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NEWSFEED

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THEISSUES

Rich Donnell Editor-in-Chief

WELCOME TO THE ANYTHING-CAN-HAPPEN SOUTHERN PINE INDUSTRY 12

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oes it seem like a lot has happened in the southern pine sawmill industry since the SFPA Expo was held June 5-7, 2013 in Atlanta? Well, if you attend the upcoming SFPA Expo June 10-12 in Atlanta, you might see a lot of the same faces as you saw in 2013, but their badges may indicate they now work for a Canadian corporation. And I’m talking about former owners as well as plant workers. (The former owners will probably be smiling.)

Say what?

When I walked out of the SFPA event and the Georgia World Congress Center in 2013, the rumors were flying about as fast as the Canadians were throwing their cash at Southern sawmillers.

About two weeks before that SFPA show, Keadle Lumber Enterprises of Thomaston, Ga. had sold to Canada’s Interfor for $45 million. And a few months earlier, Interfor had purchased Rayonier’s three sawmills in Georgia (Baxley, Swainsboro and Eatonton) for $80 million.

The rumors were well-founded. As the show was happening, Canada’s Canfor was purchasing three sawmills in Alabama (Mobile, Jackson and Fulton) from Scotch Gulf Lumber for $80 million.

Early the next year, in 2014, Interfor purchased Russia’s Ilim Timber’s two sawmills and reman plant in Georgia (Perry and Preston) for $130 million. I mention this because those were the Tolleson Lumber sawmills that had sold to Ilim in 2011.

In March 2014, Canada’s West Fraser purchased Travis Lumber of Mansfield, Ark., and followed that up in April with the purchase of Bibler Brothers Lumber in Russellville, Ark. Then it was Canfor’s turn again, announcing its purchase of Beadles Lumber in Moultrie, Ga. and Balfour Lumber in Thomasville, Ga. in August 2014.

Canfor struck again the next month, announcing its acquisition of Southern Lumber in Hermanville, Miss.

Okay, back to Interfor, which purchased four sawmills from Simpson Lumber for $95 million, including two sawmills in the South (Meldrim, Ga. and Georgetown, SC) as well as two in Washington. This deal became official in March.

That’s a dozen southern pine sawmills that have come under Canadian ownership since the last SFPA Expo. Given this track record, nobody will be surprised if another transaction comes down before or during the upcoming SFPA Expo.

A common thread throughout most of these mills when they were purchased is that they were good, efficient mills, some stronger than others technology-wise perhaps, but all very competitive. We should know. I believe Timber Processing editors have visited and written articles about all of them.

And all were/are very conducive to a quick capital expenditure shot-in-thearm to immediately take advantage of lumber markets. Some of those equipment projects are already happening, and no doubt the floor of the SFPA TP Expo will resonate with further project developments.

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NEWSFEED FOLEY PUTS UP TIMBERLANDS Foley Timber and Land Co., which owns and manages 560,000 acres of timberlands in north central Florida, is exploring the sale of substantially all of its business assets and operations. The company’s 876 square miles of timberlands are centrally located between Tallahassee and Gainesville along Florida’s Gulf Coast.

The sale offers the opportunity to acquire timberland operations and related assets that generate significant cash flow through the superior management of highly-productive timberlands on contiguous land in an attractive market, according to the company. Foley is majority-owned by company chairman, Robert Day, and its President, Howard Leach.

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opportunity to acquire a premier tract of timberland and related operations in a growing market, supported by a track record of sustainable harvesting, deep customer relationships and long-standing customer supply agreements,” Leach says.

In 1994, a limited partnership was formed to acquire select Florida lands from Procter & Gamble. With the land’s proximity to the community of Foley and former ties to P&G’s Land and Timber division, as well as emphasizing the sustainable timber operations that would continue under the new ownership, the partnership called the business Foley Timber and Land Co. Over the past 20 years Foley reports it has harvested nearly 23 million tons of wood and has planted more than 224 million trees on 280,000 acres.

On average, Foley reforests

about 14,000 acres per year, which includes the planting of approximately 10 million trees per year.

BC GOVERNMENT COMES UP BIG The Government of British Columbia is investing $6.2 million to support the forest sector in expanding global markets for BC wood products.

The funding is being made available to nine industry trade associations that deliver market development programs on behalf of government and industry. Association activities will focus on expanding markets for BC’s solid wood products in Asia, the U.S. and Europe. Activities will be delivered on a cost-shared basis, with additional funding provided by industry and the fed-

eral government.

B.C.’s contribution is being managed through Forestry Innovation Investment (FII), the province’s market development agency for forest products. FII also administers the Wood First program, which fosters the innovative use of wood and wood building systems.

A 13-member evaluation panel, with representatives from FII, the federal government and the forest industry, reviewed and scored the funding applications received in response to the 2015-16 Call for Proposals.

For 2015-16, the following organizations will receive the following funding: Canada Wood Group, $3.29 million; Western Red Cedar Lumber Assn., $900,000; Wood Products Council, $662,000; BC Wood Specialties Group, $629,000; Council of Forest Industries, $300,000; Coast

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NEWSFEED Forest Products Assn., $179,000; Cedar Shake and Shingle Assn., $112,000; Wood Pellet Assn. of Canada, $71,000; APA—The Engineered Wood Products Assn., $70,000.

“With this funding, the Council of Forest Industries will continue to promote BC’s world-leading forest products to growing economies in Asia including China and South Korea,” says COFI President James Gorman. “Our members are already leaders within the global forest products industry, helping to drive the economy of BC and the communities in which they operate.”

GRANTS BOUND FOR EWP PROJECTS U.S. Dept. of Agriculture announced the award of more than $9 million to expand

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and accelerate wood energy and wood product markets.

The federal funds will leverage $22 million in investments from partners, resulting in a total investment of $31 million in 23 states.

This year more than 100 proposals were received for the Wood Innovations grant.

More than 40 organizations are receiving grants, including several involved in engineered wood products, including: Washington State University and its project, “Pilot Supply Chain for Advanced Manufacture of CLT in the Pacific Northwest”; University of Oregon, “Utilization of Low-Value Lumber from Small-Diameter Logs Harvested in Pacific Northwest Forest Restoration Programs in Hybrid Cross Laminated Timber Core Layers”; and SmartLam LLC of Whitefish, Mont., “Planning,

Design, and Specification of a New Cross-Laminated Timber Plant.”

USDA also announced a new partnership agreement between USDA and the Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) to help coordinate research, demonstration and market development for innovative wood building technologies.

The SLB is an industryfunded research and promotion program, overseen by the Agricultural Marketing Service.

PRO SOUTH PLANS NEW SAWMILL Pro South is expanding its operations by adding a sawmill at its location in Prentiss County, near Booneville, Miss. The project represents a $2.75 million company investment

and will create 57 jobs.

Pro South is involved in several sectors of the timber industry, including logging, trucking, timber purchasing and wood yard services. Pro South’s new sawmill will produce lumber and timbers.

“We are excited about the future of our company and for the new job creation in our own hometown as a result of this latest sawmill project,” says Pro South President Russell Stites. “By diversifying our business, we are seeking to provide enhanced job security and longevity for all of our employees, new additions and long-termers alike, that make this growth opportunity possible.”

Mississippi Development Authority provided assistance in support of the project to transport and reassemble refurbished equipment, as well as for workforce training.

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KEEP MOVING

FORWARD By Jessica Johnson

A well-known company in Maine always keeps an eye open for opportunity.

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ELLSWORTH, Me. he ownership team of Pleasant River Lumber Co. was created in 2004 when several members of the Brochu Family got together with two family friends with strong accounting backgrounds and purchased a dimension mill in Dover-Foxcroft, Me. The company has transitioned over the last decade with significant growth and changes in ownership as members of the original group retired from the company.

The original ownership team consisted of Adrien, Guy, Luke, Jason and Chris Brochu, Rodney Irish, and Moe Bisson.

Guy retired from the company in 2009 and Luke, who recently received the Alfred D. Nutting Award from the Maine Forest Products Council for his vast contributions to Maine’s forest industry, retired at the end of 2013. Chris Brochu and Jason Brochu currently serve as co-presidents of the company with their father, Adrien, providing support and guidance, and Rod and Moe handling the financial responsibilities of the company Jason, 42, says that his father played a vital role in the impressive growth of Pleasant River Lumber. Chris, 35, says that with the support of their father and the rest of the current and past partners they have been able to capitalize on opportunities beyond the Dover-Foxcroft location—like expanding from one location to five and diversifying from just spruce to spruce and pine.

“The strength of our ownership and management team has allowed us to investigate opportunities outside of our original operation,” Chris says.

The company is very good at spotting opportunities. Since purchasing Pleasant River Lumber in Dover-Foxcroft in 2004,

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they’ve since gone on to purchase operations in West Enfield, Me. in 2008, Ellsworth in 2011, Sanford, Me. in 2012 and most recently the long established Moose River Lumber in Jackman, Me. in 2015. Across these five locations, Pleasant River Lumber employs 275, with annual production of 175MMBF of eastern spruce and 35MMBF of eastern white pine.

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS In their role as co-presidents, Chris and Jason spend the majority of their time in Dover-Foxcroft, but try to travel to each mill during the week. Jason and Chris share all responsibilities of managing the company but both have a clear passion for projects. Over the last 10 years the company has invested more than $15 million in upgrades to the Dover-Foxcroft mill.

Now it operates with fully optimized and modernized equipment.

In fall 2011, PRL purchased an eastern white pine mill in Ellsworth, which was completely idle at the time and began their foray into something besides spruce—a complete change from what the company had been doing for years.

Buying the pine mill was a quick decision for the company: The mill was put up for auction, and when no one bought it at auction, after a call to the bank, the mill was theirs. Chris says their entry into pine was that simple. “We got it going and learned pretty quick that to be successful in it we needed to have a different mix of equipment.”

They immediately began upgrading the facility. In the first two years of ownership they installed a new Hurst wood fired boiler, new USNR dry kilns, a new log carriage with USNR optimization, replaced an 8 in. gang saw with an Esterer frame saw, and a Paul edger optimizer. This new mix of equipment, along with other improvements made to improve flow, got the mill to a production and efficiency level that allows it to be competitive.

During this time the Sanford mill became available, and the two complement each other really well. Jason says, “We bought Ellsworth and then we bought Sanford because we saw the opportunity to expand our presence in pine. The location really appealed to us and although the mill needs modernizing, the overall site had a great variety of assets.”

Chris further explains why they purchased the mills. “Once we entered the pine business we realized the limitations of our Ellsworth mill. Sanford provided us an expansion of our product mix and

Pleasant River purchased an idled pine mill in Ellsworth, Me. in 2011, and began immediately modernizing the mill.

PLEASANT RIVER KNOWS CANADIAN LUMBER IMPORTS

he owners of Pleasant River have been involved with the Canadian softwood T lumber imports issue since the early 1980s, when Luke Brochu called out Canada for subsidizing its softwood lumber producers, especially through low stumpage rates, depressing lumber pricing and adversely affecting timberland values. Canadian softwood lumber has accounted for 30-60% of U.S. lumber consumption depending on the region.

The two countries have hammered out various trade agreements to address the issue through the years, including the most recent agreement in 2006, which nullified numerous lawsuits and appeals, terminated U.S. collection of countervailing and antidumping duties, while requiring Canada to impose taxes and volume restrictions on lumber exports to the U.S., meanwhile encouraging the provinces to move away from subsidized pricing systems toward an open and competitive timber market.

The 2006 agreement is set to expire this year. Luke Brochu, who served as chairman of the U.S. Lumber Coalition as recently as 2014, says any new trade agreement with Canada needs to have a more effective enforcement system, referring for example to a recent case involving Quebec and Ontario in which the U.S. coalition says Canada did not fully compensate the U.S. industry for violations of the trade agreement—providing new subsidies to softwood lumber producers in those provinces.

Jason and Chris Brochu agree that the issue should not be allowed to slide and that the agreement must be updated, especially since Pleasant River Lumber competes directly with many of the Canadian mills.

“We strongly support the Coalition, and fully agree with the Board’s position of needing to find new approaches needed to bring about a sustainable, stable and effective softwood lumber trade agreement with Canada,” Chris says, adding that “the Coalition has concluded that unfortunately the current agreement has become outdated and unsustainable, and therefore we have been working closely with our government on alternative approaches to the current agreement. Regrettably, it appears that Canada is unwilling to engage in any negotiations to help bring about a new agreement that works. We are committed to addressing the issue of unfair Canadian imports—either through an agreement that TP works, or through use of the U.S. trade laws.”

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The mill cuts all four-quarter, any pattern.

Pleasant River’s Ellsworth facility acts as a satellite wood yard for the company’s spruce mill in Dover-Foxcroft.

an opportunity for future growth.”

Ellsworth has transitioned to a satellite operation for the Sanford mill. The two complement each other well and allow great flexibility in product offerings.

Between the two mills, Pleasant River Pine has close to 35MMBF capacity. Last year, PRP produced 28MMBF, but once the majority of the projects in Sanford are done, and both mills run at full speed, full capacity will be realized. Jackman, Ellsworth and Sanford currently run one shift; Dover-Foxcroft is two shifts.

Dover-Foxcroft acts as headquarters.

If you were to draw a line down the middle of Maine, through Dover-Foxcroft, PRL operations cover everything south.

Sanford, outside of Portland, is three hours. Ellsworth is an hour and a half east; Jackman is an hour and a half west and West Enfield is 45 minutes east.

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NUTS AND BOLTS Each mill has ongoing projects and capital investment. The brothers estimate that a little more than $3 million has been put into the Ellsworth mill and in April of this year the Sanford mills edger was replaced as well as a resaw line added.

With so many mills, and plenty of outdated, non-optimized equipment, it’s been quite a task to find modern equipment. With a laugh Chris says, “We’ve been ‘dumpster diving’ the last couple of years!” He adds that with some legwork, and luck, they’ve found some really good used equipment at good prices that have allowed them to modernize and improve flow at a fraction of new equipment costs.

For optimization they like Autolog, and have used USNR, but they also put in a used Paul optimized edger in Ellsworth, and liked it. When they couldn’t find a used one for Sanford, they purchased a new Paul through Koch Equipment in Georgia.

The growth and success of the company is largely attributed by Jason and

Chris to the strength and efficiency of the management team. Each operation has a general manager and communication among the divisions is a focal point.

Because of the multiple products and locations there is a lot of inter-mill activity. Customers can receive loads of lumber that originated from several different mills. The managers are responsible for coordinating this activity and Jason and Chris stress communication and cooperation throughout the entire company.

“We spend a lot of time making sure we have the right people in the right places,” Jason says. Chris echoes his brother saying that they wouldn’t be able to grow if it wasn’t for the capacity and dedication of the people they have throughout the company. “If you don’t have good bench strength its very difficult to grow. We have a lot of people whose responsibility has grown with our growth and we have added a lot of great people through acquisition.”

Moose River is a great example of this as they were able to bring that company under PRL ownership without any management changes at Moose River.

“Our existing sales, procurement and accounting infrastructure could handle the addition of Moose River and Moose River’s internal management is very strong. We were excited to work with the team at Moose River and most of the work combining the companies and capitalizing on the synergies of being together happened behind the scenes with very little impact on operations,” Chris says.

Each mill has a slightly different procurement situation, but each of Pleasant River’s mills procure wood in a radius of about 80 miles. Jason explains, “Jackman is a challenge. We deal with fierce competition from Canada because we are on the border. It’s very frustrating to watch load after load drive by the mill destined for Canadian mills. One of our objectives by combining the mills is to more efficiently allocate the wood basket and be in a better position to compete with Canadian mills.”

He says that mainly the competition for spruce/fir isn’t the other Maine mills, but the big mills in Canada who can pay a high price for a small percentage of wood. Unfortunately for the Pleasant River mills that small percentage comes from their wood basket, which forces them to pay more for the larger percentage. The pine mills are different in that the competition is mostly from other mills in Maine and New Hampshire.

All log deliveries are gate wood.

Prices and volumes are negotiated twice

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a year with landowners and land managers throughout the State. The company would like to buy its own land, but prices are too high according to Jason. “Land is difficult to buy right now. Investors have bought a majority of the large tracts and prices have been established that reflect development potential. Hopefully the economics will change as investors see better opportunities elsewhere. We would like to add a land base to help wood our mills but need land values to more accurately reflect stumpage values.

We have yet to find anything that makes any sense.”

Thankfully, Chris says that though it can be tough negotiating with the large landowners and managers he isn’t concerned with wood supply. “There’s plenty of wood growing and being cut. There is some concern as far as labor supply, but Maine has a lot of great loggers.

Long-term we are confident in the supply,” he says.

PINE OPERATIONS On the pine side, the mills cut all four quarter, and will do any pattern. At both mills, PRP has full planing and drying capacity and between the two can do pull to length and random length.

Sanford is geared toward random length, while Ellsworth is more efficient at pull to length— something that works out well, considering Jason estimates that half of their customers want one or the other. By having the two mills PRP is able to provide both efficiently.

Ellsworth is a very good location for procurement, the brothers say, as it is the farthest north pine mill left in Maine and they find very high quality roundwood in the area. Jason says that while there used to be other mills to the north in Maine, they’ve since closed their doors.

Additionally, Ellsworth acts as a satellite wood yard for Dover-Foxcroft’s operation, bringing in about 10% of the spruce needs. Chris says that they are able to buy a lot of spruce that previously had been difficult to access. It’s also helped the yard situation in Dover-Foxcroft, he says, since they do such a big volume yard space is always a challenge.

Spruce is moved from Ellsworth to Dover predominately using backhauls.

Chris explains, “We buy pine from a large area and it’s a big advantage to be able to offer back hauls of spruce to the logging contractors. With the trucking efficiency everyone benefits. It’s a competitive advantage for us as we compete with other pine mills for logs.”

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Pleasant River’s pine production capacity is 35MMBF.

echoes Jason and Chris’s sentiments about the efficiency of the Ellsworth pine mill, citing mill-wide optimization.

Once logs are brought into the yard, a scaler has a handheld talkman to scale the logs, using wifi to transmit the information into the mill wide system. That information is used, combined with the information from scans during the process, to know exactly what the mill is bringing in and what they are getting out, as well as anything lost in between.

At the Ellsworth facility Pleasant River has a Nicholson ring debarker, Forano rosserhead debarker, Forano headrig with HMC carriage, Esterer sash gang, McDonough resaw, Paul optimized edger, Irvington Moore 48 bin sorter and stacker, Yates-American planer and a mix of older and newer kilns, USNR and Nyle.

Lumber is trimmed both before and after the planer, using a jump saw trimmer. Fall says that to have trimming on both sides is very important. He says, “If you only had trimming before and you ran something through the planer and saw a defect, you’re either going to lose it or have to send it back through. If the first guy misses something, the second guy is able to get it.”

Planer knife grinding is done by the planer operator, who also functions as the supervisor of the department. He can file and watch what the graders and machines are doing, Fall says. The grader is able to stop the chain if he sees anything that isn’t up to quality control, which allows time for the planer operator to be called out to fix whatever issue might have arisen.

Fall says that they grade in a way that takes into account customer preferences and NELMA standards. PRP dries lumber to a target 7% moisture content.

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projects when needed.

The company maintains a fully staffed and equipped filing room at each mill. Equipment highlights are a Wright CNC grinder for band saws installed in 2014 at the Dover-Foxcroft mill, a Simonds autobench at Jackman and a Volmer sash gang grinder in Hancock.

Each mill has a Simonds band saw leveler in The remainder of the work is done with a variety of older equipment and nothing is sent out.

J.R. Fall is the General Manager of the Pine Div., while Terry Walter is the manager at Sanford and Chris Woodward is the manager at Ellsworth.

For the spruce mills, at Dover-Foxcroft, Jon Comber is over maintenance and special projects, Fred Saucier is green end supervisor and Rick Conklin is dry end supervisor. At Jackman, Jeff Desjardin is general manager.

FAMILY BUSINESS While it might seem like a family business, the brothers are quick to point out that is isn’t. PRL is a first generation company formed by some people that had owned a mill before and some that hadn’t. “We work with family members but it’s not a family business. We didn’t inherit it,” he says.

Chris adds, “We run it to grow as a business, and improve the business. We are not going to let family situations affect it.”

Their father is not involved in day-today operations, though he does provide constant support and guidance. Jason says that something his dad taught them was to always look outside your doors. “His guidance and direction allowed us to branch out. We live in a very competitive time and there has been a lot of mills closing or changing hands. Fortunately we have a structure that allows us to participate in some of this activity and to strengthen our company for the long term.”

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BACKLOG By Dan Shell

Sawmill machinery and service suppliers are busy right now and hoping for even more orders at the SFPA Expo in Atlanta.

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xpanding in response to brightening markets and more sawmill activity as the forest products industry recovers from the economic downturn, the Southern Forest Products Assn.’s 33rd Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Exposition held in Atlanta at the World Congress Center June 10-12 is the largest it’s been in years.

According to show officials, the 2015 SFPA Expo is 30% larger than the 2013 show, as more than 150 equipment and services vendors and suppliers are set to exhibit for the forest products industry.

This year’s SFPA Expo covers almost 50,000 square feet of indoor space, after SFPA sold out its allotted area inside the

World Congress Center.

In response, show officials have offered outdoor exhibit space to accommodate the demand from companies looking to participate in the event.

“Expo has offered outdoor exhibit space at past events and we want to include all manufacturers of machinery and equipment that benefit from live demonstrations,” says SFPA Expo Director Eric Gee. “In addition, an outdoor exhibit can enhance what some exhibitors are displaying indoors.”

Meanwhile, many sawmill owners and operators are now pulling the trigger on projects that may have been put on the back burner during the downturn. Suppliers and fabricators are busy with orders already on the books, making long lead times a factor, but “there’s always room for more,” as one vendor executive says.

Here’s what several exhibitors had to say about the current business environment and their goals for the SFPA Expo: Steve Walsh, National Sales Manager for Advanced Sawmill Machinery, says his company is definitely busy right now, having just completed a large bucking system project and with several carriage and trimmer projects currently moving through ASM’s engineering and fabrication facility.

Walsh adds that he hasn’t seen a trend of mills looking to upgrade a certain area as much as projects taking on more of a complete package look. “We’re seeing

people looking to buy a more complete package and replacing or upgrading related components such as chains and conveyors rather than just replacing a tilt hoist, for example,” Walsh says.

Walsh notes that sales cycles are now shorter than they were a few years ago when resources were harder to come by.

“Once you get a call for a quote, it’s a lot quicker decision,” he says adding that many mill owners and operators are deciding “now’s the time to do it” on projects that might have been put on the back burner for a few years.

At the SFPA show in Atlanta, Walsh reports ASM is displaying a trimmer and partial carriage. “We also like to do a lot of socializing with new and old customers,” he says.

Going into the show, Baxley Equipment Vice President and LogPro coowner Chris Raybon says both companies have what he calls “a perfect backlog of work. That is, we have order files that stretch way, way out, but with some deliveries slots in between so we can service customer needs as they arise.”

In Atlanta where he projects a good crowd of sawmill visitors, Raybon says, “We expect a large number of inquiries and quote requests from our customer base.” With many mills looking at doing capital projects of varying sizes,

SFPA Expo will be held in the middle of tremendous projects activity in the Southern U.S.

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don’t be surprised to find suppliers and vendors noting long lead times, he adds.

“My advice to customers is adapt to these market conditions, plan projects early and order well in advance of needs so longer than normal delivery times will not be such a factor.”

In Atlanta, Baxley Equipment will emphasize optimizers and edgers, the Ecoustic grader and a new dry kiln fan drive, Raybon says. “We will also announce our new sales affiliation with VAB for planer mill lumber grading.”

Major mill machinery supplier USNR is working on more than 75 projects of all size and scope across its North American production facilities encompassing 650,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space, says USNR Senior Marketing Associate Sonia Perrine. The jobs range from a complete, edger-free sawmill and an advanced quad band line with shape sawing gang to multiple projects downstream, including a new kiln, complete new planer line with 86 bin sorter and also lumber grading installations.

“There’s a lot of work in the trim, sort and stack area as as well,” Perrine says, noting USNR projects for two complete lines under way, plus orders for eight Multi-Trak fences, two optimized trimmers and two stackers.

The company will display its ElectraTong all-electric board feeder, Model 625 Edger Maximizer with dual positioning infeed, among other products. Perrine says USNR will have a small army of booth personnel on hand to answer any questions visitors may have.

According to Autolog Vice President of Sales & Marketing Yvan Rainville, two big reasons to exhibit in Atlanta are to meet with existing and potential customers and listen to their needs. “We will be demonstrating our actual technology, presenting new products and talking about future product development,” Rainville says, adding that the show provides an opportunity to view the industry’s evolution and progress.

In Atlanta, Autolog’s exhibit includes a ProGrader Scanner module with 3D geometric, 2D color vision tracheid sen-

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sors, a transverse optimizer with 45° and 90° scan head configurations and a new high density color camera.

“Autolog is continuously investing in the development of our personnel,” Rainville says, noting recent hiring of additional programmers for vision, control and optimization technology development. “We’re developing new and innovative technologies and building longlasting partnerships with our customers through customized products, services and training.”

Key vision system supplier JoeScan has grown significantly since the last SFPA Expo and now has a customer base spanning six continents, says Marketing Manager Christy Green. “Customers are discovering new applications for scanning technology within sawmills, which enables them to fine-tune sawmill operations and to improve recovery,” she adds.

In Atlanta, JoeScan is promoting its JS-25 X-series scan heads, and will have a log scanning demonstration. The company is also bringing its fun and interactive 3D scanning booth that creates a head-to-toe digital model of a person. Attendees can take home their digital models and enter to win a full-size

3D printed likeness of themselves.

“We’re hoping to connect with existing customers, meet prospective customers and reinforce our presence as an industry leader in the 3D laser scanning market,” Green says, adding that all JoeScan personnel look forward to such industry events and learning about new technology and industry trends across all segments of the sawmill industry.

In 2014, Andritz Iggesund Tools finished the year with record growth throughout the U.S. and Canada of 1520%, says Andritz Iggesund Tools North American Sawmill Manager Bill Beck.

“Several of the total mill rebuilds in Western Canada went with our chipping technology, and we are seeing that trend continuing this year,” he reports.

In addition to many mills with large upgrades in the works, Beck says mills with smaller jobs are also turning to Andritz Iggesund with plans to replace outdated and inefficient chipping heads with Iggesund Conical Powerheads for canters and headrigs and TKD drum style chipping heads for profilers, curve-saw gangs and chip-n-saws.

“We work with all of the OEM machinery suppliers on primary and secondary breakdown machines, and we like to think that we are the ‘go-to’ supplier when it comes to chipping heads in our industry,” Beck says. “Our backlog of projects is pretty impressive, but we always have room for more.”

At the SFPA Expo, Andritz Iggesund Tools will introduce its new TurnKnife System 4 for sawmill chippers, and promote the new drum-style chipping heads with TKD knife system. “These are the style of drum chipping heads we have been installing in many of the new, very high speed canters throughout North America,” Beck says, noting the heads have performed well even at -40° F in mills in Canada.

In Atlanta, “We’re looking to expose everyone at the show to our new products and successes at mills in helping them achieve the higher production and lower operating costs that everyone deTP sires,” Beck says.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: The following companies were among those invited to submit the following materials for having advertised in this issue while also exhibiting at the upcoming Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Exposition at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, June 10-12.

All statements and claims are attributable to the companies.

ACTIW LOADPLATE Actiw LoadPlate changes the traditional way of loading complex cargo into standard containers. The equipment pushes any type of products—sawn timber, plywood, veneer products—safely into regular, unmodified containers and trailers by only one push of a button.

Products remain undamaged and the cargo space is accurately utilized. No special structures are needed under the cargo. The actual loading of entire container load takes less than five minutes. Actiw LoadPlate has installations in more than 20 countries.

LoadPlate operation is simple. The product load is lifted, for example with a forklift on top of a plastic loading plate that is fixed to the equipment. Height and side adjustment functions ensure that the equipment is aligned with the container. Hydraulic clamps secure the container to the correct position. By one push of a button, the entire product load along with the plate is slid into the container. LoadPlate stopper gate holds the load inside, while the plastic loading plate is automatically pulled out of the container, leaving only the products accurately and undamaged inside. The container is then ready to leave.

One of Actiw LoadPlate designs, LoadPlate Multi, is equipped with a transfer car function that allows flexible and efficient loading of multiple containers one after another. With LoadPlate Multi, yard management can be optimized reducing delays in staging.

In addition to gains in safety, faster loading and reduced truck turnaround time, Actiw LoadPlate eliminates the risk of damage to products and containers. Fewer people and less machinery are needed in the process. Load forming can be flexibly done beforehand.

LoadPlate is perfect for use seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Some of the world’s leading lumber companies like Stora Enso, UPM, SCA and Pfeifer are using Actiw LoadPlate in their daily operations.

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ADVANCED SAWMILL MACHINERY Last year marked the start of a third decade serving the pine and hardwood sawmill industry and ASM continues to increase its workforce, including two additional machine designers, a dedicated CNC programmer, purchasing manager, safety manager and manufacturing personnel.

Popular new ASM products include vector motor positioning Log Chop saws with machined v-ways, timber trimmer with fixed and electric actuator operated positioning saws, automatic package doubler, vector-motor driven package end squeeze, high speed line shaft trimmers that offer standard saw spacing, precision end trimming and custom saw spacing as close as 6 in.

ASM continues to offer a complete line of high-speed, custom sawmill machinery, including the heavy duty ASM carriage with on-board forward and reverse horizontal log turner and slant option, hybrid carriage drive, carriage slabbers, patented Steady Scan log conveyor, tilt hoist, high-yield curve canting and curve-sawing, sharp chain and conveying systems. Additonally, ASM offers reconditioned bandmills as well as the capability to cost-effectively recondition and update most sawmill machine centers to the latest technology.

ASM continues to expand its plant capability and has invested in a new CNC Plasma Burn table, a 48 in. x 60 in. CNC horizontal milling machine with a 10 ft. bed, a 40 in. CNC Lathe with a 10 ft. bed, CNC metal cutting saw and Inventor design software to complement the Solid Works and AutoCad in use.

ASM has a well-deserved reputation for manufacturing heavy-duty sawmill machinery that is designed and built to last. ASM does all of its design, machining and fabrication in-house, which provides exceptional quality control.

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AUTOMATION & ELECTRONICS USA Automation & Electronics USA Ltd is an international systems integrator providing mill wide cost effective, and reliable control solutions for hardwood and softwood sawmills. Automation & Electronics has more than 700 installations worldwide including the U.S., Canada, and multiple international locations such as Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. These systems include setworks for carriages, edgers and trimmers, along with scanning optimization for primary breakdown applications.

AE USA has also developed cost effective retrofit and upgrade solutions for setworks, scanning optimization, carriage, edger and trimmer applications in existing or obsolete systems, including the now defunct Silvatech.

AE USA expects to continue its growth in the controls systems market with proven technology in its trademarked software and the expansion of the engineering department. Additionally, AE USA provides systems for binsorter, stacking, boiler controls and advanced kiln drying systems—which include CDK Continuous Dry Kiln controls (in partnership with KDS Windsor). All systems are backed with online broad band remote connection and 24/7 technical support from qualified controls engineers based in North Carolina and New Zealand.

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BAXLEY EQUIPMENT Baxley Equipment Co., formed in 2004, is still a relatively new name in the forest products industry, but its heritage goes way back. In 10 short years, Baxley has built on the reacquired Hi-Tech product line, adding many innovative new products. Grade scanning for green lumber, a new generation lineshaft trimmer, a positive high speed lug loader, an all electric paddle fence, all electric package makers and stackers, high speed board edgers linearly and transversely fed, curve-sawing, cut-in-two lumber sorting, operator-less lumber sorter and cross cut edger are some but not all their innovations.

While this technology was being developed, Baxley Equipment bought Price System, a world renowned chip mill equipment manufacturer, and turned it into Price LogPro. Price LogPro’s product line has expanded from primarily drums and cranes for chip mills, to include pellet and sawmill wood yards. This product and market expansion caused a physical expansion into two large capacity manufacturing facilities.

Positive, simple and extremely robust LogPro log/stem feeders and shifting saw cutup systems are some products developed in the past seven years.

Looking at customers’ needs, Baxley two years ago struck a deal with Calibre Equipment, a New Zealand company to license and manufacture Ecoustical grading machines in North America. This has proven to be very successful, with many satisfied MSR lumber manufacturing customers.

Baxley currently offers a one-day installation BMX optimizer upgrade package, including all new computing hardware, operating system and program.

During all this growth and expansion, Baxley has maintained its commitment to customer service. “Baxley Equipment along with Price LopPro is positioned exactly where we need to be in the marketplace—close to our customers.”

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CARBOTECH INTERNATIONAL Carbotech International, one of the most reliable companies regarding lumber handling, is now pushing the efficiency and precision of sawmills and planer mills one step further with its new positioning system. The requests from the industry, mainly coming from the U.S. South and West Coast, has been steady regarding these desired upgrades. Efficiency, speed and precision has been the primary request for those mills cutting the whole range of lumber sizes.

Carbotech International is proud to launch the new version of its 24 in. displacement paddle fence: ACCU-GATE 2015. Following the high demand for its extremely precise positioning system over the last eight years, Carbotech has been working in the past months to put together the new generation of its ACCU-GATE to be able to give precision of less than 1⁄16 in. with a displacement of 24 in. and all that at a speed up to 200 LPM. Completely electric and protected by Carbotech’s patented pneumatic clutch—those facts have not changed from the previous version. Also built as heavy as the previous one, Carbotech’s fence has built its own reputation regarding its low maintenance due to the simple mechanism and strongly built frame and mechanicals. Using one or two cams, depending on desired speed, positioned by servo motors under the fence, the 24 in. 2015 ACCU-GATE will be about 7 in. longer and 12 in. wider. “Always with the same philosophy of having each piece of lumber slowly positioned, by taking the whole length of the fence, we will continue to suggest roof top angled chains for the positioning transfer instead of even ending rolls. By doing that, each piece can be better controlled and positioned.”

Carbotech engineers and designers provide support for the new ACCU-GATE, whether for new projects or as a retrofit to your existing production line.

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COMACT Comact is a subsidiary of the BID Group of Companies which also owns other renowned companies including PHL (specialized in hardwood), SEC (lumber handling) and Deltech (kilns and energy solutions). The BID Group numbers about 1,000 employees working out of divisions in 14 locations across continental North America. With offices at four corners of North America, BID Group has established a regionalized service presence to offer world-class after-sales services through its banner SERVIPLUS. Owing to its strong presence in the wood industry for more than 40 years, its extensive experience dating back to the early 1900s, its high level of expertise in optimization technology for vision systems, and its 600 employees, Comact is a North American leader when it comes to turnkey solution that includes engineering, project management, installation, startup, and after-sales service. Only in the last months, Comact has successfully achieved three turnkey projects in the Southern U.S.! With Comact and the BID Group, customers can expect results: on time delivery, on time startup, one fixed price and guaranteed performances.

Specializing in the forest industry, the company provides innovative, efficient and reliable equipment to exceed its customer expectations. Not only does the company mainly serve the North American market, but it also deals on the international level. Comact offers the most comprehensive range of superior-quality products, featuring everything from mechanical equipment all the way to digital vision optimization, not to mention automation and controls. Furthermore, it is equipped to deliver fully automated production lines. Comact manufactures equipment meant to meet the requirements of clients in the softwood as well as in the hardwood processing business.

This year at the SFPA Expo, Comact is presenting three of its most popular products in North America: the GradExpert, the PosiLOCK fence and the Rotary Lug Loader. “With almost 100 systems sold on the market, the GradExpert has proven it’s the best automated grader for planer mill.” The PosiLOCK fence has a dedicated paddle for each board for a better control and a follow through design. The Rotary Lug Loader has a modulating infeed which allows a performance of over 95% of lug fill.

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CONE-OMEGA A respected industry leader, Cone-Omega has a long history of supplying simple, rugged and reliable equipment. With manufacturing facilities in Thomasville, Ga. and Russellville, Ark., Cone-Omega continues to provide customers with high quality mill floor equipment that they have come to expect.

Valuing each customer as a partner, Cone-Omega continually develops new products that provide mills with decreased downtime while increasing profitability.

One of the company’s most recent innovations is the Linear Motion Log Turner (LMLT). Engineered for ease of maintenance, a simple design results in an extremely robust quad roll turner providing unmatched turning capabilities. All movement is totally linear with components riding on linear bearings. Featuring a shorter profile than most quad turners, the possibility for unintentional log movement as the log enters the turner is decreased. Each of the four rolls is air-cushioned allowing each roll to react independently to log surface irregularities. “The state-of-the-art design makes this the fastest turner on the market with turning speeds of 55 in./sec.”

Cone-Omega’s Tru-Position replaces the DLI typically seen in canter twin sharp chain systems and receives logs from the log turner as a DLI would. The Tru-Position takes up very little space and consists of only a few components to skew and precisely position logs as they exit the turner. The sharp chain begins near the log turner allowing logs to be impaled immediately after turning, while the Tru-Position and the log turner still have full control. With the log firmly impaled on the sharp chain during the final scan, positioning errors that are common to other systems are eliminated and the log is scanned in the exact position that it will be processed, offering tremendous recovery increases.

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CUT TECHNOLOGIES Carbide tips are under increasing stresses every year; production speed and recovery are pushing for thinner kerfs and sharper saws that last longer. Cut Technologies’ line of hard working Predator series tips addresses these and other demands head on with new chemistry offering better impact, giving more resistance to chips and breakage due to foreign materials, better abrasion resistance for longer run times and additives to resist chemical dulling from wet lumber. These improvements have been achieved by blending the best raw materials with a finer grain structure while still keeping the binder content high enough to resist heavy impacts.

These things coupled with dimensional precision and consistency, the highest quality pre-tinning available, treated carbide, 100% sorting and designs made for today’s auto brazers ensure that Cut Technologies Predator series tips are of the finest quality every time.

The carbide blank is only half of the issue; the treatment and pre-tinning of the carbide blank is of the utmost importance. “Predator series tips are treated to provide excellent flow and the highest bond strength available. This coupled with precise amounts of only the best silver solder yields a high bond strength to keep the carbide tips in place for the whole life of the tip,” states Steve Braun, engineer for the Cut Technologies carbide division.

Cut Technologies group of carbide tips were designed specifically for high production sawmills that need the best in materials to keep production lines running at their highest capacity. “We believe in our development so strongly all our manufactured Cougar round saws run our Predator series carbide tips.” Cut Technologies stocks almost 2 million pieces for fast deliveries, usually same day; if they are not on the shelf they can usually be shipped within two days of the order.

Cut Technologies is the manufacturer of COUGAR BRAND round saws and band saws for the primary forest industry. It also manufactures Predator series carbide and super alloy saw tips that are engineered and manufactured in-house.

Cut Tech is the exclusive Canadian distributer for the European line Vollmer round saw and band saw sharpening systems in Canada, the North American exclusive dealer for Kahny carbide automated round saw tipping systems, and the North American representative of Berotech knife grinders.

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DELTA COMPUTER SYSTEMS Delta’s high performance motion control product line includes the RMC75 two-axis and RMC150 eight-axis controllers, which provide precise closed-loop position, velocity, pressure, and force control for electric, hydraulic and pneumatic applications.

Designing with the controllers is supported by extensive “help” information on the company’s website and a powerful, free development software suite called RMCtools, which includes automated wizards for motion programming and tuning, and plotting of motion results.

Delta has added new features to the software contained in the company’s motion controllers in response to customer requests for solutions to difficult application problems. One of the most recent enhancements is the ability to customize the feedback signals that are processed by the motion controller’s closed-loop control algorithms. This feature allows Delta controllers to switch between redundant sensors if one should fail, or to switch between sensors that respond to different measurement ranges or those that provide different sensitivities.

Another new addition to Delta’s motion control capability repertoire is support for on-the-fly adaptive amplitude control for cyclic operations. Using this feature, the motion controller continuously adjusts the amplitude of the target signal based on feedback so that the amplitude of the actual signal to the valve or motor drive is where it needs to be.

By building the above capabilities into the motion controller, Delta has freed machine builders from the need to design software and external hardware to deal with these issues.

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GILBERT PRODUCTS For 30 years, Gilbert has been a market leader in the design and manufacturing of planer mill equipment. “From molding applications to high speed mills, the Gilbert planer is the fastest planer in the world and makes the most beautiful lumber finish,” the company states. It uses a “Pull Through” technology: The planer runs with a gap between each board and every board is pulled through independently from the other, no matter the space between each piece.

All boards will run through the planer; twist, crook and bow do not have to be removed.

Gilbert customers confirm: ‘’The Gilbert planer never stops!’’

Gilbert has developed triple pattern Hydro-Grip side heads. The side heads are 6 in. high and have three patterns per knife. It can therefore stay in the machine three times longer, considerably increasing operation hours.

Other key planer features: Gilbert’s automatic cutterhead positioning system; high speed rates and high productivity (95% and more); rapid return on investment and improved production.

Gilbert retrofits for any planer brand, featuring the same technology as used on the Gilbert planer: automatic cutterhead positioning systems; safe side head electric jointers; electric drives (remove hydraulic); cutterheads—all models; feed tables and bridge retrofits; pineapples, planer rolls and many other parts.

Gilbert’s molder and rips saw is next generation technology, with the following features: strength—the most robust planermolder; up to 10 cutterheads; versatility—one machine produces all profiles, specialities, and construction lumber; premium quality finish.

The Gilbert Constant Torque Modular Silo Reclaimer ensures the emptying of the silos by means of the helical screw, which provides an even extraction of wood residues from all silo surfaces. It features: speed regulated by the density of the material; exclusive design of double rotation (planetary with combined shafts); extremely steady and variable extraction flow; single or double screw for all kinds of material.

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HURDLE MACHINE WORKS For the past 40+ years, Hurdle Machine Works, Inc. has manufactured simple, dependable and affordable sawmill packages.

Each mill package includes the mill frame, log turner, insulated sawyer’s cab, hydraulic feed, carriage, offbearer belt, setworks and log deck. Each mill can be customized with various options such as cant turners, hammer dog, vertical edger, top saw, feed joystick, bar or chain log turners, and computer setworks. Each mill is tested before it ever leaves the Hurdle plant.

With more than 450 complete sawmills sold, the Hurdle mill is a proven platform that adds about 3000 ft/hr to your operation whether in ties, grade lumber or mats. Tie mills using Hurdle report 600 ties/per eight hour shift! With three basic platforms to choose from, Hurdle can accommodate logs from 6 to 30 ft. long. A Hurdle Complete Mill Package will fit in any size operation—big or small. Also, you don’t have to worry about the expense and complication of building a mill from scratch.

“Just provide an electric motor, saw blade, air compressor, and sawdust removal system—we’ll handle the rest,” Hurdle states.

“Building or adding a mill to your operation this way not only saves money but also time, so that you can be ready to take advantage of market changes.”

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HILDEBRAND With customers in South Africa, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, as well as the U.S. and Canada, Hildebrand states it is probably the most international timber dry kiln company in the world.

Hildebrand introduced the new GreenKilns in 2011, which were a terrific success. These encompass forklift loaded kilns as well as trolley loaded kilns, hardwood and softwood. “The good thing about the GreenKilns is that they are not more expensive compared to standard kilns but will save a substantial amount of heating energy,” the company states.

In 2013 Hildebrand’s focus was on progressive dry kilns.

When Hildebrand installed the first progressive dry kiln in 1950, the worldwide market demand for progressive dry kilns was not very high. But today the international trend is to have fewer smaller sawmills and more bigger ones especially in the softwood market. Those big softwood sawmills with capacities of more than 40,000 m³ per year are where progressive dry kilns can be the optimal solution depending on species and sizes.

Following the GreenKilns and the progressive dry kilns, the Brunner HIGH VAC vacuum dry kilns are the third important product line in the Brunner Group of companies. They are designed to dry difficult to dry lumber like heavy sections of softwood or special hardwoods. The advantage is that the HIGH VAC kiln is gentler on the lumber but achieves faster drying times.

Certainly all Hildebrand Brunner kilns are operated and controlled with its computer control system, THE FOX, and the software, MERLIN. This year Hildebrand is introducing the BRUNNER TURBO TECHNOLOGY. Curious?

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HURST BOILER & WELDING The latest edition in the Hurst biomass boiler series is the Hurst reciprocating grate stoker with automated ash removal. This unit offers the very best of solid fuel combustion allowing mechanical replacement of fuel with the least amount of moving parts. This efficient multi-fuel design is offered in various configurations to utilize a wide selection of solid fuels. All Hurst factory stokers are cast from the highest quality steel alloys and mounted on a robust undercarriage system.

The Hurst BIOMASS-TER features a Co2 neutral release and PLC based total systems monitoring.

Hurst offerings include: Hybrid Series: Available in steam or hot water multi-pass dry back design, 100 to 1800 BHP, 15 to 450 PSI steam.

N65 Series: Available in steam or hot water firebox design, 100 to 1500 BHP, 15 to 450 PSI steam.

S100 Series: Available in steam or hot water firebox design, 100 to 800 BHP, low pressure steam with hot water options.

STAG Units (Stand-Alone Gasifier): STAG units are used when heated air is needed instead of steam or hot water. Hurst manufactures units to service oil heaters, rotary dryers, lumber kilns, brick kilns, and the firing and co-firing of boilers. Available with components such as ash systems, material handling, custom blend refractories, combustion air systems and the Hurst BIOMASS-TER combustion monitoring system.

The Hurst biomass product line is available with options including flat grate stokers, underfeed stokers, and traveling grate stokers to meet all biomass system requirements.

Green-thinking companies are now using biofuels to mitigate the impact their activities have on the environment by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

Hurst biomass boiler systems can reduce or even eliminate your energy and disposal costs through the combustion of renewable and sustainable fuel sources.

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JOESCAN Today’s complex and demanding sawmill environments require reliable, easyto-use 3-D scanning, which is why mills around the world rely on JoeScan scanners. Since introducing the JS-20 model in 2002, JoeScan has revolutionized how sawmills use scanners. JoeScan pioneered Ethernet communication for scanners, which is now the industry standard, and was first to offer a 5-year warranty. JoeScan also led the evolution to higher-density snapshot scanning with 6 in. spacing.

Simplicity, reliability, accuracy and speed are the foundation of JoeScan’s products. Every model comes with plug-and-scan Ethernet, built-in durability that delivers accurate data in the roughest environments, the industry’s leading 5-year warranty and a 10-year product support policy.

As JoeScan has perfected its products, it has also added speed and versatility.

JS-25 X-series scanners take up to 850 profile measurements per second, with each profile containing up to 242 data points. In addition, the JS-25 X-series scanner models accommodate virtually any scanning need—indoor, outdoor, transverse or lineal. From logs to lumber, JoeScan provides dependable scanning for bucking, carriages, sharp chains, gangs, edgers, planers and more.

Visit the JoeScan booth to see a JS-25 X-series scanner in action.

While you are there, check out JoeScan’s full-body 3-D scanning booth that creates a head-to-toe digital model of a person in as little as 10 seconds. You can take home your digital model and enter to win a 3-D printed likeness of yourself.

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METAL DETECTORS, INC. With 50 years of experience, Metal Detectors, Inc. has established itself as the proven leader in advanced industrial metal detection systems and remains committed to continually improving its technology to meet the needs of a demanding industry. Instead of customers having to wait for a new product line down the road, MDI will often upgrade its existing technology immediately.

This ensures that its customers are always getting the very best product MDI has to offer.

MDI is proud to announce its latest improvement to the popular XR-3000 Under Conveyor System, the new XR-9 Digital Electronic Function Block. This advancement in CB radio filtering and AC noise interference gives customers greater stability, less false tripping and better maximum sensitivity. Ensuring consistent protection against both ferrous and non-ferrous tramp metals, the XR-9 will provide better protection for all applications where an XR-3000 metal detector is installed. With all of the environmental electrical noise in today’s mills, you need a system that can handle the interference. Keep your metal detector one step ahead by upgrading to the new MDI XR-9 digital technology.

“We believe exceptional customer service is every bit as important as providing the best metal detector systems, which is why MDI takes pride in our experienced and well trained Service Department,” the company states. “With thousands of successful installations worldwide, we have the knowledge, experience and technology to help with any metal contaminate needs that may arise in today’s mill environment.”

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MID-SOUTH ENGINEERING Mid-South Engineering provides a broad range of professional engineering services centered on the forest products and energy industries, with offices in Hot Springs, Ark.; Cary, NC; and Millinocket, Maine.

The company offers innovation and experience to its clients, providing complete design capabilities from feasibility to detailed design to construction coordination.

Whether the need is a small renovation or a complete integrated facility, Mid-South can provide a knowledgeable team capable of working with its clients for the best personalized solution to any unique situation.

A multi-disciplined staff includes: agricultural, industrial, mechanical, electrical, structural and civil engineers and designers with extensive wood product backgrounds. Mid-South offers professional services to manufacturing facilities producing: lumber, plywood, OSB, particleboard, engineered wood products and any other building products made from hardwood and softwood. “Our history of working with various wood products manufacturers and in heavy industrial settings is a specialized set of qualifications of the Mid-South team.”

The company has provided its services in more than 40 U.S. states and in Canada. Internationally, Mid-South has worked in 19 countries, including: Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Russia, Scotland, England and Wales. “Our goal is to partner with companies and individuals to prove to them the value of our deep industry experience which is unique to Mid-South.”

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MICROTEC For more than 35 years, Microtec’s scanning solutions have been pertinent to the wood processing industry. Its renowned x-ray technology provides a non-invasive and trouble free solution for detecting wood defects according to quality criteria.

Microtec’s CT Log, the groundbreaking sawmilling solution for virtual grading and sawing, provides continuous, qualitative full 3D stem and log reconstruction. CT Log scans and digitally reconstructs the internal features of logs, allowing the assessment of the optimum cutting solution in real time. For the first time, size and position of wood defects can be accurately described in all three dimensions. Using the internal defects, CT Log evaluates appearance, quality and strength before the breakdown of the log.

CT Log has three types of optimization to display the benefit of a computed tomograph: 1) Optimize for true shape only; 2) Optimize for true shape, but insert real checks into the log, which is the current method in mills; 3) Optimize for true shape and checks, which is now reality. The computed tomography of CT Log features one powerful x-ray source and a sensor array, which rotates around the logs during the scanning process.

The Multi-Sensor Scanner Goldeneye 800 line performs next generation biometric scanning and value optimization system for high-speed applications. The longitudinal direction allows very high feeding speeds up to 1200m/min for durable scanning performance. The biometric scanning allows the recognition of wood defects in a reliable and objective way in order to automate, streamline and optimize manufacturing processes. The value optimization software considers customer specific grading, chopping and sorting rules. Microtec optimization boosts recovery and value in glulam and construction wood products.

Goldeneye 900 provides accurate 3D reconstruction as well as precision and reliability in determining quality of the surface of green and dry boards in transversal transport. The seamless integration of color and laser scanners into one multi-sensor system delivers a gapless view on the surface of lumber. Goldeneye 900 scanner identifies wood defects in a reliable and objective way from all four sides at the same time with no need to turn boards.

Goldeneye 700 is a multi-sensor scanner used for appearance grading of glulam and construction timber. The x-ray based scanner recognizes and localizes also wood defects hidden within the lumber in order to increase high value production.

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MÜHLBÖCK For over 30 years, Mühlböck Holztrocknungsanlagen Gmbh, Eberschwang Austria, has in its own facility developed and manufactured timber drying kilns, delivering them worldwide. Currently more than 11,000 of its dry kilns are in operation.

At the same time the in-house Research and Development department is constantly developing new aspects of their kilns to ensure the economic success of the Mühlböck customer. On the one hand, Mühlböck provides high quality components and fast customer service, while on the other hand offering the potential of high savings in the electrical and thermal energy consumption of the dry kilns.

Mühlböck Drying Technology will present the entire spectrum of its dry kilns, such as: l Conventional side loading, fresh air ventilated dry kilns l Continuous kilns, with automated, continuous loading systems (Mühlböck Progressive) l Kilns with heat recovery systems, for considerable savings in thermal energy (Mühlböck Type 1003, Type 603) l Patented kilns with reduced electricity consumption (Mühlböck Type 606) l New wood chip/sawdust dryers for sawmill byproducts l Combined dry-steam kilns l The most modern software for operation of the kilns (Mühlböck K5 Control System) Following continuous innovations in the drying kiln segment, in recent years Mühlböck has also focused on the further development of the progressive kiln. Apart from first-class engineering and processing, above all there are new developments in the fields of energy saving, drying quality and operation. With a new kind of heat recovery system, the company has accomplished a milestone with regard to saving thermal energy.

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LMI TECHNOLOGIES LMI Technologies is a proven leader in developing 3D scanning solutions for sawmills and planer mills around the globe. In its 35 years of experience working closely with wood professionals to optimize their scanning systems, LMI has built a reputation for designing sensors that deliver exceptional results.

From its industry experience, LMI knows that mill managers everywhere want the best technology to assist their need for higher recovery while achieving greater throughput without adding the risk of any downtime. Choosing the wrong solution can cripple mill productivity, causing backups in lumber processing, producing critical measurement errors, or forcing downtime resulting in substantial operating losses. In short, investing in an unproven scanning supplier can result in failure of significant capital expenditure to produce meaningful return on investment.

LMI customers are protected from risk by working with a proven sensor supplier that delivers high performance solutions that operate reliably even in the harshest conditions. LMI strives to manufacture peak-performance, cost-effective sensors that help raise mill productivity above and beyond volume-based optimization to another level of advanced grade-based optimization, ensuring the highest recovery every time.

Today, LMI wood scanning solutions encompass a wide range of capabilities including profiling lumber for size and shape, building high resolution color images to enable defect inspection, and offering full tracheid measurement for improved knot detection.

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OLESON SAW TECHNOLOGY Oleson Saw Technology (OST), a division of York Saw and Knife, is an acknowledged leader in saws and saw filing room equipment for the forest products industry. York Saw and Knife is the premier expert in machine knife technology and manufacturing since 1906. In addition to being the only U.S. distributor of the modern line of saw filing equipment, Iseli of Switzerland, OST utilizes the equipment in the manufacturing of its band saws.

The fully automated Iseli line features a benching station, swaging and shaping, sharpening, Stellite tipping, leveling, and side grinding machines. These machines replace what was once done by hand, allowing mills to be more effective as well as creating a better end-product. The machines have a short set-up time and allow programs to be saved for efficiency. The programming allows for one person to operate multiple machines simultaneously, instead of only doing one operation at a time.

Additionally, the automation of the equipment ensures a consistent, repeated quality of machining. Band saws are now produced with precise and accurate profile every time as human error is virtually eliminated. Mills now have better and increased output due to the advancement in the Iseli saw filing machine line.

With help from Iseli and their state-of-the-art equipment, the quality of finish and sharpness on Oleson saws are unparalleled in either ready to tip, swaged tooth or Stellite tipped saws. Mills can now purchase Iseli of Switzerland machines for their saw filing rooms directly from Oleson Saw Technology. The complete and comprehensive knowledge that Oleson Saw Technology has in forest industry products allows OST to remain a top choice and single source for customers’ saws and saw filing room supplies.

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SALEM EQUIPMENT Salem Equipment, a proud member of the Wellons Group of companies, has been providing premium quality, heavy duty sawmill machinery to the wood products industry worldwide for nearly 70 years, including several new projects.

A three-knee linear positioner carriage and a 350 HP AC regenerative carriage drive are shipping to Interfor in Castlegar, BC. A complete 6 ft. bandmill headrig process line will ship to Idaho Forest Group in Lewiston, Id. later this year. The headrig process line includes a log infeed deck with double-cut roll case, a hydraulic log turner, tilted slabber with Key Knife head, tilted 6 ft. high strain bandmill, a tilted three-knee linear positioner carriage with multiple options and Nelson Brothers Engineering scanning and controls, a 400 HP AC regenerative carriage drive, and related supplemental equipment.

Salem also does repair and rebuild work on a variety of used or fire damaged machinery.

Salem Equipment can provide nearly any machinery needed for a complete sawmill project. “We can help improve your productivity and bottom line.”

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OPTIMIL Optimil manufactures in-line profilers which reduce flow to edgers and provide increased production rates. Close coupled to a vertical gang these machines operate with four independent axes to chip a profile solution to the top and bottom board if required.

No edger is required Optimil’s thin-kerf high speed climb cutting circular gangs are manufactured for straight and/or curve-sawing applications. Frames and components are oven stress relieved and line bored to achieve a finished product with minimal sawing deviation.

Clam shell opening facilitates speedy saw changes and better access for maintenance. Optimil’s unqiue press rolls incorporate SmartRoll technology to control the piece while positioning it through the saws.

Vertical arbor gang saws are designed for maximum throughput and maximum sawing accuracy. The unique swing out door design enables quick and easy saw changes and thin-kerf climb cutting saws yield efficient sawing and improved throughput. Superior cant control is achieved through a design incorporating large roll diameters and close roll centers.

Optimil-EDEM also specializes in mill conveyors. The heart of every EDEM vibrating conveyor is a rugged coil spring/eccentric shift drive assembly that requires the lowest horsepower of any drive.

PANTRON AUTOMATION Pantron Automation, Inc. is the North American distributor of high-powered infrared photoelectric systems that are manufactured by the German manufacturer Pantron Instruments, GmbH. These incredibly powerful photoelectric sensors (photo eyes) are used in the most challenging areas of the sawmill for the detection, measurement, sorting and placement of logs and also for sensing the level of sawdust or pellets in bins.

Pantron photo eyes differ from other industrial photoelectric sensors due to their ability to function reliably in bright sunlight, areas of intense vibration, and environments with extremely harsh contaminants including sawdust, dirt, water, ice and fog. Pantron photo eyes are 100% submersible and rated IP67. Quick-disconnect photo eyes are available to simplify replacement of the sensor heads if needed.

Using a super-high-powered transmitter and an external amplifier with manual gain control in a through-beam configuration, a sensing range of up to 230 ft. can be achieved. At close range, this level of intensity translates to the high penetrating power needed to see through the worst conditions the mill has to offer.

An external photoelectric amplifier controls the photoelectric sensors and is available with special features required by the most demanding applications, including time delay, diagnostic tools, and automatic gain control.

Replace limit switches and inferior photo eyes in your sawmill with Pantron photo eyes today and enjoy less maintenance and improved performance that is just not possible from lower quality sensors. Pantron Automation, Inc. offers a 30-day money back guarantee and free technical support.

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PIERCE CONSTRUCTION Pierce Construction is an industry leader in sawmill design, manufacture and installation. Pierce offers mills a unique one-stop supplier. With more than 40 years of experience, the company’s forward looking and innovative approach helps assure mill owners and operators are up to date with the latest technology.

From the log yard through the dry line, Pierce’s ability to work with the mill on a single piece of equipment, to a total greenfield mill, is unique. Through its working arrangements with other manufacturers, Pierce has brought the true turnkey mill project to the industry.

Pierce strives to make the purchasing and installation as easy for the mill as possible. By offering project management on larger projects, the day to day decisions are taken off the mill, thereby freeing them up to attend to the operation of their mill.

Efurd, a division of Pierce construction, supplies pole peelers and complete pole mills. Efurd has become the industry standard for the pole industry.

Trusted across North America for more than 40 years, all types of plants that make products from wood have used Pierce Construction to design and build high-quality custom machinery, perform plant modifications, and maintain equipment. Hardwood and softwood sawmills, pole mills, chip mills, plywood plants and lumber treatment plants have all utilized Pierce’s expertise for all aspects of the plant’s conceptual design, repair and capital expenditure needs.

Pierce utilizes the highest quality standards, state-of-the-art equipment, and dedicated employees, and provides consistent on-time delivery. Pierce “Experience, Quality and Know-How” establishes it as the premier source to complete your company’s projects.

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PORTER ENGINEERING Porter Engineering has been a major and top-rated supplier of scanning, optimization and process control systems to the forest products industry with hundreds of installations since 1971.

Whether for an individual machine center or the entire log yard and front end of the sawmill, Porter Engineering specializes in producing and providing only the finest optimized log bucking, high speed-highest recovery primary breakdown lines, and curve-sawing gang saw systems available in the world today.

Porter’s “Real Time for Real Trees with Real Sharp Scanning and Optimization” software and hardware is the culmination of more than four decades of log and cant scanning throughout North America.

With user-friendly menus, full diagnostics, an extensive reporting package and simulation capabilities, these programs are fast and powerful, and will produce the money-making lumber recovery results you desire, whether for dollar value, recovery, or product mix from every log processed.

And Porter doesn’t rest on its laurels as it continuously improves its systems to meet tomorrow’s industry demands. Porter’s systems are built sawmill-tough for the industry’s fastest startups and long-term reliability.

See Matthew, Mike, Rob and Dan at the Atlanta show.

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PRICE LOGPRO Price LogPro is a worldwide leader in log handling/processing systems servicing the forest products industry and bio-fuels industry since 1981. LogPro has developed a number of new products to better utilize small wood diameters for fuel, lumber and engineered wood products. It offers a full line of material handling systems from complete roundwood debarking systems to high speed/high recovery optimized log merchandising systems and rotary/linear log crane systems.

LogPro managers and engineers have been actively involved with the “Log Trimmer” series of high speed transverse bucking systems since its first release more than 17 years ago. The transition of growth has brought technology from conventional “stop-n-chop” merchandising at 10-15 logs per minute to transverse bucking stems at 40 logs per minute with full 3D optimization. This transverse bucking technology has seen numerous advancements in efficiency and reduced capital cost over the past decade.

The latest generation of log trimmer technology combines greatly reduced capital equipment needs with an all electric drive package incorporating regeneration drive systems. These systems offer a fully optimized product solution with infinite trim lengths allowing mills to greatly reduce over-trim waste and broaden their product mix giving them versatility for growth. This coupled with the reduced capital investment and reduced energy consumption gives clients a technological advantage over conventional wood yard setups.

The GENIII LogPro merchandiser arrangement has the capacity to easily merchandise stems at a continuous rate of over 650 FPM through the debarker and maintain a trim accuracy of +/- 3⁄8 in. across all bucked solutions without any day to day maintenance needed, no troublesome incline lugged chain decks, no need for even ending rolls or elaborate stem positioning systems.

The new LogPro electric balanced saw design allows for extremely smooth operation while reducing energy consumption by half over older hydraulic designs.

The new third generation LogPro merchandiser systems will be adequate for 99% of all sawmill applications utilizing one high speed ring debarker and capital investment will be less than half of the earlier first generation log trimmer systems. “Price LogPro is your single source for log handling equipment and we are ‘building tomorrow’s wood yards today.’”

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LUCIDYNE TECHNOLOGIES As the economy continues to rebound, the lumber industry is focusing on investments that have rapid and measured improvement to the bottom line. Maximizing fiber recovery and optimizing the value of the final products is key to a mill’s success, and the industry taking advantage of technologies that give them that result.

Lucidyne’s GradeScan is a perfect example of that type of technology. Running at speeds up to 4,000 FPM, and sliding into the existing production line mere inches behind the planer, GradeScan makes immediate contribution to fiber and value recovery. Lucidyne customers report impressive ROIs, making GradeScan a great value turning pure profit after the ROI period.

Lucidyne is seeing tremendous interest in its scanning systems, particularly in the Southeast, and with increasing interest throughout the U.S. and Canada to use its technologies in the planer mill as well as the sawmill. In fact, GradeScan has become so much in demand that Lucidyne’s staff has increased substantially in the past two years, and the company continues to add software developers, engineers, technical support staff, and scanning specialists. “We’re proud of our reputation for providing ongoing support and development, and committed to continuing that tradition,” the company comments.

This year marks Lucidyne’s 30th anniversary. Many members of its staff have devoted their entire careers to Lucidyne, while new employees are bringing their talents and enthusiasm to the Lucidyne team.

Lucidyne believes the lumber industry will continue to strengthen, and contributing to that strength is the implementation of technology that maximizes its customers’ bottom lines. Lucidyne is proud to be a trusted partner bringing this crucial technology to the industry.

“Celebrating 30 years of exceptional solutions, support and service.”

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SCS FOREST PRODUCTS SCS Forest Products, and partner Dynalyse A.B., will be presenting the industry’s highly advanced integrated moisture control and strength grading technology in Atlanta.

SCS provides the lumber industry’s end-to-end line of integrated, precision moisture measurement systems and related process optimization tools for the sawmill, kiln and planer mill. Each system is networked to a central database with options for mobile and cloud distribution. The company has more than 300 installations worldwide.

Improved production control and real-time data analysis has emerged as critical process capability in the forest products industry. SCS focuses on moisture systems that take precise measurements, optimize production process, and push this critical data to networked devices for advanced reporting and analysis. An example is the revolutionary Kiln Scout wireless in-kiln moisture system, deploying rugged sensors that wirelessly measure moisture content, temperature, and humidity. Other SCS system applications include sawmill green sorting, kiln drying control, and online planer measurement.

Dynalyse A.B. is the Nordic market leader in strength grading systems, with the Dynagrade and Precigrader lines. The Dynagrade system uses vibration (resonance frequencies) to establish a strength grade (MSR 1650 etc.). The Precigrader system adds density to improve the grading accuracy, which is beneficial for mixed species grading and higher strength grade yields (like in MSR 2100+).

Both systems are easy to install and simple to use. There are minimal moving parts and no active components in either system, making them both safe and reliable. This intelligent design ensures a high degree of availability and low maintenance cost.

Learn how SCS and Dynalyse can increase productivity, improve grade recovery, and enhance operational awareness at your mill.

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SICAM SYSTEMS SiCam Systems Corp. is the trusted name for complete mill wide quality control solutions. Since 1990 SiCam Systems has been providing the wood products industry with innovative technology to solve challenging quality control applications. Its RealTime size control systems give your sawmill and planer the tools to monitor performance, minimize size variation, cut closer to target and improve lumber recovery which results in increased profitability. “We are the only company in the wood products industry that is dedicated to providing purpose built quality control systems.”

SiCam Systems designs, delivers and supports the SiCam brand of RealTime size control technologies. Additionally, SiCam Systems offers the LSIZE wireless caliper system, which is the industry standard for caliperbased size control globally. SiCam has designed and installed size control systems in industry leading wood products manufacturing operations around the world.

The SiCam name is widely known in the lumber industry as the premium lumber size control brand. SiCam Systems’ team is internationally recognized as pioneers and leaders in the field of lumber size control and sawing center predictive maintenance monitoring.

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SIMONDS INTERNATIONAL Simonds International’s booth will feature the latest technology in filing room automation and cutting tool design innovation. The cornerstone of the booth is the revolutionary 090 automated band saw bench. This machine allows filers to automatically level and tension band saws to the optimum settings for their mill.

The 090’s interactive touch screen control allows the filer to simply manipulate the settings—without requiring an engineering degree to operate.

Filers can also load a completed saw and have the machine “learn” its condition. The machine will store this information and recondition used saws back to this state with little to no intervention.

Simonds will also feature its classic Armstrong band saw grinder with the linear slide. The linear slide is also available as a retrofit onto existing grinders and has been proven to pay for itself in grinding wheel savings in very short order.

The upgraded PT12 plasma tipper coupled with a solid state inductive annealer will also be featured. This machine offers significant re-tipping savings in both time and alloy. Very little tooth preparation is needed prior to tipping. The PT12 melts the old tip and adds new alloy only as needed.

In addition to the exciting and innovative filing room equipment, Simonds will feature its Bandsaw & Circle Saw Design Center.

Bring your application information and let Simonds design a saw for you. The Simonds booth also displays its expansive range of band saws, circular saws, chipper knife products and Red Streak brand narrow bands saws for portable sawmills and multihead resaws.

Booth 943

SPRINGER Proven technology is the basis for the reliable operation of every production line. Springer screw technology is suitable for high-speed feeding of log sorting and saw lines and for smooth transfer to the receiving conveyor.

Do you have problems singulating logs? The Springer screw unscrambler is designed to improve this process with a simple low maintenance concept, avoiding double-ups and empty lugs, handling crooked and broken logs, and allowing debris and broken pieces to fall through the gaps between the screws.

The system combines the functions of singulation, alignment and acceleration in the longitudinal direction, while at the same time ensuring lower maintenance and dramatically lower power consumption. The screw technology works reliably with all species, including SPF, Intermountain species mix, southern yellow pine and radiata pine.

“The screw technology turned out to be our favored solution—a chainless system makes sense in terms of keeping maintenance costs low. We expect significant improvements in productivity as well as lower conversion costs as a result of the investment,” says Barry Hutchins of Roseburg Forest Products. l The screw unscramble with helical screw rolls singulates the logs and can be fitted with an integrated stopend chain on the zero end which ensures smooth even ending of the logs. l The screw feeder is the heart of the line—a patented log allocation unit which aligns, singulates and accelerates the logs in the longitudinal direction as they are loaded onto the receiving conveyor. It has a modular design—individual modules can also be incorporated in existing lines. l The screw conveyor transfers logs without the need of chains and it is fitted with a rigid-coated strop wall.

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U.S. BLADES U.S. Blades has recently relocated the Alabama circle saw manufacturing plant as significant growth necessitated a larger facility. New equipment has been incorporated in the production process with additional equipment planned to meet increased demands for consistent saws to stay sharp that are manufactured to exacting tolerances. Technical engineers design saws to meet your specific needs while experienced saw smiths utilizing state-of-the-art equipment manufacture a saw to tight tolerances right the first time, every time, right out of the box. Using a proprietary Stellite design and manufacturing process, you will make better lumber, run longer, and get many more sharpenings per tip. All of this results in more money to your bottom line.

U.S. Blades provides industrial knives and saws for the forest products industry. A complete line of cutting tool solutions are available through U.S. Blades including knives, saws, filing room equipment and consumable supplies as well as equipment parts. With five locations to serve, U.S. Blades is a full service supplier for your cutting tool and filing room supply needs. To top it off, U.S. Blades operates a scheduled truck route where on a weekly basis your dull knives and saws are picked up, repaired and reconditioned to run like new again.

From the green end to the finishing end, U.S. Blades is your single source supplier for band saws, gang saws, edger saws, trim saws, chipper knives, planer knives, equipment parts as well as filing room consumable supplies, equipment and equipment parts.

If you have a favorite brand, chances are U.S. Blades can supply that identical part for less money.

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USNR USNR offers the broadest range of sawmill equipment found anywhere in the world, manufacturing machinery, automation technology, and lumber dry kilns, as well as veneer lathes, veneer dryers, plywood layup lines and presses. USNR specializes in providing customers with innovative, fully integrated solutions.

At the 2015 Forest Products Expo, USNR demonstrates industryleading equipment allowing people to interact with the technology first hand. Attendees can examine USNR’s new reman edger design up close. The system has a transverse dual-positioning infeed that can run up to 57 pieces/minute.

The ElectraTong is USNR’s latest high-speed lug loader and it’s already proving its worth in the first few installations. The all-electric design can feed random lengths and widths at up to 240 lpm. The display features a production unit along with video of ElectraTong’s fast and accurate handling of mixed board sizes.

USNR’s revolutionary new application of the MyMill Mobile Interface delivers remote access to your optimization system, in real time. Now you can take it all with you: log scans, optimizer solutions, reports, sensor diagnostics, and more. Mill managers gain unprecedented freedom through mobile interaction with their optimizers.

Dedicated to product excellence and customer satisfaction, USNR employs hundreds of proud individuals at its facilities in the U.S., Canada and Russia, and through a network of industry professionals in China, Australia, New Zealand and Chile.

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BEP ENGINEERING SERVICES BEP Engineering Services Ltd. is composed of technologists, industrial architects and general contractors of engineering. It first opened in 1981 and has 34 years of experience providing concepting, designing, detailing and project management services.

Over the years it has developed a team of broad-based designers and engineers who have a well-developed skill set for solving problems in civil, structural, mechanical and electrical disciplines.

BEP specializes in mill engineering, so whether you would like to start from scratch or modify your mill, BEP is experienced in all situations. BEP works closely with all of its clients to provide optimum scope and creative cost effective solutions. BEP does not sell equipment; therefore it is unbiased and is able to negotiate a sharp pencil price from vendors and suppliers, dramatically reducing contingencies.

For the past 15 years, BEP has supplied and installed pre-engineered metal buildings. It brings an operating and mechanical perspective to your building design which considers the functionality of the equipment housed in it. These buildings can be used for a plant, maintenance, mobile shop, storage, dry sheds, warehouse, and office buildings or a combination thereof. BEP also supplies and installs bridge cranes.

BEP Engineering can help improve your production and allow you to maintain a better margin even in the worst markets.

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WANESHEAR TECHNOLOGIES WaneShear Technologies has expanded its product line to include high speed canters and profilers to complement its line of edgers and gangs. It now offers a mini canterprofiler that can be installed in front of any curve-saw or straight saw gang to increase production and recovery in the sawmill. WaneShear uses patent pending technology in its new mini canter-profiler module that allows it to fit in just 40 in. of space, eliminating the need to rearrange the layout of the mill just to install a profiling module.

Installing a WaneShear profiler in front of your gang will drastically reduce the demand on your edger by profiling up to four side boards into the cant before it is sawn. Large increases in mill production and recovery have occurred with the installation of this mini canter-profiler. With installations on both sides of the country, the canter-profiler system is a fit for any mill east or west.

Although the canter-profiler takes care of the need for a high speed edger in many cases, WaneShear continues to offer a high speed lineal edger system that uses all electric positioners and drives. The arbor less design along with the electric actuators allow a faster positioning of saws between cuts thus requiring a shorter gap between boards. “We have gone to great lengths to design long lasting easy to maintain machines that will improve recovery and production.”

WaneShear now offers its new Smart Saw-Lube system that greatly reduces the water and lubricant consumption on guided saws. With the Smart Saw-Lube system both the flow of cooling water and lubricant is controlled for each individual saw blade.

This greatly reduces the waste of both water and lubricant by concentrating the cooling and lubrication to the saws that are sawing and sparingly cooling and lubricating the saws that are not sawing.

WaneShear also does rebuilds on McGehee curve-saws and edgers and supplies most of the parts for the McGehee curve-saw.

WaneShear currently has a 12 in. curve-saw for sale either as a stand alone or as a complete system.

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ENDURANCE EQUIPMENT Endurance Equipment specializes in custom system design and equipment manufacture for sawmill wood yards, OSB wood yards and all types of chipping installations. Manufacturing facilities and corporate offices are located in Irvington, Ala., just west of Mobile.

Endurance offers a complete line of stem/log processing equipment engineered and built to reduce unscheduled downtime while increasing the efficiency and yield of the process.

Endurance’s new vertical carriage, high speed stem merchandising system is a radical departure from the competition. High maintenance rack/pinion drive systems are eliminated due to the unique two wheel carriage design. Superior positioning and cutting accuracy is obtained by using laser technology. All sawing/positioning functions are fully electric.

“Cold weather” debarking technology is the latest innovation in drum debarkers, providing an improved degree of debarking in cold climates or with hard to debark species of wood. Endurance is an industry leader in development and integration of features to enhance debarking efficiency and reduction of white wood losses.

At the Forest Products Expo, Endurance will be featuring the latest design in lumber trimming by Machinage Piche’. The cooperation between Piche’ and Endurance is providing Southern U.S. clients with a more robust, technically advanced alternative to the conventional offering. As the number of installations increase, the word is spreading about the high quality and competitive pricing of Piche’ equipment.

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ON LIFE Neiman Enterprises completes the modernization of the green end at its latest sawmill acquisition, Montrose Forest Products.

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MONTROSE, Colo. modern, green end high speed trimmer, sorter and stacker line has given new lease on life to the Montrose Forest Products sawmill here. With the latest technology matched to processing requirements and long-term supply of raw materials, the Neiman-owned operation is back in the game.

While there has been a move toward consolidation among some lumber producers. there are still many independent operators whose businesses are thriving.

One such stalwart is Neiman Enterprises headquartered at Hulett, Wyo. In 2012 it added a fourth mill to its portfolio of lumber operations when it acquired Intermountain Resources at Montrose and restarted it under the name Montrose Forest Products. Though the mill would require substantial investment to bring it up to modern standards, the new owners were up to the task.

Neiman Enterprises Inc. is a leading producer of ponderosa pine boards, decking, and industrial or shop lumber.

The company is a fourth-generation family business that started its first mill in 1936. Today the company operates four facilities in the Black Hills region in addition to its interests at Montrose: Devils Tower Forest Products at Hulett, Wyo.;

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Rushmore Forest Products at Hill City, SD; a sawmill at Spearfish Forest Products at Spearfish, SD, as well as a pellet mill there. (Timber Processing named Vice-President and third generation lumberman, Jim Neiman, as the magazine’s Man of the Year in 1995.)

OPPORTUNITY Montrose is strategically located near Colorado’s lodgepole pine forests, where the mountain pine beetle has devastated a large area. Much like what British Columbia experienced several years ago, the forests around Montrose have been dealt a hefty blow by these pervasive pests.

The beetles kill the trees, but the wood is sound for producing lumber for several years before it deteriorates and becomes unusable for this purpose. Removing the dead and dying trees created an opportunity for Montrose by way of lumber supply, and is an essential service to protect the region from devastating forest fires.

The Montrose mill had gone into receivership in 2010, with many people in the community at great concern over their future. The acquisition by Neiman in 2012 was met with much relief, and the mill was restarted in September 2012. Then the work really began to revitalize the mill with modern technology.

The Montrose operation comprises a sawmill, planer mill and dry kilns. It is currently running a single shift with an annual capacity in the range of 70MMBF. The first order of business after the acquisition was to invest in new scanning and optimization for primary and secondary breakdown processes. In early 2013 orders were placed for USNR’s MillExpert log and carriage optimization with Smart TriCam and LASAR scanning respectively, and for MillExpert edger optimization with BioLuma 2900L scanning on the edger line. The edger line was also updated with USNR’s high speed, stud Maximizer infeed table to improve consistency and speed up the flow. At the same time the PLC controls were updated to the ControlLogix platform for those machine centers.

Next the owners turned their focus to the latter half of the sawmill that was operating a manual green chain for sorting green, edged lumber. The plan was to implement an automated line with optimized trimmer, vertical bin sorter and a stacker.

They realized they needed to reduce the manpower required to operate the mill to compete in the rising market. After considering proposals from several vendors the mill selected USNR for the supply.

Tom Shaffer, COO for the four

Pieces are even-ended and travel up lugged incline.

Operator uses MyMill mobile control system.

Neiman mills, comments, “All our optimization and controls at our other mills are with USNR. We have a long history, so we felt comfortable with USNR’s products and experience.” As to their objective for acquiring the best optimization available, he adds, “We cut a lot of dead wood and it has a lot of cracks. Our scan densities need to be tighter than with dimension lumber because of all the defects in our wood.”

Shaffer says that prior to the project, 70% of the sawmill’s production was dropped out before trimming, and was routed in that condition to the dry kiln and planer. “We had an old manual trim line where we would make 2x4s and 2x6s graded to a stud grade. All of the 8-9 ft. material was dropped out ahead of the trimmer and routed to a couple of stud stackers. It was tough to get that lumber through the planer because of the bad ends.”

AUTOMATION The new line is highly efficient, and designed to operate at 180 lpm when processing 2x4s. It begins with a radius back unscrambler feeding edged boards to the trimmer area. Speed up chains and a waterfall at the top of the unscrambler facilitate singulating the flow onto the angled ending rolls, where boards are ended to lumber line.

Three backlog tables are monitored and controlled by USNR’s MillTrak lumber flow control system, with a MillTrak camera mounted above the flow. A Revolver lug loader feeds the boards into lugs prior to scanning. Once in lugs, an SCS moisture meter measures the moisture content of each board for downstream sorting.

The Multi-Track Fence utilizes 13 positioning paddles and features 12 in. of infinite positioning for precise trimming.

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The multi-saw trimmer is line shaft driven and designed to accommodate 17 in. saws. Once trimmed, the boards pass through an overhead pusher gate where

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Stick allocator loads sticks into lugs.

boards can be diverted out for reman.

This design is used in lieu of a drop out gate to maintain control of the boards for high speed applications.

Next the boards are even ended to lumber line before traveling up a lugged incline for feeding into the 32 bin pusher lug sorter. Montrose selected the MyMill mobile control system for its new sorter line, allowing full control of the sorter functions via mobile iPads and iPods from anywhere in the mill. Once a bin of lumber is discharged, interchange rollcases transport the load to the stacker unscrambler.

The radius back unscrambler is also fitted with speed up chains and waterfall ahead of a stacker surge table with live fence, to end the boards for stacking. A high speed all-electric stacker with prestaging is designed to operate at 16-18 courses per minute. Electric actuation extends to the stacker’s main hoist, secondary hoist and boxing load forks.

The stacker’s stick placing system is the fully automated slant hopper design.

Sticks arrive in bunks from the planer and are fed to a stick unscrambler ahead of the stick allocator. The allocator feeds the sticks into lugs, and the lugged transfers transport the sticks to the stick placer’s nine slanted hoppers. The lugged transfers are designed to re-circulate the sticks when not demanded by the hop-

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pers. The sticks are placed on the tiers of lumber in automatic cycle with the stacker forks.

The MillExpert trimmer optimizer receives highly dense scan data from the BioLuma 2900L laser profile sensors.

This combination provides excellent trimmer control, recovery and accuracy.

MillExpert’s wide array of features lets you configure and customize the system to maximize recovery. Configurable options include settings for exact saw locations, actual trim lengths, optimizer minimum product length allowed, com-

pound wane rules, and more. BioLuma sensors feature 0.3 in. laser profile spacing at 2500 Hz scan rate, with true differential measurements for full coverage of each board, end to end.

STARTUP Dallas Wright, plant superintendent for Montrose, explains that the installation of the new line began at the stacking line so as not to disrupt the existing production until absolutely necessary to tie in the new trim line and sorter. “We

started putting everything together at the stacker and worked our way back to the trimmer so the manual line could continue as long as possible,” he says. The startup of the new line was done in two phases, with the stacker commissioning coinciding with the sorter and trimmer installations.

Wright says he was very happy with the upgrades that are resulting in more consistent throughput. “It’s performing better than expected,” he says, adding that they chose the Multi-Track Fence because the beetle-kill lumber contains a lot of defect, and they wanted to be sure to get the most accurate trim.

He adds that the MyMill system allows a lot more flexibility for their operators to move around and handle different tasks. Most of them were working on the green chain before the upgrades, but they caught on to the technology quickly.

Wright explains that the focus was primarily on improving production and throughput consistency. “Now with the optimization we have at the trimmer we can produce nice square packages. That results in better air flow at the kilns which improves our drying. The planer production has improved even more so than the sawmill production. We trim a lot less at the planer, and combined with better drying we get better grade recovery on our finished lumber.”

One of the challenges the company faced was they had a lot of projects on the go at the time with all the mills under the Neiman umbrella. This meant that resources were spread thin and Montrose depended on outside contractors to handle much of the mill’s portion of the project. Shaffer says he’s satisfied with the way the project came off. “I think we worked it out pretty well.” In addition to Wright who headed up the project for Montrose, Shawn Findley, sawmill supervisor, was also directly involved in ensuring a successful result.

Planned improvements for the Montrose operation don’t end with the successful completion of this project. Shaffer says they also plan to invest in a sprinkler system and air filtration system. Processing of beetle-kill lumber results in very fine dust which must be mitigated appropriately. They are also looking at projects in the dry end, and considering expanding the operation to include a wood pellet facility on the site. Montrose Forest Products is shaping up to be a strong asset to Neiman’s holdings.

TP This article and photos appeared in the USNR publication, Millwide Insider, and appears here with permission.

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MACHINE INTEGRATION SIMPLIFIED Suwanee Lumber upgrades screw positioning controls for planer.

By Rick Meyerhoefer

pervisory control and to manage the human machine interface (HMI). To CROSS CITY, Fla. control the screws, Johnson selected a hether you’re building a new programmable motion controller. “The sawmill machine or retrofitPLC could have been also used to conting an old one to improve trol the cutter screws, but we would mill productivity, it’s good to consider have needed to write more lines of functionally partitioning the machine’s code, the integration task would have supervisory, computing and control resobeen more complicated, and it may have urces to employ the best system element produced less desirable results,” Johnfor each task. Even relatively son explains. simple applications involving For the planer, Johnson motion can benefit from the selected the RMC150 eightuse of an intelligent, programaxis motion controller, mable motion controller manufactured by Delta Comwhich has built-in functions puter Systems, Inc. of Battle and support software to make Ground, Wash. controlling and optimizing the “We had two main reasons motion easier. for choosing the RMC motion System integrator Automacontroller for use in most of ted Control Solutions of Hot our projects over the last four Springs, Ark. has been making years,” Johnson continues.

PLC vs. motion controller tra“First, Delta’s RMCs are deoffs as a regular part of its stand-alone controllers that machine development work can be interfaced with a variefor over a decade. The compaty of PLCs. This is very imny has just completed the conportant to us in machine trol system for a planer at the upgrades where you don’t Suwannee Lumber mill in want to change the PLC. The Cross City. other important thing is the The RMC150 motion controller can control up to eight axes simultaneThe planer has three cutter- ously. In the planer application, it interfaces to the PLC via Ethernet tuning tools that Delta proviheads that are positioned indes for free along with its and gets position information directly from a rotary encoder placed dependently by screws driven on each screw motor axis. controllers. When I’m setting

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by motor drives to process any size of standard lumber. “Each screw can generate a lot of force on its cutterhead if needed, but it’s an application that doesn’t require a lot of speed,” says Shelby Johnson, Automated Control Solutions President. “The screws do need to maintain precise positioning down to thousandths of an inch, however.”

The planer incorporates a PLC for su-

Screw positioning control in this planer at the Suwanee Lumber Co. mill in Cross City was retrofitted by Automated Control Solutions with a new Delta Computer Systems RMC150 motion controller.

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up specific accelerations and decelerations, I like to be able to see the motion in action. I want to see if there are any ripples in the plot as it tracks.”

Delta’s controllers include software called RMCTools, which includes a powerful visual plot manager, automated tuning tools, wizards for setting up special motion functions, and user program examples for special application functions.

“I’ve worked with some older motion controllers that didn’t have motion plotting support, and it was difficult to figure out which way to tune gain values.

Adjusting parameters seemed to produce random results,” Johnson says. “Without a window into what’s going on inside the controller, it’s hard to see where a problem lies. Sometimes the problem isn’t even inside the motion controller. It may be in the mechanics of the motion system and not the motion controller, and it would be hard to know that without referring to the plots.”

For example, the motion plot in Figure 1 shows a small mechanical interference at around 4.5 in. during an axis extension cycle that was causing some tracking errors. Changes to the system were made, and Figure 2 plot shows a reduction in the effects of the interference giving the motion controller better control. “The Plot Manager allows us to see these types of small details and therefore helps tremendously in the axis tuning,” Johnson says.

In the Suwannee Lumber planer, the RMC gets position information for each of the three screws from a quadrature encoder built into each servo motor.

The motion controller responds with an analog voltage to drive each motor, moving each planer head to a specific position, based on lumber dimensions set by the machine operator using a touch screen that’s connected to the PLC. The PLC sends the motion target information to the motion controller via Ethernet.

Another application that Automated Control Solutions has recently completed is a board edge aligner for a trim saw in a California mill. The edge aligner needed to line up the boards to within .01 in. of a target position on the conveyer before they enter a trim saw, and needs to operate very quickly. In addition to speed and precision, a requirement of this application was to move the boards very gently to avoid “batting” the lumber and possibly damaging it.

To meet this requirement, Johnson used the special “S-curve” motion instructions built into the Delta controller. It ensures that the speed of the mo-

Figure 1: Undesirable mechanical interference is able to be detected at around 4.5 in. (arrow) during an axis extension cycle using Delta’s Plot Manager software.

Figure 2. This plot shows a significant reduction in the effects of the interference allowing for better motion control, but still indicates some mechanical interference in the velocity and drive output signal around 4.5 in. In both plots, red is actual position, cyan is the target position. Magenta is the target velocity and blue is actual velocity. Green is control output to the motor drive for that axis.

tion ramps up and down smoothly without step changes in acceleration which would produce “jumps” in the motion.

“Besides needing to be easy for us to design with, our customers need a system that’s easy to support,” Johnson says. “In the future, our customer may need to reload the code or parameters and reinitiate the system. If I had trouble designing the

system, the customer will have trouble keeping the system running.”

Automated Control Solutions’ experience is by no means unique. Machine integrators and builders should consider ease of design, troubleshooting and optimization and long-term support as they select components for use in their projects.

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WAGNER METERS CELEBRATES 50TH Company has remained focused on moisture measurement, troubleshooting.

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his year Wagner Meters celebrates the 50th anniversary of a true American Dream story—that of a young man who founded a small company and, with imagination and vision, strong values, and a commitment to making products that outperformed all others, built it into one of the premier moisture meter companies serving the forest products industry.

Although Wagner Meters began 50 years ago, the story of how we came to be starts a few years earlier.

It was sometime in the early 1960s at a sawmill in Redmond, Ore. Mill management was frustrated. Their traditional contact moisture detectors were giving them fits. These detectors came in big, bulky cabinets equipped with radio vacuum tubes. Hard to use, hard to calibrate, and hard to interpret, it was no wonder

they were troublesome.

My grandfather, Delmer Wagner, an electrician at the mill, saw this problem as an opportunity to find a better way to measure moisture in lumber. Energized by the challenge, he experimented with new designs and new technologies. What he came up with was the first in-line moisture detector using transistors. Smaller and more compact, it cost less to make, was much more reliable, and easier to calibrate.

In 1963, shortly after the mill took out a patent on his newly designed moisture detector, granddad left the company to teach at a local college. But after two years, he decided to start a business selling moisture detectors—a device he knew quite well. He named his company Wagner Electronics. The year was 1965.

But to get his business off the ground, he needed a product. Working out of his

garage in Terrebonne, Ore., Granddad designed a second in-line transistorized moisture detector. This new, improved model was smaller than his original design. But as with any new product that comes out, there’s always skepticism about its performance. Granddad overcame this obstacle with a gutsy approach.

He invited the mills to try out his new moisture detector for a month at no cost or obligation. Should they have a problem with the meter, they were to call him. If not, he’d return in 30 days to either pick it up or collect payment. Not surprisingly, these new meters were a big hit. Sales took off and so did Wagner Electronics.

Wagner Electronics moved from Terrebonne in 1970 to its present corporate headquarters in Rogue River, Ore. It’s here where we also design, test and assemble all our moisture measuring devices.

INNOVATION I believe my grandfather’s vision and creative thinking led to our company’s success in those early years. He seemed blessed with an amazing intuition that led him—and the outstanding people he hired—to create a slew of new and innovative products that greatly improved the way moisture is measured.

At left, above, and at far right, today and yesterday’s version of Ed Wagner, with his son, Eric, and father, Delmer.

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For instance, following his invention of the first transistorized in-line moisture meter, he developed the first non-contact meter. This device never touched the wood, yet was still able to measure its moisture content. This was huge for the industry.

Previously, the mills had to slide the wood over the sensors to get a reading.

But this caused it to wear out quickly. And every once in a while, wood would jam up in the conveyer system and clobber the sensors. Sometimes they got hit so bad, they had to be returned to the factory to be rebuilt. So Granddad’s invention saved the mills considerable time and money.

Granddad also devised a way to calibrate the meters to moisture content percentage. The relative scale then in use was awkward and hard to adjust. His invention again saved time and made calibrating a lot easier.

In the late ’70s, he also helped kilns improve their operation by inventing an in-kiln moisture detector. His first unit, Model 778, revolutionized the industry.

Today, we have the MC 4000. Much more sophisticated, it can interface with computerized kiln control system software packages. This gives the kiln operator an accurate moisture measurement and monitoring tool for better control over the kiln drying operation.

About the same time, Granddad introduced the in-kiln moisture detector. He also figured out a way to use in-line meters to troubleshoot kilns. Our series of troubleshooting tools and processes proved to be invaluable. Customers could now get the maximum value out of their wood. The amount of wood that came out too wet, with a need to be run through the kiln again, or too dry, causing it to warp, split and crack, had been significantly reduced.

At first, Granddad used microprocessors to aid in the troubleshooting. Later, as the information sought became more complex and the technology became available, we connected a computer directly to our in-line moisture meters. The combination of computers and in-line moisture meters told operators the moisture ranges of the wood throughout the kiln. It also enabled them to track charges throughout the months and seasons of the year. And they could also track one kiln against another to see which one performed better with specific wood species. For instance, one kiln

moved into management with his promotion to production manager.

When Granddad retired about 1987, he sold the majority of stock in Wagner Electronics to my dad. Dad was then named president and CEO of the company.

Dad was cut from the same cloth as his father when it came to creating innovative products. In fact, one of the things my father invented was the hand-held moisture meter. may dry better with one species, while another kiln dries better with a He knew some mills were different species. This allowed operusing hand-held pin-style ators to optimize what species of meters, but they presented wood goes into each kiln. problems such as temperaWe also devised a way to count ture sensitivity, which affected accuracy, and lack the number of boards in different of depth measurement. moisture categories—too dry or too Delmer Wagner This motivated him to dewet. Kiln operators could then see if they were over drying or under drying. velop an improved hand-held meter, one that was pinless.

If they spotted a problem—for example, Dad spent considerable time and effort too much steam going into one end of developing the technology of the pinless the kiln—they could make adjustments meter, and making sure it was highly accuand improve performance. rate. We started selling Dad’s first model, Eventually, we kept refining that prothe L600, to the mills in the early ’80s, cess to the point where we were able to though we didn’t market it aggressively at track where each stack of wood came first. But we changed direction—and our from out of the kiln. We also developed marketing efforts—during the early 1990s a histogram that showed the moisture recession. Hurt by the weak economy, the content of boards as they were distributmills stopped buying capital equipment. ed throughout the kiln. Operators could This included the larger, more expensive see precisely where their wet/dry spots in-line moisture detectors we were selling. were in the kiln.

Since we knew the mills needed moisAnd we even hooked up a printer to ture meters, we stepped up our marketing the in-line systems so operators could of the smaller, hand-held pinless meters, print out the histograms. Thus, based on which they could better afford. Our efthe moisture meters’ output, they could forts paid off. The mills were quite willclearly see their problems and know ing and able to buy them. Fortunately, dewhat to correct. spite the recession, we were able to proGranddad and Wagner Electronics invide our customers with a meter they vented that whole process of kiln trouneeded and could afford. So we survived. bleshooting—a process that became a We have continued refining and imhuge success. It has saved the mills hunproving our original pinless model. Thus, dreds of thousands of dollars. I can each successive generation of pinless imagine it was an exciting time in our meters we brought to market was technohistory to be creating new products no logically more sophisticated and sported one in the world had invented before. improved features.

Initially, we introduced the L600 FATHER TO SON models back in the ’90s. Our latest My father, Ed Wagner, started workmodel, the L622 digital recording luming for Wagner Electronics in 1967 at the ber moisture meter, is a non-invasive age of 10. It was a way for him to earn wood moisture meter that comes stanspending money after school. He wired, dard with the Stat-Pack. This PC comassembled, soldered, welded and tested patible software package enables users meters. By the time Dad left for college, to create custom species lists, and to he was well grounded in all the technical archive L622 data on a PC hard drive or aspects of the business. Shortly after external hard drive for long-term storearning a degree in engineering, he age, retrieval and report generations.

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Another original concept he developed is the stack probe. With this device, kiln operators could take readings in the center of the stack. Today the Model L722 Stack Probe Sensor coupled with the L622 Digital Recording Moisture Meter makes it easy to reach deep into stickered units of lumber and take accurate moisture readings without the danger of broken pins.

Wagner Meters’ electromagnetic wave technology makes it possible to take multiple readings throughout an entire stack in just minutes.

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er Electronics. But we realized our name didn’t clearly address what we’re all about—moisture meters. In 2010, we changed our marketing name to Wagner Meters.

KEY TO LONGEVITY Fifty years is a long time for a company to survive. In fact, according to the latest statistics, the lifespan of many companies is typically 15 years. So what is the key to Wagner Meters’ longevity? Several things come to mind.

First, it’s the dedication, creativity and incredible work ethic of Grandfather Delmer and all the many excellent people who have ever worked for this company.

It’s maintaining a family-run, familyoriented business adhering to solid core values—core values that have helped us make sound, ethical decisions.

It’s sustaining a culture of innovation.

Throughout our history, we’ve developed more innovative moisture measuring products than any other company— products that have radically reshaped the forest products industry.

It’s manufacturing reliable, quality products built to last—products known worldwide for their accuracy and superb performance as documented by independent third-party testing.

It’s being a leader in educating our customers about the characteristics of wood and how moisture affects it. This education effort started with Grandfather Delmer and it continues today through the use of trade journal articles, our website, the Internet, sponsored videos, social media, and more.

And last, but not least, it’s putting a huge emphasis on our valued customers.

We excel at listening to our customers, understanding their needs, and giving them an exceptional customer experience. It’s no wonder we have thousands of loyal, satisfied customers—both here and abroad.

In closing, on behalf of my granddad, now retired, my father, and the best employees anywhere, I want to thank our forest products customers for their unwavering loyalty and trust in Wagner Meters these past 50 years. We greatly appreciate you and pledge to continue providing you with outstanding service and superior products for the next 50 years— TP and beyond.

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LVL

HARDWOOD Pollmeier Group has brought beech handling and processing experience to LVL production.

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CREUZBURG, Germany ollmeier Group continues to make great strides introducing into building markets new products from its new beech laminated veneer lumber plant here.

The EUR 105 million, 180,000 m3 production capacity plant started up

a year ago. Pollmeier Group owner and managing director Ralf Pollmeier says that while “finding new markets is easy,” the manufacturing process is still a work in progress. Pollmeier says the values and characteristics of beech (and most hardwoods)— strength and hardness for example— also invite startup machining and processing challenges because it’s “heavier, less forgiving, difficult to compress, etc.”

Pollmeier may be a bit too tough on himself, considering the uniqueness of the operation—LVL from hardwood, which provides higher strength values, excellent surface quality and maintains the appealing look of hardwood.

As a result, beech LVL’s still evolving product applications encompass a broad range from construction to architectural to interior design—large

span beams, furniture board, flooring and much more.

The company touts its beech LVL as considerably higher density and higher bending strength than spruce laminated veneer lumber, glulam and structural timber.

Pollmeier sees many end use applications such as exposed posts and beams in modern glass façade construction and as ceiling panels because of an “elegant and sleek” look. Product impregnation is also undergoing testing. Other specialty applications are also being addressed.

If anybody knows European hardwood and particularly beech, it’s Pollmeier. His company has been operating modern hardwood sawmills at Creuzburg and Aschaffenburg since 1996, and producing large quantities of beech lumber.

Pollmeier notes that the more conventional method of converting beech

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into a building material, as a glulam, proved too expensive due to the higher cost of cutting and the longer drying time. The solution was provided by laminated veneer lumber, which ensures efficient utilization of the raw material and permits a high degree of automation, and is more cost-efficient.

PRODUCTION Pollmeier turned to German-based manufacturer Siempelkamp for the downstream processing machinery and technology portion of the plant. After a test period of two years, Pollmeier commissioned Siempelkamp to build a 6 ft. x 60.3 m ContiRoll continuous press (Generation 8).

Typically up to 28 layers, each 3.0 mm (.118 in.) thick, are pressed into a thickness of up to 80 mm (3.15 in.).

Siempelkamp supplied a double diagnonal saw for the edge trimming and cut-to-length unit, designed to handle a board thickness up to 85 mm (3.3 in.) and process a maximum board length up to 32 m (105 ft.).

Siempelkamp also supplied a high rack storage system for veneers once they’re peeled, resin storage/preparation and dosing system, and a Buttner energy plant with 13 MW heating capacity as well as the measurement and control technology. The energy plant is fueled with waste wood from the production process. Beech is characterized by its long burning time,

Up to 28 sheets can be pressed into LVL.

Raute supplied log peeling and veneer handling and layup.

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Pollmeier also operates two hardwood sawmills.

Cut-to-size sawing

strong ember generation and high burning value.

The plant procures beech round timber exclusively from sustainable and certified forests, mainly from within a 150 km radius of the plant.

Pollmeier says beech logs are 9 in. and up. Logs are hot-water treated and then debarked.

For front end processing, Pollmeier signed on Finland-based Raute, which has considerable LVL machinery and technology experience.

Raute’s scope of supply includes the rotary peeling line, which can handle 8 ft. and 6 ft. block lengths. The thin veneer strips can be stored at that point.

Veneers are dried in a Raute 24-section roller dryer, which is directly coupled to two veneer scarfing units. Veneers are dried to 2-3% moisture and conditioned to 5-6% moisture. Scarfed veneers are visually and moisture graded with Mecano VDA and MVA analyzers. Randoms and sheets with defects are conveyed to a Raute veneer composer. Before the scarfed veneers enter a Raute layup line, they go to automated storage.

The Raute layup line is equipped with vacuum manipulators, especially developed for thick beech veneer in this project. Two Raute curtain coaters lines take care of the supply of veneers to the Raute continuous layup system. Phenolic resin adhesive, supplied by Dynea, is applied crosswise or parallel to the grain of the veneers.

This resins offers good economy, high strength and is water-resistant. Applying the adhesive adds moisture, which pushes the moisture level of the final product back up to approximately 8%-10%.

An enlarged heating circuit with a booster hot platen at the Siempelkamp continuous press infeed ensures quick heat absorption of the veneer package.

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Laid up veneer sheets enter pressing line.

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homogeneous curing.

The process-integrated measurement system from Siempelkamp, called SicoScan, measures board thickness and detects blows and blisters during production. The control technology system, Siempelkamp’s ProdIQ, includes the areas of production management, quality control and maintenance.

Pollmeier notes that when selecting the equipment, “the quality of the technical solutions and the dedication of the people developing these technical solutions took priority over the price.”

The new plant, which is currently running one shift, employs 121 including staff in administration, sales, marketing and purchasing. Pollmeier operations overall employ 700.

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MACHINERYROW Stag Selects Autolog Carriage Optimizer As a world-class optimization and process control systems manufacturer, Autolog offers high value-added solutions to operations that wish to maximize productivity, flexibility and profitability.

Stag Timber of the Teal-Jones Group in Surrey, BC was looking to do just that by optimizing its carriage. They chose Au-

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Stag Timber chose the Autolog system for it quick, high precision scanning due to its high frequency multiple laser lines full-profile scanner. It is easy to set up and operate thanks to well mounted scanners that are close to one another and easy to get to; simplified architecture; and user friendly interface.

Other key features of the system: l High precision ScanMeg full-profile scanner reaches an accuracy of 0.025 in. l Linear scan with encoder or snapshot scan function modes l True Shape modeling l Best opening face (BOF) or minimum opening face (MOF) optimization l Supports curve-sawing systems l Unlimited production parameter files l Configurable prioritization of the boards produced in the cant versus those produced in the slab l Considers wane and skip of the boards in the optimization l Optimizes according to planer target dimensions l User can simulate and do board capture without interfering with production The challenge in the project was that Stag Timber produces a multitude of different products and therefore had to reprogram the parameters to support the large quantity of changes in its orders.

The solution was to reduce the reprogramming effort and the risk of error. Autolog redesigned part of the software which provided the customer with the possibility to generate unlimited production parameter files to support the large quantity of changes. This upgrade is now offered in all Autolog optimizers.

The startup at Stag Timber was over a weekend and it was on schedule.

“It was very well appreciated how Autolog listened to all of our needs and did exactly what we wanted. They are a wellestablished and reliable company that we can depend on,” comments Allan Bose of Stag Timber.

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MACHINERYROW USNR Acquires Söderhamn Eriksson USNR has acquired Söderhamn Eriksson and all of its subsidiaries from Cellwoodgruppen AB. George Van Hoomissen, President and CEO of USNR, comments that he was very interested in the opportunity to acquire Söderhamn Eriksson because he felt that Söderhamn Eriksson’s strong market

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position in Europe will complement USNR’s strong position in North America, and that both companies’ positions will be strengthened as a result of the combination in South America, Australia/New Zealand, Russia and Asia.

“We believe that Söderhamn Eriksson’s extensive sales, distribution, and service networks in Europe will help USNR to more broadly introduce and support its products in Europe,” adds

Chris Blomquist, Vice President of Sales for USNR. “Lack of local support infrastructure can be a challenge, but now the combined organization has an extensive OEM support network spanning 15 time zones, 3 continents, 10 countries, and at least 9 languages. No other company in our industry even comes close to matching this level of aftermarket support.”

Within the Söderhamn Eriksson organization, this acquisition is also viewed as tremendously positive and transformative.

Henrik Lefvert, Managing Director for Söderhamn Eriksson, states, “We have products that are very well-suited to the North American style of sawmilling, and we are optimistic that with the support of USNR, we will be able to successfully introduce these products into the United States and Canada.”

Lars Lindvall, International Sales Manager for Söderhamn Eriksson, adds, “We are also very excited to be able to creatively package solutions that combine products from Söderhamn Eriksson with those from USNR. We have of course been able to collaborate with USNR in the past, and have done so on a number of occasions, but we are now in a position to provide fully integrated, end-to-end solutions anywhere in the world.”

“The combination of USNR and Söderhamn Eriksson offers customers far more options when planning a project,” states Blomquist. “By combining our product lines and our service and support operations, customers will be able to design the solution that best meets their needs.”

Söderhamn Eriksson has a long history, dating back to the 1860s. The Stenberg family acquired A.K. Eriksson in 1937, and then in the early 1990s acquired what had been Söderhamns Verkstäder and later Kockums Industries. A few years later, these organizations were combined to form Söderhamn Eriksson. Today, the company operates five facilities in Sweden in addition to maintaining local-language sales, service and aftermarket support centers in the UK, Canada, Norway, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Poland, and Germany. The company is known around the world for its high-quality log lines and edger systems, and for the Cambio debarker, which was invented

by Söderhamns Verkstäder in the 1950s.

You can learn more about Söderhamn Eriksson and its product line at www.se-saws.com.

USNR operates seven facilities in the U.S. and Canada, including three large

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MACHINERYROW manufacturing plants, plus a sales and service center in Russia. USNR is best known around the world for providing end-to-end solutions for sawmills and planer mills, including log lines, curvesawing gangs, edger lines, trim-sortstack systems, dry kilns, and the optimization and control technologies that maximize the output and performance of that equipment. You can learn more about USNR and its product line at www.usnr.com.

Henrik Lefvert will continue as Managing Director of Söderhamn Eriksson, and no interruptions to ongoing projects, services, or other operations are expected as a result of this acquisition.

Wood-Mizer Recognizes Top Level Suppliers Wood-Mizer LLC has recognized five suppliers for the level of support they provided the company in 2014. Each of these companies was recognized with the annual CREST Award for being outstanding suppliers and peak performers for Wood-Mizer.

Cargo Services Inc., an Indianapolisbased freight forwarding company providing ocean/air cargo, custom brokerage, and distribution services, was chosen for its exceptional customer service and response times.

F&M Mafco, a 70-year-old Harrison, Ohio company supplying welding equipment, supplies and industrial gases, was chosen for its willingness to assist customers at any time of day for any need.

Grainger, an industrial supply company providing various products including safety equipment, was chosen for its dedication to customers and focus on Lean methods to reduce daily operating costs.

Industrial Hydraulics, an Indianapolisbased supplier providing bulk hydraulic hose and fittings, was chosen for its outstanding customer service and valueadded support.

Scott Industrial Systems, a Dayton, Ohio fluid power distributor providing hydraulic valves, pumps, manifolds and design support, was chosen for its excellent responsiveness and attention to detail.

“Our suppliers are an essential part of Wood-Mizer’s success and it is important for us to formally recognize them,” says Mark Law, Wood-Mizer Procurement Director. “We appreciate each of our suppliers for providing the products and services necessary to continue growing together in the future.”

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ATLARGE HMA Meeting Focuses On Future Of Industry

HMA hosted for the “Next-Gen” Millennials.

(Miller Wood Trade Publications)

More than 260 people attended the Hardwood Manufacturers Assn.’s National Conference and Expo held at the Omni Nashville in Nashville, Tenn. March 2527. Theme of the event was “Engineering an Optimal Tomorrow.”

Conference session topics included the skilled labor crisis in America, the future of logging and loggers, an economic outlook for the hardwood industry, and innovations in equipment technology.

HMA officers were elected for 2015, including: President Skipper Beal, Beal Lumber Co., Inc.; First Vice President Richard Wilkerson, Anderson-Tully Co.; Second Vice President Bob Miller, Frank Miller Lumber Co.; and HMA Executive Vice President Linda Jovanovich.

Executive Committee members were also elected. In addition to the officers, members include: Phil Pierce, Holt & Bugbee Co.; Troy Brown, Kretz Lumber Co., Inc.; Darrell Beasley, Thompson Hardwoods; Nordeck Thompson, Thompson Appalachian Hardwoods, Inc.; and past president Jack Shannon, J. T. Shannon Lumber Co. HMA members also elected as directors: Hal Mitchell, Atlanta Hardwood Corp.;, John Hubbard, Buchanan Lumber Birmingham; Matthew Netterville, Fred Netterville Lumber Co.; Troy Brown, Kretz Lumber Co., Inc.; Wayne Law, Maine Woods Co., LLC; and Trisha Thompson, T & S Hardwoods, Inc. HMA’s “Next-Gen” Millennials were in full force, bringing to the forefront their talent, great enthusiasm, and their many questions. At the Next-Gen Reception hosted by HMA’s Millennial Council, nearly 50 Millennials gathered to get better acquainted and to share their experiences and success stories. Bob Miller of Frank Miller Lumber and the current Millennial Council Coordinator reported that the energy level at the Next-Gen RecepTIMBER PROCESSING

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ATLARGE tion was at an all-time high, and the enthusiasm of these young professionals was infectious.

Next year’s HMA’s National Conference & Expo is set for March 9-11 at The Worthington Renaissance, Sundance Square, Fort Worth, Texas.

KFIA Gathering Celebrates 50th Kentucky Forest Industries Assn.

(KFIA) completed a successful 50th Annual Meeting in Lexington, Ky. March 25-27 as 350 members attended.

The following people were also recognized for their contributions to forestry in Kentucky: l Flying Rooster Farm, Inc, Williamsburg, Ky., 2014 Tree Farmer of the Year l Sizemore Logging, London, Ky., 2014 Logger of the Year l Michael Froelich, Southeast Region KY Div. of Forestry, Hazard, Ky., 2014 Inspector of the Year l Jim Spangler, Stihl/Bryan Equipment Sales, Loveland, Oh., 2014 Communicator of the Year l KFIA Executive Director Bob Bauer was recognized for his 20 years of dedicated service.

One of the afternoon meetings discussed the future of a Forest Health Center at the University of Kentucky and Sustainable Forestry Implementation in Kentucky.

Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner and gubernatorial candidate James Comer discussed his support for the wood industry. Other speakers were Terrell (Red) Baker, University of Kentucky Dept. of Forestry discussing the longtime relationship with KFIA; and Lee Andrews, U.S. Fish and Wildlife,8 providing an update on the Northern Long-eared bat and its potential listing and impact on the wood industry.

The 2016 Annual Meeting will be in Louisville, Ky. at The Brown Hotel on April 5-7.

SPIB Offers On-Line Grading Courses Southern Pine Inspection Bureau announces SPIB eLearning, a set of online lumber grading courses to supplement onthe-job experience, classroom training and accelerate education of lumber graders, lumber quality technicians, dealers and others in the lumber and construction industries.

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Forest Service Battles Budget In testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Under Secretary for Natural Resource and Environment Robert Bonnie says the Obama Administration continues to increase the pace and scale of forest restoration and management on public forestlands, but the shift of funds from management, recreation, and conservation programs to fight wildfires threatens to cripple the agency.

“The U.S. Forest Service is accelerating restoration and management of the national forests, despite budgetary challenges, though we agree more must be done,” Bonnie says. “The good news is that the agency is making significant progress.”

He says the Forest Service is achieving results despite the fact that since 1998 Na-

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ATLARGE tional Forest System staff has been reduced by over a third. Last year, he says, the Forest Service met or exceeded all of its targets related to forest management on the national forests.

Across the country, Bonnie says the

Forest Service is investing in collaboration, landscape scale projects and innovative approaches to restore forests: l The agency has funded 23 projects through the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program. Through CFLRP, the agency and partners have made significant progress in reducing wildfire threats while exceeding the fiveyear target for timber volume sold by nearly 25%. In addition to making 1.45

million acres more resilient to wildfire, the program improved the health of 1.33 million acres of wildlife habitat, and helped local economies support an average of 4,360 jobs each year. l The Forest Service is developing larger, landscape-scale projects like the 200,000 acre project in the Black Hills to restore ponderosa pine. l The Forest Service is implementing new authorities in the Farm Bill. With

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ATLARGE input from governors, last summer the Forest Service identified 46 million acres to be designated as impacted by insects and disease, and recently added more than 700,000 acres in Washington State. l The Forest Service is partnering with the Natural Resources Conservation Service to engage in 28 restoration projects. l Through the Forest Products Lab, the Forest Service is investing in markets for woody biomass, solid wood products, and other forest products to support a viable forest industry.

Additionally, Bonnie notes that in 2014 the Forest Service exceeded its targets by producing more than 2.8 billion BF of timber. The timber harvest, he says, has increased 18% since 2008.

Bonnie told the Committee, however, that the way the Forest Service budgets for fire suppression is crippling the agency.

“Our fire seasons are 78 days longer than they were three decades ago. Fires are increasingly larger, more catastrophic and more expensive. In 1995, the agency spent 16% of its budget on firefighting. Today, the figure approaches half of our budget.”

The Under Secretary says that in most years the Forest Service is forced to transfer dollars from non-fire budget line items—recreation, research, conservation, and forest management—to pay for fire suppression.

“If there is one action Congress could take to further forest restoration on the national forests, it is to change the way we budget for fire,” Bonnie says.

The bipartisan Wildfire Disaster Funding Act, now pending in Congress, would end the practice of fire borrowing. That legislation would allow the agency to increase the number of watersheds and acres treated while increasing timber production.

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PLANER HAS VERSATILITY, SPEED tratoplan, one of the world’s fastest S planing machines, is perfectly suited for production of construction lumber.

most no maintenance. Greasing once a year will do the trick. In order to use the entire width of the knives, the position of the horizontal shaft can be shifted axially for 6 in., vertical shaft for 4 in.

One person is able to exchange four 300 kg tools, with 14 or 18 in. diameter,

Studs, joists and rafters are shooting out of the machine at speeds from 3000 to 4000 FPM, which is 45 miles per hour. At the same time, accuracy is high and the machined wood surface is top quality, almost shiny.

This can be achieved only with a very sturdy, stable and vibration absorbing machine frame, which prevents the machine from resonating, which could affect surface finish and product tolerances.

The Stratoplan machine is designed for planing and profiling all kinds of lumber. It can have four to nine shafts that are equipped with cutter or profiling heads and saws.

High speed machining also means high pressures on boards, the consequence of which is high Stratoplan 6V-S900 in Ledinek assembly plant in Europe friction, high temperatures and abrasion. To avoid abrasion problems, the machine table, the fence and the pressure elements are plated with extremely hard Tungsten carbide coating, which is harder than ceramics. To ensure better wood sliding properties, the machine table is on the infeed side slightly chamfered, with small holes for the lubricant, which is pumped upwards on the table surface in pulsating mode.

Without additional cooling, machined lumber could catch fire or be scorched, Thickener and planer tool can be exchanged therefore the machine table, fence and in minutes. pressure shoes are water cooled. Water is pumped from a water tank through channels that are embedded in all those elements. Stratoplan can be produced in left or right version, to adapt to every situation on-site.

The outstanding planing accuracy can be achieved only with stable running tools with ensured repeated mounting precision after every tool change. This is possible with the Ledinek exchangeable shaft sysWater-cooled elements in “blue” tem, where tool and two bearings are one inseparable unit. Tools are directly driven, in 15 minutes. Every tool is automatically running with 5200 revolutions per minute; driven out of the machine on slide, then bearings are deliberately oversized, prolifted by means of a small crane, which is tected with labyrinth seals and need alpart of the machine. The sharpened tool is 86

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then lifted from the trolley, mounted in place and driven back into the machine.

Stratoplan must be fed with boards at a speed which exceeds the feed speed of the planer. Therefore Powerfeed is mounted on the infeed side. With the feed speed up to 5000 FPM, continuous feeding without gaps between boards is ensured.

It has two pairs of acceleration wheels, which grasp the board from top and bottom and are capable of propelling it from a standstill to the shooting speed in a fraction of a second. In this procedure, board surface will not be damaged in any aspect, thanks to the big diameter of the acceleration wheels, which eject up to 300 boards per minute.

All settings of Stratoplan are remotely set on Powerfeed too, so every change of speed or board dimension is made on both units at the same time.

The commissioning of the fast planing line for a softwood mill in the U.S. is in progress and a second one for another U.S. mill is on the way. This planing line consists of a robust high-performance four-side planer—STRATOPLAN 6VS900, with a special module for splitting and rounding of American standard size elements for house building.

The family firm Ledinek has been closely connected to wood products for more than a hundred years. Ledinek machines are present on five continents and in 45 countries. The company’s design and engineering experts create effective solutions for the challenges in modern woodworking.

The Ledinek logo can be found on the fastest planers in the world, glulam beam plants, fingerjointing lines, CLT presses, on patented Rotoles calibrating machines and on conveyors and handling equipment. Ledinek company has been managed and owned by the Ledinek family for four generations. The philosophy of the enterprise is best described by its motto: innovative, powerful and TP durable. Visit ledinek.com.

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MAINEVENTS MAY 11-12—32nd Annual Lumber Quality & Process Control Workshop, New Horizon's Learning Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 800-678-6311; visit lumberquality.com/ southern-workshops.

11-15—Ligna: World Fair For The Forestry And Wood Industries, Hannover, Germany. Call +49 511 89-0; fax +49 511 8932626; visit ligna.de.

13-14—27th Annual Lumber Quality Leadership Workshop, New Horizon's Learning Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 800-678-6311; visit lumberquality.com/southern-workshops.

15-16—Northeastern Loggers Assn. annual meeting, Cross Insurance Ctr., Bangor, Maine. Call 315-369-3078; visit northernlogger.com.

JUNE 10-12—Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Expo, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 504-443-4464; visit sfpaexpo.com.

16-21—The Vienna International Wood Products/Markets Conference, Expo & Tours, Hotel Savoyen Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Call 604-801-5996; email fredkurpiel@aol.com; visit woodmarkets.com/conference/global-conferences.

JULY 15-19—2015 Southeastern Lumber Manufacturers Assn. annual conference, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Orlando, Fla. Call 770-6316701; visit slma.org.

22-25—AWFS Fair 2015, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV. Visit awfsfair.org.

31-August 2—Georgia Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Jekyll Island Convention Center, Jekyll Island, Ga. Call 478-9928110; visit gfagrow.org.

AUGUST 14—American Lumber Standard Committee annual meeting, Halifax, NS, Canada. Call 301-972-1700; visit alsc.org.

19-22—International Woodworking Fair 2015, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 404-693-8333; visit iwfatlanta.com.

25-27—Florida Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Wyndham Bay Point Golf Resort & Spa, Panama City Beach, Fla. Call 850-222-5646; visit floridaforest.org.

25-27—Louisiana Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Golden Nugget Resort and Casino, Lake Charles, La. Call 318-4432558; visit laforestry.com.

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

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