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WWPA Meeting Is A Success

DIBOLL LUMBER RECEIVES INFUSION

PELICE, WOOD BIO CONFERENCES

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Georgia-Pacific Enhances Energy, Drying

Highlights Worth Noting For Lumbermen

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Rich Donnell Editor-in-Chief

DIBOLL WITHSTANDS THE TEST OF NAMES

o you want to get confused? Let’s go to Diboll, Texas. Here you’ll find the Georgia-Pacific sawmill, which is our cover story this issue as written by Senior Editor Jessica Johnson. That GP owns this sawmill, and has recently completed some upgrading to it, is the easy part. The difficult part is tracing back the history of the sawmill, and more specifically the number of ownership names that come into play, even if those names were mostly from the same company. See what I mean? The first sawmill to be built at Diboll (a good one anyDiboll sawmill, 1903 (as downloaded from The way), in 1894, was at the History Center Online) hands of Southern Pine Lumber Co., which was founded by Thomas Temple, Sr., who had purchased 7,000 acres of east Texas forest the year before from the man who founded Diboll, J.C. Diboll. Southern Pine Lumber continued to expand the mill and in 1903 built a second one. In 1910, Temple formed Temple Lumber Co. by purchasing Garrison-Norton Lumber and its operations and later added operations in Pineland. In 1956, Temple Lumber and Southern Pine Lumber merged under the Southern Pine Lumber name. But wait, in 1963 Southern Pine Lumber Co. changed its name to Temple Industries, Inc., and in addition to wood products operations now owned more than 450,000 acres. In 1969, it rebuilt the Diboll sawmill after a fire. In 1973, Time Inc. (yep, that Time Inc.) acquired Temple Industries and merged it with Eastex Pulp and Paper Co., resulting in the name Temple-Eastex, Inc. Of course by now the company had multiple sawmill and panel operations, and in 1979 Temple-Eastex moved into new corporate offices at Diboll. In 1983, Time Inc. spun off its forest products operations, and stockholders formed a new company, Temple-Inland Inc., which was composed of the old Temple-Eastex Corp. and Inland Container Corp. In 1985, our magazine visited and wrote an article on the Diboll mill, which operated as Temple-Eastex (or at least that’s what we called it), but a few years later the Temple-Eastex portion of the business changed its name to Temple-Inland Forest Products. Our magazine visited Diboll again in 1999, following a $26 million total overhaul of the sawmill, and it was Temple-Inland then. Temple-Inland operated the mill until 2012, when it sold it and other wood products operations to International Paper, which turned around in 2013 and sold Diboll and other operations to Georgia-Pacific. In retrospect, it’s no wonder that us editors were always confused about which Temple to call the Diboll sawmill. But the amazing thing about all of this, really, is that a sawmill at the Diboll site is now in its 128th year of operation, as TP our article beginning on page 18 bears out. Contact Rich Donnell, ph: 334-834-1170; fax 334-834-4525; e-mail: rich@hattonbrown.com TIMBER PROCESSING

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WWPA CONDUCTS ANNUAL MEETING ‘Working Forest Initiative’ is introduced and explained by former Weyerhaeuser executive. STEVENSON, Wash. cenic Skamani Lodge at the Columbia River Gorge hosted the Western Wood Products Assn. annual meeting and also the Softwood Lumber Board meeting during May 24-26. Lumber producer companies represented included Bennett Lumber Products, Blanca Forest Products, Boise Cascade, Bright Wood, Collins, F.H. Stoltze Land & Lumber, Hampton Lumber, Idaho Forest Group, Interfor, Mendocino Forest Products, Mt. Hood Forest Products, Neiman Enterprises, Ochoco Lumber, PotlatchDeltic, Sierra Pacific Industries, Stimson Lumber, Swanson Group, Thompson River Lumber, Vaagen Bros. Lumber, Western Forest Products and Yakama Forest Products. Timber Processing magazine (Hatton-Brown Publishers, Inc.), promoting its upcoming Timber Processing & Energy Expo September 28-30 at the Portland Expo Center in Portland, Ore., was one of several companies to exhibit in the WWPA Exchange Show, along with AGS Stainless, BID Group, Biomass Engineering & Equipment, HALCO, Continental Underwriters, HUV International. MiCROTEC, Taylor Machine Works, USNR and Valutec. Perhaps the biggest development to come out of the annual meeting was the introduction of the “Working Forest Initiative,” a well-funded data-driven campaign targeted at key influencers to drive measurable improvement in the favorability rating of the forest industry and thus positively resonate in wood products markets and the enhancement of the industry. Adrian Blocker, recently retired as senior vice president of

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Lumbermen had a lot on their plates with the close-coupled WWPA annual meeting and Softwood Lumber Board meeting.

Timberlands and Wood Products at Weyerhaeuser, and well known through the years for his activism in numerous industry promotional groups, is leading the new initiative and addressed its early evolvement. The initiative has hired Bully Pulpit Interactive, a public relations, message development and measurement firm based in Washington, DC and with several other offices in the U.S. Blocker said survey research conducted by BPI has shown that today the industry’s reputation is challenged. In fact a survey of Fortune 1000 business leaders, policymakers and activists revealed that only slightly more than a third “trust” the forest industry and describe the industry as “forward-thinking,” and only 25% believe the industry does the “right thing.” The data showed the favorability of the forest industry lagging behind construction and agriculture, and only outperforming what is generally considered an extractive, energy

WWPA President Ray Barbee

WWPA Chairman Chuck Roady

intensive and polluting sector—mining. Blocker said, unlike previous industry public relations campaigns that have been too broad, BPI’s research has finetuned the number of pivotal business, legislative, regulatory, media and other influencers on the forest industry to—not millions—but “639,000.” “For the first time as an industry we know who they are, how to target them with our messaging and we have research on what will change their minds and positions on our industry and issues,” Blocker said. The initiative is starting out as a five-year campaign with $45 million in funding, including contributions from producer companies such as West Fraser, Canfor, Sierra Pacific Industries, Idaho Forest Group, Westervelt, Georgia-Pacific and Resolute, and with backing from several industry supporting groups and associations. Part of the initiative is environmental awareness, to make sure that decision makers un-

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NEWSFEED

Master Lumberman inductees, left to right: Gordon Watts, Mendocino Forest Products; Armando Lavalle, Sierra Pacific Industries; Steve Coalman, Stimson Lumber; Everett Easley, Collins; Adam Bauer, PotlatchDeltic; Ezequiel Barajas, Idaho Forest Group; as presented by Pete Austin, WWPA Director of Quality Standards.

derstand that harvesting is sustainable and working forests should be embraced as a tool to fight climate change, especially during this crucial period when frameworks, climate goals and policies to reduce carbon emissions are undertaken. As to measuring the success of the initiative, Blocker said it will be measured quarterly based on familiarity and favorability of the industry, with the goal to double the forest industry’s favorability ratings in five years. Working Forest Initiative kicks off this fall as a 501c6 legal entity with a board of directors composed of funders who will provide governance and an advisory board of industry’s best communicators and government affairs professionals to help guide messaging efforts. Other speakers during the meeting included Ali Wolf, chief economist with Zonda, and Mark Wishnie, chief sus-

tainability officer and head of landscape capital at BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group. WWPA added six lumbermen to its Master Lumberman group. Quality Standards Director Pete Austin presented the awards, noting only 431 individuals have received the award in the past 54 years. To qualify for the award, candidates must be Certified Graders for at least 20 years, have extensive experience in lumber manufacturing, hold supervisory responsibilities and must be nominated by their companies. (Nominations for the 2023 Master Lumberman awards are due by November 30, 2022.) The six inductees are: Ezequiel Barajas, Idaho Forest Group; Adam Bauer, PotlatchDeltic; Steven Coalman, Stimson Lumber; Everett Easley III, Collins; Jose Armando Lavalle, Sierra Pacific Industries; and Gordon Watts,

Mendocino Forest Products. Three Western mills were honored for outstanding safety records at their operations, as presented by Todd Payne, president of Sierra Pacific Industries. “Western lumber mills take great pride in assuring safe working environments. Keeping employees safe while at work can provide significant, bottom-line results for every operation,” Payne commented. Chairman’s Awards for best five-year safety records (20172021) in three categories based on annual employee hours were presented to Hampton Lumber Mills, Tillamook, Ore.; Interfor U.S., Molalla, Ore.; and Western Forest Products U.S., Vancouver, Wash. Best one-year safety records (lowest one-year incidence rate) (2021) were recognized with District Awards: District 1—Interfor U.S., Longview, Wash.; District 2—Interfor U.S., Molalla, Ore.; District

3—Woodgrain Lumber, Pilot Rock, Ore.; District 4—Montrose Forest Products, Montrose, Colo.; District 5—Stimson Lumber, St. Maries, Id. Each year WWPA identifies individual certified graders with high grading proficiency over a year-long performance schedule. The association recognizes that such achievements reflect a commitment the entire mill made to improve the quality of the lumber produced. The 2021 Hi-Q Mills recognized at the meeting included: C&D Lumber, Riddle, Ore; Hampton Lumber Mills, Cowlitz Div., Morton Wash; Idaho Forest Group, Moyie Springs, Id.; Interfor U.S., Longview, Wash.; Interfor U.S., Molalla, Ore.; Sierra Pacific Industries, Corning, Calif.; Stimson Lumber, Plummer, Id.; Stimson Lumber, St. Maries, Id.; Stimson Lumber, Gaston, Ore.; Stimson Lumber, Tillamook, Ore.; Warrenton Lumber, Warrenton, Ore. TP

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NEWSFEED

NEW SYP SAWMILL STIRS UP DUST

Looks like construction of the new Canfor $160 million southern yellow pine sawmill in DeRidder, La. is in motion, according to these photos taken by Senior Editor Jessica Johnson as she was passing through the area in early June on an assignment trip. The greenfield project will be Canfor’s 16th U.S. operation. Canfor hired BID Group as the turnkey supplier. Running two shifts per day, the mill is expected to create 130 jobs, and 380 additional indirect jobs (across the logging, maintenance and industrial services, construction and retail sectors). Timber will be sourced from the sustainable, high-value resource in the DeRidder region; an estimated 1 million tons of sawtimber, or 38,000 truckloads of logs, will be required each year to meet the mill’s annual lumber production capacity of 250MMBF. Canfor also recently announced it is investing $130 million to upgrade and expand its sawmill at Urbana, Ark.

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NEWSFEED

WEYERHAEUSER LED DURING KEY YEARS

eorge H. Weyerhaeuser Sr., who served as president and CEO of Weyerhaeuser Co. from 1966 to 1991 during an exciting period of wood products development while encountering new timber supply challenges brought on by an aggressive environmental movement in the Northwest, died June 11 in his sleep at home in Lakewood (Tacoma), Wash. He was 95. Weyerhaeuser, who continued to serve as Board Chairman through 1999, was the great-grandson of Weyerhaeuser Co. founder Frederick Weyerhaeuser. Weyerhaeuser oversaw significant growth of the company, including a number of major timberland acquisitions, and had an enduring impact on

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the evolution of forest management at Weyerhaeuser and across the industry. He was also instrumental in the development of international relationships and markets, especially with Japan. “George was an extraordinary person and leader—one of the most influential in the history of the industry,” says Devin Stockfish, president and CEO of Weyerhaeuser. “He brought transformational changes to our company, including important advances in sustainable, high-yield forestry and wood products research, as well as expansion into overseas markets, among many other achievements. He left a tremendous legacy and will be greatly missed by everyone in the greater Weyerhaeuser family and community.”

Sketch of George Weyerhaeuser as appeared in Seattle Business magazine, November 1986.

Weyerhaeuser led a reorganization and cultural change at Weyerhaeuser in the early 1980s that streamlined the managerial process toward

quicker decision-making at the operations level. He also oversaw the company’s strong push into engineered wood products. In the mid 1980s Weyerhaeuser said, “There is a revolution going on in what used to be traditional forest products markets. I could go down all of our major product lines and I could tell you what we have going on, but I’ll just tell you that if we move forward five, six, seven years we’re going to be experiencing a completely new set of products which are going to be designed with properties built into them and those properties are going to be developed by different kinds of fibers and overlays and mixtures right in the basic products.” Also in the 1980s Weyerhaeuser led the company’s

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NEWSFEED movement toward more independent logging contractor operations and less emphasis on company logging operations. “With the changes in our logging areas, somewhat more scattered, smaller timber, we need smaller more flexible operations,” he said. “When we looked at the option of reinvesting in a very large set of company operations we found the answer to be very easy to arrive at. We had to get a good deal more competitive and in doing so we’re going to downsize and put in a major amount of contracting.” It was said of Weyerhaeuser, “His personal presence was powerful. He was honorable, confident and optimistic. He liked to focus on getting things done. He wanted his office to be out on the floor with his executive team, working in the daily grind of decision-making and policy formation. He liked

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people. When you were with him, you would feel his warmth and his focus on you. This was great motivation for people around him.” Weyerhaeuser was born on July 8, 1926 to Helen Walker Weyerhaeuser and J.P. (Phil) Weyerhaeuser Jr. During the early years of his life, the family lived in Idaho, and then moved to Tacoma in 1933. Fame came to Weyerhaeuser very early in his life as an 8-year-old child when during the Depression, in May 1935, he was kidnapped. The kidnappers took him while he was on his way home from elementary school in Tacoma, and held him for eight days in various trunks and closets and even in a freshly dug pit in the ground. He was ultimately left on the side of a forest road and walked to a farmhouse, whose inhabitants reunited him with his family.

Weyerhaeuser did not let that experience derail his life nor cloud his feelings toward other people. When speaking to Sports Illustrated in 1969, he said, “A boy is a pretty adaptable organism. He can adjust himself to conditions in a way no adult could. It didn’t affect me personally as much as anyone looking back on it might think.” Years later he wrote the parole board supporting release for one of the kidnappers, and offered him a job to help his transition back into society. Weyerhaeuser went to the Taft School in Watertown, CT for high school and later served as a Trustee for the school. He served in the Navy from 1944-46, a young entrant as the war was winding down. He studied engineering and received a B.S in Industrial Administration from Yale University in 1949.

Weyerhaeuser married Wendy Wagner on July 10, 1948. Weyerhaeuser inherited from his family a very strong work ethic. In the early years of his career he worked in mills in Longview, Wash. and Springfield, Ore., and then moved up to positions of manager and vice president in several divisions of the Weyerhaeuser Co. He became a young CEO for Weyerhaeuser Co. at age 39. Weyerhaeuser worked for years on a plan to build a new Corporate Headquarters in Federal Way, Wash., that used an open floor plan to encourage communication across departments and centralized management. The building was at the forefront of modern design for a corporate work setting and won awards including one for environmental merit. Weyerhaeuser served on

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NEWSFEED the Boards of The Boeing Co., SAFECO Corp., Standard Oil of CA, and The Rand Co.. He was a member of The Business Roundtable; Council on Foreign Relations; Board of Visitors, UPS School of Law; Advisory Board, Graduate School of Business Administration, U. Of Washington; Japan-California Assn.; The Business Council; the Federal Reserve Board of San Francisco; and the Washington Council on International Trade, among others. There was an oil tanker named for him by Chevron while he was serving on that board. After decades of being an avid tennis player, he spent his final years watching the tennis channel, doing Sudoku and reading The Economist. Weyerhaeuser was predeceased by his sisters, Ann Pascoe and Elizabeth (Wiz) Mead-

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owcroft; his brother, J.P. (Flip) Weyerhaeuser Jr.; and by his wife of 66 years, Wendy, who passed away in 2014. He was also predeceased by his son, George Weyerhaeuser Jr., in 2013 and his grandson Karl Griggs in 2014. He is survived by his children: Merrill Weyerhaeuser (Patrick Welly), David Weyerhaeuser (Sarah), Phyllis Griggs, Sue Messina (Bob Newkirk), daughter-in-law Kathy McGoldrick, Leilee Weyerhaeuser (Damian Rouson), 15 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Contributions can be made to one of the following organizations: the Pacific Bonsai Museum, the Forest History Society or the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation. A memorial service is being planned but no date has been set.

POTLATCHDELTIC PLANS NEW MILL PotlatchDeltic Corp. is investing $131 million to expand and modernize its sawmill located in Waldo, Ark. The project will increase the mill’s annual production capacity from 190MMBF of southern yellow pine dimension lumber to 275MMBF. The company states that the investment will reduce the mill’s operating costs significantly. “The Waldo investment is an exciting strategic growth opportunity and it will position the mill among the lowest cost producers in the U.S. South,” comments Eric Cremers, President and CEO. “The project reflects our belief that housing fundamentals will remain strong.” The Waldo investment includes upgrades to the log yard

and planer, a new saw line and a new continuous dry kiln. PotlatchDeltic has contracted with BID Group to design, build and equip the expansion and modernization, including BID’s equipment, software, automation systems, Artificial intelligence-enabled optimization, and OPER8, a purposebuilt IIoT solution for the wood processing industry. BID’s Integrated Solutions Team will provide the design, engineering, planning, fabrication and installation services for the turnkey project. “We are excited to partner with the BID team to execute on our growth and operational excellence plan to deliver increased value for our customers, shareholders, and communities,” says Ashlee Cribb, PotlatchDeltic Vice President, Wood Products. “Working with an industry leader like BID provides the confidence

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NEWSFEED that this major project will be done right and delivered on time.” The existing mill will continue to operate during the project. Work on site will begin in the third quarter of 2023 and is expected to be completed by the end of 2024. PotlatchDeltic owns three sawmills and nearly 950,000 acres of timberland in Arkansas.

BOISE ACQUIRES COASTAL PLYWOOD Boise Cascade Co. has reached an agreement to acquire Coastal Plywood Co., including a plywood mill in Havana, Fla. and a sawmill and plywood mill in Chapman, Ala., from Coastal Forest Resources Co. for $512 million. The combined facilities employ 750.

Nate Jorgensen, CEO, Boise Cascade, comments “Near term, it provides us the ability to optimize our existing engineered wood products (EWP) asset base. Longer term, we are excited to fully integrate this strategic venture and we intend to invest $50 million into our Southeast operations over a three-year period to further our EWP production capacity.” Travis Bryant, CEO of Coastal Forest Resources Co., states, “Coastal has a long history of manufacturing quality products and a strong reputation in the markets we serve. This transaction represents an opportunity for our talented and dedicated employees to join a dynamic organization, offering them a secure future with great opportunities ahead.” “These are well-invested and managed plants that fit nicely into our existing foot-

print of integrated facilities in the Southeast,” adds Mike Brown, executive vice president, Boise Cascade. “ The scope of the transaction does not include Coastal’s parent company or timberlands assets. In its May 2022 Investor Presentation, Boise reported eight plywood/veneer manufacturing facilities, five EWP facilities and two lumber facilities in addition to multiple building distribution locations.

AGENCY REVEALS TIMBER ACTIONS U.S. Forest Service reported it sold 2.87 billion BF of timber sales (compared to the agency target of 4 billion BF) in fiscal 2021, a decrease from 3.2 billion BF in FY 2020, according to the agency’s Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Justification

document. The sold volume was valued at $197 million. The decrease in sales was primarily due to limited staff capacity and no-bid sales, according to the agency, adding that the COVID-19 pandemic limited the mobility of timber crews, and field work continued to be difficult to accomplish due to the large fire activity across the Western U.S. Many employees that usually work to prepare timber sales were assigned to wildfire suppression and support. Recovery efforts after large fires, including stabilization work and hazard tree removal, necessitated the involvement of the staff who would typically work on preparing and administering timber sales, the agency stated. FY 2021 sales included more than 500 contracts greater than $10,000, nearly 66,000 small timber contracts and permits, and 20,000 special ➤ 53

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TURNING UP

THE HEAT By Jessica Johnson

With a flurry of capital expenditures across the GP sawmill portfolio, Diboll Lumber gets a piece of the pie.

DIBOLL, Tex.

fter 125 plus years, a sawmill starts to show its age. But for Diboll Lumber, which is part of the impressive portfolio of SYP mills in Georgia-Pacific’s hat, age ain’t nothin’ but a number. Sort of. For Plant Manager Danny Wright, who started as an off-the-street hire as a young man, some of the machines might be vintage, but the heart of the plant beats strong. And that’s thanks to the dedication of the employee base; 185 are currently on staff. Wright says, “We’ve added some pieces and upgraded, but the majority of the equipment is ’99 model. What’s the secret? It’s the people. We’ve got multi-generational employees working here. It’s their community, they want to see it flourish. We’ve kept it going for a lot of years.” That pride in the beating and banging that often goes hand-in-hand with operating a sawmill that has been different “sawmills” since Temple-Inland first opened, and a recent string of capital investments has main-

The GP Diboll management team, from left, Brad Ivie, Kevin Booth, Jerry Sizemore, Mike Davis, Juan Cuevas, Daniel Pelton and Danny Wright

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tained Diboll Lumber’s place on the sawmill map, increasing capacity to 280MMBF and securing its place as a modernized mill. But even with those investments, Wright is quick to stick to his (and the mill’s) roots. The latest and biggest investment since 1999 was to two of the facility’s batch dry kilns—essentially bringing them up to current Wellons specs. And thanks to the re-tube and re-skin of Diboll’s existing units, the batch kilns aren’t breaking down as frequently as they once were. What was the biggest bottleneck in the mill was handled with a 16-day shutdown of the boiler and kilns with more than 100 contractors on-site. By re-tubing, replacing all the sheet metal (reskinning) these two Wright says are basically brand new. “And we moved our bottleneck from the kilns to making the sawmill feel the pressure,” Wright laughs.

THE SHUTDOWN During that 16-day shutdown, Diboll focused solely on the boiler and kilns. 340 steam tubes were replaced in the boiler, in addition to the rebuilding of the refractory, air heater tube section, adding ➤ 22

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Taking ’99 model kilns and bringing them up to current spec wasn’t an easy task for a 16day shutdown.

A new log crane was part of 2018 capital expenditures.

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19 ➤ a new soot blower, which allows Diboll to now go a full year between cleanings whereas before the addition, the boiler required cleaning every six months. As well as a new water softening system and new condensation pumping system that now operates much more efficiently pumping condensate back to the boiler rather than using residual steam pressure to push it back to the boiler. All this was done, Wright says, to increase the life of the equipment. For Mike Davis, Boiler, Kilns and Fire Protection Supervisor, this has meant a nearly instant increase in uptime and reliability, going from eight to 12 hours’ worth of weekly maintenance using six people to just a quick two-man job in about three hours greasing and checking things over. “That’s the savings in maintenance time we’re getting,” Davis emphasizes. The successful project wouldn’t have worked without upgrades to the valves on the kilns as well—switching over from pneumatically controlled steam valves, which presented a host of issues and headaches for the mill, to electric controls. “So much about this update was about reliability. Now the valves don’t adjust based on air temperature, freezing weather, etc. so the potential for failure is

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The mill has seen a lot over its 125 plus year history— a real “if the walls could talk” situation.

greatly reduced,” Wright says. The 2021 updates were to the two “worst” kilns Diboll had, Wright adds, with plans to reskin a third (of the four currently in operation) later in 2022. This update will follow the same blueprint the ’21 project did. Why not a full teardown and rebuild? Wright says the current lumber market, and desire to continue producing was only a small piece. “For us, location and logistics of

having the room and the amount of downtime, we were better off rebuilding what we had,” he elaborates. The project was successful in ’21, with startup on time for the boiler and just one day delayed on the kilns, so there’s no cause for concern that it cannot be copied in ’22. Wright also emphasizes that the work inside the kilns wouldn’t have been successful if it hadn’t all been done together—the re-skin, the valves and the boiler.

MILL FLOW In 2018, Diboll replaced its log crane with a large 900 ft. Kone crane that now allows the mill to stack more logs than it ever has. This has helped set the tone for the rest of the process—where there are two options for intake, unloading with the crane and stacking or put into ground storage unloaded using a rubber tire loader.

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Earlier this year, the filing room got some love, replacing the planer long knife grinder and adding a new side grinder.

As part of the ’21 kiln and boiler project, a new control room was added for the process.

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The mill takes chip-n-saw and two different sizes of sawlogs, 7 in. and 9 in. tops; running best on a 5.0 to 5.2 cubic foot per linear foot. “Anything below 4.9, and we will suffer,” Wright says. Once brought to the mill infeed, logs pass a Nicholson A7 debarker, and MDI metal detector before passing a relatively new USNR log scanner that determines the bucking decision. Two Comact wave feeders feed both primary breakdowns the mill uses: an Optimil Chip-N-Saw and USNR Quadband saw that was re-engineered recently with brand new wheels and upgraded hydraulics. Log turners position stems for the mill’s DLI, which goes to the Optimil. Sideboards peel off to a USNR edger. From the quadband, cants go to a McGehee vertical double arbor gang. A full-length trimmer with Baxley optimization that will soon be converted to Autolog, handles wood from the gang. The installation of the new optimization package from Autolog, slated as part of the December 2022 shutdown, will also include an improvement to the existing PLC controls from PLC 5 to PLC 5000. The green stacker and 70-bay sorter, which handles the full dimension in lengths from 8 ft. to 20 that the mill produces, are from USNR. Lumber is solid piled coming out of the sawmill for the green yard. Wright says this is the way it’s always been done, but there’s also a method to the madness. “Our kilns and middle process does everything off transfer cars. We don’t use forklifts to move lumber after it’s been stacked into a complete car,” he explains. The small packages vary based on dimension, but average 13 layers of wood. It takes five of these packages to make a kiln car. Taylor lifts will pick it up from there and put it into green yard for separating by length and dimension. The drying schedule is made based on what is in the green yard, and lumber is touched one more time to put it on the new MoCo green stacker, also installed in 2019, before hitting the transfer cars and into the kilns. Coming out of the kilns, a small rough dry shed holds about 2MMBF, then lumber goes to the USNR planer mill, with a USNR takedown tilt hoist and planer infeed, Coastal planer machine, plus MSR machine, moisture meter and Autolog autograder with a PLC lug loader that is slated for replacement in next two years. Wright shrugs when he says, “The saying you spend money in the green end and make money in the dry end is definitely true for us!” Finally, finished lumber is sorted by a 55-bay USNR sorter, after passing an Autolog optimizer, USNR dry stacker

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(the only piece in the planer mill that wasn’t replaced in 1999) and finally a Signode strapper. Saw filing is handled in-house with one lead filer, four saw filers and one trainee in the room. Machinery in there, like the rest of the complex, is in a state of upgrade—a new side grinder was purchased in 2022, as well as a new planer long knife grinder. Machines are from Williams & White and Armstrong. Multiple saw vendors keep the mill rolling, but lately its been Cut Tech, BGR and Simonds. “It has been increasingly hard to get saws; we’ve switched manufacturers and increased in-house inventories just so we stay in saws,” Wright says.

WHAT’S NEXT? Now that the bottleneck has been moved to the sawmill, it’s clear what’s next for planned capital expenditures— and maybe what’s on Wright’s wish list. “Line speed needs to pick up,” he adds, “So, the bucking system in the sawmill is probably going to be our next opportunity. Upgrade that and get a little more speed.” One thing is for sure for Wright and his team that doesn’t need to change, the pride the facility has among its staff. Once a month the management group will feed the entire mill, but it isn’t unheard of for the employees to bring each other a meal. “You’ll have guys all chip in for the cost and one of the wives do the cooking,” Wright explains. “We just have a good family culture.” That family culture translates to a strong safety record: “We haven’t had a significant injury or fatality in a very, very long time. It is unusual for someone to get hurt here.” And yes, that safety record includes heat stroke, offset by frequent Sno-Cones during the triple digit heat months, because after all, it’s bigger and hotter in Texas. Especially when TP you’ve got a new boiler. 26

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(TP&EE exhibitors as of June 23, 2022)

EXHIBITORS’ LIST Akhurst Machinery .....................................327 Altec Integrated Solutions ..........................457 American Wood Dryers...............................214 ANDRITZ Iggesund Tools ............................219 Applied Mechatronics ................................861 Arrow Speed Controls.................................119 Arxada........................................................150 Autolog Production Management . ..........309-1 Benchmark Saw & Knife.............................954 BEP Engineering Services...........................167 BID Group ..................................................519 Biomass Engineering and Equipment..........911 BM&M Screening Solutions ........................266 BRUKS SIWERTELL.....................................130 Brunette Machinery Company ....................347 Brunner-Hilderbrand Lumber Dry Kiln.........167 Brunson Instrument Company ....................138 Buchanan Automation ................................913 Burton Mill Solutions ..................................811 California Saw & Knife Works ...................1053 Can-Am Chains .........................................761 Canadian Forest Industries .........................145 Carbotech .................................................359 Claussen All-Mark ....................................1009 Climax Metal Products..............................1031 Colonial Saw ..............................................427 Columbia River Staple– Intertape Polymer Group.........................949 CON-VEY ....................................................837 Connexus Industries. ..................................137 Crow Engineering .......................................935 Delta Computer Systems ............................841 Diversified Plastics. ....................................925 DK-Spec...................................................1057 DO2 ...........................................................362 Dynamic Systems Technologies .................114 EBI Dry Kiln Duty Motors.............................155 Endurance Equipment ................................364 Evergreen Engineering ...............................113 EWTA ........................................................134 Fiber Pro ....................................................945 Fromm Packaging Systems ........................246 Gateway Graphics and Rubber Stamps .....1061 General Kinematics ....................................210 Gilbert Products ........................................737 Gillingham-Best..........................................100 Greg F. Smith .............................................123 Grizzly Sprockets........................................122 HALCO Software Systems...........................960 HewSaw Machines.....................................227 Hurst Boiler ................................................154 International Bar Coding Systems & Consulting .........................................821 In Stock Parts...........................................1037 International Forest Industries ....................118

James G. Murphy .......................................147 JoeScan .....................................................337 John King USA ...........................................329 KDS Windsor ..............................................258 Key Knife....................................................921 KoneCranes Woodyar Cranes....................1046 Kop-Coat .................................................1056 L.G. Isaacson..............................................725 Lewis Controls............................................619 Lico Machinery ..........................................243 Lignomat USA ............................................383 Limab North America................................1011 Linck Holzverarbeitungstechnik ..................505 LMI Technologies .......................................527 Logging & Sawmill Journal-Timberwest .....857 Mac Chain..................................................941 Metal Detectors .........................................717 Microtec ....................................................319 Mill Tech Industries ..................................1007 Modern Engineering ...................................164 MPM Engineering .......................................855 Mühlböck Drying Technology......................953 Murray Latta Progressive Machine .............729 Nelson Brothers Engineering ......................346 Newman Machine ......................................711 Nicholson Manufacturing............................143 NLine Energy..............................................250 Novatech Wood Protection..........................108 Novilco . .....................................................409 OES Automation .........................................251 Oleson Saw Technology .............................403 Opticom Technologies.............................151-1 Optimil Machinery .....................................303 OSELA ......................................................955 Owens Corning-InterWrap .........................149 Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau (PLIB).....132 Pantron Automation....................................350 Pape Material Handling...............................763 Paw-Taw-John Services.............................658 Peerless Saw Co. .......................................957 Piché .........................................................743 Platt Electric Supply....................................151 Porter Engineering .....................................637 Precision Husky..........................................163 Premier Bandwheel & Equipment .............1028 Pro Mac Manufacturing .............................369 Purakal Cylinders .......................................255 Radian Robotics .........................................375 Raptor Integration ......................................829 Raptor-Sundog RFID Staples ......................411 Rawlings Manufacturing ............................237 REA JET .....................................................751 Real Performance Machinery......................419 Redwood Plastics ......................................247 Reliability Resources ..................................379

Rogers Machinery ......................................850 S. Huot ......................................................109 Salem Equipment (a subsidiary of Wellons).......558 Samuel Coding & Labeling..........................504 Samuel Packaging Systems Group .............503 Saw ADD....................................................853 Saw Control Systems .................................212 ScanMeg ...............................................309-2 SCS Forest Products by Finna Sensors .....1003 Sering Sawmill Machinery .......................1015 Serra Sawmills .........................................1013 Sharp Tool..................................................429 SiCam Systems ..........................................929 SICK Sensors..............................................253 Signode Packaging Systems.......................209 Slatercom Lighting Solutions ....................1051 Smith Sawmill Service................................159 SolaGen ...................................................1023 SonicAire....................................................269 SparTek Industries .....................................959 Springer .....................................................126 Stringer Industries......................................940 Sumitomo Drive Technologies ....................161 Taihei Machinery Works ...........................1018 Taylor Machine Works ................................105 Telco Sensors.............................................822 Temposonics............................................1036 TerraSource Global.....................................944 Timber Automation.....................................627 Timber Machine Technologies ....................385 Timber Processing & Energy Expo ..............437 Timber Products Manufacturers Assn. ........120 TS Manufacturing.......................................131 U.S. Metal Works .......................................863 USNR .................................................703, 803 Valutec Wood Dryers . ................................367 Vecoplan, LLC ............................................617 Verbruggen Palletizing Solutions ................859 VK North America .......................................917 Wagner Meters...........................................127 Webster Industries .....................................952 Wellons Group ............................................353 West Coast Industrial Systems....................825 West Salem Machinery...............................920 Westcoast Cylinders . .................................381 Westmill Industries.....................................643 Williams & White Equipment.......................817 Wolftek Industries ......................................259 Wood-Mizer................................................956 Z-Tec Automation Systems.........................252 TIMBER PROCESSING

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KEYNOTE TALKS HIGHLIGHT CONFERENCES From engineered wood to wood bioenergy to economics. ATLANTA, Ga. imber Processing affiliate magazines, Panel World and Wood Bioenergy, hosted closecoupled conferences in late March at the Omni Hotel in downtown Atlanta. The conferences—Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo, and Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo—combined featured 90 presentations and 125 exhibitors, including numerous keynote addresses. Here are excerpts from some of the keynote talks with relevance to the lumber industry. l Jake Elston, senior vice president of operations at Roseburg Forest Products, addressed Roseburg’s Jake Elston of Roseburg growth and product diversification, especially into the Eastern side of the U.S. and Canada. Elston noted that some things have not changed about Roseburg, such as its privately held “handshake integrity,” its emphasis on timberland ownership and a substantial manufacturing portfolio. Elston presented a neat series of maps that showed Roseburg’s expansion from an exclusive Westernbased business. As of 2017 the company, which moved headquarters from Dillard to Springfield, Ore., began purchasing timberlands in North Carolina and Virginia, now at 200,000 acres, complementing the 400,000 plus acres it owns in the West; and established an EastEconomist Roger Tutterow ern Regional Office in Georgia. In 2019 it constructed the Chester (LVL) engineered wood facility, and in communications. l Award-winning economist Roger 2021 it announced the ongoing construcTutterow from Coles College of Business, tion of the Roanoke Valley Lumber Kennesaw State University, delivered a sawmill in Weldon, NC. presentation that noted the impacts of the The company’s product sales pie has pandemic on leading economic indicators. altered significantly in the past 10 years. For the forest products and construction Whereas plywood and particleboard acindustries, the biggest issues are inflation counted for 63% of sales in 2012, today those segments combined represent 39%, and labor leading to higher construction costs; and it’s uncertainty along the supwhile engineered wood, MDF and lumply chain that’s a big contributor to higher ber, logs and chips account for the reprices. Some supply chain disruptions in mainder. Roseburg has experienced combination with hoarder behavior, con260% growth in sales in the past 10 years and 50% growth in production, ac- tributing to higher prices, have eased in recent months, though the energy compocording to Elston. nent has soared, Tutterow said. Underlying it all, Elston noted, is the Still, there are good housing and conevolving culture of the company, which struction demand dynamics with the inemphasizes continuous improvement, deventory of new and existing housing curcision-making empowerment and open

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rently at generational lows, Tutterow said. Tutterow noted that the pandemic recession of 2020 was the worst in U.S. history but also the shortest, and that we’re all living in a time of unprecedented economic dynamics during the world’s first truly global pandemic of the modern digital era. Amongst all the economic numbers and graphs Tutterow made an important insight: While mandates and shutdowns always grab the headlines, Tutterow said, 10 years from now we’re more likely to be talking about the impact of “voluntary” changes in our lives: the great resignation that was real; lower workforce participation; more work from home and other societal changes that will affect how the forest products industry does business. Tutterow also revealed an impressive graph of the Federal Reserve Securities Held Outright, which topped $8 trillion toward the end of 2021. The Fed generally buys and sells securities as it desires to increase or reduce the flow of money and credit. Securites held outright basically doubled since the onslaught of the pandemic in spring 2020. l Jackson Morrill, president and CEO of American Wood Council, spoke about that group’s Climate/Carbon Initiative, which seeks to expand the use of wood through mass timber construction and ensure that the benefits of utilizing sustainable wood products are encoded in any carbon reduction or climate initiatives that may be developed by a variety of government agencies and institutions at all levels. Morrill noted that as the market and much of society moves past climate change denial, the AWC wants to make sure wood’s positive carbon characteristics are included as part of the climate change solution. Morrill focused on good “data” as the foundation for carbon advocacy, “policy” for setting the rules of the game and a level playing field, “demonstration projects” for building taller with wood through the public sector and “value chain coordination.” “Take a lead role in coordinating the entire forest sector to leverage messaging

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Jose Gonzalez of AFRY

and advocacy on climate-related policies, ensuring each organization has clear roles and plays to its relative strengths,” Morrill said. He pointed to AWC’s relationships with traditional wood groups such as APA, American Tree Farm System, Woodworks, American Forest & Paper Assn. but also stressed the importance of communication channels with groups such as the Environmental Defense Fund, The Nature Conservancy and the environmental sustainability investment group known as Ceres. Getting involved early to make sure industry’s views and the benefits of wood are included as various initiatives are developed is crucial, Morrill added. l Jose Gonzalez, director at AFRY Management Consulting, and Philipp Sauter, principal, prepared a report on “Wood Processing Post COVID-19,” with Gonzalez actually making the presentation. AFRY was formed in 2019 from the merger of AF and Pöyry and now includes six divisions that offer numerous services in multiple industries, including wood products. Gonzalez addressed various parameters and their anticipated influence on the wood processing industry. For example, high inflation has been driving construction investments and some construction cooling down is expected following the Fed’s increase of fund rates, he said. The furniture market was extraordinarily high in 2021, but demand is expected to return to average levels. The import bans for Russia and Belarus to Europe as well as stopped production in Ukraine will result in a significant deficit of some wood products in Europe, and this could have a trickle down effect on North America. Specifically regarding the U.S., Gonza-

lez said they anticipate a modest decrease in consumption and price levels for wood products, but with only moderate decline in the near future. l Brad Worsley, president of the biomass-fueled 27 MW power generation operation, Novo Power, based in Snowflake, Ariz., has had a bird’s eye view of the federal government’s evolving stance on biomass as part of the forest restoration equation. Worsley reviewed the facility’s history, starting up in 2008 but succumbing to bankruptcy in 2010, before selling to Novo Power in 2013. The facility has come on strong in recent years, with 341 uptime days last year. Meanwhile, as Worsley noted, due to increasingly catastrophic fires on Arizona’s national forests and a general deteriorating condition of those forests, the Forest Service came up with the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) and initially contracted with a company to mechanically thin 300,000 acres over 10 years, but the project fell extremely short of the stated objectives and a major reason was due to the limited capacity for biomass disposal. The Forest Service then sought out proposals to restore and utilize more than 500,000 acres over a 20-year contract. Two of the proposals that came in included a sawmill and an oriented strandboard mill, but the Forest Service cancelled the process last September, fearing it would potentially be too risky financially for any one company and possibly for the agency itself. Both of the proposals included Novo Power as part of the solution for biomass disposal and utilization, noted Worsley, who is a co-chair of the 4FRI Stakeholder Group. Earlier this year the Forest Service announced a national effort to increase

forest restoration, driven in part by the Arizona situation. And as recently as March, the agency released its latest Arizona 4FRI preferred plan, which would implement restoration activities on 991,000 acres over 20 years, including a combination of mechanical thinning and prescribed burning. The plan also emphasizes the role of the forest products industry and specifically logging firms, sawmills and biomass facilities in northern Arizona. Worsley noted that the Forest Service is at a tipping point, as the increased cost of fighting forest fires each years has led to a practice called “fire borrowing” which robs Forest Service budgets set aside for restoration in order to fund the cost of fighting wildfires. “With the realities of changing climates, the current pace and scale of wildfire is unsustainable,” Worsley said. “We need to see more utilization of these underutilized assets to attack two of the greatest natural resource issues we now face, fire and water.” l Pete Madden, president and CEO of the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, emphasized the Endowment’s mission to collaborate with public and private sector partners to advance systemic, transformative and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation’s working forests and forest-reliant communities. It was established in 2006 at the request of the U.S. and Canadian governments in accordance with the Softwood Lumber Agreement. The group manages a perpetual endowment of $270 million and also raises funds to make grants, loans and capital investments. It has awarded more than 200 grants, committing $93 million of its own funds to leverage $875 million from partners. “When possible, we favor marketbased approaches to drive outcomes,” Madden said. Given increasing challenges with catastrophic wildfires, drinking water sources and a high proportion of smaller diameter material from private and federal lands that do not have a market, the Endowment began to focus on wood-toenergy as a priority and as a solution. As an example, in 2018 the Endowment approved the development of the Restoration Fuels facility in John Day, Ore., intended as a commercial demonstration facility to prove production of torrefied fuel, facilitate large-scale cusTIMBER PROCESSING

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Pete Madden of U.S. Endowment

tomer trials, and prove out cost structures of integrating this product with existing mills to provide markets for sawmill residuals and small diameter thinnings from restoration and other forest treatments. Today Restoration Fuels, LLC is a 100% subsidiary of the Endowment, with initial production of 30,000 TPY and expanding up to 100,000 TPY. Construction

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of the $25 million project, which sources biomass from nearby national forests, was completed in 2021. “We are just getting started,” Madden said of the Endowment, noting that they have established a new carbon fund to help landowners and the forest products sector develop new markets and value streams, and the Endowment is developing an impact investment fund so that it

Stan Parton of Strategic Biofuels

can leverage larger amounts of capital. “This is going to be an incredible decade for our sector,” he concluded. l Stan Parton, VP Forestry at Strategic Biofuels, and well known for his prolonged career with The Parton Group and Forest2Market, addressed one of the more interesting wood-related projects in the works—Strategic Biofuels’ $2.5 billion Louisiana Green Fuels project at

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the Port of Columbia, La. “I wasn’t sure I was going to see this kind of project occur during my career,” Parton said. “I have long been an advocate of biomass being a great but underutilized tool in combating climate change. This project is rapidly becoming a commercial reality.” Parton noted it incorporates proven and leading edge technologies including Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS), “which makes this project the most environmentally beneficial fuels project in the world. But importantly, it con-

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verts those environmental benefits into real economic returns.” In the past 18 months the project has gone from concept initiation into final plant design. Significant investment has been raised. Parton said, and capital has been spent to advance the project by “derisking” critical aspects of the project. The operation will use RFS (renewable fuel standard) compliant forest feedstock for the biorefinery (a little less than 1 mm green t/y), which will produce 33 million gallons per year of diesel (88%) and naphtha (12%). The

diesel will be an RFS qualified 2nd generation fuel capturing RIN (renewable identification number) credits. The 85 MW of electricity required to operate the plant will be from on-site biomass power—71 MW from wood fuel and 14 MW from refinery system generated excess steam. The environmental and commercial benefit comes from CCS capturing 1.25 million metric tons per year of CO2, equivalent to the emissions from approximately 300,000 vehicles. The site was selected for two reasons: the proper geological structure for CCS and the availability of supply of biomass feedstocks. The region has recently experienced reduction in demand for thinnings materials associated with the closure of several areas pulp mills. The growth-toremoval ratios and thereby sustainability of supply is very positive with an annual excess of pine of 43% and 73% when considering all wood types. Because CCS is a cornerstone of the project and its economic returns, last year, only months into the project, an over one-mile deep test well was bored and strata samples collected. The samples confirmed that upper impermeable confining layers exist over lower porous sequestration layers. It is expected that over the 30-year life of the project, the CO2 bloom will be confined to less than two miles from the injection site. To establish environmental benefit, renewable diesels are compared to fossil diesel which is given the benchmark Carbon Intensity score of 100. The carbon emissions associated with biofuels are calculated and expressed comparatively as their CI. A fuel that has a CI of 50 has half the emissions associated with using fossil diesel. The CI associated with woody biomass biodiesel is 11 to 25. “We expect FEL3 final design and final cost completion by early 2023 with FID shortly thereafter. We will then enter into an approximate two-year construction period.” Startup and commissioning is expected late 2025/early 2026. Within two years after startup, Phase 2 will commence, which will increase the plant capacity by 25%. One year after completion of Phase 2, Phase 3 will be undertaken which will double the plant capacity. Another genuine goal of the project is to improve the quality of life of the local community, Parton added, including people who will work in the plant as well as the logging and wood supply community. An example he offered is that a STEM program has already been established at the local high school. TP

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MACHINERYROW ‘Strongest Link To Success’ John King UK has relocated John King Chains USA Inc. to Birmingham (Trussville), Ala. The need for increased manufacturing space was required and Birmingham was considered to have a major advantage as an industrial center of the Southern U.S. with improved logistics and access to high quality subcontractors and experienced labor. John King USA has been importing UK made chains into the U.S. since the 1960s, but has been manufacturing chains and sprockets for multiple industries domestically for approaching two decades. To lead the charge the management has transferred Frans Pienaar, formally general manager of the South Africa division. Pienaar has worked in the industry for more than 20 years and is a chain engineer with huge experience and capability. Oliver Wadsworth, USA Sales Director, comments, “Our principal in-

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John King Chains USA Inc. has moved operations to Birmingham, Ala. John King Chains USA Inc. in Birmingham, Ala.: Left to right, Brandon Ringstaff, warehouse associate; Frans Piennar, general manager; Ollie Wadsworth, sales director; Gary Booth, production coordinator; Marc Hatcher, welder and robot operator

dustry focus is lumber/paper, cement and bakery. The new location and investment in new CNC machinery, robotic welding and increased stock levels of common chain types allow us to react quickly to meet the ever-in-

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MACHINERYROW creasing demand of our USA customers. Our technical group knowledge and know-how has really boosted our reputation of not just being a chain supplier but a material handling solution provider. We are really excited about the future.” Contact Ollie Wadsworth, sales director North America, John King USA Inc., 1910 Woodlands Drive, Trussville, AL 35173; e-mail: owjohnkingchains.com; visit johnkingchains.com.

Elmsdale Lumber Announces Big Project Elmsdale Lumber Co. in Nova Scotia has engaged McDonough Manufacturing for what will be a complete sawmill modernization over the summers of 2022 and 2023. This project will see upgrades to both primary and secondary sawing systems designed to increase capacity and more importantly yield. Phase One of this project will see the installation of a McDonough linear edger system with reman that will replace the manual edging capacity currently provided as part of the mill’s existing combina-

tion edger/gang. Fully optimized, this edger will dramatically increase recovery over the manual system while providing the additional ability to handle higher piece counts as well as round-back slabs from the mill’s carriage. Handling the round-back pieces will take lines away from the carriage, as the wood fiber from the outside of the slab will be removed by the edger’s reman head, which is inline and immediately upstream of the optimized edger sawbox. In Phase Two of the project, the gang edger capacity of the original combination system is being replaced with a fully optimized McDonough curve-sawing canter-gang edger. Cants traveling from the mill’s twin scragg saw and carriage will be scanned on their way into a positioning table, which will feed the new single arbor 8 in. curve-sawing sawbox. The McDonough curve-sawing system utilizes all electric servo positioning for the sawbox, which is capable of following the calculated curved sawing paths at extremely high accuracy without the heat, power and filtration requirements of less capable hydraulic systems. Cant

hold downs and cant positioning is accomplished using the newest in hydraulic servo technology capable of switching between positioning and pressure modes at very high speeds. Also designed with an inline arbor motor and arbor VFD, the McDonough gang control system will modulate arbor speed as feed speeds vary through different cant widths and thicknesses. As a result, the saw tooth bite and feed speeds can be optimized to maximize throughput and saw performance. Canter-gang system also includes drum chipping canter heads that will surface the outer faces of the cant, removing round slab wood fiber from the system output while providing quality wood chips for sale in local markets. Also positioned by electric servo, the curve canters will follow the optimized curved path in front of the sawbox and size the outer boards before they are cut in the gang saws. The canter heads are fitted with knives that will match the knives in the edger reman unit so that the mill will only need to stock one size knife for the two systems. Phase Three of this complete mill up-

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MACHINERYROW grade will see the replacement of the existing twin circular scragg with a fully optimized McDonough canter-quad sawing system featuring log turning, log skewing/offset, solid head conical slant canters and quad guided slab sawing. This system will include fully optimized and automated log rotation, which will feature continuous scanning of the log as it is in the turner to allow for live correction and, therefore, increased turning accuracy. Immediately downstream of the log turner, pieces will be positioned on the fly as they pass between the log turner and the McDonough slant, solid-head canter system. Log rotation and positioning will be accomplished on the fly using the latest in hydraulic positioning and pressure control technology, which utilizes valves having integrated axis controllers. These valves provide best in class hydraulic control, high response sensitivity high speed communication for integration with associated measuring systems. This system will allow accurate control of logs while being able to depend on the robustness of hydraulics to handle the bumps and knots along log profiles as

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they are fed into the canters. Downstream of the canters the logs will pass through the McDonough guided quad saw module which will allow the mill to remove up to four sideboards from each log in accordance with the highest yield solutions provided by the optimizer. The McDonough log turner, log positioning module and canter-quad are designed to increase the mill capacity while also dramatically increasing yield over the previously manually operated primary breakdown. Designed to handle logs up to 18 in. in diameter this system will be the workhorse for the mill, handling the great majority of the logs being processed each day.

BID Group Purchasing Smith Sawmill Service BID Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Smith Sawmill Service. The transaction further expands BID’s product and service offerings to include the essential recurring saw and tooling capabilities required to support modern

wood processing operations. Smith Sawmill Service is one of the largest suppliers and service providers of saws, cutting tools, filing room equipment, and critical consumable products to the wood processing industry. Smith serves the North American market with both proprietary cutting technologies and industry-leading brands. With locations in Texas, Louisiana and North Carolina, Smith is a recognized service leader, equipped to meet the growing customer demand for personalized saw and knife repair and reconditioning solutions. “The combination of our organizations’ capabilities is a natural fit given our shared emphasis on excellence in total customer experience,” says Steven Hofer, BID Executive Vice President, Strategy and Business Development. “Incorporating the Smith product and services into our BID turnkey and wood process system offerings further complements the investments BID has made in the development of its own cutting tools solution, Blade.” “I am incredibly pleased with the opportunity to unite with an industry leader

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MACHINERYROW like BID,” adds Paul Smith, President and CEO of Smith Sawmill Service. “I would like to thank our team for their dedication and hard work to build a thriving business.” The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter.

SmartMill USA Adds Two Employees SmartMill USA has appointed William Brooks as Sales Executive and Daniel Byrant as PLC Technician. Brooks will be focused on leading business development expansion and Byrant will be dedicated to supporting current and future customers for all PLC and technical support. Both Brooks and Bryant will be based in Alabama and will support current and future business partners in the U.S. Prior to joining SmartMill, Brooks worked as sales executive of Mitutoyo Corp., the provider of measurement and inspection solutions. Bryant has worked in the lumber industry for more than six years. He en-

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HALCO Honored For Operations Research HALCO Software Systems was the recipient of the 2022 Omond Solandt Award in operations research from the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS). This prestigious award, which has typically been awarded to much larger organizations like IBM and Air Canada, was in recognition of HALCO’s developments in production planning optimization methods in the forest industry. HALCO Principal Alex Rapoport comments, “We are very proud to receive this award, which we see as a tribute to Howard Leach and his vision when he founded HALCO in 1988. Shown here is Rapoport receiving the award from Taraneh Sowlati of CORS.

tered the wood industry at Hampton Lumber where he got certified as a journeyman millwright.

Deere Names Forestry President Deere & Co. elected Ryan Campbell as President, Construction & Forestry Div. and Power Systems. Campbell leads

a team focused on the sustainable, profitable growth of the company's construction and forestry equipment business around the globe as well as the continued success of the Wirtgen Group. He also has responsibility for the company's engine and powertrain businesses. Campbell brings 25 years of wideranging experience to his current position. Prior to assuming his current role,

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MACHINERYROW he was senior vice president & chief financial officer, where he had overall responsibility for John Deere’s finance functions. In this job, he worked closely with other company leaders in launching John Deere’s Smart Industrial strategy. Under Campbell’s leadership, the company also introduced its Leap Ambitions, which align the company’s business and sustainability goals. Throughout his career, Campbell has spearheaded strategic initiatives focused on enhancing the company’s profitability and strategic positioning, developing future leaders. He has been an unrelenting advocate for driving higher levels of commitment to economic and environmental sustainability through John Deere’s digitalization journey. Under Campbell’s leadership as CFO, the company achieved record levels of financial performance. Campbell earned an accounting degree from Simpson College and an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

BID Starts Up Facility Expansion BID Group announced plans for a $5 million capital investment to expand its St.-Ephrem, Quebec facility. The facility will grow by 18,000 sq. ft., representing a 35% increase in manufacturing space. The larger area will allow for the assembly of the more complex equipment to meet growing demand. “We are excited to be expanding our presence in the Beauce region of Quebec and to be adding more high-quality jobs to our existing 450-person workforce,” says Adam Infanti, Chief Financial Officer at BID. The expansion will create 30 new jobs, primarily for machinists, mechanics and welders. Excavation begins immediately, and construction will be completed this fall.

Versowood Plans Boiler Upgrade KPA Unicon and Versowood have signed a contract at the Otava sawmill in Finland for a Unicon Biograte 14 MW clean energy bio boiler to replace an older 6 MW boiler, adjacent to an existing 10 MW boiler. The heating plant is used to dry the lumber produced by the sawmill and to heat the industrial buildings in the area. In addition, the upcoming new capacity 46

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will enable the production of district heat for nearby areas. As fuel, the energy plant uses bark. The new plant will be operational in autumn 2023. The KPA Unicon delivery includes the replacement of the old boiler with a new bio-boiler and a Unicon bag filter flue gas cleaning system. The cleaning system significantly reduces fine particle emissions, which also improves air quality around the sawmill. In addition, the plant will be equipped with the PlantSys digital service platform to ensure efficient and reliable operation of the energy system.

TEC Is Named Sennebogen’s Best Sennebogen LLC announced its 2021 annual Dealer of the Year winners, including its Top Dealer—Tractor & Equipment Co. (TEC), based in Birmingham, Ala. Employee-owned TEC operates 20 machine sales and service branches. Chairman of TEC, Dan Stracener, relishes the recognition for his company and his tight-knit team, which has seen changes at its top level in the past year. Chad Stracener is now CEO after many years of working his way up through the ranks. He is succeeded as President by DeVaughn Pettit. Envimat, a recent addition to the Sennebogen network and the first from South America to win recognition in Sennebogen’s distributor awards, was second and Tyler Equipment of East Longmeadow, Maine rounded out the top three.

Weinig Launches Investment Program Weinig Group announced the launch of a comprehensive, large-scale investment project of more than 120 million euros. The Tauberbischofsheim site in Germany alone, the headquarters of the company with its 117-year track record, accounts for 70 million euros of the total investment, including a new site concept that will sustainably modernize production, optimize delivery capability for customers and improve the working environment for its employees. This will included a new logistics center, a new manufacturing concept and new production facilities, as well as new exhibition and customer training rooms. For the Voitsberg site in Austria, the production location of the subsidiary Holz-Her, 15 million euros will be invested in assembly and production.

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ATLARGE Price Becomes 75th FPS President Evergreen Engineering Co-CEO Justin Price will serve as president of the Forest Products Society for the 202223 term. Price takes over from Terry Liles, Director of Raw Materials for Huber Engineered Justin Price Woods. Price, who has been a principal owner of Evergreen since 2012, has spent his career specializing in engineering for the wood products, renewable power generation, and chemical industries. Before becoming Co-CEO, he led Evergreen’s Major Projects Div. and functioned as the owner’s engineer for a major wood pellet producer as they designed and procured financing for export-scale wood pelletizing facilities in the U.S. Southeast. Evergreen is an engineering consulting company with offices in Eugene, Ore.; Atlanta, Ga.; and Everett, Wash. Prior to joining Evergreen, Price was the Northwest Regional Engineering Manager for a privately held wood products company where he evaluated, designed and executed manufacturing process upgrades at multiple operating facilities. . A 2013 participant of the NREL Executive Leadership Institute, Price holds a patent for the design of a wood chip screening machine with a stepped deck. Price’s father, Eddie Price, served as the organization’s president in 1996-97. More information on the Forest Products Society can be found at forestprod.org.

Biewer Enhances Sales Department Michigan-based Biewer Lumber announced the reorganization of its sawmill sales department to support the company’s growing sawmill business. Newly promoted to Sawmill Sales Manager is Mike Burley, who will take the lead on day-to-day business, as well as direct the team. Burley will report to Bill Schlottman, director of sawmill sales. With more than eight years with Biewer, Burley has done an outstanding job supporting the needs of customers. Schlottman, a 20-year industry veteran, will focus on production and maximizing the efficiencies of Biewer’s seven saw48

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ATLARGE mills located in Michigan, Wisconsin and Mississippi. Biewer Owner and President Tim Biewer comments, “As Biewer’s overall production nears 1 billion board feet in annual production, this new structure will better position Biewer for continued growth while providing the same excellent customer service our customers have come to expect.” Recently, Biewer Lumber also announced the appointment of Shannon Kita as Chief Operating Officer for all Biewer Companies. Prior to this appointment, Kita was responsible for developing and leading Biewer Logistics, LLC., as well as the management, sales and distribution of sawmill residuals.

SLB Supports Wood Innovation Grants The Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) is supporting the USDA Wood Innovation Grants (WIG) program with more than $272,000 in matching funds for six ambitious projects that will explore and elevate the use of mass timber and mass timber products in commercial and residential construction applications. Among the recipients, Karagozian & Case, Inc. and SmartLam received a $50,000 match from the SLB to build upon a previous WIG grant to construct full-scale CLT panels with steel reinforcement. This year, the organizations will test the effectiveness of reinforced CLT panels under extreme conditions through blast testing and hygrothermal testing. Georgia Forestry Foundation received a $22,500 match from the SLB to develop a mass timber demonstration project in partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology. The project will seek to position mass timber as a solution for sustainable development while building awareness of Georgia’s working forests.

AWPA Elects Archer As President Dr. Kevin Archer, Director of Research and Development for Viance, was elected President of the American Wood Protection Assn. (AWPA) at the 118th Annual Meeting in Charleston, SC. Serving an annual term for 2022-2023, Archer most recently served as first vice president for 2021-2022. He has been an AWPA member for 34 years and has served on and chaired several technical committees. TIMBER PROCESSING

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FULGHUM EXPANDS PRODUCT LINE

For more than 60 years, Fulghum Industries has provided quality equipment to the forest products industry. The organization has endeavored to meet the needs of the forest products market by constantly paying attention to detail, quality and innovations in technology. Fulghum’s first product, the rosserhead debarker, was the result of a perceived need in the lumber industry for low production, effective debarking to convert slabs and edgings into usable wood fiber. This simple machine has forever changed the operation of sawmills and pulp mills alike by providing economical furnish from what was once waste. Soon after the first rosserhead, Fulghum realized the industry's need for a high-quality chipper. This resulted in the first diversification of Fulghum's product line. Today, Fulghum chippers are recognized worldwide as among the very best in the industry. In the early years, continued product development resulted in the introduction of a succession of saws, screens, conveyors and loaders. In the mid-70s, Fulghum recognized a need to revamp its product line to fit an ever growing and changing industry. This heralded the development and manufacture of the Fulghum drum debarker and log handling cranes. From this beginning, Fulghum has grown to provide a diverse product line including equipment ranging in size and purpose from 36 in. chippers to 175 ft. radius log handling cranes. Through the years, the Fulghum face has changed, but its commitment to quality and customer service remains its steady core focus. Visit fulghum.com.

FIBERPRO BUILDS ON EXPERIENCE FiberPro specializes in high speed/high recovery merchandising/ roundwood handling systems for corporate and independent clients as well as softwood and hardwood applications. The company’s history and expertise reflect a customized approach so each client has a system designed for their specific needs and future mill production/recovery expansion plans. FiberPro’s priority is to supply its clients with the highest performing engineered solution that has the highest safety standards and reliability standards in the industry. FiberPro’s latest generation of merchandiser systems have redundant safety systems integrated into the design and oversized components for increased reliability/uptime compared to past designs. It has taken more than 25 years of constant development and improvements to reach the speeds and productivity the latest generation systems are currently achieving. The latest innovative design changes are new stem and log singulation systems that utilize an innovative new drive design and are now self-cleaning on the infeed side of the feeder system with either a full plated design or screw technology. The Log Trimmer saw gallery has a updated lineal guide system that allows the traveling saw modules to be guided on a 50

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PRODUCTSCANNER10 large center mounted solid steel roundway assembly with a single high efficiency direct interlocking mechanical drive system that allows the modules to travel at speeds in excess of 100 FPM and accel/decel times in less than a quarter of a second for unparalleled shifting performance, safety and repeatable accuracy. Saw modules are designed with such advanced materials as aluminum and advanced drives like servos for added speed/strength with less mass to move. FiberPro’s goal is to help the industry with solutions through experience and new innovative designs allowing Fiberpro to be the go-to guys for wood yard technology and lumber handling solutions. Visit fiberprollc.com.

mill’s paved feed area. Their undercarriage moves the machines quickly through tight 12 ft. alleys, while allwheel steering lets them maneuver easily in close spaces. By mounting the boom at the rear of the chassis, there’s no need for a counterweight while transporting loads. With a reach of up to 40 ft. and a 360˚ swing radius, these pick & carry machines efficiently pick loads of up to 20 tons from either side of the aisle and

carry them swiftly to the feed deck. Their compact size and high-lift capability make any wood yard more productive with 25% tighter rows and 50% higher stacks, compared to traditional log handlers. Visit sennebogen.com. New products and technologies published here are submitted by the manufacturer and supplier companies or representatives thereof, and all statements and claims are attributable to the submitting parties.

SENNEBOGEN LINEUP Purpose-built log handlers from Sennebogen are helping wood yards all over North America to increase capacity and accelerate throughput. The Sennebogen lineup includes custom-engineered trailer-pulling log handlers and a choice of pick & carry machines. While both lines are the range of 90,000-lb. machines, a quick look makes it clear that they are uniquely designed for distinct applications for paper mills, sawmills, OSB producers and transloading stations. The familiar Sennebogen 830 M-T and 835 M-T are based on the manufacturer’s signature line of material handlers, modified to take on duties as a powerful trailer-puller. The undercarriage of M-T models is reinforced to withstand the heavy stresses of pulling trailers loaded with up to 100,000 lbs. The two axles are powered by separate transmissions for added pulling power and traction for climbing grades and clawing through spring mud. The platform’s square footprint gives these models a central point of rotation for the boom, which allows them to lift and swing maximum loads through 360˚. For operators, this means less maneuvering to position the unit for stacking wood or loading the trailers. The hydraulically elevating cab offers operators a clear eyelevel view to the top of high stacks for added safety. Sennebogen 730 and 735 models set the pace for efficient pick & carry operations between closely stacked rows in the TIMBER PROCESSING

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NEWSFEED 17 ➤ forest product permits for products other than timber. Various special Forest Management programs contributed to this volume, including volume sold from salvage sale funds, other permanent and trust funds, and the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program. In FY 2023, the Forest Service has targeted 3.4 billion BF of sales. Increased funding will drive more integration with the hazardous fuels program, allowing the agency to manage the treatment of forest resources better. New investments in forest management funded through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will also allow for planning and preparing new timber sales, stewardship contracts, and good neighbor authority agreements. The agency expects to increase timber volume output because of these investments, with additional in-

creases in volume in FY 2025 and FY 2026. The report notes the agency’s emphasis on innovative uses for wood and wood fiber materials, especially the development of products and markets for small and mediumsized trees, underutilized and low-value forestry residuals, and industrial wood residues. Wood and biomass extraction are not specifically funded at the national level; however, it is a factor in the agency’s national strategy for improving forest conditions and utilizing material removed during forest management and restoration. In FY 2023, the National Forest System will continue to make material available for wood and biomass markets (wood energy and wood products) as a byproduct of restoration work. In FY 2021, the agency sold over 1.9 million green tons of biomass (fresh cut woody material at a green

moisture content of half water and half woody material) to various wood energy and wood products markets. The National Forest System will continue to work with the SPF Wood Innovations Program and R&D to grow markets and infrastructure for biomass production and utilization across the country. The Forest Service established the Wood Innovations Program in 2014 to expand development of wood products and renewable wood energy markets that support forest management and deliver economic and environmental benefits to communities. Annual Wood Innovation Grants fund diverse projects for public and private entities across the country. The maximum for each grant is generally $250,000. A second competitive funding program, the Community Wood Energy and Wood Innovation funding opportunity (re-

ferred to as Community Wood), was available in FY 2021. The intent of this program is to install thermally led community wood energy systems or to build new or expand existing innovative wood products facilities; $2 million was awarded in FY 2021. This program is authorized under the 2018 Farm Bill to be funded at up to $25 million per fiscal year through FY 2023.

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MAINEVENTS JULY 20-23—2022 Southeastern Lumber Manufacturers Assn. Annual Conference, The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, Colo. Call 770-631-6701; visit slma.org. 24-27—Walnut Council annual meeting, Southern Illinois University Student Center, Carbondale, Ill. Call 765-5833501; visit walnutcouncil.org. 25-27—Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers Summer Conference, The Homestead Resort, Hot Springs, Va. Call 336-885-8315; visit appalachianhardwood.org.

12-15—Xylexpo 2022, FieraMilano-Rho Fairgrounds, Milan, Italy. Phone +39-02-89210200; Visit xylexpo.com. 26-28—Texas Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Texas A&M Hotel and Conference Center, College Station, Tex. Call 936632-8733; visit texasforestry.org.

NOVEMBER 30-December 3—Woodex, 18th International Exhibition of Equipment and Technologies for Woodworking and Furniture Production, Crocus Expo, Moscow, Russia. Visit woodexpo.ru. Listings are submitted months in advance. Always verify dates and locations with contacts prior to making plans to attend.

29-31—Georgia Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Jekyll Island Convention Center, Jekyll Island, Ga. Call 478-992-8110; visit gfagrow.org.

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