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ages 13-19 of this issue preview the upcoming Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo, which will be held March 2021 in Atlanta, Ga. at the Omni Hotel.

This will be the fourth PELICE hosted

by Panel World magazine for the structural and non-structural wood products industries.

In addition to 35 individual session speakers, the conference includes 10 keynote speakers who will address the entire attendance. PELICE has always handled its keynote general sessions differently than most functions. There will be three general sessions over the two-day conference, each with three to four keynoters. Most meetings I attend have one and maybe two primary keynoters. Also, PELICE only allows its keynoters approximately 20 minutes of speaking time, along with some Q&A. Our philosophy is you should be able to say what you want to say in 20 minutes, and if anybody in the audience wants more of your time, they can approach you afterward.

You can’t help but be impressed with the experience of many of our keynoters.

The first morning, for example, includes two of my all-time favorites from our industry, one from the plywood side and the other from composite board.

Joe Andrews, general manager of Richmond Plywood in British Columbia, may win the award for the best title of a talk: “How 300 Men Shared a Dream: And How I Manage the Company They Turned into a World-Class Plywood Mill.” Richply as many of you know is a cooperative.

Andrews, from Bend, Ore., began working at age 16 at Jefferson Plywood in Madras, Ore. His father was a partner in the operation. Andrews went from the green chain to the dryers, to the spreaders, to resin and glue manufacturing to sales, and his final job there was wielding a cutting torch to dismantle the plant. And then he was old enough to go to college.

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Since receiving a degree in Finance and Forest Products at Oregon State University, Andrews has held various management positions at plants for Willamette Industries, Plum Creek Timber and McKenzie Forest Products.

Also speaking the first morning of PELICE is Kelly Shotbolt, president of Flakeboard Company Ltd. His speech is “Transitioning into a New Era of Composite Products,” which will focus on the shared view of Arauco and Flakeboard that despite capacity and import pressures, a focused acquisition and investment strategy will influence the production of furniture and related products back to North America.

Shotbolt has been the Flakeboard president since 1993, and began work there after he graduated from the University of New Brunswick in 1979. He led the company’s transition from a commodity producer of raw panels to an integrated manufacturer of decorative panels.

In 2006, he drove Flakeboard’s acquisition of Weyerhaeuser’s composite panel business; in 2012 he negotiated the sale of Flakeboard to Arauco; and most recently he led Flakeboard’s acquisition of SierraPine’s Western composite board plants.

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FLAKEBOARD BUYS THREE MILLS

Flakeboard America Ltd., a U.S. subsidiary of Arauco, is acquiring the U.S. panel assets of SierraPine, including three composite board plants: particleboard plants at Martell and Springfield Calif. and a MDF plant at Medford, Ore. The acquisitions will enlarge the panel capacity of the Arauco plants in North America to 2 billion SF ( 3⁄4 in. basis) or 3.5 million m3.

Meanwhile SierraPine states it will permanently close its particleboard plant in Adel, Ga., which was built in 1965.

Arauco acquired Flakeboard’s seven composite board mills and Uniboard’s particleboard/MDF/laminate complex in Moncure, NC in 2012. The North American mills operate under the Flakeboard name.

The Medford plant opened as a division of Medco in 1975.

ARAUCO STARTS UP AT NUEVA ALDEA

Arauco’s rebuilt plywood mill at Nueva Aldea, Chile has started up, following a major fire in January 2012.

With an investment of $190 million (U.S.), the mill’s annual production capacity is 350,000 m3, with products sold to the primary export markets.

At one point, 1,000 workers participated in the construction. The operation will require 660 employees.

COMPOSITE PANEL SHIPMENTS JUMP

North American composite panel shipments for 2013 totaled 5.410MMSF, an increase of 6.1% over 2012 for both particleboard and MDF. December shipments totaled 374MMSF (3⁄4 in. basis), up 5.5% compared to the same month the prior year.

Particleboard saw the greatest improvement in 2013. December particleboard shipments were 223MMSF and 3.290 MMSF for the year, an 8.5% increase from 2012. MDF shipments totaled 151MMSF for the month and 2.121MMSF for 2013, up 2.6% from the previous year.

Shipments of thermally fused laminate (TFL) in 2013 totaled 1.278MMSF, an increase of 4.8% compared to

2012. Fourth quarter shipments were 299MMSF, up 6.8% over the comparable period in 2012. December shipments were 85MMSF, up 11.8% compared to 76MMSF for same month in 2012.

NO CHARGES IN SAWMILL FIRE

The Criminal Justice Branch, Ministry of Justice, announced that no criminal or regulatory charges will be approved in relation to the explosions and fire that destroyed the Babine Forest Products sawmill, killed two workers and injured 20 at Burns Lake, BC on January 20, 2012.

On September 4, 2013, WorkSafeBC formally submitted a Report to Crown Counsel to the Criminal Justice Branch for an assessment on whether charges

under provincial legislation should be laid against Babine Forest Products arising out of the incident. Based on the evidence that would likely be available for presentation by Crown Counsel in court, the Criminal Justice Branch concluded that there is no substantial likelihood of conviction for any of the regulatory offenses recommended by WorKSafeBC. WorkSafeBC (WSBC) spearheaded an inspection/investigation of the incident. WSBC retained control of the site until April 18, 2012, during which time inspectors, investigators and others interviewed witnesses, seized exhibits, took photographs and made observations of the scene. WSBC retained an outside fire investigation expert to provide an opinion on the cause of the incident.

WSBC had publicly confirmed that its report would only recommend that the

CONSULTANT GUSS DIES AT AGE 86 Longtime panel industry consultant and economist Leonard Guss died at his home in Woodinville, Wash. on November 7. He was 86 and president of Leonard Guss Associates, Inc. Forest Industry Marketing Research.

A native of Philadelphia, Pa., Guss served in the Navy during World War II, then returned home to earn his B.A. in zoology and chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.B.A. from Drexel and a doctorate in marketing from Ohio State University.

After working with E.F. Houghton, the Battelle Institute and serving as Weyerhaeuser’s director of corporate economic and marketing research, Guss founded his consulting and economic research firm Leonard Guss Associates in Leonard Guss 1970. The company became a mainstay in the panel and forest products industries under Guss’ leadership, counting forest products companies, mill machinery suppliers, chemical and paper companies, furniture and cabinet manufacturers and government entities around the world as his clients.

The company specialized in feasibility studies.

Guss’ LVL in North America and Structural Engineered Wood Products in North America publications were widely read, each with multiple editions. He contributed key insights for the recent Panel Age 50 historical publication published in 2013.

He received the Distinguished Service Award from Washington State University, College of Engineering & Architecture, at the 33rd International Particleboard/Composite Materials Symposium in 1999.

Guss was a charter member of the National Assn. of Business Economists, a national director of the American Marketing Assn., and was on the advisory boards of several forest industry trade associations.

He was passionate about education and put all of his children through school or provided them with other educational opportunities. He never retired from his work, and stayed vigorous with many interests including foreign languages, cooking, and horseback riding with his family.

Guss is survived by his wife of 29 years, Claudia, a daughter, five sons and 10 grandchildren.

Services were held at Holy Family Parish in Kirkland.

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Criminal Justice Branch consider provincial, regulatory charges; namely, offenses under the Workers Compensation Act (WCA) and the related Occupational Health and Safety Regulation (OHSR).

Under Criminal Justice Branch policy, charges are only approved where Crown Counsel is satisfied that the evidence gathered by the investigative agency provides a substantial likelihood of conviction, and if so, that a prosecution is required in the public interest.

Applying this standard to the report received from WSBC, the Criminal Justice Branch determined that no charges will be approved against Babine.

Crown Counsel also concluded that the manner in which WSBC conducted parts of its inspection/investigation would likely render significant evidence that it gathered inadmissible in court.

Also, Crown Counsel determined that the defense of due diligence would reasonably be open to Babine and, in light of that fact, it cannot be said there is a substantial likelihood of a conviction on any of the charges recommended by WSBC. WorkSafeBC advanced a number of theories for the ignition, fire and explosions: —A fire ignited in the basement of the sawmill, setting fire to airborne combustible sawdust. Sawdust accumulation had become a challenge for Babine after it started milling beetlekilled wood in late 2010. Milling beetlekilled wood produces much more dust, and finer dust, than milling green wood.

—Airborne combustible sawdust could have been ignited by any of the following: an open flame, metal halide lights, hot surfaces, electric arcs, motor control center panels, static or friction.

It is not possible to point to a specific ignition source. This theory identified a rectangular “ignition probability zone” in the basement.

—The in-house WSBC expert identified the ignition source as an electric motor with a gear reducer set. His theory is that there was a friction fire in the space enclosed by a guard covering this equipment. The guard was ill-fitting and sparks from the friction fire ignited sawdust which had collected inside the guard.

This led to the ignition of airborne combustible dust outside the motor. While the motor was located in the basement, it did not lie within the “ignition probability zone” identified by the outside expert.

—Once the fire started, the experts generally agree on its course. They say that once the airborne combustible dust in the basement caught fire and exploded, a fireball created by the initial dust explosion spread through the mill. One mechanism involved was the lofting of settled dust by the initial explosion and fire and the spreading fireball. Once that dust was lofted into the air, it burned, probably quite violently.

In accordance with its practice at the time, WSBC’s approach in this case was to collect the evidence, then make a decision on how best to proceed, including a determination on whether to forward a report to the CJB for charge assessment and possible prosecution. Within the specific context of the Babine investigation, this approach had significant implications for the legal admissibility of evidence gathered by WSBC. WSBC’s examination of the fire site, and the related inquiries, were all conducted as a safety-compliance inspection rather than as an investigation into possible criminal or regulatory enforcement.

Thus, for example, WSBC did not obtain a search warrant authorizing search and seizure at the Babine site, even after its officers formed reasonable grounds to believe Babine had violated the WCA and OHSR. Similarly, when officers interviewed the president of Babine, they did not provide him with any Charter of Rights warning or caution, according to Criminal Justice Branch.

While suitable for the purposes of a safety compliance inspection, this approach did not adequately take into account the legal requirements for the collection of evidence that apply when it is understood that the evidence gathered by an agency may subsequently be used for the purposes of prosecution. Failing to comply with these requirements can result in evidence not being admissible in a prosecution.

Crown Counsel concluded that a trial court would likely rule as inadmissible significant evidence that was collected by WSBC after the matter had evolved from being an inspection to an investigation.

Criminal Justice Branch also noted that in seeking to establish due diligence, Babine could be expected to rely on evidence that WSBC performed its own testing of dust levels at the sawmill in the fall of 2011, and dust levels at that time were not reported by WSBC to be at a

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level to create a risk of explosion.

Meanwhile, Hampton Affiliates and the Burns Lake Native Development Corp. have been rebuilding the sawmill, which is nearing startup.

ASSOCIATION TAKES ‘ISSUES’ WITH REGS

Composite Panel Assn. (CPA) submitted extensive public comments last October criticizing EPA’s proposed formaldehyde emissions regulations for ignoring specific Congressional directives and the established model in use by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). The proposed rules, released for public comment last May, are intended to implement the Formaldehyde Standards for Composite Wood Products Act, signed

by President Obama in 2010.

“EPA’s proposals will be a jobs killer for American manufacturing due to the agency’s departure from what was intended by Congress, and that must change,” says Tom Julia, CPA presi-

dent. “These proposed regulations would impose costly, unnecessary burdens to finished products manufacturers that could shut down domestic production across several industries.

“We applaud EPA’s consultations with industry over the past three years and its stated desire to synchronize the national standard with California’s ATCM. This makes it especially surprising that EPA has moved in an alarming direction on a number of key provisions,” Julia says.

Beginning in 2009, CPA and a broad coalition of industry, environmental and health care groups championed the national standard to promote environmentally sound products, consistent regulation of industry, and a level playing field that ensures compliance by imports. CPA’s recent comments are contained in its second of two filings on the two-part EPA rulemaking, and address the definitional and implementation aspects of the agency’s proposals.

Among the areas where CPA has

urged changes to EPA’s proposed rules are the following: Strengthen Third Party Certifier (TPC) Requirements. CPA argues that EPA’s rules must strengthen the global TPC system that was established by CARB in 2008. EPA has shown a desire to ensure a consistent, transparent and reliable TPC system, but is too willing to outsource major decisions to either the TPC’s themselves or related accreditation bodies. CPA believes this is not in the public interest and has made specific recommendations for strengthening the current system including disallowing TPCs to unilaterally decide when clients are eligible for reduced testing or other exemptions.

Require Notice, Don’t Stop Commerce. EPA has proposed a complete stoppage of commerce where there has been an indication of a non-complying event at the initial source of panel production, a result that could encumber the flow of commerce for weeks or longer. This is unconscionable in ➤ 55

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PELICE CONVENES IN ATLANTA MARCH 20-21 AS GREAT RECESSION FADES IN REAR-VIEW MIRROR (WE HOPE) Outstanding lineup of speakers should be more upbeat at the fourth PELICE. en general session keynote speakers and another 35 individual session speakers will address a range of issues and technologies at the fourth Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE) to be held Thursday-Friday, March 20-21 at the Omni Hotel at CNN Center in Atlanta, Ga. The event is expected to involve 500 industry professionals from the structural and non-structural wood products industries (including veneer-based plywood, OSB, MDF, particleboard, engineered wood products and timber feedstock supply).

“We are really looking forward to this conference, because as good as the first three PELICE events were, they were all held during varying portions of the recession,” says Rich Donnell, conference cochairman and editor-in-chief of Panel World magazine, which is the media host of PELICE. “The fact that single- and multi-family housing starts topped 920,000 in 2013, up over 18% from the 2012 and double what they were during the depth of the recession, and that almost all of the projections call for starts to top 1.1 million in 2014 and escalate significantly again in 2015 bodes well for our industry and for our event.”

Keynote general sessions will be held the first morning, after lunch on the first day and on the second morning of the

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conference. Following the general sessions, the conference breaks into individual meeting room sessions that will include topics such as Adhesives Technologies & Research, Technology Improvements, Board Enhancements, Manufacturing Enhancements, Methods & Technologies, Air Emissions, The Dust Factor and Operational Benefits.

First morning keynoters include: Roger Tutterow, Professor of Economics, Mercer University; Joe Andrews, General Manager, Richmond Plywood; Kelly Shotbolt, President, Flakeboard Company Ltd.; and Dean McCraw, Principal-Timber Supply Specialist, McCraw Energy.

“In that one general session you will hear one person address the general economy, another speaking about plywood operations, another focusing on composite board products and finally an expert on the timber supply situation,” Donnell comments. “You’ll definitely walk out of there well-informed.”

Tutterow will be speaking at his third PELICE and is nationally known for the accuracy of his economic reviews and forecasts, which blend eco-

nomic, political and business climates.

Richply GM Andrews will address, “How 300 Men Shared a Dream: And How I Manage the Company They Turned into a World-Class Plywood Mill.”

Andrews will discuss the differences between corporations, private companies and cooperatives (such as Richply in British Columbia), and the management challenges inherent in each. He will elaborate on his accountability to 278 shareholders who work on the mill floor, and review the upgrades that they have brought to fruition to evolve Richply into a competitive company in a dynamic industry.

Shotbolt has been one of the leading figures in the composite board industry for three decades. He led Flakeboard’s acquisition of Weyerhaeuser’s compos-

ite panel business in 2006. He negotiated the sale of Flakeboard to Arauco in 2012, maintaining his position as president of the combined panel business in North America; and most recently he led the acquisition of SierraPine’s West Coast assets, propelling the combined Arauco and Flakeboard composite panel business to number two producer in the world. Shotbolt also has a long history of leadership in industry associations, and is the present-day Chairman of Composite Panel Assn.

Shotbolt will speak on “Transitioning into a New Era of Composite Products.”

Timber supply specialist McCraw of McCraw Energy will speak on “The Future of Southeast Wood Supplies: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” McCraw is known for his research and nononsense evaluation of the current state of timber supply and the potential ramifications for the various segments of the wood products industries.

First day afternoon keynoters include: Tom Julia, President, Composite Panel Assn.; Brian Luoma, Senior VP and General Manager, Engineered Wood Products, LP Building Products; and Alberto Goetzl, International Trade Analyst, U.S. International Trade Commission.

CPA President Julia will speak on “Regulatory Challenges for the Composite Panel Industry: How and When Will the New Emissions Rules End.” He’ll update the pending formaldehyde emission regulations being promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California Air Resources Board (CARB). The presentation will address areas of key alignment and difference among industry stakeholders, EPA and CARB, and the latest thinking about the conclusion of these regulatory efforts.

LP Senior VP Luoma will speak about “The Future of Engineered Wood Products: LP’s View of the Next Generation of EWP,” in the context of an industry that is surfacing from a historical housing downslide and the importance of product innovation and investment as a measure of response.

USITC International Trade Analyst Goetzl will speak on “Developments in U.S. Trade: Opportunities and Challenges.” Trade is a growing component of the wood products business, representing $90 billion in value globally.

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growth opportunities in Asia and Europe, while also having to compete with imports that sometimes are alleged to be in violation of U.S. trade laws. The U.S. International Trade Commission’s role in trade remedy laws is to make determinations about economic injury to domestic industries. On the horizon, major new trade agreements promise to expand trade further, potentially bringing with them new opportunities for the U.S. industry.

Second morning keynoters include: Dick Baldwin, Principal, Oak Creek Investment; Tapani Kiiski, President and CEO, Raute; David Fortin, Senior Economist, RISI. Plywood industry veteran Baldwin will speak on “Creating a High Performance Organization: Reflection on Leadership and Change.” Baldwin will propose questions such as what are the leadership factors that are most likely to improve people interaction within the forest industry workplace and lead to a top performing organization? Is it the classic top-down command structure, or one of the newer more innovative models? Is it dependent upon leadership style or is it a mix of leadership style

and structure? Baldwin will answer those questions and offer critical success factors that can determine the degree of success, or failure, in attaining sought-after business results.

International guest Kiiski of Raute will address “How Successful Plywood Companies Are Running Their Operations in Latin America.” Kiiski will focus on South American and in particular Chilean companies that are perhaps the most successful companies in the worldwide plywood industry even through recessionary markets, and he’ll address the reasons for their success.

He’ll also address significant amounts of new production capacity coming up and a trend toward investment in modernizing older machines and facilities with the newest technologies.

Fortin of RISI will address “The Uneven Recovery in U.S. Housing Brings Cautious Optimism to North American Wood Panel Markets.” He’ll provide a range of forecasts for the structural and non-structural panel industries based on the meticulous data that RISI is known for accumulating.

The speaking rooms are adjacent the exhibitor floor in the Grand Ballroom

North, where a sold-out gathering of 75 equipment and supplier exhibitor companies will set up. Exhibitors signed on as either Gold, Silver or Bronze sponsors.

Dieffenbacher and Siempelkamp are the Gold sponsors, along with Panel World magazine and Georgia Research Institute.

“I can’t thank all of the exhibitors enough for their participation not only as exhibitors, but for the presentations many of them will be making during the conference,” Donnell says.

About 60% of the exhibitors will also participate in the Bioenergy Fuels & Products Conference & Expo, which will be held immediately preceding PELICE on March 18-19 and also in the Grand Ballroom North of the Omni Hotel.

A Veneer-Based Plywood Manufacturing Workshop will also be held the second day of PELICE, March 21, geared more to mill on-site operations personnel. A successful version of this workshop was held in 2012, prompting organizers to host another one.

Register for PELICE at peliceexpo.com. A combo registration is available to those who want to attend both the PELICE and Bioenergy conPW ferences.

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MARCH 20-21, 2014 Omni Hotel at CNN Center Atlanta, GA, USA THURSDAY MARCH 20, 2014 (ALL EVENTS IN THE GRAND BALLROOM NORTH) EXHIBITORS/ATTENDEES BREAKFAST 7:15-8:15 a.m.

MORNING KEYNOTERS SESSION 8:20-8:25 a.m.

Welcoming Remarks and Keynoters Introduction Rich Donnell, Conference Co-Chairman, Editor-in-Chief, Panel World magazine 8:30-8:50 a.m.

On the Economic, Political and Business Climate —Roger Tutterow, Professor of Economics, Mercer University 8:55-9:15 a.m.

How 300 Men Shared a Dream: And How I Manage the Company They Turned into a World-Class Plywood Mill—Richply —Joe Andrews, General Manager, Richmond Plywood 9:20-9:40 a.m.

Transitioning into a New Era of Composite Products —Kelly Shotbolt, President, Flakeboard Company Ltd. 9:45-10:05 a.m.

The Future of Southeast Wood Supplies: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly —Dean McCraw, Principal-Timber Supply Specialist, McCraw Energy

—Ashlee Cribb, Business Manager, GeorgiaPacific Wood Adhesives —William Hull, Marketing Manager, GeorgiaPacific Wood Adhesives 11:10-11:30 a.m.

Quantifying the Natural Variation of Formaldehyde (HCHO) Emissions for Wood Composite Panels —Jeffrey Otjen, Product Manager, GeorgiaPacific Wood Adhesives —Nicolas Andre, Research Scientist, Center for Renewable Carbon, University of Tennessee —Timothy Young, Professor, Forest Products Center, University of Tennessee 11:35-11:55 a.m A Mechanism for Fundamental Research —Linda Caudill, Managing Director, WoodBased Composites Center

TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS (ROOM B)

10:45-11:05 a.m.

Capitalizing On New Veneer Drying Technologies —Alan Knokey, Vice President, USNR 11:10-11:30 a.m.

Dryers: Efficiency/Productivity/Quality: Green Veneer In - Good Veneer Out —Trevor Wendt, Sales and Marketing Manager, Westmill Industries 11:35 a.m.-11:55 a.m.

Technology Migration: A Case Study in Maximizing the Value of Updating Control System Hardware and Infrastructure —Dustin Neumann, Principal, Neumann Process Control

BOARD ENHANCEMENTS

TIME OUT WITH ATTENDEES 10:10-10:40 a.m.

(ROOM C)

CONCURRENT SESSIONS (Rooms A-B-C)

ADHESIVES & RESEARCH (ROOM A)

10:45-11:05 a.m.

2014 Update: Impact of U.S. Green Building Standards on Wood Adhesives

10:45-11:05 a.m.

Quality Assurance Systems in the Engineered Wood Industry —Marshall Lloyd, Sales Engineer, GreCon 11:10-11:30 a.m.

Production Optimization Using Automatic Scanner and Panel Repair Technology —Tor Gustavsen, Managing Director, Argos Solutions

11:35-11:55 a.m.

In-Line Inspection Makes Furniture Board Producers Happy and Wise —Thomas Franz, Managing Director, Baumer Inspection LUNCH AND EXHIBITS 12:10-1:30 p.m.

AFTERNOON KEYNOTERS SESSION 1:35-1:55 p.m.

Remarks and Introductions —Fred Kurpiel, Georgia Research Institute 2:00-2:20 p.m.

Regulatory Challenges for the Composite Panel Industry: How and When Will the New Emissions Rules End? —Tom Julia, President, Composite Panel Assn.

2:25-2:45 p.m.

The Future of Engineered Wood Products: LP’s View of the Next Generation of EWP. —Brian Luoma, Senior VP and General Manager, Engineered Wood Products, LP Building Products 2:50-3:10 p.m.

Developments in U.S. Trade: Opportunities and Challenges Alberto Goetzl, International Trade Analyst, U.S. International Trade Commission TIME OUT WITH EXHIBITORS 3:15-3:40 p.m.

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Getting More: New Manufacturing Developments Andrew Jowett, President, Imal, Inc. 4:10-4:30 p.m.

Win Your Race at the Pit Stop: Ziplink Belts —Richard Duijn, Industry Segment Manager, Ammeraal Beltech 4:35-4:55 p.m.

More Than 100 Years of Steel Belt Know How —Joerg Kaufmann, Global Project Manger for Press Belts, Sandvik Process Systems

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Continuous Improvement: What Our Industry Should Be Thinking About —Colin Folco, Modernization Manager, Dieffenbacher 4:10-4:30 p.m.

Laminated Beech Veneer Lumber Production on ContiRoll Press —Joachim Meier, Executive Vice President, Siempelkamp LP 4:35-4:55 p.m.

The Newest Plywood Pressing Technology —Anna McCann, Principal, Merritt Machinery

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Upgrading and Improving Existing Wet ESP’s and RTO Equipment —Jaymie Deemer, Market Development Manager, Lundberg HAPPY HOUR IN EXHIBIT HALL 5:00-6:00 p.m.

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Eliminate High Fuel RTO Operating Costs —Rodney Pennington, VP of Key Accounts, Nestec 4:10-4:30 p.m.

Bio-Incineration – Destruction of Contaminants at Ambient Temperature —Rakesh Govind, President, PRD Tech

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The Uneven Recovery in U.S. Housing Brings Cautious Optimism to North American Wood Panel Markets —David Fortin, Senior Economist, Wood Products, RISI TIME OUT WITH ATTENDEES 10:00-10:30 a.m.

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MORNING KEYNOTERS SESSION

AIR EMISSIONS

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How Successful Plywood Companies Are Running Their Operations in Latin America —Tapani Kiiski, President and CEO, Raute

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Remarks and Introductions —Fred Kurpiel, President, Georgia Research Institute 8:30-8:55 a.m.

Creating a High Performance Operation: Reflections on Leadership and Change —Dick Baldwin, Managing Partner, Oak Creek Investment

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Continuous Process Improvement: The FPI Now Cautions Green Sawdust Combustible —Justin Price, Principal, Evergreen Engineering 11:00-11:20 a.m.

Lessons in Crisis Response and Risk Mitigation —Cam McAlpine, President, PR Media Strategic Communications

AIR EMISSIONS 11:30-11:50 a.m.

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JOE ANDREWS General Manager Richmond Plywood

DICK BALDWIN Managing Partner Oak Creek Investments

DAVE FORTIN Senior Economist Wood Products, RISI

ALBERTO GOETZL Int'l Trade Analyst U.S. Int'l. Trade Comm.

TOM JULIA President Composite Panel Assn.

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WESP As an Add-On Particulate Matter Control Technology for Industrial Boilers —Hardik Shah, Senior Applications Engineer, Southern Environmental

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Enabling Technologies for Sustainable Composite Wood Products —Todd Miler, Technical Manager, Momentive Specialty Chemicals 11:00-11:20 a.m.

New Developments in Polyurethane Adhesives —Chris Whelan, Business Development Manager, Henkel-Purbond 11:25-11:45 a.m.

Polyurethane Adhesives for Panel Product Applications —Yaqiu Zhao, Technical Director, Structural & Industrial Adhesives, Ashland Performance Materials

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Capital Costs Versus Operational Costs: The Common Sense Approach —Jason McIntosh, Business Development Director, Hunt, Guillot and Associates 11:00-11:20 a.m.

Taking the Mystery out of Maintenance: A Metrics Approach to Maintenance Management —Robert Landau, Director of Operations, Pöyry Management Consulting 11:25-11:45 a.m.

Transitioning Your Plant Operation from Good to Great through Improving Operator Effectiveness —Bijan Shams, President, Cogent Industrial Technologies 11:50-12:10 p.m.

Trash or Treasure? Maximize Your Surplus Recovery in Equipment, Spare Parts and Rolling Stock —Doug Moore, Principal, EuroSource LLC LUNCH WITH ATTENDEES 12:10-1:30 p.m.

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N. AMERICAN PLYWOOD PRODUCERS FACE A WORLD OF CHALLENGES IN MARKETPLACE Innovative plant operators are needed to successfully produce and market a highly adaptable product.

BY R.F. (DICK) BALDWIN

he North American plywood industry over the past quarter century (1987-2012) has endured a seemingly endless array of dilemmas. And of these emerged three enormous questions: How do plywood producers survive with OSB taking their markets?

What logs? and Why does society say we shouldn’t be cutting down trees?

And if these three issues weren’t enough, the industry had to drag the consequences of all through periodic economic downturns that eventually culminated in the Great Recession.

All in all, the last 25 years have seen a harsh and challenging plywood operating environment by any measure.

During that time, mill closures have eliminated or indefinitely idled more than half of North America’s plywood capacity as the industry shrank to a ghost of its former self.

The large public companies didn’t linger around; most left the industry to others. Some just shut down and quit.

Yet some operators survived and are now prospering; these operators are designated the “survivors of the survivors” because of their business acumen in dealing with what became a rolling crisis. What did they see and do that others didn’t? What can we learn from their examples that apply to both the plywood manufacturer and others in the

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wood business? These survivors faced new realities, sought out survival strategies and tactics, and then performed as agile and resourceful participants.

NEW REALITIES North American plywood producers established a new volume record during the industry’s 82nd anniversary in 1987, when 25.4 billion SF (3⁄8 basis), equivalent to 22.5 billion m3, was produced.

Then began a rocky downhill slide as OSB continued to grab an ever-larger share of the structural panel market.

Plywood’s downward slide hit a plateau of 17.4 billion SF in 2001, rode that level of relative stability through 2005, and then plunged anew to a new area of stability of about 10.2 billion SF feet in 2009 after the economic downturn. Yet despite the reductions, a new era of prosperity began to appear.

The latest deep dive, covering a sixyear period ending in 2009, could be attributed to two significant events: First, North America’s largest plywood producer, Georgia Pacific, was taken private after acquisition by Koch Industries in 2005. The new owner began to remove excess capacity from the market along with other producers seeking to reduce the volume of plywood going into an unwilling market. Second, the continuing OSB market share “take-away” collided with the Great Recession and the housing market bust that followed.

Yet, why did the plywood market production stabilize at 10.4 billion SF feet in the midst of the recession? Exhibit 2 (page 22 bottom) provides some answers.

Plywood loses its greatest market share when it competes “head to head” with OSB, a lower cost rough sheathing panel. Exhibit 2 visually depicts the actual and projected consumption using APA data. Plywood volume, comprising four broad market segments, was tabulated and its consumption projected over a 20year period ending 2015. The four segments include sheathing (mostly used in residential construction), remodeling, industrial and non-residential construction.

Plywood did comparatively well in the latter three market segments; plywood consumption fell sharper, in relation to OSB, in new home rough sheathing applications for floors, walls, roofs.

The industrial market provides a strong foundation for the plywood producer; this segment is built upon those 10,000 plywood uses that show up in a seemingly endless array of customer ap-

Exhibit 1 North American Structural Panel Production 1970-2012 (3/8” million square feet)

source: 2013-2018 Market Outlook: Structural Panels and Engineered Wood Products, APA, Sept. 2013, Table 28 (pages48-49).

Year 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Plywood 16,071 18,523 20,330 20,508 17,646 17,794 20,584 21,719 22,474 21,960 18,545 19,109 17,746 21,811 22,013 22,381 24,238 25,418 25,042 23,827 23,216 20,580 21,408 21,392 21,710 21,436 21,245 20,029 19,752 19,995 19,676 17,412 17,642 17,199 17,313 16,955 15,973 14,578 12,206 10,210 10,910 10,774 11,005

plications such as furniture framing, need-specific overlay products, container lining and a host of other non-commodity applications and uses. The surviving plywood manufacturers are acquiring a renewed appreciation for a diversified sales mix, and are progressing closer to the tactics of the pre-sheathing years of 1955 vintage and earlier. This effort to design a plywood panel for a defined need is somewhat akin to the Henry McCleary efforts in developing the ¼ AD as a tougher and stronger door skin early in the twentieth century.

OSB 751 1,054 1,163 2,302 3,387 4,180 5,045 5,872 6,465 7,553 7,649 7,416 9,223 10,080 10,894 11,662 14,735 16,926 18,996 20,218 20,650 21,530 22,699 23,655 25,374 26,153 26,420 23,933 18,505 14,082 13,382 15,305 16,780

Total Structural Panels 16,071 18,523 20,330 20,508 17,646 17,794 20,584 21,719 22,474 21,960 19,296 20,163 18,909 24,113 25,400 26,561 29,286 31,290 31,507 31,380 30,865 27,996 30,631 31,472 32,604 33,098 35,980 36,955 38,748 40,213 40,326 38,942 40,341 40,854 42,687 43,108 42,393 38,511 30,711 24,292 24,292 26,079 27,785

Henry found that hotel doors were being kicked through by energetic loggers on Saturday nights, much to the dismay of a hotel owner. Henry devised a problem-solving product: the plywood door skin. The hotel owner adopted it, and then others followed.

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tices. Business reviews and site visits were founded on a premise that there was a common thread among the actions of the survivors. The task was to define what character traits and business tactics contributed to successfully navigating an unprecedented business environment characterized by shrinking markets, costly logs and materials and the worst economic train wreck since the Great Depression.

Business strategy and tactics, dubbed survive and prosper practices (SPP), were sought out, carefully reviewed and then compared to the pre-1955 legacy practices. The pre-1955 practices were commonly used by successful operators before the advent of sheathing and the large public company participation within the industry. Common threads were many, yet varied in scope and application: ● Leadership Descriptive terms such as “intimately knowledgeable of the trade, transformational, purposeful decision maker, participative and entrepreneurial” could aptly describe the dominant characteristics of the more successful operators. Using their own knowledge and expertise, and borrowing from others, they made decisive and timely decisions on raw material, mill operations, products and people. Computers and other electronic communications were used, but these modern tools did not take away from the personal one-on-one communication that’s essential in times of crisis. These leaders, sometimes having multi-generational roots in the company, knew instinctively how to make decisions, and each was free to run the business.

These legacy traits were characterized earlier by A.E. (Al) Anderson and Harold (Hal) McClary. As General Manager of Cascade Plywood Corp. in the 1940-50s, Anderson was a hands-on guy.

In the largest plywood plant in the world for its time, he practiced the lean manufacturing concept before the word ever became part of the business lexicon. The mill produced an immense product mix in three or four species, seven veneer thicknesses and an infinite number of panel sizes, grades and constructions.

The mill reportedly made money even during the leanest years of that era.

McClary performed a similar role within a Washington state worker owned mill. ● Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness The best leaders in the mills that were visited and researched demonstrated common character traits: Each evidenced a bias for action. They seemed

Exhibit 2 Softwood Plywood End Use Markets, United States 2000-2018 (3/8” million square feet)

source: 2013-2018 Market Outlook: Structural Panels and Engineered Wood Products, APA, Sept. 2013, Tables 17-22 (pages 35-40).

Year 2000 2001 2002 2003 2001 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 e 2014 e 2015 e 2016 e 2017 e 2018 e e = estimated

Sheathing Sub-Total 5422 4908 4548 4722 4769 5454 4174 2775 1734 1174 1307 1463 1712 2073 2363 2863 3140 3217 3202

Remodel 3441 3389 3738 3728 3999 3894 3537 3280 2631 1998 2008 1993 1950 2011 2052 2072 2071 2060 2066

Industrial 5336 4468 4674 4592 4636 4607 4535 4282 3892 3515 3664 3625 3689 3718 3852 4047 4163 4256 4384

to enjoy competing within well defined areas in which they sought competitive advantages. For example, one operator cited a recent green veneer hourly production record, then discussed subsequent in-company planning to do better.

Another spoke of the mill’s plywood layup line, “My lay-up line never stops, I don’t care how fast you run yours, I will beat it in production. I run steady and my rejects are less than 1%.”

Each mill manager, and their people,

Non. Res. Const 2242 2009 1907 1924 1802 1811 1876 1953 1744 1526 1289 1322 1315 1191 1192 1285 1356 1442 1512

Total 16441 14774 14867 14966 15206 15766 14122 12290 10001 8213 8268 8403 8666 8993 9459 10267 10730 10975 11164

Sheathing % of Total 32.98% 33.22% 30.59% 31.55% 31.36% 34.59% 29.56% 22.58% 17.34% 14.29% 15.81% 17.41% 19.76% 23.05% 24.98% 27.89% 29.26% 29.31% 28.68%

had a keen sense of the process, operated from timely and accurate numbers, and knew what it would take to be a top quartile performer.

The Cascade Plywood mill at Lebanon, Ore. is cited as an example of a lasting industry legacy. Cascade had Deming-type systems in place before Deming demonstrated their best use during his mission to Japan after WW II. You knew your numbers at Cascade Plywood, you got results—or you didn’t

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get to work as a leader. Similar character traits are currently demonstrated within the best mills. ● Capital, Process Improvements One operator cited his plant as the most modern plywood plant in the industry.

Yet, the capital spent did not contain any particularly new or exciting technology. This operator and his similar performing peers spent sufficient capital to maintain and enhance their competitive position before and during the Great Recession. One plant visited used old technology skillfully and only spent capital where the yield on that capital was compelling as an offset to ongoing spending.

There is another common thread for the successful operator: Spending is continuous. However, the scope and project selection will change during poorer markets and shift to rapid payback projects.

Again, this is a legacy approach. The early mills were laboratories for capital and process improvements.

Several well-known equipment manufacturers, such as Elliot Bay Industries, emerged from operating plywood plants during the legacy era. Plywood companies sought process improvements when funds were scarce, and creatively and

Planning, investment, compensation, support and more are successful plant traits.

innovation were affordable substitutes for cash. One legacy era operator on Oregon’s south coast built much of the mill’s production equipment; he proudly placed his own nameplate on each piece made in his shops, “Cotton Picking Machinery Company.” The mill is

long gone, but the concept is still as timely as ever. ● Compensation Systems The better mills connect their compensation systems to knowledge, skill, performance and quality. Each system was benchmarked to specific results that

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were to be achieved by the individual and by the team (piece work called busheling at the plywood assembly, for example) or tied in with overall results such as at several West Coast and Southeastern operations. Payout was predictable and timely and never less often than quarterly. The payout often occurs on the next paycheck or as a monthly payment.

Although the legacy pay structures are best known for wages as the primary compensation form; there were certain jobs such as car loading, or working on a glue spreader that were based on work results. However, the best way to get more money in those days was to prove your worth, and move up in the hierarchy of jobs. This legacy practice still prevails in the resourceful and competitive mills. ● Outside Support Each successful plywood business has carefully crafted a “safety net” of responsive suppliers, customers, and/or financial supporters to aid the journey during the lean times. Often this safety net was developed into a multigenerational situation.

The safety net was developed over time by exhibiting predictable performance during the leanest of times.

Political support at the community is deemed essential; support networks often extend to the state and federal level. Often, crucial suppliers and customers have cooperated to assist cash flow during the tightest of times.

This survival practice is straight out of the legacy playbook as the owners and leaders of that era sought out backers to support mill rebuilding after a fire, or the need to get through a poor economy. More and more of the current mills are independent operators who carefully work with their stakeholders to craft a safety net to bridge the toughest of economic times.

Each of these five threads vividly portrays the basic elements that depict the attributes of the business survivors who emerged out of the Great Recession. Each has legacy examples that portray the response to a like situation during plywood’s first half century.

The legacy and the recent responses are similar. However, there is one more overarching set of character traits that provides a compelling depiction of the current survivors; that of being agile and resource performers. What then is the definition of an agile and resourceful performer?

WELL DEFINED PLAN Each survivor crafted a well defined business plan; the plan was a clearly articulated competitive approach, sometimes as a formal document. The operator was focused, but flexible to change quickly with unpredictable conditions.

This approach played out in how the mills were equipped, staffed, raw material purchased and orders obtained. Actually, focused would be an understatement: Each exhibited an intense competitive concentration on what each felt they were best situated to do.

The better performers seem to welcome rather than react to events. An increasing number also included LVL structural dry veneer as an important product option, particularly with the prospects of an ailing panel market. The desk of a Western mill manager typified the emphasis on being agile and resourceful in the market. His desk was laid out similar to a control panel, with his various information sources, print and electronic, set up to provide data quickly so that he was able to respond just as quickly to a developing market.

And the top mills were low cost producers. They ran the mill each day as if it

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was the bottom of the market. Little veneer waste was in evidence. They used this low cost status to leverage for orders during a poor market. Cited one manager; “We never shut down, we work 365 days per year, like a paper mill.” This mill and its approach to hours and days differed with that other more conventional operators within his region.

WHAT’S NEXT The challenging world of the North American plywood producer will continue to be challenging. The overall North American economy appears to be slowly improving, and the projections from industry observers such as RISI and APA indicate that the industry has a number of

good years ahead based on its slimmed down capacity. The question is: Will it continue to stay slimmed down?

Secondly, there is another emerging “elephant in the room,” other than that of the North American economy failing to deliver and possible restarts of idle domestic mills—offshore producers. Higher domestic prices and a comparatively strong dollar will benefit these possible suppliers. They may seek increased market entry benefiting from low costs while using North American third party product certification as an enabler.

North America is no longer the top plywood producer; Asia (principally China) is. Global plywood production is climbing, rather than falling as illustrated in Exhibit 3. Plywood is produced on five continents, and world production set a new record volume during 2009. The FAO reports that 80.3 billion cubic meters, or about 90.7 billion SF 3⁄8 basis, was produced in that year alone. Driving that change is an increased offshore capability to peel very small logs, and a growing variety of peelable species. Offshore producers use a wide range of technology that spans from primitive to high tech.

Plywood manufacturing is no longer

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dependent upon a handful of wood species, nor does it rely on the degree of automation. It is all about costs, product application and the ability to get the plywood in the hands of the customer, whether in their country or in North America. Future “survivors of the survivors” may be those who accept that plywood is a global product, that can

and will cross national boundaries, and move forward to position their businesses not only to cope with North American challenges, but toward crisis and opportunities that will likely develop PW from offshore.

Currently Managing Partner, Oak Creek Investments, LLC, Dick Baldwin began his career in the panel industry at age 19 as a

stock rustler in the Cascade Plywood Corp. plywood plant mentioned above. Since then, Baldwin worked his way into executive suites for several major forest products companies, including Champion International He has worked with Western and Southern plywood and also internationally and has been a consistent booster of plywood in a variety of applications in lieu of OSB sheathing displacement.

Exhibit 3 Worldwide Structural Panel Production 1970-2012 (3/8” million square feet)

source: 2013-2018 Market Outlook: Structural Panels and Engineered Wood Products, APA, Sept. 2013, Table 28 (pages48-49).

Year 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Africa 239 284 306 354 400 404 396 431 437 379 396 431 437 379 396 593 616 695 688 672 642 538 490 497 539 516 507 430 416 538 768 696 644 689 687 689 633 763 767 844 822 793 761 814 841

North America 16602 15782 16980 18405 20120 20692 17433 16813 19382 20897 20118 19917 17520 18179 15366 20782 20815 21069 22510 23639 23268 22090 20949 18488 19168 19129 19542 19055 18873 19432 17581 19851 19578 17802 17846 17414 17069 16771 15903 15041 12061 10942 11551 11312 11472

South America 511 535 579 688 885 951 927 939 1014 966 981 1059 1148 1220 1194 1177 1222 1159 1197 1500 1600 1569 1561 1311 1379 1310 1339 2494 2183 2097 2072 2798 3120 3135 3714 3708 4906 5082 4470 4544 4536 4049 4542 4513 4550

Asia 6918 8648 6967 10777 12116 13285 11121 10286 11936 13082 14485 15060 14335 14118 14525 16258 16084 16502 17432 19153 20606 20702 20013 21631 22659 23186 23000 28467 25989 28944 21084 24818 28553 26577 30550 39701 38532 42811 44604 55869 51173 58517 60980 60416 61494

Europe 3587 3820 3934 4094 4431 4512 3859 3538 3779 3629 3537 3676 3585 3480 3306 3070 3163 3102 3220 3162 3248 3434 3288 2836 2676 2915 3108 4542 4579 4667 5702 5557 5855 5944 6211 6313 7195 7337 7440 7695 6875 5469 6886 7333 7122

Oceania 141 135 176 188 173 194 186 141 116 128 149 147 155 162 161 139 143 158 172 180 186 207 212 174 207 238 295 325 318 362 369 421 458 434 505 577 569 582 569 573 571 505 385 540 734

Total 27998 28904 28642 34506 38125 40038 33922 32148 36664 39081 39666 40290 37180 37538 34948 42019 42043 42685 45219 48306 49550 48540 46513 44937 46628 47294 47791 55313 52358 56040 47576 54141 58208 54581 59513 68402 68904 73346 73753 84566 76038 80275 85105 84928 86213

N.A. % of Total 59.30% 54.60% 58.67% 53.34% 52.77% 51.68% 51.39% 52.30% 52.86% 53.47% 50.72% 49.43% 47.12% 48.43% 43.97% 49.46% 49.51% 49.36% 49.78% 48.94% 46.96% 45.51% 45.04% 41.14% 41.11% 40.45% 40.89% 34.45% 36.05% 34.68% 36.95% 36.67% 33.63% 32.62% 29.99% 25.46% 24.77% 22.87% 21.56% 17.79% 15.86% 13.63% 13.57% 13.32% 13.31%

Note: North America includes North America, Central America, and Caribbean

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EWPs: ENGINEERING THE FUTURE OF FOREST PRODUCTS CAPABILITIES EDITOR’S NOTE: The following material is from from the publication, Panel Age 50: A Celebration of the Past Fifty Years of Structural & Non-Structural Wood Product Developments, published

by The Donnell Group in summer 2013, and written by Panel World magazine managing editor Dan Shell. hile plywood may be the original engineered wood product with its 100+ years of commercial production and first U.S. patent way back in 1868, a newer generation of engineered wood products (EWPs) in many ways represents the future of the industry. Indeed, the singular ability of EWPs to utilize almost any segment of the timber resource, and EWP manufacturers’ capabilities to implement technology and engineering to create products that go way above and beyond structural capacities of traditional solid sawn forest products, combine to create an almost limitless potential to provide products for virtually any wood construction application.

Glulam is the original EWP, and one of the earliest still-standing glulam roof structures is generally acknowledged to be the assembly room of King Edward VI College, a school in Southampton, England, dating from 1866. Glulam’s first industrial patented use was in Weimar, Germany, where Otto Hetzer set up a steam sawmill and carpentry business. His patent dated 1906 describes vertical columns that transitioned into curved glued laminated eaves zones, and then became sloped rafters, all in a single laminated unit.

Each component, bonded under pressure, comprised three or more horizontally arranged laminations.

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The technology arrived in North America in 1934 when Max Hanisch, Sr., who had worked with Hetzer at the turn of the century, formed a firm in Peshtigo, Wis. to manufacture structural glued laminated timber.

A significant development in the glulam industry was the introduction of fully water-resistant phenol-resorcinol adhesive in 1942. This allowed glulam to be exposed in exterior environments without concern of gluline degradation.

The first U.S. manufacturing standard for glulam was Commercial Standard CS253-63, which was published by the Department of Commerce in 1963. According to a 1964 paper from the Georgia Institute of Technology, in certain regions of the U.S. at the time, 75% of new churches and 25% of all new community buildings used glulam structures or components.

The glulam market in the U.S. amounted to over $10 million in 1947, $24 million in 1954, $37 million in 1958 and was estimated to have been approximately $60 million in 1962. According to the Georgia Tech paper, in 1964, 45 establishments specialized in producing glulam members, and a majority of the plants were in the Western U.S. Washington state had 10 plants, Oregon and California each had four, and South Dakota and Montana each had three while six states had two each, and nine states had one plant each.

The roster included well-known names such as Boise Cascade, Potlatch and Weyerhaeuser and also the not so well known such as Laminated Rafters (still in business) and Fabribeam in Indiana.

EARLY PRODUCERS When it closed its doors in 2011, Standard Structures in Windsor, Calif. was the oldest glulam manufacturer in the U.S. operating under its founding ownership and name. A highway builder and pioneering post-war boom modular home designer, Carlo Caletti founded Standard Structures in 1947.

Following its early work with custommade complex glulam beams and arches, Standard Structures developed into a major supplier of EWPs for commercial and multi-family home construction. The company acquired a 300,000 sq. ft. production facility in Windsor, and in 1972 began developing and offering market alternatives such as the Mini-Lam and the XL Joist. In the early 1980s Standard introduced an I-joist product, and then in the 1990s responded to the industry’s need for long span and heavy loaded designs by creating an Open-Web Truss called “SST.” In 2003, Standard developed a wood-tube open truss to complement its total product line of commercial wood products.

Another early entrant into the glulam market on the West Coast was Rosboro Lumber of Springfield, Ore., which had built a veneer mill in 1959 and began manufacturing softwood plywood. The company introduced its glulam operation in 1963, a development that helped distinguish Rosboro as one of the first fully integrated forest products operations.

According to Rosboro’s history, the glulam plant built in 1963 was the first in the industry to utilize a continuous

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pre-glued finger-jointing line, stress wave machine-graded lumber and radio frequency beam curing equipment.

When the glulam plant was expanded in 1973, a beam press and supporting equipment was installed which doubled the production capabilities. In 1992 Rosboro increased production capacity by adding a Dimter beam press and second production line. The purchase of the Vaughn, Ore. glulam facility in 2005 from Weyerhaeuser increased Rosboro’s capacity and introduced custom glulam capabilities.

Bohemia was another early glulam and panel industry producer, assuming control of Cascade Fiber’s ailing Eugene, Ore. particleboard plant in the mid ’60s through a management contract and eventually acquiring it outright. Expansion continued in 1969 when it began construction of a laminated beam plant in Saginaw, Ore. Completed in 1971, the plant could produce 50,000 board feet a day using wood stock the company had previously supplied to other laminated beam manufacturers. The company added another glulam plant in Vaughn, Ore. Ultimately, laminated beams became Bohemia Inc.’s mainstay product, and the company was North America’s largest glulam producer by the late 1980s.

In 1990 Willamette Industries acquired Bohemia’s assets, including the glulam plants that eventually passed to Weyerhaeuser’s ownership in 2002. In 2005, Rosboro purchased the Vaughn glulam plant from Weyerhaeuser and continues to run it. The company produces its innovative BigBeam glulam product there, featuring custom beams that incorporate pine lumber and LVL. Anthony Forest Products started up one of the first high-volume Southern glulam plants in 1965 at El Dorado, Ark. Some 30 years later, the company added a second glulam plant at Washington, Ga. Anthony also partnered with Eacom Timber in an I-joist manufacturing plant in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada.

EWP GIANT At the dawn of the EWP industry’s last 50 years, native Idahoans Art Troutner and Harold Thomas started what was to become industry giant Trus Joist as Trussdeck Corp. in 1960. While Thomas supplied capital, salesmanship

tions. Between 1962 and 1964, the company set up four manufacturing franchises: Investors paid for the plant and equipment, designed by Troutner, and gained a license to produce the patented product.

Meanwhile, Trussdeck retained 66% ownership of each operation.

The move allowed Trussdeck to gain almost a half-million dollars in new funds (a tidy sum in the early ’60s for a small company), but the franchise concept proved unwieldy.

Troutner and Thomas were buried in paperwork, and one of the franchises (in Portland, Ore.) began failing and had to be purchased outright. Thomas later told Forbes magazine that the franchise configuration and poor management made the company less profitable than it should have been through the mid 1960s.

In 1969 the company moved to merge its franchise operations into a new corporation, named Trus Joist. Troutner and Thomas each took 20% of the company, the franchise investors took 40%—and new investors got 20% of Trus Joist Roseburg plant at Riddle, Ore. Corp. for $200,000.

Annual revenues had grown to and marketing skills, Troutner had the $11 million by 1970, but the company ideas and concepts for revolutionary was having trouble finding the quality wood products. solid sawn lumber it needed for truss Troutner had developed a truss in the and joist products. Troutner went back 1950s that featured an open web design, to the drawing board and invented Miwith 2x4s fastened to overlaid steel tubcrollam—an LVL product that could be ing. This open-web truss used machine produced in lengths up to 80 ft. stress rated timber as top and bottom At the end of the 1970s, Trus Joist chords. These chords were connected by employment had grown to 1,000. Sales steel webbing. This new product carried had more than quadrupled from the bemore load per pound of its own weight ginning of the decade to $56 million in than any other structural product then 1977—then hit $80 million in ’78 and available. $102 million in ’79.

He offered the design and product to After a sluggish few years in the Idaho companies Boise Cascade and early ’80s recession, Trus Joist continPotlatch but they didn’t go for it. After ued growing through the decade, openchanging some of the glues and presing a dozen new manufacturing plants, sures, Troutner tried to sell it to Weyeradding more than 130 sales offices and haeuser, but to no avail. growing overall employment to 2,600.

Instead of selling out, the two decidFollowing the acquisition of major wined to go into business themselves, in a dow manufacturers Norco Windows rented barn that cost $30 a month. and Dashwood Industries, Trus Joist reTroutner moved his tooling in and overstructured as TJ International. saw operations and manufacturing.

By 1985, according to a research Thomas, who had been in wholesale paper from the U.S. Forest Products lumber sales, was salesman and general Laboratory in Madison, Wis., four LVL manager. producers had obtained code-approved The company’s story took an intereststress values for their products: ing turn at the beginning. Seeking start● Trus Joist Corp. and its Microllam up capital and looking to expand with product had received a Council of Amerno real assets or track record, Trussdeck ican Building Officials National Reoffered franchise manufacturing operasearch Board approval.

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● McCausey Lumber Co. in Detroit, Mich. was marketing a European product called Basterplank in the U.S. market, which had gained approval as a framing system from the Southern Building Code Congress International. ● Weyerhaeuser had gained approval for its Lamineer LVL product, which was produced on conventional plywood equipment. ● MacMillan Bloedel had received approval for its Parallam engineered lumber product for use as structural beams or joists.

Facing increased competition from large corporate EWP manufacturers such as Weyerhaeuser and Boise Cascade, TJ International enParallam PSL, 1988 tered a joint venture with MacMillan Bloedel in 1991, putting both the Microllam and Parallam products under constituted more than 70% of U.S. LVL the same corporate umbrella called Trus production by the mid 1990s.

Joist MacMillan.

According to a 2000 publication from Thanks to international sales growth, the University of Massachusetts by Paul increased domestic demand and the Fisette, The Evolution of Engineered opening of new manufacturing plants, Wood I-Joists, “Another watershed Trus Joist MacMillan’s sales expanded event in I-joist technology was the to $577 million by the mid 1990s. In switch from plywood to oriented strand1999, longtime EWP competitor Weyboard web material. This occurred in erhaeuser acquired MacMillan Bloedel, 1990. OSB was less expensive, more and weeks later acquired the outstandavailable, and stronger than plywood in ing shares of TJ International, making shear because all the strands interlocked.

Weyerhaeuser the industry’s largest Trus Joist once again led the charge.

EWP producer under the Trus Joist Today virtually every I-joist manufacturbrand. er uses only OSB webs in their residenIt was a natural for LVL marketing tial and commercial product lines.” to lean toward I-joists, I-beams and At the end of the 1990s, Fisette headers. Contemporary designs, first wrote, “Exact market shares are closely made popular in the 1970s, demanded guarded, but it is safe to say that five open floor plans that required long manufacturers sell 80% of the I-Joists. clearspans. Lumber joists longer than Trus Joist clearly leads with about 55%.

20 feet were expensive, hard to find Boise Cascade, Louisiana-Pacific, and lacked the load-carrying capacity Willamette Industries and Georgia Parequired for long spans. Early versions cific equally share 20%-25% of the anof EWP I-joists were also expensive, nual U.S. sales volume. There are a but they were straight, lightweight and growing number of smaller companies achieved the desired performance. Stafighting hard for market position. And ble pricing and availability have made it’s the builders who are winning. Many EWPs more attractive to many smaller manufacturers offer great prodbuilders. ucts at low prices.”

In his 1995 book “Plywood & Veneer In 2008, Atlas Holdings, a private Based Products Manufacturing Pracequity group with several forest prodtices,” plywood industry veteran Dick ucts holdings, acquired the Trus Joist Baldwin wrote that LVL solved issues commercial division originally founded that truss manufacturers would have with

by Thomas and Troutner from Weyerstress-rated lumber supplies and volatile haeuser. In 2009 Atlas launched Redprices. In addition, LVL helped usher in Built LLC (named after Thomas’ nickimprovements in production speed and name “Red”), with headquarters in product quality for I-beam flanges and Boise, Id., and manufacturing facilities chords for open-web trusses. Headers in Hillsboro and Stayton, Ore.; Chino, were a simple and natural outgrowth of Calif.; and Delaware, Oh. Continuing use for the LVL product, Baldwin wrote, to acquire assets from old-line glulam noting that I-beams, trusses and headers manufacturers, RedBuilt purchased

some of Standard Structures’ closed facilities in 2011 that are now operated as a design center.

I-JOIST ISSUES As EWP I-joists sought to increase market share through the 1990s, a 2000 report from the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing noted that “High prices and unfamiliarity with a new product have kept I-joists from being deployed on most job sites. Until recently, it was difficult for I-joists to compete with sawn lumber for starter homes and houses with a basic design. A recent market survey found that 80% of builders want to learn how to use engineered wood.

Through training provided by manufacturers and builder associations, I-joists are gradually becoming more familiar and builders less intimidated. During the last five years, the I-joist market has grown rapidly, and sales are predicted to increase by 50% in the next four years.”

One of the biggest market share issues for I-joists was product standardization. Each manufacturer provided specifications and span recommendations and sought to market a proprietary building “system.” Meanwhile, major trade group APA—Engineered Wood Assn. began promoting a uniform standard for all I-joists in the mid 1990s.

APA’s Performance Rated I-Joist (PRI) standard was introduced in 1997. According to the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing report, only 20% of I-joists manufacturers were following the standard in 2000. The report noted that according to research nearly 100% of building officials want a uniform identification system for I-joists.

The report stated, “Some people fear that setting a standard will drive products to the lowest common denominator, and superior products will not receive the credit they deserve. A standard might remove the incentive for innovation and the development of new products. Second, many argue that Ijoists are structural elements that require careful engineering. But I-joists are not direct substitutes for lumber joists. Installation of I-joists requires special consideration of point loads, offset loads, and special fastening requirements. Standardization would not eliminate the need for technical support and design services. Builders will still need expert advice for structural design.”

Yet in the same report, Thomas

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Denig, then the President & CEO of Trus Joist MacMillan, pointed out, “If standardization homogenizes I-joists into a commodity product, reduced profit margins won’t pay distributors to maintain technical staff. And builders won’t receive the high level of service they currently receive.”

In 2013, APA share of North American I-joist production was around 70%.

Most producers were still pursuing their own proprietary I-joist brand and system, but some were also adding the APA performance standard stamp as well.

In 2001, driven by CEO Allyn Ford, Roseburg Forest Products started up North America’s largest LVL and Ijoist plant featuring a 90 ft. eight-opening hot press, innovative continuous layup line and an I-joist assembly line running at 600 FPM. The $75 million facility covered 11 acres under one roof with a rated capacity of 3.3 million cu. ft. of LVL and 80MMLF of I-joists annually. The plant has since more than doubled capacity.

Boise Cascade continues to operate high capacity LVL/I-joist plants in Louisiana and Oregon, which are FSC Chain-of Custody certified.

BREAKTHROUGH In 2011—the 25th anniversary of the introduction of Parallam parallel strand lumber by MacMillan Bloedel in 1986—Carlos Guilherme, Vice President of Engineered Lumber Products for Weyerhaeuser, called the invention of Parallam “One of those building material breakthroughs that happen maybe once or twice in a generation. Engineers and scientists invented a new product that took a great building material— wood—and made it even better. Parallam PSL’s high-strength and long lengths allow architects and builders to use wood framing in applications that might otherwise have been built with concrete or steel, which are more expensive and require specialized labor.”

But the story of Parallam—up to 39inch clipped strands of softwood veneer with glue applied that are oriented in parallel configuration, laid up in a mat that’s then microwave pre-heated, processed through, compressed and cured in a continuous press and ultimately trimmed and sawn into beams up to 66 ft.—begins way before 1986 and its introduction at Expo 86 in Vancouver, BC.

According to a 1990 news article in BC Business, the Parallam project in its entirety from “conception to consumer” covered 18 years and $43 million before the first large scale commercial plant started up in 1986 in Delta, BC on Annacis Island. “My neck was stuck a long way out with Parallam,” said MacMillan Bloedel Senior Vice President of R&D Otto Forgacs.

The Parallam project was a world first and “unlocked a lot of doors,” Forgacs said, and “moved us into leadership in the engineered wood business.”

According to David Parker, who joined MacMillan Bloedel in 1975 as a strategic development analyst and ended up general manager of the Parallam division from 1977 until 1991, there were four individuals primarily responsible for Parallam: Forgacs, Derek Barnes, Mark Churchland—and Parker.

“When I came to MacMillan Bloedel, it was the fourth-largest forest products company in the world, and I think we had the best forest-based industrial R&D in the world, far more creative than the others—and the man who was responsible was Otto Forgacs,” Parker says of the classically trained Forgacs

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from an Austrian background and Murphy Company LVL in Oregon English education, with PhDs in chemistry and wood orientation.

With M-B an early developer of waferboard, Forgacs supported ongoing research in panel products, but also had the courage to entertain an odd product like Parallam, Parker says. “He also put someone in position to make it grow. My job was putting the team together, continuing to work on and grow it and do the planning.”

Aside from greenlighting the research, Forgacs’ biggest contributions were running interference with the board of directors and working with federal officials for financing assistance. “If he hadn’t done either one, there never would have been a Parallam,” Parker remembers. Barnes—“a great guy who couldn’t hold a negative thought for more than 20 minutes,” Parker says—conceived and inWeyerhaeuser continues to market all vented the Parallam product, but needed three products, among others. Parker— assistance in developing its manufacturan unabashed supporter, promoter and ing process. defender of Parallam—claims Parallam Churchland developed the microwave has been the most profitable of the engipre-heating system for Parallam’s layup neered lumber products. mat that provided a critical edge in pro“It’s not as big a volume as LVL, and duction efficiency.

LVL’s total profits may be higher,” he Both Barnes and Churchland shared says. But thanks to Parallam’s much the prestigious 1 million Swedish krohigher log supply yield into final prodner Marcus Wallenberg Prize in 1987, uct, “If you look at a million cubic feet given by the King of Sweden and the of output, Parallam is more profitable equivalent of a Nobel prize for the forby a long shot,” Parker says. est products industry.

A recent effort in the reconstituted Parker includes himself in the group lumber market is Louisiana-Pacific’s LSL of four due to his management, plus deplant at Houlton, Me., where the compaveloping the veneer strand clipping conny converted an OSB plant that had startcept and leading the move to convert ed up in 1982 into a laminated strand the production approach from a batch lumber facility that started up in 2009. process to continuous system.

The plant offers wall framing, beams and After the BC plant started up in ’86, headers, truss chords and rim board.

MacMillan Bloedel merged with Trus The Houlton plant complemented the Joist in 1991 to form Trus Joist Macsignificant EWP portfolio LP had Millan. The new company introduced pieced together, including LVL plants Timberstrand laminated strand lumber in North Carolina and Golden, British (LSL)—initially another M-B research efColumbia, an I-joist plant in California, fort—in 1991 at a plant in Deerwood, as well as joint venture I-joist plants in Minn. The new product utilized low value Quebec, and a sales alliance with a aspen and poplar logs flaked into strands LVL producer in the Northwest U.S. 12 in. long, which were then treated with an adhesive and cured in a steam-injecLOOKING AHEAD tion press that significantly densified the Reducing log and manufacturing wood and created boards up to 48 ft. long, costs even further while boosting raw 5 1/2 in. thick and 8 ft. wide. material yield is the key to competing By the time Weyerhaeuser purchased with solid sawn and other building MacMillan-Bloedel and its share of Trus products and expanding EWP market Joist MacMillan in late 1999, the EWP share, said Parker at the biennial Panel facilities acquired from the combined & Engineered Lumber International companies were impressive: six MicrolConference & Expo (PELICE) in Atlam production plants, three Parallam lanta in early 2012. Currently seeking plants and two Timberstrand plants.

financing for his own PSL plant, Strongwood Technologies, Parker noted that while ELPs have a small share of the structural lumber market, lower cost second generation ELPs may accelerate market penetration providing they offer technical superiority.

Also at the 2012 PELICE, the late Mike St. John, former vice president of sales and marketing for Pacific Woodtech, emphasized the key to increasing ELPs’ current 7% share of the lumber market is reducing manufacturing costs, and noted that ELPs’ manufacturing processes offer more cost reduction flexibility than solid sawn production. Also, he added that a smaller environmental footprint makes ELPs more adaptable to limited wood baskets.

“The stage is set for an ELP growth spurt,” St. John said, thanks to better utilization, green certification programs making it easier for ELPs to conform than solid sawn products, plus log scarcity that will find engineers and builders looking to ELPs more often.

Again at PELICE, William Bolduc, structural engineer with Keymark Enterprises, cited advantages of ELPs such as greater design capability over traditional lumber, and also pointed to disadvantages such as higher cost per volume than lumber, substitution issues and construction complexities. However, growing implementation of ELPs will be directly related to building plan specifications, design problem solutions, computer software programming and ELP manufacturer reliability and support, he said.

“Engineered roof trusses and OSB both took 50% or more market share against major competitors over a 25year time frame,” Parker noted. “The market for lumber is bigger than trusses or OSB. I think within 25 years ELPs could capture 25% of that market. If MacMillan Bloedel hadn’t developed OSB, somebody would have. It might have been delayed by a few years. And the same will be true of ELPs.” One of the keynoters at PELICE 2012 was John Murphy of Oregon’s Murphy Company, a familiar player in the Northwest for decades in veneer and plywood, but which in early 2008 started up a LVL plant in Sutherlin, Ore., at the site of the company’s former plywood mill that had been destroyed by fire. The LVL plant began with 4.5 million cu. ft. of annual capacity.

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PROJECTS MARTCO TOWS DRYER INTO PLACE

In December, RoyOMartin towed into place its second fully erect 6-deck jet dryer. Just a year prior, Martco pioneered the concept of fully erecting a million pound dryer and pulling it into place as the most effective means to minimize dryer outage. The duration of dryer outage was essentially reduced from 16 weeks to about three weeks or less.

The first dryer was towed from the outfeed end while the second dryer was towed from the infeed end, confirming the USNR dryer can be pulled from either end.

The accompanying photo was taken just four days after startup, from a time lapse Martco dryers at center and at right as viewed from time lapse camera. camera that had recorded the dryer erection. Martco’s first 6-deck USNR dryer is located to the right and the latest dryer is in the center of the of total production, the two new USNR dryers dry more vephoto. When the photo was taken, each dryer was processing 45 neer volume than four equivalent length 4-deck jet dryers, basheets per minute (1/6 SYP, 110% average moisture) for a comsically halving the labor cost to dry veneer, according to the bined output of 90 sheets per minute for both dryers. participants.

Each of Martco’s new dryers has the equivalent drying caVeneer exiting the new dryers is confirmed to have uniform pacity of two Coe 4-deck 24-section Model 72 dryers. In terms moisture content, lay flat, and remain supple; all common expectations of a well-balanced, thermally efficient dryer. Improved veneer quality not only reduces inadvertent degrade and waste, but also improves the rest of the plywood manufacturing process.

With the exception of the dryer roll conveyor (one is right hand, one is left hand), both dryers are identically equipped with the following: ● Six deck, 144 ft. heated length ● Special 3/16’s all stainless floating floor ● Unique expansion rollers ● Special pivoting and safe door hardware ● Patented Automatic Dryer Exhaust Controls and balanced cooling ● Extreme efficiency hot oil heaters ● Pressurized fan shaft seals USNR also announces that Richmond Plywood will install a similar dryer late this summer. This new dryer will be nearly identical to Martco’s with the exception that it will be 120 ft. of heated length, and steam heated.

USNR will give a presentation on new dryer technology at the upcoming PELICE show in Atlanta March 20-21 and will participate with its dryer technology in the veneer-based manufacturing workshop.

(Article submitted by USNR. Visit usnr.com)

WESTAGE PURCHASES DOUBLE BELT PRESS Westag&Getalit AG, a producer of woodworking and plastics products with its head office in Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany ordered its second continuous double belt press from Hymmen Industrieanlagen GmbH, manufacturer of machines and plants from Bielefeld. ➤ 40 36 • MARCH 2014 • PanelWorld

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36 ➤ The press, at 70 bar, a presszone of 3 m length and the latest presscushion-system, will be delivered between April and July. The plant specializes in the production of high pressure CPL (continuous press laminates) of different thicknesses as well as thin CPL. Westag states it bought from Hymmen because of Hymmen’s experience through 200 double belt presses sold worldwide, and because of Hymmen’s expertise in high pressure CPL. In the Hymmen technical center in Rödinghausen the necessary tests with special preimpregnats of Westag & Getalit could be realized. All technical and technological guidelines could be fulfilled without any deductions.

ASIA DEKOR BUYS DRUM DRYER After the successful commissioning of almost 500 dryers and air graders for the production of wood panels, Dieffenbacher has received a new order for a

drum dryer for drying particles in the Asia Dekor particleboard plant in Huizhou City. The new drum dryer will replace an existing second hand dryer.

The drum is manufactured for gentle drying of the material at lower outlet temperatures. This ensures an equal final moisture of the particles under optimum heat usage. At the end of the drum cycle the material is separated from the airflow in the discharge box with annex cyclone battery. The gases are then partly redirected to the mixing chamber. A comprehensive control system facilitates consistent final moistures and optimized operation.

Dieffenbacher reports it has sold 12 drum dryers for different projects in China during the past two years.

PANEL PLANT ORDERS PICK UP IN 2013 Ten wood-based board manufacturers placed primarily large orders with Siempelkamp in 2013 including Conti-

Roll continuous presses as part of orders for partial or complete plants. In a market characterized by fierce price competition, 2013 orders exceeded 2012 by two.

Six board manufacturers including Homanit ordered MDF plants from Siempelkamp in 2013. For its location in Krosno, Poland, the company placed an order in December for a high-tech production plant for thin MDF including an 8 ft. x 28.8 m ContiRoll of the latest generation. Furthermore, Siempelkamp sold four production plants for particleboard in 2013.

In the area of short-cycle presses Siempelkamp recorded four new orders.

One of these orders is a 2070 x 5610 mm short-cycle press for the long-standing Siempelkamp customer Egger in Tyrol. Several different plant operators ordered Siempelkamp’s innovative MDF blending system, the Ecoresinator. Since its market introduction in 2011, 18 systems have been sold. In the area of second-hand plants, demand has

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significantly increased for both suppliers as well as buyers. In 2013 Siempelkamp offered three particleboard lines, one MDF line as well as seven short-cycle lines in this business area.

BANDER RELIEVES BOISE BOTTLENECK Samuel Strapping Systems, a leading supplier of industrial packaging supplies and equipment, partnered with Boise Cascade’s Engineered Wood Products division to install a bander in the White City, Ore. facility.

Boise Cascade EWP Oregon facility is one of the largest laminated veneer lumber (LVL) and I-joist manufacturing plants in the world. Their existing single bander configuration could not process product as quickly as it was being delivered. This resulted in a bottleneck that slowed down operations.

Samuel Strapping Systems had previously outfitted one of the White City plant’s sister mills in New Brunswick, Canada. Armed with this previous experience, Boise Cascade approached Samuel Strapping Systems and asked them to provide a solution.

In response, Samuel Strapping Systems offered a top-sealing strapping machine set up with a VK30 polyester strap head and a CD12SJ powered dispenser, which was installed on the same production line as another brand of strapping machine. When asked about the performance of the Samuel Strapping bander, Dennis Ekstrand, Manager of EWP Maintenance and Construction, said, “After we put the (Samuel Strapping) bander in with the second bander, we reduced our cycle time by approximately 33%. Additionally, the (Samuel Strapping) cycle rate exceeds the cycle rate of the other brand.”

Boise Cascade EWP took a great risk in bringing Samuel Strapping Systems in, considering that Boise now had to deal with a completely new set of spare parts for a totally different brand of strapping machine. But that risk has paid off in huge dividends. “We put the numbers together and it looks like the ROI is under two years,” Ekstrand says. “I’ve followed the life cycle of that (New Brunswick) strapper, and the life cycle is very good. Very low maintenance, real reliable, and a quick cycle rate.”

When asked what the White City

plant’s next step would be, Ekstrand says, “I’ve asked for potential capital in 2014 for another strapper, so I can take advantage of the (Samuel Strapping machine’s) higher cycle rate.” This additional investment should increase the cycle time even more, while also improving the overall uptime of the plant’s strapping line.

PROJECTS LP TO INSTALL RTO AT ROXBORO

Megtec Systems, Inc. reports that Louisiana-Pacific Corp. will install a Megtec CLEANSWITCH RTO (regenerative thermal oxidizer) at its OSB plant in Roxboro, NC with delivery scheduled for the first quarter of 2014. The ➤ 46

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41 ➤ new RTO system, rated with a design flow of 250,000 scfm, will handle the off-gas from five direct-fired rotary drum dryers. This is the third LP plant to install a Megtec CLEANSWITCH RTO system.

“LP chose the Megtec CLEANSWITCH RTO to replace an outdated competitive system after a detailed anal-

ysis of multiple equipment suppliers and alternative technologies,” states Rodney Schwartz, Vice President of Sales with Megtec. “The simplicity of the valve and the energy savings provided by structured media were two Megtec advantages identified by LP.” Adds Schwartz, “Megtec’s unique ability to control quality and schedule by

fabricating the equipment in our own plant in De Pere, Wisconsin, compared to sub-contracting to outside fabrication shops, ensures the project timeline meets LP’s requirements.”

LP’s Roxboro operation has the capacity to produce 470MMSF of OSB on a 3⁄8 in. basis, comprised largely of softwood furnish.

The CLEANSWITCH RTO offers 97+ % VOC removal, exceptional operating economy, and maintenance-friendly design, according to the participants.

PROJECTS IN WORKS FOR WEMHÖNER Wemhöner Surface Technologies of Herford, Germany reports a good order inflow for its core product, short-cycle press lines for decorative finishing of timber products used in the furniture and laminate flooring industries. Just before Christmas, the 500th order for the Wemhöner short-cycle press line came in from Kronospan Group for its new plant in Belarus.

Wemhöner plant in Changzhou, China

In the innovative Digital Printing Lines market segment, highly promising concepts are being offered to the market now. The division of equipment for the manufacture of photovoltaic elements has also received orders for the first five machines. The sale of several press lines for the manufacture of door elements was also successful.

In 2013 the company with its staff of 400 employees (more than 120 of which are located in China) for the first time achieved sales of more than EUR 100 million and a good order book position should ensure a similar level of sales in 2014.

Construction is under way at Wemhöner’s plant in Changzhou, China, where an additional production hall with a surface area of 2,000 sq m will fill up the existing plot of land; more construction work is to follow in 2014 in Herford, where several hundred square meters of office space will be built.

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Modernizations are a rapidly expanding trend in the plywood manufacturing business. “Companies have increasingly become more cost-aware, and therefore interested in improving their present machinery through modernizations as an alternative to new investments,” comments Petri Lakka, Group Vice President of Raute Technology Services.

At Raute, the growing interest around modernization projects has been earmarked. “Today customers want different options for their investments—some focus on acquiring new assets, but some are looking for cost-efficient modernizations for their production lines. Peeling line modernizations have been and still are the largest section of all modernization projects; modernizing a peeling line tends to be more cost-efficient than purchasing a brand new line,” explains Jussi Puranen, Technology Manager at Raute Finland.

In North America, the focus with peeling line modernizations tends to be on improving the quality and thickness tolerance of veneer, with increasing automation and better usability. “The ability to raise the level of automation is very important to our North American customers, where labor costs are high,” Puranen explains.

The challenge with peeling line modernizations is that it requires an understanding of the total process of veneer, plywood and LVL manufacturing.

Raute’s advantage is its process expertise, offering lifespan services for a variety of demands.

A growing number of small service and machine manufacturers have entered the plywood markets, but Puranen sees Raute as able to respond to the tightening competition. “We have inextricably linked equipment manufacturing, sales and services to support our customers.”

Peeling line modernization is prevalent.

Puranen sees modernizations moving from hydraulic solutions towards electric solutions. In addition, the growing demand of peeling line modernizations requires acceleration of the processes.

As of now, the modernization supply chains in this industry are mainly designed for bigger projects, but Puranen predicts a shift towards modernizing of smaller components as well. “We have to be extremely precise in everything we do, and to handle things quickly with minimum bureaucracy. Raute is ready to take on this challenge.”

(Article and photo submitted by Raute.)

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ANNUAL MEETING REVEALS OPTIMISM In the General Session and in the Marketing Advisory Committee meeting, attendees heard fresh perspectives on the economy and housing outlook from economist Diane Swonk, Mesirow Financial, and Professor Dowell Myers, Director, Population Dynamics Research Group, at USC Sol Price Safety and Health Workshop heard from RoySchool of Public Policy.

OMartin representative.

Swonk said that major factors impacting the economic comeback and the housing outlook include the hollowing out of the middle class and problems of affordability for many prospective homebuyers.

She noted that student loan debt now exceeds $1.2 trillion, slowing the ability of younger buyers to invest in their first home.

Swonk’s forecast calls for a EWTA presented supplier awards as voted on by 25% increase in housing starts in the APA membership.

2014. “Further recovery is slowed by uncertainty around federal fisNearly 400 APA members, Engical policy. We haven’t had a governneered Wood Technology Assn. (EWTA) ment budget since April 2009,” she members, staff and spouses gathered said. “The federal government is the November 2-5 at the Hyatt Regency in biggest drag on our economy.” (Since Huntington Beach, Calif., for the 2013 the meeting she has downgraded her APA Annual Meeting, which rode the forecast to a 17% increase.) theme: “Surf City APA: Catch the Wave Immigrants to the U.S. are playing a of Opportunity.” The meeting and the critical role in the housing market, proweather more than lived up to the billing. viding extraordinarily strong, consistent

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demand amid the turbulence of demographic age waves, Myers told attendees at the Marketing Advisory Committee meeting. Myers noted there is a trend towards home-ownership with a decline in growth of immigrant renters as the number of native-born renters increases. Immigration plus revived demand among the native U.S. population makes for a stronger housing market outlook, he said.

However, he reiterated that the traditional home-buying age faces obstacles to home purchasing, ranging from high student loans to the need for mobility. He also noted that many younger people are questioning the merits of home owner-

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ship, having seen homeowners lose value in their homes during the recession.

Also addressing attendees in the general session were APA Chairman Mary Jo Nyblad, Boise Cascade; APA President-Elect Ed Elias; and outgoing APA President Dennis Hardman.

Nyblad praised APA and its members for pulling through the downturn with agile resiliency. “Throughout the recession, APA not only held on to its members, but also did the unthinkable for such challenging times – we grew! As an association, we clearly defined our priorities and kept our focus,” she said.

Nyblad acknowledged the retiring Hardman for his steady leadership and success in increasing member share across all product lines.

Elias elaborated on the strategies for the future, building on the four goals of the association’s strategic plan. He emphasized the importance of the third goal, strengthening the voice of the industry. “APA is truly the voice of the North American engineered wood in-

dustry. The strength of our voice has provided us with recent opportunities to address new market constraints, such as acceptance of APA structural panels as a nail base for siding, expanding the role of APA Product Reports to minimize construction stoppages, and collaborating with the Canadian lumber industry to attack Japanese domestic subsidy programs,” he said.

Hardman closed the General Session with his reflections on the state of the association and a little parting advice.

He urged APA members to maintain their strategic focus. “We currently have the strongest membership in the history of the association simply because we have continued to add value through a focused set of services. If we were to move beyond our current scope to include other products, I believe competing priorities may dilute our focus and diminish that value.”

The EWTA Info Fair, a product and services exposition, featured 65 exhibitors, far exceeding the previous year

count of 48.

A workshop organized by the APA Safety and Health Advisory Committee was chaired by Mike Wacker of Plum Creek. The lead-off presentation from Donna Bailey of RoyOMartin described the mill’s New Employee Mentoring Program that recently won APA’s Innovation in Safety Award. Other presentations provided hands-on expertise on mitigating dust hazards, reducing fire hazards and minimizing pedestrian-traffic risks within the mill.

The annual meeting concluded with the Chairman’s Dinner, where winners of the APA Safety and Health Awards were honored. APA Vice Chair Tom Temple, Potlatch, reported that 65 APA-member structural wood panel and engineered wood product facilities in the U.S., Canada and abroad participated in the Safety Award program.

There were 23 entries in the Safety Innovation Award category. Temple noted that 17 mills earned a place in the Incident Free Honor Society, representing a

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combined total of 4.4 million hours worked without an accident. Accepting awards for their companies were Robert Fouquet, Ainsworth; Greg Anthony, Boise Cascade; Mike Dawson, Norbord; Tom Temple, Potlatch; Terry Secrest, RoyOMartin; and Steve Doffitt, LP. Four EWTA member companies

were honored as Supplier and Innovation of the Year Award winners. Westmill Industries took top honors in the Supplier Equipment/Tooling category; Willamette Valley Company was the winner in the Materials/Supplies category; and Panel World magazine was the Consulting/Services category win-

ner. Ventek was the Innovation of the Year Award winner for its multi-point diverter system.

ROSEBURG TAPS AVERY TO LEAD COMPOSITES Roseburg Forest Products promoted Mark Avery to director of composites manufacturing. He joined Roseburg in September 2011 as the plant manager at Simsboro, La. and has helped lead the implementation of Roseburg’s composite restructuring in the Southwest region.

LEADERSHIP CHANGE AT NORBORD Norbord Inc. President and CEO Barrie Shineton announced his plan to retire at the end of January 2014. Shineton, who served as president and CEO since 2004, is succeeded by Peter Wijnbergen, senior vice president and COO.

LONG-TIME ROSBORO LEADER COLE DIES Paul Cole, retired CEO of Rosboro LLC, died September 15 in Eugene, Ore. He was 86. He was born in 1926 and grew up in Rosboro, Arkansas, a town named for Rosboro, LLC. When the company moved operations to Springfield, Ore. in the 1930s, the Cole family followed.

He started working for Rosboro Lumber as a seasonal employee when he was a teenager and became a fulltime employee in the sales department.

He served as General Manager and CEO from 1958 to 2001.

After more than 60 years of service to Rosboro, he retired June 30, 2010.

SELLERS’ ADHESIVE CLASSIC IS AVAILABLE Originally published in 1985, Plywood and Adhesive Technology by Dr. Terry Sellers, Jr., is again available.

The 661-page book includes 14 chapters on plywood manufacturing and 12 chapters on adhesives manufacturing and applications.

The book is available for $75.00 (U.S.) from The Copy Cow, 500 Russell St., Ste. #1, Starkville, MS 39759; email thecopycow@gmail.com. Phone 662320-4000.

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& ASSOCIATES, INC Contingency or Retainer

Depending on Circumstances / Needs

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UPDATE 10 ➤ a free market economy and should be withdrawn. Instead, CPA has proposed that EPA require extensive formal notice, obliging panel manufacturers to advise customers within 72 hours of a non-complying event.

Stop New Regulation of Laminated Products. EPA has proposed a dramatic expansion of CARB’s regulation of businesses using hardwood plywood in their production, effectively turning thousands of American manufacturers of furniture, cabinets and other wood products into the equivalent of panel mills. This would subject them to expensive and redundant testing and certification requirements that could bankrupt many of these businesses while serve no compelling public interest. CPA’s counter-proposal would

require them to demonstrate the chainof-custody use of compliant composite panel cores that already adhere to emission limits.

Include a De Minimis Exemption.

Notwithstanding a Congressional directive, EPA chose not to write a de minimis exemption into its proposals. CPA has proposed a specific formula for addressing component, intermediary and finished products that contain a very small amount of composite wood by weight or volume. These products would still be subject to meeting the emissions requirements, but would be relieved of costly labeling and record-keeping duties.

Respect Performance-Based Chemistry. EPA was never given the authority to show favoritism for one adhesive

technology over another, nor to use its regulation to favor products offered by certain companies over others.

Throughout EPA’s proposals, however, there is a bias against ultra-low emitting formaldehyde (ULEF) technology, even though these formulations are already a common and proven approach to meeting CARB’s emission requirements.

Protect Confidential Business Information. EPA’s proposals would require composite panel manufacturers to disclose proprietary, confidential operational data to customers upon request.

CPA argues that this is an improper expansion of governmental power into the private sector and should be fully withdrawn. Such disclosures should only be the result of private party agreements.

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DIRECTORY ■ India

ASIA

■ Taiwan

■ China

M P VENEERS, INDIA “Teak People”

GREAT GIANT INC. VENEER AND VENEERED PRODUCTS

Recognized Export House by Govt. of INDIA AN ISO 9001-2008 Company

www.smartbamboo.com Premium quality bamboo veneer & panel FSC certified in 2009 Bamboo Veneer

– European fleece and glue – 4x8, 4x10 and custom cut – Thick veneer available Bamboo – Traditional and Density bamboo Panel – 8, 10, 13 length and custom cut – Many colors and patterns available Hangzhou Smart Bamboo Products Co., Ltd. Email: bhe@smartbamboo.com smartbamboo@ymail.com

Shanghai Senda Fancywood “Providing Industry, Co. Value & Cost

• High Grade Hardwood Plywood Savings With – HPVA Grading, All species, NAUF, High Quality Products” CARB, UV, FSC – Whole Pc X Bands, Composed Core – 1/8" - 1-1/2" Thickness: 6', 7', 8', 9' & 10' Lengths • Platforms – VC, MDF xBanded VC, FSC • Paper Laminated Plywood • Veneer Edge Banding – up to 3.0mm – UV Contact U.S. Direct Sales Agent Industrial Wood Products Inc. • Tel: 703-435-6486 Fax: 703-435-6489 • senda@iwpwood.com SW–COC-001600 ©1996. FSC “Responsible Forest Management”

KAOCHUAN WOODWORK CO., LTD.

Manufacturer of TEAK sliced veneers • In clipped and Bundled 0.5 to 2.5 mm • Spliced Faces 0.5 to 1.4 mm • Panel Size : 50” x 99”/123” and Counter front or any size required.

FEQ TEAK LUMBER – Rough & Random Sawn OR Even Quarter Sawn on Edge or Face Teak Decking S4S - QTR - 9mmx36mm; 10mm x 48mm or any size required Thickness 3/4 to 12/4 Phone: +91 755 246 1243 • Fax: +91 755 246 8197 Website: www.mpveneers.com Email: exports@mpveneers.com

260 Dachang Road Niao Song District Kaohsiung, Taiwan 833 Tel: 886 7 3790270 Fax: 886 7 3790275 E Mail: jc.giant@msa.hinet.net

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BRIGGS VENEERS

■ Japan

SPECIALISTS IN AUSTRALIAN & PACIFIC VENEER A CERTIFIED COMPANY NEW-NATURAL RECON VENEERS FROM SAME SPECIES i.e. WHITE OAK PRODUCES RIFT WHITE OAK

Manufacturers of innovative machinery for the rotary veneer & plywood industry

Web site: www.briggs.com.au e-mail: admin@briggs.com.au Tel: +61 2 9732 7888 Fax: +61 2 9732 7800

Meinan Machinery Works, Inc. 3-130 Kajita-cho, Obu, Aichi 474-8543, Japan E-Mail: sales@meinan.co.jp Represented in USA by: Merritt Machinery, LLC www.merrittmachinery.com

Taiwanese Enterprise in China

EUROPE ■ Austria

Fancy Plywood/MDF/Particle Board/Blockboard LVL, Bending Plywood & Marine Plywood Layon Veneer, Veneer Parquet, etc.

CARB ISO9001 ISO14001 468 Huimin Avenue, Jiashan County 314112 Zhejiang Province, China Tel: +86-573-89110999 Ext: 218 Fax: +86-573-89110599 Email: kaochuan@kaochuanwoodwork.com Website: www.kaochuanwoodwork.com

Locate veneer & plywood products and services wo rldwide .

The world of veneer at www.veneer-world.com

Manufacturer of Creative, High-Production Veneer & Plywood Machinery Horizontal Hot Press, Veneer Dryer Super Precision Knife Grinder Taihei Machinery Works, Ltd. 955-8 Miyamae, Irukade-Shinden Komaki-City, Aichi-Pref., 485-0084 Japan Email: sales@taihei-ss.co.jp

We are an Austrian veneer producer with 50 years of experience in the export of veneer and Layons. We produce all European species but are strong in exotic veneers also.

Find more information at www.frischeis.com helmut.spaeth@frischeis.com

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■ Italy

NORTH AMERICA

LEGNOQUATTRO S.P.A. WOOD VENEER DYEING FACTORY Bird’s Eye Maple, Movingui, Similpear, Carbalho, Wengé, Cherry, Burls, Anegré, Kotó, American Walnut, Lacewood, Etimoé, Poplar Head Office & Factory: Factory: Via Brunati, 7 Via Provinciale, 19 20833 Birone 22060 Novedrate (CO) di Giussano (MB) ITALY tel. 0039-31-790246 fax 0039-31-791705 Email: legnoquattro@legnoquattro.it Web site: www.legnoquattro.it

■ Poland

■ Germany

■ Canada ■ 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

■ Ontario

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

■ Spain

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

PRODUCERS OF SLICED AND ROTARY CUT VENEERS

SUPPLIERS OF FSC SPECIES • All figured species (Eucalyptus, Anegre, Sycamore...)

• All pommeles and African species • All burls (Ash, Elm, Olive, Walnut, Oak...)

• Bookmatched jointed burl faces.

We supply furniture, panel and architectural grades.

Manufacturers and distributors of top quality Veneer faces and backs in standard as well as component sizes. Bundle and flitch stock also available.

Contact us at: 382 Canarctic Drive Toronto, Ontario M3J 2V3 416-650-9119 steven@pearlman.ca

VALENCIA – SPAIN Tel: +34-96126 5400 Fax: +34-96126 5144 timbercom@timbercom.com

RESERVE YOUR SPACE TODAY!

www.timbercom.com

■ Switzerland

Promote your veneer and plywood or located veneer and plywood products and services worldwide.

Reserve your space today.

Call Susan Windham 334/834-1170 Fax: 334/834-4525 susan@hattonbrown.com

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VENEER/PANEL SUPPLIERS DIRECTORY ■ Quebec

Manufacturers of Fine Face Veneer Machinery Manufacturer of high quality veneers.

Specializing in engineering flooring blanks and stiles and rail components. Lengthwise sliced hardwood veneer and cut-to-size veneer from 1/7" to 1/50" Walnut, Cherry, Maple, Mahogany, Red & White Oak, Eastern White Pine, Hickory, Aromatic Red Cedar, Birch, V.G. Fir, Alder

2801 Roosevelt Ave. P.O. Box 18310 Indianapolis, IN 46218 Email: capital@capitalmachineco.com Website: www.capitalmachineco.com

300, 6e rue Nord, Daveluyville, Qc, Canada G0Z 1C0 Tel: (819) 367-3100 Fax: (819) 367-3199 placages.beaulac@beaulacfils.com www.beaulacfils.com

CURRY VENEER SALES

■ Georgia

1014 EAST SIXTH STREET NEW ALBANY, IN 47150 Email: bradblcveneer@gmail.com “Hands On Personalized Relationships” SUPPLIERS OF: HARDWOOD DOMESTIC VENEERS Carrying a diverse line of Cherry to supply your every need Imported Veneers Including Recon Veneer (Veneer Style) and Rotary Okume FSC Species Available

Locate veneer & plywood products and services worldwide.

■ Idaho

Knotty Idaho White Pine Western Red Cedar Red Alder Clear White Pine & Ponderosa Pine Clear Vertical Grain Douglas Fir, Hemlock, & Cedar

P.O. Box 339 Post Falls, Id. 83877 208-773-4511 FAX 208-773-1107 email: info@idahoveneer.com

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

CUSTOM CUTTING AVAILABLE

A new “Dimension” in Veneer & Plywood

Dimension Hardwood Veneers, Inc.

Rotary & Sliced Veneers 509 Woodville Street • Edon, Ohio 43518 Main Office - Tel: 419-272-2245 • Fax: 419-272-2406

P.O. BOX 32 HWY. 135 MAUCKPORT, IN 47142

Dimension Plywood Inc.

Custom Architectural Plywood & Face Veneers 415 Industrial Blvd. • New Albany, IN 47150 Tel: 812-944-6491 • Fax: 812-944-7421 www.dimensionhardwoods.com

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

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

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■ Indiana

NORSTAM VENEERS, INC.

Producers of fine veneer for the global market, since 1892

BUS: 812.732.4391 FAX: 812.732.4803

RSVP is proud to offer

a full line of imported and domestic veneer that includes burls, crotches and highly figured woods. If you would like more information pertaining to these products or others we offer please contact us directly or visit our website.

1285 Indianapolis Rd. • Columbus, IN 47201 Ph: 812-375-1178 • Fax: 812-375-1179 www.RSVPveneer.com

Cherry Maple White Oak Walnut Hickory Red Oak Exotics Indiana Veneers Corporation

1121 East 24th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46205 Tel: [317] 926-2458 Fax: [317] 926-8569 Url: www.indianaveneers.com Email: sales@indianaveneers.com

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VENEER/PANEL SUPPLIERS DIRECTORY ■ Minnesota 5340 Six Mile Court Comstock Park, MI 49321

Manufacturer of high quality sliced hardwood face veneer & 4/4 lumber

Importer and Exporters of Domestic and Exotic Veneers

FSC ® Certified (FSC C002017)

www.stemwood.com 812-945-6646 Fax: 812-945-7549 2710 Grant Line Road New Albany, Indiana 47150 USA

Phone: Fax: Web Site: Email:

(616) 647-4195 (616) 647-4090 www.woodveneer.com brad@woodveneer.com

COLDWATER VENEER, INC. Sliced Face Veneers Oak ● Carolina Pine Cherry ● Hard Maple ● Walnut Dean Calhoun ■ Dave Counterman Don Steffey ■ Rob Taylor Jack Freese

BUFFALO VENEER & PLYWOOD CO. Quality Plywood, Six decades strong!

Stock Panels Counter Front Panels All Thicknesses and Cores NAF, FR and MR Availability Domestic and Imported Veneers CARB P2 Certified 501 6th Ave. NE - Buffalo, MN 55313 Tel: (763)682-1822 Fax: (763)682-9769 Email: sales@buffaloveneerandplywood.com Website: www.buffaloveneerandplywood.com

■ Mississippi Think Wood? Think Clarke!

Think worldwide access to markets and resources.

Think veneer, plywood, and lumber products.

Think...

Tel: 517-278-5676 • Fax: 517-279-7104 548 Race Street Coldwater, MI 49036 www.coldwaterveneer.com

www.clarkeveneers.com info@clarkeveneers.com Jackson, MS (601) 366-0331

Reserve your space today.

Call Susan Windham 800-669-5613 ■ Kentucky

MAGNOLIA FOREST PRODUCTS, INC. DISTRIBUTORS OF SYP Plywood & Lumber OSB Cut to size

... the kaleidoscope of veneer

1-800-366-6374 www.magnoliaforest.com Terry, MS J.I.T. & P.I.T. Nationwide

www.ifpveneer.com ■ New York

■ Michigan Manufacturer of Quality Rotary and Sliced Veneers Domestic and Exotic Species including Birdseye and Curly Die Boards, Plywood and Lumber Mill locations in Michigan and Wisconsin Sales Offices: Gladstone, Michigan Email: bessesales@bessegroup.com P (906) 428-3113 F(906) 428-3310

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VENEER/PANEL SUPPLIERS DIRECTORY ■ North Carolina A new “Dimension” in Veneer & Plywood

Dimension Hardwood Veneers, Inc.

Quality Plywood Since 1920

Rotary & Sliced Veneers 509 Woodville Street • Edon, Ohio 43518 Main Office - Tel: 419-272-2245 • Fax: 419-272-2406

◆ Manufacturers of Cut-to-Size and Stock

Panel Plywood ◆ Supplier to the Residential, Hospitality, Commercial and Institutional Industries ◆ Manufacturer of Veneer and HPL panels with Lumber Banded, Lumber Core, Particleboard, MDF or Veneer Core substrates ◆ Fully Machined, ready-to-assemble, panels or simply press and ship ◆ Sizes up to 60 inches by 144 inches ◆ All species, plain sliced, rotary and fancy faces

Dimension Plywood Inc. Custom Architectural Plywood & Face Veneers 415 Industrial Blvd. • New Albany, IN 47150 Tel: 812-944-6491 • Fax: 812-944-7421 www.dimensionhardwoods.com FSC-C041275

P.O. Box 7447 • High Point, NC 27264 Sales: (336) 861-4100 • Fax: (336) 861-4700

ESTABLISHED 1972

Universal Veneer Mill Corp.

Manufacturing and Sales Sliced Harwood Veneers Custom Cutting Available 1776 Tamarack Road Newark, OH 43055 Ph: (740) 522-2000 Email: info@universalveneer.com

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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

■ South Carolina

Darlington Veneer Co., Inc. ■ Oregon

Established 1918

Architectural Paneling, Door Skins, Custom Cabinet Package and Furniture Plywood ● Panel sizes up to 5' x 12' ● 4', 5' and cross-grain sanding capability ● Veneer manufacturing to 14' lengths ● FSC Certified ● NAUF products available ●

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■ Ohio

2323 Cross Street ● Eugene, Oregon 97402 Sales: (541) 461-0767 ● Fax: (541) 461-0738 Email: westernpanel@aol.com web site: westernpanel.com

■ Pennsylvania

Veneer & Lumber LOGS 1270 Baltimore Pike West Grove, PA 19390 Email: Info@Crown-Wood.com Website: www.crown-wood.com

•Manufacturers of stock sizes of hardwood plywood •Species range from ash to walnut in rotary, plain sliced and rift cut •Core constructions of veneer, lumber, flake and fibercore •Lengths up to 12 feet in all cores •Fire retardant plywood

P.O. Box 1087 • Darlington, SC 29532 (843) 393-3861 • Sales: 800-845-2388 Fax: 843-393-8243 email: rhubbard@darlingtonveneer.com

■ Vermont

North America’s largest manufacturer of fancy face rotary veneer.

Offering FSC certified veneer products in Red Oak, Hard Maple, Birch, Ash, Tulip Poplar, Basswood and Soft Maple in Stock Panel & Cut-to-Size Lay-ons as well as unspliced veneer .4mm thru 1.6mm thickness

Plain sliced Alder and Aromatic Cedar faces and flitch stock are regularly available.

Also offering domestically produced FSC Mixed Credit/CARB Phase II Compliant Aspen platforms - both long grain & cross grain dimensions in a variety of thicknesses.

Contact Sales at 802-334-3600 • Fax: 802-334-5149 www.cfpwood.com • 324 Bluff Rd. • Newport, VT 05855

Tel: (610) 869-8771•Fax: (610) 869-4166 NEXT CLOSING: MARCH 23, 2014 CROWN HARDWOOD CO. INC. 11/13

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VENEER/PANEL SUPPLIERS DIRECTORY ■ Virginia

SOUTH AMERICA

WEST POINT VENEER Manufacturer of sliced face veneers

■ Brazil

Carolina Pine is our speciality Oak • Cherry • Walnut • Maple • Ash • Poplar

Robert van der Meulen ■ Samuel Agcanas Tel: 804-843-2900 ■ Fax: 804-843-2554 320 Dupont Street West Point, VA 23181 Custom Cutting Available Member of the Coldwater Veneer Group www.coldwaterveneer.com

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EVENTS MARCH

NOVEMBER

2-4 • Western Wood Products Assn. annual meeting, Embassy Suites Hotel/Downtown, Portland, Ore. Call 503-2243930; visit wwpa.org.

8-10 • APA-Engineered Wood Assn. annual meeting, J W Marriott San Antonio Hill Country, San Antonio, Tex. Call 253-565-6600; visit apawood.org.

5-7 • International Wood Prods. Assn. annual meeting, Renaissance Vinoy Resort & Golf Club, St. Petersburg, Fla. Call 703-820-6696; visit iwpawood.org.

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

7-8 • WoodMac China 2013, Shanghai New International Expo Center, Shanghai, PR China. Call +44 (0) 20 7840 2104; visit woodmacchina.net.

20-21 • Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE), Omni Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 800-669-5613; visit pelice-expo.com.

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MAY 4-6 • American Wood Protection Assn. annual meeting, Marriott Newport Beach, Newport Beach, Calif. Call 205-7334077; visit awpa.com.

18-20 • Hardwood Plywood & Veneer Assn. annual meeting, Waldorf Astoria Resort, Naples, Fla. Call 703-4352900; visit hpva.org.

AUGUST 10-12 • Forest Products Society’s 68th International Convention, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Call 608-231-1361; Visit forestprod.org.

20-23 • International Woodworking Fair, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Ga. Visit iwfatlanta.com.

OCTOBER 15-17 • Timber Processing & Energy Expo, Portland Metropolitan Exposition Center, Portland, Ore. Visit timberprocessingandenergyexpo.com.

SEPTEMBER 10-13 • FMC China 2013, Shanghai World Expo Center, Shanghai, China. Call +86-21-64371178; e-mail: fmc@ubmsinoexpo.com; visit fmcchina.com.cn.

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