Canfor Southern Pine
Profiling performance PROFILING AT THE CURVE SAWING GANG YIELDS SIGNIFICANT FLOW IMPROVEMENTS DOWNSTREAM A recent upgrade at a Southern Yellow Pine mill in Alabama has had a major impact on the mill’s productivity with the addition of profiling incorporated into the mill’s curve sawing gang process. The mill was facing daily bottlenecks at the edger that resulted in backed up lumber decks, hours of overtime work to clear the backlog, and continual maintenance to keep the overworked components operating. Today lumber is flowing and the bottleneck has moved on down the line to the kilns, with a solution in the works to ease that pain as well.
The new system has exceeded all our expectations. We were really hoping our production would increase to 60,000 board feet per hour, but we've blown past that goal.
www.usnr.com | www.se-saws.com | ISSUE 42 | Millwide Insider
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