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NEWSFEED

Enviva Sets Procurement Standards

PERSON OF THE YEAR

Tim Biewer Is The 29th Annual Recipient

DOWNIE TIMBER

Making Their Species Work For Them

COLLABORATION

Vaagen Sees Both Sides Of Lumber Debate

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THEISSUES

Jessica Johnson Associate Editor

HUNTING THE BIG ONE 18

oted British author K. J. Parker once wrote, “To hunt successfully, you must know your ground, your pack and your quarry.” Now, I won’t pretend to be a hunter—but every few Saturdays at about 4:00 a.m. my husband will find himself sitting in a tree stand waiting on “the big one.” He knows the land like the back of his hand, and the pack he hunts with has been together since they were knee high to a grasshopper. Because of this, every few Saturdays he comes home with a new rack for his office. Our 29th Person of the Year is no stranger to the scenario my husband finds himself in regularly. Tim Biewer is a big game hunter, as was his late father. The headquarters of Biewer Lumber is decorated with a vast array of scenes from Biewer hunts throughout the years. If you can think of big game in the world, chances are Biewer has tried to hunt one. Though when I asked him what he prefers, he said he honestly couldn’t say, he just liked being outside. But Biewer’s hunting acumen isn’t what landed him on our cover. No, his ability to translate just what Parker was saying about hunting: knowing the land, the pack and the quarry, to running a multi-location lumber company is. Biewer Lumber is in the startup phase of perhaps the most technologically advanced mill in the U.S. In rural Newton, Miss., a mere 946 miles from Biewer’s home base of St. Clair, Mich., the company chose to invest (and diversify) into SYP from red pine. Biewer told me the distance wasn’t a problem for him. Why? Because as a core principle he strongly believes in trusting the people he’s hired to do their jobs to the best of their ability. Many times over during my sit-down with him shortly before Christmas, he told me that his employees work hard, he trusts them, and often he feels like they work as if it’s their names on the door—not his. “To hunt successfully, you must know your pack.” He takes it even one step further, saying that he doesn’t have cameras in any of his mills, something I thought typical for multi-location operations. Instead he elects to say he doesn’t micromanage his people like that, trusting they will operate the facilities just as if he were watching. Now, according to Parker, to hunt successfully you must also know the ground. And diversifying into SYP from the red pine forests in Michigan is a bit of a leap, but Biewer says thanks to Project Manager Dan Bowen, a graduate forester from Mississippi State working with Biewer Lumber, knowing the land is under control. Biewer Lumber will more than double its production capacity when the Newton facility comes fully on-line, jumping from 250MMBF to 550MMBF. I might not be a hunter, but that seems like the ultimate big one. TP Contact Jessica Johnson, ph: 334-834-1170; fax 334-834-4525; e-mail: jessica@hattonbrown.com TIMBER PROCESSING

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NEWSFEED ENVIVA LAUNCHES TRACK & TRACE Enviva Holdings, LP, the world’s largest producer of wood pellets, has released the first data from its Track & Trace (T&T) program. T&T is a proprietary system that enables Enviva to track every truckload of wood the company procures from the forest back to its source, providing a detailed understanding of the characteristics of the wood the company uses. “Enviva’s sustainably produced wood pellets provide a cleaner energy alternative to fossil fuels, allowing electric utilities to replace coal and reduce the greenhouse gas intensity of energy generation while providing uninterrupted and dispatchable renewable energy that is there when customers need it,” says John

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Enviva has implemented a detailed raw material procurement data program.

Keppler, Chairman and CEO of Enviva. “With our Track & Trace program, Enviva maintains unprecedented data on our wood supply chain, driving sustainable procurement activities and helping us demonstrate and verify our commitment to forest sustainability while creating jobs and supporting economic growth in the American Southeast.” Enviva makes pellets using

low-grade wood from Southern forests. As an additional component of its commitment to sustainable sourcing, Enviva does not source wood from independently identified bottomland forest ecosystems that demonstrate high conservation value attributes, or from any forest where the landowner plans to convert to a nonforest use. The public launch of Envi-

va’s Track & Trace program comes after years of planning and investment and thousands of hours of effort on the part of Enviva’s professional foresters and the company’s wood suppliers. Enviva is making T&T information available to the public through a set of interactive maps at http://www.envivabiomass.com/sustainability/tra ck-and-trace. Before selling wood to En-

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NEWSFEED viva, a supplier must provide detailed data on the specific forest tract being considered for harvest, including each individual tract’s precise geographic location, acreage, forest type, species mix, age and the share of wood from each harvest that goes to Enviva versus other consumers. Enviva does not accept any wood from a harvest without this information, and the company records the data and verifies the accuracy of its procedures through third-party audits. T&T data are presented in two ways. First, the Forest Trend Map is based on timeseries data from the U.S. Forest Service and displays changes in overall forest conditions in the Southeast U.S. and in each of Enviva’s forest supply areas. Second, the Enviva Wood Supply Map provides detailed information on actual timber harvests around

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each of Enviva’s facilities during the first half of 2016. Data include harvest site, landowner type, forest type, harvest type, years since last harvest, the number of acres harvested and the percentage of the harvest volume provided to Enviva for wood pellet production. The first T&T public release includes Enviva wood purchases from January through June 2016. Initial T&T findings include: l Since Enviva opened its first U.S. mill in 2011, the total amount of forested land in its primary supply area has increased by more than 320,000 acres, with the volume of forest inventory on that land growing by 10%. l During the first half of 2016, Enviva procured wood from more than 750 individual tracts in 98 counties in seven Southern states. l During the first half of

2016, Enviva’s wood came from these sources: —About 72% came from mixed pine and hardwood forests (43%), southern yellow pine forests (25%) and upland hardwood forests (4%). This wood consists of undersized or “understory” wood that was removed as part of a larger harvest; tops and limbs; brush; and thinnings that were removed to make additional room for planted pines to grow. —About 25% was sawdust, shavings or residuals from wood product manufacturing. —About 3% came from working bottomland hardwood forests, made up of undersized or understory wood that was removed as part of a larger harvest; tops and limbs; brush; and thinnings. —Less than 1% came from landscaping or urban tree maintenance projects.

—On average, the forests on these tracts were 37 years old at the time of final harvest. “Research shows that sustainably sourced and produced wood pellets can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions on a lifecycle basis compared to coal,” says Jennifer Jenkins, Ph.D., Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer at Enviva. “Enviva is providing transparency into our sourcing process so that policymakers and other stakeholders can investigate for themselves the responsible wood supply approach that Enviva is taking to ensure the positive environmental impact of our wood pellets.” As the T&T system matures, Enviva expects to learn more and to incorporate the findings into its operations and procedures. Enviva plans to update the online T&T data a few times a year going forward.

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NEWSFEED INJURY MAY EXIST SAYS COMMISSION United States International Trade Commission (USITC) has determined that there is a reasonable indication that the U.S. softwood lumber industry is materially injured by reason of imports from Canada that are allegedly subsidized and sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. As a result of the Commission’s affirmative determinations, the U.S. Dept. of Commerce will continue to conduct its antidumping and countervailing duty investigations, with its countervailing duty determination due in February and its preliminary antidumping duty determination due in May The Committee Overseeing Action for Lumber International Trade Investigations or Negotiations (COALITION) had petitioned the U.S. Dept. of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission in November, alleging that Canadian provincial governments, which own the vast bulk of Canada’s timberlands, provide standing trees to Canadian producers for an administered fee that is far below the market value of the timber, as well as a number of other subsidies. In addition, the COALITION alleges that Canadian lumber is being sold for less than fair value in the United States. The petition details the injury suffered by U.S. industry and workers. In the immediate aftermath of the expiration of the 2006-2015 U.S.-Canada Softwood Lumber Trade Agreement, Canadian imports surged from 29.5% of U.S. total consumption in the third quarter of 2015 to 33.1% in the fourth quarter of the same year and to 34.1% in 2016. COALITION Executive Director Zoltan van Heyningen comments, “Considering 10

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the facts at hand and the clear harmful impact of unfairly traded Canadian softwood lumber imports, we were not surprised by this preliminary outcome.” British Columbia Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Minister Steve Thomson comments, “These are allegations that, time after time, have been proven to be false before NAFTA and World Trade Organization tribunals. BC’s forest policies are trade compliant. This issue can be resolved only with a fair, negotiated trade agreement with the United States, not more litigation. “With forecast for continued increase in U.S. housing starts, the U.S. needs our lumber and penalties only hurt housing affordability for middle-class Americans by raising building costs. It is in the best interest of both sides to quickly come to terms on a deal and get back to focusing on growing our respective economies rather than wasting time, energy and resources in costly litigation. That said, British Columbia is prepared to fight, alongside Canada, on behalf of British Columbians and the 140 communities that rely on the forest sector. We are confident we will win yet again.”

FUNDING MADE FOR NEW SAWMILL Work appears to be going forward on a new sawmill being constructed by Conifex Timber-Union County Lumber at the site of the former GP sawmill that Canada-based Conifex purchased in 2015 in El Dorado, Ark. Conifex-Union Lumber anticipates hiring 140 employees, with some employees already brought on and working at the site. The new operation has reportedly issued several purchase orders and has received

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NEWSFEED $130 million in credit to put toward the plant. The city of El Dorado is contributing $600,000 from the El Dorado Forward economic development sales tax to install a natural gas supply line to the Union Lumber facility.

FRERES UNVEILS MPP PLANS Capitalizing on the current interest in building largescale wooden buildings and more multi-story wooden structures, longtime Oregon plywood and veneer producer Freres Lumber has introduced the “Mass Plywood Panel” (MPP), a veneerbased engineered wood product that’s been more than a year in development while being tested and refined in conjunction with Oregon State University.

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Calling the MPP the “first veneer-based product of this size and scale that’s been proposed to the marketplace,” Freres Lumber Executive Vice President Rob Freres says the MPP development represents the kind of innovative investment required to differentiate the company, add value and stay on the leading edge of product development and new technology. Freres Lumber is adding an MPP plant near its Lyons, Ore. veneer plant and its Mill City, Ore. plywood plant. The facility is starting with a scarfing line and test press in early 2017, with a building planned for completion by late third quarter and commercial production to begin by late 2017. “This will allow us to test panels and gain certification,” Freres says, adding he believes MPP will qualify under

LVL and CTL standards. A week after announcing the new product, Freres reps displayed MPP at the North American Wholesale Lumber Assn.’s Trade Market trade show in Las Vegas in late October. In a blog post on Freres Lumber’s web site, plywood sales rep Bob Maeda noted an “overwhelming response” to the product. He added that Freres officials had “great discussions with many industry experts about product opportunities” that include crane mats, large cross-laminated timber (CLT) -like floor panels, solid wall panels, concrete forming applications, solid structural columns, scaffold planking, long length scarfed panels, furniture applications and more. “We have had a lot to digest and think about, but the opportunities seem to be many, and that is the exciting

part,” Maeda posted. Freres says the MPPs can be produced in dimensions up to 12 ft. wide, 48 ft. long and 12 in. thick. He believes a veneer-based mass building panel is more appropriate than the lumber-based CLT mass panel because defects are more easily removed during veneer production, and early research shows MPPs may reach the same strength values as CLT but using 20%30% less raw material. In addition, he says, the veneer layup process gives the MPP more engineering flexibility when it comes to meeting customer needs. MPP’s relative lightness, plus the aesthetic aspects of veneer add to MPP’s competitive benefits, Freres believes. Moving ahead, Freres says, “We’re going to be testing a lot of different combinations and veneer thicknesses.” He

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NEWSFEED believes MPP will be able to match the properties that engineers, builders and architects are looking for but with less raw material. “It’s really exciting,” Freres says. “We’re looking at a multitude of different types of products, and it’s really a way to diversify and not be so reliant on standard commodity products.”

ALL SYSTEMS GO FOR ARAUCO Arauco announced it has received all required official approvals to build its new particleboard plant located in Grayling, Mich. Once constructed the plant will feature North America’s largest single continuous particleboard press and will be one of the most productive in the world. The 750,000 sq. ft. facility

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will have an annual capacity of 452MMSF (800,000 m3), along with full lamination capabilities. Arauco’s $400 million investment will benefit the Crawford County Township, creating approximately 300 jobs during construction, along with 250 permanent jobs to run the plant. When production begins in late 2018, Arauco’s customers will benefit from improved service and access to the company’s composite panel products in a largely under-served Midwest market area.

TWO-STORY CLT BUILDING SHOWED Forestry Asia Trade Mission delegates have a better understanding of trends, priorities and Japanese market opportunities for British

Columbia wood products after touring a six-story, 2x4 demonstration project and two-story cross-laminated timber test house in Tsukuba, Japan, just outside Tokyo. The projects are located at the Building Research Institute, Japan’s leading government research organization focused on housing, building and urban planning. The institute has an extensive history of joint research and development with foreign organizations, including programs with the University of British Columbia, FPInnovations and Canada Wood. Completed in March 2016, the six-story, 2x4 demonstration project (funded by the Japanese government) shows the viability of six-story, 2x4, mid-rise structures made entirely from wood by incorporating “fireproof” features.

Previously, 2x4 buildings were limited to four floors in wood or four floors in wood atop one floor with reinforced concrete in Japan. However, with achieving a new twohour fireproof standard, 2x4 buildings can be built as high as six stories in wood. The demonstration project is the first to incorporate these fireproof features as well as various innovative wall/floor components such as doublemidply wall system, I-joists, parallel chord floor trusses and cross-laminated timber floors. The two-story cross-laminated timber test house is next to the 2x4 demonstration project and is meant to advance cross-laminated timber construction in Japan. The 130 sq m test house is constructed from 2 m wide by 6 m long cross-laminated panels made from Japanese Sugi.

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LEADER By Jessica Johnson

Tim Biewer of Midwestern sawmill company Biewer Lumber is Timber Processing’s 2017 Person Of The Year.

ST. CLAIR, Mich.

ell known for his strong leadership in a Midwestern family owned lumber business, which now includes a growth opportunity in the Southern U.S. starting up the newest and perhaps the most modern sawmill in the country, Tim Biewer of Biewer Lumber

Co. is named Timber Processing’s 2017 Person Of The Year. When first contacted about the award, Biewer was hesitant in accepting it. He firmly believed he didn’t “deserve” it, saying instead it belonged to his father, Richard Biewer, who died just six weeks before the announcement was made in mid-December. Biewer credits his father for all the company’s

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successes over the years, pointing to the fact that if it wasn’t for the elder Biewer, the sawmill business wouldn’t exist. “He had a vision,” Biewer says of his father, “and grew a lot of this company into what it is today.” Today, Biewer Lumber owns and operates three predominately red pine sawmills in the Midwest with a combined annual production of 300MMBF, has a management contract with another Midwestern softwood mill, and is in the startup phase of its first owned and operated softwood mill in the Southern U.S., which is permitted for 250MMBF. Biewer says that his father was going strong in the business until he became ill —though Biewer had been basically running the company for the last 15 years. One of the biggest foundations his father left him was a strong connection to the people that make up the company. Recognizing the importance of putting the right people in the right places to allow the company to succeed is a core principle for Biewer Lumber, and one that his

father embraced, Biewer says. The people behind the Biewer Lumber name are the single biggest point of pride for Biewer in terms of the company. The pride he feels as an owner is something he thinks is tangible with the staff: “They run it like their name is on the door.” Longevity is important to Biewer when thinking about his employees, because he invests in them and they invest in him. “We believe in our people, they are the ones that brought us where we are today,” he recognizes. Thanks to that belief, and the culture created by Biewer and his father, the company has many long-term employees—including a few in manufacturing roles that began when the first Biewer sawmill opened in McBain, Mich. in 1984.

BEGINNINGS The Biewer family did not start out in the lumber business. Before Prohibition, the family immigrated to Michigan from Germany to be a brewmeister for a local

brewery. Eventually Biewer Brewery was sold, and the family settled in St. Clair on the river. “My grandfather ended up coming to this site, where the Biewer Lumber headquarters are, to operate the Sherman House, a bed and breakfast with a bar and then started bottling beer,” Biewer says. Prohibition shut down the Biewer beer business, leaving the family without a livelihood. With the proximity to the river, it was natural for the Biewers to turn to it. The family opened a fishing boat rental business, John A. Biewer Co., and bait and tackle shop. “We got in the lumber business because a guy rented a fishing boat all summer and couldn’t pay for it. He told my grandfather, ‘hey for letting me use the boat all summer, I’ll trade you some logs.’ So my grandfather had the logs sawn and started selling lumber out of the back of the boat livery,” Biewer explains. That trade became a watershed moment for the Biewer family. It was a way

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to earn money in the winter when the fishing boat rentals were slow. “My dad always called them peckerwood sawmills,” Biewer says with a chuckle, referring to the portable sawmills Biewer operated in the woods. One of the most popular lumber items sold out of the livery was piling for docks. Biewer remembers his father being very concerned about treated piling and what might happen to his markets if all the customers went to treated. After some research, Biewer realized that treated piling was actually a business that could be sustained in Michigan, and the company entered the treating business. Biewer Lumber established treating facilities across the Midwest in Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin, but it became obvious the business needed to change again. In 1984 Biewer Lumber—then known as John A. Biewer Co.—built its first red pine mill in McBain, Mich. with the intention to only supply the six treating plants in operation at that time. Biewer again credits the wisdom of his father for laying down the groundwork for expansion, saying he saw the opportunity in Michigan as the red pine came of age and there was no existing market. “So we built the mill in Michigan,” he says simply. As McBain’s production came online, the opportunity presented itself for Biewer to grow again, and the company built its second softwood sawmill in Prentice, Wis. a handful of years after, and supplied other markets besides its own treating facilities. Following graduation from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. Biewer entered the family business helping to build the Prentice mill. He stayed on after startup as plant manager for five years, before coming to headquarters as vice president.

Tim Biewer in the lobby of the Biewer Lumber headquarters, where portraits of John Biewer, left, and Richard Biewer are prominently displayed.

The evolution of the Biewer's family business, from bottling beer before Prohibition to the ﬁrst cash register that ever sold lumber at Biewer's Boat Livery. 20

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Biewer Lumber would purchase another mill, Pine Tech in Lake City, Mich. “We were always looking to keep growing,” Biewer says of his father’s mentality—a mentality that shaped Biewer strongly, and eventually led to the biggest expansion of the company to date. “We can’t build a new facility up here because of the timber,” Biewer says,

“We use a lot of yellow pine for our treating operations; it was natural for us to look in the South to see what was available.”

NEWTON “Plum Creek, who’d done some business with our northern mills, called me, and said they were looking for more

A mixture of Northern plant managers, foresters and senior management in St. Clair

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markets for their timber in the South. They asked if I had ever thought about building a mill down there. They told me they had a lot of timber, and would make sure some was available.” As the idea started forming, Biewer commissioned some timber studies, did a little traveling and started leaning toward building a new mill. He also had conver-

Dan Bowen, Project Manager in Newton

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Biewer believes the right people in the right places allows for locations to be spread out across the Midwest and now the South. He visits the mills often, but spends the bulk of his days in St. Clair.

sations with Brian Fehr, principal of The Bid Group of Companies, which had recently wrapped up some projects at Biewer’s Prentice sawmill under the Comact brand. “Hooking up with The Bid Group and making it a partnership between us, and building a state-of-the-art facility made a lot of sense for both of us,” Biewer says. Thanks to a strong relationship with Fehr, Biewer chose The Bid Group as the turnkey supplier for a new $85 million sawmill to be built in Newton, Miss. With headquarters in St. Clair, and sawmill operations spread out in Wisconsin and Michigan (the closest sawmill to HQ is McBain, a three-hour plus drive), Biewer didn’t flinch at taking it South when the pieces started falling into place. “Prentice is 10 hours away driving, so Mississippi isn’t that big of a deal,” he says cheekily. So why not just purchase an existing SYP facility and do a few upgrades? He cites cost as a driving factor: By the time he bought one and did the upgrades, he thought financially it made just as much sense to start fresh. The Newton mill began producing lumber late last year, Bid-owned Comact supplied the green end machinery, as well as dry trimming and sorting, while Bid’s A&M Manufacturing supplied the high speed electric planer and Deltech provided the continuous dry kilns. Will company expansion stop here? Is nearly 600MMBF in production capacity enough for Biewer Lumber? Maybe, maybe not. “We’re not going to sit still,” Biewer says. He was raised to always be looking at what opportunities present themselves—and as the economy continues to strengthen and get back on track, considering the timber availability and the fact that they’ve already conquered building one mill in the heart of SYP country, he’s not sure another might not be on the horizon.

FLEXIBILITY Biewer says each of the mills in the Biewer Lumber portfolio is flexible— a key to success—and one of the reasons the Biewer portfolio was able to stay strong during The Great Recession when some other mills folded. All the Midwest mills can cut timbers, decking and dimension, and are able to grade spruce, pine and fir. Obviously Newton focuses on SYP. “We’ve become a significant player 24

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in the SPF markets in the Midwest over the last 10 years and that’s been a transition in our business due to markets and species availability,” Biewer comments. “When the mills were first started they were just going to supply timbers to our treating plants. We’ve grown and expanded both as our production has grown and the markets have changed.” Main markets include other treaters, Biewer’s treating division, contractor lumber yards, as well as big box retailers. Newton is going to be one of the most advanced mills in the country, but Biewer didn’t want to divert capital investment away from the Midwestern mills. Mills in McBain, Prentice and Lake City recently received new Comact scanning on the primary breakdown systems. Prentice’s dry line was also recently replaced using Pierce Construction, USNR and Comact equipment. Biewer likes to do business with Comact, believing that the equipment is some of the best on the market. Additionally, his mills lean heavily on USNR and Cone Machinery. As part of his first task when he began working at headquarters, Biewer integrated the various facets of the company—bringing all of the sales into the one location and hiring a senior manager to oversee all the Northern mills. Streamlining has helped the company run lean and mean, a strategy the company deployed during the Recession. Being family owned, and able to react quickly, also helped: “When times got tough, we didn’t have a lot of red tape, we started cutting things right away where a lot of people didn’t. We didn’t go off-line, we buckled down and tightened things up.” Having a visible and approachable owner in Biewer is what makes the company what it is today, Vice President Doug O’Rourke says. “He’s created a culture where he really listens to what people have to say. He listens to people, certainly our own employees but also other folks in the industry. He gives us the ability to make a lot of decisions like it’s our own business. That’s a strong attribute.”

of whom work in the family business, and one slated to graduate college in the spring. Biewer says nothing will be handed to them. Everyone including family has to work, and work hard, for the position they have; that’s the culture of the company. As part of the commitment to the people behind Biewer Lumber, a “culture committee” exists. Five people from across the Biewer Lumber divisions—HR, manufacturing, logistics, sales and procurement—gather once

per month to discuss the culture of the company and what can be done to improve it. Biewer says he started this initiative not to change the company per se, but to nurture a positive environment, all designed to attract and retain the best talent possible. One of the results was the creation of an annual scholarship for one local high school student to attend college. “He’s not overbearing, his people work very hard for him. That’s probably the best TP that I could say,” O’Rourke says.

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STAYING

ONCOURSE By Andrew Snook

Downie Timber matches log supply to diverse product offerings.

REVELSTOKE, BC estled on the Columbia River between the Selkirk and Monashee mountain ranges is Gorman Bros. Lumber’s Downie Timber. The 60-plus-year-old sawmill is the 8,500person town’s largest employer with about

300 employees between the mill and its on-site sister company, Selkirk Cedar. And with an annual sawmill consumption of more than half a million cubic meters of logs across four species, the mill sometimes needs creative ways to find its fiber. Back in 2007, when several ACC (annual allowable cut) uplifts were granted to help with the mountain pine beetle epidemic, fiber was easier to secure. But those days are history, and there are many mills in the area looking for the same kinds of fiber. “Our location gives us the highest competitive advantage in the area but there are a lot of mills that are encroaching in, as other AACs go down,” explains Angus Woodman, woodlands forester for Downie Timber. Last spring BC chief forester Diane Nicholls announced that a new AAC

would come into effect for the Merritt Timber Supply Area (TSA) of 1.5 million cubic meters, effective immediately, and it is scheduled to decrease to 1.2 million cubic meters on March 24, 2021. Then last May Nicholls made another announcement stating that the AAC levels for the Kamloops TSA would be 2.3 million cubic meters and decrease to 2.1 million cubic meters, effective May 5, 2021. The decreases are designed to bring the AAC back to levels comparable to prior to the mass harvesting of mountain pine beetle-killed trees. That said, the decreased AACs come at a time when U.S. homebuilding is in the midst of a slow but steady recovery, and leaves some mills in the southern BC Interior competing against each other for fiber that is becoming increasingly more difficult to harvest. And if the U.S. housing economy picks

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up a stronger pace, the battle for fiber will only become more aggressive. In the Kamloops TSA alone, there are three lumber mills, two chipping mills, two veneer-plywood mills and a pulp and paper mill currently operating. Add to that the fact that Downie Timber processes four species on site— cedar, spruce, fir and hemlock—and the mill’s woodlands team has its work cut out for them. “It’s quite rare to run into a fourspecies mill,” says Alan Smythe, general manager for Downie Timber who has been with the Revelstoke mill for more than 25 years.

The mill requires 530,000 cubic meters of logs.

LOG SUPPLY The mill currently obtains the 530,000 cubic meters of logs it requires annually through a combination of purchased logs and its own harvesting operations. Downie Timber’s Woodlands Group is responsible for harvesting approximately 180,000 cubic meters of logs with the remaining logs purchased from other logging contractors throughout the BC Interior. “We’ll buy logs as far west as Fraser Valley and as far east as the Alberta border,” Woodman says. The mill can have up to 20 different logging contractors at any given time. “Our supplier list is very deep and it’s quite complex,” Woodman explains. “Sometimes we have to go chas-

The sawmill processes four species—cedar,spruce, ﬁr and hemlock.

Mike Holland, sawmill quality control supervisor

ing cedar.” Angus and log buyer Joel Springer shop around to get the right logs into the right program.” Of course, being part of the Gorman Bros. family of mills helps out in the hunt for cedar. Downie Timber obtains between 60,000 and 70,000 cubic meters of cedar logs from its sister company Canoe Forest Products in Canoe, BC, and some additional cedar logs from the Gorman Bros. facility in Westbank, BC. Another way Downie Timber has been able to secure its fiber is through a municipal partnership with the Town of Revelstoke. The mill has a license to purchase fiber through the Revelstoke Community Forest Corporation (RCFC), which owns and operates a tree farm license north of Revelstoke with an ACC of 90,000 cubic meters. About 40% of the sawlog volume is supplied to Downie Timber, while the remainder is sold at auction—with many of those logs also purchased by the Revelstoke mill. Downie Timber also rents out a satellite location from the RCFC down the street from the mill to store additional fiber for the mill. “Prior to renting that, our storage capacity was about 60,000 cubic meters so it was a five-week capaci-

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The spruce is processed to produce 1x 3 to 1x12 boards that are sold worldwide. The Douglas fir and hemlock are used to produce 45 mm-thick Taruki wood products that are sold in the Japanese and Chinese markets. The western red cedar processed is used for the widest variety of products of all the species, including: 1x4 to 1x12 boards, Comact TrimExpert is built for defect detection. 2x4 to 2x 8 decking, 1.25x4 to 1.25x6 ty,” Woodman explains. “Now we have decking, 2x4 to 2x8 quarter-inch off about a 10-week supply with a storage ca- products, a complete range of paneling pacity of about 100,000 cubic meters.” products, bevel, T&G, channel siding, Another challenge the company has in rough and surfaced industrial clears, and regards to securing fiber is finding nextfingerjoint and edge-glued products. generation loggers to work in the harCedar products go to central Canada, vesting operations for years to come. the U.S., England and Australia. “We’re finding it difficult to find new The mill currently has an average annuentrants into logging,” Woodman says. al production of 120MMBF. “There are lots of opportunities for good “It takes a lot more effort from the cable yarder operators.” guys on the floor to be able to identify the different species,” says Mike Holland, sawmill quality control supervisor, PRODUCTION who has been with the mill for more than The company processes several 15 years. species in its operations, including Although the mill typically cuts one spruce, Douglas fir, hemlock and westspecies at a time, Downie Timber is a ern red cedar. Each species type is sepaflexible facility that can cut two speices at rated and used for a different combinaa time when constrained by logs. The tion of wood products. ability of the workers on the floor to iden-

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tify the different species has been a significant factor in the mill’s log diet flexibility, Holland explains.

MILL PROCESS After one of the mill’s Tigercat, John Deere or Madill button-top loaders unloads the logs and turns them, a Cat 980 loads the logs onto the cutoff saw deck where they are processed and debarked. Logs over 44 in. go to a rosserhead debarker while logs under 44 in. move to a Nicholson A1 debarker, and logs 20 in. and smaller are debarked by a Nicholson A5 debarker. The larger logs processed by the headrig are then sent to a 12 in. gang saw, 6 ft. twin saws or a 6 in. edger. The pieces sent to the gang saw then go to a trim line or to a resaw line or for re-edging to extract value. The boards that went through the twin saws travel to the 6 in. edger and then over to the trim line, while the remaining boards are sent straight from the 6 in. edger to the trim line. Upgrades to the larger log line were done a few years ago by Lewis Controls, which performed several upgrades includ-

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ing a 3D carriage scanning system featuring LMI Chromascan 2440 sensors and an upgraded computer system for improved data collection from the floor. The logs processed by the Optimil DLI small log line are fed into an 8 in. Optimil duplex style gang. From there, the boards either move to the trim line or are processed by a 4 in. edger and then sent to the trim line or a 5 in. twin saw line. Another major project undertaken over the past few years was the installation of a hybrid Comact system in the sawmill. It’s

not quite a GradExpert and is more advanced than the regular TrimExpert. This hybrid TrimExpert contains LMI’s Chromasacan 3155 heads, and a total of 12 high-definition cameras, which provide a better image for defect detection. The system has become a useful tool for the mill for detecting flaws and other characteristics in the wide variety of species being processed. “It’s a great tool to use,” Holland says. “The latest challenge was to do all the cedar and spruce.”

The mill has also made improvements to the trim line’s infeed system. The boards are then sent to the stacker, which has also had several aspects upgraded over the past few years including the unscrambler and infeed. The upgrades were performed by MillTech Industries and Iron Code Engineering. After being sorted, the boards are sent for drying in one of the mill’s nine kilns currently in operation—eight side-loading Custom Dry Kilns and one Aerodyne track load kiln. Approximately 70% of the kiln drying takes place on site while the remaining drying is done at sister companies Canoe Forest Products and Gorman Bros.’ Oroville Reman and Reload facility in Oroville, Wash. At the planer, the mill has also installed a Comact GradExpert scanning system to help accurately classify different characteristics on dry planed lumber. Two check graders work with the GradExpert. One identifies defects the system struggles with while the second grader looks over the decisions at the green chain. They have the ability to disable the GradExpert and manually grade fiber depending on the products they’re on. Future upgrades planned for the Revelstoke mill include new chip bins and bins for sawdust. Currently the sawdust and shavings are transported by truck to Pinnacle Renewable Energy’s pellet plant in Lavington, BC. Other residuals, such as bark products, aren’t as readily shipped out and can require some shopping around. To manage the dust at the mill, the company has had engineering firms come in several times to look at any problem areas to help find practical solutions. For now, manpower has been the mill’s main answer to dust management, but there have been upgrades to the dust management systems. Smythe worked at the Revelstoke mill prior to it being purchased by Gorman Bros. in 1990, so he has seen, firsthand, the company’s willingness to invest in the latest technologies. “They’ve put $120 million into the mill since that time to put the best upgrades in,” he says. He sees no reason Gorman Bros. would stop investing now, which bodes well for the hundreds of people who depend on the mill for their livelihood and the town that Downie Timber calls home. TP This article earlier appeared in Canadian Forest Industries magazine, which has an article exchange alliance with Timber Processing.

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COLLABORATION CANADIAN LUMBER: THE BIGGER PICTURE

By Russ Vaagen

ere we go again. It’s the time where we have no lumber trade agreement between the United States and Canada. So, what does all of that mean? Who’s going to prevail? Is either side going to win? The Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports is going to see an increase in activity when prices move below $350. Prices at the start of 2017 are $359 per thousand board feet according to the Random Length Composite Average. If those prices drop, the Canadian mills will surely slow the shipments to the US, right? If you’re reading this you already know the answer, but do you know why? That answer is simple and straightforward. If you’re not located near the border or doing business with Canada, you may not have been paying close attention to currencies. I live near the border and do business in both countries. It’s

essential that I know what it is and how it affects things. Today the exchange rate with the Canadian Dollar is $1.35 CND for every $1 USD. Most people look at it the other way around ($1 CND = $.74 USD), but I prefer to look at it this way. It also happens to be the way most Canadians look at it. What does that mean? It means that in today’s market that same $359/MBF lumber price is $485/MBF in CND. A good illustration of this is that in early December the price of lumber was at $349/MBF, but because the currency went from 1.33 to 1.35 and the price raised $10 USD the Canadian mills saw their mill price rise $20/MBF CND over that same period. As interesting as this is, it’s not important compared to what could happen if prices fall. What if we were to get some storms that slowed the building season in the South and we had a longer than anticipated winter in many market areas that cut the consumption of lumber? Prices would go down. Let’s say the prices go down to $289/MBF by mid-March (I certainly don’t want to see this, but it helps make the point). During that same period assume the exchange rate moves to 1.45. Suddenly you have a situation where mills are building inventory with expensive wood and the Canadians are still shipping into the market. Mills are starting to see some significant losses, but why would the Canadians keep blowing lumber past U.S. mills into lumber markets that are cold? They are still realizing $419/MBF CND to the mill. U.S. mills have dropped at least 20% in revenue, yet the Canadians have only seen a 14% reduction in price. If they picked up shipments, they may

have lost less than that. You see, currency means a great deal and most people only pay it lip service. It is my opinion that we need to consider the currency rate in our next round of negotiations of the SLA. It doesn’t need to be as complex as the old computer rankings for College Football, but with all the real-time data available now, we should be able to design something that works for everyone. I can’t in good conscience say that Canadian producers are bad if they ship more lumber when they’re making money. I don’t think they are purposefully putting U.S. mills in jeopardy of closing. The mills at risk of going out of business are the family owned mills in obscure places that not only devastate the communities they leave behind, but also leave a void in the log market for landowners and land managers. Something needs to be put together that will keep the market open for the Canadian mills, yet incentivize moderation when lumber prices drop. Now that I’ve outlined the critical factor of currency and its role in the marketplace, what else is there? The most obvious: raw material…logs. I have always had an unconventional take on this. Our Forest Service has failed us at so many levels it’s hard to comprehend. In a nutshell, my opinion is that the U.S. lumber industry has to ask for help from its own government in order to protect its market because another part of that same government has failed to provide a reasonable supply of logs at market prices. It’s ridiculous! We ask the United States government to introduce sanctions against the Canadian lumber producers for creating a system that works. The Canadian governments

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COLLABORATION provide logs consistently while adjusting the price based on market pricing data. On the other hand, the U.S. Forest Service has a forest health crisis that’s so large it’s almost incompressible. The pace and scale of necessary treatment is more than 10 times what they are currently doing. I think it comes down to the values our respective governments place on the forest industry. The U.S. government comes to the rescue in a one-time trade dispute resolution that may or may not work and then essentially walks away for the duration of the trade agreement. What happens in Canada? Their government officials engage, meaningfully, with the companies to come up with solutions that work. An example of this was when prices were low in 2010 the BC government was pulling out all the stops to develop a market for BC lumber in China. I personally heard BC Premier Gordon Campbell tell the BC Truck Loggers Association Annual meeting that they were “not only going to develop a market in China, but they were going to kick the door down!” I have NEVER heard anything like that from a U.S. politician. Not only did he say it, they did it! Millions of board feet of lumber went to China instead of going into the U.S. framing market. In that case, everyone won. We need to ask more of our elected officials. It shouldn’t just be the periodic trade help. They should be helping us turn the Forest Service into an agency that cares for the land and serves the people. Not an agency that cowers in the corner and does 10% of what it should and then pats itself on the back. We’ve built major collaborative success in many areas where environmentalists

have agreed to reasonable management practices over large areas. We force the issue and continue to hear that the Forest Service doesn’t have enough money or people. The fact is they have too many people in the way of those of us who know what can and should be done. If we can create fair trade policies while reforming the way we manage our public lands I think we can see the forest indus-

try survive and prosper on both sides of the 49th parallel. TP Russ Vaagen is a third generation sawmiller with his family’s company, Vaagen Bros. Lumber, in Colville, Wash. He is also the founder of www.theforestblog.com that specializes in topics focused on collaboration and the state of forests and industry. E-mail him at: rvaagen@ vaagenbros.com.

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GOING AFTER HIGH-END Quality control on drying plays a big part at Siskiyou Forest Products. By Larry Loffer ANDERSON, Calif. iskiyou Forest Products in Anderson, Calif. is one company that disproves the old adage, “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.” General Manager Darren Duchi explains, “We buy undesirable, industrialtype grades of wood from sawmills that need to be reworked. We then eliminate knots and other imperfections and cut them up into short, clear parts. Since these parts are too short for manufacturers, we fingerjoint and glue them together lengthwise. We also take that blank and edge glue it or sell it as is as siding or trim.” Siskiyou Forest Products provides customers with a wide range of products from common industrial grade lumber to high-end fingerjointed and edge-glued material. Many of its products are transformed into upscale doors, windows, shutters, screen doors, outdoor furniture, and even wine cellars. A family-owned and operated business, Siskiyou FP annually processes upwards of 25MMBF. Since most of its wood products are used exteriorly, they typically process rot resistant species like redwood, western red cedar, and yellow cedar. The company ships its products directly to wholesale distributors for customer distribution. Most of its customers are domestic, but they also have customers in New Zealand, Australia, Belgium, France, Canada and Mexico. Fred Duchi started this family-run business in 1974 with the purchase of a wholesale remanufacturing facility in Woodland, Calif. Since then, three generations of Duchi’s have worked for the company, including Darren’s father Bill Duchi and cousins Aaron Duchi, Dean Duchi, Monte Acquistapace and Larry Scott. In the late ’80s and early ’90s the company began acquiring industrial customers, who asked Siskiyou to make products for them. To satisfy their customers’ requests, Siskiyou decided to switch from commodity-based lumber sales to industrial sales. “We purchased our present facility in Anderson in the late ’90s and sold our Woodland facility in early 2001. Since then, we’ve been here basically making engineered wood products,” Duchi remarks. Siskiyou has continually expanded and

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developed its manufacturing and remanufacturing services over the years. More recently, it has added kilns, Weinig molders, fingerjointers and saws, as well as a second processing facility in nearby Cottonwood, which enabled the company to double its production of inbound product. Siskiyou Forest Products has long been committed to providing its customers with quality lumber products and service. A key part of its quality control process is making

Lumber runs through Siskiyou’s Omega inline moisture measurement system at 450FPM enroute to the planer mill.

A forklift loads lumber for Siskiyou’s kilns.

A kiln operator measures moisture with Wagner Meters’ L722 stack probe.

sure all wood products are properly dried before processing. This means carefully measuring for moisture content (MC). “Since we use a radio frequency edge gluer to glue our products, it’s absolutely critical that our wood has low MC. If the

average MC for each piece is above 12%, we kick it out. If not, we’ll put our equipment at risk as well as our finished products,” Duchi states. Normally, Siskiyou works with about 50,000 linear board feet per shift and then cuts that into 500,000 to 1 million smaller pieces. It is imperative then that they know the MC of each piece. They don’t want one small piece affecting a longer piece once they’ve engineered it back together. Duchi explains, “Basically, the edge gluer is attracted to moisture, that is, the water in the glue. We don’t want it to be attracted to moisture in the wood. If there’s moisture in the wood, it takes all that power away from the glue line and we’ll get lots of delamination and a failed glue line.” Siskiyou also paints some of its lumber. If they have boards with excessive moisture, the tannins will bleed through the paint causing yellow stripes to appear on them. To avoid moisture issues, Siskiyou uses a Wagner L622 Handheld Digital Moisture Meter and the L722 Stack Probe in its kilns to frequently check the lumber for dryness. During the manufacturing process, they also use a Wagner Omega InLine meter on the planer. Aaron Duchi, who runs the kilns, says he initially checked the lumber’s MC with a handheld pin meter. “I had to record everything manually, so it was very time consuming. The nice thing about the Wagner digital meter is that it not only measures the lumber faster, but it does all the recording work for me. It calculates all the information for each sample I take and sends it to my computer screen so I can quickly print it out. Plus, I can periodically check the calibration on site using their calibration pad. That way I know I’m getting accurate readings.” Both Darren and Aaron say that having accurate moisture measurement “has been a godsend” to their company. “Since we included moisture measurement in our manufacturing process, we became a much better operation. It significantly diminished a number of issues and has been an important piece of our manuTP facturing and overall success.” Larry Loffer is a senior technician at Wagner Meters, where he has 30 years of experience. Call Wagner Meters today at (800) 6349961 or visit www.wagnermeters.com.

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GOING FOR SPEED, VALUE New edger line provides security for Norra Timber.

Johan Fredriksson, machine engineer and product developer at Norra Timber

The new Catech edger line at Norra Timber is one of two edger lines running in parallel. It is capable of processing 60 boards/min.

orra Skogsägarna (Northern Forest Owners) is a private association in northern Sweden composed of 16,355 forest owners. Its roots date back to the 1930s. The association’s aim has always been to safeguard private forest ownership rights. At the time the association was created, trees were felled by hand and hauled off with horses and timber carts. Technological development has been sweeping, while the forests have also undergone change. Modern forestry has doubled the annual output. During the 1930s, average saw timber volume amounted to 2047 cubic feet per hectare (2.5 acres) and today to 4165 cubic feet in the coastal regions. Typical for northern timber is that it grows slowly in the cool climate. It takes 100 to 120 years for it to be ready for harvest, compared to 60 to 80 years in southern Sweden. The slow growth results in dense, quality timber sought after by North Africa, Japan and Great Britain among other countries, as well as the domestic market. Norra Skogsägarna offers a range of forest-related services to its members, and also has an industrial sector called Norra Timber (Northern Timber) comprising two sawmills, two planer mills and one pole production facility. The association is thus an independent player with full control over all stages of the manufacturing process from raw materials to finished goods, with an annual output of 200MMBF.

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One of Norra Timber’s sawmills is Sävar Sågverk, which has 90 year-round employees and saws 90MMBF of pine and spruce annually. Norra Timber recently installed a new Catech 4000 edger line from Söderhamn Eriksson to improve its output and reduce its reliance on manpower. The upgrading of the saw line is designed to increase feed speed and value recovery, as well as shorten log gaps. Johan Fredriksson, machine engineer and product developer at Norra Timber, explains: “We had two edger optimizer lines that were slow and became bottlenecks in the line. So we decided to replace the oldest one that was from 1985

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with a new edger system from Söderhamn Eriksson to increase capacity. The new Catech 4000 can handle 60 pieces per minute, which together with the remaining edger system, corresponds to a sawing capacity of some 25 logs per minute.” Fredriksson stresses the importance of the new edger system’s high degree of automation, requiring only remote After processing, edged boards exit onto a slow down belt and monitoring. “We didn’t want one operator just for the edger landing table before proceeding on to the trimmer. line as the old one required, because it’s located in a separate part of the building. The investment was meant to reduce the required manpower.” In its quest for the perfect edger system, Sävar visited the Bergene Holm sawmill in Nidarå, Norway, which too had invested in a Catech 4000. “We spent a whole day there, studying their edger line and talking to the people, and we were really impressed by what we saw and heard. This determined our choice. Also our close cooperation with Söderhamn Eriksson for almost 40 years helped, of course, to put our trust in their technology and competence. They are known for their expertise in band sawing and edging and are the driving force behind developments when it comes to speed and capacity. It’s important for us to get more and more efficient while at the same time maximizing value recovery.”

40% spruce. The planer line has a length capacity up to 40 ft. Lumber products include exterior paneling, planed construction grade lumber, dimensional lumber, strength-graded lumber, made-to-measure, tongue & groove, length grades, custom dry grades and custom assortments. TP This article and photos appeared in the USNR publication, Millwide Insider, and appears here with permission.

INSTALLATION The new edger line was installed in September 2015. It took just three production days from the first piece until they were able to run 45 pieces per minute. The investment has meant that they could increase sawing speed significantly for saw patterns with four boards and cant heights of 100-150 mm. They are able to send the boards to either of the two edger lines now that they are working in parallel. Even if one is shut down for servicing, they can still keep up production. Fredriksson advises on how to prepare for a project like this one: ● Find out what capacity you’ll need and what manpower will be required for the projected production. The answers will reveal what kind of automation and output you require. ● Start thinking and planning in good time, at least a year ahead. ● Study reference plants. This was a decisive step for the mill. Sävar Sågverk takes in 60% pine and TIMBER PROCESSING

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MACHINERYROW Scotland Sawmill Goes With Valutec

Valutec is expanding in the UK.

Scottish sawmill Adam Wilson has invested in a new timber kiln from Valutec—one of the first modern continuous kilns in the British Isles. “This may usher in a trend similar to that in Central Europe, where we are seeing more and more companies choosing continuous kilns,” says Jon Lindberg, Sales Manager at Valutec.

The mill is located in Troon, Ayrshire. The Irish sawmill group Glennon Brothers purchased the sawmill three years ago and initiated an overhaul of the kilns. They already have good knowledge and experience of Valutec’s timber kilns, so when it became clear that Adam Wilson needed to invest, Valutec was their choice. “We have a tradition of collaboration with Glennon Brothers and so it’s great to get involved and be instrumental in their venture in Scotland. It’s an important delivery for us,” Lindberg says. The kiln is an OTC continuous kiln and has a capacity of approximately 50,000 cubic meters per year. It is equipped with a heat recovery system, pressure frames and Valutec’s Valmatics control system. It will be used to dry boards and planks to a target moisture content of 20%. “The capacity of sawmills is increasing and continuous kilns are often a sensible choice for medium-sized and large sawmills, thanks to their high capacity and good operating economy,” adds Lindberg. Annual production in the UK is 3.8 million cubic meters of sawn lumber, compared with 2.5 million in Norway and 18 million in Sweden. “The sawmill market in the UK is moving forward, and most sawmills are in Scotland. So it’s an exciting market,” Lindberg says.

USNR Hosts Russia Industry Personnel

Members of the Russia delegation and USNR representatives

In April 2016 USNR was very happy to host a delegation of representatives from some of Russia’s major logging and wood processing companies. While in North America the group visited British Columbia, Canada and Oregon, U.S. to become familiar with up-to-date wood processing technologies designed by USNR/Söderhamn Eriksson. The purpose of this trip was to impart a good understanding of USNR’s designs including specific equipment characteristics and advantages, and to overcome the old stereotypes that were established in this sector in the Soviet times, when the Russian market was dominated by European wood processing techniques. The host team was given the opportunity to demonstrate USNR’s extensive capabilities that run the gamut of solid wood 44

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Russian delegation visits a sawmill in Washington state.

processing technology, through a tour of several North American mills as well as USNR facilities. The trip involved mill managers and technical specialists from four Russian companies located in a variety of regions including Russia North-West, Siberia and Transbaikal, and included such large-scale mills as IKEA-Tikhvin, Roskitinvest, Cherepovetsles and Baikal Forest Company. Prior to their arrival to North America the delegates were familiar with European-designed equipment, and all had visited mills in Russia and Europe operating European technologies. Few had seen USNR equipment, nor were they familiar with the North American approach to sawmilling. To many delegates the North American sawmilling technologies became a revelation, particularly the production capacities and grade scanning and optimization technology, and they noted the differences in processing philosophies from what they were familiar with.

Laprise Named CarboCare Director Lumber handling equipment manufacturer Carbotech has named Claude Laprise as its CarboCare service division’s service director. As a graduate with various specialized degrees such as drawing, mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic design, among others, Laprise began his career with the multinational firm, Bose Inc. For the next 18 years, he was directly involved in project management coordination for both prototypes and large-scale product distribution. Laprise went on to become co-owner of Cyme Tech, a company specializing in the design and manufacture of wood components, primarily for the acoustic and furniture industries. For the past two years, he has been a member of the Carbotech project management team. TIMBER PROCESSING

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ATLARGE Strickland Firm Transfers To Top Wood Jobs Mike Strickland of Michael Strickland & Associates, LLC has decided to retire and Top Wood Jobs is taking over his business. Strickland began his recruiting business in 2003 and has provided candidates to many of the leading companies in the

wood products industry. He began his career in the wood products industry in 1972 as an hourly operator and advanced to of plant manager. He held management positions with many companies including Bruce Hardwood Flooring, Coastal Lumber Co., Georgia-Pacific, Willamette Industries and Champion International. Strickland helped grow the industry through his plant management

and recruiting efforts over the years. Strickland has turned over his business and connections to George Meek of Top Wood Jobs, LLC. Strickland wishes to thank all of the companies and individuals that he has worked with during his time at Michael Strickland & Associates, LLC. George Meek and Top Wood Jobs, LLC can be reached at 360-263-3371; www.topwoodjobs.com.

Roseburg Names Cribb As Sales Director Roseburg named Ashlee Cribb as Sales Director for Roseburg’s Solid Wood Business. The newly created role will consolidate the reporting of the sales organization, giving the business a single point of focus on sales. In this structure, Director of Manufacturing Bob Jewell, Director of Sales Cribb, and Director of Marketing Mark McLean report to Steve Killgore, Senior Vice President of Solid Wood Business. Gary Pittman, Pat Lynch and Mike McCollum, business directors for lumber, plywood and engineered wood products, respectively, report to Cribb. Cribb held several roles at Georgia-Pacific. Starting out as the marketing manager for wood adhesives, she progressed through the organization, holding the senior roles of wood adhesives business manager and vice president of the industrial packaging business. Prior to GeorgiaPacific, Cribb spent several years with Monsanto Chemical and Imerys Performance Minerals, where she was responsible for marketing and product innovation. Cribb holds an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Europe Growth Will Be Moderate European Commission expects economic growth in Europe to continue at a moderate pace, as recent labor market gains and rising private consumption are being counterbalanced by a number of hindrances to growth and the weakening of supportive factors. European Commission expects GDP growth in the euro area at 1.7% in 2016, 1.5% in 2017 and 1.7% in 2018. GDP growth in the EU as a whole should follow a similar pattern and is forecast at 1.8% in 2016, 1.6% in 2017 and 1.8% in 2018. 50

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1-2—California Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Napa, Calif. Call 916-444-6592; visit calforests.org.

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1-2—Ohio Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Embassy Suites, Dublin, Ohio. Call 614-497-9580; visit ohioforest.org.

23-25—Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers Summer Conference, Inn on Biltmore Estate, Asheville, NC. Call 336-8858315; visit www.appalachianwood.org.

1-4—Delhiwood 2017, India Expo Centre & Mart, Greater Noida, India. Call+91-80-4250 5000; visit delhi-wood.com. 1-5—Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers annual meeting, The Diplomat Resort & Spa, Hollywood, FL. Call 336-8858315; visit www.appalachianwood.org. 7-9—Dubai Woodshow, Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Call +971 4 39 23232; visit dubai woodshow.com. 8-10—National Wooden Pallet & Container Assn. annual meeting, Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, Tucson, Ariz. Call 703-519-6104; visit palletcentral.com. 9-10—2017 Southeastern Lumber Manufacturers Assn. Spring Meeting and Expo, Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans, La. Call 770-631-6701; visit slma.org. 22-24—Hardwood Manufacturers Assn. 2017 National Conference & Expo, The Francis Marion Hotel, Charleston, SC. Call 412-244-0440; visit hardwoodinfo.com or hmamembers.org.

APRIL 4-6—Kentucky Forest Industries Assn. annual meeting, Embassy Suites, Lexington, Ky. Call 502-695-3979; visit kfia.org. 9-11—American Wood Protection Assn. annual meeting, Encore at Wynn, Las Vegas, Nev. Call 205-733-4077; visit awpa.com.

MAY 5-6—Southeastern Saw Filers Educational Assn. annual meeting, Greensboro, NC. Call 803-243-6677; email glomarsh1956 @gmail.com. 19-20—Northeastern Forest Products Equipment Expo, Cross Insurance Center, Bangor, Maine. Call 315-369-3078; visit northernlogger.com. 22-26—Ligna: World Fair For The Forestry And Wood Industries, Hannover, Germany. Call +49 511 89-0; fax +49 511 8932626; visit ligna.de.

JUNE 14-16—Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Expo, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 504-443-4464; visit sfpaexpo.com.

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