Moisture Content Management Improves Profitability in Primary Wood Products Operations

Moisture Gontent (MC) Management Systems

Managing Moisture

683iCE Moisture Content Management System with Info-Pak@ Plus for Windows NT@ - Measure every board, marking/eliminating any above target MC. Capture and organize every MC reading for analysis, archiving and reports for date/time, species, groups and runs. Shorten kiln schedules, lower target sizes and improve grade recovery for improved profitability through moisture content management.

Moisturc Detection

683iCE Moisture Content Detection System - Electro-magnetic wave sensors continuously measure every board. When pre-set MC limits are violated the unacceptable board(s) are marked or dropped out.

Moisture Gontent (MG) Spot Ghecking Stickered Units

L6l2/L712 KilnlDrying Management System - This lumber drying management system accurately measures the moisture content of boards deep in stickered units in minutes. The PC compatible software organizes and captures every MC reading enabling you to manage ho4 when and where large volumes of lumber are dried.

Single Boards

L601-3 Quick Scanning MC Measurement Hand Meter - Wagner's best analog hand meter is built for rugged, constant use. It rapidly scans entire boards to a minimum depth of one-inch. Ask about our full line of hand meters for industrial, commercial and consumer applications.

Call for a free feasibility study, to determine the potential payback of a Wagner Moisture Content llanagement System or for prices on either Wagner's KilM)rying Management System or one of Wagner's Moisture Content Spot Checking Solutions.

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Will we walk the walk?

The sleel, plastic and concrete industries continue stepping up their efforts to displace wood as the preferred building product. Wood is also challenged by environmentalists determined to diminish wood use both through lawsuits and, increasingly, in the marketplace demanding certified wood and other initiatives. Attacks are coming from all directions.

This has not gone unnoticed in our industry and, finally, we have begun to see movement toward a coordinated response.

Dave Rogoway, president of APA-The Engineered Wood Association, described the problem at their annual convention. Citing research regarding negative public attitudes abut wood versus competing products, he said, "It is time to rebuild a positive image for wood in consumers' minds. If we don't act soon, the court of public opinion will render its verdict without hearing all the facts. We can't let our detractors define who we are."

The success of the environmental movement in demonizing the wood products industry has been all too real. Their efforts are coordinated, well-financed and imbued with an almost religious fervor. Many within it seek to stop virtually all tree cutting and wood use. Calm, rational voices on the other side are few and far between. It shouldn't be this way, but it is.

The wood products industry needs to fund and create an ongoing campaign to offset the damage done thus far and deflect future threats. "An industrywide strategic plan is critical," Rogoway says, "and we are working with other wood products associations, allied groups and manufacturers to develop the outlines of such a plan."

We wish them well. The need is there and the threat is real. The problem is our industry has talked the talk before but failed to walk the walk. Let's hope this time every group with a stake in the problem can be coordinated before more damage is done to America's number one renewable resource.

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