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NEWSFEED Good Earth Has Big Plans
PORTLAND UPDATE It Has All The Makings
PYRAMID MOUNTAIN Survival Of The Fittest
FLY TIE & LUMBER Hardwood Lumber Big Leagues
PRIMARY BREAKDOWN Some New Technologies
MACHINERY ROW Biewer, Sierra-Pacific Pick Vendors
PRODUCT SCANNER 10 Planer Optimizer Upgrade
COVER: Pyramid Mountain Lumber in Montana keeps plugging along thanks to upgrades like a new edger. Story begins on PAGE 12. (Rich Donnell photo) Inset, Fly Tie & Lumber has its new hardwood sawmill in Mississippi about up to speed. Story begins on PAGE 20. (Jay Donnell photo) VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.timberprocessing.com Member Verified Audit Circulation
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GOOD STORIES FROM HERE TO THERE
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e really like the two sawmill features that appear in this issue because they are distinctly different (and about 2,000 miles from each other). Pyramid Mountain Lumber is the nearly 70-year-old Montana-based operation owned by the Johnson family. Roger Johnson, son of the founder, is still active as president, and his sons, Todd and Steve, manage operations daily, and they have sons who work there—representing the fourth generation. We’ve always wanted to do an article on the company, and have done stories on various operations all around them through the years, but had just never been able to connect to Seeley Lake, which is the location of Pyramid Mountain Lumber. As COO Loren Rose led me around the sawmill, I found it difficult to take my eyes off the nearby mountains and focus on the business at hand. The big difference between a softwood sawmill in the Northwest and one in the Southern U.S. is that in the South there’s sawlog timber usually available to run your sawmill with. Sure, weather conditions come into play, the competition for the timber is a factor, and logging capacity might be an issue, but basically the timber is mostly privately owned and it’s available. In the Northwest, for sawmill operations that don’t own timberland, timber supply is more of a crapshoot, even before you get to the issues of weather, competition and logging capacity. So much of it is owned by the federal government, which doesn’t make much of it available anymore. The state-owned forests are a little more forgiving. And then there are pockets of privately owned timberland that run hot and cold. “Crapshoot” is probably an unfair way to put it, because a company like Pyramid Mountain Lumber is a leader in forest stewardship, landowner relations and environmental activism and has had to be to make sure it maintains its stake in timber access. But as the story on the company that begins on page 12 relates, timber supply is a fickle lifeline and the matter of survival is never underestimated. The story on Fly Tie & Lumber’s new hardwood sawmill in Grenada, Miss. that begins on page 20 caused the memory bank to stir. Is this the same Ricky Fly we had featured in our logging magazine, Southern Loggin’ Times, so many years ago? A quick visit to our “archives” answered in the affirmative. It was the August 1984 issue, and a young Fly was quickly growing his logging business and timber dealership. Thirty years later Fly, who had run a couple of small hardwood mills, has started up the newest hardwood sawmill in the U.S. At 20MMBF of production capacity, it’s one of the larger hardwood sawmills as well and contains an impressive lineup of new machinery and technology. It’s a combination tiesand-lumber mill and does some neat things in the handling and sorting of ties. A rail line and Fly’s own trucking fleet provide transportation support. Obviously Fly’s logging and log procurement experience is greatly beneficial. Here’s to Pyramid Mountain Lumber for keeping on, and to Fly Tie & Lumber for getting going. TP
Contact Rich Donnell, ph: 334-834-1170; fax 334-834-4525; e-mail: rich@hattonbrown.com TIMBER PROCESSING
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NEWSFEED Williams, where GEPAZ had previously indicated intentions for a large mill. GEPAZ says its flagship
GEPAZ PLANS 300MMBF MILL
GEPAZ is planning a new sawmill as it ramps up forest restoration efforts in Arizona.
Good Earth Power AZ reports it is building a state-ofthe-art sawmill with 300MMBF of production capacity, though it didn’t specify where in its recent announcement. GEPAZ currently operates small sawmills in Heber and Williams, Ariz. with a combined production capacity of 40MMBF. The new mill will probably be built in
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mill is in the pre-engineering stage and expects a turnkey project provided by a leading U.S. sawmill equipment manufacturer. Meanwhile GEPAZ has entered into an agreement with International Forest Products for IFP to serve as the exclusive representative for all lumber products from the Arizona mills. IFP has offices and sales
personnel throughout the world and actively markets wood products in more than 80 countries. “The IFP agreement provides certainty on the sales side, which will allow GEPAZ to focus on expanding forest and production capacity, while expediting development of new biomass products,” GEPAZ states. Since September 2013, GEPAZ has had the U.S. Forest Service contract for the restoration of 300,000 acres of heavy ponderosa pine stands over a 10-year period on the Coconino, Kaibab, ApacheSitgreaves and Tonto national forests. The project is known as the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI). As of January, GEPAZ had restored/harvested more than 6,500 acres. It expects to restore more than 16,000 acres in 2016 and move 823,000
tons. It reports expenditures of $23.4 million in the project thus far, with immediate plans to spend another $100 million, the vast majority of it going toward the new sawmill, which it expects to start up in 2017. It is spending more than $4 million in its Lumberjack (Heber) and Williams mills. It wants to increase production capacity at Lumberjack and add bagging lines at Williams. It has also been adding new equipment on it logging jobs.
INTERFOR REFLECTS ON SC RAINS Interfor reports that during the height of the rainstorms from October 1-5, two feet of rain fell in Georgetown County, SC, obviously impacting operations at its sawmill in Georgetown as well as area logging operations, in ➤ 44
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NEWSFEED
THIRD TP&EE WILL BE LARGEST Organizers of the third Timber Processing & Energy Expo announced that indoor exhibit space is 99% sold out. Some space remains outside. Hosted by Timber Processing and Panel World magazines, and produced by Hatton-Brown Expositions, TP&EE will be held September 28-30 at the Portland Exposition Center in Portland, Ore. An early look at the exhibitors list is on pages 10-11. Sold-out exhibitor space in 2014, a waiting list, and generally cramped quarters in the exhibition hall prompted organizers to move the 2016 event into a larger adjacent hall on the fairgrounds. “Hall E (108,000 sq. ft.) this year is a third larger than Hall D (72,000 sq. ft.) was in 2014, so we’re meeting most exhibitor
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demands,” comments Rich Donnell, Show Director and Editor-in-Chief at HattonBrown Publishers, Inc. More than 175 companies have purchased nearly 55,000 sq. ft. of exhibit space in Hall E. The 2014 event attracted 1,700 industry producer personnel, representing 140 wood products companies and hundreds of lumber, veneer/plywood and engineered wood products mill operations. The event also continues to attract an international audience, with 22 countries represented in 2014. In addition, 1,000 exhibitor personnel were on hand. Donnell adds that while there will be a marginal increase in the number of exhibitors, the difference is that
many exhibitors have increased their booth space to be able to display more machinery and equipment. “There’s no doubt there’s considerable project planning in the mills going on because our editors in the field hear about it, and our surveys indicate the same,” Donnell says. “If the housing market gains steam even beyond it current slow advancement, nobody wants to be caught short. Throw in the fact that it’s an election year, and we’re bound to have an exciting event with a lot of buzz to it.” The 2016 TP&EE will again include two workshop days that focus on a range of lumber, plywood and engineered wood products tech-
nologies. More than 200 people attended the workshops in 2014. Attendee on-line registration opens May 1. Visit timberprocessingandenergyexpo.com.
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TP&EE EXHIBITOR SEPTEMBER 28-30, 2016 Portland Expo Center
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following list includes the exhibitors and their booth size (as of February 15) for the Timber Processing & Energy Expo to be held September 28-30, 2016 at the Portland Exposition Center in Portland, Ore. Acrowood, 10 x 10 Actiw OY, 10 x 20 AKE Knebel GmbH & Co. KG, 9 m, German Pavilion Altec Integrated Solutions, 20 x 30 American Wood Dryers, 10 x 10 AMS Solutions, 20 x 20 Andritz Iggesund Tools, 20 x 30 Arch Wood Protection, 10 x 10 Arrow Speed Controls, 20 x 20 Autolog, 20 x 30 Automation & Electronics USA, 10 x 20 Balluff, 10 x 20 Baumer Inspection GmbH, 24 m, German Pavilion Baxley Equipment/Price LogPro, 30x30 BEP Engineering Services, 10 x 10 Bestar, 12 m, German Pavilion 10
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Biomass Engineering & Equipment, 10 x 20 BM&M Screening Solutions, 10 x 10 Brookhuis America, 10 x 20 Bruks Rockwood, 10 x 10 Brunette Machinery, 10 x 20 Brunson Instrument, 10 x 20 Burton Saw-Cut Technologies, 10 x 30 California Saw & Knife Works, 10 x 20 Can-Am Chains-Conveyco, 10 x 10 Canadian Forest Industries, 10 x 10 Carbotech International, 20 x 20 CCS a Division of PNE Corp., 10 x 20 Columbia River Staple & Lumber Wrap, 10 x 10 Comact, 40 x 50 CON-VEY 20 x 20, Connexus Industries, 30 x 30 Cooper Machine, 10 x 20 Costa Sanders, 10 x 10 Curtis-Wright-Exlar Actuation, 10 x 10 Delta Computer Systems, 10 x 20 Diacon Technologies, 10 x 10 DK- Spec, 10 x 20 DO2 Industrial, 10 x 10 Dykman Electrical, 10 x 20
Evergreen Engineering, 10 x 10 EWTA, 10 x 10 Finna Group-SCS Forest, 10 x 20 FinScan, 10 x 20 Galardy Technical Services, 10 x 10 Gateway Graphics, 10 x 10 Gilbert Products, 20 x 20 Gillingham Best, 10 x 10 Global Industrial Solutions, 10 x 10 HALCO Software Systems, 10 x 10 Hans Weber, 9 m, German Pavilion Hashimoto-Denki, 10 x 20 Hatton-Brown Publishers, 20x20 Hermary Opto, 10 x 10 HewSaw Machines, 20 x 30 Hildebrand, 9 m, German Pavilion Hurdle Machine Works, 10 x10 ICE-Italian Trade Agency, 30 x 30 International Bar Coding, 10 x 10 International Bearing, 10 x 10 International Forest Industries, 10 x 10 InterWrap, 10 x 10 James G Murphy, 10 x 20 JoeScan, 20 x 30 Kaeser Compressors, 10 x 20 KALMAR USA, 20 x 30
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Keith Manufacturing, 10 x 20 Key Knife, 10 x 20 Kimwood, 20 x 20 Kop-Coat, 10 x 10 Koppers Performance, 10 x 10 L.G. Isaacson, 10 x 30 Lewis Controls-Corley Mfg., 20 x 30 Linck, 72 m, German Pavilion Linden Fabricating, 10 x 10 LMI Technologies, 20 x 20 Logging & Sawmill Journal, 10 x 10 Lucidyne Technologies, 20 x 30 Mac Chain, 10 x 20 Mahild Drying Technologies, 18 m, German Pavilion Matthews Marking Systems, 10 x 10 Maxi Mill, 10 x 20 MBS Sawfiling, 10 x 10 McDonough Manufacturing, 10 x 10 Meinan Machinery Works, 20 x 20 Metal Detectors, 10 x 20 Metriguard, 10 x 20 Mill Machinery, 10 x 10 MINDA, 9 m, German Pavilion MoCo Engineering & Fabrication, 10 x 10
Modern Engineering, 10 x 10 Morbark, 20 x 20 MPM Engineering, 10 x 20 Mühlböck North America, 10 x 20 Murray Latta Progressive, 10 x 20 Nelson Brothers Engineering, 10 x 20 Newman Machine, 20 x 20 Nicholson Manufacturing, 10 x 20 Northern Plastics, 10 x 10 Northwest Pump & Equipment, 10 x 20 Novilco, 10 x 20 Oiles America, 10 x 10 Optimil Machinery, 20 x 40 Optware Solutions, 10 x 10 Oregon State University, 10 x 10 OSELA, 10 x 10 Pacific Lumber Inspection, 10 x 10 Pantron Automation, 10 x 20 Pape Material Handling, 20 x 20 Paw-Taw-John Services, 20 x 30 Peerless Saw, 10 x 20 Platt Electric Supply-Opticom, 10 x 10 PLC USA, 10 x 10 Porter Engineering, 20 x 20 Premier Bandwheel & Equipment, 10 x 10 Premier Gear & Machine Works, 10 x 20 Pro Mac Manufacturing, 10 x 10 RAPTOR Nails And Staples, 10 x 20 Raptor Integration, 20 x 40 Raute Canada, 20 x 20 Rawlings Manufacturing, 10 x 20 REA JET, 10 x 20 Redwood Plastics, 10 x 20 Rockwell Automation, 10 x 10 Rockwell Industries, 10 x 20 Rogers Machinery, 10 x 20 Samuel Strapping Systems, 20 x 30 Samuel Strapping Systems Coding & Labeling, 20 x 30 SawADD, 10 x 10 ScanMeg, 20 x 30 Sering Sawmill Machinery, 10 x 10 SERRA, 9 m, German Pavilion Sicam Systems, 10 x 20 Signode Packaging Systems, 20 x 40 Simon Möhringer Engineering, 9 m, German Pavilion
Simonds International, 20 x 40 Slatercom-WCD, 10 x 10 SolaGen, 10 x 20 Springer, 20 x 30 Starcyl Cylinders, 10 x 10 State of Alabama, 10 x 10 Sunomi/Ferro Machinery, 10 x 10 Sweed Machinery, 10 x 20 Taylor Machine Works, 20 x 30 Tebulo NA, 10 x 10 Telco Sensors, 10 x 20 Timber Product Manufacturers Assn., 10 x 10 TMS Machinery Sales, 10 x 10 Top Wood Jobs, 10 x 10 TS Manufacturing, 20 x 20 US Metal Works, 10 x 10 USNR, 50 x 60 USNR, 40 x 40 (outside lot) VAB Solutions, 10 x 20 Valin, 10 x 20 ValuTec Wood Dryers, 20 x 20 Ventek, 20 x 20 VK North America, 10x20 Vollmer of America, 82.5 m, German Pavilion Wagner Meters, 10 x 20 Webster Chain, 10 x 10 Wechsler Engineering & Consulting, 10 x 10 Weinig, 10 x 10 Wellons Group, 30 x 50 Wema Probst-Wolfgang, 12 m, German Pavilion West Coast Cylinders, 10 x 10 West Coast Industrial Systems, 10 x 20 Western Integrated Systems, 10 x 10 Western Pneumatics, 10 x 10 Westmill Industries, 20 x 20 Williams and White Equipment, 20 x 20 Wolftek Industries, 10 x 10 Wonderware PacWest, 10 x 20 Wood-Mizer, 10 x 10 Wood-Mizer, 40 x 40 (outside lot) Woodtech Measurement, 10 x 10 York Saw-Oleson Saw, 20 x 30 Z-Tec Automation Systems, 20 x 20 TIMBER PROCESSING
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AHEAD By Rich Donnell
Pyramid Mountain Lumber relies on its vast sawmilling experience to move around familiar bumps in the Western road.
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umber product versatility has been the key for family-owned Pyramid Mountain Lumber. “All the species, all the grades, all the widths,” says Chief Operating Officer Loren Rose. “We’re the only mill in the state that cuts all the softwood species that are indigenous to Montana.”
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For example, random length products include 1x4 to 1x12 ponderosa pine, spruce and lodgepole pine boards; ponderosa pine shop from moulding to economy; 2x4 to 2x12 dimension fir and larch, spruce and lodgepole pine; custom 1x6 to 1x8 paneling and exterior siding in multiple patterns; custom 2 in. decking; and untreated timbers from 4x6 to 16x16. Such variety is essential for Pyramid to separate itself from the stud mills in the state. The number of sawmills operating in Montana can be counted on two hands; the uncertainty of timber supply may reduce that number further. However, as of early February logs
were moving and Pyramid was still running 50 hour weeks at the sawmill and 60 at the planer, while trying to staff-up to 80 hours at the planer and also considering going to 40 hours at the sawmill. A fairly dry spring would go a long way toward assuring enough log intake to avoid downtime at the mill. Such is the nature of operating a sawmill in a region where the federal government plays hard-to-get with its timberlands, while the private timberland sources can run hot or cold and change temperatures quickly. Case in point was the influx of the mountain pine beetle 10 years ago. Pyramid Mountain Lumber calls itself
The Stewardship Company for good reason. It has always been actively involved with resource management groups and been a leader in forestry and timber access issues. It is Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)-certified for its fiber sourcing practices and landowner relationships. When the mountain pine beetle came through hard and killed the lodgepole, especially the older trees, Pyramid proactively worked with the private landowners, educating them on the stages of the infestation and the quickly declining value of the timber. Landowners smartly contracted to harvest the affected wood, which greatly expanded the avail- ➤ 17
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Drying schedule is complex with so many species and products.
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13 ➤ able timber supply and constricted timber prices significantly. At the same time, the Chinese market, especially for low grade lumber, reinvigorated the lumber supply chain and drove up most lumber prices. As a result Pyramid Mountain Lumber—as well as many other lumber producers—had one of its best profit years in 2010. Private timber prices of course drifted higher again while Pyramid hoped federal timber sales would loosen up. But that never really happened, and today private timber sources have constrained and “getting logs” is once again anything but a sure thing. Meanwhile, as Sales Manager Steve Johnson notes, the Chinese economy has soured, oil prices have dropped and with it the Canadian dollar, which has meant more Canadian softwood lumber coming into the U.S. as well as European lumber on the East Coast. Pyramid, which produces 6065MMBF annually, procures about 60% of its timber off private lands, and 20% from both federal and state forests. As they’re now on the tail end of the mountain pine beetle, so comes the spruce budworm, which is attacking the spruce, fir and alpine fir. “It could be more catastrophic than the mountain pine beetle,” Rose says. “It attacks everything from regen to the older trees.”
BACKGROUND Fred Johnson (born in Norway) and Oscar Mood traveled from their timber work in Minnesota to Seeley Lake and in the winter of 1948 purchased the Bockmier Mill, renaming it J&M Lumber. Houses in the area were nothing more than “tar paper” shacks and many mill workers did not bring their families with them. They stayed in bunkhouses, one of which was called the Red Rooster. It caught fire one night with two of its inhabitants, the Nester brothers, sleeping soundly following a party. One of the brothers jumped out of bed and tried to roust the other. The brother still in bed replied, “You can take care of it. There’s only one bucket.” Late in 1952 a fire started as workers tried to start the diesel generator that provided power for the mill. The mill burned but was rebuilt the next year, 1953; the same year electricity came to Seeley Lake. In 1958 the company reorganized from the partnership between Johnson and Mood to a corporation owned by the two families and changed its name to Pyramid Mountain Lumber, named for Pyramid Peak that distantly over-
looks the mill from the northeast at the southern reaches of the Flathead National Forest. The Johnson-Mood partnership continued all the way to 2001, when the Mood family sold its ownership to Charlie Parke, a successful logger in the area. Meanwhile, Fred’s son, Roger, grew up working for his father and ultimately became and continues as president today at age 79; while his sons, Steve and Todd, who also worked during their youth at the mill, are Sales Manager and Plant Manager, respectively. Steve and Todd both have sons working at the mill during the summer, representing the family’s fourth generation. It was late in 2001 when Pyramid Mountain Lumber considered auctioning off its machinery and laying off workers, but a local bank rallied behind the company and collaborated with USDA Rural Development and other financial sources to put together a loan and credit package. This enabled Pyramid to continue a modernization effort, which had begun a couple of years earlier with the installation of a Newnes optimized trimmer. Rose recalls that in 2001 Sierra Pacific President Red Emmerson provided generous terms and sold them a nearly new Newnes-McGehee curve-sawing gang and Newnes (now USNR) optimized board edger out of one of Sierra-Pacific’s northern California mills. Another improvement came in 2006 with the purchase and installation of an end-dogging small log breakdown machine to complement the large log headrig. It would contribute several years later to the mill’s flexibility as margins improved with more favorable lumber prices and log costs.
NEWEST PROJECT Late last year Pyramid Mountain Lumber brought in Comact to retrofit an existing board edger scanner frame with 22 new LMI 3155 heads as part of an optimization upgrade. The edger line now has a 1/3 in. scan density and runs at 30 ppm on 16 ft. average length. It replaced the Newnes edger optimizer that Pyramid had purchased from Sierra Pacific 15 years earlier. “There was a lot of detail to work through, a lot of older technology we had in place,” comments Ken Pearson, Pyramid’s head electrician. “This is very clean, very neat, saves every board that you do so you can go back through the day in case you have an issue. These folks (Comact) were very good to work with.”
Pyramid had gotten to known Comact from a project at the end of 2013 when Comact started up its hydraulic lug loader on the trimmer line. A high lug fill percentage is created by the modulating infeed and the ability to handle a wide range of product lengths, widths, thicknesses and boards with excessive wane. Pyramid was very pleased by the reduction in downtime the Comact line achieved on the very first day of production. The loading efficiency also allowed the mill to eliminate a labor intensive position. Pyramid has continued to make other incremental improvements, such as a new lighting system, new air compressors, Allen-Bradley Logix5000 controllers on the ELDF and 12 in gang, RMC Delta motion controllers and new WEG starters on the curve-saw.
MILL OPERATIONS Sawmill production requires 30-35 truckloads of logs a day depending on the species, the vast majority of which is brought in by Parke Logging. About 70% of logs come from Pyramid-purchased sales. Logs may be trucked in from as far out as 250 miles. A third to half of the incoming loads are scaled. Pyramid prefers a 33 ft. log, but does a fair amount of 16.6 ft. A Letourneau log loader unloads trucks and a Cat 320 sorts logs along with a Cat 980. Logs are sorted by species, diameter and length in the 30 acre log yard. The mill, which runs five 10-hour shifts, tries to run at least a week on any one species. Logs are bucked and come into any of three debarkers, the largest of which takes a 56 in. log. The bark hog fuel is sold for landscaping and used internally as fuel to run the boilers, which provide steam for the dry kilns and heat the plant. Large logs (16 in. and bigger) are kicked onto the headrig deck, and smaller pieces move toward a Maxi Mill EDLF small log machine with laser scanning. Small logs account for 65% of production. A vintage Klamath Iron Works headrig has Lewis Controls scanning. The 7 ft. saw makes two- or foursided cants. The EDLF and 5 ft. twin band creates cants for the curve-saw and boards for the edger or trim line. The optimized curve-saw gang can have up to 78 circle saws for producing pieces for the edger, depending on the product mix. The Comact edger optimizer and Newnes edger, and Newnes optimized TIMBER PROCESSING
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trimmer line move pieces to the NMI (now SCS) moisture meter and pre-sort for a 32 bin sorter and in-line stickerstacker. The mill has in place two SonicAire fans in the rafters, which blow off the dust to the floor so it can be swept and gathered. Plant Manager Todd Johnson notes that recent plant explosions and fires in British Columbia caused Pyramid to examine and update their housekeeping procedures. Pyramid has trained its crew on the OSHA standard for combustible dust.
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Filing room equipment is heavy to Armstrong, including a band saw tipper and grinders with lineal slide, along with a Simonds leveler and Wright round saw sharpener machines. The mill went to Stellite on the band saws several years go, and it has allowed more run time per saw. Most band saws are Simonds, while Cal Saw, Cut Tech and Simonds have provided circle saws. Kerf is around .145 on the round saw with .100 plate. Five workers man the filing rooms. “We take kind of a common sense approach,” comments filer Richard Dove.
“We don’t run the thinnest plate we can; we keep overall deviation to a minimum so we can hit target.” The mill has experimented with variable pitch band saws, but has backed away. Mark Meissner is the head filer. Most of the three double-track and three single-track kilns have vent exchangers. Drying is a challenge because of the climate, which can see temperatures dip well below zero. The multiple species means various dry-time configurations. Todd Johnson notes they’re looking at updating the boiler and kiln controls. Off the dry yard, lumber moves into the planer mill, which operates Yates A62 and A63 planers. Three graders work the grading table. It’s no easy task at Pyramid as they must be certified in common, dimension and shop. WWPA has recognized Pyramid graders with HiQ awards for grading proficiency and in 2009 Pyramid was the recipient of the Hi-Q Mill Award. Lumber runs through a Lucidyne grade mark reader, trimmer and to the dry chain where lumber is pulled for two automated end-stackers and strapping. Higher grade lumber is paper-wrapped. Johnson says another consideration for improvement is a new tray sorter bin system and planer trimmer. About 10% of production has a pattern on it, having run through a Mattison molder. “It’s not a high speed line, but the finish is real good,” Rose says. “People will wait for our pattern.” Lodgepole, he notes for example, is a real tight grain with small knots. Forklifts load about 12 semi loads a day (there’s no railhead here). One of the mill’s top customers is Idaho Timber. The board market is basically countrywide. A lot of dimension goes into the Bozeman area as well as Spokane and Salt Lake City. Steve Johnson notes they try and stay away from heavy rail destinations where Canadian lumber comes in. Sawdust, shavings and chips byproducts mostly go to the Roseburg particleboard plant in Missoula. Pyramid Mountain Lumber employs about 140. “We pride ourselves that we’re pretty stable here in town,” Steve comments. “That doesn’t mean there haven’t been tough times.” The mill is a member of Montana Wood Products Assn., Timber Products Manufacturers Assn. and Western Wood Products Assn. TP
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By Jay Donnell
Ricky Fly has built an impressive hardwood lumber sawmill with leading edge equipment in Mississippi.
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hen young Ricky Fly founded Fly Timber Company in 1981 in Coffeeville, Miss., the thought of operating a modern hardwood sawmill wasn’t on his mind—yet. In addition to running his own logging crew, he became a wood dealer for International Paper, overseeing up to nine jobs. Fly tried the sawmill business in the mid-’80s but didn’t stay in it long. But when the economy took a down turn around 2000 many local hardwood sawmills and other markets began shutting down, leaving Fly in search for log buyers. He decided to expand his operations to take up some of the slack and before long was running a small mulching system, a Hurdle hardwood sawmill in Oakland and a scragg mill in Winona. Near the end of 2008 Fly decided to modernize his hardwood sawmill business and found a site at a former IP wood yard near Grenada. It took more than two years to get the financing done and Fly spent two and a half years traveling across the country and into Canada, looking at different sawmills and deciding on what kind of equipment and layout he wanted for his mill. The vast majority of equipment was purchased as new. Construction began in November 2011. An engineer out of Ohio, Martin Quanci with Mill-Quality Equipment and Designs, helped to design, lay out and build the mill. Fly also received considerable assistance from Billy Humphreys with M&H Builders. Fly Tie & Lumber LLC, owned by Fly Timber Co., Inc., began operation in April 2014, bringing railroad ties and timbers into the product mix, along with various grades from FAS to frame stock. Species include ash, cottonwood, gum, hickory, poplar, red oak, white oak and mixed hardwoods and some cypress as of late. Fly ceased operation of his two original sawmills. “They told me it would take a year to get the kinks out of it and they weren’t lying,”
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Fly says. “Everything seems to be working out fine now.” Fly estimates annual production in a normal year to get up to 20MMBF.
LOGS & MILL FLOW Fly Timber no longer runs its own logging crew but continues to manage contract loggers. Fly, who also buys and sells timberland, purchases the logs and sells them to Fly Tie & Lumber. The operation also sells pulpwood logs and maintains an 80,000 tons pulpwood storage yard in Como, Miss. about 60 miles north of the sawmill. Logs roll in to the new mill from within a 130-mile radius. Fly says log supply has been decent in the area as of late. Logs are brought in short length. These are 17.5-18 ft., but also some 9-10 ft. as well as 14-16 ft. for grade sawing. Fly Tie & Lumber’s operation includes two McDonough bandmills, one 6 ft. and one 7 ft., with USNR optimization. Both of these are double cuts with Cleereman carriages. The tilted carriage is for larger grade logs, while the nontilted side saws smaller logs. Downstream is an adjustable PHL 10 in. opti-
mized gang saw, a McDonough optimized edger, double end trimmer and grading station. A Sennebogen 830 mobile knuckleboom loader and Fuchs-Terex MHL350D loader unloads trucks and separate by species. John Deere wheel loaders move the logs into whatever row they go into and also feed logs onto the mill infeed deck. The knucklebooms loaders have 45 ft. booms for a higher stack. Logs run through a Mellott rosserhead debarker, with the bark traveling on a vibrating conveyor and to a belt feeding the hog. The byproduct is loaded into trailers and is all used as fuel wood. Logs proceed through an MDI TWA 2000 HD metal detector The mill has two sides, both with Cleereman carriages and a McDonough 6 ft. bandmill on the right side for the smaller logs and a 7 ft. on the left for bigger logs. Each has USNR’s MillExpert Log Optimizer package with frontside LASAR scanning. Lumber comes off and is directed to a McDonough linear optimized edger and when the cant gets down to a 9x18 or less it kicks off and goes to a PHL gang.
If it will make a tie the gang operator will push the button to open the saws up to get a tie in the center and the lumber will go off the sides. Or he’ll push another button and bring all the saws together so that there will just be pure lumber coming out. The ties go uphill on a deck and go to a lift where they go out on the north side of the mill. The lumber moves on the other deck, which is the lower deck, and it comes out to the east side of the mill. The lumber goes through a drop sorter and then circles around to be graded and is pulled off the green chain. The ties go to the tie sorter where there is a trim saw. The operator will either trim it on both ends or if it’s 17.5 ft. he’ll cut it in half to make two short ties. Ties move out to sorting bins and onto rail cars or trucks. Fly sells its ties to Stella-Jones Corp., shipping cross ties by rail to Alexandria, La., and shipping switch ties to their Alexandria, Fulton, Ky. and Russellville, Ark. locations by truck, and in the past by rail to Bangor, Wis. Lumber is dried in fan air sheds and some is sent out for contract kiln drying. The planer mill and its Newman EPR-24 electric double planer processes 150160MBF of lumber (no ties) per week. Two workers do maintenance on the night shift and some maintenance is done on Saturdays. The filing room includes Armstrong grinders, Hanchett leveling
Ricky Fly and his daughter, Jessica, far right, have surrounded themselves with the newest hardwood lumber sawmill in the nation.
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Lumber is dried in fan sheds as well as contracted out for kiln drying.
bench/stretch roller and a Simonds leveler. Most saws are Cut Tech. Taylor T180 forklifts load lumber onto trucks. Fly Tie & Lumber sells its lumber to flooring plants in Arkansas and Mississippi and upholstery stores in east Mississippi. They have 10 company trucks which include two Kenworths, two Freightliners and six Peterbilts. The oldest is a 2011. Fly reports that he has a strong stable of drivers. “There’s so much liability out there on the road so I’m a lot pickier than probably some people are with my drivers,” he explains. “We drug test them and I have some drivers that have been with me for 12-15 years.”
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The mill operates one shift from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m., but they shut down the mill at 3:30 to perform necessary maintenance. Sometimes they’ll run the mill for half a day on Saturday.
PERSONNEL Fly was able to bring in some experienced personnel, such as Mill Foreman Phillip Clark, but he notes that turnover is a regular issue. “It’s pretty tough finding new employees who want to work,” he says. “We’ve got a little too much labor right now, but you never know who’s going to work out. We cross train a lot of people.” The two operations employ 57.
The company holds monthly safety meetings at the mill and has a monthly safety lotto. The lotto is based on lost time. After 30 days of zero lost time, a drawing is held for two winners of $100 each. After 60 days of zero lost time, there are drawings for $200 and $100. After 90 days, the drawings are for $300 and $100 and it continues to go up until it caps at $500 and $100 for two drawings. When TP visited, the monthly lotto drawings had reached $500 and $100 because of the excellent lost time record. They also have supervisor bonuses of $500 for every 90 days with zero lost time. This program was initiated last May and has been very successful. They have had less than $300 in workers’ comp claims and zero lost time. New employees fill out a job application and then go through training. If they don’t have any experience they’ll start on a cleanup crew and gradually work where they can to see what they can pick up on. After employees have been with the business for 90 days they receive holiday pay and the company recognizes all major holidays. They’ll occasionally work on a holiday, but when they do they receive holiday pay plus whatever they would normally make. After em-
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Plenty of action at Fly Tie & Lumber in Grenada, Miss.
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The Fly operation owns 10 late model trucks.
ployees have been there for a year they get a week of paid vacation and the business also offers a 401K plan. Ricky’s wife, Dotty Fly, runs the office. She knows a little bit about the timber business, having married Ricky in July 1981 a month before Fly Timber began operations. They went on their honeymoon to find a truck to mount a loader on. Fly’s daughter, Jessica, is the compliance officer and also oversees the safety program, balances the general ledger and assists with daily operations. She enjoys working with her father on a
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daily basis. “I’ve been working here since May of last year and I love it,” Jessica says. “I went into construction, but then I came back home right after they opened the new mill and the timing worked out perfectly.” Jessica’s husband, Gerald Payne, is the head saw filer. After being in logging and sawmilling for many years Fly leans toward the latter. “Sawdust is in my bloods,” he says. “I think I like running the sawmill more than I like running a logging crew.” Fly believes the housing market is
doing a little better. “It’s better than it was last year, but it didn’t jump like some thought it would. It looks like it’s gaining a little bit each year which is probably for the best.” Although Fly is pleased with his new sawmill, it wasn’t an easy adventure. “Getting this new sawmill up and running has been stressful,” he says. “It took a while to put it together, but everyone is starting to settle into their roles. We have a lot of debt to get down at this new mill, but we’re doing all right.” Grenada County Economic Development District and Mississippi Development Authority worked closely with Fly to facilitate the project and extend a rail spur. Key employees include Josh Angle and Mac Burnett, timber buyers; Eugene Hall, lumber sales; Phillip Clark, mill foreman; Gerald Payne, head saw filer; Matt Turner, controls engineer; Dotty Fly, secretary-treasurer; and Jessica Fly, compliance officer. Fly doesn’t have much time for extracurriculars, but when he does have some spare time he enjoys watching the Mississippi State Bulldogs play football and he makes it to a game occasionally. Fly Tie & Lumber is a member of the Hardwood Manufacturers Assn. TP
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BREAK DOWN Equipment manufacturers weigh in with their latest technologies at the front end of the mill.
ANDRITZ IGGESUND TOOLS Since Andritz Iggesund Tools introduced its Powerhead primary canter heads in 2003, it has delivered more than 500 chipping heads to mills all over North America. These applications have covered every conceivable species, feed speed and region in the U.S. and Canada. Using this experience to further optimize the design of its chipping heads and TurnKnife System, Andritz-Iggesund provides mills the absolute best options for canter heads. Andritz Iggesund continues to work very closely with the OEMs of canter lines (Comact, Optimil, Cone-Omega, etc.) to help them deliver exactly what the customer demands from a new processing line, or a revamped one. The powerheads have proven to be the most economical, trouble free chipping Andritz Iggesund chipping edger with HSH heads recently delivered to Central Alabaheads available. They are built like tanks, and coupled with the TurnKnife System, give mills the worry free operations they want. Most recently, Andritz Iggesund was ma Lumber. fortunate to be involved from day one on the new mill Biewer Lumber is constructing in Newton, Miss. They will have 100% Iggesund Tools chipping heads on the Comact canter, profiling units, and TBL-12. Other mills that have recently added Andritz Iggesund Tools canter heads: Dunkley Lumber in Prince George, BC; Pine Products in Martinsville, Va.; Morgan Lumber in Red Oak, Va.; and Carrier Lumber in Big River, Saskatchewan. Andritz Iggesund not only manufactures primary and secondary canter heads, but its smaller size HSH (Helical Solid Heads) heads are excellent for high speed board edger applications. These smaller heads are designed for high speed small log processing and board edgers. The company’s most recent delivery is a new chipping edger line, in conjunction with Cone Machinery, to Central Alabama Lumber. The TKD drum style chipping heads are just like the conical heads—built to last, trouble free and economical to operate. Coupled with the TurnKnife System, these chipping heads are the “Go To” for mills all over North America and the world. Visit andritz.com.
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BREAKDOWN BID GROUP-MCGEHEE In December 2015, BID Group announced its acquisition of WaneShear Technologies, LLC thereby bringing Ron McGehee and his talented team to BID Group. Doing so broadens the BID product range, already featuring kilns and sawing line equipment manufactured by Comact, PHL, A&M Manufacturing, and Deltech. The McGehee profiling system can be installed at the primary breakdown and at the secondary breakdown alike. It is made up of two canter heads, closely followed by disc profiling heads. Profiling can be single or, in cases where several pieces of different dimensions are to be produced, multiple. The head assembly is controlled individually in order to allow endless positioning options so as to obtain the highest yield possible. Independent control of profiling heads also al- BID Group’s McGehee profiling system lows making asymmetrical patterns that follow skewed pieces during the cutting process. This is an extremely flexible system that can deliver multiple sawing patterns in a single pass. At the outfeed of the secondary breakdown, pieces are ready for the trimmer. No shims are produced—virtually eliminating pieces going around in circles for reprocessing. Compactness is one of the key advantages of McGehee technology. In fact, it takes a mere 82 inches to integrate the profiling module to an existing sawing line. What’s more, the system is easy to install and start up. This modification alone to a sawing line can completely change a mill’s production and thus settle several bottleneck and reprocessing issues. Furthermore, for new sawing lines, this profiling system can even eliminate the need for acquiring an edger. The endless profile positioning options are made possible thanks to servo positioners. Press displacement is achieved electronically so that positioning sequences are performed smoothly, in optimized positions for the purpose of improving high-speed system efficiency. Profilers are driven electrically while their positioning is performed hydraulically. This profiling system is also designed to handle substantial quantities of material to chip and opens up on both sides for ready access to components and simplified maintenance. Visit comact.com.
CONE OMEGA Cone Omega has a long history of supplying simple, rugged and reliable equipment. It enjoys a great reputation for its high quality mill floor equipment especially in the primary breakdown area. The Cone division is known for unique Chip-N-Saw products and four sided canter lines, while the Omega division is a leader in sharp chain breakdown products. As a partner to each customer, Cone Omega continually strives to develop new and innovative products that allow customers to decrease downtime while increasing profitability. The Tru-Position Line is Cone Omega’s latest primary breakdown innovation. The Tru-Position serves the same basic function of a skewing slewing extended length optimized infeed canter twin sharp chain line; however the performance of the Tru-Position makes it suCone Omega Tru-Position primary breakdown line perior to the dated technology of the double length infeed. Those systems are notorious for allowing unintentional log movement that causes cutting errors, especially in the South on southern yellow pine logs. One of the key advantages of the Tru-Position is that when the log is scanned for solution it is firmly impaled on the sharp chain. Being able to process the log as scanned with no possibility for positioning errors allows tremendous recovery increases to be realized. By combining superior positioning accuracy and unequaled log turning precision, unintentional log movement is virtually eliminated allowing the Tru-Position to deliver maximum recovery. The equipment in the Tru-Position line is designed for speed and reliability. With less than half the components of conventional double length lines, the Tru-Position system delivers better recovery and production without all the maintenance hassle. The TruPosition delivers the lowest possible unit cost by providing high production with maximum recovery at consistently high uptimes and low maintenance costs. In the last few months Cone Omega has commissioned two new Tru-Position lines with great success. “The Tru-Position is the primary breakdown of the future.” Visit teamosi.com.
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BREAKDOWN HURDLE MACHINE WORKS For the past 40+ years, Hurdle Machine Works, Inc. has manufactured simple, dependable and affordable sawmill packages. Its mills aren’t fancy, but they are just simple enough to provide consistent, quality production day after day with little maintenance. “We’ve seen many people make money using our mills.” The Hurdle mill is very affordable and can quickly add to your production. Every Hurdle 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 leaves the Hurdle plant. With more than 480 complete sawmills sold, the Hurdle mill is a proven platform Hurdle Machine Works complete sawmill that adds about 3000 ft/hr to your operation whether it is ties, grade lumber or mats. Tie package mills are reporting 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. Best of all, you don’t have to worry about the expense and complication of building a mill from scratch. Just provide an electric motor, saw blade, edger, air compressor, and sawdust removal system—Hurdle will handle the rest. 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. It’s easy to get started. Visit hurdlemachineworks.com.
MICROTEC Holzindustrie Torgau—HIT in short—is what you call a fully integrated production site. HIT produces “Euro pallets,” a 15 million piece per year business that corresponds to a 15% market share in Germany. The optimization starts at the log breakdown. “Until just recently we used all of our lumber to produce pallets, even high quality lumber without knots,” explains Günther Hilmer, CEO of HIT. To better utilize this high quality lumber, HIT acquired a 360° CT Log scanner from Microtec as well as a breakdown band saw line supplied by EWD. Logs harvested from local forests are unloaded directly at the sawmill infeed, debarked and bucked. As each log is scanned, the CT Log optimization software determines the best cutting pattern and breakdown parameters based not only on volume, but on the real value of the final sawn products. Internal defects such as knots, splits, species and foreign objects are considered during the value calculation. Directly in front of the saw, a Microtec Logeye fingerprint scanner recognizes each log and its angular position on the conveyor, and looks up the CT-optimized cutting solution. A newly developed log rotation and centering unit from EWD brings each log in position, corrects skewing and fixes and centers the log in the required angle. The log is then broken down according to the previously defined cutting pattern and sawing parameters from the CT scanner. (The PF 19 chipper canter cuts flat planes on each side. Afterward, a flexible quadro-bandsaw cuts up to two boards on Microtec Logeye fingerprint and EWD log rotation and centering unit each side. A second flexible quadro-bandsaw further saws out up to four slices of lumber.) The entire front end of the sawmill, from CT Log through to the edgers and the sorting line, is operated by two operators. Including HIT this is the fifth CT Log scanner installed and running. “Our goal is not to cut a higher quantity, but having a higher added value through more yield,” says HIT CEO Hilmer. “The perfect harmony of CT Log and the flexible band saws allow production of high quality lumber from our good logs. Lower quality logs are also highly optimized by hiding or sawing around defects, especially metal inclusions that are quite frequent in this area.” CT Log is a computer tomography scanner for logs. It’s 360° view provides a complete HD image of the inside of a log, which can be used for any kind of breakdown optimization. Visit microtec.edu.
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BREAKDOWN OPTIMIL OPTIMIL Inc. has several of its new chip and dust containment systems operating successfully on chipping/sawing centers, saw boxes and bandmills in major North American mills. Key features include new chipping sections with increased head diameters and enlarged chip chutes; reconfigured chip chutes with fewer transitions and diversion points allow optimum chip flow and reduced pockets for chips to strike and create dust and debris; new guarding that promotes safety by preventing debris entering work areas from saw boxes and bandmills. Visit optimal.com Optimil chip and dust containment for primary log breakdown systems
REMASAWCO RemaSawco is a Swedish company specializing in advanced measurement and machine control systems. These systems cover the entire production process from log sorting through to dry sorters and planers. The company has been in the business for many years and is operating worldwide. To strengthen its efforts in the North American market, a cooperation has been started with the Canadian company, Raptor Integration Inc. The product range includes 3D and X-ray scanners, measurement control systems in the sawline, fully automatic grade optimization in green and dry sorters to name a few. The latest offering from RemaSawco is its real time log optimization RS-Opt. The system is based on a 3D scanner. The software includes a modern graphical interface making it easy and effective for the operator. The log optimization is carried out continuously during sawing and is executed on a measured 3D model of the actual log. Instantaneously after the log has passed the scanner, the optimization is executed considering the best economical value, maximum volume or other requirements. RS-Opt can also be used as a simulation tool for planning production and evaluating different cut patterns to study the outcome. RS-Opt in brief: l Fully implemented real time optimization. l Optimum infeed/alignment values. Individual cut pattern, log turning angle and infeed position for each log and cant. RemaSawco RS-Opt log scanning and optimization l Support for saw machine setup and limitations and curve-sawing. l Optimization is based on product definitions, e.g. allowed wane, dimensions, economical value, priority, center and side board yields, etc. l Simulation tools for production planning. Off-line optimization. l RS-Opt can be used in the log sorting process, e.g. sorting by cut pattern. l Data storage of individual log data, production stops and alarms. This guarantees flexible reporting with selection by a number production parameters. Data export to various administrative systems. Visit remasawco.se.
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BREAKDOWN SPRINGER “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,” comments Barry Hutchins, manager of Solid Wood Engineering at Roseburg Forest Products of the Springer screw log unscrambler installed at the Dillard, Ore. plant. Springer screw technology is suitable for high-speed feeding of log sorting and saw lines and for smooth transfer to the receiving conveyor. 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 increased uptime. The Screw technology works reliably with all species, including SPF, intermountain species mix, southern yellow pine and radiata pine. Screw Unscrambler: The unscrambler with helical screw rolls singulates the logs and can be fitted with an integrated stop-end chain on the zero end which ensures smooth even ending of the logs. Screw Feeder: The screw feeder is the heart of the line—a patented log allocation unit Springer screw technology installed in which aligns, singulates and accelerates the logs in the longitudinal direction as they are North America. loaded onto the receiving conveyor. It has a modular design; individual modules can also be incorporated in existing lines. Screw Conveyor: The screw conveyor transfers logs without the need of chains and it is fitted with a rigid-coated strop wall. More than 80 installations have been set up worldwide including various projects in the U.S., Australia and Russia. Visit springer.eu.
TELCO SENSORS The new SpaceScan SS 02 series from Telco Sensors is a high-performance, self-contained measuring light curtain system, which offers a range of 10 meters with very high excess gain. Designed for harsh environment applications, the light curtains are housed in rugged, anodized aluminum profiles that are fully IP67 sealed against water and dust, and are built to withstand severe vibrations and shock. Furthermore, the system has a high light immunity of 100,000 lux promising problem-free operation even with direct exposure to sunlight. The series is available in a wide array of lengths ranging from 300 mm up to 1980 mm, and in three different beam-spacing increments: 20 mm, 10 mm and 5 mm. The system is fully programmable with Telco’s free, user-friendly PC software via RS-485 serial communication, connected with a USB converter. The graphical user interface allows a wide range of parameters and settings to be programmed and monitored in the connected light curtain system. The selectable and adjustable settings include: scan mode (cross or parallel beams), operation mode (inverted/not inverted), gain control/mode (automatic or manual adjustable gain), hysteresis, blanking function (programmable or teach-in) and smoothing pre-filtering function. The system can be programmed to ignore small objects like sawdust and wood chips. The software displays a graphical representation of the individual light beams status, and indication of the individual output/input status, in real time. The product line offers a 2-wire analog output (4-20 mA and 0-10 V) and up to four individual digital outputs (transistor NPN or PNP chosen by type), which can each be individually configured with a selection of up to 17 different measurement/output functions and conditions. A digital input is included to switch between two different output readings on the analog output. Visit telcosensorsusa.com. Telco Sensors SpaceScan light curtain system
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BREAKDOWN USNR Increasing production and flexibility in recovery were the primary goals for investing in a new optimized carriage for Bégin & Bégin, Inc. at Lots-Renversés, Quebec. The mill’s outdated line was unable to meet company goals for higher production, and it was losing both value and recovery. B&B selected USNR to supply the new line based in part on past successful projects including a new 96 in. chipper and vertical resaw. The new 3-knee carriage handles high value logs up to 36 in. diameter, with output processed by USNR’s vertical resaw and a gang/edger. The new MillExpert optimization system significantly expands mill capability to include full log breakdown grade sawing solutions generated from dense 3D scan data from front and back side LASAR sen- USNR optimized carriage at Bégin & Bégin in Quebec sors. MillExpert generates not only the initial breakdown, but utilizes logic from downstream processes to generate solutions that will be used to further breakdown pieces into boards. Throughput was another issue with the old carriage because the knee speed was slow (8-10 in. per second). The new USNR 42 in. carriage improves throughput with three on-board chain turners, three board ejectors, a new 100 HP electric drive, and knee speed up to 20 in. per second. B&B chose LASAR front and back side scanning to collect data from up to 300 degrees around the circumference of the log. Some customers install front scanning only, and while it does a good job of calculating the log shape it cannot compete with the addition of tens of thousands of data points that a back side sensor provides. Seeing the whole log allows more accurate product fits on both sides of the log, delivering enhanced recovery. Other new MillExpert LASAR carriage optimization orders for USNR include: l Superior Hardwoods of Ohio is upgrading its carriage lines at Cambridge, Barlow and McArthur, Ohio with the MillExpert/LASAR scanning and optimization package. l Western Forest Products in Nanaimo, BC is upgrading to MillExpert carriage optimization with LASAR2 3D sensors, for both front and back side scanning. l Stimson Lumber is investing in new carriage optimization systems at Clatskanie, Wash., St. Maries and Priest River, Idaho. Each line will feature MillExpert optimization with LASAR front-side scanning. Visit USNR.com.
USTUNKARLI Turkey-based USTUNKARLI combines its advanced technology with its experience of more than half a century to offer log production machinery worldwide. Today the company offers the latest software and hardware technologies—high speed, economical and safe. In 2014 USTUNKARLI began R&D studies on advanced technologies for its new generation 17° inclined log carriage and sawmill. The advantages soon became apparent: easier and faster log handling; logs “fall” into “V” for ease of loading and timber slides off smoothly onto the belt or roller conveyor; less force to carriage by log turners; better view of log face; outfeed is better for slabs landing flat side down and timber flitches landing wane side up; greater sawing accuracy because logs move better on the carriage. Due to the 17° inclined setup, the log lands on the transfer conveyor with the narrow face up. Operator makes all transactions smoothly on his control panel. It features a strong and heavy body formed structural rectangular tube of 200 x100 mm. Log fixing is with hydraulic independent hook movement. It’s easy positioning the log according to the cutting axis while the log is squeezed by independent horizontal movable hooks. The distance between fence and hooks can be adjusted 15-170 mm. Log turner arms can be rotated 90° by hydraulic power and driven by electric motor with gearbox. The electronic thickness gaug- USTUNKARLI 17° tilted log carriage system ing system is manufactured and designed by USTUNKARLI. The system determines the most appropriate program for 50 different diameters or width dimensions. Other features include: improved automatic and central lubrication system with half-fluid grease; hydraulic feeding speed up to 85 m/min with steel rope and drum mechanism drive system; hydrastatic feeding system with the speeds of 0-120, 0-160, 0-200 m/min; speed of headblocks is 0-320 mm/sec; AC servo-motor driven; two sets of joysticks with six buttons each to control headblocks, hooks and log turners and the hydraulic pedal for carriage forward-backward movement; special tensioning system that ensures extended life for steel rope; the wheels are disguised into the main body to be kept away from the cutting area; prevention of the loss of timber positioning during cutting with a lower hook locking mechanism. In 2015 USTUNKARLI released and successfully installed the inclined log carriages at several customer factories in Turkey. The customers report they are satisfied with the productivity and results of the line. Visit ustunkarli.com. 40
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BREAKDOWN JOESCAN JoeScan supplies 3-D laser scan heads to sawmill optimization vendors around the world. The JS-25 X-Series includes five models that provide flexibility in scanning solutions—standard and extended-range, wide-angle, and two- or three-laser configurations. The scan heads can be used in a variety of machine centers and applications, including transverse, lineal, and short-infeed lineal systems. JoeScan’s JS-25 scanners—known for their simplicity, flexibility and reliability—can be configured to provide complete-coverage 3-D log scanning. By scanning both the front and back sides of logs on the carriage headrig, JoeScan scanners provide the optimizer with a complete picture of the possible value of every log. The optimizer can then make a dollar-driven decision for the full log breakdown. For primary breakdown with carriage headrig applications, JoeScan recommends using one of its multiple-laser models—the JS-25 X2 or the JS-25 X3. The X2, with dual lasers spaced 12 inches apart, can capture the necessary data in only a foot of travel. The X3 takes it even further, offering three lasers and 6-inch spacing, which provide more scan data for log positioning and improved data on high-speed carriages. The multiple-laser JS-25 X2 and X3 models can be individually placed and oriented to ensure every laser is getting a good scan, avoiding the many JoeScan scanners provide complete-coverage 3-D obstructions present in a mill environment and allowing the user to choose scanning for primary log breakdown. between 6- and 12-inch lasers. Visit joescan.com.
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NEWSFEED 6 ➤ addition to damaging thousands of homes and businesses, and causing the closure of roads and bridges across the state. During October and November, the mill ran a total of 11 days before resuming fuller operations. A company-wide campaign in partnership with the American Red Cross raised $47,766 to assist the employees whose homes were damaged or destroyed. “I am deeply appreciative of the com-
mitment of our employees whose personal lives were impacted along with their jobs,” says Joe Rodgers, Interfor’s Senior Vice President, US South Operations.
SIERRA PACIFIC CLOSES ARCATA MILL Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) is closing its sawmill in Arcata, Calif. “This is a
particularly sad day for Sierra Pacific and for my family,” says A.A. (Red) Emmerson, Chairman and President Emeritus of SPI. “Our company started in the Arcata area when my father and I leased our first mill there in 1949 near Jacoby Creek. We went on to build the Arcata mill on the Samoa Peninsula, which we’ve run steady since 1951.” About 123 crew members are affected. According to SPI, reduced harvests of suitable timber and regulatory burdens are the primary reason for the closure. That, combined with a difficult lumber market have profoundly impacted operations in Arcata. “A fall off in the amount of suitable timber for sale in this area, coupled with flat home construction in the U.S., and increased lumber imports from Canada have all played a role in our decision to close the mill,” states SPI spokesman Mark Pawlicki. “But make no mistake, the largest factor was that the type and size of logs that this mill cuts are simply not available in ample supply to continue to run the mill.” SPI had been transporting logs from the interior of California, and barging logs from British Columbia and Washington. However, those efforts proved to be uneconomical. The company owns and manages 1.9 million acres of timberland in California and Washington, and has 13 other sawmills operating in California and Washington.
SFPA ANNOUNCES 2017 EXPO DATES Southern Forest Products Assn. announced that its 34th Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Exposition—EXPO 2017—will be held June 14-16, 2017 at Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center. The show’s theme is Blueprint for Success. Sponsored and conducted by SFPA every two years since 1950, this event has traditionally included many of the biggest names in the business displaying everything from sawmill machinery to materials handling equipment, attracting key representatives from the nation’s largest wood products manufacturers. “Many exhibitors from the 2015 show have already expressed plans to expand their displays for the 2017 event,” says SFPA’s exposition director Eric Gee. “With the housing market ➤ 47 44
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NEWSFEED 44 ➤ turnaround in motion, next year’s Expo is the best place to be for companies wanting to showcase equipment, products and services for the wood industry.” Expo 2015 featured 188 exhibitors, with a total attendance of more than 2,200. For more information about EXPO 2017, visit sfpaexpo.com.
KILLGORE LEADS RFP SOLID WOOD Roseburg Forest Products announced that former vice president of sales and marketing, Steve Killgore, is assuming the role of Vice President of the solid wood business and marketing. Killgore will be responsible for all aspects of the solid wood business including sales and manufacturing of lumber, plywood and engineered wood products. He will continue overseeing the company’s marketing efforts. Killgore joined Roseburg in 2011 as vice president of sales and marketing. He has 39 years of industry experience in a variety of roles, and earlier this month was named 2015 Lumberman of the Year by the Portland Wholesale Lumber Assn. in recognition for his contributions to the industry. Composites Manufacturing Director Mark Avery is promoted to Vice President of the composite panel business and logistics. Avery will be responsible for all aspects of the composites business, including sales and manufacturing for particleboard, medium density fiberboard and thermally fused laminates. He will also oversee a new logistics group that will combine transportation, national account customer service and reloads. Avery joined the company in 2011 as the plant manager for the Simsboro, La. particleboard plant and has served as director of composites manufacturing since 2013. These announcements come on the heels of the promotion of Grady Mulbery to president and ultimately to CEO. These changes create two new business lines for Roseburg Forest Products—solid wood and composites—by combining the sales and manufacturing functions for each. Sales and manufacturing previously had operated independently of each other. Other areas of the company will remain as currently structured. “With the talent we have internally, we have the opportunity to take a fresh
look at how we run our business,” Mulbery says. “We have worked hard to develop clarity in our organization and streamline the decision-making process. Being structured by business unit made the most sense internally and for our customers as well.”
FORMER CURT BEAN MILL IS STIRRING Years after the closure of the Curt Bean Lumber sawmill in Glenwood, Ark., timberland investment group McCaslin Barrow Henderson and its purchasing entity Caddo River Forest Products has apparently recently bought the property from Caterpillar and has the intentions of reopening the mill at some point. Curt Bean Lumber Co. closed and filed for bankruptcy in 2007. According to a report, an investor left Curt Bean Lumber hanging at a crucial point in the economic downturn. The company had spent $9 million to upgrade the mill in 2002. Caterpillar purchased the foreclosed property for $4 million at auction in 2011.
Now that slice of land, and its sawmill, are going to see revitalization thanks to the Texas investment group and Caddo River Forest Products. David Henderson, principal with McCaslin Barrow Henderson, told media that he and his partners are “cautiously optimistic” that the mill will come to fruition and be back to full operation in the future. Henderson declined to offer comments regarding the sale and status of the mill when reached by Timber Processing in mid-February.
WEYCO, PLUM CREEK RECEIVE THUMBS UP Weyerhaeuser shareholders and Plum Creek Timber shareholders each approved the proposed merger that was announced in November. Plum Creek will merge into Weyerhaeuser, with Weyerhaeuser continuing as the surviving corporation. The combined company creates a $23 billion timber REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) with more than 13 million acres of timberland in the U.S.
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MACHINERYROW Biewer Picks BID For New Sawmill BID Group of Companies reports its selection by Biewer Lumber to deliver a turnkey sawmill in Newton, Miss., where Biewer earlier announced it would build its first sawmill in the Southern U.S. Construction will begin in the second quarter of 2016 and will continue throughout the year with mill production
scheduled for the second quarter of 2017. The Newton sawmill will feature technologies specifically designed, supplied and installed by the BID Group including a Comact optimized log bucking system, Comact saw line with profiling systems, and a fully-automated mill outfeed. The planer mill will be equipped with the all-new Miller high speed planer, a Comact GradExpert and a fully-automated mill outfeed specialized in cut-in-two
handling. Lumber drying will utilize continuous kiln technology provided through two Deltech dual path kilns. Since 2013, BID Group’s business focus has been to establish a Southern regional base consisting of a local manufacturing facility with the ability to offer regionally based after-sales services. BID Group now has a world class complex in South Carolina in addition to 13 other facilities spread across the continent to better serve regional needs while reducing geographical costs and barriers. Biewer Lumber announced in December its plan to build an $85 million sawmill and create 125 jobs. Biewer currently operates four Midwest-based sawmills.
Sierra Pacific Goes With USNR VSS USNR reports that Sierra Pacific Industries has selected USNR/Söderhamn Eriksson to supply two Vertical Shape Saw (VSS) lines and horizontal resaw infeed and outfeed as well as optimization and PLC controls for the greenfield stud mill to be built at Shelton, Wash. l USNR also announced that AS Textuur of Estonia has placed an order with Söderhamn Eriksson/USNR for a debarking and saw line. The order comprises a Cambio debarking line, a SuperSaver band saw line featuring merry-goround conveyors, a Eurosaw resaw and a Catech edger optimizer system. The complete line is designed for a capacity of 75,000 m3 logs per year. Textuur processes primarily pine logs to produce furniture, windows and millwork components in its plant at KarksiNuia, Estonia. The new equipment will allow the company to increase its production and improve the quality of its raw component stock.
JoeScan Hires Reagin As Computer Engineer David Reagin has joined JoeScan as a hardware and software engineer. Reagin has spent the past 15 years working at Intel, where his primary responsibility was validating microprocessors. At JoeScan, Reagin’s role is device-level programming. He will be instrumental in developing the future generation of JoeScan’s products. Reagin’s life-long fascination with computers led him to the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. 52
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MACHINERYROW Collins Pine Has Handle On Moisture Family-owned Collins Pine is turning out quality lumber products at its sawmill in Boardman, Ore. Rick Engebretsen, dry end superintendent at Collins’ Upper Columbia Mill in Boardman, filled in the details about the operation. “We are an interesting type of mill, a lot different than most facilities due to the fact that we run a product that comes from a sustainable tree farm. The Greenwood Tree Farm Fund chose Collins to produce the products that come out of the Pacific Albus, a hybrid poplar tree that we have here.” Engebretsen notes that Collins contines to invest in the newest sawmill technologies, including a new merchandising system last year that scans the logs and has five bucking saws. Peelers are kicked out to a belt which carries the segments over to a Columbia Forest Products veneer plant next door for lathe peeling. Sawmill pieces continue to the infeed of a Comact twin bandmill which pulls
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off the outside boards that go to the edger and the center cant then goes on to a TMT gang. Dry kilns dry lumber down to about 7.5% moisture content. “We use Wagner hand meters to detect the moisture content when the lumber is down close to its finish time in its schedule,” Engebretsen says. “The Wagner meters have been very accurate. We calibrate them approximately once every six months, but they’re hardly ever out of calibration.” Engebretsen says they have two inline Omega systems to check the lumber. The lumber goes across four Omega pads that are transverse to the lumber to hit four different spots on each piece that goes across the grader deck, which gives an average and a peak for each board so they can detect if there are any wet pockets. The Omega In-Line Moisture Measurement System, which uses up to eight sensors to check lumber moisture levels 300 times a second, can communicate data to sophisticated grading systems. It can generate reports that track moisture over time to see if any deviation is showing between kilns.
Erlandsson Returns To Woodeye Former Woodeye CEO and president Leif Erlandsson has returned to head the company after an eight-year absence. Erlandsson replaces Jonas Eklind, who has left Woodeye to become president of Cleanergy in Gothenburg, Sweden. “We are extremely pleased that Leif has chosen to come back to work with us,” says Woodeye Chairman Federico Giudiceandrea. “Leif knows the company and the industry and has an abundance of experience in the woodworking industry and in managing international tech-based companies.” Woodeye has more than 550 scanner installations worldwide. Customers include many of the world’s leading sawmills and producers of components. “It is great to be back at Woodeye,” says Erlandsson. “Woodeye is one of the strongest trademarks in the industry and is the home of some of the brightest minds within the image processing community. It is a great team to lead.”
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Three-Legged Stool By Chuck Roady and Paul McKenzie When the public hears the term “forest products industry,” most folks immediately think of manufacturers, sawmills and corporate landowners. When the folks at F.H. Stoltze Land & Lumber Co. of Columbia Falls, Mont. hear the term, we envision a three-leg stool with each Chuck Roady of F.H. Stoltze leg carrying an equal but different role, opportunity and set of challenges. The three legs of that stool are the forest landowner, the loggingtrucking infrastructure, and manufacturing facilities. We all want the goal of healthy forests because they are where we live, raise our families, recreate, and make our living. We need all three legs of this stool to have the opportunity to be financially and operationally healthy to achieve those goals. Stoltze is a 103-year-old family company that owns forestlands, a sawmill, a wood-fired power plant, and is a logging contractor. We are very fortunate to have a unique perspective, because we get to experience all three of the legs! The importance of the relationships between these three legs is critical to Stoltze. Over the years we have developed a working philosophy that centers on mutual respect of the three primary components of this industry. As land managers and contractors, we are given a simple but powerful directive from the Stoltze family: “Treat the land as if it were your own.” In those simple words lies the opportunity for pride in ownership and the responsibility of accountability for our actions. Fostering the relationship between the mill, logger and landowner is something that takes continual effort and quite honestly requires compromise and a commitment to see the greater common goal. At any one time, each leg of that stool could make business or operational decisions that may strengthen one leg, but would do so at the risk of weakening the other two legs. Trying to find a balance that is good for all is quite a challenge and requires significant effort by all parties. For Stoltze, the relationship between mill and logger is truly based on trust and mutual respect. If one looks up the definition of trust you will find words like belief, reliable, good, effective and honesty. We all know that trust is something that is built or earned through common experiences over time. In the words of Ronald Reagan, “trust but verify” is an important step in building a relationship. It is not uncommon at Stoltze to find a 25-year-plus relationship between the company and a logging contractor. We see our contracting force as an essential part of the team to get good forestry work done on the ground, with each contractor hav56
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ATLARGE ing his own position or niche of expertise. The most visible evidence of this trust is the fact that Stoltze does not mark trees. This may not be a unique circumstance in many regions of the country, except for the fact that we rarely implement simple even-age management or plantation thinning prescriptions. Our goal on company lands and most of the small private lands we work on is to manage to an uneven aged-best tree management system which requires individual leave tree selection. Our professional foresters work with our professional logging contractors to discuss the silvicultural goals and desired outcome for the stand, then “turn the clipper operator free to implement those goals.” A primary component of the relationship between Stoltze and its contractors is a strong investment in education, backed up by experience. Stoltze requires all its logging contractors to maintain the highest level of training available in Montana, which is the Accredited Logging Professional designation by the Montana Logging Assn. This is a rigor-
ous program that entails completion of an in-depth Forest Stewardship training, BMPs, safety training, and annual continuing education requirements. Ongoing conversations between foresters and contractors on how to better implement our timber harvests with the long-term goal of forest and business sustainability in mind, rounds out the relationships. Why does Stoltze invest so heavily in the relationship between the mill and the logger? The answer is simple. While it is good for both the mill and logger, ultimately it is also necessary to build a strong relationship with the third leg, the forest landowner. In our neck of the woods, the landowner is not just the private tree farmer or rancher, but the public as well. Over 70% of our forestland in northwestern Montana is in either state or federal ownership. The fact that our contractors are free to bring a landowner to any of their jobs on Stoltze land to show their work and the knowledge that Stoltze will give a fair and honest review of a contractor’s work to a landowner is strong motivation to do their best at all times. The work on the ground is our re-
sume and our report card. It is also a strong marketing tool to help convince other landowners that the Stoltze Team is their best option in managing their lands for the long-term. This relationship is not perfect, as there are things that Stoltze would like to be able to offer contractors that are simply out of our control. One is certainty of continuous work. We operate in a severely constrained stumpage market, even though we are surrounded by a sea of public forests. Stoltze is simply not able to guarantee work for all of our contractors all of the time. That is a frustration to both sides of the partnership, since it constrains us in making necessary business decisions—most significantly capital investment—for the future. Quality of work is often overshadowed by low costs, especially in a highly competitive stumpage market. Montana’s experiences extremely high stumpage values when compared to other parts of the country, mostly due to the shortage of available timber. This relationship and way of doing business comes at a very real financial cost on both sides of the table. The increased cost of operating under such high standards at times can be the difference between getting a job or not, especially if price is the primary deciding factor. Being the best logger or most efficient mill in the world does not do any good if you don’t have stumpage under contract to harvest! So the challenge is to find the balance. Stoltze is very proud to hold both tree farm certification on our company timberlands and a SFI Fiber Sourcing Certificate on our procurement programs. Our quality logging contractors are the basis of both programs. We are hopeful that one day we will see a market that values and is willing to continually pay for quality forest management through the wood products marketplace. Until that day arrives, we have invested in building trust and sustainability as a basis for personal and business relationships between all three legs of the stool. This is good business and the evidence is in the quality of the forest stewardship we leave for the future. TP Chuck Roady is the Vice President & General Manager of F.H. Stoltze. Paul McKenzie is the Lands & Resource Manager. This article was written for the American Loggers Council and appeared in the November issue of Southern Loggin’ Times.
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PRODUCTSCANNER10 PRINT HEADS
Autolog has made significant technological improvements to its ProGrader linear planer optimizer. The mechanical module for the support and protection of the UV code print heads has been replaced by a new model for which the print heads have undergone significant reengineering. The new mechanical module offers the following advantages: l A cantilever type design that reduces the dimensions of the support module. l The print head protection system is now activated by a pneumatic cylinder similar to the other cylinders of the ProGrader. l A pneumatic valve will activate the protection cylinder of the top head. l Once in the above position, a safety mechanical pin can be put in place to prevent the top module from lowering accidentally. l A proximity switch will transmit a warning signal in the event of severe impact. l The lower print head can be moved to the side of the module when the ProGrader is in production of square pieces. The UV code print heads have also undergone significant design changes: l The heads are now assembled in 2 parts: a fixed part fastened to the printer and a mobile part which contains the more fragile components. l It is no longer necessary to pull out the fixed part when a nozzle or other fragile component needs to be replaced; the mill personnel simply remove the mobile part and replace it with a new unit. This process takes less than 10 minutes. l The risk of contamination of the elements is reduced during the replacement process of the mobile module. l The existing print heads can be updated with the new modular concept. Visit autolog.com.
ANTI-DEVIATION DEVICE
Saw+ADD reports it has been busy the last year and a half perfecting its band saw anti-deviation product to be maintenance free and upgrading existing installations. With this maintenance free version which virtually eliminates deviation at the primary breakdown, Saw+ADD has been collecting data on the payback for its customers. Saw+ADD has found the payback to be even shorter than anticipated with customers reporting it to be within a few months. The numbers are showing not just savings from reduction in
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PRODUCTSCANNER10 target size but reduction in unscheduled saw changes by a factor of five. This also reflects in reduced benching time relieving the filing room of overload and enabling them to put up the best saws. Armed with this perfected version, Saw+ADD will be calling on you very soon. Saw+ADD is a band saw lower guide holder with integrated force sensors. It measures side forces on the saw that are a potential for deviation. It also measures the saw strain and the additional sawing strain which is a measure of the sawing power. The technology is extremely responsive so it can be used to slow the feed when necessary to prevent deviation before it starts.Visit saw-add.com.
PORTAL CRANE
Introduced in 1976, Konecranes straight-track portal crane for log handling was a revolutionary concept for North American wood yards. Accustomed to rows of low stacks and a vast storage area serviced by a fleet of rubber-tired loaders, yard operators once had to build and maintain literally miles of roadways to service their inventory. Wood yard managers believed that the ongoing headaches of vehicle maintenance and replacement, fluctuating fuel costs, ground compaction and fuel oil contamination were the inevitable consequences of doing business. Konecranes straight-track all-electric 20-30-ton portal crane was a complete game-changer for wood yard operation. The idea hinged on a condensed wood yard area, which eliminated the need for many of the roads and loaders. Logs could be stacked higher, which meant less breakage and better utilization of space. “First, we had to show the wood yard managers how the allelectric portal crane would achieve 95% or better uptime with an average operator,” says Gary Otto, Product Manager, Portal Cranes for Konecranes. “Then, we needed to show the financial people that the crane had a great return on investment and a short payback, usually less than 24 months and sometimes as short as 12 months, compared to the established multiple loader concept.” Benefits included lower energy cost as electricity replaced fuel oil, less maintenance cost, elimination of double handling and faster truck turnaround time. But the greatest advantage the portal crane delivered was its ability to operate in negative 40° temperatures. Today, Konecranes portal crane design with its lattice-work girder is seen worldwide. In addition to being cost-effective, the open design also allows for easy inspection of critical welds throughout the life of the crane. Compared to a conventional gantry, portal cranes operate on easy-to-install-and-maintain tie and ballast runways. This approach reduces load deflection damage and associated structural and track maintenance. As one would expect from a leader in the research and devel-
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PRODUCTSCANNER10 opment of portal crane technology, Konecranes has continued to evolve its design to save time and make work more productive. Many of Konecranes signature load-handling and diagnostic Smart Feature technologies now come standard on Konecranes portal cranes, and customers can add others as their requirements change. Visit konecranes.com.
AUTOMATED BENCH
Simonds International Corp announces another innovation in filing room productivity. The new model 095 Automated Bench improves filing room productivity for band saw mills. The 095 AB incorporates many features that improve filers productivity and saw consistency. The model 095 automated bench improves on the successful model 090 and incorporates a touch screen control panel that allows the filer to perform leveling and tensioning tasks faster. The 095 has the ability to level and tension saws up to 15" wide and up to 65' long. The design of the 095 allows the filers the ability to load saws onto the machine in a more efficient manner and has many standard features that were optional features on previously offered machines. The machine performs all scanning via a contact sensor that has been proven to be more accurate than a tested optical laser measurement device. The measurements made via the sensor are fed into the computer, the machine performs all calculations, adds the appropriate back, tension and tire line to the band. Following on the groundbreaking success of the original Simonds automated bench, the new 095 AB simultaneously levels and tensions the saw while measuring to .0004" across the entire area of the saw—length and width. The touch screen is large and can be operated even while wearing gloves. “The Learn Mode on the Simonds 095 AB allows the filer to load a properly leveled and tensioned saw on the AB and the machine will measure, document and ‘learn’ the bench work specifications such that it can be stored and reused on subsequent runs. The filer can duplicate the specifications on all saws by simply recalling the program stored in memory,” comments Ray Eluskie, Product Manager of Simonds International Corp. Simonds was founded in 1832 and is a leading supplier of cutting solutions for the North American wood industry. Simonds has manufacturing plants in Fitchburg, Mass.; Big Rapids, Mich.; Camden, Ala.; and Portland, Ore. and distribution centers in Langley, BC; Granby, QC; and Louisville, Ky. Visit simondsint.com.
IN-WOODS MATS
EMTEK mats are helping timber companies keep logs moving despite inclement weather and its toll on access roads. Traditional matting techniques have been a desperate measure and marginal investment, but durable and lightweight EMTEK tech-
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strength of sawn lumber. Protective steel edges and treatment with copper to fight rot and decay combine to extend their life two to three times that of traditional timber mats. EMTEK mats weigh only half as much as traditional timber mats but last twice as long. This enables timber companies to reduce hauling costs and spread their mat investment over more harvests. “We have made continuous developments to the construction of our EMTEK products over the years to help extend the life of our own rental inventories. These same benefits are helping timber companies reduce overall costs of operations”, states Jon Fiutak, general manager of Anthony Hardwood Composites. Companies like Plum Creek have made this work to their advantage.
“We can haul more than twice the amount of matting with EMTEK and the mats show no signs of wear with the protective edges,” says Kris Pope, Resource Supervisor with Plum Creek. EMTEK mats have been manufactured exclusively by Anthony Hardwood Composites, Inc. in Sheridan, Ark, since 2004 under four U.S. patents. With a state-ofthe-art facility and flexible manufacturing capabilities, custom sizes can be produced to match existing logging equipment capabilities. Visit anthonycomposites.com.
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9-11—Hardwood Manufacturers Assn. 2016 National Conference & Expo, The Worthington Renaissance, Fort Worth, Tex. Call 770-631-6701; visit slma.org.
8-12—Wood Processing Machinery & Intermob Fair, Tüyap Fair Convention and Congress Center, Istanbul, Turkey. Call +90 212 867 11 00; visit intermobistanbul.com/en.
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5-7—Kentucky Forest Industries Assn. 51st annual meeting, The Brown Hotel, Louisville, Ky. Call 502-695-3979; visit kfia.org.
MAY 6-7—Northeastern Forest Products Equipment Expo, Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, Vt. Call 315-3693078; visit northernlogger.com/content/loggers-expo. 13-14—Expo Richmond 2016, Richmond Raceway Complex, Richmond, Va. Call 804-737-5625; visit exporichmond.com. 24-28—Xylexpo 2016, Fiera Milano Rho Fairgrounds, Milan, Italy. Phone +39-02-89210200; Visit xylexpo.com/index.php/en.
JUNE 1-4—WMF 2016—The 16th International Exhibition on Woodworking Machinery and Furniture Manufacturing Equipment, China International Exhibition Center, Beijing, China. Call (852) 2516 3518; visit chinaexhibition.com.
JULY 23-26—Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers Summer Conference, The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. Call 336885-8315; visit appalachianwood.org.
AUGUST 24-27—International Woodworking Fair 2016, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 404-693-8333; visit iwfatlanta.com.
SEPTEMBER 26-27—28th Annual WMI Workshop on Design, Operation and Maintenance of Saws and Knives, Holiday Inn Portland Airport, Portland, Ore. Call 925-943-5240; visit woodmachining.com. 28-30—Timber Processing & Energy Expo, Portland Expo Center, Portland, Ore. Call 334-834-1170; visit timberprocessingandenergyexpo.com.
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