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Bob Freres Dies In Oregon
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SHUQUALAK LUMBER
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AMERICAN WOOD DRYERS
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THE KATERRA WAY
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CUTTING TOOLS
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No Project Too Tough Stronger Than Ever
Mass Timber Momentum Builds
Several Companies Step Forward
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Timber Products Inspection Is 50
MACHINERY ROW Canfor Goes With USNR Edger Line
COVER: Shuqualak Lumber in Mississippi has started up a new profiler in front of an upgraded gang, and been busy with other projects as well. Story begins on PAGE 12. (Patrick Dunning photo.)
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THEISSUES
Dan Shell Senior Editor
THEY SAID IT
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Quotable quotes from 2019 “I can share with you from personal experience, if you are responsible and running a mill for him, you better be getting the best value out of each log in the most efficient manner, or all hell breaks loose. It can be humbling, but you learn.”—SierraPacific Industries’ President and CEO George Emmerson on his father, Red. “When we went for board approval on the Talladega project is when we jelled around building multiple mills fast.”— Fritz Mason, President, GP Lumber. “200 million might not sound like an awful lot compared to large log sawmills, but for the size of log that we handle it is quite impressive. We’re running a lot of pieces at a really fast pace.”—Southport Lumber Mill Manager Greg Dickey.
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“The equipment and workforce would be highly competitive in any other region of the world but because our government has failed to manage the forest our employees and communities suffer.”—Swanson Group President Steve Swanson on the closure of his Glendale, Ore. sawmill that had run since 1951. “We started making decisions based on payback, rather than what we thought we could afford. Getting the right equipment has proven to be a better strategy.”—Fred Taylor II, Troy Lumber, Troy, NC. “Specialization of products and the expansion of SKUs make productivity more challenging,” —Kevin Hancock, CEO, Hancock Lumber, Casco, Me. “The lack of a quota type system to control the amount of lumber coming into the U.S. from Canada. With all of the new mills being built in the U.S. South, a quota type agreement with Canada is paramount.”— Charles Thomas III, Vice President, Shuqualak Lumber, Mississippi, on his big concern.
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“We’re always looking to make things faster and more efficient. Plus, not having to call a vendor every time something goes wrong is also a big deal.”—SDS Lumber Operations Manager Jon Cole on the importance of an on site fab shop with skilled employees. “The perfect storm of weather, global markets, and extreme downturn of lumber prices and exports…will cause large attrition to the industry.”— Ray White, CEO, Harold White Lumber, Kentucky, on challenges facing hardwood lumber producers. “We have very similar cultures, the way we think about partners and our employees, having a family atmosphere and being family owned. It just worked.”— Richie LeBlanc, President, Hunt Forest Products, on the partnership between Hunt and Tolko Industries that created LaSalle Lumber Co. in Urania, La. “You get out and help other people, as many as you can. You don’t have to look hard to find people who need help.”—the late Jonathan Martin, Chairman of RoyOMartin, upon receiving a Rotary Club service award two months before TP his death in September.
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NEWSFEED BOB FRERES DIES AT 90 Robert (Bob) Theodore Freres, who led the family wood products business to new heights, died on November 4. He was 90. Freres was born in the historic Brown House in Stayton, Ore. to Theodore George and Tresa (Forrette) Freres. Bob was one of three students who attended Oakdale, a one-room school in Lyons, Ore. As a Depression era child living near the North Fork of the Santiam River in a logging camp, Bob remembered his mother heating up rocks, surrounding them with blankets and placing them in his bed to keep his feet warm. His home was also the office to the fledging Freres Lumber Co., Inc. The lumber and wood products business was his
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life’s work. Bob’s mother died when he was 8 years old. When Bob was 10 years old, his father married Frances (Silbernagel) Freres. Freres graduated from Stayton High School in 1947 and married Patricia Morgan on November 25, 1948. They had four children, Beckie, Julie, Rob and Leslie. They divorced after 29 years of marriage but remained close until her passing in 2003. He was later married to Judy (Knox) Freres during the 1980s. Between 1962 and 1972, Bob endured the loss of three siblings. They were just 24, 35 and 44 years of age. With the loss of two brothers, Bob assumed more responsibility managing the family business. He became President of Freres Lumber Co., Inc. in 1968 and Chairman and CEO after his father’s death in 1979. Over
Freres led tremendous growth.
the past 40 years under Bob’s leadership, along with his brother Ted, the company grew from two plants to six while increasing employment from 100 to 475 today. Bob was named Oregon Business Leader of the Year by Associated Oregon Industries. He remains the only lumberman to win this award. Throughout his life, Bob enjoyed weekly dinner reservations, NASCAR, wintering in Indian Wells, Calif. and nice cars. He was well-known
throughout the community for his work ethic, his strong faith, generosity and humble spirit. He was well liked and respected by everyone. Bob was preceded in death by his parents, T.G. and Tresa Freres and stepmother Frances; brothers, Larry, Harold (Bud) and Ted; sister, Phyllis Goodman; and daughter, Beckie. Bob is survived by children, Julie (Paul) Moran, Robert Jr (Jane) and Leslie Freres; seven grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. Bob’s surviving sisters are Maryann Meredith, Patty (Gary) Nopp, Carol Moll, Joyce (Neil) Merrell and Teresa (Don) McDougall. Bob leaves behind long-time companion, Sharon Gallagher. A special thanks to Shelley Cutlip for her extraordinary caregiving. The Recitation of Rosary was held November 13 at Im-
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NEWSFEED maculate Conception Catholic Church in Stayton with the Mass of Christian Burial on November 14 also at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. In lieu of flowers, remembrances may be made in Bob’s name to: The Regis St. Mary Foundation, 520 W. Regis St., Stayton, OR 97383.
CANFOR HEADS FOR PRIVATE STATUS Canfor Corp. announced that based on the recommendation of an independent committee of Canfor’s board of directors (the “Special Committee”), it has entered into an “arrangement agreement” with Great Pacific Capital Corp. in which Great Pacific and its affiliates, which already own 51% of Canfor, will acquire all of the
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Canfor shares it does not own for cash consideration of $16 per share. The Special Committee reports that the deal represents a significant premium and is a compelling value proposition for the minority shareholders. “Ongoing industry headwinds in the forestry sector, including high log costs due to supply constraints and significant declines in benchmark price for both lumber and pulp, have had negative impacts on Canfor’s current financial results. It is unknown how long the challenging industry conditions may persist and uncertain when financial results may improve as a result of capacity rationalization in British Columbia,” the Special Committee stated. “These challenging conditions have also led to volatility in the trading price of Canfor shares.”
HARDWOOD CLT PLANT PLANNED A hardwood CLT plant will be constructed in Tasmania, Australia’s northwest industrial center of Wynyard. CLTP Tamania has selected Stirling Machinery to supply state-ofthe-art machines for stage one of the project, due to be completed before the end of 2019. The partnership will help deliver the first commercially available hardwood cross laminated timber panels. Several significant innovations were established as a result of the project including: —“Whole of log” sawing to deliver the entire spectrum of structural characteristics from all parts of the tree, not only low grade, delivering a superior engineered outcome over softwood panels, according to the participants.
—Creation of a new structural product from a plantation species that is otherwise only processed as high-quality chips for the pulp and paper industry. —A “plantation to project” approach by utilizing 15-to20-year-old sustainably grown Tasmanian plantation hardwood Eucalyptus nitens (shining gum). With Australia running an annual wood and wood products trade deficit of nearly $2 billion, replacing presently imported wood products with Australian grown and processed plantation hardwood timber will support a sustainable timber industry and assist in Australia becoming internationally competitive. Stirling has been hard at work compiling the comprehensive portfolio of machines required. The project will require cross-lamination timber building systems, CNC to
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NEWSFEED specification cutting and glue lamination and fingerjointing lines. “We are obviously delighted to be on board with this project,” Stirling Machinery MD Craig Honeyman says. “It’s going to bring huge benefits to this regional community and it will reinvigorate the manufacturing industry. Our partnership with CLTP Tasmania is important not just to us but to investment in Australian business as well.” The Wynyard plant will involve a considerable capital investment in laminating machinery at the outset and with a strong focus on technology and automation, employee costs will be significantly reduced. The CLTP Tasmania operation will deliver hardwood manufactured products into new markets. Construction innovations and the rise in offsite built modular construc-
tion have brought about an enormous opportunity for cross-laminated structural timber. Its strength and integrity as a building product have been proven through rigorous testing, plus its other main selling point is its capacity to use large quantities of younger and lower quality plantation-sourced logs. Waste material generated from the new plant will be converted into direct injection biofuel which will feed back into the grid as dispatchable, on-demand electricity. CLTP Tasmania CEO Chris Skeels-Piggins looks forward to the plant’s first production day with anticipation. “There’s no doubting this will be a momentous development in the wood processing industry,” he says. “It’s going to pay dividends for the community, for the utilization of species that
were previously unusable for structural products and we’re going to make a real dent in the import of overseas structural timber.” Australia is positioning itself as an emerging leader in engineered wood manufacturing with recent purpose-built CLT and glulam plants opening in the past 18 months, and more in the pipeline in 2020/2021.
FLORIDA GAINS SOME RELIEF Agriculture Commissioner Nicole (Nikki) Fried announced that the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture has allocated $380.7 million in federal block grant funding for Florida farmers devastated by Hurricane Michael, including direct relief for timber producers. The Florida Dept. of
Agriculture and Consumer Services will administer the USDA block grants alongside the Florida Div. of Emergency Management. Through consistent engagement with USDA officials, Florida secured nearly half of the $800 million in federal block grant funding announced for Florida, Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina disaster relief programs. The funds will compensate timber producers for lost value of their crop damaged by Hurricane Michael, helping them clear downed trees and replant. Block grant funding will also help producers repair and replace irrigation infrastructure damage from Hurricane Michael. The application process for timber producers to receive the grant funding is being finalized. “This funding is a huge
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NEWSFEED victory for Florida’s timber producers. Since January, we’ve been working closely with USDA to secure relief for our timber industry, whose resilience in the year following Hurricane Michael has been extraordinary,” Fried says. “Our priority will be moving this funding forward so that timber producers can have checks in hand and trees in the ground. Thank you to the USDA and Secretary Perdue for helping us put Florida’s farmers first.” “Timber’s inclusion in the block grants provides the help and the hope that the Panhandle sorely needs right now,” adds Florida Forestry Asn. Executive Vice President Alan Shelby. “Although it won’t make forest landowners whole, it will make a tremendous difference in their ability to begin recovery and move forward with cleanup and re-
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forestation.” Timber, which is the leading industry in the Florida Panhandle, suffered a $1.3 billion economic blow from Hurricane Michael. An estimated 550 million trees, weighing 72 million tons, were damaged or destroyed by the massive Category 5 hurricane. Clearing downed timber can cost $2,000 per acre, compounding the crop’s financial loss.
GP COMPLETES WARRENTON MILL Georgia-Pacific celebrated the official opening of its newest lumber facility with an onsite dedication in Warren County, Ga. The $135 million, 340,000 square-foot plant is located on the same site as an existing lumber mill. The new facility adds
GP dedicates its new sawmill at Warrenton, Ga.
more than 80 workers to the existing workforce. The dedication included Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of Agriculture Gary Black, and Commission Chairman John Graham. Georgia-Pacific was also proud to host Rep. Jody Hice and his guest, World War II veteran, Master Sergeant Luciano “Louis” Graziano. At the rate of current production, the GP Warrenton facility will receive approximately 200 truckloads of pine logs a day and produce as
much as 350MMBF per year. The facility plans to outturn three times the output of the previous facility, shipping 57 trucks of lumber each day to locations and customers across multiple states. The Warrenton facility follows the startup of GeorgiaPacific’s Talladega, Ala. lumber facility last year and is the second of three new lumber production sites planned by the company. The third facility is under construction in Albany, Ga., with plans to open next spring.
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Autolog cant optimization was favored following a good experience with an Autolog installation in the planer mill.
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HEADWAY By Patrick Dunning
Shuqualak Lumber has completed major work on its green end and the numbers look great.
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SHUQUALAK, Miss. uring the past 12 months, Shuqualak Lumber Co. has made additional key investments in its southern yellow pine operation, resulting in greater production and recovery for the 12
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The Cleereman Pro headrig has increased grade recovery and production.
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The new Piche sorter was a turnkey operation that replaced a 1985 HEMCO sorter.
The sawmill accepts no logs greater than 28 in., all gatewood and mostly treelength. About 60% of lumber production is 2x10 and 2x12, meaning the mill takes advantage of the wide lumber market while also competing for small logs with high speed small log mills. Annual production is driving toward 150 MMBF— mostly no 2. grade and better—which is an increase in production of nearly 30MMBF since the startup of the large log headrig and the completion of the most recent projects involving downstream sawing and green lumber sorting.
NEW PROFILER
Left to right, Bobby White, PLC and controls; Dusty Rigdon, optimization; Brad Poole, mill manager and project manager; Tom Dooley, maintenance; Ronnie Sciples, quality control; Jody McDade, maintenance; Rick Rigdon, mill manager; Chaz Thomas, landscape timber and molding; Charlie Thomas, vice president
heavy-to-wide dimension producer. Late last year Shuqualak Lumber replaced a Maxi Mill overhead end dogging machine with a tilted Cleereman Lumber Pro bandmill and carriage supported by 3D optimization and controls from Autolog on logs larger than 18 in. Shuqualak Lumber chose Autolog for
the optimization because of the familiarity and confidence gained from an earlier installation of an Autolog automatic grader in the planer mill. The addition of the Cleereman and Autolog technology was not only intended to increase production but also to enhance grade recovery from larger logs.
Shuqualak Lumber Vice President of Sawmill Operations, Charlie Thomas III, says their five-year plan included putting a profiler on their existing curve-sawing gang, but there was no need to put it in until they replaced a vintage 1985 HEMCO vertical bin sorter with a new sorter; otherwise it would have created a run-stop, run-stop bottleneck. After deciding to go with a Piche 40 bin pneumatic cylinder sorter, Thomas went into profiler mode and landed on Real Performance Machinery (RPM). “I had decided I wasn’t going to be the first to buy anything ever again, but they talked me into it,” Thomas says with a TIMBER PROCESSING
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Saw mismatch on the existing gang, upper left, was virtually eliminated; new Saw Lube system, above, has reduced saw purchases; at left, cutting section of new profiler
smile. Actually he would not only be purchasing an equipment manufacturer’s first machine, he was also acquiring it from a new equipment manufacturer. Based in Summerville, SC, RPM was (is) new to the industry, exhibiting for the first time at the Atlanta Expo this past June, though some of its personnel are familiar veterans of the sawmill trade. RPM formed working relationships with several companies, including AMS Solutions, an industrial automation specialist. Shuqualak negotiated back and forth with RPM President Shawn Guibergia and Richard Vetter from AMS Solutions. They struck a deal on the new profiler line and scheduled the installation during a two-week shutdown in August 2019. But first there was the matter of the Piche turnkey sorter installation with Logitex controls. The mill shut down on August 15. Brian Cane of Cain, Inc., located in Sallis, Miss., came in and removed the old sorter in about 15 hours. Piche had built the new sorter on a temporary foundation off to the side of the old sorter. Once the old sorter was removed, Shuqualak then used a crane to swing in 14
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the sections of the sorter for bolting and welding back together. “I was extremely impressed with the construction crew Piche sent down here,” Thomas says. “We were pleasantly surprised that the removal of the old sorter and the placement of the new sorter went so fast.” The heavy-based material sorter automatically knows when the bin is full, no longer requiring the need for an operator. The bin is released and tracked all the way to the stacker. The old HEMCO sorter required Shuqualak to have to mix different
lengths in the bays; with the new Piche sorter this is no longer required and should improve drying efficiency. During this same period in the latter half of August, the profiler project kicked in. Thomas liked that the RPM profiler pivots on top. The machine is basically built from the top down. RPM calls it HOTT (Hanging-Over-The-Top) technology. All of the plumbing, wiring, lubrication, hydraulics, etc. is plugged in from the top, out of the main debris area. The cutting tools area and wood debris discharge remains cleaner. This allows for reduced maintenance and more efficient maintenance. They installed it in front of the existing generation one McGehee curve-sawing gang. Four parts were pre-constructed,
Nice log diameter range gives the sawmill production flexibility.
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transported and lowered in through the roof: infeed press rolls module, big frame, midfeed press rolls module, and bridge over the top. The full, slow skew profiling and gang system includes eight hydraulic press rolls, five in the canter-profiler and three that were added previously to the outfeed. The profiler is tied to a Sytronix hydraulic power unit that uses servo variable-speed plumps from Bosch Rexroth and customized programming from AMS Solutions. Its purpose is ultimate hydraulic pressure regulation by anticipating pressure drop and pushing oil in, keeping the pressure at target and creating optimal control. It provides superior cant stability and control through the machine. Nearly all lumber coming out of the gang sawbox now goes Bucking line has focused on flared butts. directly to the trimmer. Perhaps 3-4% gets dropped back and goes through Autolog provided the scanner and optithe edger. “We are very pleased with the mization for the profiler-gang. This was results,” Thomas says, noting they went Autolog’s third project with Shuqualak from an average of 49MBF per hour to av- Lumber and as with past projects Autolog eraging in the mid-60s, while reaching reviewed the drawings and confirmed the into the 70s many times. details together to ensure everything was “The old gang machine’s controls and covered. Autolog assigned a project manoptimization were so slow and we were ager who communicated with all parties trying to run so fast that we had a little (Shuqualak Lumber, AMS and RPM) match-line issue,” Charlie says. “The from the initial project definition and uplumber coming out of the new curve saw dates to the schedule, all the way to the looks better than it ever has. The matchfinal stages of installation and startup. line issue virtually went away and is Part of a package deal, Shuqualak also helping us in our grade recovery at the invested in RPM’s touch screen conplaner mill.” trolled Saw Lube System, replacing a
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much older lube system. Given that imprecise water delivery is a known problem due to a lack of indication of water levels, RPM’s saw lube system creates its own water pressure individually per saw lube zone so individual speed pumps that pump out of an independent tank don’t rely on the mill’s water pressure, but just require a full water tank. Mill Manager Rick Rigdon says while it’s more efficient for the amount of water being used, it’s really about maximizing the saw. The mill is benefiting from both reduced water costs and reduced saw purchases. Other projects were going on at the same time, such as replacing the feed rolls on the debarker, upgrading the chipping area on the Comact double length infeed, decks and unscramblers behind the gang saw, in addition to the installation of two new United Metal Works chip bins. Mill Manager and Project Manager for Shuqualak, Brad Poole, oversaw all aspects of the new construction. “We put a lot of pressure on Brad during this upgrade. We had approximately 13 construction crews on site during the shutdown and it all came together perfectly,” Thomas says.
MILL FLOW The Shuqualak procurement team goes to individual tracts and purchases on the stump at gatewood prices. “Logs
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The existing DLI received some chipping upgrades.
are our largest expense, so if we can tweak the quality or cost, that’s a lot of money,” Charlie says. Every truck runs through a Woodtech logmeter system, consisting of high-definition cameras and lasers that measure the diameter of butts and tops, while looking for crook and knots. It enables the mill to provide immediate feedback to the logger with a picture and text message showing the average butt diameter, average top diameter, average length of load, and stem count. “It cuts out the guess work,” procurement manager Robert Hunter says. The procurement team also includes Russell Adams, covering the Mississippi jurisdiction, and Courtney White who covers the Alabama area. They’ll go out 120 miles to purchase wood. The mill emphasizes no. 2 and better lumber. After going through the logmeter, trucks are unloaded into the log yard by Caterpillar 966 loaders or a LeTourneau crane. The front-end loaders and the crane feed the sawmill decks. Logs go through a 30 in. Valon Kone debarker, are scanned by a Timber Automation scanner and move through a LogPro merchandiser. The LogPro has four saws, one for lily padding flared butts. After exiting the merchandiser, logs travel through a Metal Shark metal detector. Then the logs are separated by diameter, 18 in. and smaller going to a Comact DLI and bigger logs to the new Cleereman headrig. All of the cants go to the new profiler-gang saw. (The mill uses Key Knife chip heads.) Any boards that need to be edged go to a Timber Automation edger. All lumber is sent to a Newnes trimmer with Timber Automation scanning. All good
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boards go to the new 40 bay sorter, and bunks are sent to a Moco stacker that was installed a couple of years ago. Stacked bunks are loaded onto trucks and transported less than two miles to their planer mill. Especially with the recent increase in production brought on by the new projects, the mill keeps three trucks moving regularly between the sawmill and planer mill. The operation’s drying capacity is topped out at 3MMBF weekly. Four Wellons kilns require an average of 18 hours to get to 19% moisture content.
Four boilers are powered by wood waste, two off planer shavings and two off sawdust. A fifth one is a natural gas boiler that is installed and waiting on permitting. It will provide some extra capacity on the heat side to dry lumber especially during the winter months. There was some concern whether there was enough byproduct market for the mill, but those issues have been resolved and in addition to using shavings and sawdust for steam, they sell some to a local pellet plant, sell bark to mulch companies and chips to a pulp mill locat-
ed in Columbus, Miss. The planer mill is equipped with a Baxley Ecoustic Stress Grader (MSR), Autolog Prograder, Yates American planer, Carbotech trimmer and a recently installed Hogue stacker “I think we are through spending money in our sawmill for now,” Charlie says, while acknowledging that the next investment will be at the planer mill and in increased drying capacity. While the operation is producing 3MMBF weekly on one shift, they wanted to cut hours from 54 to 48; they’ve reached the 3MMBF in 51 hours, and now run four 11’s and whatever they need to do on Friday to get the 3 million. The company’s modern filing room has long been recognized as one of the best. Charlie states, “Producing quality lumber starts with the logs, but then you have to have quality saws and equipment. We believe in keeping our filing room equipped with the best filing equipment offered.”
FAMILY MATTERS Charlie Thomas, Sr. bought into a planer mill operation here in 1948. It purchased rough cut lumber from several portable sawmills. Charlie, Sr.’s son, Bill, would ultimately run the planer mill. When the time came to build a stationary sawmill, there wasn’t enough real estate around the planer mill, so they found a tract about a mile away. Charlie’s son, Charlie, Jr., joined on and helped the family build the sawmill in 1975 and continued to oversee the sawmill for decades. Charlie, III oversees the sawmill today. His cousin, Anderson Thomas (Bill’s son), is also a longtime vice president with the company. Charlie’s son, Chaz Thomas, runs the company’s landscape timber mill and molding mill. Chaz and Charlie’s niece, Jessica, are fourth generation. Jessica is in charge of safety and shares responsibility of human resources (HR) with her mother, Lisa Hunter. Shuqualak Lumber remains on what has been a dwindling roster of Southern independent lumber family operations in the past decade, due to Canadian corporation buyouts of three dozen of those operations. The company has always been very active in industry-at-large groups. It’s a member of the Southeastern Lumber Manufacturers Assn. and Mississippi TP Lumber Manufacturers Assn. 20
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SINGLE PASS KILN DESIGN New American Wood Dryers kiln design provides more heat efficiency and control, alters continuous drying process to boost overall lumber quality.
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signs based on the Pollard Lumber kiln design patent. Between the Southeast sales push and new continuous design, American Wood Dryers has more than doubled its annual sales since 2000.
SINGLE PASS
B etter drying control means a higher quality end product, AWD of fi cials say.
By Dan Shell CLACKAMAS, Ore. ooking to increase lumber drying efficiency and overall performance, American Wood Dryers’ patented Single Pass Continuous Kiln design has the company on the leading edge of lumber drying technology, says AWD President Gary Kolari, PE. The company is moving ahead on almost a half-dozen installations since the single pass patent was granted in the U.S. and Canada in early 2018. The new design is just the latest from a company that’s provided high-performance and efficient lumber kilns for almost 40 years. American Wood Dryers was started in 1981, manufacturing package and track kilns for both hardwood and softwood lumber producers. Early on, the company developed an all-aluminum kiln design that caught on
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with hardwood producers. “There weren’t many kilns like that in the hardwood industry back then,” Kolari says. “There were a lot of homemade and inefficient kilns out there with quality problems, and (AWD kilns) quickly became an industry standard in the hardwood business.” The company moved to its current location in 1984. Specializing in hardwood kilns due to the popularity of its all aluminum kiln in the hardwood sector, American Wood Dryers began developing an all aluminum kiln for the softwood industry as well. American Wood Dryers continued doing well with its quality kiln designs and performance, building up to 50-60 kilns a year at the time. In the early to mid 2000s the company began working more in the Southeast U.S. with sales and installations, along with expanding into continuous kiln de-
Starting in the early 2000s, the company did well building systems based on Pollard Lumber’s Dual Path continuous kiln where lumber enters the kiln at opposite ends and runs in opposite directions. But customers saw a need for a single pass continuous design where all the lumber enters at one end of the kiln and exits the opposite end. “We talked about it, came up with a plan, then developed a patent,” Kolari says. The process took the better part of three years. “It took us a while to cover it all—there’s a lot going on in these kilns,” he says with a smile. The single pass design team made extensive use of software modeling to explore heat usage, transfer and overall efficiency while drying. According to Kolari, the in-house program helped determine how much heat is used to heat the wood, how much is lost through water evaporation and how much heat is lost through the kiln structure and its insulation, sealing, overall design, etc. “We were able to see where the most energy is being consumed in these dry kilns, and the key is to take that energy and put it back into the wood to get better heat recovery,” Kolari says. A single pass system offers more control, Kolari believes. The single pass continuous kiln is designed with three sepa-
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rate chambers: a pre-heating section, a hot section and an equalizing, conditioning section. He notes that the AWD design takes the hot gas from the main heating section and feeds it into the preheat section, so the lumber is already up to temperature as it enters the hot section, then cooling and equalizing as it moves out of the heating section. The preheating process also reduces water condensing on the lumber as it enters the main heating chamber, Kolari says. The single pass design uses internal dampers and baffles to control heat flow as lumber passes from one section to another. Hydraulic pushers below the kiln carts move lumber from the preheat section to main heat to the cooling-
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equalizing section determined by the AWD control system. AWD Area Sales Manager Jonathan Smith notes that in addition to the system benefits, the single pass design also leads to more handling efficiencies since all lumber is moving in one direction. A single pass kiln can be incorporated into mill design between sawmill stacker and planer mill like a batch kiln. This minimizes lumber handling and fork truck traffic around the kiln. Mill operators of course want to know the bottom line: production rates and operating costs. Kolari says that both dual path and single pass continuous systems use less energy per MBF than traditional batch type kilns. He notes that one AWD client had a dual path system that was converted to single pass. Drying times and MC consistency on both types were comparable, he says, but the mill liked the in-line design, reduced handling and overall simpler single pass operation.
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AWD produces quality kiln wall panels.
American Wood Dryers’ primary manufacturing facility in Clackamas covers 55,000 sq. ft., and a 20,000 sq. ft. insulated kiln panel manufacturing operation is in place just two doors down in the same industrial park. Kolari stresses that AWD’s panels use solid sheets of rigid foam insulation from floor to ceiling, not pieces. “This gives us more structural integrity” and makes the
kiln easier to seal, Kolari says. Panels feature formed aluminum stucco embossed outer skin, aluminum connectors, nonheating polymer clips and butyl-based sealant tape that can withstand years of hot-cool cycles. Inner skin is aluminum or stainless steel, and insulation itself is closed cell rigid foam. While initial cost is more, the panels are a big part of AWD’s competitive and performance edge that deliver years of quality KD operations, Kolari says. The company employs 40-55 depending on overall workload, including a design, engineering and software team that develops drying solutions for clients and skilled welders to put those plans together. AWD also builds and wires its own controls systems and panels and has a UL-certified panel production shop. Kolari emphasizes that all projects are fully built at their facility—no outsourcing—with multiple projects in production simultaneously. The kilns are pre-engineered, then assembled at the mill site. “We really listen to the customers and try to meet their demands, and try to reach out to do the extra work to ensure things are done the way they want,” he says. As part of that going the extra mile, AWD is doing more foundation and electrical work to present customers with turnkey options. According to Kolari, “We’ll take whatever work our customers want to give us, from just a kiln to a complete turnkey project.” TP TIMBER PROCESSING
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WOODEN SKYSCRAPERS The sustainable way to build future cities
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By Craig Curtis y 2050, the world’s population is esB timated to grow to 9.7 billion and the number of people living in cities will rise
to 68%. Over the next 80 years, we will need to build more than two billion new homes. This is in addition to the one billion people who live in slums and the 100 million who are homeless in the world today. We have a housing crisis on our hands that poses a massive challenge to society.
And yet, the solution could be growing right in our backyards. Over the last century, we’ve primarily built cities with two materials: steel and concrete. While these materials have many great qualities, they require large amounts of energy to work with and produce high greenhouse gas emissions in the process. Steel and concrete contribute to approximately 13% of the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions. The iron and steel industry consumes more energy than any other manufactur-
ing sector and if the cement industry were a country, it would be the third largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world. Despite these figures, we don’t think often enough about the climate impact of construction. As both the housing crisis and climate change mount in urgency, building cities out of wood offers an exciting solution. When a tree grows in the forest, it gives off oxygen and soaks up carbon dioxide. When that tree dies naturally, it decomposes on the forest floor and releases the
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carbon dioxide it has stored back into the ground and the atmosphere. Or, if the tree burns in a forest fire, the carbon dioxide stored in the tree goes up in flames, back into the atmosphere as well. However, when a tree is harvested for wood that’s turned into a building, it has the incredible ability to store, or sequester, carbon dioxide. To put this into perspective, consider the Catalyst building being built in Spokane, Wash. This five-story, 159,000 square-foot facility will be the city’s first zero energy and zero carbon facility. To achieve this, the building was constructed with timber, which will be able to store 3,713 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. Additionally, by eliminating steel and concrete, another 1,437 metric tons of carbon dioxide will be avoided. Together, these 5,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equate to 1,100 cars off the road for a year—and that’s the impact of just one building. We currently grow enough wood in North America to build a 20-story building every 13 minutes. One cubic meter of wood will store one ton of carbon dioxide. The more trees we harvest for buildings, the more carbon we sequester.
DEFORESTATION? A common misconception of mass timber construction is that it could contribute to deforestation. With deforestation accounting for about 15% of our contribution to greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, the last thing we want to do is negatively impact forests. When it comes to mass timber fulfilling its sustainability potential, it’s about utilizing the right trees harvested from wellmanaged forests. The only type of trees that make sense to use for mass timber are small diameter and fast-growing—oldgrowth trees are not harvested for this product. Like hungry teenagers, these young trees absorb even more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than their old-growth counterparts. In fact, a single tree can absorb as much as 48 pounds of carbon dioxide per year. Harvesting these types of trees contributes to forest health, reduces wildfire risk and results in more carbon being sequestered. Steel comes from metal; concrete comes from rocks—these are natural materials that formed over millions of years. And since we don’t have millions of years to wait until the Earth makes more, they are not renewable resources. But as we harvest trees, we’ll grow more—making wood the only large-scale renewable building material currently available. By
Postmark suburban apartment in north Seattle
embracing responsibly harvested wood from well-managed forests, the building industry can contribute to healthier forests and a net positive climate benefit.
MASS TIMBER Humans have been building with wood for millennia, but when we think about wood buildings today, we don’t usually think about skyscrapers. However, with the population density forecasted for cities in the not-too-distant future, tall wood buildings will be an important option. It’s only recently that new timber products are making it possible for us to build wooden skyscrapers. This new material is fundamentally changing the way we design, manufacture and construct large buildings. Cross-laminated timber, or CLT, is a prefabricated, engineered wood panel made by pressing perpendicular layers of lumber together with a layer of adhesive. These small pieces of young wood, glued together, form enormous panels that are as strong as steel, as durable as concrete, and provide excellent dimensional stability for floors, walls and roofs. This renewable building material is perfect for manufacturing and assembly, enabling faster construction with less on-site labor because of its lightweight nature. CLT has proven to be a safe, inherently fire-resistant material and it often performs better than steel. In one fire performance test, for example, the exposed CLT
essentially self-extinguished due to the formation of char that protected its core. CLT is also aesthetically beautiful and opens new design possibilities to tackle the current and future housing crisis. In 2018, the International Code Council (ICC) adopted tall wood building codes for up to 18 stories. Cities around the world are already pushing to extend this height limit. Architects and engineers worldwide are currently working on design solutions that will extend well beyond 18 stories. These are the future generation of high-performance, lowcarbon buildings. First introduced to the European market about 30 years ago, mass timber buildings approved under local codes in Europe and North America have demonstrated the efficiency and safety of the product. Now as interest in mass timber increases in North America, educating people on the benefits of this renewable structural building material is critical to furthering adoption. But the ecosystem supporting mass timber is large and we are making progress. In the decades to come, don’t be surprised if the city skylines you see are framed in beautiTP ful, sustainable wood. Craig Curtis is chief architect of Katerra. Katerra recently hosted a grand opening of its cross-laminated timber (CLT) factory in Spokane, Wash. Katerra’s new CLT factory is 270,000 sq. ft. and occupies 29 acres. At full capacity the factory will produce 185,000 m3 or the equivalent to 13MMSF of 5-ply panels annually on a two-shift, fivedays-a-week operation. TIMBER PROCESSING
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CUTTINGTOOLS COLONIAL SAW Colonial Saw, Inc., a leading distributor of advanced saw and knife grinding machinery, offers a robot loading system that enables Colonial Saw robotic saw service center unattended and overnight grinding. The Premium-Loader, an 8-axis grinding machine, built by ABM Grinding Technologies, minimizes human labor with a robot and probing system, allowing for true unattended processing with superb accuracy and superior finish grind quality. Designed to meet the increasing demand for automation by today’s circular saw manufacturing and mill filing rooms, Premium-Loader offers a vast range of production capacity for round saw blades. It delivers a high ease-of-use factor with a userfriendly 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 the application and maintenance of Stellite tipped band saw blades in the forest products industry. The new BNA100 is Iseli’s version of the former Vollmer GPA200. Building on the success of the GPA200 platform, Iseli has kept the mechanics of the machine while adding their own upgraded controller. Stellite application in mold blocks ensures economical use of Stellite and shortened grinding times. The plasma welding process with an inert gas guarantees a very strong connection between the Stellite and the body of the saw blade. In addition to sophisticated technology, the BNA100 is characterized by its robust design, ease of operation and price to performance ratio. The BNF100 is a fully automated 4-axis CNC dual side grinding machine giving you maximum grinding accuracy for your band saw blades, and a top-quality finish grind. The machine works with water emulsion or with oil. The BNF100 comes fully equipped with three grinding programs including oscillation grinding. The high reliability of the Iseli machines makes them the best possible solution for your Stellite tipping and dual side grinding applications. Fast and reliable parts and service for Iseli machines is supplied by Oleson Saw from either its York, Pa. or Post Falls, Idaho locations.
LONGATO
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Longato specializes in the sale of second hand and fully refurbished sharpening machines for saw filers, grinding stations, sawmills and tool manufacturers. Longato can supply second hand grinding machines, grinding equipment, grinding wheels, consumable, magnets and whatever needed to have your cutting tools perfectly sharpened. Longato gives grinding machines a new second life to customers Longato offers refurbished worldwide. sharpening machines. —Machines to sharpen carbide saws, side grinders back off machines, brazing machines —Machines to sharpen straight and circular knives —Machines to sharpen, chamfer and slot grind HSS saws —Machines to sharpen, set and weld band saws —Manual and CNC tool & cutter grinders —Manual and CNC profile grinders
Hydraulic shotgun carriages have experienced a huge breakthrough in control automation. Previously, manual sawing was performed with a hydraulic handle operHydraulic shotgun carriages have experiating a directional enced a huge breakthrough in control valve to drive the automation. carriage. Over the last 17 years we have had an electronic joystick controlling the direction of carriage allowing us to implement controls to increase safety and production. Innovation in 2018 and 2019 has gone a step further with THRU-CUT—we are now delivering hands-free sawing. The same innovation is designed for electric/cable drive carriages. Entry speed is determined by depth of cut (programmed at the mill and customized to your species). The carriage is speeding up in the cut as we monitor deviation while sawing. Four different Safety Kickbacks are programmed in the system (stopping or reversing direction of carriage if the saw makes a hard snake directly into the severe range). 1. Using THRU-CUT. 2. Manual sawing or training mode. 3.While manually returning the carriage if the saw grabs a snag from the log. 4. Returning the carriage using the Go-To-Hole button (aka auto carriage return). One mill told us they get a Safety Kickback every one or two days. We have installed on both electric cable drive and hydraulic shotgun. This provides speed ups while cutting and safety slow down to maintain quality. These systems are pro-
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CUTTINGTOOLS viding about 12% production increases. Thru-Cut is in operation at two mills. Both are using a hydraulic shotgun carriage drive, realizing well over 15% increase in production.
SIMONDS The Simonds 095 automated bench (AB) has been specifically engineered to recondition mill run saws up to 15 in. wide and as narrow as 4 in. The machine has several material handling enhancements to enable quick safe loading and unloading of large saws. Model 095 automated bench Other options allow for quick changeover for saws of varying gauges. The machine performs all scanning with a contact sensor that has been proven to be more accurate than an optical laser measurement device. The large touch screen control panel can be operated even while wearing gloves and allows filers to deliver consistent Back, Level and Tension for improved filing room and sawmill productivity. The unique
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“Learn” mode feature allows the filer to load a “Best Practice” saw and direct the machine to scan the saw, record all the measurements in memory and recall those specification for future saws. The AB simultaneously levels and tensions the saw while measuring down to .0004 in. across the entire area of the saw—length and width.
USNR USNR’s Bandsaw Monitoring System (BMS) extends saw blade service life and improves lumber size accuracy. The system controls saw blades by actively tilting the band wheels. It also detects cracks at an early stage before they cause band rupture. With band saws running at speeds from 225–325 feet per second, it is of extreme importance to have a reliable and exacting monitoring system to avoid blade rupture. BMS is your solution. It can easily be installed on any new or existing brand of bandmill, processing
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CUTTINGTOOLS any species in any region worldwide. BMS uses inductive sensors instead of cameras which comes with many advantages including the ability to detect cracks in the blade, even very small ones. Crack detection is not reduced by sawdust build-up or particles in the air. Mounted in a protective housing on the return side of the saw blade, the inductive sensors monitor the position of the saw’s teeth in relation to the band wheel’s front edge, to detect cracks in the tooth base. Over time, incorrectly aligned saw blades will generate cracks in the tooth base as well as wear on band wheels and saw guides. BMS actively corrects the saw band’s position on the band wheel, which not only minimizes wear but also improves sawing accuracy. The system includes a PLC with software for monitoring, communication, and adjustment. This intelligent saw band control system alerts the operator to faults such as band saws showing signs of imminent rupture. In one installation, the BMS increased saw line uptime, causing production to rise by an impressive 800 board feet “per hour,” on average. Benefits: —Detects cracks in band saws at an early stage, before they cause band rupture —Improves lumber size accuracy —Minimizes wear on band saws, band wheels, and saw guides —Reduces band saw rupture —Lowers energy consumption —Measurement accuracy to +/- 0.1 mm
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VOLLMER Vollmer continues to support the sawmill and wood production industry with a renewed focus on circular saw blades and is offering the new grinding machine CHX 840, with which the tooth face and top of circular saw blades can be sharpened Vollmer CHX 840 with HS loader in one setup. The product range from the technology leader comprises the latest in grinding, erosion and machining tools for rotary tools, circular saws and band saws in the wood processing and metalprocessing industries. 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 is the CHX 1300, on which a diameter up to 1300 mm (51 in.) can be machined. ➤ 36
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CUTTINGTOOLS With five CNC-controlled axes the CHX 840 can 34 ➤ 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. 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.
WILLIAMS & WHITE Williams and White has partnered with the innovative scientific solutions provider, FPInnovations, to offer a new technology to the sawmill industry. This patented technology accurately measures, in real time, the performance of the saw when in the cut for both circular and band saws, using two contact temperature sensors. The SMARTGuide technology harnesses The Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) to drive mill operations and efficiency to the forefront of the industry.
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Highlights include: —Reduces oil consumption up to 40% —Reduces corrosion and pooling; less moisture in sawdust —Rechargeable batteries/up to 20 hours of life between charges —0-80°C temperature range/+/- 0.1°C accuracy —For both circle and band saw systems —Can be mounted on Williams & White measurement any saw guide sensors —Two sensors on the eye and rim of a saw ensures optimal saw performance —Contact sensors; non-contact systems are proven to be inaccurate in wet environments. Moisture absorbs IR radiation, affecting the signal Benefits to the sawmill: —Decreases sawing deviation: prevents wrecks/unscheduled saw change —Rim and eye real time measurement: Ensures optimal saw performance —Higher chip quality: Higher value —Increases mill speed: Higher profits
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CUTTINGTOOLS —Alarm notification system: Reduces saw and guide damage and downtime —Identifies performance issues in real time: Determine or eliminate potential problem areas
Wood-Mizer Sharpen hundreds of blades per week with the Wood-Mizer BMS500 bandsaw blade sharpener. This heavy-duty, industrial grade blade sharpener is built for production and performance and is compatible with 1 in. to 3 in. wide bands, giving you the ability to sharpen larger blades than Wood-Mizer BMS500 band saw blade other sharpeners can sharpener handle. The 8 in. CBN grinding wheels, also available from Wood-Mizer, are powered by a 1 HP motor for consistent, accurate full-profile grinds. The 4280 grind wheel RPM provides a higher quality grind at higher speeds, enabling you to increase efficiency without sacrificing quality. All functions of the BMS500 are controlled from the user-
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friendly operator panel complete with an electronic tooth counter, variable grinding speed, and two modes: Set-Up and Run. The sharpener can be quickly configured to stop after an exact number of teeth have been sharpened and is also easily adjustable for different blade sizes and lengths used in various operations. Main Features: —1 HP grinding motor —8 in. CBN grinding wheels —4280 grind wheel RPM —1 in. to 3 in. blade capacity —Variable speed, user-friendly control station
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ATLARGE Timber Products Wraps Up 50 Timber Products Inspection, Inc. (TP) has been celebrating 50 years serving the forest products industry throughout 2019. TP has grown to service clientele in 16 countries, and oversee quality audits involving more than 20 different wood products including lumber, pressure treated wood, glulam, OSB, panels, pallets, MDF, CLT, building logs, utility poles, trusses and wood pellets. TP holds inspection and laboratory accreditations from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), International Accreditation Service (IAS) and American Lumber Standards Co. (ALSC), among others. TP was founded by Howard Powell in 1969. His vision for creating an inspection company based on professional client service quickly grew into a national company. In 1994 Powell sold the company to three of his employees, one of which eventually sold his shares to the current two owners— Jim Respess and Ronnie Williams. Under the direction of the new owner-
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ship group, TP quickly expanded beyond its core business of lumber grading. In 1990, TP was approached by the National Wood Pallet and Container Assn. (NWPCA) looking for a third-party inspection agency to monitor the Specialized Pallets Engineered for Quality (SPEQ) program. This service continued to develop in 2001, as the European Union began to require export wood packaging to be heat treated to eliminate invasive insects. In 2000, TP purchased Florida Lumber Inspection Service, bolstering its presence in the pressure treated wood market. In 2004, TP Engineering was created, offering traditional structural and civil engineering services as well as acting in a support function for TP and their clients. As the forest products industry continued to evolve, wood pellet fuel became recognized as a viable renewable fuel source. This prompted TP to once again expand to meet the testing needs of the biomass industry. In 2011 TP entered into a joint venture with Control Union, USA
to form Biomass Energy Lab (BEL). BEL was formed to meet the needs of the wood pellet export market by providing testing and certification services. Later in 2011, TP agreed to acquire the approximately 300 wood packaging accounts of the National Hardwood Lumber Assn. Expanding its global reach, TP acquired Canadian Softwood Inspection Agency Inc. (CSI) in Langley, British Columbia, Canada in 2016. This allowed TP to branch its professional inspection services into Canada. In 2017, Timber Products Technical Services (TPTS) was formed with the sole purpose of offering greater valueadded training services for TP clientele. TP continued to grow and in early 2019 acquired Stafford Consulting and Inspection Services, LLC. This acquisition of approximately 300 clients directly added growth to TP’s HT, WPM and truss divisions. Today, TP employs more than 120 full time including field staff, lab staff and administrative staff.
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2019 EDITORIAL INDEX JANUARY/FEBRUARY
Big Results Small Logs Oregon’s Southport Lumber Co. makes the most of small logs with new sawmill line. Page 14.
The Issues Pursuing Self-Reliance. Page 5. Life Made Of Timber Lumber industry leader and visionary Red Emmerson of Sierra-Pacific Industries is Timber Processing’s 2019 Person of the Year. Page 12. In With The New Parent Company Bingaman & Son Lumber made a significant investment in upgrading and relocating its subsidiary, St. Marys Lumber, to a new, larger site last year. Page 18. Primary Breakdown Lavern Heideman & Sons Lumber invests $17 million to stay up to speed. Page 28.
MARCH The Issues Supply-Demand Beat Goes On. Page 5.
Export Experts Vanport International adds to its list of services with value-added operation for domestic and offshore producers. Page 32.
Genesis Of A Loader Forwarder: Eby’s Sawmill Rides With Tigercat 2160 Loader Forwarder. Page 46.
Newsfeed SFPA Expo Attracts Sawmillers. Page 6. High Tech Planing SDS Lumber’s new planer mill is twice as fast as its older facility loaded with new technology. Page 16. Less Content U.S. hardwood lumbermen aren’t as upbeat as a year ago. Page 22.
Laser Alignment In Sawmills: Ultra-Accurate Scanning Lasers Can Boost Recovery And Profits. Page 32. Leveraging The Workforce: Canadian-Based Sawmill Companies Are All-In With Educational Program. Page 40. Worldwide. Page 44.
Ligna Review. Page 34.
Green End Scanning. Page 34.
2019 Lumbermen’s Buying Guide. Page 38.
NOVEMBER
Machinery Row ‘Trouble Free’ Music To Their Ears: Plaster Rock Lumber Solves A Log Handling Problem. Page 42.
SEPTEMBER
The Issues 99 Years And Counting. Page 5.
The Issues Tech Takes Center Stage. Page 3. Newsfeed Industry Takes Notice Of Oregon Sawmill Closings. Page 6.
Ligna Preview. Page 24.
Small And Good For over 50 years, James Grezenski Forest Products has sawn hardwood lumber in north central Wisconsin. While things look a lot different in 2019, the pursuit of consistency in thickness has stayed the same. Page 40.
The Issues Getting The Kids To Join Up. Page 5.
long on resource commitments in seeking a major investment in Arizona forest infrastructure. Page 26.
Crazy Kudzu Fond of the South’s climate, this tenacious vine overtakes whatever it encounters. Page 52.
Forest Logistics Summit: Trucking Meeting In Georgia Addresses Log Hauling Issues. Page 26.
Improving The Course North Carolina’s Troy Lumber Co. modernizes, increases yield. Page 12.
Lumber Capacity Surges: But Demand Growth May Boom As Well Come 2020. Page 38.
Newsfeed Bamboo May Be The New Scrimber. Page 52.
Michael’s Big Hurt The Florida timber industry is truly seeing the consequences of Hurricane Michael six months after the storm hit. Page 22.
MAY
GP All-In Georgia-Pacific starts up its first of three new southern yellow pine sawmills. Page 14.
Log Handling. Page 50.
Profiling At The Curve-Saw Gang: USNR Technology Provides Boost For Canfor Fulton Sawmill. Page 20.
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Planer Mills. Page 58. When A Drum Is Best Choice: Proper Chipping Requires An Analysis Of Your Situation. Page 72.
The Issues Reaching Excellence. Page 5. Growing Partnership Hunt Forest Products and Tolko Industries have joined forces to open LaSalle Lumber Co. in Louisiana. Page 10. Martco Timbers Chopin plywood operation continues to get the most out of each log. Page 18. Custom Carriage For MPP: Freres Lumber Carriage Will Be 60 ft. In Length With 10 Knees. Page 22. Innovative Screening West Salem Machinery continues investing in new innovations and services to offer customers. Page 24. Bandmills. Page 30. Band Saw Products. Page 42.
JUNE The Issues Taking The Pulse Of Optimism. Page 5. Some Concern U.S. softwood lumbermen are still thinking production but there’s a little anxiety on the catwalk. Page 14.
OCTOBER The Issues Arizona Seeks Huge Forest Investment. Page 5. Newsfeed Martin Led In Many Ways. Page 6.
APRIL
SFPA Expo News. Page 32.
Moving Onward Improvements at Burt Lumber are hiking recovery and production. Page 14.
The Issues Market Trends Bear Watching. Page 5.
Machinery Row Improvements Keep Culp In Motion. Page 90.
Need To Invest The federal 4 Forest Restoration Initiative is going super big and
Newsfeed Smartlam Relaunches, Purchases Dothan Mill. Page 6. Onward Upward Back-to-back big upgrades have been the norm at Varn Wood Products for the last three years. Page 12. LaSalle Second Look. Page 22. Needed Upgrade Biewer Lumber’s long-running Prentice sawmill has received another round of upgrades. Page 24. Dry Kilns. Page 30.
DECEMBER The Issues They Said It Quotable Quotes 2019. Page 5. Newsfeed Bob Freres Dies At 90. Page 6. Major Headway Shuqualak Lumber has completed major work on its green end and the numbers look great. Page 12. Single Pass Kiln Design: New American Wood Dryers Kiln Design Provides More Heat Efficiency And Control, Alters Continuous Drying Process To Boost Overall Lumber Quality. Page 22. Wooden Skyscrapers: The Sustainable Way To Build Future Cities. Page 26. Cutting Tools. Page 30.
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MACHINERYROW Canfor Plans Update Of Edger Line Canfor Southern Pine’s Graham, NC mill is updating its edger line with new technology from USNR. The mill wants to take advantage of the latest technology and reduce labor requirements, as the existing edger line is no longer reliable to meet their processing targets. This improvement follows on the heels of an investment in a BioVision (vision scanning) edger optimization system on this line. The new line begins with a metering deck feeding the unscrambler that is fitted with speed up chains to facilitate singulating the flitches, a turn/pass transfer, even ending rolls, scanner transfer, an Edger Maximizer positioning infeed, and 3-saw top arbor edger with reman head. The existing edger outfeed conveyor will be reused. The MillTrak material flow management system will monitor and control the flow from the unscrambler to the scanner. The new equipment is scheduled to be installed in the second quarter of 2020. ● Mercer Timber’s Friesau mill in Bad Lobenstein, Thyringia, Germany is investing in two new USNR BioVision grading
systems for its green mill. These systems will provide 2-sided grading utilizing the BioLuma 2900LVG+ sensors, the latest software platform, and Deep Learning technology. As part of its overall strategy to outfit this operation for the export market, Mercer is also investing in new trimmer lines that will utilize four new USNR Multi-Track Fences. This trimmer positioning fence is the world’s most popular, with more than 160 units sold globally. These projects will be done in phases over the next months, culminating in completion in 2021.
Doosan Signs Up Cascade Trader Doosan Infracore North America, LLC, has expanded its dealer network with Cascade Trader Inc. of Hayden, Idaho. Since 1991 Cascade Trader Inc. has operated as a new and used construction and forestry equipment sales and service business. Originally dealing exclusively in Chehalis, Wash., the company recognized the need for an additional location in Idaho to support its growing client base.
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Alamo Group Completes Purchase Of Morbark Alamo Group Inc. has completed the acquisition of Morbark, LLC, a former portfolio company of Stellex Capital Management, for $352 million subject to certain post-closing adjustments. Ron Robinson, Alamo Group President and CEO, comments, “We are very pleased to have completed this acquisition as Morbark is a strong fit with Alamo. Their products complement ours and they have been growing steadily in a sector which should continue to perform well. As is our general practice, we intend to maintain the Morbark brands in the marketplace and are glad that Dave Herr, president of Morbark, will continue in that role as part of Alamo Group.” Herr adds, “On a day-to-day basis, it’s business as usual, only now we have new resources and capabilities to continue driving value for you and your business.” TIMBER PROCESSING
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MAINEVENTS DECEMBER 3-6—Woodex, 16th International Exhibition of Equipment and Technologies for Woodworking and Furniture Production, Crocus Expo, Moscow, Russia. Visit woodexpo.ru/en-GB/.
JANUARY 2020 14-15—Missouri Forest Products Assn. winter meeting, Capitol Plaza Hotel & Convention Center, Jefferson City, Mo. Call 573634-3252; visit moforest.org.
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27-March 2—IndiaWood 2020, Bangalore International Exhibition Centre, Bangalore, India. Call +91-80-4250 5000; visit indiawood.com.
MARCH 2020 4-5—Ohio Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Marriott Columbus University Area, Columbus, Ohio. Call 614-497-9580; visit ohioforest.org. 4-6—National Wooden Pallet & Container Assn. Annual Leadership Conference, Naples Grande Beach Resort in Naples, Fla. Call 703-519-6104; visit palletcentral.com.
4-5—Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen’s Assn. Convention & Exposition, Indianapolis Marriott Downtown, Indianapolis, Ind. Call 317-288-0008; visit ihla.org.
10-11—Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo, Omni Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 334-834-1170; visit bioenergyshow.com.
12-13—California Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Kimpton The Sawyer Hotel, Sacramento, Calif. Call 916-444-6592; visit calforests.org.
12-13—Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE), Omni Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 334-834-1170; visit pelice-expo.com.
19-23—Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers annual meeting, Naples Grand Beach Resort, Naples, Fla. Call 336-8858315; visit appalachianhardwood.org.
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