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NEWSFEED
Sawmill Industry Loses Jones
PERSON OF THE YEAR
Recognition For Schooler Long Overdue
SECOND LOOK
Angelina Forest Products In Lufkin
PYRAMID LUMBER Making Adjustments On The Fly
MACHINERY ROW
New Leadership At Evergreen
AT LARGE
Mass Timber Bonanza
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Gangs, Loaders, Scanners
COVER: As Eric Schooler winds down his stellar career as a manager and leader in the sawmill industry, Timber Processing names him its 34th annual Person of the Year. PAGE 18. (Dan Shell photo)
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Rich Donnell Editor-in-Chief
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e’ve always considered our 34th Person of the Year, Eric Schooler, as one of the good guys. One reason, rather selfishly on our part, is because during his tenures at Hampton Lumber and Collins Companies, when we called up and asked if he would mind if our magazine editors visited his mills for an article, he usually said something to the effect of, “Come on.” Another reason is that because every time we heard somebody say something about Schooler, it was always in the positive. And if you want a third reason, we’ve always admired Hampton Lumber and Collins Companies, the two companies Schooler spearheaded operations for for most of his sawmilling career. In fact, leadership at both of those companies previously received our Person of the Year award—the late John Hampton and Jim Quinn, who is still in the middle of sawmilling with White Mountain Apache Timber Co. Okay, if you want a fourth reason, we’ve always thought it was pretty cool that Schooler was a stud basketball player, high school and college, in the Eric Schooler has long had state of Washington. an attachment to Porsche Naming a Person of the Year is an interesting and lumber manufacturing. process. We try to be somewhat balanced geographically from year to year, though it’s not always possible. We always receive some nominations, but maybe they’re not quite what we’re looking for in that particular year. Maybe we already have somebody in mind and we’re looking for the right time to present the award to him or her. We had Schooler in mind for some time, but never found the right time, and it almost bit us in the rear. Fortunately, Fritz Mason, the chief lumberman for Georgia-Pacific, himself a former Person of the Year, informed us last spring that Schooler was retiring as CEO at Collins. Mason, who also has Northwest lumber industry roots, added: “Eric grew up with sawdust and small towns. He has had a remarkable career spanning 50 years in the sawmilling and the forest products business from coast to coast. He is respected by people at all levels of our industry from people working on the sawmill floor to machinery suppliers to executives and company owners.” Pretty strong stuff, to say the least, our selection committee thought. And then other nominations started rolling in, equally as impressive in their descriptions of Schooler. You can read some of those comments in the article on Schooler that is written by Dan Shell and that begins on page 18. The article truly provides a “Life and Times” depiction. Schooler has recently retired from Collins, but continues to serve as Chairman of the Board at Hampton Lumber. In other words, he still has some skin in the game so to speak, especially in grooming current leadership there. Just as we’re extremely elated to be able to name Schooler as the 2022 Person of the Year, we’re also a little sad knowing his career is winding down. By the way, we will be presenting the award plaque to Schooler during a ceremony at the Timber Processing & Energy Expo this coming September 28-30 at the PortTP land Exposition Center in Portland, Ore. Contact Rich Donnell, ph: 334-834-1170; fax 334-834-4525; e-mail: rich@hattonbrown.com TIMBER PROCESSING
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NEWSFEED J. WILSON JONES, JR. WAS AN INDUSTRY LEADER John Wilson Jones, Jr., who continued to expand the family’s lumber business and was known as an innovator and leader in the lumber manufacturing industry, died peacefully at his home on December 23, 2021. He was 87, just two days shy of his 88th J. Wilson Jones, Jr., 1990 birthday. The son of the late John After graduating from colWilson Jones and Lula Whitelege, he returned home in hurst Jones, Wilson is survived 1957 where he began his proby his wife of 62 years, Marfessional career in the lumber garet Brumsey Jones, of Eliza- business founded by his fabeth City, NC; two sons, J. ther. When his father died in Wilson Jones III (Patricia) of an automobile accident in Elizabeth City and Stephen L. 1960, Jones assumed the leadJones (Shelly) of Kitty Hawk, ership of the company. In the NC; three grandchildren; and a early 1970s, following a mabrother, Robert Jones (Nan) of jor fire at the mill, Jones Seneca, SC opted to rebuild the facility. Wilson was reared in Cam“We decided to dig down den County, NC and was a and borrow the money to long-time resident of Elizabuild back,” Jones said in a beth City. After graduating 1990 article in Timber Profrom Elizabeth City High cessing. “It was probably the School, Wilson continued his best thing that ever happened education and graduated from to us. I look back on the fire N. C. State University with a now and I realized it caused degree in Lumber Manufacus to react.” turing and Merchandising. During his career as owner
and president, he continued to expand J. W. Jones Lumber Co. into a state-of-the-art lumber mill. He also acquired and expanded his operation with a second lumber mill, Mackey’s Ferry Sawmill in Roper, NC. He further expanded his business with the purchase of a chip mill in Elizabeth City. Wilson was also a partner in real estate developments locally and in other areas of North Carolina. Wilson was a member and past president of the Southeastern Lumber Manufacturers Assn. (1982-1983) and received the prestigious Beale Award from that association. He served on the N. C. State University School of Forestry Advisory Council, and the Eastern N. C. Lumber Manufacturers Assn. He was a member of the Society of American Foresters and of the NC Forestry Assn. He served in the North Carolina Army National Guard. Wilson was active in community and civic affairs and
involved in numerous local and state organizations and projects. He was a longtime member of the First United Methodist Church and served as co-chairman for fundraising for the Museum of the Albemarle building project. He was a strong supporter of the local community College of Albemarle. He was also politically active and served as a county commissioner. “I’ve had a lot of mentors along the way that have helped me realize that you have to give back to your community,” Jones said in a 2006 article. His love and main interest were his lumber manufacturing mills, and he enjoyed spending time with Margaret at their beach house in Kitty Hawk where he enjoyed surf fishing. Anyone who ever met or knew him will remember his smile and his firm handshake. Funeral service was held at Twiford Memorial Chapel, on December 27, and a private burial was planned for West Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Elizabeth City. In lieu of flowers, the family appreciates memorial donations to be made in his honor to local charities of choice. To plant a tree in memory of Wilson Jones, visit www. TwifordFH.com/sendflowers.
TEAL JONES PLANS SAWMILL
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Teal Jones Group owners Tom and Dick Jones announced that the company is evaluating Bossier Parish, La. to build a $110.5 million southern yellow pine sawmill. The sawmill would support 125 direct jobs. Teal Jones reports it has secured through its partners major sawmill, planer, kiln drying and ancillary equipment required for the project, ensuring that the
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NEWSFEED mill in Bossier Parish can be built on time and within the specified budget. The company plans to locate the greenfield facility on 235 acres in Plain Dealing in Bossier Parish, which features easy access to rail. The facility will be ideally located in close proximity to transportation and railway infrastructure, as well as to timberlands. Teal Jones expects to source southern yellow pine timber from their landowner partners in this project, as well as other regional suppliers. In addition to lumber, the company plans to sell residual fiber products, including chips and sawdust, to local pulp and pellet plants. “The level of support and engagement we’ve received from the folks at the Greater Bossier Economic Development Foundation, North Louisiana Economic Partnership, the local community and
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officials, and the state has been incredible,” says Tom Jones, CEO of Teal Jones. “At full capacity, this mill will have a production capacity of 300 million board feet, with worldclass productivity and lumber recovery, and a competitive product mix. This will give Teal Jones and its partners a competitive advantage in the region for years to come.” Teal Jones is a 70-year-old, family-owned company based in British Columbia, Can. The company is the largest privately held forest products company operating on the western coast of Canada. Along with its BC operations, Teal Jones operates southern yellow pine mills in Antlers, Okla.; Martinsville and Kinsale, Va.; and Liberty, Miss. The Plain Dealing project would represent the company’s first investment in Louisiana. To secure the project in Bossier Parish, the state of
Louisiana offered the company a competitive incentive package that includes the services of LED FastStart – a workforce development program. Additionally, the company is expected to utilize the state’s Quality Jobs program. The company is also pursuing a payment in lieu of taxes, or PILOT, agreement with local taxing entities.
BC DEFER PLAN TAKES HEAT Canfor Corp. issued an open letter from Don Kayne, President and CEO, calling for an approach to the management of British Columbia’s old-growth forests that is based on the facts of sound science and Indigenous traditional knowledge and a collaborative process that includes broad representation. “We can choose a path that
brings First Nations, labor leaders, forestry professionals and communities together to develop a sustainable oldgrowth management plan that protects our forests and ensures sustainable employment for our communities. We are asking the Government of British Columbia to rethink the old growth deferral process,” Kayne comments. “Together, we can build on the 75% of old-growth forests that are already protected or outside harvesting areas.” Kayne says the company is concerned that the BC government has decided to defer 2.6 million hectares of old forests based on the advice of only five people. “Many important voices have been left out of this critical discussion,” Kayne says. “Industry estimates that nearly 18,000 workers could be impacted. We directly employ over 4,000 people in BC. “As the world comes togeth-
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NEWSFEED er to fight climate change, carbon-storing, renewable forestry products from BC’s sustainably managed forests are in growing demand,” he says. “This is BC’s opportunity to help support the transition to a low carbon world. Now more than ever, the world needs BC’s forestry products.” Previously, Susan Yurkovich, President and CEO of the BC Council of Forest Industries, said the government’s apparent intention to “defer” 2.6 million hectares (6.4 million acres) of old-growth across British Columbia could possibly result in the closure of between 14 and 20 sawmills in BC, along with two pulp mills and an undetermined number of value-added manufacturing facilities. “This represents approximately 18,000 good, familysupporting jobs lost, along with over $400 million in lost revenues to government each year—revenues that help pay for health care, education and other services British Columbians count on,” Yurkovich said. She also noted that the government’s plan is based on recommendations received from a panel of advisors, four of five with ties to environmental organizations including the Sierra Club and West Coast Environmental Law. Premier John Horgan said the government is taking steps to fundamentally transform the way it manages old-growth forests, lands and resources; that the logging deferrals are a temporary measure—recommended by 2020’s Old Growth Strategic Review—to “prevent irreversible biodiversity loss” while First Nations, the Province and other partners develop a new approach to sustainable forest management that prioritizes ecosystem health and community prosperity throughout BC. This new approach will be based on the recommendations provided in the Old Growth Strategic Re10
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view and will recognize that a shift to prioritize ecosystem health is necessary if the forests are to continue to provide essential benefits, such as clean air, clean water, carbon storage, conservation of biodiversity and timber, according to Horgan.
COALITION LIKES COMMERCE RULING U.S. Dept. of Commerce issued its final determination in the second administrative review of softwood lumber imports from Canada, and revealed a combined anti-subsidy and anti-dumping duty rate of 17.9%, confirming yet again that Canadian imports are unfairly subsidized and traded into the U.S. market, according to the U.S. Lumber Coalition. “The U.S. Lumber Coalition thanks the Commerce Department’s for their hard work and continued commitment to strongly enforce the U.S. trade laws against unfairly traded Canadian lumber imports,” states Jason Brochu, Chairman of the U.S. Lumber Coalition and Co-President of Pleasant River Lumber Co. in Maine. “Trade law enforcement maximizes long-term domestic production and lumber availability and has already resulted in dramatic growth of U.S. made lumber to meet strong demand to build more American homes.” U.S. sawmill investment and capacity expansion has been robust since the filing of the trade cases by the U.S. Lumber Coalition in 2016, the Coalition reports. The U.S. industry appears on track to have produced an additional 17.5 billion BF of lumber through 2021, averaging 3.5 billion a year. These increases have more than offset any decline in unfairly traded Canadian imports and are enough lumber to build about 1.2 million singlefamily American homes.
“A level playing field is critical for the continued investment and growth of the domestic lumber industry and its hundreds of thousands of workers and thousands of communities across the United States,” Brochu says.. The U.S. industry remains open to a new U.S.–Canada softwood lumber trade agreement if and when Canada can demonstrate that it is serious about negotiations for an agreement that offsets the injury caused by Canadian unfair trade to U.S. producers, workers, and timberland holders, according to the Coalition.
NEIMAN NAMES HENSON AS CEO Neiman Enterprises, Inc. announced that Steve Henson is joining the family business as CEO. Henson brings to the enterprise many years of industry experience ranging from timber resource management to lumber production. “We are very pleased that Steve Henson has accepted the position of CEO. He has broad and extensive experience within our industry and is the right fit for our organization. Having worked with several family businesses in the past, I firmly believe that we are bringing on a CEO that will perpetuate our family culture,” comments Jim Neiman, President of Neiman Enterprises. Henson has worked for a number of forest products companies including P&M Cedar Products, Roseburg Forest Products and most recently Potlatch-Deltec. Neiman Enterprises, Inc. is a third-generation family business operating four softwood sawmills in the U.S.: Devils Tower Forest Products in Hulett, Wyo., Spearfish Forest Products in Spearfish, SD, Montrose Forest Products in Montrose, Col. and Gilchrist Forest Products in Gilchrist, Ore.
MAYR-MELNHOF ADDS PRODUCTION The Mayr-Melnhof Holz Holding Group, based in Leoben, Austria, signed an agreement in December to acquire the Swedish sawmill group, Bergkvist Siljan, from ESSVP IV. Mayr-Melnhof Holz, one of the leading companies in the European sawmilling and engineered wood products industry, will grow with this acquisition its lumber production capacity by 50% to more than 2.7 million m3 of sawn timber per year. Purchased sites in Insjön, Mora and Blyberg, in the middle of Sweden, complement existing sawmills in Leoben (Austria), Paskov (Czech Republic) and Efimovskij (Russia) and create a starting point for the market entry of the Mayr-Melnhof Holz Group into Scandinavia. “The Mayr-Melnhof Holz Group and Bergkvist Siljan make a perfect fit. Both have comparable roots, both are family businesses with a long tradition exceeding 100 years and both are committed to sustainability. We are looking forward to a rewarding cooperation and the mutual exchange of experiences,” comments Richard Stralz, CEO of MayrMelnhof Holz Holding AG.
CANFOR PURCHASES MILLAR WESTERN Canfor Corp. has entered into an agreement with Millar Western Forest Products Ltd. to acquire the company’s solid wood operations and associated tenure for $420 million. Millar Western’s solid wood operations, located in Alberta, Can., will add 630MMBF of lumber production capacity and have access to a globally competitive, high-quality timber supply. The assets consist of three
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NEWSFEED well-capitalized operations including two sawmill complexes in Whitecourt and Fox Creek and a high-value, specialty Spruceland Millworks facility in Acheson. “The acquisition of Millar Western’s solid wood operations, including the highly successful Spruceland Millworks facility, is well aligned with Canfor’s strategy to grow and diversify our global operating platform,” comments Don Kayne, President & CEO of Canfor.
EQUITY FIRM BUYS ROSBORO One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, has acquired a majority interest in Oregon-based Rosboro from Wynnchurch Capital. Rosboro is a leading manufacturer of glulam. Wynnchurch Capital will remain a
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significant minority shareholder. “Rosboro is an excellent business making high-quality differentiated engineered wood products at scale,” says Matthew Hughes, Managing Director at OEP. “Rosboro is poised to benefit from a number of growth drivers including single-family residential housing starts, net migration to the U.S. West, increasing residential repair and remodel, and glulam’s increasing share against structural wood alternatives and other engineered wood products. We look forward to working with CEO Rich Babcock and his team to capitalize on a growing market opportunity.” OEP recently purchased sawmill equipment manufacturers USNR and Wood Fiber Group and subsequently merged them. Rosboro operates out of two manufacturing sites in Springfield and Veneta, Ore.
FS PROPOSAL DOESN’T CUT IT A Forest Service (FS) proposal to reduce timber harvests on the Black Hills National Forest is putting several hundred jobs at risk including the region’s largest sawmill at Spearfish, SD. Officials with the FS say 20 years of wildfires and beetle infestations have reduced timber inventories, requiring a cut in annual timber sales by anywhere from 35-50% to maintain sustainability. Meanwhile, officials with Spearfish Forest Products, owned by Neiman Enterprises in Hulett, Wyo., which operates mills there and in Montrose, Colo. and Gilchrist, Ore. in addition to Spearfish, say such a reduction threatens the Spearfish operations and the woods and community jobs that go along with it.
Neiman had already closed a mill at Hill City, SD earlier in 2021 due to lack of log supply.
SWEDEN’S HOLMEN EXPANDS AGAIN Swedish sawmiller Holmen is investing SEK400m to increase production at its Iggesund Sawmill by 20% as well as adding construction timber on top of its joinery products range. “Following the acquisition of Martinsons and the expansion of Braviken, the investment in Iggesund Sawmill is the next step in strengthening our position in wood products,” comments Henrik Sjölund, Holmen President and CEO. The investment will enable the sawmill to switch from lower grade joinery spruce to construction timber in both
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NEWSFEED spruce and pine. The investment in log sorting and a new planing facility will remove bottlenecks and is expected to increase the sawmill’s capacity to more than 450,000 m3. In the past 12 months, the Holmen Wood Products business area has produced 1.5 million m3 of wood products, achieving a turnover of SEK4.7bn and an operating profit of SEK1.4bn. Production takes place at five sawmills.
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BUILD BACK BETTER AWARDS OREGON GROUP Oregon Mass Timber Coalition was named by the Economic Development Administration (EDA) as a finalist in the $1 billion Build Back Better Regional Challenge. The coalition was awarded $500,000 to create a strategy for a Mass Timber Modu-
lar Manufacturing Facility at Marine Terminal 2 in Portland. The Oregon Mass Timber coalition is a partnership among the Port of Portland, Business Oregon, Oregon Dept. of Forestry, DLCD and the Tallwood Design Institute (a partnership between U of O and OSU). The vision is to support Oregon’s emerging mass timber industry, grow regional economic development opportunities, create career pathways and business opportunities for struggling communities, and accelerate housing production. The coalition will advance to Phase 2 and compete for up to $100 million in American Rescue Plan funding to develop and scale mass timber manufacturing in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. The Oregon Mass Timber application was supported in a letter from the entire Oregon Congressional delegation, including Senator Ron Wyden and Senator Jeff Merkley, Congressman Peter DeFazio, Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici, Congressman Kurt Schrader and Congressman Cliff Bentz. The letter highlights that the delegation “has worked collaboratively for many years to establish our state as a hub for mass timber products. This proposal to grow a regional cluster builds on past efforts to scale this industry and has the potential to revolutionize how America builds affordable homes.” The EDA challenge is assisting communities nationwide in their efforts to build back better by accelerating the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and building local economies that will be resilient to future economic shocks. The Build Back Better Regional Challenge is the largest economic development initiative from the U.S. Dept. of Commerce in decades. Phase 1 of the Build Back Better Regional Challenge invited coalitions to apply for funding to implement a collection of three to eight distinct but related projects in their region. Projects need to be in coordination with industry and community partners, and aligned around a holistic vision to build and scale a strategic industry sector. EDA received 529 applications from regions in all 50 states and five territories, and the 60 finalists represent regions that formed extraordinary coalitions, demonstrated regional needs, and presented bold proposals to grow their target industry clusters. In Phase 2, finalists will compete for significant implementation assistance.
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SCHOOLER’S RULE:
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By Dan Shell
Eric Schooler has been a big part of two Northwest-based companies’ success in diverse products and markets.
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WARRENTON, Ore. panning six decades and ongoing, former Collins President and CEO and current Hampton Lumber Chairman of the Board Eric Schooler’s remarkable career tracks the development of modern North America sawmilling. Schooler started in the early 1970s in an industry just beginning to embrace widespread automation, with a digital revolution awaiting a decade later. As sawmill technologies and efficiencies developed, Schooler has implemented and applied systems to boost operations and profitability and seen the benefits of doing so.
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However, it’s the melding of technological prowess with insightful operations and people management—within the context of organizational goals and objectives pursued among capital concerns and market conditions—that sets Schooler apart. What’s remarkable is his success at the two companies that have largely defined his career: 20 years as President and CEO of Collins until he stepped down a year ago, and two stints with Hampton Lumber as VP of Manufacturing prior to Collins and the ongoing role as Hampton Lumber’s board chairman. Both are successful, family-owned companies, but other than that couldn’t be more different. Hampton Lumber is the larger of the two, the number seven North American lumber producer at 1.8 billion BF with 10 mills and a laser focus on dimension lumber markets and low cost production. Collins is smaller and more diversified, with three sawmills across hardwood and softwood lumber divisions plus particleboard and hardboard siding operations and even retail lumber yards and oil and gas interests. Showing such innovative and successful leadership at both organizations and contributing to the lumber industry throughout his career is why Schooler is the 2022 Timber Processing Person of the Year. He’s Timber Processing’s 34th award winner, and it’s enlightening to hear what representatives from both companies have to say about him. Current Hampton Lumber President Steve Zika says Schooler has been a mentor during his career and understands that true success is more than just capital projects and cost control. To take operations
to the next level, Zika says, Schooler’s approach emphasizes leadership and team development to foster a culture of continuous improvement; optimizes product mix for more revenue and customer satisfaction; seeks production solutions that enable 90%+ operational readiness; and
develops a culture of safety. At Hampton, Zika says, Schooler was not only invaluable in driving the company’s sawmill business, “But contributed in strategic decisions related to our fee timberlands, wholesale distribution and even our computer systems.” Zika adds that in his current role as Hampton board chairman, Schooler is not only closely involved in capital project decisions, he’s also mentoring the next generation of the Hampton family as the company nears its 100th anniversary. Collins Board Chair Cherida Collins Smith says Schooler provided 20 years of “exemplary leadership and service” through challenges that included economic, market and political uncertainty and issues such as forest fires and the COVID pandemic. Throughout, Smith says, Schooler “handled those with integrity and a steady hand, a clear perspective and a positive approach, always carefully considering the choices involved and both the short and longer term implications of each decision.” Smith adds that Schooler’s close attention to mill design and technology advances improved efficiency and productivity of operations, and in pursuit of
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Major rebuild at Collins’ Chester, Calif. sawmill modernized the facility and made it more efficient and successful.
what he wanted to do in college besides play basketball when he started; he had a stint in pre-dental derailed due to a hatred of needles and ended up with a Business Administration degree. Like a lot of folks at that age, Schooler recalls, “I was eager to do something, but didn’t know exactly what yet.”
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a continuous improvement culture he developed strong management teams and encouraged communication between mills. “He held a comprehensive understanding of the big picture, as well as a detailed view of the workings of our operations, and a clear sense of the qualities of our people,” Smith says. Just as important, she adds, “Eric also had a full grasp of the complexities of our family business, with various entities and ownerships involved, and was able to work very effectively with that structure and our family.”
BACKGROUND Born in Raymond, Wash. in 1950, Schooler grew up in what he calls an “interesting time” to be around the sawmill and lumber business, as his father, Weyerhaeuser employee Willard (Mickey) Schooler, moved the family around as his job required. Starting in Raymond, Eric also lived in Aberdeen, Raymond again, Marysville and Sumner. “I went to a lot of different schools, and the moving around was probably 20
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good for me in some ways, but I didn’t really enjoy it,” he remembers. Mickey Schooler was a sales order entry and inventory specialist. Eric says he realized years later that his father actually functioned as a computer, optimizing sales and order fulfillment in relation to production and inventory. “He was an inventory computer before we had them!” Schooler exclaims, noting that at the end of his career his dad was working with multiple mills. Growing up as his father moved the family around, Schooler says he worked a green chain one summer and liked the teamwork and physical aspects of it but it didn’t really light a fire under him for the industry. A big kid and good athlete, Schooler, at 6-foot-4, was an all-state basketball player for the Sumner (Wash.) Spartans and attended Central Washington University on a basketball scholarship. His roundball career high point came in the 1969-70 season when CWU came up just short against Kentucky State in the NAIA National Tournament championship game. Schooler says he wasn’t really sure
He got his start thanks to Wayne Holm, a former Weyerhaeuser employee who knew Eric’s father and knew Eric from a company softball team, and had moved on to the Publisher’s Paper sales staff based in Portland. Schooler began as a Publisher’s Paper sales trainee at the Portland head office in 1972 during a Nixon price freeze. He remembers one of the first projects he worked on was how to work through and navigate such a sales environment. Soon he was assigned to the Publisher’s sawmill at Mollala to learn the business before he sold the product. Somehow, that orientation assignment happened to turn into a multi-decade sawmill management career: The mill was going through some expansions and needed help in various areas. Within three years, Schooler had run a sawmill shift, started a third shift at the planer mill, oversaw night maintenance for a while, ran the shipping department for several months, among other duties. “It seemed that wherever there was a supervisory role that needed filling, I was the step-in guy,” Schooler says. He remembers when he was told he was starting a third shift at the planer mill as a supervisor—and he had never even been in the planer mill. “I had to bring these guys on, and my job was to train them to do jobs I didn’t know how to do,” Schooler says. The experience stuck with him as learning the importance and dynamics of performance and training. “In my experience, it’s almost easier” without preconceptions Schooler says. “You have to know and watch the process but you don’t really have to know to push this or that button. So that was really educational for me.” The career change came when Schooler accompanied a regional manager to Publisher’s Tillamook mill, and during the drive he told the young employee that sales was the wrong place for him and that if he wanted to get ahead he should go into manufacturing. “I’m not sure he was right,” Schooler says with a laugh, “but that ended up being what I did and I never went back to sales.” Schooler was learning a lot, having
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Schooler, second from right, had just recently joined Collins in 2000 when the company celebrated the harvesting of the 2 billionth board foot from its sustainably managed northern California Almanor Forest.
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fun, having successes. He remembers it as the “greatest learning exposure” he could have had in running all three shifts and learning all aspects of lumber manufacturing all the way through shipping in the three years he was there. “I was able to have a real broad experience at Publisher’s and that helped me,” Schooler says. He left Publisher’s in 1975 after Holm formed Oregon-Canadian Forest Products and needed a manager for a small mill in Lewistown, Mont. Schooler remembers it as another great learning experience: “I was 25 and in charge of everything yet I knew very little about anything,” he says with a smile. After less than two years a fire at the debarker led to a decision not to rebuild. Schooler landed at Seaboard Lumber’s Seattle mill as a superintendent where he got in on several major mill improvements, plus worked with an early laser scanning system for a wide board edger optimizer and a tilted carriage installation. The mill was sold to the Port of Seattle in 1982—one of the best things that happened in his career, Schooler says. Jim Quinn of Crown Zellerbach called and hired Schooler to manage the former Dant & Russell mill at Warrenton, Ore., where the company was going to do some export cutting tests with plans to build a new export mill in the future. Schooler, 33 at the time, remembers meeting with a crew that was skeptical after going through a recent bankruptcy, “but they had some really good people, really good technical people,” he says.
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Quinn recalls fondly, “They did really well under his management. He didn’t seem to welcome my intrusions into his management and so I left him alone.” The mill became a top performer for Cavenham, but was sold off after the company was acquired by financier James Goldsmith. Schooler says one of the toughest meetings he was ever in was when the infamous “Chain Saw” Al Dunlap, hired by Goldsmith to disassemble the diversified company he had acquired, visited the mill and told the management team—that had improved operations in support of the export mill plan—their job instead was to improve cash flow and fatten the mill up for selling.
HAMPTON, COLLINS Hampton Lumber owner John Hampton came calling when Schooler was looking for a job after the Warrenton mill sold, and he was hired to manage Hampton’s Willamina, Ore. sawmill in 1986. Under Schooler’s leadership on the manufacturing side as Vice President of Manufacturing, Hampton Lumber grew into a major Pacific Northwest lumber manufacturer during his 14year tenure. He was closely involved with the Tillamook mill acquisition soon after he was hired (though he later found out Hampton had his mind pretty much made up on that one), and involved in major upgrade and modernization projects at both mills. Schooler was also involved in projects at the Morton and Randle mills after they were acquired in 1999. ➤ 24
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Schooler says that in ad23 ➤ dition to operating efficiently and investing in productivity and recovery at the mills Hampton acquired, he’s also proud of working through and improving labor-management and union issues at several mills that led to better teamwork and overall operations. When 2000 rolled around it was Jim Quinn on the phone again, this time as President and CEO of Collins. Quinn was ready to retire and he asked if Schooler would be interested in the job. Schooler was. “I went back to Eric again,” Quinn recalls. “It worked out well. He never really need any indoctrination from me.” Schooler embarked on a remarkable 20-year career with Collins, responding to multiple challenges and investing in people and processes across the company’s diverse operations. While both Collins and Hampton are family-owned companies, Hampton is a low cost high production dimension producer continually reinvesting in new technology to drive growth, and
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Schooler set scoring records in high school basketball, and he wasn’t bad on defense either, as shown here.
Collins has smaller mills, including hardwood operations in Pennsylvania. The big difference is timber access, Schooler says, with Collins’ two softwood mills in areas where long-term timber access is less certain due to mostly federal ownership. “The challenge is to be successful without high production,” Schooler says, which leads to more grade sawing in both hardwood and softwood products. Schooler led a movement to upgrade and modernize all three of Collins’ sawmills, including a major rebuild at Chester, Calif. and a timely switch to small logs in Lakeview, Ore. that included working with the Forest Service and environmental groups to help provide a market for thinning programs. One interesting chapter in Schooler’s time with Collins is the Upper Columbia Mill sawmill at Boardman, Ore. Greenwood Resources chose Collins to design, build, operate and handle sales for a sawmill at its eastern Oregon poplar fiber farm. The mill, built
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in 2008, included an innovative curvesawing gang and cogen-heated kilns. In doing so, Collins created—literally—a brand new product: Pacific Albus. “It was a completely new product,” Schooler says of the ultra-soft and tanyellow hardwood lumber used in paneling and ceiling grids and a wide variety of aesthetic applications, much of it going to pallet wood as well. “Our people did a great job actually creating a market for the products, and we sold all we could make,” he remembers. The mill operated until 2016,
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when it closed after Greenwood sold the tree farm acreage to a dairy operator. Another testament to Schooler’s career is his role on Hampton’s board of directors since 2005. He was flattered when asked and it has been important to him, but he still discussed the appointment with Colins family members before taking it. As part of being on the Hampton board, Schooler says he enjoys being able to keep his nose in the company’s many ongoing productivity investments
across its 10-mill organization. He enjoys keeping up with technology and the activities made him more valuable to both organizations, he believes.
INFLUENCES Come June 2022, Schooler will have been working in sawmill management for 50 years. As for those who have had the most influence on his career and professional development, Schooler cites Holm, with Publisher’s Paper who gave him his start; Quinn (himself a former Timber Processing Person of the Year in 1998)—“He hired me and gave me marching orders for people management,” Schooler says. John Hampton— “He’s at the top of the list.” Mary Beth Collins—“As close to a saint as anyone I’ve ever known.” And Gordon King, who worked with Hampton Sales and knew Schooler’s father. Schooler says he’s fortunate to have worked with and for a lot of successful and helpful people during his career. “It’s a very competitive industry, but there’s lots of great people—that’s probably the thing I’ve enjoyed most about this industry,” he adds. Schooler has given back to the industry in multiple ways, serving on the boards of the World Forestry Center and chairing its Executive Committee, as a member of the Governor’s Sustainability Advisory Board in Oregon and as a recent past Chairman of the Western Wood Products Assn. He says that during his time with the industry he’s excited to see it evolve from a “put-down industry” during the ’80s and ’90s old-growth and spotted owl wars to having a role in sustainable resource management. There’s also a high-tech reputation that’s growing among younger workers, he believes. “We’re seeing more people coming into this industry with skills to use in our business,” Schooler says, adding that, “We’re becoming a bit of a high-tech draw because we are an applied technology business.” And you can add in environmental awareness as the lumber industry is increasingly viewed as a tool in reducing fire dangers and the necessity of “managing instead of abandoning” the forest. “We’ve come a long way in both the forest and the mills,” Schooler says, “and more people are seeing us as a great place to go to work.” With leadership from individuals such as Eric Schooler, the lumber industry TP definitely is.
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DONEDEAL The new Angelina Forest Products SYP 305MMBF sawmill in Lufkin, Tex. was the cover story for the July issue. Not long after, West Fraser Timber purchased it from the private investor ownership for $300 million. Should Timber Processing receive a commission? (Just kidding!) “The acquisition of the Angelina lumber mill is an exciting opportunity for West Fraser and we look forward to welcoming the Angelina mill employees to the team,” says West Fraser President, Solid Wood, Sean McLaren. “This mill acquisition is another important step in West Fraser’s continued expansion of its U.S. lumber operations. West Fraser has a long history of operating and investing in east Texas. With four manufacturing facilities already located in east Texas, we know it is a great place to do business.” Any sawmill that’s sold for $300 million certainly deserves a second look. (Photos by Jessica Johnson)
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GAMEPLAN By David Abbott
Pyramid Mountain Lumber adjusts to new market realities.
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SEELY LAKE, Mont. abor shortages have affected businesses all over, and the forest products industry is not immune. For instance, to keep pace with increased demand in recent markets, Pyramid Mountain Lumber has made adjustments in direct response to limited labor. Todd Johnson, one of the
company’s owners, relates, “We haven’t been running all available machine centers all the time in our planer department because of lack of manpower.” Wendy Dalrymple, controller at the family-owned operation, adds, “It’s another unfortunate side effect of not enough people.” In the past, Pyramid Mountain experienced log shortages. Now, Dalrymple says, logs are not an issue, but staffing is. “I don’t understand it,” she admits. “It seemed like all of a sudden nobody had any employees.” Short staffing is the primary reason for many recent upgrades at Pyramid Mountain, especially to grading in the planer mill, according to Dalrymple. “To maintain production with limited people, we had to automate.” The situation also prompted mill management to move personnel to areas
where they’re most needed. Last summer, they reduced sawmill production in order to bring people over to staff two shifts in the planer mill.
ROOTS The long-running family business began when native Norwegian Fred Johnson and his partner Oscar Mood came to Seeley Lake from Minnesota and purchased what was then the Bockmier Mill in 1949. They took over operations and rechristened it J&M Lumber, after their initials. About a decade later, the company restructured from a partnership between two individuals to a corporation owned jointly by their two families. At that time they changed the name from J&M Lumber to Pyramid Mountain Lumber. The
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A softwood mill—Pyramid Mountain cuts all of the state’s native softwood species.
The mill has consistently looked at upgrading machine centers due to staffing concerns.
Pyramid Mountain Lumber is one of six mills in Montana of its size, cutting 60MMBF annually.
Filing room features equipment from Armstrong, Simonds and Wright.
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Projects have been done here and there lately, including an almost complete revamp of the planer mill provided by Comact/BID Group.
On its 30-acre log yard, the mill sorts incoming logs by size and species. Spruce and lodgepole run together, Johnson says, while other species are processed in separate runs; each run usually lasts a week or two before switching to another. “We will run larch ahead of or after fir, though we sell it as one product,” Dalrymple notes. “We separate it in the sawmill because larch is so much heavier that it takes longer to dry.” It gets mixed back in with fir at the planer, after it has been dried down to about 15%. Pyramid buys its own timber sales, a mixture of private land, state, federal forests, Bureau of Indian Affair (BIA) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) gatewood from loggers who buy their own. “We have more logs than we usually have this time of year,” Dalrymple said early last fall. “It didn’t slow down during spring breakup last year as much as it usually does. In a good market, that is a good problem to have, but in a bad market it can be bad if you don’t have a lot of cash flow.” In the current market, the problem is a simple scarcity of adequate space. To help with the oversupply, Johnson adds, “We will ask loggers who can to delay their projects.” Dalrymple estimates that 30-35 log loads a day would balance their inventory. “We were getting more than that for quite a while,” she says. They like to keep 5-6MMBF of log in-
Sorts are mainly random length boards and dimension lumber, with patterned paneling and exterior siding, custom decking and untreated timbers in the mix.
Johnson and Mood families took the new name from Pyramid Peak, which overlooks the southern end of the Swan Range in the Flathead National Forest. Early in the 21st Century, the Mood family sold its interests to logger Charlie Parke, while the Johnson family continued to be involved. Today, Fred’s son, Roger Johnson, 85, still serves as Pyramid Mountain’s President. Roger’s sons, Plant/General Manager Todd Johnson and Sales Manager Steve Johnson, are third generation owners. Both Todd and Steve have sons who work in the mill, representing the family’s fourth generation. 32
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PRODUCTS Pyramid Mountain Lumber is one of only six remaining mills of its size in the state of Montana, and one of the few cutting all the state’s native softwood species. That variety has proved critical to the company’s success over the years. Major species here include ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, spruce, fir, white fir and larch, processed into a variety of products: random length boards, dimension lumber, patterned paneling and exterior siding, custom decking and untreated timbers. Pyramid Mountain produces upwards of 60MMBF annually.
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Pyramid’s adjustments have enabled the mill to keep lumber production levels normal.
ventory, some of it under wet storage during summer months—ponderosa pine, for instance, since it is a visual grade item that is downgraded by blue stain. “In 1 in. boards, blue stain is a visual defect we try to control by watering, because even if it’s perfectly clear, anything more than 2% is automatically degraded to number three,” Johnson explains.
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MILL FLOW A Letourneau log loader empties incoming trucks, while Cat 320 and 980 wheel loaders sort logs by species, diameter and length. Two Cambio debarkers, 30 in. and 18 in. units, prepare small and large logs at the infeed deck. Logs of 16 in. diameter
and higher kick to a 7 ft. Klamath Iron Works headrig with Lewis Controls scanning. It makes two- or four-sided cants. Smaller logs, which make up about 65% of the mill’s production, go to a Maxi Mill EDLF (end dog lineal feed) primary breakdown machine with laser scanning. The EDLF is optimized to determine what to chip and what, if any, side lumber to take. Along with the 5 ft. twin band that backs it up, the EDLF creates cants for a 12 in. curve-sawing gang and boards for the edger and trimmer lines. There are Allen-Bradley Logix5000 controllers on the EDLF and on the McGehee double arbor gang saw, which uses as many as 78 circle saws to make pieces for the edger, depending on product mix. A few years ago Pyramid Mountain tapped Comact to upgrade optimization on an existing Newnes board edger by retrofitting the scanner frame with 22 LMI 3155 heads. This edger line boasts a 1/3 in. scan density at 30 ppm, running an average length of 16 ft. The edger will determine what is the best cut to yield the most value from each piece based on defects and up-to-date price tables. The edger and Newnes-optimized Irvington-Moore trimmer line move pieces to a CAE Newnes moisture meter. Lum-
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ber from all processing centers move up a waterfall to a 32-bin sorter; Pyramid Mountain is currently working to add several more bins. Operators ensure there is one board on every lug, while the scanner checks width, thickness, length and wane. An in-line stickerstacker follows the sorter.
DRY END Production moves to an air-dry yard, used primarily for space saving purposes, before heading to the kilns. Pyramid
Mountain dries most of its lumber and heat-treats all of it. Space and market demand—what is needed in the planer mill to meet sales and shipping orders—determine how long a given batch will wait to be dried. Larch sits on the yard as rough lumber for a while to cut down on how long it takes in the kiln, since it takes the longest to dry. “It can take five or six days,” Dalrymple says. “Lighter products, like 1 in. pine board from a log cut a long time ago, two to four hours is all it takes.” Cat 966H loaders push each charge into kilns and Hyster forklifts pull it out.
Mill controller Wendy Dalrymple
Dried lumber moves under storage sheds to await surfacing in the planer mill, which operates Yates A62 and A63 planers. Comact GradExpert automated grading was installed in late 2019. “The Grad Expert searches for the most valuable option for each board as it goes through,” Johnson says. The automated grader has freed up labor resources. “We used to have three hand graders per shift touching every piece of lumber on all four sides,” Dalrymple notes. Instead of laying off those certified graders, Pyramid Mountain has shifted them to new positions where their skills can be best utilized. A new Comact/BID Group fence, updated trimmer and high-speed stacker with eight trays were also added after the GradExpert. “Essentially everything in this building is brand new,” Dalrymple notes. “We can stack a unit of lumber in less than a minute. We kept the second stacker so it can take another product, and whatever is left gets pulled off the chain. It’s not as labor intensive as it used to be.” Bark hog fuel feeds the boiler to steam the kilns and heat the plant. Excess hog fuel is sold for landscaping bark. Other residuals (sawdust, shavings and chips) are sold to Roseburg Forest Products in Missoula, where it is used to produce particleboard and other similar products. Armstrong makes much of the filing room equipment at Pyramid Mountain, including band saw tipper and grinders with lineal slide, along with a Simonds leveler and Wright round saw sharpener. The mill uses Stellite tips on its band saws, most of which are from are Simonds. Circle saws are by Cal Saw, Cut Tech and Simonds. TP 36
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Price, Daniels Assume Evergreen CEO Roles
Evergreen Engineering announces the transition of its company leadership from President Gordon Yutzy to existing principals and partners, Justin Price and Danielle Daniels. Yutzy, who has served as president since 2009, will continue to serve as a principal and liaison for his longstanding clients as he prepares for retirement in the coming year. Justin Price, a longtime Evergreen principal, will serve as Evergreen’s new coChief Executive Officer. Price began his career in the wood products industry more than 30 years ago and most recently served as Evergreen’s Director of Project Management. “Evergreen has a culture defined by our mission statement, to move our clients’ vision to reality,” Price comments. “We remain committed to being an organization marked by high energy, a strong performance orientation, and confidence in our continued success.” Danielle Daniels will join Justin as co-
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CEO. She has led the Evergreen office management team as Director of Operations and Finance since 2014. Her career in the engineering world has spanned the better part of 20 years, providing leadership in an accounting and human resources capacity. Her role will encompass both, while her experience in managing these departments will bolster the CEO position. “I am excited to usher in the next phase of Evergreen’s growth and continued serving of the industries we support,” Daniels says. “We are growing in each of our offices and working hard to maintain our company’s culture by embracing our core values: integrity, respect, trust, ethical, remarkable, perspective and urgency. In doing so, we will continue to deliver on our clients’ expectations, meeting the level of quality we would demand for ourselves.”
the Chehalis, Wash. facility. The CT Xray scanner utilizes computed tomography X-ray reconstruction to detect internal defects including knots, cracks, rot and bruising. This information is then passed to the Logeye 900 Stereo Carriage scanners where each segment will be recognized via fingerprint technology, optimized for best rotation and breakdown, then sawn to achieve the most valueadded solution. “Microtec is very excited to partner with Cascade Hardwoods on this project, as it showcases cutting-edge CT technology in combination with headrig sawing’s flexible breakdown capabilities. Even smaller sawmills are able to justify and take advantage of the considerable advancements in Microtec’s X-ray technology,” comments Norvin Laudon, CT Application Specialist at Microtec.
Cascade Hardwoods Upgrades With Microtec
Junnikkala Calls Upon Valutec
Cascade Hardwoods recently invested in Microtec’s CT X-ray log scanning and Logeye 900 Stereo Carriage scanners for
Junnikkala Oy is investing €75 million in building one of Finland’s largest and most modern sawmills in Oulu with a ca-
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MACHINERYROW pacity of 350,000 m3 sawn timber. The project includes a complete dry kiln solution to be supplied by Valutec. “Valutec has proven in previous deliveries that they can answer to our needs,” says Kalle Junnikkala, CEO of Junnikkala Oy. Valutec will deliver three TC-continuous kilns to Oulu including two traverse systems. The TC dryers have 10 drying zones and will handle all drying needs for the sawmill. The kilns are made of stainless steel and equipped with pressure frames for minimal deformation of the upper lumber layers and heat recovery. The delivery also includes Valutes’s control system for drying, Valmatics 4.0. It is packed with intelligence that senses and adapts the drying process accordingly. Integrated in the system is the Valusim simulator, which optimizes new drying programs with regard to capacity, quality and electrical energy consumption. After the investment, Junnikkala will have three sawmills with a total production close to almost 800,000 m3. About 80% of finished products are exported. Production binds almost 1 million tonnes
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of carbon per year to sustainable wood products, making the company one of Finland’s most significant carbon sinks. The assembly of the TC kilns will start in the spring of 2023. l Valutec also reports that JGA is purchasing a kiln from Valutec for the sawmill in Linneryd. It is a TC continuous kiln with an annual capacity of 80,000 m3 (33.9MMBF). In the future, JGA plans to increase today’s annual production of 250,000 m3 (105.9MMBF) to 400,000 m3 (169.5MMBF), which is made possible by the new TC dryer. “With the TC dryer we are well equipped for the future,” says Magnus Ragnarsson, HR manager at JGA. “At the same time as it gives us high capacity, it also delivers a good drying result that lives up to the quality requirements of the future.” About 70% of the production is exported, mainly to Denmark, England, the Netherlands and Poland. In 2018, the company invested in four batch kilns from Valutec and at the same time took the opportunity to invest in Valutec’s control system Valmatics 4.0 for
the entire drying fleet. Installation of the new lumber dryer will begin in August 2022.
Blanca Purchases Lucidyne GradeScan Blanca Forestry Products has purchased a GradeScan with deep learning artificial intelligence from Lucidyne for installation in the Blanca, Col. planer mill. All new Lucidyne GradeScans come standard with Lucidyne’s patented Intelligent Grading platform, using deep learning artificial intelligence for unmatched defect detection and grading results. Blanca also purchased Lucidyne’s Grade-VU Projector System to integrate with the GradeScan system. This project is scheduled for installation in August 2022. “We evaluated all the grade scanning systems available and chose the Lucidyne because of the reliability of the GradeScan’s uptime performance and Lucidyne’s willingness to push the envelope in regard to new technology,” says Rick Engebretsen, General Manager, Blanca Forestry Products.
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USNR Receives Project Orders
Bois CFM is updating its end-dog log line and investing in a new Pinnacle Log Feeder and loader from USNR. The sawmill is located in Sainte-Florence, Quebec and processes aspen, larch, spruce and birch into components for pallets. The new log feeding equipment is schedule to be installed in
the fall of 2022. The Pinnacle Log Feeder is a dual-action step feeder that will improve the efficiency of logs feeding the end-dog carriage line. It will replace the existing log stop and loader. The new pinnacle design will have four steps, and offers better control of the process. l Wible Lumber, South Milford, Ind., is updating its 12 existing package kilns with Kiln Boss technology. The mill pro-
vides hardwood lumber products to the kitchen, cabinet, furniture and RV industries. The upgrade is scheduled to be installed early in 2022. Kiln Boss offers the functions and capabilities of a much larger and more complex control system, at a fraction of the cost. You or your operator can examine and change the parameters for each kiln that is under the control of the Kiln Boss system with the click of a mouse. The system is menu-driven, so no special computer skills are required.
BID Announces In-House Expansion BID Group is investing more than $1.5 million at its existing facility in Mirabel, Quebec to grow production capacity. The company will add 5,000 sq. ft. to its existing footprint, increasing production capacity more than 50%. “Digital technologies continue to be a key driver in the transformation of the wood processing industry and a differentiator in the performance of Comact equipment. This investment will allow us to expand production capabilities to continue providing our customers the assurance of leading-edge solutions built with the highest quality workmanship in the industry. This project is part of our longterm manufacturing strategy and we are pleased to announce this investment in our future,” explains Simon Potvin, President, Wood Processing. Construction will be completed this summer.
7Robotics Continues To Build Staff 7robotics—a growing robotic integrator and automation company in Roseburg, Ore.—has expanded its team. Since September, 7robotics has added three new faces to its development and technical departments. Headed by Joey Koenig, 7robotics Business Director, the company’s new additions will help develop and expand business services as well as solve the increasing problem of staffing through manufacturing improvements and process automation. “I’m happy to have joined a team that attacks the challenge of solving our customers’ unique problems through our company’s motto of being Programmed Different,” Koenig says. Technical Director Zach Alliman oversees the engineering department with 12 42
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MACHINERYROW years previous experience at 7robotics’ sister company, Con-Vey. The spark of the 7robotics vision began several years ago when Con-Vey’s management team decided they wanted to make a name of their own outside the wood products industry that the company was so well known in. Starting in 2019, the team at Con-Vey used their extensive
background and expertise as a springboard for 7robotics to enter into new markets and processes. An example of the assistance provided by Con-Vey is through the addition of Camren May, 7robotics Automation Engineer. May was previously ConVey’s product manager with years also spent as a sales engineer and mechanical engineer at Con-Vey. However, May was drawn to the robotics industry because “it’s the industry of the future,” as he puts it.
Con-Vey Launches New Web Site Roseburg, Ore.-based Con-Vey has launched a new website in collaboration with another local Roseburg company, Anvil Northwest. The nine-month project was started with the intent to update the company’s look and promote its services. The result was a beautifully designed site with a paring down of the number of web pages by half to offer visitors a more streamlined experience in an engaging way. “Often, as a business, our website is the first impression we give potential customers, so it was important to us that we show off our brand and what we do here at Con-Vey,” says Marketing Coordinator, Evie Hango, who led the project. “We want our customers to know
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that we value quality, innovation and modern processes. This new web site will act as a visual representation of those goals that we continually strive to exceed.” By adding rich visuals and more video content, the new Con-Vey web site plays on the growing trend that videos are a fast and convenient way to keep your audience interested and get to know your brand. “We’re very happy with the work Anvil has provided on this project and look forward to working with them on future brand campaigns,” says Dave Larecy, Con-Vey CEO. “It means a lot that we can support our community and promote what’s coming out of this Roseburg and southern Oregon area. Con-Vey has become a leading manufacturer of material handling equipment and proprietary machinery. From steel fabrication to custom robotic automation, Con-Vey is a proven, highquality supplier offering innovative solutions to customers in nearly 20 countries. Visit con-vey.com.
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ATLARGE Jon Potter Heads Structurlam NW Structurlam Mass Timber Corp. has welcomed Jon Potter as the company’s newest mass timber specialist. Based in Seattle, Potter will be responsible for building Structurlam’s Pacific Northwest regional presence, continuing to promote and expand the company’s mass timber projects. With a master’s degree in civil engineering, he has a background in structural analysis and design with a focus on wood design projects. “The Pacific Northwest is a strong market for mass timber construction, with several towers and large projects in production and design,” comments John Kostaras, vice president of construction sales for Structurlam. “A key economic benefit of mass timber is the ability to design, model and prefabricate the structural elements of a project offsite, accelerating on-site production schedules by up to 25%, compared with traditional on-site building with steel and concrete. Jon’s background and practical experience in structural and civil engineering have pre-
pared him to service this growth market as we continue to advance the mass timber movement across North America.” Structurlam is based in Penticton, BC and has mass timber production facilities in Penticton, Okanagan Falls, Oliver, BC, as well as Conway, Ark.
AWC Establishes New Board Leaders American Wood Council (AWC) elected PotlatchDeltic President and CEO Eric Cremers as Chairman of the AWC Board of Directors for a two-year term, effective January 1, 2022. Ricky Stanley, President and CEO of TR Miller Mill Co., was elected the First Vice Chairman, and Sean McLaren, West Fraser President, Solid Wood, is the Second Vice Chairman. Duane Vaagen, President of Vaagen Brothers Lumber Co., was also elected as a new member of the Board. “Furman Brodie chaired the Board this last year, which was also my first year as President & CEO,” comments AWC President & CEO Jackson Morrill. “Furman
provided steady leadership in guiding the development of AWC’s next five-year Strategic Plan, helping shape the association’s climate policy and program of activities, and ensuring AWC’s future effectiveness in core codes and standards work by supporting a robust staffing plan. I also welcome Eric as the incoming Chairman. The next several years will be critical to maximizing opportunities for wood products in an increasingly carbon-conscious built environment.” The full AWC Board of Directors includes: Chairman Eric Cremers, PotlatchDeltic; First Vice Chairman Ricky Stanley, TR Miller Mill; Second Vice Chairman Sean McLaren, West Fraser; and Mike Blosser, LP Building Solutions; Marc Brinkmeyer, Idaho Forest Group; Furman Brodie, Charles Ingram Lumber Co.; George Emmerson, Sierra Pacific; Jack Jordan, Jordan Lumber; Nate Jorgensen, Boise Cascade; Fritz Mason, Georgia-Pacific; Kevin McKinley, Canadian Wood Council; Andrew Miller, Stimson Lumber; Grady Mulbery, Roseburg Forest Products: Keith
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ATLARGE O’Rear, Weyerhaeuser Co.; Joe Patton, Westervelt; Fred Stimpson, Canfor Southern Pine; and Duane Vaagen, Vaagen Brothers Lumber Company.
Workers’ Comp Group Honors Kennebec Lumber The MEMIC Group, workers’ compensation insurance specialists, has named Kennebec Lumber Co. of Solon, Maine as one of four winners of The MEMIC Award for Excellence in Injury Management for 2021. Nominated by MEMIC claims staff, Kennebec Lumber was considered the best among more than 20,000 policyholders insured by MEMIC when it comes to caring for injured workers. The MEMIC Award for Excellence in Injury Management recognizes organizations that manage their injury claims efficiently to control costs, increase labor productivity, and heal workers injured on the job. “Kennebec Lumber Company has instilled a culture of care that is an example for all our policyholders, and for their entire industry,” says MEMIC
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Group President and CEO Michael Bourque. “We’re proud to partner with the people at Kennebec Lumber to make it a consistently safer and more productive place to work, and we will continue to deeply collaborate with them on our team approach to safety.” MEMIC claims manager Jenn Coxen says Kennebec Lumber has “upped their game” when it comes to injury management, led by Safety Director Jessica Moody. Moody utilizes creative thinking to get employees back to work when restrictions are involved and maintains an active role in the medical management of their injuries. She communicates openly and knows when and how to use her resources. Among other benefits, MEMIC policyholders have free and unlimited access to 24/7 InjuryTriage and Telehealth specialists, available within minutes of an incident, which helps reduce overall medical costs and ensures faster claim processing. Many MEMIC policyholders also are assigned a dedicated loss control consultant at no additional cost.
SFI Appoints New Officer Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) announced Bettina Ring as its new Chief Sustainability and Diversity Officer. Ring will provide leadership on strategic initiatives related to sustainability and diversity. She will also seek to leverage SFI’s scale to drive meaningful change in the forest and conservation sector through collaboration with SFI’s network. Ring has deep connections to the forest sector, most recently serving as Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry for the Commonwealth of Virginia, and to SFI, having formerly served on the SFI Board of Directors and recognized as the SFI President’s Award winner in 2018. Additionally, under Ring’s leadership, 68,000 acres of Virginia’s state forests were certified to the SFI Forest Management and American Tree Farm System Standards, which provide assurance of sustainable practices on managed forestlands. “I am honored to be joining SFI under the leadership of Kathy Abusow,” Ring says.
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VERSATILE GANG
Manufacturing edgers and gang saws under the Gmachine brand, the Greg Smith Co. is expanding the capabilities of hardwood lumber manufacturers with the introduction of a 10" chipping and curvesawing versatile gang specifically designed for hardwood applications. The versatile gang approach ensures the highest possible recovery and market flexibility needed to meet 21st century market opportunities and incorporation of drum style side chip heads allows for either curve or straight sawing depending upon the user’s needs at the time. Scheduled for delivery in late summer of 2022, two machines have been purchased by Turman Lumber Co. for sawmills in Radford and Hillsville, Va. complementing two linear board edgers
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systems previously purchased for the mills. These new machine designs will be specifically engineered to handle various hardwood species requirements and will include multiple shifting gang saw clusters behind side chip heads that will allow maximum flexibility in sawing solutions as well as eliminate the requirements for separating trash from good lumber behind the machine or at downstream dropouts. Precision sawing accuracy comes from the tightest tolerances in critical areas of the machine design as well as aggressive feed systems designed to tightly hold the cants during processing. Gmachines utilize electric linear actuators in every application possible to provide state-of-the-art positioning accuracy and speed while eliminating the potential risks of having hydraulic positioner systems on the mill floor. Available in both transverse and linear feed applications, designs capable of fitting into many space restricted applications are available, including “snapshot” scan in place infeed systems designed to replace existing pre-spot or
hand fed gangs to achieve the shortest overall length for the machine center. Visit gmachinecompany.com.
WHEEL LOADER
Morbark, LLC, debuts the Rayco 4000AWL Articulated Wheel Loader. The 4000AWL is the second model in Rayco’s articulated wheel loader line and is designed to meet the material handling needs of landscape contractors, tree services, rental companies, municipalities, and agricultural businesses. This turffriendly, highly maneuverable articulated wheel loader offers a light footprint and heavy workload. The 4000AWL can take on a multitude
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PRODUCTSCANNER10 of big challenges in tight areas while minimizing ground disturbances. In addition, the 4000AWL offers impressive lifting capacity and a compact size that easily works inside fenced-in yards, pens, nurseries, and more. The 4000AWL is outfitted with a standard skid steer attachment plate and can accommodate many attachments. In addition, the quick-attach system enables users to quickly and easily switch from a bucket to forks or other tools for optimum on-the-job flexibility and bottomline performance. The telescoping boom provides excellent lifting and dumping height, enabling loading on high-sided trucks and other applications that require extended reach. The 4000AWL has a maximum lift height (measured at the hinge pin) of 126" (320.7 cm). With its 48 HP (36-kW) Isuzu 4LE2T diesel engine, the 4000AWL generates a working lift capacity of 4000 lb (1814.4 kg). The 4000AWL has been built with operator comfort and safety in mind, including a low-profile suspension seat within the ROPS/FOPS-certified roll cage. In addition, the open-air design provides a clear view of the worksite in all directions, and easy-to-use controls make these machines simple for anyone to operate. Visit morbark.com.
Another application example is a need to distinguish heartwood from sapwood when cutting green round timber, such as pine. Since the color of the heartwood will only change on contact with UV light, production has to be halted to be able to definitively detect the differences. Using the Perception HEAD means the wood can be scanned and classified at the sawing stage. Wintersteiger is testing hyperspectral
imaging for other customer requirements, e.g., for moisture measurement to trace signs of decay when analyzing glued joints in multilayer boards or when detecting resin. This cooperative development between the Woodtech Div. of Wintersteiger AG and Perception Park GmbH is set to further strengthen the position of both companies in the market. Visit wintersteiger.com.
CHEMICAL SENSING Using the Perception HEAD enables the Woodtech Div. of Wintersteiger AG to precisely detect the structure of defects in wood. This allows chemical characteristics such as blue stain, weak spots, branch decay, galls, and The result of hyperknotholes to be prespectral imaging is shown on the right; cisely scanned and machined, setting in this case, a new quality assurgrowth defect (knot) ance standards in the timber industry. Perception Park now supplies the Perception HEAD, a special solution that uses hyperspectral imaging technology. This innovative technology that enables the “chemical sensing” of the raw material to be identified has aroused a great deal of interest among Austrian machinery and plant engineering businesses. TIMBER PROCESSING
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MAINEVENTS FEBRUARY 7-9—Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen’s Assn. Convention & Exposition, Indianapolis Downtown Marriott, Indianapolis, Ind. Call 317-288-0008; visit ihla.org.
MARCH 3-6—Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers annual meeting, The Diplomat Beach Resort, Hollywood, Fla. Call 336-8858315; visit appalachianhardwood.org. 15-17—Dubai Woodshow, Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Call +971 4 39 23232; visit dubaiwoodshow.com. 16-18—2022 SLMA & SFPA Spring Meeting & Expo, Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans, La. Call 504-443-4464; visit slma.org. 23-25—Hardwood Manufacturers Association's National Conference and Expo, Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort, Miramar Beach, Fla. Call 412-244-0440; visit hmamembers.org. 28-29—California Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Kimpton, The Sawyer Hotel, Sacramento, Calif. Call 916-444-6592; visit calforests.org. 29-30—Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo, Omni Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 334-834-1170; visit bioenergyshow.com. 29-31—Kentucky Forest Industries Assn. annual meeting, Embassy Suites, Lexington, Ky. Call 502-695-3979; visit kfia.org. 29-April 1—Fimma-Maderalia 2022, Feria Valencia, Valencia, Spain. Visit fimma-maderalia.feriavalencia.com/en. 31-April 1—Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE), Omni Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 334-834-1170; visit pelice-expo.com.
APRIL 6-8—International Wood Products Assn. 66th World of Wood Convention, Omni Orlando Resort At Championsgate, Orlando, Fla. Call 703-820-6696; visit iwpawood.org. 27-29—MSR Annual Workshop, Courtyard by Marriott, Salt Lake City, Utah. Call 608-310-6768; visit msrlumber.org. 27-29—International CLT Conference, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. Visit sfws.auburn.edu.
MAY 13-14—Loggers’ Expo, Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, Vt. Call 315-369-3078; visit northernlogger.com. 15-17—American Wood Protection Assn. annual meeting, Francis Marion Hotel, Charleston, S.C. Call 205-733-4077; visit awpa.com. 54
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JUNE 2-6—IndiaWood 2022, Bangalore International Exhibition Centre, Bangalore, India. Call +91-80-4250 5000; visit indiawood.com. 4-7—Assn. of Consulting Foresters of America annual conference, Austin, Tex. Call 703-548-0990; visit acfforesters.org. Listings are submitted months in advance. Always verify dates and locations with contacts prior to making plans to attend.
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