolute purchased new a complete high-speed planer line, which was supplied entirely

by USNR save for a Comact GradExpert scanner. The planer mill opened in April 2015, a few months before the sawmill was up and running.

The planer mill from USNR includes the tilt hoist, planer infeed and outfeed, allelectric high speed planer, positioning fence, end trimmers, bin sorter, electric stacker, and management and flow system software. The planer mill also receives wood from Resolute’s Ignace 9 ft. stud sawmill located 165 km north of Atikokan.

The bulk of Atikokan’s production is hauled from the mill to the town of Atikokan where they are loaded onto rail and sent to U.S. markets.

Resolute wants to produce 150MMBF annually at the new mill.

Logs are generally under 22 in. diameter coming into the new sawline.

WORKFORCE The mill operates with two 9.5 hour shifts a day, with a 2.5 hour gap between shifts for maintenance. The sawmill’s targeted output is 150MMBF. “We’re encouraged by our steady progression in log counts per shift,” says Michael Martel, vice-president of forest products operations for Resolute in Ontario and Quebec.

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The Atikokan sawmill is part of a major investment program by Resolute.

Left to right, sisters and workers Amanda and Nicole Wilson

maintenance and operations members, most of whom are from Atikokan or have relocated there. Some employees are fly-in from other towns or cities.

The town has seen an employment boom over the past few years with the reopening of the Ontario Power Generation plant after a two-year conversion project from coal to wood pellets in 2014. California-based Rentech opened a wood pellet operation nearby around the

Median age of the mill staff is much lower here than at Resolute’s other mills—somewhere around 35. For some of the employees this is their first job or first job in an industrial environment, so training needs to be extra thorough and Resolute’s standard safety protocols drilled in, Martel says. When it comes to skilled tradespeople, the mill faces the same challenges as many industry operation across the country.

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same time. The result is that the 2,400person town is drained of employee capacity, which has been one of the main challenges for the sawmill.

“We’re finding that the staff who are hired not from town aren’t as likely to stay long-term,” says Scott Manford, Atikokan’s health and safety superintendent and an Atikokan local. “To get people to commit themselves to spending the next 15 years here is difficult.”

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“It’s very competitive in Canada for skilled electricians, optimization people, millwrights, saw filers, you name it, so we’re all challenged to find those same skilled workers with an aging workforce,” Martel says. “Quite frankly there has not been enough emphasis on the need for trades development. We haven’t valued it in Canada to the extent that we should have.”

To help tackle the worker shortage in trades and operations alike, Resolute is reaching out directly to the town of Atikokan and to nearby First Nations communities. The company has partnered with Cambrian College in Sudbury, Ont., and Confederation College in Thunder Bay to train First Nations students as apprentices with the goal of them working for a mill near their hometowns.

“We have right now six First Nations apprentices going to Cambrian College, who will likely be employed when they finish,” Martel says. “Our plan is to have another intake of students at Confederation College.”

All yard work on site is contracted out to Dallan Forestry LP, a 100% Aboriginal-owned partnership between Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation, Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation and Dale Levesque, a member of the Fort William First Nation. Dallan also provides mill yard services for Resolute’s Thunder Bay and Ignace sawmills and Thunder Bay pulp and paper operation, which helps Resolute focus on employing operators within the mill.

Manford hopes part of the draw for people will be the sawmill’s safety culture—a Resolute standard for its mills.

“We want everyone to go home safe every day,” Manford says. “You come to work, you do your job, you do it safely, and you go home and enjoy life. That’s the mentality we want.”

“Helping our woodland contractors achieve and working to increase the capacity of the woodlands operations is very important,” Martel says.

To help on the employment side, Resolute developed a web-based tool to make people aware of employment opportunities with logging companies. Interested parties submit their resumes to Resolute, and the company then pushes those out into the contractor community.

“We’re taking a more hands-on approach to connecting the potential labor force with the employers, recognizing

that they have a variety of skills and limited time—these are very busy entrepreneurs—to be able to dedicate to that,” Martel says.

For Resolute, the relationships its people are creating—whether it’s with First Nations partners, logging contractors and municipal partners—are what will help the company overcome challenges and TP build returns.

This article and photos appeared in Canadian Forest Industries, and appears here as part of an alliance between CFI and Timber Processing.

FIBER SUPPLY Atikokan’s wood is supplied by about 10 logging contractors who harvest from Resolute’s Atikokan and Ignace woodlands, all within an average 187 km radius of the sawmill. The sawmill’s wood mix is mainly spruce and jack pine, and the average target log size coming into the mill is 0.17 m3 per log.

Fiber supply has been an ongoing challenge, with logging contractors facing similar employment shortages and with harvest areas often hundreds of kilometers away from the mill. Challenges for contractors mean challenges for the sawmill.

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DRY KILN SUCCESS IN SOUTH AFRICA Viljoens team up at Timbersoft and bank on Wagner.

are very close. The system keeps improving. The goal is to leave the operator with only a start button…the program does the rest and stops at target moisture content (MC%). The operator won’t have to make any decisions.”

Since Henco joined the company full time, the business has grown by more than 300% and is still growing. Kilns running their system are currently drying about 300,000 m3 annually and are expected to increase to 400,000 m3 by the end of 2017.

MOISTURE MATTERS

Left to right, Johan and Henco Viljoen, co-owners of Timbersoft

By Tony Morgan

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enco Viljoen, co-owner of Timbersoft in South Africa, is passionate about lumber drying. He inherited this passion from his father, mentor and co-partner, Johan Viljoen. Together they have developed customized drying systems for fine-tuning, improving and upgrading kilns.

The result? Their client sawmills in South Africa are now generating greater productivity, higher quality products, and increased profits.

“Our main business is optimizing the drying process,” says the younger Viljoen, who works from Sedgefield in the Garden Route section of the Western Cape. “Our strong suit is my father’s 50+ years hands-on knowledge, not only of drying, but the sawmilling industry as a whole, and my 20-year wood technology/IT automation background.”

When Johan retired from milling in 2005, he decided to use his hands-on approach in helping other mills to improve their kiln drying. But he quickly discovered a problem: Mills were now very technology driven, using computers, PLC and SCADA interfaces. He soon re-

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alized that processes happen behind the scenes in software code that he had no control over.

This is where Henco got involved with his IT knowledge. The Viljoens installed their first PLC/SCADA based kiln controller in late 2005. Installations and upgrades followed at regular intervals. The client base grew, and by 2013 Henco joined Timbersoft on a full-time basis after a career in IT and automation.

In 2013, Henco started a small research project where he combined solar and heat pump technologies with their PLC and SCADA system to dry hardwoods “smokeless without a boiler.” The kiln dried Eucalyptus boards, which normally dry in four weeks, dried in less than two weeks.

This technology opened up many more advancements, including the development of smoke/boiler free drying and ISPM15 heat treatment systems.

“It also allowed me to make an indepth study of the drying process, dynamics, and controls, enabling me to really improve our drying system by leaps and bounds. We used Johan’s vent cycle approach and developed a dynamic, self-adjusting schedule,” Viljoen remarks.

“Although not yet 100% foolproof, we

Moisture measurement is an integral link in the drying management chain— and forms part of Timbersoft’s process control. For that very important reason, Timbersoft relies upon moisture measurement.

Viljoen says a moisture meter in the hands of a kiln operator is like a calculator or Excel spreadsheet in the hands of an accountant. Neither can go without it.

Viljoen personally uses a Wagner L606 handheld meter to measure moisture in the kilns because of its speed, ac-

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KILNDRYING curacy, dependability, consistency and ease of use. Many of his clients use Wagner’s MMC220, L612 and L622 models, and the L722 stack probe for exactly these reasons.

“The Wagner brand is very big in South Africa sawmilling with good reason. If you think capacitance moisture meter, Wagner is the first name that comes to mind. Even in student literature used by Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University’s Wood Technology course, the Wagner is used as an example of a capacitance meter,” Viljoen says. “You don’t hear of a Wagner meter that just stopped working.”

While in-kiln moisture meters are important in achieving excellent results, Viljoen believes that MC alone should not be used as the only guide to where the schedule should be. However, for stopping at a desired final MC, it cannot be beaten.

“The way the moisture evaporation rate in the timber reacts to a set point should be taken into consideration. This can be seen by observing how your vents react to a set point, but only when preparation, process control, and maintenance remain constant.

“If you have the in-kiln moisture measuring facility and you know how to interpret all the information your kiln controller is giving you, then you are on the road to becoming the best kiln operator a boss could ask for,” Viljoen declares.

HIGH-TECH WARNING Because the Viljoen team is highly knowledgeable about using technology to dry lumber, Timbersoft has achieved exceptional success. However, they caution that operators who do not know how to interpret the information provided by high-tech systems can block improvements.

“A kiln operator should be more skilled than just able to see the dry bulb is running low (call the boiler room), or the wet bulb is running high (fix water issue/check probe), or the in-kiln target MC% is reached (pull the timber),” he Viljoen says.

The new high-tech systems have made kiln drying more graphic, and for a good operator with a clear understanding of these systems, it should be considerably easier. But for operators who lack this understanding, Viljoen says the ease of changing multiple variables can and has been catastrophic.

Boiler-less kiln at CHEP

Solar and heat pump technology

“Kiln operators who use high-tech systems should never make more changes to a schedule than what they can accurately identify the outcome of,” he remarks.

“Make a study of your kiln controller.

Don’t just accept everything it presents you with. Try to figure out the logic it’s applying. More often than not, the programmer has no idea what kiln drying is about. The same applies to the kiln expert—he/she often has very little idea what programming is about. The operator needs to ask questions because the more he knows and understands, the more he’ll realize how little he knew when he started.”

MANAGEMENT Viljoen says there are five points of drying management. If one of the first three changes, then the schedule optimization is affected.

The first three points include preparation, process control, and maintenance.

Preparation involves sawing accuracy, board dimension and stacking procedures.

Process control involves airflow, energy distribution and management, humidity control and venting. Maintenance involves electrical, mechanical, instrumentation and structure.

When any of those three changes, it affects the dynamics of the kiln. This affects the rate at which moisture leaves the lumber, meaning that the MC is not yet where it’s supposed to be at that stage in drying.

A MC-based schedule is more forgiving, as it is supposed to only progress to the next stage of drying when a certain MC is reached. A standard time-based schedule, however, won’t know what to do. This is why it’s of utmost importance that a kiln operator spots these abnormalities on the process graph and have the authority to stop the kiln and have it fixed.

Quality control is essential for production yield and profitability. And one of the key factors in a good quality control program is moisture management.

Inaccurate readings can lead to delays, low yields, and poor grade inspections. That’s why Timbersoft considers kiln moisture monitoring, using the Wagner moisture meters, to be part of its overall success.

Timbersoft has many successful client case studies as proof of its customized approach to kiln moisture management.

Learn more at www.tskilns.co.za. And, learn more about Wagner’s wood moisture measurement solutions at TP https://www.wagnermeters.com.

Tony Morgan is a senior technician for Wagner Meters, where he serves on a team for product testing, development, and also customer service and training for moisture measurement products. Along with 19 years of field experience for a number of electronics companies, Morgan holds a B.A. in Management and his AAS in Electronics Technology.

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VINTAGE KILNS RECEIVE ROOF JOB

One of USNR’s interesting retrofit projects in recent years occurred at the sawmill at Roseburg’s massive and historical complex in Dillard, Ore. The stud mill, which processes mostly Doug fir, hemlock and white fir, wanted to increase dry output to capture market opportunities.

For this project, Roseburg chose eight of its kilns to be re-roofed—six double track kilns and two single tracks. Four of the kilns were 1940s vintage and the other four were added in the 1960s.

The project also included upgrading the Kiln Boss control system already in use on the eight kilns and adding SCS moisture sensing. At the same time, Roseburg undertook a steam conversion to increase the heat applied to the pro-

AWD Offers Variety For Hardwood, Softwood

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cess and decrease drying time.

The re-roof project was done in phases, with two delivered at a time to allow continuous production and not overwhelm the lumber storage area.

From USNR’s perspective, the biggest challenge was determining how the old roof was constructed and supported as no drawings of the old roof could be found. As well, coordination and timing of the roof delivery and installation was critical to maintaining Roseburg’s production targets. Overall the project took about four months to complete.

All eight kilns are operated with Kiln Boss controls integrated with the SCS in-kiln moisture sensing system, to advance the drying schedule automatically from fiber saturation point down to the equalization or condition-

ing step. Then it is designed to shut off the kiln once the average moisture content target is reached. In the old process the operators would shut the kiln down and open the doors, allowing it to partially cool and then test the lumber with a hand meter, possibly losing a huge amount of energy if additional drying was needed. Now with the in-kiln moisture meters the sensors tell them when the load is done, no interruption, no wasted time and no wasted energy.

The project was proof positive that sometimes the smartest investment can be to retool older systems with new technology. Not only can it reduce downtime and greatly extend the life of valuable assets, it can allow mills to remain competitive for the longer term.

ous 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.

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.

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, predryers, steamers and specialty drying systems.

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KILNDRYING Better Built Celebrates 20 Years In Business Better Built Dry Kilns was established

by Larry Randall in 1997. His son, Chris, graduated with his MBA from UK in 2004 and joined his father in the business.

His daughter, Alex, graduated with a degree in HR from NKU and joined her father in 2006.

With 30 years of experience in dry kiln sales for national and international com-

panies in both dehumidification and conventional kilns, Randall has seen most of the pitfalls in dry kiln construction and components.

BBDK presents a kiln package that substantially reduces those pitfalls. BBDK offers dryers that are top performers and are appreciated for their quality and precision, installed by experienced professionals.

Special attention is paid to every component from the 304 stainless steel finned pipe with extruded aluminum fins, to the 304 stainless steel supply and return lines, to the 304 stainless steel interior skins and the R32 insulated walls and roof.

The company philosophy is to bring a trouble free, long lasting product to the end user at a

competitive price. Truly, “Better Built.”

BBDK specializes in the sale and installation of dry kilns, center fan wall predryers, walnut/cherry steamers and pallet heat treaters. Kilns offered can be package or track loaded, high or low pressure steam fired, hot water heated, direct or indirect fired format. Dehumidifiers are also available in various sizes.

Brunner Hildebrand Goes For Tailor-Made Solutions Brunner Hildebrand Lumber Dry Kiln Co. has been serving the U.S. lumber industry with dry kilns for more than 50 years and is based in Nashville, Tenn. Its dry kiln solutions are based on decades of experience in the demanding lumber drying conditions of the North American sawmill industry. This experience and expertise ensures that its customers are able to receive individual dry kiln solutions tailored to the needs of each sawmill.

Brunner Hildebrand manufactures a complete line of dry kilns—package kilns (forklift and track loaded for softwood and hardwood), continuous kilns,

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KILNDRYING steamers, heat-treating, pre-dryers, vacuum and various types of kiln controls with on-line service. Each year the company invests a significant percentage of its turnover in research and development to improve and develop drying technologies that will assist mills that are on the lookout for new ideas or opportunities for a better bottom line.

The BH control system can be designed with a hybrid relative humidity

measuring system (excellent for the oak species) where it uses the EMC wafer from green-to-40% relative humidity and then the wet bulb system kicks in automatically for the relative humidity range between 40% to 10%.

BH has also introduced a multi-function wood moisture measuring system to further assist in improving grade. The control system allows combining sample weight inputs and wireless probes based

on level of wood moisture content (MC).

It is suggested to use sample weights for wood MC over 30% and switch the drying process to shell and core wireless probes once below 30% wood MC. Brunner Hildebrand recently introduced a new highly efficient continuoustype 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 the Alexander HILDEBRAND Continuous Kiln, the company put great emphasis on creating exactly the right drying conditions (temperature, climate, air 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. Conditions are perfectly adjusted to the lumber moisture content at all times. Other features: l Continuous volume feed to bring the lumber product quicker to market l Integrated with the logistics of the mill l Multitrack, flexible, and able to dry different species within the same kiln l Volume drying at the lowest possible cost l Maximize grade yield, l Optimized energy efficiency in-line with green initiatives and applicable funding programs l Adapted to any heat source and heating medium l Featuring the company’s new “GreenKiln” technology for energy management and the Hildebrand Turbo Technology (HTT) ensuring tight final moisture distribution for maximum planer yield.

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HDE Dry Kilns Offers Total Package HDE Dry Kilns is a joint venture formed by the ownerships of Lignomat USA, which has been supplying dry kiln controls since 1979, and Harbin Halei Dry Kilns, one of the largest kiln manufacturers in the world. The roots of the company go back to Robert Hildebrand, who is widely considered to be the originator of what has become the modern dry kiln.

HDE kilns take the best of what the world has to offer—components, design, technology and support—and puts it together in a package that results in the best value, performance, efficiency, production and profitability for kiln users. HDE incorporates German design, high quality chambers from Asia, with heating units, plumbing, valves, and electrical controls from the United States, including Lignomat kiln controls. They feature all aluminum/stainless steel construction, UL approved motor controls, and variable pitch fans using Smithco technology.

HDE Dry Kilns offer track or package loaded kilns as well as container kilns. All can be used to dry lumber, heat treat pallets, and dry or heat treat firewood. Custom sizes and configurations are available, as well as several standard models for even more value.

HDE Dry Kilns are represented exclusively in North America by Heicor Enterprises, LLC, Portland, Ore.

KILNDRYING With the customer always in mind, the MP32 system is backwards compatible with the last kiln control platform. With multi-platform and network capabilities, the MP32 can be remotely controlled and monitored from any mobile device, via any operating system with your hardware and without a paid service such as TeamViewer. No longer dependent on a Microsoft Windows PC, the secure, open source controller includes detailed instal-

lation documents and troubleshooting tools allowing for a smooth and timely installation by a Lignomat technician or by able staff.

The MP32 focuses on quality and flexibility to assist in reducing dry times while not sacrificing quality. Options such as adjustable safety features and drying PID parameters and schedule integrated sample Calc-Form help fine-tune and save time. The MP32’s freely programmable

Lignomat Offers Control For Kilns, Predryers

If you are looking to upgrade or purchase dry kilns or predryers, consider Lignomat’s MP32 Kiln & Predryer Control System.

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KILNDRYING drying schedules can be time-based or moisture-content-based determined by MC probes or integrated weight samples.

One popular tool is unique schedule editing. Modify and save running schedules without affecting the original schedule in your library. Adjust, apply, adapt and be ready for next time. Text and email alerts, AHDC, Peak Energy Management and Timber Rest are a few more

tools at the kiln operator’s disposal with the Lignomat MP32.

Lignomat offers quality hardware and software design for the worldwide lumber industry to reduce drying times and energy consumption. All of the control systems, monitoring systems, inline moisture meters and handheld moisture meters are built in America and sold at competitive prices.

Mühlböck: Specialist In Timber Drying

For more than 35 years, Mühlböck Holztrocknungsanlagen GmbH of Eberschwang, Austria, has in its own facility developed and manufactured timber drying kilns, delivering them worldwide.

Currently more than 12,000 of its dry kilns, of different models and sizes, are in operation.

At the same time the in-house Research and Development Dept. is constantly developing new technologies for their kilns, to ensure the economic success of the Mühlböck customer—on the one hand through the high quality of the components that are being applied, the fast customer service and the support for questions about the drying process, and on the other hand through the potential of high savings in the electrical and thermal energy consumption of their dry kilns.

The spectrum of Mühlböck drying kilns includes: l conventional side loading, fresh air ventilated dry kilns l continuous kilns, with automated, continuous transport systems (Mühlböck Progressive) l high performance kilns with heat recovery systems, for considerable savings in thermal energy (Mühlböck Type 1003, Type 603) l kilns with reduced thermal & electrical energy consumption (Mühlböck Type 606/1306) l wood chip/sawdust dryers for sawmill byproducts l combined dry-steam kilns l vacuum kilns l the most modern software for operation of the kilns (Mühlböck K5 Control System) Following continuous innovations in the drying kiln segment, in recent years Mühlböck has also focused on the further development of the Progressive kiln.

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KILNDRYING kind of heat recovery system, the company has accomplished a milestone with regard to saving thermal energy.

In the Progressive kiln the timber is moved through the dryer on transport wagons and thereby exposed to different climatic conditions. Custom designed according to timber type, dimensions, initial moisture content and the desired final moisture content, the Progressive kiln delivers a consistent output of high quality lumber.

Valutec Thinks Continuous For NA The desire to increase the use of wood is the ultimate reason for Valutec’s work.

It has been combining Scandinavian expertise in the field of lumber drying for the last 100 years. This has all been done with the aim of pushing the boundaries of what is possible in regards to creating value-adding lumber dryers as well as intelligent kiln control systems. Valutec’s focus in North America is on unidirectional continuous kilns. “In that field we are the unrivaled world market leader,”

the company states.

Valutec’s unidirectional continuous kilns offer the following advantages: l corrosion resistant stainless steel enclosure l controlled kiln condensate collection l accurately controlled kiln schedules l high flexibility due to multiple, independently controlled drying zones l pneumatic pressure frames to replace hazardous kiln weights l the most service friendly kilns in the industry

l no in kiln lumber moisture measuring due to unique control system with drying schedule simulator l lumber can be sent from the kiln directly to the planer without any intermediate storage l extremely low final standard deviation l more than 2,000 installations worldwide The Valutec Group has offices in Canada, Sweden, Finland, Germany and Russia.

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Wagner Provides Omega Moisture Measurement Whether your company is a primary lumber mill or a secondary wood products operation, with or without dry kilns, the Omega In-Line Moisture Measurement System should be your most important moisture measurement and analysis tool. Whether it is installed upstream or

downstream of your planing or molding operation, a sideways or end-to-end configuration, the benefits of having an Omega system are the same: l Keeping moisture problems out of your mill l Improve your kiln drying, your grade recovery and your bot-

tom line by minimizing moisture-related degrade, excessive drying energy costs, wet claims and overall moisture quality control issues Omega, Wagner’s latest generation of moisture measurement systems, continues a legacy of providing comprehensive and robust moisture measurement and data analysis tools that are so critical now for today’s modern wood products mills. Especially designed for the lumber mill or wood products manufacturing environment, Omega and its optional data collection and analysis software is an invaluable tool for improving your kiln drying or overall moisture quality control.

SII Dry Kilns Builds On Experience, Technology

Since 1969 SII Dry Kilns of Lexington, NC has been providing the lumber industry with high quality lumber drying equipment. SII specializes in hardwood dry kilns in conventional and track loaded as well as the “SII Design” center fan wall designs; softwood dry kilns in dual path or batch loaded with heating systems including direct fired or steam; cross flow/center fan wall or down draft predryers; fan shed equipment; pallet and firewood drying/heat treating chambers.

SII is now the official North America representative for WDE Maspell, one of the worldwide leaders in vacuum kiln technology. WDE Maspell offers vacuum kilns in press or air as well as Thermal Modification Kilns.

Currently, the patented process uses “vacuum technology” in conjunction with elevated temperatures (up to 230°C/446°F) to provide truly unique thermally modified wood.

SII offers a complete range of kiln controls including the “Sample Watch” inkiln weight system (now in wireless). SII also provides kiln repair services and a full line of kiln parts and accessories.

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A SMOOTH LIFT FOR LOGS New electro-hydraulic motion controller gives Western FP a boost.

By Richard Meyerhoefer

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ydraulics is great for lifting heavy loads, but the same power that is required to produce a large amount of lifting force can also do damage if it is not controlled correctly.

Western Forest Products (WFP) of Vancouver, British Columbia uses two powerful hydraulic cylinders with a lifting capacity of 50 tons to lift bundles of wet western hemlock, Douglas fir and western red cedar logs out of the adjoining bay and into the company’s mill in Ladysmith, BC. The cylinders are connected to lifting arms, which are attached to either side of a large cradle, which lifts the log bundles out of the water onto the log deck at the mill operating elevation. Both lifting arms must move in unison or else the cradle could be damaged.

BETTER SOLUTION To improve the reliability of the log lifting operation, the mill managers approved a recommendation from Cory Wilson (electrical supervisor) and Jar-

The Western Forest Products bundle lift arms at the company’s Ladysmith, BC mill are used to lift bundles of logs out of the bay. To get an idea of the relative size of the arms, look for the person with hardhat standing above the arm and next to the hydraulic lift cylinder.

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rad Astren (maintenance reliability engineer) to upgrade the motion control system operating the arms. “We used to control the arms with a circa 1986 PLC operating a linear positioning module, but it was difficult to ensure the arms moved in unison,” Wilson says. “The old system was installed 20 years ago and there was a lot of corrosion in the mechanical and electrical parts. We wanted to update the new equipment using rigid pipe and stainless steel to protect from the corrosive effects of saltwater. We also wanted a motion control solution that would precisely synchronize the motion of the arms.”

Wilson says they had previously installed several new machines in the mill which used motion controllers made by Delta Computer Systems, Inc. of Battle Ground, Wash., and sold by PQ Systems, Delta’s distributor in Burnaby, BC, and had very good results with them. They have also found that troubleshooting the Delta was much easier than other control systems that were used in the past.

To manage the synchronization of the hydraulic arm lifting cylinders, Delta Computer Systems RMC motion con-

trollers have a built-in axis synchronization function, whereby the motion of one axis can be precisely linked electronically to that of another. For this application, Wilson chose the eight-axis RMC150 electro-hydraulic motion controller.

HOW IT WORKS The bundle gets raised using two large (31 ft. long) hydraulic cylinders that lift the arms in an arc out of the bay. The motion controller controls the lifting cylinders using position data obtained from magnetostrictive linear displacement transducers (MLDTs) mounted in smaller 30 in. following cylinders. Each following cylinder is mounted below a main lifting cylinder, and is connected to at a different point on the lifting arm. By reading position information from the MLDTs and factoring in the size ratio between the smaller and larger cylinders, the motion controller is able to precisely calculate the position of the main cylinders.

The Delta RMC150 also connects to pressure sensors mounted in the large cylinders that allow the motion controller to monitor the hydraulic pressure and display it on the bundle lift’s human machine interface (HMI).

“We’re just monitoring the pressure right now, but in the future we could use this pressure information to weigh the log bundle,” Wilson says.

To precisely control cylinder extension, the RMC150 drives two proportional servo valves, with each valve controlling one main lifting cylinder.

The RMC150 has the ability to precisely synchronize motion operations. Under synchronized control, when one cylinder is moved, the other will also move. If an axis should lag too much, the controller will stop the motion.

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at different speeds depending on the loads, and the amount of force required to move the bundle lift changes depending on the angle of the arms. Though the speed may change, the arm motion will continue to be synchronized.

Besides the main lifting arms, the Delta motion controller employs a third control axis that controls a secondary piece of equipment that lifts logs, one at a time, from the log deck onto the belt that feeds into the mill. To control this axis, the RMC150 gets its position inputs from a magnetostrictive linMulti-phase diagram shows a lifting arm in different angles of ear displacement transextension. The red line marks the following cylinder at its ducer embedded within maximum extension when the arm is down. The green line another following cylinmarks the position of the following cylinder as it is retracted der, to control oil flow when the arm is raised. The blue line shows the location of the in this cylinder via anmain lifting cylinder when the arm is raised (lifting cylinder other hydraulic servo when arm is down is not shown). valve. Since one trol gives us a huge advantage,” Wilson RMC150 can handle up to eight motion explains. “The lifting arms can deviate a axes simultaneously, it was no problem maximum of 9 or 10 inches at the end of for the same controller to handle the the arm without doing damage to the log bundle lifting arms and the log lifting carriage, so we designed the new lifting arm all moving at the same time. system to keep the ends of the bundle lift to within 4 or 4.5 inches of each other. At TEMPERATURE the following cylinders, this corresponds to a MLDT transducer reading target There are three hydraulic units powrange of about ½ inch.” ering the bundle lift equipment, containThe log carriage will raise and lower ing a total of ten 50 HP motors. Since

The RMC150 motion controller is the black module at the upper right in the Western Forest Products electrical panel. It connects to the PLC (upper left) via the yellow Ethernet cable.

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the properties of hydraulic fluid can change with temperature, the system can react differently to the same control inputs in different environmental conditions. To minimize these effects, one of the other changes that Wilson made in the system upgrade was to install analog temperature sensors in all the hydraulic power units, giving the PLC the ability to monitor the temperatures and control the hydraulic pumps.

Wilson saw this helpful hint for improved environmental controls in a piece of Delta Computer Systems application literature. The hydraulic oil temperature, tank level and pump current on each motor are displayed on the HMI so that the operator can observe any differences between readings and take any necessary action.

“We can now tell exactly which pump may be having a problem with a quick glance,” Wilson says.

Astren adds, “Being able to monitor the condition of the equipment on the fly using the Delta controller has helped streamline our maintenance routines; we now catch hydraulic issues before the equipment fails and can act preventatively rather than reactively.”

The WFP engineering team developed the HMI for the bundle lift themselves. The Delta controller makes all the key system parameter values available via EtherNet/IP for reading by an external PLC, which in turn takes the information and displays it on the operator screen.

WFP’s controls team used Delta Computer Systems’ RMCTools software to program the motion. The Delta support environment includes a powerful Plot Manager tool that displays the difference between target and actual motion parameter values in real time, and a Tuning Wizard that simplifies the task of setting the gain factors used in closed-loop control.

“We saw that in certain areas of the stroke the arms had trouble lifting the load, but we found that we could simply plug new control loop gain coefficients into the system to get it to work perfectly,” Wilson says. “RMCTools allowed us to do tuning on the fly.”

The bundle lift controls have now been designed so that the lifting arms will stop if they ever get out of alignment. Following this, when the operator gives a start command, the motion controller puts the arms back into alignment and then the cycle resumes.

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Valutec Gains Order From Ziegler

Valutec has ensured its 10th continuous kiln delivery in 10 years to central Europe. This follows the order from German Ziegler Holzindustrie, Europe’s largest privately owned sawmill.

The plant to be delivered is currently the largest that Valutec has built in central Europe, and one of the largest in the company’s history. Its capacity totals 110,000 m3 (46.6MMBF) of lumber per year.

“This is our third order from Ziegler Holzindustrie. This shows they really believe in our solutions,” says Robert Larsson, CEO at Valutec.

Valutec has previously supplied two continuous kilns to Ziegler Holzindustrie. The first delivery was 10 years ago and was followed up in 2014 with an OTC continuous kiln, boasting a capacity of 50,000 m3 (21.200MMBF).

The new TC continuous kiln will be designed Ziegler’s Kai with space for three packages at air-blow depth, instead of two, which has long been standard. It Matthies will have 10 individual drying zones.

“Valutec’s TC continuous kiln is an excellent choice for us, as this solution meets our high demand for capacity combined with flexibility. We have also had very good experiences working with Valutec in recent years,” stresses Kai Matthies, head of wood drying at Ziegler Holzindustrie.

There is huge market potential for lumber drying in central Europe, where there has been a high proportion of lumber that does not have a long drying phase, when compared to places such as the Scandinavian countries. In line with clients increasing their quality requirements, greater volumes of side-sawn boards have begun to be dried, which has created openings for Valutec, specifically for TC continuous kilns.

The plant is being made from stainless steel and will be equipped with Valutec’s Valmatics control system. It will be put into operation in February 2018 and will then be the second TC continuous kiln in Germany.

USNR Will Supply Press For Katerra USNR has received an order for a cross-laminated timber press from Katerra for a new plant to be built in Spokane, Wash., USNR designed and supplied the CLT press for the D.R. Johnson CLT operation at Riddle, Ore. in 2015. Since then USNR reports it has fielded many inquiries, and the announcement of the Katerra order follows Katerra’s official announcement that it is building the plant in Spokane.

Training Center Opens In Colorado Stiles Machinery Inc. understands the importance of investing in future industry leaders and equipping them with the skills and knowledge they need to be successful.

One of the ways Stiles is putting this belief into action is through its support of the Manufacturing Industry Learning Lab’s National Training Center located in Colorado Springs, Col., which opened in October.

The Manufacturing Industry Learning Lab (MiLL) is a program dedicated to empowering the next generation of manufacturing professionals through advanced training courses in lean manufacturing. In support of these efforts, Stiles Machinery has contributed multiple state-of-the-art woodworking machines that will be used in conjunction with the MiLL’s hands-on training.

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NEWSFEED 6➤ Meanwhile Twin Creeks Timber also received a contribution of 21,000 acres located in the Pacific Northwest from Green Diamond Resource Co. Through the addition of these timber assets, Twin Creeks will increase its Southern portfolio to 360,000 acres and add the Pacific Northwest to its portfolio.

Green Diamond will become a new equity partner in Twin Creeks and Green Diamond Management Co., a whollyowned subsidiary of Green Diamond, will become manager of Twin Creeks’ timber assets portfolio.

Finland. The range of solid wood products includes lumber, profiled timber, single-ply and multi-ply edge-glued solid wood panels, glulam beams and binderholz CLT BBS. Any waste timber, resulting as a byproduct from production, is processed as densified biofuels, green electricity, multi-purpose panels, molded pallet blocks and molded wood pallets.

GLULAM MILL SOLD TO HASSLACHER GROUP The Rubner corporate group has sold Nordlam GmbH and Abbundzentrum Nordlam GmbH to the Hasslacher group.

Nordlam GmbH was founded by Rubner in 2000 as a greenfield project and has grown to become one of the largest glulam producers in Europe.

In the last few years the site at Magdeburg, Germany was extended by adding a cutting center and a second glulam production line. Today around 200,000 m3 of glulam are produced in Magdeburg and sold worldwide.

Hasslacher group plans to increase production at the Magdeburg site enlarge the product portfolio.

AUSTRIA’S BINDERHOLZ PURCHASES KLENK Austria’s binderholz Group, with headquarters in Fügen, has reached an agreement with The Carlyle Group to acquire the German sawmill and timber processing company Klenk Holz AG based in Oberrot.

It is expected that the three Klenk sawmill sites will be expanded, and the Klenk Holz brand will be retained.

With this acquisition, the binderholz Group is now one of the largest producers of lumber in Europe. In 2017 alone, more than 5 million m3 of logs will be sawn in the Group’s seven sawmills in Austria, Germany and Finland. More than 2 million m3 of solid wood products are produced from the 3 million m3 of lumber. binderholz has 12 sites: A workforce of 2,530 operates out of five sites in Austria, fives in Germany and two in TIMBER PROCESSING

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If there’s biomass to be had in Georgia, Twin Rivers Land & PalletTimber components, X-ties, Timbers and Crane will find it.Mats Contact: Ray Turner Phone (912) 253-9001 / Fax: (912) 375-9541 ray.turner@beasleyforestproducts.com

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MAINEVENTS NOVEMBER 1-3—Forestry Association of South Carolina annual meeting, Hyatt Regency, Greenville, SC. Call 803-798-4170; visit scforestry.org.

3—American Lumber Standard Committee annual meeting, Savannah, Ga. Call 301-972-1700; visit alsc.org.

JANUARY 2018 17-21—Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers annual meeting, J W Marriott, Marco Island, Fla. Call 336-885-8315; visit www.appalachianwood.org.

FEBRUARY 2018 6-8—Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen’s Assn. annual meeting, Indianapolis Marriott Downtown, Indianapolis, Ind. Call 317875-3660; visit ihla.org.

6-9—Fimma-Maderalia 2016, Feria Valencia, Valencia, Spain. Visit fimma-maderalia.feriavalencia.com/en.

13-14—Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE), Omni Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 334-834-1170; visit pelice-expo.com.

22-24—American Wood Protection Assn. annual meeting, Seattle Marriott Waterfront, Seattle, Wash. Call 205-733-4077; visit awpa.com.

MAY 2018 8-12—Xylexpo 2016, Fiera Milano Rho Fairgrounds, Milan, Italy. Phone +39-02-89210200; Visit xylexpo.com/index.php/en.

JUNE 2018 9-12—Assn. Of Consulting Foresters Of America annual meeting, Grove Park Inn, Asheville, NC. Call 703-548-6395; visit acf-foresters.org.

JULY 2018 29-August 1—Walnut Council annual meeting, Grand River Center, Dubuque, Iowa. Call 765-583-3501; visit walnutcouncil.org.

OCTOBER 2018 17-19—Timber Processing & Energy Expo, Portland Expo Center, Portland, Ore. Call 334-834-1170; visit timberprocessingandenergyexpo.com.

Listings are submitted months in advance. Always verify dates and locations with contacts prior to making plans to attend.

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