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THE SHOW(S) MUST GO ON! f you think the pandemic caused the death of live trade shows, think again. Just take one quick browse through this issue. In fact, trade shows almost snowballed us over this month. One of the advertisement selling points of any issue is when that issue will be distributed at an upcoming show. Well, how about three shows, and it could have been more. When I looked at our media planner some weeks ago it struck me that our ad sales reps were selling the September issue on its distribution at the IWF show in Atlanta, August 22-25; the Timber Processing & Energy Expo in Portland, September 28-30; and the Xylexpo exhibition in Milan, Italy, October 12-15. Which means we had to be ready to receive press releases from any numbers of companies who are advertising in this issue and also exhibiting at any of those shows. As it turned out, the influx of copy for the IWF and TP&EE shows was significant enough that we created special preview sections. We also received a release or two pertaining to Xylexpo. The issue was also to have been distributed at the Lesdrevmash event in Moscow, September 12-15, but we decided not to fight through those channels, and who knows if we will ever venture that way again. But as much as we want to complain about the work load brought on by tons of incoming copy, are you kidding me? Talk about a good problem to have. Think back to two years ago. Silence. Virtual. Boring. A couple of important points about the TP&EE show in Portland: As noted in the preview story on page 44, while the Portland machinery show has always been heavier-tilted toward the sawmill industry, and still is, it maintains a significant panel industry presence, by way of multiple exhibitors who partake of that industry. Check out the preview section beginning on page

50 and you’ll see what I mean. These companies will be showcasing and discussing some important technologies and services during TP&EE. I would suggest, if you work with a panel producer company, that your company consider sending a few folks to Portland. And not only to see what might be new, but to simply get out and talk with other people, in whatever facet of wood products they may be, and enjoy some time away from the mill or office. Another point about Portland is that it will have mini-conference entitled, “From Forest to Frame: Mass Timber Developments,” on one day and an optional Mass Timber Tour on the next day. We realize and appreciate the Mass Timber Conference that is held every spring in Portland. The organizers have done a great job with that event. We view our mini-conference as kind of an in-betweener that serves to educate some people who attend TP&EE and may not be all that in-tune with mass timber developments or the potential of mass timber markets. Did I mention that this issue will also be distributed at the annual APA—The Engineered Wood Assn. meeting October 15-18 in Miami? See what I mean? PW

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(Founded as P l y w o o d & P a n e l in 1960—Our 516th consecutive issue) VOLUME 63 NO. 5

SEPTEMBER 2022

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TP&EE LAYOUT Portland Bound

PROJECTS Drum Monster PELICE III Depth Of Detail

UPDATE Lots Of Developments

SECOND LOOK Roseburg’s CEW

GEO DIRECTORY Veneer/Panel Suppliers

PANELWORKS Classified Advertising

IWF PREVIEW Atlanta Bound

TP&EE TAKEOUT Mass Timber

TP&EE EXHIBITORS Gearing Up

COVER: States Industries brings even more flexibility to its hardwood plywood and components factory in Eugene, Ore. with a new Biele Group four-opening press. Story begins on PAGE 18. (Dan Shell photo)

TP&EE PREVIEW The Panel Side

EVENTS Going Strong Now

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PACIFIC WOODTECH ACQUIRES LP EWP

Burlington, Wash.-based Pacific Woodtech announced the acquisition of Louisiana-Pacific Corp.’s EWP division for $210 million. The acquisition includes LP laminated veneer lumber and I-Joist manufacturing facilities in Wilmington, NC; Red Bluff, Calif.; and Golden, British Columbia, associated timber license assets, and the SolidStart laminated strand lumber brand. The acquisition comes as PWT expands its North American engineered wood product offerings. “Adding Golden, Wilmington, and Red Bluff to PWT’s existing EWP business will propel the company into new growth,” comments President and CEO Jim Enright. “PWT continues to drive positive change at the cutting edge of engineered wood products, and this acquisition will provide a more streamlined and focused resource for the industry. We are working hard to make this a seamless transi-

tion, one that allows for the retention and care of current employees and clients and strengthens PWT’s position as a leading force in the EWP market going forward.” PWT has experienced impressive growth in the industry since its inception in 1998, a result of its commitment to innovation and its sole focus on engineered wood products for more than 20 years. “We believe that Pacific Woodtech is well positioned to invest in and grow the SolidStart brand, and its acquisition of LP’s EWP business marks another important step in LP’s ongoing strategic transformation,” says LP Chair and CEO Brad Southern. “We will work with Pacific Woodtech to ensure a smooth transition for our EWP employees, customers, and suppliers. I want to express my sincere thanks to the entire EWP team for their patience and professionalism throughout this process. I wish them all the best moving forward.”

RECYCLED WOOD WILL FEED KRONOSPAN MILL Kronospan is investing more than 400 million euros in a new manufacturing facility of wood-based panels for the furniture industry in Tortosa (Catalonia), Spain. This is one of the largest foreign investments ever recorded in the area and will lead to the creation of more than 185 direct jobs and around 1,500 additional indirect jobs in timber supply, logistics, maintenance and services. Javier Macicior, general manager of Kronospan Spain, explains this is a 100% sustainable project that aligns with the principles of the circular economy. The economic impact of this investment will be highly significant, as it will involve the creation of a business cluster of related companies near the new site. The new factory will work with up to 100% recycled wood sourced from discarded end-of-life domestic furniture collected by Kronospan suppliers. The factory plans to receive 100 ➤ 12

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UPDATE WEYERHAEUSER LED DURING KEY YEARS eorge H. Weyerhaeuser Sr., who served as president and CEO of Weyerhaeuser Co. from G 1966 to 1991 during an exciting period of wood

advances in sustainable, high-yield forestry and wood products research, as well as expansion into overseas markets, among many other achieveproducts development while encountering new timments. He left a tremendous legacy and will be ber supply challenges brought on by an aggressive greatly missed by everyone in the greater Weyerenvironmental movement in the Northwest, died haeuser family and community.” June 11 in his sleep at home in Lakewood (TacoWeyerhaeuser led a reorganization and culturma), Wash. He was 95. al change at Weyerhaeuser in the early 1980s Weyerhaeuser, who continued to serve as Board that streamlined the managerial process toward Chairman through 1999, was the great-grandson of quicker decision-making at the operations level. Weyerhaeuser Co. founder Frederick Weyerhaeuser. Sketch of George He also oversaw the company’s strong push into Weyerhaeuser oversaw significant growth of the Weyerhaeuser as engineered wood products. company, including a number of major timberland appeared in Seattle In the mid 1980s Weyerhaeuser said, “There is acquisitions, and had an enduring impact on the evo- Business magazine, a revolution going on in what used to be traditionlution of forest management at Weyerhaeuser and November 1986. al forest products markets. I could go down all of across the industry. He was also instrumental in the our major product lines and I could tell you what development of international relationships and markets, espe- we have going on, but I’ll just tell you that if we move forward cially with Japan. five, six, seven years we’re going to be experiencing a com“George was an extraordinary person and leader—one of the pletely new set of products which are going to be designed most influential in the history of the industry,” says Devin with properties built into them and those properties are going Stockfish, president and CEO of Weyerhaeuser. “He brought to be developed by different kinds of fibers and overlays mixtransformational changes to our company, including important tures right in the basic products.” ➤ 10

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UPDATE 8➤ Also in the 1980s Weyerhaeuser led the company’s movement toward more independent logging contractor operations and less emphasis on company logging operations. “With the changes in our logging areas, somewhat more scattered, smaller timer, we need smaller more flexible operations,” he said. “When we looked at the option of reinvesting in a very large set of company operations we found the answer to be very easy to arrive at. We had to get a good deal more competitive and in doing so we’re going to downsize and put in a major amount of contracting.” It was said of Weyerhaeuser, “His personal presence was powerful. He was honorable, confident and optimistic. He liked to focus on getting things done. He wanted his office to be out on the floor with his executive team, working in the daily grind of decision-making and policy formation. He liked people. When you were with him, you would feel his warmth and his focus on you. This was great motivation for people around him.” Weyerhaeuser was born on July 8, 1926 to Helen Walker Weyerhaeuser and J.P. (Phil) Weyerhaeuser Jr. During the early years of his life, the family lived in Idaho, and then moved to Tacoma in 1933. Fame came to Weyerhaeuser very early in his life as an 8year-old child when during the Depression, in May 1935, he was kidnapped. The kidnappers took him while he was on his

way home from elementary school in Tacoma, and held him for eight days in various trunks and closets and even in a freshly dug pit in the ground. He was ultimately left on the side of a forest road and walked to a farmhouse, whose inhabitants reunited him with his family. Weyerhaeuser did not let that experience derail his life nor cloud his feelings toward other people. When speaking to Sports Illustrated in 1969, he said, “A boy is a pretty adaptable organism. He can adjust himself to conditions in a way no adult could. It didn’t affect me personally as much as anyone looking back on it might think.” Years later he wrote the parole board supporting release for one of the kidnappers, and offered him a job to help his transition back into society. Weyerhaeuser went to the Taft School in Watertown, CT for high school and later served as a Trustee for the school. He served in the Navy from 1944-46, a young entrant as the war was winding down. He studied engineering and received a B.S in Industrial Administration from Yale University in 1949. Weyerhaeuser married Wendy Wagner on July 10, 1948. Weyerhaeuser inherited from his family a very strong work ethic. In the early years of his career he worked in mills in Longview, Wash. and Springfield, Ore., and then moved up to positions of manager and vice president in several divisions of the Weyerhaeuser Co. He became a young ➤ 12

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UPDATE 10 ➤ CEO for Weyerhaeuser Co. at age 39. Weyerhaeuser worked for years on a plan to build a new corporate headquarters in Federal Way, Wash., that used an open floor plan to encourage communication across departments. The building was at the forefront of modern design for a corporate work setting and won awards including one for environmental merit. Weyerhaeuser served on the Boards of The Boeing Co., SAFECO Corp., Standard Oil of CA, and The Rand Co. He was a member of The Business Roundtable; Council on Foreign Relations; Board of Visitors, UPS School of Law; Advisory Board, Graduate School of Business Administration, U. of Washington; Japan-California Assn.; The Business Council; the Federal Reserve Board of San Francisco; and the Washington Council on International Trade, among others. There was an oil tanker named for him by Chevron while he was serving on that board. 6 ➤ trucks of recycled wood daily, which will be cleaned, crushed and processed into boards. The new plant will incorporate a state-of-the-art particleboard press capable of producing 2,000 m³ daily. The planned production is 720,000 m³/year.

After decades of being an avid tennis player, he spent his final years watching the tennis channel, doing Sudoku and reading The Economist. He was predeceased by his sisters, Ann Pascoe and Elizabeth (Wiz) Meadowcroft; his brother, J.P. (Flip) Weyerhaeuser Jr.; and by his wife of 66 years, Wendy, who passed away in 2014. He was also predeceased by his son, George Weyerhaeuser Jr., in 2013 and his grandson Karl Griggs in 2014. He is survived by his children: Merrill Weyerhaeuser (Patrick Welly), David Weyerhaeuser (Sarah), Phyllis Griggs, Sue Messina (Bob Newkirk), daughter-in-law Kathy McGoldrick, Leilee Weyerhaeuser (Damian Rouson), 15 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Contributions can be made to one of the following organizations: the Pacific Bonsai Museum, the Forest History Society or the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation. A memorial service was being planned.

The infrastructure construction started in February 2022 and will cover 25 hectares, including a 40-meters high cleaning tower and photocells separating the wood chips from the waste material. The heat required for the production process will be sourced from a

biomass boiler fueled by bark and process wood rejects, which are unsuitable for wood-based panels. Solar panels installed on the factory’s roof will help power the production lines with clean and renewable energy.

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UPDATE

WESTERN FP EYES MASS TIMBER BIZ

Western Forest Products Inc. announced that a wholly owned subsidiary of Western has entered into an agreement to acquire certain assets of Calvert Company, Inc. located in Washington State for consideration US$12 million. Calvert is one of the oldest glulam manufacturers in the U.S. and has more than 60 years of experience producing high quality glulam beams in multiple species, including Douglas fir, southern yellow pine and yellow cedar, for industrial, commercial and residential projects around the world. Calvert has manufacturing facilities in Washougal, Wash. and Vancouver, Wash. with a combined annual glulam capacity of approximately 35MMBF on a two shift basis. Calvert’s operations employ 60 and produced 13MMBF of glulam in 2021 on a single shift basis. As part of the transaction, Western has created a new engineered wood subsidiary which will remain focused on

further growth opportunities throughout the entire mass timber value chain. Western has a lumber capacity in excess of 1 billion BF from seven sawmills and four remanufacturing facilities. The company sources timber from its private lands, long-term licenses, First Nations arrangements, and market purchases.

COLLINS NAMES INSKO PRESIDENT & CEO

Collins announced that Tom Insko will become the President & CEO of the company, succeeding retiring Eric Schooler. Insko, an Oregon native, will assume responsibilities on October 1 for the Wilsonville, Ore.-based Collins. Insko currently serves as President of Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, a position he has held since 2015. He also has extensive background in the wood products industry. He was with Boise Cascade for 20 years, holding positions as plant manager, production manager, senior financing manager, region manager, and area manager. At the

time of his departure from Boise, he was responsible for nine manufacturing facilities with more than 1,100 employees. Insko’s manufacturing experience spans plywood, composite panels, lumber, and laminated beams. He has also worked extensively in forest policy and management, log and fiber procurement, sales and finance. He is currently a commissioner on the Oregon Business Development Commission and previously served two terms on the Oregon Board of Forestry. “Tom lives by ethics and values that are well aligned with those of our company and family,” states Cherida Collins Smith, Board Chair. “He has a vast amount of experience dealing with the complexities in our business as well as demonstrated success in meeting challenges inherent in our industry and in these times that we were looking for to succeed the leadership Eric Schooler has undertaken in the last 21 years.” Insko holds bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Business Economics from Eastern Oregon University and

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an MBA from the College of William & Mary. Collins operates softwood sawmills in Lakeview, Ore.; Chester, Calif.; and a hardwood sawmill in Kane, Pa.; and a particleboard mill in Klamath Falls, Ore.; and operates substantial timberland holdings.

PAPER EXCELLENCE BUYS RESOLUTE Richmond, BC-headquartered and privately held holding company, Paper Excellence Group, a manufacturer of pulp and paper products with seven facilities in Canada, through its whollyowned subsidiary Domtar Corp. is acquiring Montreal-based Resolute Forest Products. The cash consideration represents an enterprise value of $2.7 billion, as reported by the companies. Resolute will become a whollyowned subsidiary of Domtar and continue to operate on a business-as-usual basis under the Resolute name. The

Resolute management team will remain in place at the company’s headquarters. Resolute owns or operates 40 facilities, as well as power generation assets, in the U.S. and Canada in four business segments: market pulp, tissue, paper and wood products. It operates four pulp mills, four tissue facilities, seven paper mills and 22 wood products facilities including 17 sawmills with 2.9 billion BF of capacity, two reman facilities, two engineered wood products facilities and a wood pellet plant. It also has 13 power generation assets, including seven hydroelectric facilities and six cogeneration facilities. Earlier this year, Resolute acquired LP’s 50% interest in two Resolute-LP joint ventures that produce I-joists.

ROSEBURG CONTINUES PROJECT EVALUATION Roseburg continues to conduct analysis and evaluation toward the feasibility of locating a second MDF panel plant or

bioenergy production facility within its current Western, U.S. operating footprint. The proposed facility would use up to 300,000 bone-dry tons of wood residuals each year. This fiber would be sourced from current company operations and from existing long-term suppliers. A decision is anticipated at the end of this year or early next year. In the West, Roseburg owns more than 400,000 acres of timberland in Oregon and operates several wood products facilities in Oregon and northern California, including a MDF plant in Medford, Ore. The company also owns and operates one of the world’s largest wood chip exporting operations in Coos Bay, Ore.

ATLAS ANNOUNCES CONTINUATION FUND Atlas Holdings LLC announced the close (establishment) of Atlas Capital Resources I CF LP, a $395.6 million continuation vehicle that has acquired controlling interests in six Atlas ➤ 69

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NEW SHORT CYCLE PRESS TAKES STATES INDUSTRIES PLANT TO NEW QUALITY LEVEL, SHARPENING CUSTOMER FOCUS Also, robotics investment improves quality while making labor more manageable. BY DAN SHELL

EUGENE, Ore. nvestments and upgrades at States Industries’ manufacturing operations have made the company more competitive and increased customer focus on value creation by responding to market needs. The company promotes its close customer relationships and working with customers to custom build panels and panel components that perfectly fit customer needs. At Eugene, the company’s manufacturing facilities produce a wide variety of panels including hardwood plywood, wall paneling, commercial panels and also pre-cut and machined components available from the value-added facility adjacent the panel mill. A new four-opening short cycle Biele Group press started up in early 2021 has the plant streamlining its 3-ply production, allowing it to focus closely on customers with high-end demands while increasing overall quality and reducing downfall. The customer-focused hardwood producer has also invested in robotics as part of a key quality control process that allows employs to work safer and concentrate on quality and not on handling panels.

Ted Downs, VP of Manufacturing, notes that States Industries approaches the market differently than many producers: Instead of relying on log conversion for a significant part of its operating margin, States Industries relies on on close customer relationships that involve engineering the best products to meet customer needs in their own operations and markets. “We all care about the customer, yet we come at it in different ways,” he says. “But the anchor point of what makes us go is truly customer first.” In doing so, Downs says, “Our primary goal is to engineer our panels around what works best for our customers and to be a manufacturing partner that assists them, in a variety of market segments, to be successful.”

PRESS PROJECT Downs notes that all of the shortcycle presses that States considered came from Europe. The three finalists all had good systems but the decision came down to timelines, confidence, quality and of course, price. The European mill tour hosted by Biele included a visit to the company’s facilities, where States Industries per-

New Con-Vey robotics line boosts quality, safety.

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New press enables focus on three-ply products and two-step production, greatly reducing fall-down and increasing overall quality.

sonnel were able meet the engineering team and get an idea about the overall scope of the company. The company’s overall engineering capacity, press conveyance process and work with system integration gave the Americans confidence, Downs adds. The project began in earnest at the end of 2019—just in time for the pandemic to slow the project down. By the time installation began in late 2020, the process was workable but still affected by U.S.-Europe travel restrictions and work visa issues. Downs says the startup in first quarter 2021 went well, “But it really came down to not being able to get the entire team here in time to meet the original time frame,” he says, adding that local congressional reps provided help in getting visa paperwork moving. Switching the press from a Siemens to Allen-Bradley control system was another challenge, as was the overall fully integrated nature of the installation, but Downs says the benefits of the new press

were apparent soon after it went in. “The fall-down rate dropped tremendously when we put the press in,” he adds. With high-end panels comes higher material costs, so debris or other contaminants in the press are a big deal. Traditional multi-opening vertical presses that handle a variety of products in addition to high-end panels require more cleaning and maintenance to perform well across a broad range of grades and panel types. The new Biele press targets 3-ply and two-step production products and enables the plant to better handle customers with smaller orders and also works in close tandem with the adjacent components plant. The setup has given the components facility even quicker response time when working with its customers. Providing a higher percentage of on-spec panels with fewer defects also has a knock-on effect for customers that in turn boosts the recovery of every shipment.

The press system feeds cores automatically, and an operator is there to monitor sheet placement prior to infeed. Downs says the operations group can see the value of automation, but still wants an experienced person in that role. Panels are trimmed after the press outfeed, and pass through a vertical putty section where repair and fill material can be applied if needed before.

ROBOTIC BENEFITS The robotics investment features an ABB robot system and grading line from Con-Vey that was installed in fourth quarter 2021. The project has paid benefits in several ways including productivity, labor efficiency and safety. With its customer focus, the mill has always provided an extra quality control check for select panel categories to meet customer expectations—just one final QC look before the product goes to shipping. Downs calls it a “significant minori-

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Vertical putty line at press outfeed is another innovation.

ty” of production, but the extra process has always required several employees to look at the face, flip the panel, look at the back and then place it in a good stack or shop stack. The process added to cost and in today’s tight labor market it was getting tougher to assign a crew to the process without affecting other plant operations. “The robot allows us to reallocate those people to other parts of the plant where they are needed—and we’re still able to inspect every panel,” Downs says. Depending on product, those panels may come from a sanding line, or a UV roll coating pre-finish line, and are introduced to the robotic grading system. A roll case moves panels past a grader, then the robot picks each panel up and provides a close-up look at the underside before placing it in a good or shop material stack. Material handling equipment, the grader’s station with touchscreen and controls and the ABB robot were all provided by Con-Vey. The new system not only allows the grader to concentrate on quality, it’s also much safer with no employees lifting or turning panels, Downs adds.

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PLANT FLOW The company buys both green and dry graded veneer. At the softwood veneer warehouse, softwood veneer is regraded, then prepared and introduced to one of three spreaders that feed three multi-opening presses. Hardwood veneer is also graded with face and back batches made to correspond to orders at both the new short cycle press and the multi-opening presses. After pressing at the multi-opening presses, panels are sawn to size, pass through repair sections if needed, then through one of three sanding lines. From there, panels can go into inventory, to the pre-finishing line or to the robotic grading line. Blank panels are routed to the short-cycle press line where they receive overlays.

BACKGROUND

Components plant has full lineup of value-added CNC cutting and machining equipment.

Founded in 1966 as a wall paneling manufacturer in Eugene, Ore., States Industries has been a panel industry innovator for more than half a century, with a list of industry milestones to its credit. In 1974, the company began manufac-

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turing industrial hardwood plywood. The 1980s were a decade of innovation for States Industries, introducing its successful ApplePly products in 1984 and ArmorCore in 1988. A year later, States established its first full component processing capability. The company was the first panel manufacturer to become FSC certified, in 1992, and also the first to offer pre-finished panels beginning in 1993. States Industries shipped its first soybonded panels in 2008, and in 2010 introduced its Versa and Novo Peak product lines. The company expanded its valueadded side into fully finished products in 2012, with the purchase of Drawer Box Specialties (DBS) in Orange, Calif. The company manufactures custom drawer boxes in a wide variety of substrates and is a strategic extension of States Industries’ value-added components business. After celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2016, States Industries became the first producer to receive the Hardwood & Plywood Veneer Assn.’s new hardwood plywood certification in 2017. Just a year later, the company earned the EPA TSCA Title VI Certification for Formaldehyde Emissions.

FUTURE Looking ahead, Downs says the plant is running well and with the current tightening of the economy, “The big focus is on efficiency” and continuing to engineer better panels that satisfy the needs of customers. The company is also in the middle of planning for some new capital improvement projects, he adds. He sees labor retention as key to long term success for the all of industry, and

States Industries will continue to work on making the company a better place to work for its employees, he says. “It’s not about flashy benefits; it’s about treating people well, ensuring competitive pay and creating a culture where people want to stay,” he says. With recent investments in pressing and robotics, States Industries is showing how new technology can be an important tool for not only quality and overall success but also for creating a better long-term work environment. PW

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PELICE 2022 BROUGHT EVERYTHING FROM TAGUCHI TO BOARD QUALITY CONTROL Presenters offered an amazing range of depth and technologies. BY RICH DONNELL

PART THREE: This is the third of a four-part series summarizing the presentations delivered during the Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE) held this spring and hosted by Panel World in Atlanta March 31 to April 1. The first two parts appeared in the May and July issues of Panel World, and the fourth and final selection will be in the upcoming November issue. ATLANTA, Ga. erry Liles, director of raw materials, Huber Engineered Woods, dug into the application of EVOP (Evolutionary Operation) and Taguchi Design. He defined EVOP as an ongoing mode of using an operating full-scale process so

that information on how to improve the process is generated from a simple experimental design while production is underway. He noted two methodologies for conducting EVOPs: Factorial Designs, a scientific experiment that determines the influence of multiple factors on the subject, while assuming the process is consistent or under control; and Robust Product Design (or Taguchi Design), a methodology to improve the quality of a product by minimizing the effect of variation without eliminating the causes, and with minimal sensitivity to variation in uncontrollable factors or noise. With either design approach, it’s most important to understand and state the objective for the experiment. “If you can’t define the purpose, why are you doing it?” Have a general model of the process and understand the variation; that is, the total variation is the sum of the real product variation and the measurement system variation; and the measurement system variation is the sum of the variation due to repeatability and due to reproducibility. The sampling strategy is of utmost importance, including the number of samples and tests; and data integrity is crucial. “Am I collecting the right data to answer the questions I’m asking?” One of the advantages of EVOP is the inclusion of many team members, Liles said, and an effective means of communication is essential such as an information board with results, statistics, deviations, graphs, etc. He noted that Taguchi design as an EVOP is most suitable with a larger number of factors and levels, and when fewer experiments are needed; when you’re able to measure the impact of uncontrolled variables; and when there’s a targeted response objective.

Whereas Factorial Design is better when the number of factors and levels is small, experiments are not time-consuming and the costs for the experiments are low, and when a combination of factors could be significant contributors to the response. Jeff Vaughn, eastern regional technical and CI manager for Roseburg, also addressed Design of Experiment Methodology as compared to traditional model of experimentation. The current state of experiments and trials is mostly the “best guess” approach and “one factor at a time” approach, Vaughn said. The best guess approach has advantages through the technical and theoretical knowledge and practical experiences of team members, but this approach is generally not very efficient and can exclude better solutions. The one factor at a time approach is a simple, baseline approach with simple analysis, but fails to consider possible interaction between the factors and doesn’t gain enough data to deliver statistical significance. An alternative approach is statistical design of experiments, including Taguchi, which refers to the process of planning and executing an experiment so that the proper data will be collected an analyzed through statistical methods, resulting in effective and unbiased conclusions

QUALITY CONTROL A series of presentations addressed Quality Control, including one by Richard Lepine, general manager with Argos Solutions. He touched on automatic grading and surface defect inspection technology, initially showing its obvious benefits (speed, defect size and location, no labor issues, verification, etc.) compared to visual inspection.

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He defined new standards for TFL surface defects (such as dirt, spots, fibers, scratches, and area size) and revealed Argo’s automated detection system for printed pattern TFL, including detection of hidden defects in complicated patterns, automatic adjustment for inaccuracies in paper, stretch/shrink, rotation; special illumination; and no learning mode required; and noted the Argos use of different light angles; and finally addressed Argos’ real time monitoring and database system and reporting for categorization and statistical analysis. Keith Mays, president of EWS North America, addressed a range of quality control products from Electronic Wood Systems GmbH, Baumer Inspection Gmbh and Monitor Plus GmbH. He hit on spark detection/extinguishment and board scanning and measurement from EWS, and the SicoScan system in collaboration with Siempelkamp, and within SicoScan the EcoScan NEO – FBD (foreign body detector) and FLY area weight measurement. He provided detail on Baumer’s ColourBrain 4.0 optical top and bottom inspection of raw board, including a new illumination module, running through a Q-Live server environment that provides database, networking and is user-friendly. He addressed Q-Brain, which classifies the defects while QLive provides full transparency to leverage process optimization. He also spoke in detail on Monitor Plus, a system that monitors product quality and actives alarm signals or a production stop if quality specifications are not met. It features SMART camera technology and is designed for any kind of conveying system and entails the latest data processing for its numerous product scanning and detection tasks and functions ranging from bowing to cupping, twisting, curvature, to number of drill holes in wood components, particleboard edge porosity, laminate color and glossiness, profile and contour measurement, through multiple line laser thickness measurement. Continuing with the theme of board scanning and quality control, Michael Spurgin, sales manager North America for Limab, spoke about the different building materials that Limab’s scanning and measurement system caters to. He said Limab’s thickness measurement eliminates the effects from vibrations and bumps. He noted several benefits with in-line measurement, from consistency to re-

duced downtime and increased yield; and the benefits of non-contact versus contact roller systems, including measurement on soft material like insulation to thin board to high speed and rough surfaces, while measurement starts immediately at the front edge of panels. He pointed to multiple locations for Limab installation in a typical board processing line, including after the press, either before or after the sander (verifying that the final product is within tolerances), and with double effec-

tiveness if measurement scanners are located both before and after the sander while using one PC; as well as a three point sander configuration including between the heads. Jason Kovacik, sales manager with Finna Sensors, spoke on production enhancements and profitability by using IoT data-driven moisture control measurement sensors. He reviewed why IoT sensors are trending, including real-time process data, visibility of process trends and conditions, and more focused anal-

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ysis. Compared to non-enabled sensors, IoT sensors enable cloud-based updates, remote diagnostics, and monitoring of sensor health and performance. Kovacik spoke on the criteria for integrating IoT-enabled sensors into your process, including partnering with the right organization and having a strategy for adoption. More technology-specific, he focused on Finna’s OMNIR noncontact, non-destructive, real-time moisture control measurement, which features white light, near-infrared energy filtering and resonance frequency of water molecules, and with advantages built into the associated and minimized system hardware. Kovacik talked about the company’s RF technology including an in-line meter that delivers a full moisture map of boards/pieces; and he addressed their in-line acoustic technology for strength grading. Finna’s products can be implemented and provide value throughout the process, from incoming raw material to drying, energy production and final product quality.

AIR TREATMENT Jaymie Deemer, President of Nestec, Inc., gave an in-depth look at dryer WESP and RTO systems, including the complexities of wood dryer emissions sometimes associated with the dryer technologies and with the particulate materials themselves. Some of these issues, as well as others, can contribute to common ESP and RTO issues and problems. He said, “Wet ESP performance and design of critical components are key to reliable operation, and pointed to numerous such features in both WESP and RTO design, including, in the former, isolable electric fields, extended flushing, simple electrode alignment, irrigation, plug resistant spray nozzles, power supply, continuous loop blowdown, high temperature water flush, caustic grade; and in the latter, proper media, draft arrangements, multiple burners, and proper construction materials such as mastic coatings to protect the shell from condensation, and which materials to avoid such as low grade stainless steel. Rodney Schwartz, vice president Sales & Business Development, Dürr Systems, spoke on the development and testing of new WESP design enhancements including an optimized electrode and tube design. After reviewing various factors that influence WESP performance, and issues and concerns with 26 • SEPTEMBER 2022 • PanelWorld

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Nestec President Jaymie Deemer provides WESP and RTO dos and don’ts.

current designs, he said Dürr approached producers and operators to get their input on current designs. The feedback included: tubes and electrodes get dirty and are difficult to clean, potentially impacting collection performance; capital cost is too high; installation time is too long; foaming problems; mist carryover into RTOs; performance drop when flushed. Dürr promptly set goals for a new WESP based on the feedback, including modular shipping design, better fabrication, flexible sizing, new patentable ideas, online cleaning, offline flushing. Dürr developed a 1/6th to-scale test model and performed testing over 16 weeks with 27 separate flow tests and

55 different particulate removal tests. Testing included various configurations of electrodes, including bottom mounted discharge electrodes that proved highly effective, including the use of a High Area Trap (HAT) that showed numerous benefits. They then built a to-scale 25,000 acfm pilot WESP that was installed at an OSB customer site in the Southern U.S. and was tested for 10 months downstream of rotary flake dryers. The new designs scored high compared to older designs on filterable particulate removal, organic condensable particulate removal, enhanced spray system cleaning and showed numerous other benefits.

The key features of the new product include maximum removal efficiencies, reliable operation, low operating costs, and significantly reduced maintenance. Steve Jaasund, Geoenergy Products Manager for LDX Solution, addressed the benefits of RCOs for wood dryer VOC control, which is not a common practice. He noted the principle of operation for an RCO is similar to the RTO while the catalyst allowed lower combustion chamber temperature and offers significant energy savings. He spoke on scenarios for catalyst deactivation such as poisoning, sintering and masking, but noted poisoning is not a likely problem for wood fired dryers as common poisons are not present in flue gases, alkali sintering occurs at higher tempertures than are typical for an RCO, and while masking can occur if particulate concentration is too high, he recommended ensuring that particulate loading (inlet fly ash) is low enough, upsizing the wet ESP during the initial design and/or adding a second field to the wet ESP, implementing catalyst wash out on an as-needed basis, and conducting regular catalyst performance testing. His energy consumption chart showed significant annual savings (annual fuel cost, annual electric cost) with an RCO system compared to RTO at various gas prices, with RCO payback in a few years. The path forward, Jaasund said, is to install test blocks or thief baskets in existing RTOs operating on a wood fired dryer, and he noted existing RTOs can be catalyzed easily. PW

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SECOND LOOK

EDITOR’S NOTE: The March issue of Panel World featured an article and photos on Roseburg’s new engineered wood plant in Chester, SC, operating as Chester Engineered Wood. The story, written and photographed by Senior Editor Jessica Johnson, received such wide interest that we feel compelled to revisit the plant by publishing additional photos here that did not appear the first go around. Meanwhile, congratulations are in order for Chester Engineered Wood on winning the APA—The Engineered Wood Assn. Annual Safety and Health Award for 2021, and for joining its Incident Free Honor Society. CEW won the Divisional Award for Annual Safety & Health in First Place for Division III (glulam, SCL, CLT and I-joist mills). On top of the Safety & Health award, CEW’s 0 WIR score resulted in joining the Incident Free Honor Roll. “Our Chester Engineered Wood team has done outstanding work on enhancing our safety practices this past year. Lots of targeted hard work went into making improvements that address specific concerns across the entire plant. We are grateful for the strong leadership and teamwork that has overcome many challenges to help us reach this goal, and for distinguished accolades such as this APA award that recognize our efforts,” comments Mike Henry, CEW plant manager.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: The following IWF (International Woodworking Fair) exhibitor companies submitted these editorial profiles and images to complement their advertisements placed elsewhere in this issue. Please refer to those advertisements for web site and contact information. All statements and claims are attributable to the companies.

ARGOS SOLUTIONS We know that your customers expect the best quality! You might need a fully automatic grading system to inspect 100% of your products before sending to your customers or you need an automatic panel repair line (patch line) for your plywood or flooring production. Our global technology is well known around the world and will be available to be presented to you at the show. The Argos Grading System is a powerful and effective system for automating the inspection of all types of surface defects in a wide variety of surfaces. The optical inspection system checks the surface for the smallest defects and monitors the production process continuously. Argos invests significant research and development efforts to maintain and expand our technology leadership. Our high-technology systems and solutions have been preferred by many of the leading global manufac- Argos emphasizes optimized grading and panel repair systems. turers of wood panels (plywood, particleboard, MDF, OSB, engineered wood floor, TLF), furniture and gypsum wallboard. Argos Solutions offers primarily the following products: —Argos Grading System (AGS) is a powerful and effective system for automating the inspection of all types of surface defects. The system is designed to handle panel sizes from small furniture components to full-size panels. Argos is the preferred supplier of automatic grading systems —Argos Panel Repair System is a fast and accurate repair system for plywood and other wood panels. The system can easily be configured to perform many different repair tasks like routing, face-putty, hot-melt putty and 2-component filler. Argos Solutions has more than 30 years of experience with industrial image processing systems and our products are world leaders in the segments in which we compete. Using intelligent camera systems and advanced image processing, even the smallest surface defects are detected, which ensures customers continuous control of the production process and a consistent qualitycontrolled end product. Over the past years, the company has established itself as a global market leader, having delivered more than 400 systems in more than 30 countries. Together with some of the major companies in the industry, Argos continues to tailor-make, develop and innovate their systems to commission reliable solutions that optimizes the production capacity. Booth: C1162

BAUMER INSPECTION The Baumer ColourBrain Panel 4.0 system is the small and smart version for the optical inspection of uncoated and melamine-paper coated fiberboards after pressing and edge trimming in the longitudinal run. Our FlashingSky technology enables precise evaluation, independent of the conveyor belt you use. A standard belt or roller conveyor is sufficient and no vacuum transport is required. The system with its small installation length and low working height can be easily integrated into your existing transport. Booth: C2352

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BIELE GROUP

Biele Group is a European company providing state-of-the art turnkey projects for several domains related to the woodworking industry including their own manufactured hydraulic presses. Biele has consolidated its presence in North America, installing manufacturing lines for leading companies in various sectors and increasing the work team and capacity of its subsidiary Biele USA in Atlanta, Ga., opened in 2015. Biele Group is organized for developing, manufacturing, installing and commissioning at the customer’s site production lines with a high level of technical complexity, but always from a customized and innovative perspective. For panel manufacturers, Biele will show in IWF the latest innovations related to the pressing operations for plywood, Biele Group continues expansion into North America. HPL and EIR technology. In plywood, Biele’s main expertise starts after the drying operation up to the final packaging of the line, including layup lines, prepress and multi-opening presses, trimming and packaging, and also dewatering presses before the drying processes. For furniture manufacturers, Biele will show latest generation lines focused in the high speed feeding and stacking systems (up to 30 cycles/min), fully automatic outsorting and insorting systems, and fully automated packing lines organized in a modular way in order to fit with the customer’s requirements as they can be installed in different stages. Regarding the door industry, Biele manufactures turnkey complete lines, both for residential doors and architectural doors. Biele is flexible to customers’ needs, in a way that the project can be focused to both high production rates with big batch sizes and smaller production rates where every door can be different from the next one (batch size 1). In recent years Biele has become an expert in complete turnkey press lines for manufacturing lightboard panels using different type of glues for the bonding operation, for example PVAC and PUR. Biele by means of its Building Division has been developing and producing turnkey lines for companies processing materials like gypsum, fiber cement, mineral fiber and fiber glass, starting from the motherboard, up to final stacking, boxing and palletizing, with high output and flexible performance, according to customers’ needs. Booth: B7523

DIEFFENBACHER Dieffenbacher Customer Support in Alpharetta, Ga., USA and Dieffenbacher North America Inc. in Windsor, Ontario, Canada are a strong team of more than 80 members serving North American customers, whether building new plants or servicing and modernizing existing installations. The Dieffenbacher booth at IWF will focus on the new holistic smart plant concept called CEBRO that will help manufacturers accelerate their success. CEBRO combines digitalization and advanced plant engineering solutions with operational excellence and sustainability initiatives. The new digitalization platform EVORIS is a pillar of CEBRO. Based on standardized interfaces that collect and process sensor and actuator data—including camera footage—EVORIS gives manufacturers more insight into their production and processes. AI-supported analysis of live data is just one tool EVORIS uses to help plant operators better understand and control their plants and make important decisions more quickly. CEBRO’s advanced plant engineering solutions include intelligent heat recovery concepts such as reusing heat from the press and dryer exhaust air elsewhere in the production process to reduce energy costs and emissions and increase profit. To help manufacturers achieve operational excellence, CEBRO uses optimized processes and innovative technologies that improve board quality, increase output, save costs and support a plant’s sustainability. With wood recycling solutions, smart environmental and new energy-generation technologies, CEBRO also helps manufacturers find the right balance between economic and sustainability goals to build a better future for business and the environment. Companies around the world rely on Dieffenbacher plants and expertise to help them manufacture particleboard, MDF, OSB, LVL and wood fiber insulation boards. The company has 16 production sites and sales offices worldwide. Booth: C1500 36 • SEPTEMBER 2022 • PanelWorld

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HYMMEN

Hymmen will present its latest innovations in industrial digital printing and its other proven plant technologies for the wood-based materials industry: from liquid coating and laminating lines to press technology, flanked by handling equipment, service and plant control. Brand new is the Industry Intelligence solution smart2i from Hymmen. “SATURN Digital Printing Line - a breakthrough in manufacturing digital decor paper” is the slogan with which Hymmen welcomes its visitors to booth C1847. The expert for background information on this new technology is Sebastian Bazyk, Area Sales Manager at Hymmen, who will also give a presentation on the topic entitled “Digital printing of decor paper - the whole value chain at your site” at the Educational Conference on Tuesday, August 23, from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 a.m. As an alternative to digital printing with water-based inks, wood-based panel manufacturers can bring expertise for digital SATURN digital printing line from Hymmen design of their surfaces in-house with UV-drying technology: whether digitally printed decor or digitally printed structure—both are covered by the JUPITER digital printing lines from Hymmen, which have won several innovation awards. With the aid of film footage showing the digital printing line in operation and product samples, visitors to the trade show booth will be able to see for themselves the benefits of the technology, just as several American companies have already done. Three of these digital printing systems with Lacquer Embossing (DLE plus) technology are currently being manufactured for U.S. customers at Hymmen in Bielefeld. Hymmen staff at the booth will also be happy to answer questions about Hymmen’s other equipment technologies (liquid coating, presses and laminating lines). Hymmen’s double belt presses can now even be called the “grandes dames” of wood-based material technologies—even after more than 40 years on the market, they are still as much in demand as ever. This is demonstrated by the six plants alone that Hymmen currently has in its order book. Hymmen’s recently developed Industry Intelligence solution “smart2i” (www.smart2i.cloud), which can be integrated into both new and existing machines or plants, offers special added value for all plant types alike: After all, an outstanding success factor of any technology is ensuring the reproducible quality of the surfaces produced. To ensure this desired quality in the long term, Hymmen has developed a cloud-based quality control system that enables the manufacturer to monitor all production parameters in real time, store them in the cloud, analyze them at any time, and counteract deviations in surface quality in a timely manner. The Hymmen team welcomes visitors to its booth to provide more detailed information on all topics. Booth: C1847

IMAL-PAL GROUP IMAL-PAL group is a leading and flexible manufacturer of equipment and engineering for plants and complete lines, with an extensive reference list for a growing number of applications for the production of OSB, MDF, PB, wood fiber insulation board, pressed pallets, pallet blocks and special production lines for pellets. The group is able to offer a full range of products, including the WMG, a fully automatic knife ring washing system which is part of the Sharpening Room ASR where the flaker knives are sharpened by a 6-axes anthropomorphic robot. The latest versions of the SRC 14.690-EVO4 knife ring flaker and the MSG mill are able to increase capacity by as much as 30% and hence reduce the related KW costs per ton of wood produced. The HD Oscillating Screen with low friction hydrostatic suspension sys- IMAL-PAL complete particleboard preparation tem to support the screening box will also be on show. The continued focus on innovation and development has led to the creation of the “new cleaning tower,” able to remove all pollutants from the material, exploiting height and gravity in order to reduce the number of conveyors required to convey the material from one machine to the other. The new evolution of the “all in one” type Cyclops is an optical selector based on NIR technology detection and ejection by air compressed nozzles; this version is integrated with metal detector and blower; its application is to clean the wood flow from all kinds of pollutants such as plastic, rubber, foam, stones and metals. Another of the group’s core technology is the Hi-Jet resination system for existing and new PB, MDF and OSB lines which can re38 • SEPTEMBER 2022 • PanelWorld

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duce resin addition by as much as 20%. The group has 225 plus systems currently in operation around the world. The latest evolution of the Dynasteam, the mat steam injection system, is installed on more than 132 production lines, and with which it is possible to increase production by up to 30%. The group has also installed more than 85 of the FBC200 (Full Bond/Blister Classifier) and LBC200 worldwide, with more in the pipeline. And last but not least, the SMC200 fully automatic system to prepare board samples for testing purposes cuts, sands and marks the sample with a QR Code. The board is collected from the production line and cut on the basis of the cutting pattern programmed to optimize the number of sample strips produced but above all, to prevent the risk of injury. Moreover, being a fully automatic system fewer laboratory technicians are required. The group will also offer new and modern systems for the production of pallet blocks and pressed pallets, ideal for valorising recycled wood for the manufacture of wood-based products with an elevated added value. Booth: C2222

SIEMPELKAMP Welcome to “Intelligent engineering for future generations.” At IWF Siempelkamp will be present as an exhibitor and is looking forward to welcoming stakeholders from the woodbased panel and furniture industry. Siempelkamp’s new claim “Intelligent engineering for future generations” will provide numerous opportunities for discussion with plant operators. “Intelligent engineering…” specifically integrates Siempelkamp’s expertise in the area of digitalization. Automated and thus efficient, productivity-increasing processes are the focus in all business units. The innovative Prod-IQ MES system, and new approaches to machine learning are just a few examples of Siempelkamp’s approach to ensure maximum efficiency in the area of raw material use and plant design, to increase productivity, and to design product quality at top level. “...for future generations” focuses on the responsibility to shape industries and society in a sustainable, modern, and long-lasting way. The Siempelkamp team is looking forward to discussing these topics with booth visitors in Atlanta. Any questions about current customer needs are also welcome at the IWF. “We are noticing that the topic of thin MDF boards is gaining momentum in our sales region,” says Dirk Koltze, President Siempelkamp LP, Charlotte. Very thin MDF boards are increasingly being used, for example, as furniture back panels, top layers of doors or drawer bottoms. Thin MDF can only be produced economically with very fast-running plants—a competence that Siempelkamp has successfully placed in the market. One example: In 2021, the Turkish wood-based panel producer Starwood ordered its second thin board plant for the production of thin MDF/HDF boards. On June 28 2022 Starwood successfully produced the first board. Besides a flexible infeed, the press is specially equipped with a hydraulic concept developed for thin and ultra-thin board production. The flexible press infeed is the guarantee for permanently high production speeds in thin board production. The compaction curve of the fiber mat in the press infeed is key for reliable and durable production at the highest press speeds. The overall configuration of the ContiRoll hydraulic system allows for an almost isobaric press technology—this also stands for “intelligent engineering”! Booth: C2156

USNR USNR will exhibit at IWF promoting its AddVantage Chop and Rip Saw Optimizer system along with the NV4g and GSc2000 green and dry veneer grade scanning technology. AddVantage uses color sensors and multi-spectral imaging to more accurately identify defects. And now with Deep Learning, it recognizes defects with defects, significantly boosting solution accuracy and profitability. Experts will be available to discuss the latest in machine vision technology applications. Booth: B6439

USNR AddVantage chop and rip saw system

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IWF ATLANTA WOODMAC

Woodmac Industries is a leading manufacturer and exporter of hydraulic hot presses for plywood, high pressure laminates, compact laminate and short cycle presses for prelam. Built on the robust Woodmac multi-opening press lines for pillars of quality, high pressure and compact laminates. innovation and the customer’s faith, the success story of Woodmac Industries span over five decades. We are offering multi-opening press lines for high pressure laminate and compact laminates. We have a manufacturing facility spread over 10 acres with state-of-the-art of machinery. The company owns more than 200 machines in our production facility. Our machines offer the highest level of accuracy and performance. We have completed more than 2,000 successful installations all over the world. Booth: C1601

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TP&EE HOSTS MASS TIMBER DEVELOPMENTS Includes one day conference and optional tour.

he biennial Timber Processing & Energy Expo, following a pandemic-induced cancellation in 2020, returns this September 28-30 to the Portland Exposition Center in Portland, Ore. Hatton-Brown Expositions, an affiliate of Panel World magazine, has hosed the event since 2010. “It’s hard to believe it has been four years since TP&EE was held, and what a strange trip it has been,” comments Rich Donnell, TP&EE Show Director and Editor-in-Chief of Panel World. “The important thing is that we’re back face-to-face. ‘Virtual’ is okay, but it’s not like being there.” About 150 equipment and technology exhibitors will be located in Hall E at the Expo Center. “There’s no question the event has always been heavier to the sawmill sector, but there are a significant number of exhibitors who cater to the panel industry as well,” Donnell says. “And especially when you cross over into engineered wood products, as this event does, you get the best of the primary wood products manufacturing world.” See pages 46-60 for a list of exhibitors, the exhibitors floor plan and a preview section of exhibitors for the panel industry and write-ups on their technologies. TP&EE will include a conference entitled “From Forest to Frame: Mass Timber Developments.” It will be held during the first day of the show, Wednesday, September 28. A second conference, “Sawmill Productivity & Efficiency,” will be held on Thursday, September 29. “The mass timber movement is truly taking shape on the ground with innovative building construction and environmental appeal,” Donnell comments. Representatives from the leading manufacturers of mass timber (producers and equipment suppliers) and from mass timber supporting organizations will address this remarkable growth and its unlimited potential that could entice panel mills and sawmills to turn up the production volume. Presenters thus far for the Mass Timber Developments conference include:

● Allan Czinger, Senior Account Manager, USNR: “Optimizing Sawmills for Mass Timber Production” ● Kyle Freres, Vice President of Operations, Freres Engineered Wood: “Evolution of Wood Products: Past and Future of Freres Engineered Wood” ● Justin Harries, Senior Director, Business Development Manager USA, Binderholz Mass Timber: “Bringing Binderholz Expertise To North America” ● Janelle Leafblad, Senior Director, Western Division, WoodWorks: “Growing Market Demand for Wood Products” ● Derek Ratchford, CEO, SmartLam: “U.S. South Mass Timber Growth”

● Russ Vaagen, Founder & CEO, Vaagen Timbers: “Mass Timber: From Early Adopter To Mainstream Buildings” More presenters will be announced in the coming weeks. Cost to attend the conference is $115 and you can register at www.timberprocessingandenergyexpo.com. Admission to the expo floor is free if you register now.

MASS TIMBER TOUR An optional Mass Timber Tour will be conducted on Thursday, September 29. The full-day tour schedule includes: —Bus leaves Portland Expo Center 8:30 a.m. —Travel to and tour Freres Engineered Wood, Lyons, Ore. —Travel to mass timber structure sites —Travel to TallWood Institute, Corvallis, Ore. (lunch included) —Return to Portland Expo Center Cost for the tour is $95, and you can register at timberprocessingandenergyexpo.com. PW

Allan Czinger

Kyle Freres

Justin Harries

Janelle Leafblad

Derek Ratchford

Russ Vaagen

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EXHIBITORS’ LIST Akhurst Machinery....................................327 Altec Integrated Solutions Ltd. ..................457 American Wood Dryers .............................214 ANDRITZ Iggesund Tools...........................219 Applied Mechatronics ...............................861 Arrow Speed Controls ...............................119 Arxada......................................................150 Autolog Production Management...........309-1 Bailey’s.....................................................111 Benchmark Knife & Saw ...........................954 BEP Engineering Services .........................167 BID Group .................................................519 Biomass Engineering and Equipment ........911 BM&M Screening Solutions.......................266 Brookhuis Applied Data Intelligence ..........136 BRUKS SIWERTELL ...................................130 Brunette Machinery Company ...................347 Brunner-Hilderbrand Lumber Dry Kiln ..167.01 Buchanan Automation...............................913 Burton Mill Solutions.................................627 California Saw & Knife Works..................1053 Can-Am Chains.........................................761 Canadian Forest Industries........................145 Carbotech.................................................359 Claussen All-Mark Industries Intl.............1009 Climax Metal Products ............................1031 Colonial Saw.............................................427 Columbia River Staple & Lumber Wrap/ Intertape Polymer Group .....................949 CON-VEY...................................................837 Connexus Industries .................................137 Crow Engineering .....................................935 Delta Computer Systems ..........................841 Diversified Plastics....................................925 DK - Spec ...............................................1057 DO2 ..........................................................362 Dynamic Systems Technologies................114 EBI Dry Kiln Duty Motors ...........................155 Endurance Equipment...............................364 Evergreen Engineering..............................113 EWTA........................................................134 Fiber Pro...................................................945 Forest Products Society ............................160 Fromm Packaging Systems.......................246 Gateway Graphics and Rubber Stamps ...1061 General Kinematics...................................210 Georgia Research Institute ........................158 Gilbert Products ........................................737 Gillingham-Best ........................................100 Greg F. Smith............................................123 HALCO Software Systems .........................960

HewSaw Machines ...................................227 Hurst Boiler...............................................154 IBC International Bar Coding Systems & Consulting ..........................821 In Stock Parts .........................................1037 JADCO Manufacturing...............................152 James G. Murphy .....................................147 JoeScan ...................................................337 John King USA ..........................................329 KDS Windsor.............................................258 Key Knife ..................................................921 Konecranes Woodyard Cranes ................1046 Kop-Coat ................................................1056 L.G. Isaacson Co 725 Lewis Controls ..........................................619 Lico Machinery .........................................243 Lignomat USA...........................................383 Limab North America ..............................1011 LINCK Holzverarbeitungstechnik ...............505 LMI Technologies......................................527 Logging & Sawmill Journal-Timberwest....857 Mac Chain ................................................941 Metal Detectors ........................................717 MiCROTEC ................................................319 Mid-South Engineering .............................905 Mill Tech Industries.................................1007 Modern Engineering..................................164 MPM Engineering .....................................855 Mühlböck Drying Technology ....................953 Murray Latta Progressive Machine ............729 Nelson Brothers Engineering.....................346 Newman Machine.....................................711 Nicholson Manufacturing ..........................143 NLine Energy ............................................250 Novatech Wood Protection ........................108 Novilco .....................................................409 Nyle Dry Kilns ...........................................950 OES Automation........................................251 Oleson Saw Technology............................403 Opticom Technologies ...........................151-1 Optimil Machinery.....................................303 OSELA ......................................................955 Owens Corning .........................................149 Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau.............132 Pantron Automation ..................................350 Pape Material Handling .............................763 Paw-Taw-John Services ...........................658 Peerless Saw............................................957 Piché ........................................................743 Platt Electric Supply ..................................151 Porter Engineering ....................................637

Precision Husky Corporation .....................163 Premier Bandwheel & Equipment............1028 Pro Mac Manufacturing.............................369 Purakal Cylinders......................................255 Radian Robotics........................................375 Raptor Integration .....................................829 Raptor-Sundog RFID Staples.....................411 Rawlings Manufacturing ...........................237 REA JET....................................................751 Real Performance Machinery ....................419 Redwood Plastics .....................................247 Reliability Resources.................................379 Rogers Machinery.....................................850 S. Huot .....................................................109 Salem Equipment (a subsidiary of Wellons) ......................558 Samuel Coding & Labeling ........................504 Samuel Packaging Systems Group............503 Saw ADD ..................................................853 Saw Control Systems................................212 ScanMeg ..................................................309 SCS Forest Products by Finna Sensors....1003 Sering Sawmill Machinery ......................1015 Serra Sawmills .......................................1013 Sharp Tool ...............................................429 SiCam Systems ........................................929 SICK Sensors ............................................253 Signode ......................................................09 Slatercom Lighting Solutions...................1051 Smith Sawmill Service ..............................104 SolaGen Incorporated..............................1023 SonicAire ..................................................269 SparTek Industries....................................959 Springer USA ............................................126 Stringer Industries ....................................940 Sumitomo Drive Technologies...................261 Taihei Machinery Works..........................1018 Tallwood Design Institute-OSU..................162 Tanguay Machinery ..................................112 Taylor Machine Works ..............................105 Telco Sensors ...........................................822 Temposonics ..........................................1036 TerraSource Global ...................................944 Timber Automation................................627-2 Timber Machine Technologies ..................385 Timber Processing & Energy Expo.............437 Timber Products Manufacturers Assn. ......120 Top Wood Jobs .........................................958 TS Manufacturing .....................................131 U.S. Metal Works ......................................863 USNR........................................................803 Valutec Wood Dryers.................................367 Vecoplan...................................................617 Verbruggen Palletizing Solutions ...............859 VK North America, ....................................917 Wagner Meters .........................................127 Webco Mill Supply ....................................138 Webster Industries....................................952 Wellons Group ..........................................353 West Coast Industrial Systems ..................825 West Salem Machinery .............................920 Westcoast Cylinders .................................381 Western Wood Products Assn. ..................110 Westmill Industries ...................................643 Williams & White Equipment .....................817 Wolftek Industries .....................................259 Wood-Mizer ..............................................956 Z-Tec Automation Systems .......................252

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TP&EE EDITOR’S NOTE: The following companies, which are exhibiting in the Timber Processing & Energy Expo to be held in Portland, Ore. September 28-30, submitted these editorial profiles and images to complement their advertisements placed elsewhere in this issue. Please refer to those advertisements for web site and contact information. All statements and claims are attributable to the companies.

ALTEC Is your company looking for real ways to improve green end recovery, production, quality and uptime? Then be sure to stop in to see Altec at their booth at the 2022 Timber Processing & Energy Expo. Altec will listen to your operational challenges and share real results achieved at mill locations around the world that have led to sus- Altec specializes in green end technologies. tained improvements in solving those challenges. You can learn about the innovations they have made on green ends, from block charging all the way to sorting and stacking. Altec manufactures and supplies all sections of the green end, using innovative technology to control and maintain performance year over year. Altec has delivered step feeders, chargers, lathes, carriages, scanners, tray controls, electric clipper solutions, multi-point diverters, robotic strip handlers and green veneer stackers, all with the most advanced control systems in the industry, to more than 50 veneer lines since 1999. Be sure to ask about recent installations, new product evolutions and new product releases. Booth: 457

ARXADA Every year, termites cause millions of dollars in damage to wood structures. Engineered wood is not immune to that destruction. Helping you protect your engineered wood is Arxada’s number one priority. Our solution comes in the form of a glueline additive that is factory-apArxada offers Permatek products plied to protect engifor engineered wood protection. neered wood from the inside out. Permatek products, which can also be applied by spray

or dip, are specially formulated for the control of wood damaging insects in structural panels and other engineered wood products. Permatek products have been innovated to ensure no negative impacts on resin bond strength, maintaining the integrity of the glueline process. Our water-based treatments have been used successfully with a wide range of resin formulations typically used in engineered wood manufacturing. We work with resin suppliers to ensure their bond is not affected by the addition of our treatment formulation. The two Permatek products commonly used in the protection of engineered wood products are Permatek 100 Encaps and Permatek IM30. Permatek 100 Encaps is a microcapsule suspension of the insecticide bifenthrin. Since the active ingredient is encapsulated in a proprietary polymeric wall, which provides protection to the bifenthrin from the harsh environment found in the glue mix. Permatek IM30 is formulated using imidacloprid as the active ingredient. Along with the effective protection from termite attack, our products come with service built in. Arxada offers technical process support that includes glue compatibility checks and analytical services to customize use levels to deliver the desired performance in each manufacturer’s unique process conditions. Arxada can also provide periodic analysis of insecticide levels in treated materials to support customer quality control procedures. Booth: 150

EVERGREEN ENGINEERING The panel and engineered wood industries in the U.S. have experienced phe nomenal growth and improvement in recent decades, and along the way, engineering has played a pivotal role in ushering in these improvements in manufacturing. Evergreen Engineering has been designing and as- Evergreen Engineering provides prosisting in the updates of ject partnership services. panel facilities across the country for more than 37 years. Across the panel industry, many companies are focusing on log yard technologies, installing new pollution controls, updating processes from end to end, and even developing new facilities. Evergreen is a seasoned partner in developing these projects with our clients in MDF, particleboard, OSB, flooring, plywood and more. Projects often take form in the trenches, as daily operations on the process floor identify bottlenecks, discover deficiencies, or imagine greater process improvements. These insights make their way to the drawing table and become the basis for project charter. Evergreen can be a valuable partner in early phases helping define scopes, evaluate alternatives, provide economic evaluation and feasibility studies, and develop capital estimates. Preliminary engineering provides a roadmap for the project and assists the client with general arrangements, electrical one lines, permitting, and capital equipment lists. The detail engineering phase follows as Evergreen’s teams of

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TP&EE civil, structural, electrical, mechanical and environmental engineers develop stamped drawing packages issued for construction. The interaction between disciplines allows for greater constructability and reduced likelihood of error. Once issued, these drawings allow the construction to begin. This is not the end of our partnership, however. Once designs are issued and accepted, Evergreen continues to support our clients through contractor selection, ongoing revision support, owner’s engineer services, onsite construction management, and compliance coordination, ensuring accurate project delivery while maintaining budgets, safety and schedules. From receiving to material handling, formers to presses, and beyond, all facets of the production process are engineered for greater throughput, reliability and quality. Evergreen’s team of project managers, drafters, designers and engineers are ready to tackle your next project and help make your vision a reality. Booth: 113

METAL DETECTORS INC. l Looking To The Future Technology is forever evolving. Our team at MDI knows what it takes to make a highquality metal detector because we have been advancing for more than 50 years. Through constant research, development and testing, our MDI continues to enhance metal dedesigns are continuously tection technologies. improving. We are doing things today that were not possible even five years ago. l Return On Investment Ask any mill electrician, things go wrong. Controls burn out,

bearings wear out and welds break. Keeping the equipment in service is a never-ending task. Then there’s the costly downtime of an idle line due to damaged blades. Those untimely events add up fast, but they could have been avoided with a quality metal detector. If you do the math, an MDI metal detector easily pays for itself. With that in mind, you want your metal detector operating at maximum efficiency. Sometimes on-site support is needed, and we understand what a major inconvenience that can be. With MDI, no need to wait for a service technician anymore. We built the technician into the metal detector. l Always There We can diagnose, test and optimize your system right in our service shop with MDI’s “View-Link” technology. When connected to the internet, real-time signals are sent directly to MDI. We can identify and resolve issues quickly to get you back up fast. With signal analysis, the View-Link allows us to easily identify a contaminated belt, stray radio interference and motor issues. We can even custom program target sensitivity levels based on different types of metal. Not only can we find the cause of your issues, we can verify that the issue has been completely resolved. Goodbye guesswork. l Let’s Do This Together Maybe you just want the peace of mind that the detector was installed correctly. Give us a call and the View-Link will assist with startup. The View-Link will allow us to optimize the programming of the detector to achieve peak performance for any specialized application. Once everything is dialed in, we can continue to check in on the detector’s performance with annual or semi-annual testing as well. l Trust Is Earned We don’t just supply metal detectors; we build trust with our customers. Our reputation is earned by providing reliable products with dedicated service and support for the life of your system. If you don’t have an MDI metal detector, you don’t know what you’re missing. Booth: 717

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SAMUEL PACKAGING SYSTEMS

Samuel Coding and Labeling Div. is the industry leader in custom and off the shelf solutions for the wood products industry. With years of experience in the wood products industry, we are uniquely suited to provide you with Samuel offers a range of ink jet systems in- solutions that are cluding nail line. tailor made to suit your facilities. We provide a full system solution with design, fabrication, installation and ongoing support. With hundreds of installations across North America we offer unparalleled industry experience. Samuel Coding & Labeling Systems for panel products include ink jet grade mark systems, ink jet printers for marketing information, ink jet nail line systems, ink jet stencil machines, automatic bar code systems for both direct to panel bar codes and bar code labels. Samuel advances in Nail Line printers have provided customers with: —Crisp and clear nail lines —Proven to be extremely low maintenance —No overspray —Automatic print head cleaning —Samuel nail line printers can provide: l Solid lines l Dashed lines l Pattern nailing points l Text l Logos Booth: 504

Samuel Packaging Systems Group is pleased to offer the SSE900XP Strapping Head to the panel industry. De signed with three separate cartridges the SSE-900XP provides the high strap ten- More advances in Samuel strapping head sion and seal technology joints that Samuel is known for with “quick-change” capability that allows an operator to replace a malfunctioning cartridge in minutes. The head functions via three direct-drive servomotors—one for each cartridge. Servomotors eliminate clutches, brakes, and timing adjustments frequently associated with strapping heads. Servo technology also allows advanced IoT communications to highlight potential performance issues and allow predictive maintenance. When installed in a Samuel machine the cartridges communicate to the PLC—identifying themselves to provide an operation and maintenance record for each module—simplifying troubleshooting and long-term maintenance planning. Servo controllers can communicate valuable performance data to identify wear before it creates downtime. The cartridges vary in weight with the heaviest being 50 lb. Easy replacement allows repair either by local maintenance staff or allows inexpensive shipment to one of our repair facilities. In order to reduce operating costs, the rugged design has 30% fewer parts than competitive units, reducing the potential for downtime. The Samuel SLP-25 (HS) strapping machine is a high-speed unitizer from Samuel Packaging Systems. Rugged design, the SSE-900XP strapping head, and IoT features ensure high productivity and will remain a valued part of your packaging line. Booth: 503

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TP&EE SIGNODE Signode’s BPX compression strapping system provides load stability and integrity throughout the transportation cycle. It incorporates independent side compression along with advanced consumable systems that work together to provide consistent load alignment and Signode BPX strapping system maxitension levels for unmizes uptime. paralleled package performance. The BPX’s streamlined design with innovative, built-in features enables faster cycle times for higher throughput rates to maximize efficiency. The BPX simplifies operation and maintenance to maximize uptime. It includes a highly intuitive, user-friendly HMI to streamline operation. Machine pre-programming allows for a wide range of flexibility, including quarter-packs, half-packs and long loads, while limiting downtime due to production changes. Plus, the HMI provides quick and easy diagnosis of machine functions. The BPX features a unique modular design, and separate, lightweight strapping heads that are easy to access and remove for maintenance. Other productivity-enhancing features include remote strap feeding and large capacity consumables to limit production interruptions. The BPX comes standard with a number of features, including an automated platen latch, multiple e-stops and more, to enhance operator safety and improve OSHA compliance. In addition to strapping systems, Signode also provides coding, marking and labeling solutions for the lumber and panel in-

dustry. From label applicators capable of applying preprinted labels to the end of boards, to multi-technology direct-to-product printing solutions, we have a variety of options available to suit both large and small operations. Signode’s automated printing and labeling equipment is easy to use and will integrate seamlessly into your production line. PLC based programming allows you to adjust your printing message and parameters between jobs quickly and effortlessly. Builtin features like emergency clear functions and error detection systems minimize downtime. Booth: 209

TAIHEI MACHINERY

Taihei 20 ft. hot platen for horizontal press

Taihei is a Japanese company that manufactures machines for plywood, sawmill and glue laminated timber. In particular, we are trying to contribute to further development of the wood industry in U.S., with veneer knife grinders, veneer jet dryer, and horizontal hot press as our main products. As you know, the world of Engineered Wood Panels (EWP) is attracting attention with the recent creation of unique panels made of veneer. Taihei is looking to offer a radically unique hot press that allows U.S. customers to bring their own prod-

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TP&EE ucts to the EWP fields. It is a multiple opening horizontal hot press, and the hot platen size is 4 ft. x 20 ft. We already installed a 36-opening horizontal hot press with 4 ft. x 15 ft. hot platen in Japan, and with this prior experience, we are working on a scaled-up hot platen. The scarf joint machine, which transforms a 4 ft. x 8 ft. normal size veneer into a 20 ft. long veneer, is a very valuable support machine in order to make an effective use of the hot platens of the new press. A long piece of plywood can be made by scarfjointing, but jointing at the veneer stage offers greater production efficiency to everybody. For plywood manufacturers looking for a new product of EWP, why not change the flow of your manufacturing? Booth: 1018

USNR USNR is excited to share solutions for engineered wood manufacturing in booth #803 at the Timber Processing & Energy Expo this September. As a single-source supplier for high-quality veneer production equipment, our solutions bring huge value to customers from tightly integrated mechanical, optimization, and PLC control technologies. USNR’s product portfolio includes Ventek-brand grade scanning equipment, lathes, computerized chargers, core drives, tray systems, dryers, stackers, layup lines and presses, as well as equipment for beam lamination, fingerjointing, and presses for

the composite board industry. As the costs of energy increase, you can count on Coebrand dryers to be energy-efficient. Our engineers achieve this by offering automatic dryer exhaust control (ADEC) and several thermal energy options with which to operate our dryers. Add our handling equipment to your line, and the result is reduced veneer drying costs. USNR fourth generation (NV4g) green Come talk to us veneer grade optimizer about the powerful fourth generation New Vision (NV4g) green veneer grade optimizer. The NV4g accurately and reliably separates good wood by grade, stain, wane, and closed defects in a broad range of species, using specialized color cameras and spectrally-specific LED lighting. NV4g interfaces with the green-end moisture system to clip

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TP&EE and sort veneer for grade and moisture content, and it applies grade classifications based on user-defined grade rules. Accuracy, consistency and reliability make the NV4g a leader in green veneer grade scanning. The Multi-Point Diverter System (MPDS) uses data from the NV4g defect scanner to precisely track and sort trash into the haul-back and divert fishtail/randoms onto the trays. The MPDS can eliminate tipples and cumbersome transitions to multiple trays by loading each tray from discrete divert points. It’s configurable to customer-specific requirements. Whether you require a lathe system, veneer drying system, plywood press system, parts or service, we have the experience and expertise to offer you the perfect combination of solutions to enhance your bottom line while enhancing quality! Panel experts will be on-hand to discuss solutions to make your process more efficient, improving your operation and your bottom line. Booth: 803

WESTMILL Westmill is the “Subject Matter Expert” in veneer drying. As a 47-year-old privately held family company, we successfully compete with multi-national corporations by focusing on veneer dryers (and related infeed/outfeed equipment) rather than trying to be experts in other areas of the process. This

dedicated focus, combined with an innovative culture has led to a continuous series of incremental dryer improvements. These same dryer improvements conceived, engineered, pioneered and proven by Westmill have Westmill focuses on veneer dryer technologies. often ended up being incorporated into competitors’ products. The following list includes a number of our key innovations that are included on a new Westmill veneer dryer or a Westmill veneer dryer rebuild: l WestVac End-Wall Emission Control System (Patented)—Provides an effective method of controlling end-wall dryer emissions, to increase production, save energy, improve veneer quality and reduce the risk of dryer fires. l 2-PEx Exhaust and Dryer Humidity Migration and Control System (Patent Pending)—Provides unparalleled control of humidity along the entire dryer’s length, resulting in increased production, energy savings and greatly improved veneer quality. l Quick-Change Dryer Roll Baffle System (Patented)—Removing and replacing roll baffles now takes under one hour vs. 16-man-hours of very labor-intensive work to change out a baffle set. l Fan Shaft Seal System—This design permanently solves the common problem of emissions leaking through panel packing glands at the fan shaft. This solution has also greatly reduced the number of bottom bearing failures commonly caused by high heat and bearing contamination at this location. We have this installed and successfully operating now in more than 300 dryer fans in North America. l “Safe Motion” Door Handle Load-Dampener (Patent Pending)—Eliminates any potential risk of “strike-hazard” for an unsuspecting dryer tender when opening a dryer door. l Electrically Actuated Tipple Feeder—Incorporates electric linear actuators and high-speed motion control for fast, silent tipple actuation with exact, repeatable positioning accuracy without the need for a hydraulic power unit. l Bearing Vibration Monitoring—This real-time monitoring of circulation fan bearings directs maintenance personnel to out of tolerance areas “before” they become failures. l Impressed Current Cathodic Protection (ICCP) System (Patented)—Is a proven and effective method of completely eliminating dryer corrosion. l Water Misting System—Greatly reduces the risk of fires caused by debris build up on the dryer floor. These are just some of our latest innovations. Stop by our booth to learn more about our new veneer dryer and dryer rebuild features. Booth: 643

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BERNECK ORDERS GIANT DRYER

One of the dryer’s trunnion rings: outer diameter 9.06 m, height 0.66 m, weight 47 t

Brazil particleboard manufacturer Berneck S.A. is implementing what is believed to be the world’s largest drum dryer—36 m long and a diameter of 7.8 m—at its plant in Curitibanos, Santa Catarina. Dieffenbacher is supplying the drum dryer as well as an 84 MW energy system. The grate of the 84 MW energy system will have a size of 106 m². The drum dryer, at 155% material moisture, will achieve a throughput of 43 tonnes per hour. “With the new Dieffenbacher energy system and drum dryer, we’ll be ready to boost our production capacity in Curitibanos from 1,200 m³ to 2,700 m³ of MDP per day,” says Industrial Director Daniel Berneck. Headquartered in Araucária in the Brazilian state of Paraná, Berneck S.A. specializes in MDP, MDF and HDF production.

KASTAMONU GOES WITH S’KAMP AGAIN Kastamonu Entegre placed an order with Siempelkamp for a new particleboard plant for its location in Kastamonu City, Turkey. The new plant corresponds to the design of the particleboard plant that Kastamonu Entegre has been operating at the Samsun site since February 2021, which, as will the one currently on order, contains a 7 ft. x 37.1 m ContiRoll continuous press and is designed for a daily output of 2,000 m³. Also at the plant in Kastamonu City the Turkish producer has already been operating a Siempelkamp plant for the production of MDF and HDF since 2007. The new project is the 10th in the chronology of continuous presses that Kastamonu Entegre is realizing with its German partner. As recently as November 2021, Kastamonu Entegre ordered a plant for MDF production at the Balıkesir site, with an 8 ft. x 63.7 m ContiRoll.

HMTX PURCHASES JUPITER LINE i4F, a group of companies providing patents and technologies to the flooring industry, announced that U.S.-based HMTX Industries has signed a new i4F 62 • SEPTEMBER 2022 • PanelWorld

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license for digital printing technologies as well as acquired a Hymmen JUPITER digital printing line, which will be the first Hymmen printing line in China. HMTX flooring products will be digitally printed with Hymmen’s JUPITER JPT-C print-to-board line. Hymmen’s JUPITER JPT-C delivers highly precise register accuracy. This ensures the highest levels of color sta-

bility and print quality output while maintaining printing speeds of 25-50 m per minute. HMTX has opted for eightcolor printing with DLEplus digitally embossed-in-register lacquer structures. Harlan Stone, CEO of HMTX, says, “We have made a commitment to be the most innovative flooring manufacturer in the new materials arena. The decision to transition to digitally printed products

represents the biggest contributor towards achieving this goal. Speed to market will go from six months to six days. I think this says it all!”

PESSA IS ALL IN AT XYLEXPO

PESSA emphasizes particle size reduction.

Founded in the 1950s and managed for two generations by the Pessa family, PESSA IMPIANTI designs and manufactures machinery and plants for the particle size reduction of wood and preparation of flakes, chips and fiber, mainly used in the WBP, MDF, OSB industry. The Universal Discontinuous Flakers are designed to comply with different production requirements to obtain good quality calibrated flat flakes with superior characteristics used for PB and OSB production. The CBPB market is also very interesting, which in recent years has found great acceptance in various applications such as construction, both indoors and outdoors. This type of composite panel, consisting of cement and a mixture of wood particles (produced by processing the log with PESSA Discontinuous Flaker in the various models) and which stands for “Cement Bonded Particle Board,” combines the flexibility of wood with resistance of cement, thus allowing a wide range of applications. PESSA production includes: —Machines for the primary working of wood and recovery of wood wastes (discontinuous flakers for PB, OSB and CBPB, drum chippers); —Machines for particle comminution (knife ring flakers, hammermills, refining mills); —Systems for wood feeding, handling and storage; —Extraction, storage and mixing systems for flakes, chips, sawdust; —Reconditioning service. Visit pessaimpianti.com. 64 • SEPTEMBER 2022 • PanelWorld

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VENEER/PANEL SUPPLIERS

DIRECTORY EUROPE

ASIA ■ India

NORTH AMERICA ■ Canada

■ Italy

■ British Columbia

6670 - 144th Street, Surrey, BC V3W 5R5 Plant: (604) 572-8968 Fax: (604) 572-6608

Producers of high quality fine face veneers. Specializing in species indigenous to the West Coast. We manufacture Music grade solids and veneers. We also offer custom slicing, cut-to-size and log breakdown. Fir • Hemlock • Spruce • Pacific Maple (Figured and Plain) • Alder Western Red Cedar

■ Malaysia

■ Poland

■ Ontario

Manufacturer In Malaysia CARB P2 / EPA Certified Fancy plywood/MDF/ Particle Board/ Blockboard Layon Veneer, Veneer Parquet, etc.

A FULL SERVICE PLYWOOD & VENEER COMPANY WE OFFER: Short turnaround time, In-house veneer mill—ROTARY, FLAT CUT, RIFT and QUARTERS, Custom pressing capabilities, Architectural specified plywood jobs, Huge veneer and core inventory, Over 100 natural species and engineer veneers in stock, All sizes and thicknesses–6'x4' to 5'x12', Internal logistics for fast on-time deliveries

Lot 488, Jalan Jati Kiri, Kg. Perepat 42200 Kapar, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia Tel: +603 3259 1988 • Fax: +603 3259 1886 E-mail: bungaraya@bungarayapanel.com Website: www.bungarayapanel.com

AUSTRALIA/OCEANIA 113 Years Experience

■ Switzerland

Reserve your space today. Call Melissa McKenzie 800-669-5613

In Wood

SPECIALISTS IN AUSTRALIAN & PACIFIC VENEERS FSC & PEFC ECO-CERT

Veneers from around the world Over 150 species in stock Reconstituted veneer/spliced faces/rotary veneers Website: www.briggs.com.au Email: admin@briggs.com.au Tel: +61 2 9732-7888

Contact us: Birchland Plywood-Veneer Ltd. TeL: 705-842-2430 • Fax: 705-842-2496 Visit www.birchlandplywood.com to view our “Live Log Program”

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VENEER/PANEL SUPPLIERS DIRECTORY ■ United States

■ Ohio

■ Georgia

■ Michigan ■ Pennsylvania ■ Indiana Amos-Hill Associates, Inc.

Quality Veneers Manufacturers of Decorative Hardwood Veneer Domestic and International Markets Species include: Walnut, White Oak, Red Oak, Hard Maple, Cherry and Birch “Quality is the Lifeblood of our Business” 112 Shelby Ave. ◆ P.O. Box 7 Edinburgh, IN 46124 Phone: 812-526-2671 ◆ Fax: 812-526-5865 E-mail: info@amoshill.com Website: www.amoshill.com

■ Mississippi

The mark of responsible forestry FSC Supplier: SCS-COC-002445 * SCS-CW-002445

ESTABLISHED 1972

Proudly serving our clients in the hardwood plywood sheetstock, plywood component, solid wood component, face and core veneer markets for over 40 years. Looking forward to applying our worldwide knowledge and resources to help create the solution you need. inquiry@pittsburghforest.com Office: 724.969.5000 375 Valleybrook Rd, McMurray, PA 15367

LOCATE VENEER & PLYWOOD PRODUCTS AND SERVICES WORLDWIDE. Call Melissa McKenzie 800-669-5613

■ Vermont

NORSTAM VENEERS, INC. Proud to announce we have the “Newest Veneer Mill in the World” MANUFACTURER OF QUALITY HARDWOOD AND SOFTWOOD VENEERS

Kiln Dried Thick Backing Boards

P.O. BOX 32 HWY. 135 BUS: 812.732.4391 MAUCKPORT, IN 47142 FAX: 812.732.4803 EMAIL: info@norstam.com

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UPDATE 16 ➤ portfolio businesses, including five of the six companies of Atlas Capital Resources LP. According to Atlas, the fund will allow Atlas to continue to build value in a group of successful and profitable industrial companies that Atlas has owned for years and in whose future prospects it has high conviction. The fund includes $320.6 million in funded commitments and rolled LP/GP interests together with $75 million of unfunded commitments to provide the portfolio access to additional capital for expansion through organic growth opportunities as well as strategic bolt-on acquisitions. “Atlas’ investment strategy has remained consistent since inception, with a focus on transforming underperforming businesses into Performance Organizations—businesses that consistently outperform their peers in regard to operational, safety and financial metrics. The fund is the latest demonstration of our long-term approach to building

value through extending our hold period and providing access to additional capital,” comments Andrew Bursky, Atlas co-founder and managing partner. Atlas Holdings’ New Wood Resources owns and operates the Winston Plywood & Veneer facility in Louisville, Miss., and its RedBuilt Engineered Wood Products business operates four manufacturing plants.

TAFISA PLANS NEW TFL LINE

Tafisa is expanding its main plant at Lac-Megantic, Quebec, a project that calls for investment of $34 million. The installation of a sixth TFL production line and the expansion of the finished product warehouse are an integral part of the project. The new production line will be in operation in the fall of 2023 and will increase the proportion of panels that will be laminated with the ability to produce

decorative panels with two-sided synchronized embossing (EIR) texture, improve internal flows and service reliability to North American customers. “We are very proud of these innovative projects, which will allow Tafisa to continue to distinguish itself in the market, pursue its commitment to its North American customers and offer them innovative and quality products. A special thank you to our partners and our team for their efforts and energy, without which these achievements would not have been possible,” comments Louis Brassard, CEO of Tafisa.

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EVENTS SEPTEMBER

AUGUST 2023

11-13 • Composite Panel Assn. Fall meeting, Fairmont Queen Elizabeth, Montreal, QC, Canada. Call 703-724-1128; visit compositepanel.org.

23-25 • Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Expo, Music City Center, Nashville, Tenn. Call 504-443-4464; visit sfpaexpo.com.

12-15 • Lesdrevmash 2022, International Exhibition for Machinery, Equipment and Technology for Logging, Woodworking and Furniture Industries, Expocentre Fairgrounds, Moscow, Russia. Visit lesdrevmash-expo.ru/en. 13 • Pennsylvania Forest Products Assn. annual meeting, Wyndham Garden State College, Boalsburg, Pa. Call 717-9010420; visit paforestproducts.org. 28-30 • Timber Processing & Energy Expo, Portland Expo Center, Portland, Ore. Call 334-834-1170; visit timberprocessingandenergyexpo.com.

OCTOBER 12-15 • Xylexpo 2022, FieraMilano-Rho Fairgrounds, Milan, Italy. Phone +39-02-89210200; Visit xylexpo.com. 15-18 • APA-Engineered Wood Assn. annual meeting and Engineered Wood Technology Assn. Info Fair, JW Marriott Miami Turnberry Resort, Aventura, Fla. Call 253-565-6600; visit apawood.org and engineeredwood.org.

MARCH 2023 2-5 • Delhiwood 2023, India Expo Centre & Mart, Greater Noida, India. Call+91-80-4250 5000; visit delhi-wood.com. 29-31 • International Wood Products Assn. 67th World of Wood Convention, Hyatt Regency, Savannah, Ga. Call 703820-6696; visit iwpawood.org.

APRIL 2023 11-13 • American Forest Resource Council annual meeting, Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, Wash. Call 503-222-9505; visit amforest.org.

MAY 2023 15-19 • Ligna: World Fair For The Forestry And Wood Industries, Hannover Exhibition Grounds, Hannover, Germany. Call +49 511 89-0; fax +49 511 89-32626; visit ligna.de.

JULY 2023 25-28 • AWFS Fair 2023, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV. Call 800-946-2937; visit awfsfair.org.

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

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