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A Hatton-Brown Publication

Co-Publisher: David H. Ramsey Co-Publisher: David (DK) Knight Chief Operating Officer: Dianne C. Sullivan Publishing Office Street Address: 225 Hanrick Street Montgomery, AL 36104-3317 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 2268 Montgomery, AL 36102-2268 Telephone: 334.834.1170 FAX: 334.834.4525

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NEWSFEED Greenfield Sawmill For Alabama

DEMPSEY WOOD PRODUCTS Serious Sawmilling Going On Here

PORTLAND SHOW TP&EE Raises The Bar Again

BEFORE THE SHOW Setup Was An Event Unto Itself

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COVER: Dempsey Wood Products starts up a new sharp chain canter system and has more upgrades in store at Orangeburg, SC. Story begins on PAGE 14. (Jay Donnell photo)

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THEISSUES

Rich Donnell Editor-in-Chief

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e give over many pages in this issue to coverage of the Timber Processing & Energy Expo that was held in Portland, Ore. September 28-30. Why wouldn’t we? It’s our show.

Yes, every two years we at Hatton-Brown Publishers, Inc. take off our ace reporter fedora hats and put on our show business top hats. Ha! We wish it was that cut and dried. Actually, the duties of running a show like this never cease. The show may end, but it’s already time for exhibitors to renew space for the next one as we iron out any wrinkles that may have surfaced during the last one.

The show just completed was our third TP&EE, which is held every other year, and we as organizers continue to learn and make adjustments. But I must say, having been a reporter and editor for 40 years, I never thought that I would be in a position to have a conversation with an expo center maintenance person about a water leak in the rafters that was dripping on an exhibit.

Ah yes, the responsibilities of a Show Director.

Those of us at Hatton-Brown who are involved with the show—and there are many of us—enjoy our responsibilities immensely. The show has been very successful, and it represents one of our efforts to diversify our business beyond only producing and publishing magazines.

Probably the only “negative” about my role as show director is that I don’t get to enjoy as much conversation with the attendees and exhibitors as I do when I’m simply an editor looking for news or just cutting up with an old friend. It seems my walkie-talkie has a knack for interrupting my conversation with a lumberman I haven’t seen in a long time. “Rich, exhibitor A is saying exhibitor B’s exhibit is blocking his view. Can you come to the show office?”

And so I bid the lumberman farewell, until we meet again later in this show, or maybe not until the next one, or somewhere along the line.

But that’s okay. These lumbermen have better things to do than talk to me anyway, like buying machinery.

You’ll see in our report that about 1,600 attendees showed up at TP&EE. This group includes personnel from wood products producer companies and mills, which of course is whom the exhibitors really care most about talking to. About 1,100 exhibitor personnel also attended.

Some show organizers are hesitant about putting those numbers out there.

Others tend to beef them up. For example, if John Smith shows up each day at a three-day event, they count him three times. The old joke about one of the old Portland shows was that they counted people again when they left the show floor to go to the bathroom and returned.

We simply count the real bodies in attendance one time. Maybe some of them go to the show three days, but it’s still one person.

One of the things we were real happy about is that many producer companies encouraged lots of their employees to attend the show. Many, if not most, of these employees may not be the decision-makers on machinery purchases, but their collective insights certainly filter up the chain of command to the people making the final decision.

Also, it simply adds to the atmosphere when so many of one company’s people meander through the show.

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NEWSFEED TWO RIVERS PLANS NEW SAWMILL Two Rivers Lumber Co. plans to invest $65 million to build a state-of-the-art sawmill in Demopolis, Ala. that will create nearly 100 jobs eventually.

The mill will be built just south of where the Black Warrior and Tombigbee rivers meet, inspiring the company’s name. Two Rivers plans to produce all sizes of southern yellow pine dimension lumber.

“We are excited about building a new sawmill in west Alabama and what it will mean to local landowners as well as bringing quality manufacturing jobs to the area,” says Jay McElroy, a principal in Two Rivers.

“Planning began over a year ago and this project would not

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be possible without support from the city of Demopolis, the State of Alabama, and our lender, Alabama Ag Credit.”

McElroy has formed the operation along with Roy Geiger, owner of Sumter Timber in Demopolis, according to a report.

Two Rivers has contracted with Bid Group to design and build the sawmill. The mill will have an annual capacity of 200MMBF annually, according to the governor’s office. Construction is scheduled to begin in first quarter 2017, with mill production expected to begin in the third quarter.

The mill will include a Comact optimized log bucking system, Comact saw line with profiling systems, Miller planer, Comact Grad Expert automated grading and Deltech continuous dual-path kiln.

The company said it expects the mill will create

many indirect jobs in the forest products industry to support the operation.

McElroy pointed to his family’s long history of forest operations in the area. In 1964, J. C. McElroy, Jr. started a small pulpwood trucking business, which grew into a hardwood logging operation named Sumter Timber Co. By the 1970s, Sumter had become a logging contractor and was hauling chips, sawdust and shavings for local mills, and eventually began shipping lumber from area sawmills to regional states.

In 1985, the flatbed portion of the operation expanded to form its own separate business, named McElroy Truck Lines. Through the years, MTL, based in Cuba, Ala., added satellite terminals, trailer pools near customers and more truck drivers and trucks. Today, McElroy is a

successful customer-service focused company that specializes in handling large volumes for strategic customers.

WEST FRASER WILL BOOST NEWBERRY West Fraser is expanding its Newberry County, South Carolina sawmill operations with a $33 million investment. West Fraser also plans to install a log merchandiser designed to increase production by more than 37%.

“West Fraser believes in making investments to improve our operations. Building a strong business supports our mill’s competitiveness so we can continue to be an active employer and a positive contributor to Newberry County,” comments West Fraser Newberry Lumber Mill General Manager DJ Russell.

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NEWSFEED GP COMPLETES GURDON UPGRADE In a celebration with community leaders, Georgia-Pacific recently marked the completion of an approximately $40 million expansion at its Gurdon, Ark. lumber operations. The investment expands the production capacity of the sawmill by 60%.

The expansion also includes the installation of a new continuous dry kiln, a state-ofthe-art planer mill, as well as related infrastructure improvements.

“After a lot of hard work and dedication by our talented team in Gurdon, we are excited to celebrate the completion of our expansion project at our Gurdon lumber operations,” says Fritz Mason, vice president and general manager for Georgia-Pacific lumber. “Our

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investment at Gurdon moves the facility to a top-tier asset and extends our ability to meet the growing needs of our customers. It also demonstrates our commitment to the building products industry, family forest landowners and other local wood suppliers and to the Gurdon community.”

Georgia-Pacific has eight facilities in Arkansas, five of which are part of the building products division. It employs 2,700 directly in the state, with more than 665 located at the Gurdon lumber and plywood operations.

U.S. COALITION WEIGHS ACTION Upon the expiration of the year-long “standstill period” which followed the expiration of the 2006-2015 U.S.Canada Softwood Lumber

Agreement, the U.S. Lumber Coalition stated that its members are now able to seek enforcement of existing U.S. trade laws “to offset the harmful effects of subsidized Canadian imports.”

The United States has sought to engage Canada on substantive negotiations for a new agreement for three years, part of which included extending the outdated 2006 agreement for two years, to allow for negotiations to yield a new agreement before the expiration of the standstill period, the Coalition stated. “The Coalition sincerely appreciates the hard work that the U.S. Government is doing on behalf of the entire U.S. industry and its workers to try to bring about an effective agreement to manage the harmful effects caused by subsidized Canadian lumber trade.”

During the standstill period members of the U.S. Lumber Coalition had committed not to file petitions under the U.S. trade laws.

The Coalition states that it continues to strongly support the objective of a new trade agreement identified in the June 29, 2016 Joint Statement

by President Obama and Prime Minister Trudeau.

“To date, Canada has continued to insist on frameworks that are inconsistent with the joint statement,” the Coalition stated. “With the expiration of the standstill and no agreement attained, the Coalition has no choice but to move to initiate trade cases against unfairly traded imports from Canada at the most effective time. The U.S. lumber industry’s overarching goal is to restore an environment in which it can invest and grow to its natural size

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NEWSFEED without being impaired by unfairly traded imports.”

The Coalition says its members are united in opposition to Canada’s unfair lumber trade practices, including the “gross underpricing of timber on governmentowned lands.”

On October 21 The U.S. Coalition welcomed a letter from 24 U.S. Senators expressing appreciation for the Administration’s efforts to obtain a new softwood lumber trade agreement. The letter, co-sponsored by Sens. Wyden (D-OR) and Crapo (R-ID), supports the commitment made by President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau in their June Joint Statement to seek a new agreement with “an appropriate structure, designed to maintain Canadian exports at or below an agreed U.S. market share to be negotiated.”

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The Senators express concern that since President Obama and Prime Minister Trudeau announced this shared goal, the Canadian government has been unwilling to put forth or seriously consider frameworks consistent with that statement, whereas the U.S. government has submitted detailed frameworks to the Canadian government that would establish an agreement consistent with the terms of the Joint Statement.

In September members of the U.S. House of Representatives also wrote a letter advocating the negotiation of a new agreement. The letter, co-sponsored by Reps. DeFazio (D OR) and Zinke (R MT), states that border measures against subsidized and unfairly traded lumber imports are critical for the U.S. lumber industry because Canadian timber is heavily

subsidized and sold or contracted at pennies on the dollar compared to the free market, competitive pricing of U.S. timber of comparable quality.

The House letter highlights that without an effective agreement to counter this subsidy, Canadian trade practices would yield ever increasing market shares for Canadian product and producers, displacing and harming U.S. manufacturers, mill workers, loggers and many local businesses and jobs in their communities.

The letter underlined the importance of any new agreement being designed to maintain Canadian exports at or below an agreed U.S. market share.

In October 2006, the U.S.Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) came into effect and terminated more

than 20 legal disputes. The SLA expired in October 2015. That agreement terminated U.S. collection of countervailing and antidumping duties on Canadian softwood lumber, and forced Canada to impose taxes and quantitative restrictions on lumber exports to the U.S. The agreement gave Canadian provinces two options: pay a straight, ascending export tax of up to 15% depending on the level of composite lumber prices from U.S. $355/MBF and lower— as prices dropped the export charge increased; or pay a smaller ascending percentage of export tax based on those same price configurations while maintaining levels of market shares of U.S. lumber consumption.

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PLANNING

FORSUCCESS By Jay Donnell

Dempsey Wood Products makes improvements and has plans for more upgrades in the immediate future.

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ORANGEBURG, SC empsey Wood Products has begun a series of improvements at its sawmill here that will bring lumber drying and planing in-house and offer more kiln dried capacity to go along with its longstanding construction timbers, pallet stock and chips production.

The 28-year-old operation, which was once 100% hardwood, is now all about southern yellow pine, and production could vault to more than 70MMBF this

Logs are slashed ahead of the drum debarker.

year, according to Parker Dempsey, a fourth generation lumberman.

DWP has started to invest some major capital into its operation and the first big

project, completed in early spring, was an upgrade of its primary breakdown on the optimized canter production line.

This included scanning-optimization,

It’s knuckleboom city for log separations at respective infeeds.

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Numbered photos show sequential process of new Cone Omega optimized sharp chain canter line.

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Ronald Dempsey, left, and Parker Dempsey

DWP has long been a major paper chips producer.

Since 2000, DWP had been running a CAE Newnes SL 3000 line to process 8 ft. and 10 ft. logs coming from the drum debarker line.

The system consisted of two canter sections to produce four-sided cants and timbers.

In late 2015, DWP decided to replace the front section with a Cone Omega “Tru-Position” sharp chain line. It would fit into the existing footprint nicely with some modifiEdward Roe, pallet lumber sales & production manager; Michael Blankenship, quality control cations at the log infeed area. Nelmanager & cant production manager son Brothers was brought in to provide the optimization and controls, not only on the new first section but on the existing second section as well, which remained the CAE system. Today the Cone Omega section produces two-sided cants (using Key Knife chip heads), followed by the original CAE system, which chips the other two sides to create the four-sided cant or timber.

One feature of the new section is the Cone Omega linear motion log Left to right, Michael Gulley, general manager; turner, a quad roll turner with high Curt Hall, head reman supervisor; Bubba Hall, mill speed hydraulics for faster turning manager; Mike Cocke, supply purchasing, safety speeds. manager, and human resources; Roy Kiser, In the Tru-Position system the Omega canter production line supervisor. Not sharp chain extends almost all of the shown, office staff and longtimer Cherie Stover way back to the log turner, so that and Melody Summers. instantly after being turned, the log PLC controls, log turner, positioning sys- is positioned by a series of centering rolls tem, sharp chain and slant canter heads. and is immediately impaled on the sharp “The project went really well and we chain and thus stabilized for scanning, alwere only down for two weeks,” lowing little or no unintentional log Dempsey says. “Anytime you stop promovement as it enters the chipping area. duction like that it puts pressure on things Tear-out of the old equipment began to get it back going as quick as you can. It at the beginning of February when was a busy first part of the year and now DWP shutdown the line. Niaco Conwe’re in the fine-tuning stage.” struction of Orangeburg was the me16

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chanical contractor. All of the electrical work was done in house ahead of the shutdown. The concrete and steel work was completed prior to the shutdown as well. The first logs were running through in mid-February.

“We tried to have as much done ahead of time to limit the downtime,” Dempsey says. “The project took extensive planning and preparation. I felt we went into the project as prepared as possible, which paid off during the shutdown.”

Today, the system runs 9,500 logs in a single 10.5 hour shift, with feed speeds near 400 FPM. The upgrade increased the piece count from 12-14 logs per minute to 18-20 logs per minute.

With the improved scanning, log rotation and positioning, DWP makes a better timber/cant with very little wane while also squeezing out larger cants. The better cant quality has helped reduce downfall at both the cutup plants for pallet parts and at the planer mill. Dempsey says they’re considering how to upgrade the secondary breakdown to recover side lumber with a gang box and either a profiler or edger or both. They’d also like the ability to take advantage of high grading some 5⁄4x6 decking lumber. But in the meantime they’re in the process of purchasing a dry kiln and setting up a planer operation.

DWP has recently purchased a Yates A20 planer and associated equipment as a complete planer mill The business is looking at several different dry kiln manufacturers and they hope to have the new kiln up and running in early spring. The kiln is going to be a 68 ft. double track direct fired natural gas kiln. “We’re in the process of get-

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ting our kiln permit and hopefully we’ll hear something pretty soon,” Dempsey explains. “We have people contract drying and dressing 4x4s, 4x6s, and 6x6s for us right now.”

The new dry kiln will add drying capacity to what DWP is currently marketing. KD timbers will be the primary point of focus. “With the increase of production from the Omega line, we have more lumber to sell than before,” Dempsey explains. “The extra drying capacity will give us flexibility and get us into some new markets for the extra production.”

BACKGROUND Parker’s great-grandfather, Paul Dean, started out with portable ground sawmills around 1940. He later installed a permanent stationary mill and was later joined by his son, Robert Dean, and Parker’s grandfather, Parker Dempsey.

The business, Dean-Dempsey Lumber Company, thrived over the years into two grade hardwood mills, a pine sawmill, and several satellite chip mills.

Dean-Dempsey Lumber sold to Stone Container in 1983. Parker Dempsey stayed on and served as vice president of

Cooper scragg line for larger logs

Stone’s Solid Wood Products Division.

Young Parker’s dad, Ronald, worked in the family business and then with Stone Container. He ventured out on his own in 1988, at age 28, and started Dempsey Wood Products. The company started out as a 100% hardwood mill, merchandising hardwood logs out of

pulpwood and cutting cross ties and pallet cants, in addition to manufacturing chips with a PSI drum debarker system.

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Right now it’s all about timbers and cants for DWP.

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Ronald is 58 today, assisted by his son, Parker, 31, who started working for DWP in 2007 after graduating from the University of South Carolina. Growing up, he helped cruise timber and gained experience learning from timber buyers about procuring and harvesting timber.

“I’m very fortunate to have been around the industry all my life learning from my dad, grandfather and several others,” he notes.

Parker started working full time when the industry became mired in gut-wrenching recession. “We made a lot of tough decisions and some pretty significant changes to do what we had to do to survive,” he says. He adds that around 2012 business started coming back, benefited by a variety of products for different markets, such as pallet cants, pallet cut stock, and timbers.

“We had very loyal customers and wood suppliers that hung in there with us during the tough times,” Dempsey recalls. “We also had many key employees within the operation really step up to keep things going without much of an operating budget. It was a very satisfying feeling to have all of this support during the challenging times and I feel that it strengthened our company from within and with the people we do business with.”

OPERATIONS DWP procures most logs from within 40-60 miles. They currently buy heavy to CNS and also a percentage of pine sawtimber.

DWP has an 84 ft. Fulghum crane that unloads log trucks and feeds the mill.

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Logs are brought up to a 72 in. cutoff saw for slashing ahead of the PSI drum debarker. Logs are picked out as they exit the drum for the small log and large log lines with Caterpillar 519 knucklebom loaders. DWP runs a Precision chipper at the chip mill. The operation produces 200,000 tons annually of chips going to the paper industry.

The smaller/medium sized logs go through the new Cone Omega system.

Larger logs go to a Cooper end dogging scragg that was updated two years ago. Cants from each primary breakdown run through the same trimmer.

The two production lines combined run a total of 11,000 pieces in a single 10.5 hour shift.

Before the trimmer a tipple system tipples out some of the smaller cants, which meet with slabs off of the scragg and go to the pallet lumber production area. A pallet stock recovery line runs a Brewer multi trim saw and Storti R35 vertical arbor gang along with an Automated Industrial Technologies M2L stacker. A reman plant where a higher volume of pallet cut parts are produced runs a Brewer multi-trim saw, Brewer gang, and Brewer notchers along with AIT TS300 stacker. Both pallet production lines were updated with new equipment within the last couple of years.

In the sorter they’re either banding up cants to sell in the industrial markets, banding up 4x4s, 4x6s, and 6x6s for dry kilns, or sorting cants to go into inventory for the reman plant.

DWP has a Pierce lumber stacker that they’ll be setting up in the next couple of months in preparation for the dry kiln.

A new Cat 930K wheel loader works the ground along with a Taylor forklift.

The company used to operate its own trucking fleet, but they now contract to many different companies.

DWP employs 85-90. The sawmill has a single shift while the reman plant runs a double shift. They have a night maintenance crew during the week and also do maintenance on Friday afternoons and Saturdays. “The Omega upgrade has increased overall production while decreasing overtime,” Dempsey says.

DWP has many employees that have been with the company for more than 15 years and some more than 25. Several are third generation employees dating back to the Dean-Dempsey days. “We’ve been very blessed with great people,” Dempsey says. “It’s going to be tough to replace them when they retire and we have to find new employees. We’re going to have to change the way we go about doing that. I think there are creative ways to go about finding them.”

BUSINESS HEALTH Parker Dempsey says one of the best things that could have happened to him, as far as gaining experience, was starting in 2007 during some lean times. “I still have a lot to learn, but I feel like I learned a lot more than I would have if things would have been easy,” he reflects. “I think those times stick pretty heavy in people’s minds and people have learned how to be more lean in how they operate.”

The new projects are helping the business become more efficient and productive and the company is starting to see the benefits. “We have great mill managers and key personnel and there’s a really good flow of communication,” Dempsey says. “We’ve formed very good relationships with our sales customers and also on the procurement end on the timber side. We have developed consistent long-term business. We work hard to produce a high quality product with consistent, good service.”

The company has also worked diligently the past several years not only to enhance its safety program, but to establish a new culture of safety, loss prevention and housekeeping.

When asked to describe the position and health of DWP today, Dempsey says, “It’s better than it ever has been.”

Dempsey quotes his grandfather, Parker Dempsey, who passed away October 10, 2015, on something that still holds true for them today: “The good Lord has blessed us beyond anything we could ask or hope: great family, good health, lots of friends, and fulfillment beyond our imagination.”

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BIGSHOW The Timber Processing & Energy Expo confirmed that sawmill capital expenditures are keeping on.

PORTLAND, Ore. “I did spend a bit of time there for the first time in several years and was impressed with the quality/quantity of vendors and new ideas. We are always interested in grade scanning, process control and general optimization developments. I look forward to the next show.

—Northwest lumberman

Attendees represented hundreds of mill operations.

“I found the show very worthwhile and was surprised with how well attended it was. The opportunity for face-toface contact with the network of people I interact with in the industry is invaluable.”—Southeast lumberman

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bout 1,600 industry (nonexhibitor) personnel, representing 110 forest products producer companies and hundreds of individual mill site operations, attended the third Timber Processing & Energy Expo held September 28-30 at the Portland Exposition Center.

The event, produced by Hatton-Brown Expositions, LLC—an affiliate of Hatton-Brown Publishers, Inc., Timber Processing and Panel World magazines— caters to primary producers of lumber, veneer-plywood and engineered wood products.

“Attendance from the mills was up about 10% from 2014, which we thought was solid considering the number of mill

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In-discussion over USNR’s ElectraTong lug loader

closures and consolidations in the Northwest during the past two years,” comments Show Director Rich Donnell.

About 1,100 exhibitor personnel were also in attendance. (Total registration was 3,000—1,800 non-exhibitor and 1,200 exhibitor, but as is typical about 10% of free

pre-registration were no-shows.)

Attendees from 39 U.S. states, six Canadian provinces, and 20 countries besides the U.S. and Canada came to view 225 exhibitor companies on 60,000 sq. ft. of booth space.

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more room to work with,” says Donnell, referring to the event’s move into Hall E on the expo grounds from its previous location next door in Hall D. “Hall E is a third larger than Hall D was, and this allowed us to put in a large Beer Garden for people to sit down and relax in, and overall just more space to move around in between the exhibits.”

The technology was everywhere and more big machinery was showcased than in previous events. It also included for the first time German and Italian pavilions featuring exhibitors from those countries.

“We are currently working New technology was everywhere. on Capex for next year,” comments Chuck Morgan, general manager at SYP producer Suwannee Lumber in Florida.

“I was looking for equipment in the sawmill and planer mill— graders, gang, profiler, infeed etc., really for informational and budgetary purposes. The show was nice and informational. It is good to see many of the industry suppliers in one location and offers much more opportunity for exposure to other products or ‘brands’ than we currently use.”

Former Timber Processing Man of the Year, Jim Quinn, now Chairman of the Board and acting CEO of White Mountain Oleson Saw had plenty to show off.

Apache Timber Co. in Arizona, was making the rounds.

“The White Mountain Apache Timber Company is pretty far behind on technology and basically we need to replace our small log mill and include mechanical sorting on the next one. We also need a sorter for the Stetson Ross planer and we may want to do some mechanization in the log yard,” Quinn says.

Quinn notes that the Tribe has more than 700,000 acres of very nice ponderosa pine. They currently operate a double cut headrig and a single cut headrig in the large log mill, and an aging double length infeed sys- It was all about knives and chip heads at Andritz. haeuser had 98 in attendance; Sierra-Patem in the small log mill. The mill opercific Industries, 66; Hampton, 46. Stimates two planer lines. son Lumber, Alta Forest Products, Many forest products companies and Seneca, Idaho Forest Group, Roseburg mills encouraged mill management and and several other companies also sent operators to attend TP&EE. Weyer-

large contingents.

Mike Pederson, president and CEO of Alta Forest Products, which operates several sawmills in the Northwest, said they attended for two reasons.

One was to meet with an exhibitor to review the latest upgrades in automated planer grading. “But the main reason, and the reason for so many of our people there, is that I like to get our people away from the plant to see what is new and innovative within our industry.

The show in Portland is a great venue for that,” Pederson says.

“Attendance from the Northwest U.S. and Western Canada was strong as we expected,” Donnell comments. “But I was pleased by so many representatives from mills in the Southeast and up into Maine.”

Most exhibitors found that most attendees were upbeat and had investments in mind. Several machines had “sold” signs on them, such as a Gilbert planer going to Seneca Sawmill, a Samuel packaging system to Sierra-Pacific and a Corley carriage to Canfor-Beadles.

“The level of optimism was striking,” comments Joey Nelson, president of JoeScan. “It has taken a long time for the industry to recover. Now that mills are on stronger footing, there are a lot of opportunities to make solid investments in improving the productivity and efficiency of their operations.”

JoeScan introduced a sixlaser, high-density carriage scanner, the JS-25 X6B. “The show was great. We were very happy with the quality and quantity of attendees and exhibitors,” comments Jesse Vigil, president and CEO of Metal Detectors Inc. “The Portland Expo Center is a perfect venue, and the show floor was very spacious. We really liked the wide aisles and spacing of the booths.”

MDI emphasized its TWA2000-HD system that is used for scanning whole logs and received a lot of interest in this system from customers and distributors, as well as positive feedback from customers who are already running it in their sawmills.

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Linck was part of the new German Pavilion

Microtec-Springer is feeling at home in the U.S.

Lucidyne participated in the expo and the lumber manufacturing workshop.

Full house for the workshop

The Beer & Brat Garden was abuzz throughout the event.

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Finega Group (MEM) had visitors to its tent in front of the hall.

Scanning was a popular topic.

Familiar companies were on hand.

Simonds had a lot to show off.

A “sold” Corley carriage was on site.

Baxley LogPro had a center position.

Vollmer logo stood out.

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Williams & White booth caught people’s attention.

Connexus showed a multitude of products.

Samuel unit was en route to a Sierra Pacific mill.

Optimil was always busy.

Gilbert planer had people crawling all over it.

Signode and International Bar Coding emphasized their partnership.

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makers in attendance,” Vigil adds. “We drew customers from many parts of the U.S. as well as Canada. Everyone seemed very upbeat and optimistic with the amount of building that is currently going on. Lumber suppliers need quality equipment in order to meet market demand.

There seems to be a positive outlook throughout the industry.”

Spriinger Microtec CTO Norvin Laudon says the event confirmed what he had Registration desk workers had to be on top of their game. thought going into it. “Two years ago we were relative newcomers USNR also hosted a popular tent and unknown, and this year pretty much eatery in front of the expo hall. everyone who came knew who we are Andritz showed its new powerheads and what we do.” (solid canter heads for primary and secMicrotec set up its Goldeneye 900 ondary canters) and its new Drum Style multisensor board scanner and Springer Chip-N-Saw heads for four-sided canters screw feeder as well as a miniature of the and profiler machines, as well as its new E-Cut board trimmer.

Turnknife System 4 for sawmill chip“Despite the looming softwood lumpers. ber agreement uncertainty, I got the im“This is the same knife system we pression the market is strong and the cus- have been installing in whole log chiptomers were making investments,” pers the past several years and we are Laudon adds. “There were many cusnow applying this technology and tomers who came to the booth, and some knowledge to sawmill chippers,” comwill develop into solid projects.” ments Bill Beck, North American USNR attracted considerable attention sawmill manager. “We are seeing outwith its large booth that featured four standing performance of this knife sysvertically standing pieces of cross-lamitem on sawmill chippers all over North nated timber, each with one of the U-SAmerica.”

N-R letters sawn out. The company also Beck says they had several very good emphasized its all-electric lumber hanconversations with potential new cusdling equipment, displaying the Electratomers. “Everyone is doing good right Tong Lug Loader and the Multi-Track now. The Canadians are worried about Fence, of which more than 100 have sold the SLA expiring and what is going to since its inception several years ago. happen to tariffs, duties, quotas, etc., but A CamShift 600 Cambio debarker, they operated for years under an agreenew to the North American market, was ment and prospered. Mills in the U.S. are also on display. The system combines marching forward with upgrades.” debarking and flare reducing in a single, BID Group and its range of companies modular machine.

“A major benefit of the CamShift is a significant reduction in the consumption of oil and air,” comments Sonia Perrine, senior marketing associate. “Setup and tool changes are a breeze with its modular, pull-out design. Variations accommodate minimum log length and top or butt-end feeding.”

Perrine felt they definitely had some good potential customers as well as existing ones visit the booth. “The election has people on a merry-go-round that has put a few buying decisions on hold. It is clear that the industry is interested in doing things, if the politics are faKobe Bearings held a drawing. vorable.”

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presented three new products, including the Miller planer, McGehee profiling machine and the new generation of GradExpert.

“For us it is very important to show new products as it reflects our continuous work to improve actual products and offer new products to the market,” comments Anne-Marie Levesque, marketing manager. “Our executive team stays focused on innovation and research & development.”

Levesque says there was very high-quality people in attendance and many of those people were looking for short- and mid-term investments, upgrading their mill and operations to keep up the pace with the market.

“The feeling of this show was great,” Levesque adds. “We feel the industry is alive and is looking forward for the good years of business to come.”

During the show BID Group organized tours of the SDS Lumber planer mill at Bingen, Wash. This is a new turnkey installation that started up two months ago. “We brought about 50 customers there, so that confirms that people are looking for serious investment and wanted to check on this first-hand.”

WORKSHOPS One of BID Group’s newer members, Ron McGehee, also spoke during the Lumber Manufacturing Workshop held on the second day of the show.

McGehee’s talk on The Latest Profiling Technologies was one of 17 presentations during the Lumber Manufacturing Workshop, which had simultaneous sessions going on in adjacent rooms.

Two-hundred people attended the workshops, bouncing from one room to the other, though most of them gathered for McGehee’s presentation.

McGehee noted early in his talk that the objective of his profiling system is to improve productivity and recovery and reduce manufacturing costs. He pointed to a reduction of costs of $25/MBF in recent projects, an increase in production up to 25% and an increase in recovery of up to 3% in some mills.

He said the installation of the profiler means production is not limited by the edger anymore (up to 60% less boards going to the edger); most of the products from

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the gang are finished, and there’s less downtime.

Profiling on a solid piece of wood like a cant at slower speed (600 FPM max) showed with time that edging accuracy is better than an edger going at 1200 FPM, McGehee stated. A typical payback on the profiler in a 150MMBF mill is just under eight months, he added.

McGehee said there are two typical arrangements: as a standard profiler, for gangs fed by belt conveyor by centering chain systems; and as an infeed profiler, for gangs fed by a centering chain system and where space is limited, with the unit replacing the existing curve-saw infeed module.

The profiler includes disc chipping heads for the surface finish, independent profiling heads with infinite positioning, and skew and slew movement.

Yvan Rainville, vice-president sales and marketing for Autolog, addressed the company’s new modular scanner frame and also split & shake detection at the trimmer optimizer, using 3D identification.

He cited a case study at Tolko Lakeview on a 20 ft. trimmer optimizer with a “conservative payback of salvaged volume of approximately $168,000/year,” and additional savings of $6,000 in drying costs, as well as increased performance at the planer, reduced blockage in downstream sorter and stacker, and improved sorting of high grade products at the sawmill.

He also addressed Autolog’s unsound wood detection system, pointing to positive results at Forex on a 16 ft. trimmer optimizer with annual savings of $108,000 for a production of about 100MMBF. Benefits included reduced handling inside and outside the sawmill and increased chip quality, with savings of approximately $6,000 per year due to staying within chip value norm, $36,000 a year due to increased kiln capacity and decreased handling, and $66,000 annually due to increased planer capacity and decreased handling.

Michel Loyet, CEO of Finega Group of France, presented the company’s new MasterTwin 3D end dogging log breakdown system. Prior to the cutting line, each log is scanned by a 360° rotary scanner which scans the full shape of the log during the cutting sequence of the previous log. An optimizer calculates the best sawing axis and cutting pattern in the 3D space based on mill production and value parameters.

Ellen Nelson, chief financial officer of Lucidyne, and Ryan Shear, lead optimization engineer, spoke on their

GradeScan planer mill grader and said customers start seeing ROI in less than eight months while improving the consistency and overall quality of lumber.

They noted that its compact lineal design means that most mills make very few changes to their existing line, and installs in just two weekends with little or no downtime. They also addressed the GradeScan True-Q lumber tracking system, and warp detection.

They emphasized the GradeScan’s tracheid sensor and T3 sensor. “If you can’t see knots behind blue stain, you don’t

have a Lucidyne GradeScan,” Nelson said.

With regard to the system optimization, Nelson said, “Here’s a great story: The sales manager at one of our customers’ locations came into the mill and said that he had customer demand for a niche product. He asked how long it would take for the mill to start making it.

Without a moment’s hesitation, the mill manager said, ‘Come back after lunch.’

That’s flexibility.”

Look for continuing coverage of the workshop in future issues of Timber Processing.

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THE SHOW WAS IN THE SETUP While the more than 220 exhibitor displays during Timber Processing & Energy Expo were very impressive, what was very remarkable was the effort put forth by exhibitors during setup prior to the show. Some exhibitors had greater challenges than others. Exhibitor patience was a virtue not underappreciated by show organizers. But when the lights came on the first morning of the show—NIRVANA!

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Nordic Structures Joins American Wood Council Nordic Structures, headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, has joined the American Wood Council (AWC). The company is dedicated to engineered wood products for the construction industry, with more than 50 years of experience in the industry. Nordic Structures manufactures

cross-laminated timber (CLT), gluedlaminated timber (glulam) and I-joists. ”Mass timber technologies have sparked considerable innovation in building construction,” AWC President and CEO Robert Glowinski says. “The products Nordic Structures manufacture are part of a movement to transform our skylines, as many cities in Europe and Canada are already doing and are now

planned for the U.S. We are excited to have Nordic Structures join over 50 other wood products companies supporting AWC’s efforts on behalf of wood products manufacturers.”

American Wood Council reports that it represents more than 75% of an industry that provides approximately 400,000 family-wage jobs in the U.S. Staff experts develop state-of-the-art engineering data, technology and standards for wood products to assure their safe and efficient design, as well as provide information on wood design, green building and environmental regulations. AWC also advocates for balanced government policies that affect wood products.

Morbark Appoints Herr As CEO Morbark, a leading manufacturer of equipment used in forestry, recycling, tree care, landscaping, sawmill and biomass markets, announced the appointment of David Herr as Chief Executive Officer. In addition to being an active member of the current Morbark Board, he brings extensive knowledge from experience with both products and services companies. He replaces Dan Ruskin, who resigned due to health issues.

“The Board is thankful for Dan’s leadership over the past six months as the Company has transitioned to the next phase in its development,” says Ray Whiteman, Chairman of the Board. “Our thoughts are with Dan and his family, and we wish him a speedy recovery.

“Morbark is fortunate to have a strong and deep leadership team and Board, and we are pleased that David Herr has agreed to step into the CEO role,” Whiteman adds. “We have known Dave for many years and have been impressed by his track record of building high-performing leadership teams that drive growth while respecting core values.”

Herr is an accomplished industry executive with more than 30 years of experience in operations, supply chain management and executive management with major companies, including Navistar, GE Aircraft Engines and BAE Systems. He has diverse experience in the areas of heavy-duty truck manufacturing, commercial avionics, commercial ship repair, munitions production, and information and intelligence analysis. In his most recent role as executive vice president at BAE Systems, he was responsible for one of the largest government service sectors 42

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He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from St. Francis College, in Fort Wayne, Ind., and Master of Business Administration degree from Northern Kentucky University. He will be relocating from Ft. Wayne to Morbark headquarters in Winn, Mich. in the near future.

“Morbark has built a great reputation with its customers and partners. I look forward to moving from a Board position to leverage my operational experience to further grow the Morbark franchise,” Herr says.

Temporary Workers Not Forgotten Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently renewed its alliance with the American Staffing Assn. with the goal of protecting temporary employees from workplace hazards.

“It is part of our mission to make sure that at the end of every work shift, all temporary workers in the United States are able to go home safely to their families,” says Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Dr. David Michaels. “Through our continued alliance with the ASA, we will increase outreach to staffing agencies and host employers and provide information and education that is essential to protecting temporary workers.”

During the five-year agreement, OSHA and ASA will continue to educate workers about their rights, and train staffing firms and their clients on their responsibilities to protect workers under the Occupational Safety and Health Act. The partners will work together to distribute information on how to recognize and prevent workplace hazards, and to further develop ways of communicating such to staffing firms, host employers and temporary workers.

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Woodgrain Millwork Buys HewSaw Line

Woodgrain Millwork of Fruitland, Idaho has purchased a HewSaw SL250

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2.2 sawline for its facility in Emmett, Idaho. The new HewSaw line will process multiple products from 10 ft. to 16 ft. log lengths of pine and fir species.

The Emmett area has a long history

with the wood products industry, starting with a sawmill that operated from the early 1900s until the early 2000s. The current mill started operations in 2009 as a small log, stud mill. Woodgrain purchased the mill early this year, processed the existing inventory, and have now curtailed production and started upgrading the plant.

The Emmett sawmill facility will reopen when the new HewSaw starts up in late spring of 2017. Woodgrain Millwork will hire 40 to 50 production and administration employees for the mill, and they estimate another 50 harvesting and trucking jobs will be created in the woods.

The HewSaw will produce high value products which will be further processed into molding and millwork products, wooden doors and windows, which Woodgrain will sell throughout North America.

“The HewSaw will provide us with maximum flexibility, a high quality lumber finish suitable for millwork production and the ability to shift between species with the push of a button,” explains Bob Shaw, General Manager of Woodgrain Millwork. “We don’t run your typical structural lumber dimensions or lumber patterns and the HewSaw fits our needs very well with its six shifting saws in the ripsaw and the ability to easily change wane allowances to help us to meet all of the possible customer requests we receive for millwork products.”

The company will use the new HewSaw SL250 2.2 line to process logs up 15 in. in diameter while those greater in diameter will be handed off to a carriage line. The

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MACHINERYROW HewSaw features a log rotator/positioner followed by four-sided chipping (producing a curved four-sided cant) and then a cant saw, which removes two edged side boards. The center cant is then turned and re-scanned before going through the ripsaw (double arbor horizontal 10 in. gang) where the center stack is processed and four edged side boards can be removed.

Downstream edging is not required for any products processed by the HewSaw, according to the company.

“We are very pleased to be starting up our Emmett facility and we are excited to be working with HewSaw on this project,” Shaw adds. “HewSaw is delivering a very efficient sawline that will help us achieve our goals in terms of productivity and quality. We are also thrilled to get this plant operational again and to provide valuable jobs to the local community here in Emmett.”

Woodgrain Millwork consists of Woodgrain Millwork, Woodgrain Doors, Woodgrain Distribution, and Windsor Doors and Windows. The corporation has been in business since 1954 and has operations in North America and South America.

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Microtec CEO Shares Wallenberg Prize

The Marcus Wallenberg Prize for outstanding scientific achievements in the wood processing industry was awarded

by King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden to mathematician and University of Central Florida Professor Alexander Katsevich and Microtec CEO Federico Giudiceandrea during a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden in October.

“I am overwhelmed by this honor and would like to thank the foundation for

Giudiceandrea and the King of Sweden

this award. The groundbreaking possibilities created by the CT Log in the woodworking industry are most likely the greatest achievement in my career as an entrepreneur,” comments Giudiceandrea.

“The introduction of this new technology marks the beginning of a new era for the sawmill industry. The groundbreaking research and innovative implementation have opened new horizons, facilitating further optimization of the sawing process,” comments Marcus Wallenberg, chairman of the board of the Marcus Wallenberg Prize.

The Marcus Wallenberg Prize recognizes, encourages and stimulates pathbreaking scientific achievements, which contribute significantly to broadening knowledge and to technical development within the fields of importance to forestry and forest industries.

Katsevich and Giudiceandrea receive SEK 2 million for their work.

The scanning of roundwood has made online optimization of log usage in the sawmilling process possible. Knots, resin pockets, tree rings, cracks and rot can be identified before the timber is sawn. The

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Computed tomography is an imaging technology that produces three-dimensional representations of objects, based on multiple scans of the object from different directions with penetrating X-ray radiation.

The breakthrough by Katsevich was to find an exact analytical reconstruction algorithm, which is known today as Katsevich’s Algorithm. The algorithm was subsequently further refined not only to solve the cone-beam problem but also to be better suited for situations where fast movement of tree logs is necessary.

Giudiceandrea collaborated with Katsevich in implementing the Katsevich Algorithm with the applications of CT scanning and was ultimately successful in building a prototype. It has been further developed and marketed worldwide. Wood industries in Chile, the U.S., Germany and France have invested in CT scanners to make the most of the roundwood resource.

The log scanner has a band speed of 120 meters per minute to keep pace with modern sawing lines. The best medical scanner has a band speed of 3 meters per minute.

Giudiceandrea graduated in electronics from the University of Padua, Italy, in 1980. His academic background is in bi-dimensional signal filtering. This brought him in contact with the field of artificial vision. The year he graduated he also founded the company Microtec with two associates. In 1995 the company developed an X-ray scanner for sawn timber. The company’s first X-ray scanner for roundwood came in 2007.

Katsevich got his Ph.D. in mathematics at Kansas State University in 1994.

He worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation of the USSR Academy of Sciences between 1988 and 1990. Between 1996 and 2002 he was a Postdoc Fellow at Los Alamos National laboratory. From 1996 to 2008 he was an assistant and then associate professor at the Mathematics Department of University of Central Florida, and has since 2008 been a full professor there.

Since 2011 he has also served as CTO of iTomography Corp., which he co-founded to develop and commercialize new and existing CT technologies.

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MACHINERYROW tional Bar Coding (IBC) have formed a partnership that should enhance Signode’s position in wood products printing and bar coding while significantly expanding IBC’s reach into North American wood products mills.

The partnership is expected to increase Signode’s position in being a one vendor solution, while growing its market share in wood products utilizing IBC’s label applicators and printer applicators.

The new partnership broadens the tools that Signode offers wood products customers and acts as a catalyst for further advanced research and development at IBC, while driving scale and efficiency in both partners’ respective supply chains.

“As the leader in innovation for the wood products industry it was imperative we partnered with a company that could

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provide reliable and innovative solutions that our customers have come to expect from Signode,” comments Robin Deering, Director of Business Development, Signode Canada.

“IBC was attracted to the Signode/IBC partnership because of Signode’s long standing reputation for quality products, superior customer service, and customer relationships. These are all critical focuses of IBC since it was established 23 years ago,” says IBC President Chris Pedersen.

SFPA Expo Continues To Add Space A recent surge in exhibit space sales has filled 90% of the original floor plan for the 34th Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Exposition—Expo 2017—

sponsored by Southern Forest Products Assn. (SFPA). The floor plan is now larger by another 8,000 square feet for this event, set for June 14-16 at Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center. The expansion grows the show to a total of just more than 54,000 sq. ft. More than 100 companies had contracted space to exhibit as of September.

“We had only about 2,200 square feet of exhibit space remaining so we’ve opened up additional exhibit areas,” notes Exposition Director Eric Gee. “Our recent trade advertising and direct mail campaigns have generated plenty of interest in the show, supporting plans to expand the floor plan.”

Complete details about Expo 2017, including the exhibit space application, the floor plan and a list of companies already

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Also contact Eric Gee at 504-443-4464 (option 3), or e-mail egee@sfpa.org.

Salem Names Zeamer As General Manager Salem Equipment has named Daniel Zeamer as its new General Manager.

Zeamer brings 17 years of business finance experience in the manufacturing and forest product industries.

For the past eight years Zeamer has served as the chief financial officer and general manager of Banks Lumber, a high capacity dimension sawmill in Banks, Ore. Zeamer succeeds Bob Nix, Salem’s general manager for the past eight years, who retired in August 2016, capping off a successful 37-year career.

As Salem Equipment looks to refresh its product line in the next year, Zeamer’s extensive experience in sawmill operations will drive Salem Equipment to add more value to its products while shortening the return on investment cycle of new Salem Equipment solutions.

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SpecSys Purchases Former Prentice Plant

A Minnesota-based company reports it completed the acquisition of a heavy equipment factory in Prentice, Wis. formerly owned by Caterpillar.

SpecSys Inc. (Specialty Systems), a contract engineering and manufacturing company headquartered in Montevideo, Minn., bought the plant as part of its ongoing strategy to seek rurally located manufacturing operations, according to CEO Kevin Wald.

SpecSys provides 40,000 hours of manufacturing services and 5,000 hours of engineering services each month.

“You are hard pressed to find a major equipment manufacturer in the world that we do not have an existing relationship with,” Wald says.

At 220,000 sq. ft., the Prentice plant is a “nice step up in capacity,” Wald says.

“The values you find in a rural work force have been a cornerstone of our companies from day one.”

SpecSys intends to start producing forestry products machines in Prentice but

hopes to also manufacture equipment for mining, agriculture, railroad and energy companies.

The plant was founded in 1945 by Leo Heikkinen and produced the Prentice hydraulic loader.

Wald’s parent company Ritalka, supports other companies and government agencies. SpecSys, one of the Ritalka’s subsidiaries, now has 275 workers and 700,000 sq. ft. of facilities in eight sites in Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

“We in the village of Prentice are extremely happy and proud of RitalkaSpecSys operations purchasing the Prentice Cat operations,” says Prentice Industrial Development Corp. President Dale Heikkinen. “We want to thank the Wald family for considering Prentice.”

Polish LVL Firm Orders New Line Steico Społka z o.o., A Polish subsidiary of the German timber construction systems and wood fiber insulation manufacturer, Steico SE, has ordered laminated veneer lumber equipment valued at

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MACHINERYROW EUR 17.5 million from Raute Corp.

The equipment will be Steico’s second LVL line delivered to Steico’s LVL mill in Czarna Woda, Poland. The machinery includes a veneer drying line, dry veneer grading, composing and scarfing lines as well as LVL layup line, prepress and hot press.

This order is related to the second phase of the LVL manufacturing project, which Steico and Raute initiated in June 2014.

The equipment ordered under the first phase of that project was delivered, installed and the mill started up in late summer 2015, with LVL production being ramped up during the winter of 2015/2016.

Total annual capacity of Steico’s LVL mill will be 160,000 m3 when the new line is in full production, doubling the LVL capacity installed during the first phase.

Raw material for Steico’s LVL will be mostly Polish grown pine, which has proven to provide good technical characteristics for structural LVL. The full scale production of the future LVL mill is planned to be reached by mid-2018.

WoodMac China Postponed For 2017 Organizers of WoodMac China—China National Forestry Machinery Assn., China International Exhibitions Ltd. and Deutsche Messe—announced that WoodMac China and associated events FurniTek and WoodBuild China and Forestry China

scheduled March 7-9, 2017 in Shanghai is postponed until at least 2018.

Citing reasons for the postponement, Brendan Jennings, General Manager for China International Exhibitions, states, “The slowdown of the Chinese economy generally and specifically the fall in new house and apartment building have had an adverse effect on the market for wood products used in building and furniture manufacturing and consequently demand for woodworking technology.”

He adds that the organizers want to preserve the reputation of the WoodMac China brand as a quality exhibition for new and innovative technology. “This is best achieved when the market returns to a growth phase.”

WoodMac China has served the Chinese market for woodworking technology since 1995. Organizers will continue to monitor the Chinese economy and reschedule WoodMac China when market conditions improve.

Sawmill 25 Orders 17 Valutec Kilns Valutec has won an order for 17 timber kilns from northeastern Russia’s largest sawmill, Sawmill 25 in Siberian Archangel, which is building a new sawmill plant. The total order value is EUR 4.5 million, which means that the order is one of the largest ever for Valutec.

“We have had a long cooperation with Sawmill 25, which already uses our kilns in its other mills. Long-term customer cooperation is something we at Valutec value highly and it therefore feels especially good that they continue to entrust us with their business,” says Robert Larsson, CEO of Valutec.

The order comprises five progressive FB kilns and a total of 12 E-wagon fed batch kilns. The total drying capacity amounts to 300,000 m3 per year, a volume that corresponds to nearly 19,000 football fields with boards laid side by side. The drying facilities will be used for the drying down of spruce and pine boards and planks, which is also the main product of Sawmill 25. The kilns are also equipped with a total of 130 pressure frames to ensure the quality of the timber packages’ top layer.

“We design and manufacture the kilns and then transport the units by boat to Archangel,” explains Larsson.

The deliveries will begin in the spring and the kilns will be assembled and commissioned before the end of the year.

Sawmill 25 is a part of the Titan Group, which consists of more than 20 companies in the area around Archangel.

Annual sales amount to more than EUR 100 million.

For Valutec, the order is the largest in Russia since the delivery to AsiaLes in the Russian far east nearly two years ago. That delivery was 11 kilns.

TEAM Safe Trucking Picks Up Speed TEAM Safe Trucking (TST), a broadbased, non-profit volunteer group seeking to elevate the standard and performance of the American forest industry’s transportation sector, is moving ahead with its ambitious agenda, according to organizers, who met in early fall to review the progress of TST and to tweak its priorities.

The group launched a web site (teamsafetruck ing.com) in October. The web site is being populated with information and tools designed to help TST reach its objective. Its emerging safety-focused program will embrace awareness and education; driver training, skillset improvement, motivation and recruitment; fleet best management practices; and public image enhancement.

The organization expects to expand its program nationwide as it secures additional funding.

Visit teamsafetrucking.com.

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PRODUCTSCANNER10 MUHLBOCK: SPECIALIST IN DRYING

Mühlböck progressive kiln at Fa. Kohiwood in Finland

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

At the same time the in-house Research and Development department has been constantly developing new technologies in their kilns to ensure the economic success of the Mühlböck customer—through the high quality of the components that are being applied, the fast customer service and the support for questions about the drying process, and the simple and secure operation; and through the potential of high savings in the electrical and thermal energy consumption of the dry kilns.

Mühlböck drying technology has a huge product range, including: • Conventional side loading, fresh air ventilated dry kilns • Continuous kilns, with automated, continuous loading systems (Mühlböck Progressive) • Kilns with heat recovery systems, for considerable savings in thermal energy (Mühlböck Type 1003, Type 603) • Patented kilns with reduced electricity consumption (Mühlböck Type 606) • Combined dry-steam kilns • 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. Along with first-class engineering and processing, there are new developments in 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.

Compared to classical drying kilns, in the progressive dryer the timber is moved through the dryer on transport wagons and thereby exposed to different climatic conditions. Depending on the timber type, dimensions, initial moisture content and the desired final moisture content, the progressive dryer is designed with different climate zones.

QUALITY ALWAYS KEY FOR VALUTEC

Visitors at Valutec’s booth at the TP&EE fair in Portland, Ore. not only got the chance to take a virtual tour inside one of the company’s kilns, they also had the opportunity to learn more about the cutting-edge drying technology that is spreading— from Scandinavia, via central Europe and across the Atlantic to North America.

“A significant driver of our success is the increased focus on quality in every step of the production process,” says Ingo Wallocha, managing director of Valutec Inc., based in Vancouver,

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Valutec’s recent installation at Hasslacher, Austria

Can. “That has opened up new doors.”

Valutec, a family-owned Swedish company with offices in Sweden, Canada, Finland and Russia, has delivered more than 4,000 lumber dry kilns throughout its history. More than 1,000 of the deliveries are continuous kilns.

In the Nordic countries, Valutec is the undisputed market leader and most sawmills have relations with Valutec that started decades ago. But in both Central Europe and in North America it’s a different story, as those are markets where Valutec has intensified their efforts in recent years.

Two Austrian companies that have opted for Valutec kilns are Hasslacher Norica Timber, a manufacturer of glulam beams, and Egger, a global wood-based panel producer.

At Hasslacher’s plant in the Alps, their two new OTC continuous kilns are in full operation. OTC stands for Optimized Twostage Continuous and the kiln has a climate development along the channel’s lengthwise direction. Combining high capacity and quality, the kilns are built in stainless steel, equipped with pressure frames for minimal deformation of the top timber layer, and Valutec’s system for heat recovery. The delivery also included the Valmatics control system.

“We needed to increase the drying capacity and drying quality in terms of precision in moisture content and reduced cracking.

Valutec offered the best complete solution,” says Michael Fercher, technical manager, Hasslacher.

At Egger’s Brilon plant in Germany, Valutec is building a TCkiln with a capacity of 80,000 m3 (34MMBF) side boards per year. The TC-kiln comes with features such as high flexibility and capacity (TC is a Swedish abbreviation for ”cross circulation”).

Egger’s TC-kiln has seven zones, which can be viewed as seven batch kilns joined together by the side walls, but with a feeder track straight through. ”For us, Valutec is a supplier of wood drying technology rather than a supplier of machines,” says Paul Lingemann, CEO at Egger Brilon’s sawmill.

NEW SCAN HEAD FOR CARRIAGES

JoeScan, Inc., a leading manufacturer of 3-D laser scan heads for sawmills, has released the newest scan head in its JS-25 XSeries, the JS-25 X6B. The JS-25 X6B is a high-performance, six-laser scanner, specifically designed for high-density, snapshot scanning of logs on carriage headrigs.

Each JS-25 X6B scan head can be mounted end-to-end to scan any length of log on 6" spacing. The JS-25 X6B was designed to make it easy for optimizers and sawmills to upgrade obsolete carriage scanning systems, often reusing the existing scan frame.

JS-25 X6B requires only 24VDC and an Ethernet connection for operation. The scanner’s Ethernet interface allows the optimizer to communicate directly with the scanner without special hardware.

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8-10—National Wooden Pallet & Container Assn. annual meeting, Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, Tucson, Ariz. Call 703-519-6104; visit palletcentral.com.

9-10—2017 Southeastern Lumber Manufacturers Assn. Spring Meeting and Expo, Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans, La. Call 770-631-6701; visit slma.org.

22-24—Hardwood Manufacturers Assn. 2017 National Conference & Expo, The Francis Marion Hotel, Charleston, SC. Call 412-244-0440; visit hardwoodinfo.com or hmamembers.org.

APRIL 4-6—Kentucky Forest Industries Assn. annual meeting, Embassy Suites, Lexington, Ky. Call 502-695-3979; visit kfia.org.

9-11—American Wood Protection Assn. annual meeting, Encore at Wynn, Las Vegas, Nev. Call 205-733-4077; visit awpa.com.

MAY 5-6—Southeastern Saw Filers Educational Assn. annual meeting, Greensboro, NC. Call 803-243-6677; email glomarsh1956 @gmail.com.

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